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You might think you’re some kind of a digital hero but you’ll really be a super geek when you wear this waterproof wrist-mounted GoPro Digital Hero Camera, which purports to make it easy to shoot photos and video during your favorite activities. Nice, as long as those activities don’t include anything having to do with…
Road Tech is introducing the AL20 XM Radio. This is their first portable XM unit designed for motorcycles, specifically 1996 and later model Harleys. This is as weatherproof as weatherproof can get. It has a big, bright waterproof LCD, large backlit buttons, and is designed to be mounted on the handlebars for convenience of the…
In today’s episode of “What the FCC is Approving” starring Tony Danza and Betty White, we are greeted with the latest phone from luxury phone manufacturer, Vertu. This phone may be “luxury,” but it doesn’t seem that spectacular in my book. It is a candybar style phone with quad-band GSM support, EDGE, Bluetooth and even…
We can tell you how to rescue a cellphone that’s been dunked in the water, but it’s a bit more difficult for us to explain how a cellphone can be powered by water. This fuel cell by Japan companies DoCoMo and Aquafairy can recharge a cellphone several times, and it’s a quarter of the size…
Daewoo Lucoms apparently decided to get into the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) game, shipping its handsomely-styled Solo M1 which has a 7-inch touchscreen, 1.3-megapixel video camera and a DMB TV tuner for those Asians fortunate enough to have access to such signals. It’s powered by an Intel Celeron 900 processor. It looks like the Korean company…
Just how small can a desktop PC get? In the case of Shuttle mini x100, it’s just 2 inches tall. While the company’s recommended business configuration contains just an Intel Celeron processor, the home version gives you a choice of either a 1.6GHz or a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor. You can load it up…
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but when you’re talking about Malibal, a laptop purveyor which calls Las Vegas home, the company is moving out two stylish-looking notebooks with Intel Core Duo processors. Malibal says it has the fastest gaming laptops, notebooks and high-end laptop computers in the world. Though that bold claim remains…
Feature Gizmodo Gallery: Joseph DeLappe https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-gallery-joseph-delappe-186276 News Other Bits and Bytes Goldvish Illusion Gold Cellphones Visit Johnny Five, Dr. Octopus’s Arms At the Academy Of MPAS Helio’s Second Ad: Frenchie Meet the Mac Pro Enclosure, Same As The PowerMac’s New Xbox 360 Bundle Coming? Plus, View Your Live Friends On Windows Live Messenger Dell Releases…
•Broadband’s Double-Digit Growth Coming to an End [Ars Technica] •HP Labs Touts Tiny Wireless Chip [Reuters] •Intel ‘Tulsa’ 65nm Xeon MPs to Ship 27 August? [The Inquirer] •Mac Pro: The Dawn of a New Tower [Ars Technica] •XM Canada Raises Prices to Match Sirius Canadas [Orbicast] •Dell, Acer Tout 802.11n Wireless Laptops [The Register] •Dell…
Slightly less gaudy than the million dollar diamond encrusted phone, this Illusion line of phones from Goldvish is made of at least 140 grams of gold. Add to that, the handful of diamonds on the front, including what looks like the numbers on the phone spelled out in diamonds, we’re going to say this will…
From now until September 10th, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is holding a new exhibit of animatronic characters in movies. You can see such cinematic luminaries as Johnny-5, A gremlin from Gremlins, the arms Doc Oc used in the latest Spiderman movie, the little Men in Black aliens, and Alien vs. Predator…
Some of you didn’t like Helio’s first ad, even though we thought it was pretty entertaining. So here’s Helio’s second ad, “Frenchie”. It’s not even on the air yet, so you guys are getting the first look. We chuckled. https://gizmodo.com/helios-first-ad-187519 No more ads after this one, we swear!
Apple Insider reports that other than a few minor cosmetic modifications, the new Mac Pro case is going look identical to the old case. Good for people who enjoy the cheese-grater aluminum design, bad for neophiliacs who want a new case just for its own sake. https://gizmodo.com/are-you-a-neophiliac-182589 The rumored specs for the three models of…
Two bits of Xbox 360 gaming news today. First is an update on the new premium bundle that might be coming sometime this fall which may be called the “Xbox 360 Pro Bundle”. Rumors are the bundle will have everything the current $399 bundle has plus a three month Xbox Live gold subscription, 1,250 Marketplace…
The Dell Wireless 1500 card is available now for Dell XPS laptops and certain Inspiron laptops, but judging from the all the problems that draft N has been facing, we’re glad they’re releasing this as an addon card and not embedding it in the laptop itself. The card supports 802.11n as well as 802.11a/b/g, which…
More like laser retching (*rimshot*)! This laser etched Powerbook with a word cloud of Web 2.0 terms has got to be the worst thing we’ve ever seen. Worse than goatse and definitely worse than tubgirl. But it may be tied with that goatse/tubgirl mashup that made us vomit up two day’s worth of beans. Oh…
These speakers, although small, are probably still better than the tinny ones that comes with older notebooks. The B-Flex Hi-Fi connects to your laptop or PC via USB and requires no external power. These are available now for $39.95, and require no drivers to set up—just plug & play. Annoying the people at Starbucks has…
“Dead in Iraq” (DeLappe, 2006) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen When examining the impact of technology on our daily lives, the abundance of digital experiences that involve learning new hardware devices, patrolling hostile gaming environments, and dealing with the physical after effects of extended computer use are becoming commonplace. Examining most of these digital circumstances and…
Nokia’s first flagship store in Asia was in Moscow, so in expanding to Hong Kong, they’ve covered two of the largest countries on that continent they’ve gone to Asia too. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-opens-first-flagship-store-in-russia-142028 The store features their phones plus multimedia displays and “team members” that graduated from the “Nokia Academy” program—an accredited school of higher education if…
These little Star Wars-inspired orbs are being tested on the International Space Station to see whether their technology is suitable to be used in a new generation of “smart” satellites. The nine pound spheres use carbon dioxide expelled from their thrusters to maneuver around the ISS. These satellites will be cheap and can fly in…