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We don’t own pets here at Gizmodo HQ—our rights were revoked after that incident with Rickles the monkey—but this doggie bowl seems like a good way to keep your dog safe from his own bad habits. Apparently, when a dog eats too fast, his stomach can distend with air until it’s so big the dog…
Toshiba, maker of laptops, TVs and other electronics, is trying to wedge its cellphone business into the big leagues with the new W44T music phone. Lots of features in a small, attractive package may mean Toshiba has a hit on its hands. A large 2.6″ screen inside a flip-and-twist phone lets you view the quality…
This week at TreeHugger: Introducing EPEAT, a brand-new standard system for evaluating, certifying and registering green computers and other electronics. From the makers of Solio, the solar iPod charger come a line of gadget cases made from old tires. TREAD will keep your Solio, iPod nano, 3G iPod and various 15″ laptops safe from harm’s…
We may be the only people on the planet that don’t like American Idol—us and the middlebrow snobs who say they “don’t even own a television”—but this thing seems pretty cool. Combining a shower radio with a microphone so you can sing along just like Reuben, there’s only one question left to ask: When will…
Like to take pictures while you’re watching Everybody Loves Raymond? The IMAX G6 PMP has a 2.0-megapixel camera shoehorned into the back, while the front sports a QVGA (320×240) screen. The media formats supported are ASF video at 30 fps and MP3/WMA for audio. Total memory adds up to 1.5GB from the internal 512MB and…
Listen up you Europeanites. Sony Ericsson is releasing a phone exclusively for your neck of the woods, specifically with Vodafone. What makes this phone as cool as the cat’s pajamas is the included support for Vodafone’s Radio DJ service. Radio DJ is an interactive streaming music service. This phone also has a 2 megapixel camera,…
This isn’t as much as a sound bomb and just a sound motion sensor. Soundbomb is the work of Felix Hardmood Beck. There is an integrated sound module built into a sphere that allows any kind of audio to be recorded. Once motion is detected, the audio will play back through the uniquely placed speakers—this…
Just released in the Korean market, the Canon A700 has 6 megapixels and 6x optical zoom, quite high for a “compact” camera. A 2.5″ LCD and various other shooting modes which makes it a good point and shoot cam. The IXUS 60 is also a 6 megapixel camera, with a smaller body and only 3x…
Harmony, the maker of several universal remotes, such as the one for the Xbox 360, has teamed up with Harmon Kardon to provide an advanced version of their Harmony 520. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-harmony-advanced-universal-remote-for-xbox-360-149136 So what justifies the $299 price tag over the $99 on the 520? It’s rechargable, it has four more buttons and it’s got a…
The iPod company and the shoe company are partnering together to make your workout easier and more fun. Nike’s new footwear, the Moire, tracks information during your run such as distance, time, speed, and calories burned. The iPod Sport Kit allows you to view the workout data from your shoe in real time, not after…
Take a look at the Samsung Q1-SSD, this one with a 32GB solid-state flash drive. We must tell you up front that it costs $2430, far above the $500 Origami fantasy price point originally touted months ago. But still. It’s quiet, more durable, more efficient and faster than the Q1 with the spinning disk inside.…
Sony has unveiled this portable DVD player for the masses, and it actually looks pretty nice. The key niceness feature is the support of a wide variety of media and formats. It plays DVD, DVD±R and DVD±RW formats, DVD±R double layer discs and DivX. It can also play MP3 and audio CDs along with burned…
In addition to the Intercooler and Gameface 360, Nyko has a few more interesting Xbox 360 accessories that are due out this summer. Get the scoop on them after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/nyko-xbox-360-intercooler-163790 Nyko has a USB hub/memory card coming this summer. It supports Smart Media, Compact Flash, Sony Memory Stick and Secure Digital. Also it…
Samsung announced that next month it will begin shipping to the Korean market its Q30, the first notebook PC with a solid-state hard disk. The 12.1-inch screen notebook will be equipped with a 32GB NAND flash based solid-state disk (SSD) with a read speed of 53MB per second (300% faster, according to Samsung) and write…
Targus is appealing to the inner geek in all of us with the line of Feren backpacks that protects laptops while also providing plenty of room for food and drink. This line of backpacks was voted one of the best notebook cases under $100 by Laptop Magazine, so it has to be good, right? The…
Miglia is trying to close the “missing link” of the Mac Mini DVR with the TVMax. The TVMax fits perfectly underneath the Mac Mini. It allows you to watch television and record to MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and even DivX (!!). The TVMax is bundled with EyeTV 2.0 for all of the software functionality needs. It will…
Reviewers at Hel.io took a look at the EVDO-enabled Helio Hero Smartphone, giving it their highest kudos. They liked the easy-to-use phone, and were also quite fond of the Helio mobile service powering all the festivities. They added that the 2.2-inch 240×320 LCD screen displayed “quality video cleanly and quickly.” They even praised the unit’s…
After all the notoriety and commotion surrounding the failed Gizmondo company, someone is trying to sell Gizmondo mobile gaming consoles, and the scary part is, there will probably be someone eager to buy one. True, it does have a GPS device and mp3 player inside, but there won’t be any new games available for the…
A British student is claiming to have designed the first bittorrent client for mobile phones. The software is called WizBit and it utilized the 3G network to transfer large files in the torrent-like fashion. With the additions of larger storage space and high-speed connection on cellphones it was only a matter of time before piracy…
Adobe sent us one of its limited-edition leather messenger bags ($250) we told you about a couple of weeks ago for testing, and we tried fitting a variety of laptops inside. The 17-inch MacBook Pro barely fits (almost needs to be lubed up), a 15-inch MacBook Pro fits pretty well, a 15.2-inch Dell Mobile Precision…