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Oh, boy. This had better be good. The Sony Reader is available on the Sony Store and here’s hoping that this e-paper fad takes off and we won’t be stuck with a monochrome display tablet that only takes MemoryStick. You can’t quite pre-order it, but you can add yourself to the email list. Product Page…
Ok, ok, some pervert is obviously going to see the new Zigview digital angle viewfinder and think: “Wow, just what I need for all my ‘up-the-skirt’ shots.” And while we’re not condoning that usage for it, low-angle sidewalk shots are certainly an option with this new device. Attach this baby to the eyepiece of your…
I’m not sure that a hideously deformed hunchback is exactly the sort of spokesperson you want for an arcade cabinet company, but the product looks pretty hot. Quasimoto makes a number of cabinets, including this beautiful black oak model. Each one includes 27″ HD monitor (1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i) and THX sound. It’s compatible with…
The ‘ole Gizmodo closet is chock full of junk and we are dumping it on to you. This week we were giving away this guardian angel to protect yourself and your computer from havoc that may happen. Because of all of you damn cheaters and our inferior voting system, we have been forced to select…
This wind turbine is the work of London low-carbon energy consultancy and the XCO2 engineering firm. It is designed as a vertical axis turbine so it remains very silent. Best of all, there are LEDs mounted around the outside of the turbine, so as it spins it can display images. Eco-friendly and kind of cool?…
Quasar: Praised, Then Buried By Brendan I. Koerner Think of the Quasar brand as the Cinderella of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. family, minus the eventually happy fate. Matsushita’s worthiest designs have long been reserved for its more renowned brands, such as JVC, Technics, and even Panasonic. Quasar, meanwhile, has been forced to play the…
Sharp takes an Aquos LCD TV and bundles it with a PC, resulting in the LD-37SP1 and PC-AX50M Internet Aquos. These are 32- or 37-inch LCD TVs with a resolution of 1366×768 and 6ms response time, and there’s a 1.66GHz Intel Core Duo 2300 processor with a 500GB SATA disk in that vertically-oriented case alongside.…
Jon Lund took some time out from liveblogging the CustomerMade conference in Copenhagen to email in and tell us that according to Soren Lund of Lego, the software behind the upcoming highly anticipated Mindstorms NXT will be published as open source; Lego is currently in the last stage, figuring out which public domain license to…
RAZR users stuck with Verizon will be happy to know that the greedy com-giant has finally broken down and decided to enable file transfers on its Motorola RAZR V3c cellphones. The new uncrippled functionality requires a firmware update that has to be done at a Verizon dealer, though. After that, you can hook your phone…
Riding on the coattails of the bottled water hysteria, now marketing weasels are conning people into buying a breath of fresh air. Canned oxygen is the newest luxury item, and it’s available in flavors and essences that give you a variety of entirely new ways to throw away your money and think you’re feeling better…
Did you ever click a link and then have the window open up somewhere under all your other windows and then all of a sudden some crappy happy house starts wiggling through your speakers and you can’t find the window to turn it off and then you find out it’s some half-assed viral marketing crap…
We’re suckers for anything that can bring us our beers, and even though the Cooler Cruiser is nothing but a go-cart with a strap-on cooler, it can get ‘er done. It’s not a particularly complicated design, but it looks like it would be a great vehicle for getting those cold brewskis out to thirsty linksters…
If Americans are really as addicted to TV watching as the latest market statistics say we are, then this gadget sell like gangbusters. The WinTV Nova-t stick is small enough to fit in your pocket, but big enough to support SDTV, HDTV, and digital radio. The unit has a 2 year warranty and comes with…
Intimidated by your new Apple-purchased MacBook? Hell I would be too. I’d be scared to even try to install Windows XP on it using Apple’s Bootcamp. So, let someone else do it for you. ExperCom is selling the base model MacBook pro with the 1.83GHz processor, 512MB ram, 80GB hard drive and it comes preloaded…
A favorite of Wal-Mart shoppers everywhere, MP3 player MobiBLU gets a facelift with its latest iteration, and they’re calling it the Cube 2. It’s the same size as its predecessor, but has a new navigational controller and adds a two-color OLED display. Other specs will probably stay the same—it plays MP3 and WMA files and…
We haven’t had any complaints around the Gizmodo Cave about the wireless Xbox 360 controller, but like our decorator says, a little color never hurt anyone. Xtreme Enterprise’s Fantasy360 controller mod lets you swap out your original case for one that’s transparent and not “#FFFFFF”. Some more details: All Fantasy360 cases are made from high…
Infinium announced that it’s signed Itron Technology to manufacture its upcoming Lapboard peripheral. In case you forgot, the lapboard is basically just a keyboard and mouse combination that’s usable on the couch. Nothing revolutionary, but if Infinium is going to keep up the ruse that they’re a big boy company, they have to release something.…
We don’t have much details on this other than it’s an Interactive and Dynamic Art project, and that it’s made by the members of the D’Andrea Group: Max Dean, Raffaelo D’Andrea and Matt Donovan. The chair can disassemble itself instantly, and then proceed to slowly put itself back together again. From the video, we can’t…
With all this talk of UMPC, poor little tablets have fallen by the wayside. Gateway, however, just pumped out two Core and Centrino Duo convertibles, the M285-E and CX210, both starting at $1,399.99. The M285-E is for business users and the CX210 is for the rest of us schlubs. Both models have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth…
Toshiba is not giving up in the futile war to kill the iPod, with marketing goons pushing even more semi-different Gigabeat models on us, the P5S and P10. These flash memory-based babies are trying to build on the slight success of the P5 “CanCam” edition. The P5S holds 512 MB of MP3, WMA, WAV or…