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Send a Mac to Your Boy in College

Business Week columnist Stephen “Wild Thing” Wildstrom writes that kids going away to college should bring a tolerance for bad beer, a copy of Dave Matthews’ Under the Table and Dreaming and a Mac. While I have been a Mac fan for years, I have never felt strongly enough to make the Mac a default…

Tech News John Biggs

Internet in the Kitchen, DVD/TV, Too

Kuppersbusch Media Profi brings digital TV, CD and DVD capabilities as well as Internet access right in your face, all in a flat panel that can be flush-mounted in the kitchen. A new twist is its interactive database including 2500 recipes complete with photos, right where you need them. Looks like a great idea to…

Gadgets Charlie White

Motorola Q: TiVo via Slingbox

If you have a Motorola Q smartphone or are thinking about getting one, you’ll want to watch this. Here’s a demo of a Q running a TiVo from home via Slingbox. You can see the guy fast forwarding, rewinding, and doing most of the functions of the TiVo remote at home. It looks like Verizon’s…

Gadgets Charlie White

SkypeCast: nVidia with Patrick Beaulieu

The Skypecast is coming! The Skypecast is coming! This Friday, June 16, 1PM EDT (10PM PDT), nVidia’s Patrick Beaulieu is talking to us about all of the company’s upcoming projects, including HD on PC, PureVideo HD, and anything you guys can come up with. If you’ve got any burning questions you’ve got have answered, email…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gizmodo Today

Review Hands-On: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-samsung-bd-p1000-blu-ray-player-180950 Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-181005 News Energizer Energi To Go Portable Battery Charger Audiovox Home Decor Speakers iMac Fan Ad Windows Vista Beta 2: Windows Media Center Preview Organize It Your Way: Blu Dot Catch-All Tray Google Enhancing Search for Roadies and Homies Bill Gates Leaving Chief Architect…

Tech News Charlie White

Energizer Energi To Go Portable Battery Charger

Energizer’s releasing a portable battery charger called “Energi To Go” that charges 80% of cellphone brands on the market now. There’s two models, a two battery charger for cellphones, and a four battery charger for audio and gaming devices (iPods and PSPs). This sounds similar to Turbo Charger AA chargers, but costs a bit less.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Audiovox Home Decor Speakers

They say the best way to hide something is to hide it in plain view, which is exactly what Audiovox does with their Home Decor line of speakers. By enclosing speakers and subs in faux books, planters, vases, floor standing baskets and trunks, you can hide your sound without hindering your enjoyment of it. In…

Gadgets Jason Chen

iMac Fan Ad

Reader Mike made this ad for the Apple iMac a few years ago. It’s a mashup of an Apple service manual and Royksopps video to ‘Remind Me’. Just a neat, short little video. Thanks Mike!

Tech News Jason Chen

Windows Vista Beta 2: Windows Media Center Preview

Everyone’s probably aware that instead of being a separate product like Windows Media Center Edition 2005 (WMCE 2005) was to Windows XP, Windows Media Center (WMC) is going to come standard with Windows Vista Premium and Ultimate Editions. That means a whole lot more consumers are going to be using the media management system that…

Tech News Jason Chen

Organize It Your Way: Blu Dot Catch-All Tray

You can arrange your refrigerator shelves the way you want, but you never could custom-size the compartments in your desk drawer exactly how you need them, until now. The Blu Dot 2d:3d Catch-All Tray is available in blue, red, gunmetal or white, and you arrange its compartments with a few quick folds of its perforated…

Gadgets Charlie White

Google Enhancing Search for Roadies and Homies

If you’re smartphone user, you know all too well that you have an entirely different set of requirements when you’re out and about. Google figures that your results should match the platform from which you’re searching, so it’s decided to offer special searches for mobile devices. An example might be if you’re driving around with…

Tech News Charlie White

Hands-On: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player

Samsung launched its BD-P1000 Blu-ray player earlier this morning and I feel I need to put my cards on the table. I’ve been watching the stars and I have a gut feeling that HD DVD is going to lose this bout, friends. It will not disappear completely, but it will be an also-ran down the…

Gadgets Johnb

Bill Gates Leaving Chief Architect Role At Microsoft

Bill Gates said today that he’s no longer going to work as the Chief Software Architect of Microsoft in order to devote more time to his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie is going to be stepping into Gates’ old position after July 2008. This news comes at an interesting time,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gateway’s New Vista Ready HDCP 19-inch LCD

The new Gateway FPD1975W 19-inch LCD has a few things going for it. First, the relatively reasonable price of $299.99. Second, it supports HDCP-over-DVI, along with VGA and DVI, and is Vista ready. Third, there’s an optional $70 height-adjustable stand with a four-port USB 2.0 hub and a $40 speaker bar with dual headphones. Actually…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gather Round Me People, A Sponsor Story I Will Tell…

About Pretty Boy Floyd the sponsor, Gizmodo knew him well: Nokia, Dice, Mobizzo, Sony, Linux, Palm, Sprint, Slingbox, Hersheys, Kensington, Microsoft Windows Server, BMW, Gelaskins, Mini, Honda Fit, Evian, Accenture, Netgear Some will sponsor with a banner ad, some with sponsor with a classified. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027

Tech News Johnb

Teac R-1W Retro Radio

This new Teac radio looks like something your grandfather would have, if your grandfather was sent from the future to stop WW2, failed, then settled down with some hottie from Nebraska and pumped out eight kids—seven of which were girls. The Teac R-1W only has the one speaker, but takes in a 5.1 signal (wtf?).…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Back to the Future: Memorex Pro Gold Archival CD-R

Gizmodo has a little secret to spill: we’ve acquired a time machine and gone forward 300 years so that we could do a hands-on test of these Memorex Pro Gold CD-R blanks (available in DVD-R, too) the company sent us via FedEx today. Our result? We had no way of knowing if the company’s claim…

Tech News Charlie White

HTC to Offer Its Own Branded Smartphones

HTC is one of those behind-the-scenes companies that makes a lot of cellphones for other nameplates, but now it’s walking into the smartphone arena with its own mobile handsets that it will brand HTC. This might be a little bit touchy, since HTC will now be sorta/kinda competing against some of its own customers, major…

Tech News Charlie White

Apple To Put Solid State NAND Memory Into Laptops By 2007?

After the Vista hybrid hard drive news this week, some fat cat Wall Street analysts have been wondering whether Apple will go ahead and place some NAND Solid State Disks (SSD) into their laptops as well. After all, Apple’s got the sweet deal with Samsung and their NAND facilities, which resulted lowering the prices of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Doberman Mini Mobile Alert: Like a Car Alarm for your Gadgets

Doberman has released their Mini Mobile Alert. It is a pretty simple device that will potentially save you quite a bit of money. Attach one end of the device to your valuable gadget and attach the other to a belt-loop or something of the sort. If it is pulled the Mini Mobile Alert will let…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Send a Mac to Your Boy in College

Internet in the Kitchen, DVD/TV, Too

Motorola Q: TiVo via Slingbox

SkypeCast: nVidia with Patrick Beaulieu

Gizmodo Today

Energizer Energi To Go Portable Battery Charger

Audiovox Home Decor Speakers

iMac Fan Ad

Windows Vista Beta 2: Windows Media Center Preview

Organize It Your Way: Blu Dot Catch-All Tray

Google Enhancing Search for Roadies and Homies

Hands-On: Samsung BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player

Bill Gates Leaving Chief Architect Role At Microsoft

Gateway’s New Vista Ready HDCP 19-inch LCD

Gather Round Me People, A Sponsor Story I Will Tell…

Teac R-1W Retro Radio

Back to the Future: Memorex Pro Gold Archival CD-R

HTC to Offer Its Own Branded Smartphones

Apple To Put Solid State NAND Memory Into Laptops By 2007?

Doberman Mini Mobile Alert: Like a Car Alarm for your Gadgets

Up to $1,550 Off on pCloud: Pay Once, Protect Data Forever for World Backup Day

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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