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Pioneer plans to introduce in June the world’s first 50″ 1080p plasma display, the PDP-5000EX Pure Vision Black Plasma Display. The display produces resolution of 1920 x 1080 and “smart converts” lower resolution images in order to optimize them for its screen. A number of technologies that Pioneer has developed power the display, including the…
In the Navy! You can train inside a ball! In the Navy! You can walk or you can crawl! In the Navy! You can train with VR headsets! In the Navy! You can disassemble it and jet! Yes, friends, this is a hamster ball for VR training. We knew it would happen, but this must…
The Kiss MP3 Player would have literally flown from the shelves on Valentine’s day. It is decorated with 23 Swarovski crystals and includes changeable covers that the ladies can match mix and match. It comes with matching crystal studded earphones which allows you to wear it around your neck. It weighs only 1 ounce and…
Dutch inventor Henk Rozema takes the death video business to the next level with this digital gravestone, equipped with an LCD display that can play video, still photos and audio messages from the deceased. It appears that the main contribution of this latest version of Videos From Beyond the Grave is an infrared sensor which…
When Epson rolled out its Endeavor Pro 3500 desktop system for the Japanese market, it revealed the new “Windows Vista Capable” logo seen here. This was the first PC to include this stamp of approval from the Redmondians, and the first official version we’ve seen of the logo. The Epson PC apparently has adequate graphics…
Fujitsu is one of the companies showing their wares off in the Japanese Design exhibition at the Triennale di Milano this week, and among their great prides apparently is this concept for a CD case-sized UMPC with a fold-out keyboard. Five bucks says someone on their industrial design team owns a Gameboy Advance SP… Fujitsu…
The Internet Renaissance robot, or ITR, is the world’s first humanoid robot to be “integrated” into the family thanks to its unique communications systems. This little fella connects to a dedicated server via the Internet and downloads content which it presents to the user with its voice and movements. With an addon adaptor, the Wi-Fi…
In the never-ending quest to make a round peg fit into a square hole, Sony-Ericsson is trying once again to get a music phone off the ground. This time, the W700i is their Trojan Horse. The titanium-colored phone maintains the simplistic styling of previous Walkman phones, but don’t mistake that for weakness. It has 256MB…
Yes, there are HDTV signals floating through the air, and you don’t have to pay for satellite or cable to receive them with the Spectrum LP49-DTV indoor digital TV antenna. The company says the antenna can be used anywhere the UHF standard is supported, and can receive digital or HDTV signals and feed them into…
Are you so grossed out by the thought of touching anything in the subway that you just stand in the middle of the car with your legs spread out, hoping you don’t fall over? If you’re one of the people who does this regularly you should know that we hate you, because you always end…
Put together this corrugated cardboard frame, add 63 gallons of soil and a pack of grass seed, and before you know it you’ll have a grass armchair. Gives new meaning to the term “your ass is grass.” It’s $114 from the oddly-named British housewares store Purves and Purves. Grass Armchair [via Treehugger]
Rarely do we come across products with names as ridiculous as the SWISSMEMORYprestigeTH USB Memory Stick. Why are “SWISSMEMORY” and “prestige” stuck together? Why couldn’t they just stay separate? And what’s the deal with the “TH” at the end? What about a 1GB USB memory stick encased in a Swiss Army Knife-like shell of either…
Samsung announced its BD-P1000 Blu-ray player will be delayed by a month, but the good news is the player will be capable of 1080p playback. The company insisted that its new June 25 ship date, although not quite as early as the May 23 day it previously set for the release, would still be the…
Oh boy. We got a Sony Network Walkman! With flash memory! These buggers can hold up to 2GB, come in six colors, including lime, and the 512MB an 1GB models come with an FM tuner. Sony has been flogging their quick-charge feature and these can charge in about 3 minutes. They also play MP3, ATRAC…
Here’s the XCute S50, an eye-catching candybar that somehow squeezes a 6-megapixel camera into its improbably thin 9mm profile. It’s a tri-band phone with onboard flash memory, a 16.7 million color screen, and the ability to play back AVI, ASF and MOV files. It has onboard flash memory and T-flash expandability, too. No price or…
We’re having rolling outages today for some reason. Looks like New York was hit this morning and the Midwest is just now getting it. This is effecting gizmodo.com and it appears to be negatively affecting our image servers. More as we get it.
Sony Ericsson announced the Z525 (pictured), a clamshell handset featuring Bluetooth, a VGA camera and push-to-talk capability. Its 1.8-inch internal display has 128×160 pixels and 65K colors, while its external display has 80×101 pixels and 4K colors. Its VGA camera features a 4x digital zoom, and can also record and play back video. Rounding out…
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Urban riders listen to music instead of the traffic sounds around them at their own peril, but if you ride somewhere safe like paths or tracks maybe you’ll be interested in the iBikeMount, which lets you attach your iPod Nano to your bike’s handlebars. It’s a little pricey for what it is at $29.99, but…
If you’re looking for an iPod charging dock and speaker system that won’t break the bank, these iDocker iPod Speakers are only $29.90 and come with a remote control. We can’t imagine the sound quality is going to be spectacular, but if the price is right, hey. It’s not like they could possibly sound worse…