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The day unfolded with Origami stories, pictures and speculation, and by dusk we had wadded up the origami, stuffing it back into its little package and asking, why? Undaunted by that mild disappointment, two of our intrepid news force, our fearless leader and his insouciant sidekick, began their sojourn across the pond to CeBIT 2006,…
If you’re one of the many people who’ve pretty much stopped carrying their cameras around because you’ve always got your cameraphone with you, only to get bummed out when you try to take a photo in the dark, Australian technology company CAP-XX is working on a solution for you. Renowned for their work with supercapacitors,…
Ignoring the fact that the just revealed Origami platform is indeed a small, electronic device, thereby forcing a compulsory moment of craving, we are thoroughly surprised at how accurately Microsoft and Intel have targeted a segment of the computing market completely barren of potential customers. https://gizmodo.com/origami-revealed-its-a-7-inch-tablet-pc-platform-158988 Robert Scoble attempted some sort of preemptive spin yesterday,…
News.com is showing the first official pictures of Origami ‘minitablets,’ which look not unlike the large origami images we saw a couple days back—and exactly like the small images we posted this morning. https://gizmodo.com/rumors-origami-pics-surface-158619 News.com is saying that the Origami devices run a “variant” of Windows XP (and can run other x86-compatible operating systems) and…
At CeBIT 2006 in Hanover, Germany, a group of manufacturers built what they’re calling the fastest commercially available PC, an Intel Pentium 4 workstation running at 5.46 GHz. There was some serious overclockage that had to be done to get that kind of speed. To keep things from frying, Asetek supplied its VapoChill LightSpeed CPU…
It’s been so bright and sunny outside the past few days that you’d think the winter was completely done with NYC—or at least you would until you step outside at night without a hat and have your poor ears nearly freeze off. So maybe it’s not surprise that JVC’s $29.99 Tec Fleece Earwarmer Headphones seem…
This week at TreeHugger: We toast a newly minted solar-powered brewery, and wish we were all movie stars so we could get some free solar swag at the Oscars. A new building going up in Japan will light itself at night with the help from transparent solar panels imbedded in the glass walls. Plus, a…
ProductDose has a fun collection of ‘Top 10 Geek Watches,’ including some you’ve seen on Gizmodo before, but quite a few that you haven’t. We’re particularly fond of the styling of the Nixon Dictator Watch [pictured], which records up to 3.5 minutes worth of sound to be played back at pre-defined intervals. Yes, 3.5 minutes…
If Buster likes to run away fairly often, perhaps a GPS device for pets like the Global Pet Finder is something you should invest in. After fastening it to your dog’s collar, you can go onto their website and define a safe area in which your dog can roam freely without triggering an alert. If…
The quest for uniqueness in mousedom has reached its pinnacle with Digital Cowboy Japan’s DCT-DPM1, touted as the worlds first, and perhaps last, dual-pointer mouse. With this five-button pointing device, there’s a button on the left side that lets you shift between the two cursors that are enabled by the included driver software. The idea…
Toshiba launches its HD-DVD ready Qosimo G30 laptop next month, the first to use a one-bit digital amplifier and Harman Kardon s bass-reflex speaker technology. It’s the inclusion of an HD-DVD drive, however, that really makes the G30 stand out. Heralded by some (well, not the Blu-Ray camp) as the heir-apparent to current generation DVDs,…
Ideazon is now shipping MERC, its second gaming keyboard and one which includes a cluster of 34 programmable keys specifically for gamers. On its right side, there’s a conventional QWERTY keyboard, but on the left is the fun stuff: among others, it has three thumb keys and 11 keys that can be assigned to a…
So the UMPC launch isn t happening today after all. Intel now announces on its site that we ll need to check back on March 9 to see the full details of the upcoming Origami platform that Intel and Microsoft will be unveiling. But there was one more little picture on the Intel site that…
Sharp has entered the fray of portable computing announcements with an update to its Zaurus C3100 Linux-based PDA. The C3200, powered by a 416 MHz Intel PXA270 chip, adds a couple of gigs of disk space to go with its 64MB of RAM and 128MB of ROM. Available March 17 for $640 in Japan. Product…
Sony announced it will ship blank Blu-ray disks in Europe beginning this month, but added that dual-layer versions won’t be shipping until later this year. That s okay, though, these single layer BD-R (recordable) disks hold a whopping 25GB of data. It’s just that $30 price that’s hard to swallow. BR-RE (rewritable) disks will be…
With all this babble about Origami and ultra-portable PCs, let’s don’t let the DualCor mobile computer slip under the radar. Here’s a processor-packed portable PC that actually has two chips inside, one of them a 400MHz mobile processor and another a 1.5GHz laptop chip that runs Windows. It only uses one chip at a time…
Viennese computer scientist Daniel Wagner has figured out a way to show a virtual character on an i-mate SP5 cellphone, and when you move around with the cellphone, it appears that you’re floating around this virtual character in 3D. Other people with cellphones can also see this character from their points of view. Augmented reality,…
We’ve got next-to-nothing when it comes to technical details, but an anonymous source sent us this image of the as-yet-unannounced update to the Belkin TuneTalk. The real question is whether or not Apple has let Belkin record sound to the iPod at a decent bit-rate. Although the pictures we received show this on a black…
Grundig has introduced the X5000, a cellphone with a 6-megapixel camera on board. With such a high-resolution camera, we re wondering if we shouldn’t call it a camera with a cellphone on board. This GSM triband/GPRS talker-shooter is also packing an MP3 player, a video camera, voice recorder and removable storage in the form of…
NEC introduced its Generation laptop for the education market, but it looks like it’s aimed at somebody who lives in a really bad neighborhood. It’s loaded with security measures that are so extensive they border on paranoia. First, the notebook is password-protected and login is done with via a hardware fingerprint security chip, great for…