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The world was a-flutter a few weeks back about Amazon’s music service and now we have some proof that it will be available very soon. In short, Amazon is creating a music store and branded MP3 players aka iPod-killer (*snort*). This is all very potential and unconfirmed, but let’s give our source the benefit of…
Amateur pornographer and part-time cellphone enthusiast Bengalboy has coaxed someone into giving him a Sony Ericsson K790 to play with. We last saw this at CeBIT where it was still called the K800. https://gizmodo.com/cebit-06-sony-ericsson-k800-159353 Demoted in name, but not in functionality, the K790 still features a 3.2 megapixel camera and continues to sport the “Cyber-shot”…
Owners of non-smartphones were out of luck in the browser department until Opera released their Mini. Regular Opera functionality, compatible with J2ME phones, allows lower end phones to browse standard websites in condensed form. Now with Opera Mini 2.0, users can download mp3s, pictures and videos directly onto their phones. This feature, along with buying…
Let’s see, Pantech’s new G-1300V, 128×128 screen, VGA camera, SMS, MMS, Java, Wap, Speaker Phone. Everything looks in order. Wait, what’s this? Fatness Checker? Really? We can’t tell what the Fatness Checker does from the pictures, but we’re guessing it’s either some kind of gadget that can tell your BMI by measuring the amount of…
Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-171562 News iPod Audio Navigation Patent LED License Plate Holders Crime Fighting with Cellphones DIY USB Flash Drive Mods Nokia and ATI Team Up for…Another N-Gage? Belkin N1 Hands-on Build Your Own Computer at Wal-Mart iPodweek – The Best of iLounge Quad-Core Chips From AMD Due in ’07-’08 Reviewed: US Robotics…
As iPods are further integrated into cars, there’s a danger of users T-Boning some poor salary man because they were putting on “In the Air Tonight” instead of paying attention to the road. https://gizmodo.com/live-at-macworld-acheive-trendvana-with-ipod-bluetooth-148633 Now Apple releases a patent for the iPod that tags each song, genre, artist, actor, and other relevant info with their…
Hmmm, what uses will people find for a license plate holder that displays scrollable messages? You can enter up to 120 characters into one message, and the plate holder stores up to 5 messages. Programming the plate is easy to do even while you are in the car by using the wireless remote. There’s no…
With the help of a little Dragnet style sleuthing, Detective Lee Reiber was able to put a criminal in jail by utilizing his Blackberry. Dan Kincaid is a man who was accused of breaking into a home in Boise, Idaho. Testimony alone wasn’t enough to put Kincaid in jail so Reiber seized his Blackberry phone…
UCLA student, Rachel, has launched a new site to help spice up that boring, dull USB flash drive that you use day in and day out. She plans on having a library of tutorials and a store for buying and modding USB flash drives. Some of the tutorials already up include a Hot Wheel car…
Noooo! Say it ain’t so, ATI. You were so well respected and always give us graphical geeks the prettiest booth babes and babe posters. Now you will disgrace yourself by teaming up with Nokia for multimedia purposes. It is a sad day indeed. Today ATI announced the partnership with Nokia for multimedia development on mobile…
When we first reported on Belkin’s N1 802.11n pre-release router, we didn’t know much. Know we know that’s it’s pretty cool and can pump out a steady HD video stream—plus a lot more—at a nice range and acceptable throughput. https://gizmodo.com/belkin-802-11n-n1-router-169649 Belkin set up a nice test bed to show us how the N1 performed in…
Wal-Mart has been experimenting with 20 build-your-own computer stations around the nation and they will begin expanding this program to over 1,200 stores by the end of this year. Wal-Mart has been selling low-budget prepackaged computer for years, but service is the similar to that of Dell or Gateway with a slew of customizable options.…
This week at iLounge: We know you’ve seen iDog, the dog-shaped iPod speaker system, and iPAL, the iPod-ready radio. Are you ready for iWoofer? Rain Design has taken the major features from both of these accessories and put them inside a single, bizarre little body shaped like an alien dog. iWoofer’s chrome feet let the…
AMD plans to release four different quad core processors in the next couple of years, but details are still murky. In the second half of 2007, the company plans to release a quad-core server chip codenamed “Deerhound,” which will have a shared L2 cache and will be manufactured in a 65nm process. Next, in the…
Your small business looking for a good portable speakerphone to use with Skype? Jim Courtney over at Skype Journal got the US Robotics Speakerphone we told you about
Blu-ray has slipped again. Sony announced that the first Blu-ray movies will not be available on May 23 as originally announced, but will be shipping nearly a month later, on June 20. Sony says the movies themselves are ready, but the problem is that Blu-ray players won’t be available until at least that date. Sony…
ShackWatch IV: Summer Daze By Brendan I. Koerner It’s been way too long since Low End Theory’s last visit to the cluttered aisles of Radio Shack. The last time I checked in with America’s favorite peddler of remote-control cars and digital thermometers, Christmas ’05 was right around the corner. Now the trees have filled out…
Is TV really that great, so that you have to have it everywhere you could ever stand, walk, lie or sit in your house? Well, if it’s that important to you, now Siemens has embedded a 17-inch LCD into a range hood. If that’s not enough, it’s got a DVD and CD player in there,…
You’ve probably heard of hydrostatic weighing, where the amount of water your body displaces while submerged reveals how much of you is lean meat and how much is flab. The Bod Pod takes that concept a step further, using air instead of water to see what you’re really made of. It measures mass and volume,…
Okay, so it’s not the biggest pinhole camera ever, but the crew behind the Camera Truck deserves kudos nonetheless for making a truck into a very large pinhole camera (their negatives are 1.30m x 3m, 4,500ish times the size of conventional negatives) and then spending a month driving it around the Iberian peninsula taking photos.…