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We’re getting a kick out of Hitachi marketers, where last month they announced an HDTV line they called Wooo—no kidding— and now they’re touting a perpendicular hard drive they’ve named the “Drive of Steel.” What’s so super about it? Hitachi says the 160GB Travelstar 5K160 2.5-inch drive is so perpendicular that it’s “super pendicular,” whatever…
Introducing the Windows Live LifeCams. There will be two versions available. The VX-3000 is the lower end model that has a 640×480 resolution and can capture HD stills at 1.3 megapixels. It also has a universal mounting device, face tracking and a microphone. The higher end model is the VX-6000 which includes the same features…
You must have seen this coming: now they want to sell you some hot air. Seven-Eleven Japan has announced it will be selling cans of oxygen in its stores beginning May 24. Each can contains enough oxygen for 35 two-second inhalations, and the company says this will last a week if it’s used five or…
Oh, N-Gage, you held me and stopped me from shaking, and I need you today, oh, N-Gage. Well they threw away your display stand out into the rain, Oh, N-Gage, and even E3 it can’t save you, we miss you today, oh N-Gage.
Hong Kong’s Amex Digital calls its MPC-505 the world’s first Blu-ray home theater PC (HTPC), but it’s one thing to announce and show pictures of a product and an entirely different thing to actually ship it. The company doesn’t say when we’ll see the MPC-505 on the market or at what price, but its spec…
We first told you a couple of months ago about Sony’s K510, and now the FCC has approved this low-end candy bar for sale in the US. To refresh your memory, it’s a GSM tri-band handset with MP3/AAC playback, a 1.3-megapixel camera with a 4x digital zoom and Bluetooth compatibility. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-goes-low-end-with-k310-k510-157336 It will be available…
Always getting stuck helping your friends move just because you’re the only one with a big car? Buy this Forearm Forklift and make being a decent guy not so painful on your back. Loop these straps on our forearms and under whatever you are moving for a much better grip on the furniture. We had…
Lik-Sang, purveyor of all things accessory, has spilled the beans about the Xbox 360 HDMI Cable. After Microsoft’s HD DVD announcement at E3, people were wondering whether HD DVDs would be capable of playing at full resolution on analog component cables, since there was no HDMI cable available for the 360. Well, that particular question…
You remember that time when you were a kid and you snuck downstairs on Christmas Eve to catch your parents putting presents down under the tree, pretending to be Santa? Then remember how they gave you extra presents to make up for shattering your still undeveloped soul? This is kind of like that. Except now…
We present you with the Sony UX ultra-portable PC. Here are the facts known so far. It has a 7-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Core Solo processor, Wi-Fi, biometric sensor, two cameras, Windows XP Pro, 3G and Bluetooth. Whew, that was a lot. These details and specs are from an anonymous tipster over at Mobility…
Reader Paul Blakeman found some time between designing websites to make a OS X dashboard widget for Gizmodo. Plop it down into your dashboard and it shows you the latest 20 RSS feed items from the Giz. Good work, Paul! Download Page [Pixel Kid]
Hands-On: PixelClean LCD Screen Cleaning Kit Don’t use anything to clean your LCD that you wouldn’t use to clean your glasses. People’ve already mentioned that windex is harmful, but tap water is also, since it can contain hard minerals that scratch. Likewise, paper towels of all kinds contain wood fibre which will scratch your screen,…
Do you play a ukulele? Do you like lunchboxes? If you answered “Yes” to those two questions and are over the age of 10, you are probably never going to be on the cover of GQ Magazine. Nevertheless, Box-A-Lele combines your two favorite hobbies to form the LunchBox-A-Lele, which is exactly what it sounds like.…
Boy, we wish we had our very own Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku right now to decipher all the Japanese on this page. Nevertheless, with our high tech Rosetta Stone we can see that this nifty bath salt replacement comes in six different colors (red blue green pink yellow purple). Each one of these only costs…
Feature Gizmodo Gallery: Sabrina Raaf https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-gallery-sabrina-raaf-172890 Rumor and Conjecture Apple iPhone Confirmed, Kind of Vonage USB SoftPhone Kit Leaked https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-confirmed-kind-of-173569 News British Man Invents 8,000 Mile Per Gallon Car HDTV Finally Coming To Hotels En Masse NEC Blurs Line Between Real and Virtual Robots Animatronic Sir Alan Fires You Whenever He Feels Like It Shock…
The Japanese web and telecom company, Softbank Corporate, is going to be getting freaky with Apple in development of the Apple licensed phone, finally. It is going to be a true iTunes phone that can play music and download songs from the iTunes Music Store. The original report, from Nikkei, says that Apple and Softbank…
While it’s not quite a Lexus, it is a start. A enterprising fellow from Britain invented a car that he believes can go 8,000 miles before it needs a fill up. It cost only $3,689 to build and weighs 126 pounds. The inventor, Andy Green, is no stranger to inventing fuel efficient cars and is…
Our Bothan spies sent us some shots of a USB-key based Vonage SoftPhone that will be available in June. This thing consists of the USB key containing the software and a headset. You plug it into any PC—no Mac support, apparently—up comes your home phone and voicemail et al. No pricing yet. Product Page [Vonage]
If you’re anything like us, HDTV has become a bit of a necessity when it comes to watching TV. Thankfully, LodgeNet is making going to hotels a little bit easier with their decision to include HDTVs and HD channels in 160,000 of their hotels. Pretty soon, no longer will we be forced to watch standard…
NEC recently announced that after years of research, they have developed a technology that makes the difference between robots and their on-screen computer graphics (CG) counterparts less marked. NEC demonstrated the new technology with this friendly-looking robot named PaPeRo and its CG sidekick, PaPeRo CG. The whole purpose of this is to make interaction between…