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Streaming high definition content seems to be the new pink this year, so nobody should be surprised to see D-Link jump into the fray. The DSM-520 is a new member to the MediaLounge family of media streaming devices, the difference being that it plays back HD video in either Windows Media Video 9 or MPEG4…
Pioneer aims to store every TV program you d ever want to record with its DVR-DT100, a digital video recorder that also features a DVD burner. The most impressive feature is its 800GB hard drive, enough space to hold, well, a heck of a lot of stuff. There s a DV input as well, letting…
This plain-looking phone allows you to connect to Skype users via VOIP without a PC. Apparently, it hooks up to your landline and a wired connection and can connect to online Skype users without external hardware. Nice styling, as well. No price or availability, but it looks pretty compelling. Get your Skype on without Wi-Fi,…
XP-on-Mac contest organizer Colin Nederkoorn told Gizmodo that he believes a team of individuals headed by a person known as narf2006 has devised a way to boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac. Nederkoorn, of Houston, Texas, created a website that sought donations from visitors, where the proceeds would be awarded to the first person…
If this PJP-100H conference call system works as well as Yamaha says it does, the company may have figured out a way to finally make conference calling much less annoying. The sophisticated system has 12 speakers and 32 directional microphones which use a learning function to analyze the environment, figuring out how to filter out…
The boys at CNET have unconfirmed news that Dell has purchased Alienware. We first reported on this on March 6, but it appears there’s some rumors swirling that the deal is done. Dell won’t confirm and Alienware is just happy for the publicity. https://gizmodo.com/dell-may-buy-alienware-158647 Unconfirmed: Dell buys Alienware [CNET]
Portable audio interfaces are all over the place, but MOTU’s now-shipping UltraLite (under $600) FireWire box shows just how serious these devices have become. The 10-in, 14-out jacks are enough for surround setups (plugging straight into speakers, that is), and an independent headphone jack lets musicians and DJs cue. Among many pro-friendly features, there’s even…
This Hitachi DVL-7TV will expose you to your choice of media the first thing in the morning, with TV, DVD, FM, MP3, or even JPEG stills to ease you out of your hung-over haze. There’s a 7-inch screen that’s just about the right size for bedside, and oh yeah, it also has an alarm to…
When Colin Nederkoorn of Houston, Texas decided to pledge $100 of his own money to anyone who could figure out how to boot Windows XP on an Intel Mac, he didn’t think it would take this long. But now here it is nearly two months later, the prize money has topped $12,000, and lo and…
The craftspeople who brought you the iWood nano, an exquisite iPod case carved out of a single piece of fine hardwood, are now offering the iWood 5G, a case for the 30 or 60GB iPods. It has concealed steel hinges and stays shut with tiny magnets. The screen is fully protected because your iPod is…
Warner Home Video had marked March 28 as the release date of the first high-definition DVD title, but the company might miss that date because of technical problems. Warner Home Video division president Ron Sanders was doubtful about the release date: To be honest, the outlook is tenuous — were still coming out with an…
We reported earlier that Netflix would support HD DVD at its launch this month, and while the launch of the players and disks is behind schedule, Netflix has quietly begun to accommodate HD DVD rentals on its website. If you go to the your account area, it gives you the option to set up your…
Sony announced the first Blu-ray disks will be available on May 23, the same day the first Blu-ray player goes on sale. There will be a scant few titles offered up, including such cinematic masterpieces as 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight’s Tale, The Last Waltz (MGM), Resident…
If you can’t eyeball and cut a straight line to save your life, these scissors project a line out for you to follow. The line will, of course, only be as straight as your ability to hold the scissors and therefore the laser itself perfectly steady. Good for adults then, maybe not so useful for…
Here s one less worry for those of us looking forward to Blu-ray: Sony’s Don Eklund, Senior Vice President for Advanced Technologies, said that all of Sony’s Blu-ray disks will be free of that digital flag that tells the player to down-rez the HD signal if there’s no HDMI cable present. Called the “image constraint…
FYI – We’ll be contacting the Fake Photo Phun winners this week. Thanks for all those who submitted and voted. https://gizmodo.com/phake-photo-phun-vote-for-the-winner-158695 Thanks again to Gorillapod for supplying the prizes. The winners are: Brian R – 512 votes Aaron J – 389 votes Brian – 337 votes Owen – 344 votes
Japanese company PBJ enters the ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) Origami derby with its Smart Caddie, this one with a 1GHz Via C7M processor instead of the Intel Celeron that all the others are using with UMPCs. The Smart Caddie runs Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, has a 7-inch display at 800×480 and comes in a…
Here’s a company that’s putting all the heavy juju it can think of into a laptop, and the result is the VoodooPC ENVY U909 SLI Laptop, going over the top with two NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX graphics cards in an SLI configuration and an AMD Turion 64 processor. The thing is huge, though, with a 19-inch…
Back at Carnegie Mellon University, where I completed my undergrad in drinking, they used to have something like this in which you stuffed a small woman—or man—into a little buggy and rolled them down a hill. I don’t think I watched a single match, but I think if they dressed people up like a Mighty…
I’m so tired of seeing cool phones. I saw them all last week, and now we’re just going to see more and more as we in the States suffer with call-dropping RAZRs and the rest of the world pays their massage-parlor bill with something like the SCH-V910. This is a pretty standard slider with Moneta…