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Most of our predictions regarding Origami have come true—it’s not a piece of MS hardware, it’s media-centric, it’s dumb—so this just bolsters the impression that we are omniscient. Origami will be able to act as a Media Center Extender, meaning you can play video and audio content in any room of your house, wirelessly. You…
As we mentioned before, PayPal has created a mobile payment system allowing you to send and receive money via SMS. https://gizmodo.com/paypal-plans-phone-payments-163482 The site is up now and you can activate your phone by clicking a button and entering your number. I’m trying to figure out some use cases, right now, and strangely enough I could…
Infomercialious By Brendan I. Koerner In the polite company of suit-and-tied intellectuals and moneymen, I usually state that my hobbies include croquet, falconry, and reading Wittgenstein. The sad reality, however, is that I’m clumsy with both mallets and birds of prey, and that I have trouble reading anything that doesn’t involve basketball and/or Robotech. (Wittgenstein’s…
Garmin is in the middle of a vertiable blizzard of releases, and it will soon ship its Garmin BMW Motorrad Navigator III. This portable GPS device serves up your navigation information in nice-looking 3D graphics on an anti-reflecting 454×240-pixel screen, and offers text-to-speech and voice control via Bluetooth. With its included software, you can prepare…
If you’re of a certain age and predilection, you’ll remember B9 from Lost in Space and the stentorian B9, a robot with masculinity issues. Well, now you can own one for $18,000. This bugger plays back multiple B9 sound bites and has an iPod input and a remote controller on a keychain. Best thing? When…
If you’re not one to regularly replace your smoke alarm batteries, or are just tired of messing with it, the DuPont Self-Charging Smoke Alarm eliminates that hassle by recharging itself. Mounted into a ceiling-mounted light socket, it automatically charges up whenever the light is turned on. To test the alarm, simply flip the light switch…
Do what you will with this, but the folks at HE2006 are offering $5 tickets to the show at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in LA on June 1-4, 2006. Just type in the promo code “GIZMODO” and get the hook-up. Show Page [HE2006]
At CTIA Wireless in Las Vegas, Motorola is demonstrating video technology that lets users move video clips from a set-top digital video recorder (DVR) directly to a cellphone such as its RAZR V3x. Part of Motorola’s “Follow Me” technology, the technique will also allow Motorola mobile devices to program the company’s DVRs remotely. The company…
We saw a Motorola/Skype version of a Bluetooth headset for music listening and telephony, and now Jabra weighs in with its version, the BT620s headset it’s displaying at CTIA 2006. Although Jabra’s version isn’t as Skype-friendly as Motorola’s, it is able to instantly pause your music when a phone call comes in. It gives you…
This sexy, sexy beast is the Carbon Bike from Mercedes-Benz Accessories GmbH, the star of their 2006 Bike Collection. While this is their very first racing bike, the use of carbon fiber in vehicle shells isn’t new to Mercedes-Benz—the McLaren Mercedes F1 cars of Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya heavily incorporate it, and their…
As trains in the United States remain firmly planted in the horse-and-buggy era, the rest of the world leaps ahead, and here’s the fastest wheeled train yet, the phallic-looking 224mph Fastech 360Z. The working prototype of the next-generation bullet train was unveiled to the press in Japan by the East Japan Railway. A company spokesman…
It’s not that you can make funny movies with a Nokia N90 that’s impressive, though Robert Nylund’s short flicks at BadQualityOfficeChairs.com work the chortle glands well. The interesting part is the obvious part: nothing beats a vile 288-line CMOS image sensor when it comes to acquiring that down-to-earth mockumentary look. Oh, and maybe a few…
Ericsson announced Thursday that they will be assisting in the destruction of the English language by promoting a range of incomprehensible abbreviations, beginnning with a demonstration at CTIA of 28Mbit/s HSPA with MIMO, an evolution of WCDMA created using HSDPA in the downlink as specified in 3GPP release 5. That’s “faster mobile networking” for the…
Google Inc.’s nefarious scheme to fog San Francisco with a warm, milky shroud of Wi-Fi proceeds apace, with city fathers recommending them and Earthlink as the best candidates for the job. The anointment follows a six-week review and was a required prelude to opening negotiations with the two companies, which joined forces earlier this year.…
The Doorcap Smart lock from Hyundai lets you lock your door and throw away the key. However, you’ll need one of the six provided RFID passcards to let yourself in. But wait, there’s a hidden number pad to enter your PIN code if you don’t happen to have that passcard on you. The Doorcap Smart…
Merriam Webster, along with iPREPpress, has released a pocket dictionary for the iPod which provides you definations of over 40,000 words. Using the iPod’s scroll wheel users can search for words through a hierarchical menu and hyper-linked structure. Imagine! You can listen to your favorite tunes while discovering new words. Expect a wide range of…
This toaster-sized gadget is really fast—it takes just 60 seconds to chill cans of beer and soda, while a bottle of wine will take about six minutes. This super cooler works by spraying a jet of cold water over the can or bottle, so be ready to reload it with ice and water if you…
Here’s one of our favorite iPod accessories, the Bose SoundDock, and now it arrives decked out in a high-gloss black finish to match those dark-hued iPods. Just like its white-colored brandmate, the black SoundDock hooks up to any iPod with a dock connector. Available in a few weeks, there’s no specific info on pricing, but…
As we mentioned yesterday, Disney announced its kid-friendly mobile phone service for US customers will begin in June. https://gizmodo.com/ctia-disney-announces-disney-mobile-phone-service-165324 Now we hear that Korean company Pantech will provide a modified version of its DM-P100 clamshell handset as the first phone to be used with the service. The P100 has a color display, external caller ID,…
With childhood obesity on the rise, this is a perfect solution for keeping wee Wally or Wanda sufficiently wotund. While we wealize that sometimes a kid just wants to wide, exercise be damned, I’d be worried this thing would tip over, but we’re assuming that’s already been taken care of in pwewiminary design. However, for…