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Korean company Waveon is now shipping the AON MCH-501U, USB headphones that can handle Dolby and DTS 7.1 surround sound. A convenience is the way the headphones draw their power via the USB connection, so there’s no power supply necessary. There’s an in-line controller as well, and if you have compatible sound sources, you’ll be…
Skinny Water allegedly has some powerful juju inside, Croatian Artesian water fortified with a substance called Super CitraMax, or for you scientists out there, hydroxycitric acid. What does this stuff do? Well, nothing, but if you believe Jana, the snake-oil salesmen who move this stuff for a big profit, it’s supposed to make you feel…
Finally, we have an Apple branded Hi-Fi stereo system. Here are the specs: It will have an integrated power supply for the traditional wall outlet power or it can run off six D-size batteries for “several hours outside” of playtime. It uses two 80mm mid-range drivers in sealed acoustic suspension. It uses a 130mm dual…
There are two new Intel-powered Mac Minis. Both of which are featuring Gigabit Ethernet, four total USB ports, firewire, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. They also will both be able to connect to a television using DVI and SPDIF audio outputs. They also use Intel GMA950 integrated graphics with 64MB of shared memory and will include the…
Nick Douglas of Valleywag is nearly in the door at Apple’s Cupertino campus, where he’ll be posting live updates of the talk as they happen, Jobs willing. (We keep waiting for the moment when Apple installs radio jammers in their conference rooms, but until then…) If you don’t care to have the up-to-the-second updates, Gizmodo…
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TiVo CEO Tom Rogers tipped his hand yesterday, revealing that the company is seriously considering a plan that gives away the TiVo digital video recorder. Rogers said testing of this free TiVo pricing plan is likely to begin fairly soon, and will probably involve longer-term or pricier contracts similar to those offered by cellphone companies.…
Just in time for today’s big Apple event, now you too can look, act, and even dress like Steve Jobs. All you have to do is go to thrown-together fanboy site Steve’s Outfit, The Definitive Wardrobe Source, where you’ll find the exact brands of clothing that constitute that studied slouchiness of He Who Is Surrounded…
Uncle Earl won t have any more excuses for posting that lousy ass photo of his 1985 Hustler collection on eBay thanks to a new feature on Casio s slim EXILM models announced at PMA this week. The new feature, dubbed the eBay Best Shot Mode, down samples large images captured with Casio s latest…
I’m going to make a prediction here: HD DVD is going to win this horse race and Blu-ray is going to be another Betamax. There are too many defections by former Blu-ray players and even Sony is hedging its bets. I know the arguments—Blu-ray, at least in terms of disk space, is better than HD…
Samsung introduced the SPH-B1300, a cellphone handset that swings both ways, acting like a clamshell for vertical viewing or swinging that screen around for horizontal viewing. Neat. That’s not the only reason it’s well-suited for multimedia, given that it handles DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting), and has lots of features inside such as a built-in MP3…
We’re trying to get more information on this, but reader Brandon sent us in this spy image of the new iPod Boom Box. Designed to look very retro—perhaps it reminds Steve Jobs of his halcyion days spent with Woz out in the garage, building breadboards?—this new iPod Boom Box’s trade dress still hasn’t been worked…
I’m standing by the Everio as JVC’s “next big thing” but these MiniDV camcorders still have a lot to offer. First, there’s the GR-D395 with 32x optical zoom, “live slow” feature which takes slow motion video, and NightAlive for night shots. The GR-D396 is the same as the D395 but with better batteries. Finally, the…
Samsung announced internal and external Blu-ray burners that will be shipping in April. All three will be 3-in-1 drives, capable of reading and writing Blu-ray disks, DVDs and CDs, and will burn and read Blu-ray at 2x, which amounts to 9MB per second. The internal drives (SH-B022A) will be available in black or stainless steel…
Just a reminder—the Gizmodo Krewe will be hanging out in our Campfire chat room today where we can all talk about the amazing new thing that Apple will release which won’t be a video iPod.
Who needs a PSP or a DS? This wee bugger contains 50 8-bit games and even has a TV-out for playing on the big screen. A 2.5″ TFT screen makes it portable and it runs on 3 AAA batteries. Priced at about $80, I could see rocking out to some 8-bit action on the train…
Sony extends its CyberShot line, offering the 7.2 megapixel DSC-H5 (left) along with the 6-megapixel DSC-H2. These are called high-zoom cameras, aptly named because both have a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 12x optical zoom lens with a 35mm-equivalent focal length range of 36 to 432mm. Holding things still enough to actually use such a long lens…
We’ll be live-blogging the Apple announcement today, with up-to-the-second updates from our very own Nick Douglas, editor of Valleywag. We’ll be updating the live blog in real time of Valleywag and putting up a condensed version here on Gizmodo. If you’ll be at the Apple announcement today and would like to contribute to our reports,…
Don’t get too excited about the Wolverine MVP 9120 portable media player, because we’ve tested it and it s pretty much a hunk of crap. Sure, its world’s-largest 120GB hard drive captures your attention, but then when you notice that it’s incompatible with lots of video formats, it feels positively huge in your hand in…
The Sony Ericsson Cebit site is showing us the first official shots of the K800, a 3.2 megapixel cameraphone with autofocus and a xenon flash. It looks like our leaked pictures from last week were legit. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericssons-k800-156474 Equipped with a UMTS 3G radio, it’s not likely that we’ll be seeing this particular phone in the…