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Tennis fans now get their own sports themed phones, a la all the World Cup phones that have been released. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-headset-in-world-cup-team-colors-171903 Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3, FM radio, and EDGE support makes this a decent if mediocre phone. If we were a bigger tennis fan, we’d probably be more excited. When you do pick…
The specifications of the Nokia E62 are pretty much still the same save for added WiFi and USB support, but now Blackberry Cool has found out the smartphone will be released this summer through Cingular. It will also be compatible with BlackBerry through the “BlackBerry Connect” software for non BlackBerry devices. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-e62-details-revealed-158849 Canadian readers can…
Mobility Site tried on the Myvu personal video player down at the lake—where nobody could laugh at them—and came back pleased. Wearing these felt just like wearing sunglasses that take 3 AAA batteries. The video is 320×240 on a 4:3 aspect ratio, and felt like watching a 30″ screen from a meter or so away.…
Has the press gotten tired of sucking at Google’s teat? For Google Press Day on April 10th, attendees the event were told there would be WiFi available so they could liveblog the event, communicate with their editors, or watch their Google stock rise. However, come 9 a.m., the Press Day m.c. announced “We know the…
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is introducing a “Robot of the Year” award to acknowledge all the good robot work going on in that country. Prizes will be given to industrial robots (welding), service robots (cleaning and security), special environment robots (rescue) and small to medium firm designed robots. Hopefully these awards…
Gigabyte, the Chinese PC and parts manufacturer, decided to expand into the smartphone market with the g-Smart i. Instead of going through all that pesky “product development”, ol’ Gigster just decided to clone a Nokia 6270. Running Windows Mobile 5, the g-Smart i has a whole mess of features the Nokia does not: 2.1-megapixel camera,…
This week at TreeHugger: We get plugged in with a company called Hybrid Technologies, who is making plans to bring all-electric, lithium battery-powered PT Cruisers to New York. Check out the iZap, another lithium ion battery system that extends the life of your iPod up to 28 hours on a single charge. We look in…
Zack wrote in to point out that the power supply that comes with the newly-announced MacBook is “normal size now”, instead of the huge white monstrosity that surprised those of us who purchased MacBook Pros. Like Zach, we wish Apple would replace the gigantic power supplies with the newer smaller ones, but we’re not going…
Suppose you’re a globe-trotting exec who’s also pilfering your employee’s pensions to keep your sun-tanned trophy wife in a lifestyle to which she’s been accustomed. You’d probably want to be keeping your illegal wheels and deals off the office phone line. The Jablotron GDP-02 GSM desk phone would fit your needs perfectly. The phone features…
This tiny, stylish alternative to the iPod Nano looks great and possibly does more than the player it’s trying to dethrone. iRiver is throwing this in your face with 2 GB of flash memory, a built in FM tuner, 2.2″ color display that also plays MPEG4 at 15FPS, voice recorder, and up to 25 hours…
Wired has a rundown some of the legal issues that could be encountered by snapping a photo of someone unknowingly to them. Basically if the subject doesn’t have a “reasonable expectation of privacy”—basically meaning that it is in a public place that one could expect a camera to be at—then it is cool to take…
Remember that sweet TV phone with the rotating screen? Well it is coming to the states, even though there is no support for the T-DMB digital mobile television service over here, yet. This is a traditional clamshell phone that can flip open and the screen can then rotate horizontally for television viewing at 30 frames…
Lifehacker, our most industrious of siblings, has a great post out asking for tips on extending the life of laptop batteries. We’ve had the worst of luck with laptop batteries in the past and would love to find out how to keep the one in our new Macbook Pro running well for as long as…
More funky fresh cellphone news from Samsung today. They korean company has just launched the SCH-W200 HSDPA phone with S-DMB. In addition to the high speed 1.8Mbps data access and mobile TV, the phone includes a 2 megapixel camera (that’s low in Korea), video recording in h.263 and h.264, dual speakers, mp3 and aac support,…
We suppose this is eminently useful if you often ride the range in pursuit of the wild Jackalope or like to tip your ATV into the ravine of an evening. As we see, this is a wearable airbag that protects the neck, shoulders, front, and ass-bone, which is a medical term for the bone in…
The age old battle between hackers and copy protection continues, this time with the hackers gaining a potentially huge victory over the Xbox 360. It appears that the firmware for the Toshiba-Samsung H943 DVD drive (one of two drives available in the Xbox 360) has been, as they say, hacked. In a nutshell, once the…
We’ve been using Nokia’s N-Gage as a punchline to (extremely nerdy) jokes for years now, ever since we first heard about Sidetalking—long before the N-Gage actually hit the market and, you know, failed. Ewan Spence over at All About Symbian’s written a fairly long piece about how we should stop mocking the N-Gage and pay…
We’re big on the gaming cabinets, as you can see, simply because it was always our childhood dream to have a full-size arcade cabinet a la little Ricky in Silver Spoons. Now that we make actual money and are allowed to spend it, we just can’t bring ourselves to plunk down a few grand for…
We know this isn’t a gadget, but we’ll be darned if this didn’t make us pee a little. Here you see a clip of Optimus Prime (?? wasn’t he red?) transforming in preparation for the upcoming Transformers film. UPDATE – Probably a big fat fake. UPDATE 2 – Yes we know it’s probably Ultra Magnus…
Here’s a great idea for a birth control pill package, where a 24-hour alarm sounds at the time you designate, and when you twist open the case, it stops the alarm. Take a pill, twist the case closed and that alarm is reset for the next day. Careful, though—might be a bit embarassing if that…