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Persuasive evidence from Mobility Today shows that Verizon may be purposely throttling down the speed of its EVDO network. The video shows a Sprint PPC-6700 zooming through DSL Reports speed tests, while the Verizon Palm Treo 700w chokes on those very same tests. The Treo s slow speed makes syncing with an Exchange Server an…
Let s step away from the constant rat race that is consumer technology for a moment to focus on a gadget that actually aims to improve people s quality of life rather than squeezing out a few more polygons per second. The Blink Twice company recently unveiled its new AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) gadget,…
For those of you who haven’t been following Japan’s on-again, off-again ban of the sale of uncertified used electronics, Japanese vintage gear lovers have been in an uproar. Resellers were enraged, people literally took to the streets with old Casio keyboards and Nintendo Famicom systems (photos), and Oscar-winning composer/musician Ryuichi Sakamoto became the Bono of…
Feature Tuning Fork https://gizmodo.com/tuning-fork-162895 News Mini PC RFID-Enabled Casino Chips Protecting America With the Robolobster Movie Theaters Apply Tourniquet, Attempt to Show Live 3D Sports Casio Pathfinder PAW1200 Reviewed (Verdict: It s Got it All) Live in Israel, Get Free Cell Service Easy Streaming to the Xbox 360 Lego GSR Sensor Bada-Beam Laser Beam Cat…
Like the styling of the Mac Mini but don’t want to run OS X, or to give Apple your money? A bunch of small companies are branding AOpen’s MiniPC and bundling it with a Linux-based OS pre-installed. The Koala Mini is $499 and comes with Ubuntu, while the folks behind the Linspire OS are selling…
A Korean company has begun embedding RFID tags into casino chips. This technology will make getting chip counts a whole lot easier. The range on the RFID chips will be around 3 meters, perfect for the average poker table. The RFID tags will communicate with an RFID compatible handheld and this technology will aid in…
The fight for world domination never lets up but humans aren t alone in their never-ending war. DARPA, the same folks who brought us, more or less, the Internet, recently developed a robotic lobster designed to swoop over seabeds, looking for mines and other offensive devices. Dubbed the Robolobster (for robotic lobster ) by DARPA…
Dumbed Down By Brian L. Clark A friend of mine who happens to work for a major consumer electronics company once told me about a very chi-chi party he attended on the West Coast. The owner of the house, who was quite pleased with himself, had flat panel HDTV’s everywhere. He cooed about how wonderful…
Is it just me or does this sound like the death knell for movie theaters? For those not in the know, we are no longer going to the movies. In fact, we’re so not going to the movies that movie theatres are planning on showing live 3D sports during the week so, I don’t know,…
Atomic watches usually have one problem—they’re tuned to a particular time frequency and can’t be used anywhere else in the world. The PAW1200, however, can tune to multiple frequencies around the world. The PAW1200 is also completely solar-powered, has a barometer, altimeter with altitude alarm, and a digital compass. Finally, you’ve got 30 world cities…
Israeli Orange customers who happen to be using 3G phones will be able to rid themselves of pesky bills by simply watching a few commercials. The program will either offer partial discounts or a complete discount of the monthly bill depending on how many ads are actually watched. Possibly bombarded with ads for free or…
This may be a bit softwarey for our tastes, but it is a definite need-to-know for any Xbox 360 owners. Previously you had to jump through hoops to just stream an alternatively compressed movie through the 360, even then it required a PC running MCE. Now there is a MCE Video Encoder that will covert…
This simple Galvanic Skin Response (or lie detector, in layman’s terms) is made out of Lego motor wire and aluminum foil. It determines the electrical resistance of your fingers by measuring how relaxed and dry your fingers are. I was inspired by talks by Mindfest panelists Karen Wilkinson and Mike Petrich who talked about using…
We’re dog people and don’t get the whole, you know, “cat thing”, but if you for some reason have one and want to entertain it, $19.95 will buy you a Bada-Beam Laser Cat Toy, a cone-shaped device that’ll project a dot around the room for kitty to chase all day. Then you won’t even have…
The UK mobile carrier, O2, is recalling their X1 handsets because of a potential charging fire hazard. Owners of the X1 are being recommended to stop using their phone immediately and return it to O2. In exchange the users who return their fire-faulty phones will receive the X2i handset. All of the X1 phones will…
It’s a new year and that means new style for everything. Getting media off of a spindle just isn t cool anymore. That is where the CD/DVD Dispenser comes into play. It can eject a single blank disc with the push of a button. The, originally named, DiscPod will be released later next month for…
Nanoscience takes one more step forward as the first single-molecule computer circuit was just built by United States researchers. Take a look at the picture here and you’ll see the circuit which is so tiny it measures less than a fifth of the width of a human hair. It was assembled on a single carbon…
I’m severely under-impressed here. I think each company has one guy whose job it is to buy 10 million OEM flash drives, slap a stupid name on them, and dump them onto an already jaded consumer base. Anyway, these are flash drives. From Hitachi. They have screens. They come in odd shapes. They will cost…
After long sessions of listening and debating, the Gizmodo crew has narrowed down the 10 best entries for the War of the Worlds Broadcast contest. A big thanks goes out to everyone who entered. If yours didn’t make it, don’t fret. We already have another contest going for our HDTV Giveaway. https://gizmodo.com/dish-network-hdtv-dinner-giveaway-161962 Now, go get…
The Evergreen DN-MPS100 Music Baby is a speaker enclosure that amounts to simplicity in a box. Plug in a USB flash drive loaded with MP3s, and sit back as sweet music wafts through the Music Baby s two speakers. Its built-in 7-watt amplifier might not have enough oomph to crank out a wall of sound,…