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If you needed a camera with a wide field of view, coupled with large megapixel count, your only choice was super expensive high megapixel cameras. Not anymore, with the Horseman LD, which fits standard Nikon and Canon DSLR bodies into its frame to allow you to take landscape shots and stitch them together later. The…
This week at iLounge: It turned into sports and fitness week on iLounge with the major launch of the Nike+iPod Sport Kit and Nike+ shoes and apparel, as well as the release of Speck’s new Active Sport Armband and iSkin’s DuoBand Dual Layer Armband and Protector. Our First Look at the Nike+iPod kit has extensive…
A Microsoft employee ponders on what Microsoft would do if they were actually to implement an HDMI port on the Xbox 360 (there isn’t one now). We talked about the possible leaked pic of a development board having HDMI a few days ago, and the employee thinks if this is true, Microsoft would offer an…
Unlike the other USB PC Lock, this PC lock locks your workstation from prying fingers, instead of just the USB drive. https://gizmodo.com/rf-locking-usb-flash-drive-167114 When the USB receiver is plugged into your machine, as long as the transmitter is in range, your PC acts normally. As soon as you walk out of range—with the transmitter in your…
MacroSwiss’s Spybot 4WD weighs only 6kg (13 lbs) and can go anywhere thanks to its weird “Flapper Wheels”. The spokes-like wheels allow it to climb 45 degree slopes, go down stairs, and be tossed (by explosives?) up to 30 feet. The Spybot can even go through water with its paddle-like wheels, and can handle more…
A big, giant e-hug goes out to Nokia, Slingbox, BMW, Best Buy, Palm, Sprint, SCI FI Channel, HP, Microsoft Windows Server, Sony, Dice, Hersheys and Texas Instruments. 18/f/Cali here looking for sponsors for a good time. Interested? Check out my hot web page here. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 We want to know about you! Fill it out a…
If you’re not a fan of DIY kits like the Mintyboost to give your portable devices more juice on the road, this external battery from Macally may be more to your taste. https://gizmodo.com/mintyboost-diy-aa-usb-charger-177527 The product page states that it’s “for” iPods, but the miniUSB port and the included cable should allow many other USB compatible…
This digitized couch was designed by a UK’er and has the ability to tell when a girl is not interested in you. It may be apparent to everyone around you because of your wretched BO, bad teeth, ugliness, etc, but finally you will know when you are not wanted because the couch lights up blue…
If just peeping on your neighbors isn’t enough, there’s the USB Web Cam with Telescope from Brando. The telescoping feature probably isn’t useful for regular webcam conferences unless you want to show the other side how great (or lousy) your pores are. The scope has 7x magnification and can record at 30fps in 320×240 resolution.…
Even though I blasted Verizon earlier today, I am happy to announce that they will be officially carrying the line of LG Chocolate phones that have been making waves overseas. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-hates-creative-razr-owners-187369 The Verizon LG Chocolate page doesn’t have much information besides a nifty interactive rotatey phone model and a “Tell me when it is available”…
This year we’ve been hearing lots of the Core Duo, especially when it comes to the media and their loads of Apple laptop news. But now the reviews of the Core 2 Duos are in, and they’ve supplanted the Athlon 64 FX as the top pocessor out now. The results also show a significant advantage…
This GPS navigation not only looks cool, with its Playstation-like buttons and Batmobile-like black finish, it’s got loads of features as well. The G4 has Bluetooth for connecting to your cellphone and headset so you can make calls while driving, MPEG4 playback for movie watching while driving—always an excellent idea—and infrared remote so your kids…
This USBM8 Portable Flash Drive looks like an orange popsicle but can store your entire life inside, freeing you from those pesky earthbound PCs. If you don’t mind using oddball applications including a dictionary/thesaurus, an Outlook-ish e-mail client, an organizer and diary, you can run those applications and store your data on this drive as…
A team of Chinese engineers say they have unraveled the protocol for Skype, and vow to release their own third-party Skype client before the end of August. VoIP guru Charlie Paglee says he talked with one of the members of the team which reverse-engineered the Skype protocol, and actually received a Skype call from that…
Just a mere day after the Nike iPod sensor was released there are already reviews, news, mods and pictures out the wazoo. Hit the jump for all of the new shizzle, fo rizzle. https://gizmodo.com/nike-ipod-sport-kit-now-available-186981 Right off the bat I would like to cordially invite you to go view Katie, of Shiny Shiny fame’s, review of…
Science has created all sorts of fascinating devices for us to enjoy, but now it’s produced technology that could eliminate the biological need for the biggest whores for all that tech, males. English scientists figured out how to grow stem cells from a female embryo into sperm, and those she-cells are perfectly capable of doing…
If you happen to be a balla like me, then owning too many pimp rides may sometimes be a concern. What can I say, I’m just that damn good. But sometimes I will get the keys of my Beemer, Caddy and Maz mixed up and boy do I look like a doofus! Funny story: one…
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It may not be Twofer Tuesday, but all of you XM fans up in Canadaland are getting a twofer of a post, care of me. Here’s the dealio: first, the Pioneer Inno XM2go is now Canada ready. Canada is still getting its satellite feet wet, but this is a pretty big step, given that every…
No matter how fast your twitch reflex, lag has always been a problem with gaming, and now it’s even more so with the advent of HDTV. When you’re playing a gaming console through an HDTV, it just takes too long for the HDTV to process incoming images without unacceptable lag that ruins your gaming. Here’s…