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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…
As part of Sony Ericsson’s low-end initiative, three of the cellphones in the group are the K310 (left) and K510 (middle) candybars and the Z530 clamshell. All three are tri-band phones but don’t have EDGE support. The K310 has a sub-megapixel camera, 15MB of memory without a flash card slot and a 128×160 65,536 color…
This is the perfect gadget to compensate for those skyrocketing prices of batteries these days and to add to the slew of iPod accessories that have no iPod-related purpose. This is the Blinkit flashlight. It can act as a flashlight or be a flasher to annoy everyone in the world. It plugs into the bottom…
Color-a-Cookie is a kit for kids that contains a cookie and four markers, and is available in a variety of themes such as Curious George, Superman, SpongeBob, Family Guy and many more. The cookies are ready to eat with no baking required—just get your kid to decorate them with the included food colorings, and they’re…
This chair is the work of Alexander Reh. The meat of the chair consists of 450 .12 gauge shotgun shells. The brass ends of the shells supposedly create a massaging texture. Maybe I am not enough of a contemporary design-aficionado, but I’d rather sit on some cheap padded faux leather than lethal shotgun shells any…
(2/27/06) In the countdown to Apple’s mysterious Tuesday morning meeting, rumors blasted across the Gizmodosphere, including one where Apple rolls out an iPod-friendly boombox. Even sleeping giant Microsoft gets into the act, dropping none-too-subtle hints about its Origami folding mini-tablet PC. Meanwhile, we scoop the news that DirecTV will drop its own bomb, not only…
Ever wonder what effect Super Bowl ads have on a product? Especially a product that is doomed for failure? Well, today s your lucky day. Deadspin recently asked their vast network of readers to let them know if they, or anyone they knew, owned one of the ESPN Mobile phones that launched on Super Bowl…
The last thing I fondled admiringly definitely wasn’t the Haier M1000, but this Engrish is well worth a second look. The M1000 is a relatively uninteresting phone—MP3 player, multi-colored LEDs, not much else—but it has a fashionable outlook and it attracts me. Haier M1000 [AVING-CHINA]
Sony and NEC have officially signed an agreement which would merge both of their respected optical drive businesses. With the agreement Sony will control 55 percent of the company while NEC will control the other 45 percent. The company, named Sony NEC Optiarc Inc., will begin manufacturing merged optical drives this spring. The kicker, Sony…
This is the $900 FeaturePhone 175 Call Recorder. This is the ultimate in blackmail techniques. It will record phone calls and burn them directly to CD. No worries with complicated computer programs or strange speakerphone/tape recorder setups. One blank CD can store up to 15,000 calls depending on the call length. Additionally the phone can…
From the makers of the Optimus OLED Keyboard that the entire Internet will not shut up about, comes the Mus2 Wireless mouse. What makes the Optimus Keyboard so awesome is that it is an innovative idea that can potentially be amazing. This mouse is weak. It is shaped like a mouse pointer. How funny. Art…
Yeah, you could fill your iPod with a variety of crap stuff from the iPod video store, or you could take your already existent DVD collection and do it yourself. Those krazy kats at Wired are highlighting the semi-legal process of converting your own DVD over to the iPod. We suggest not writing a letter…
Here’s a Ministry of Sound MP3 player that’s about the size of your index finger but holds a gigabyte s worth of your favorite MP3s or WMAs. It has an OLED screen and gives you eight hours of playback on a charge. Not only is it small, the MOSMP083X10 is a voice recorder, too. Available…
Pretec announced the 133x, a 4GB Compact Flash (CF) card the company claims can read data at 20MBps and write at 14MBps. Pretec boasts that it’s the fastest CF card in the world, and 50% faster than its predecessor, the 80x. The 133x will begin shipping in late March, but no price was announced. Pricing…
MovieKlub, yet another mail-order DVD service, is set to begin this summer offering two DVDs a week for $24.99 per month. But MovieKlub is a bit different, because it foolishly re-hashes an idea that failed miserably in the past. Remember Divx, that ill-fated Circuit City idea that let you keep discs that expired after viewing?…
Microtune, the company that makes tiny TV tuners that are hidden inside more devices than you can shake a stick at, keeps shrinking its tuners more and more. Now the company has outdone itself. Its MT2131 delivers higher performance at 65% the size of everyday tuners, and will certainly soon find its way into a…
Even though it isn t completely wireless, this is still a very attractive new product from Sony Ericcson. The HBH-DS970 Bluetooth headset weighs in at less than one ounce and features call answering (duh) and track skipping. The control unit has a bright backlit display and has a battery life of 6 hours talk time…
Sakar International introduced Cyber Gear Sticker Wizard KidzCam, a digital camera aimed at 7-to-13-year-olds. It s bundled with Snapstickers Sticker Factory, software that makes it easy for kids to create stickers with the provided templates. The $30 camera can store 152 pictures, then they can be downloaded to a PC via USB. There’s also software…
What better place to have GPS than on a golf course? The sureshotgps by Tee2Green Technologies is a hand-held GPS-equipped rangefinder that can tell you how far you are from the green or anything else on the golf course. Just like a professional caddy, it can also help you keep score and recommend golf clubs…
The Zenview Command Center Elite by digitaltigers straps together six 24-inch 1920×1200 Samsung LCD panels, giving you a gigantic combined display that s 66 inches wide and 29 inches high with a honking 5760×2400 resolution. However, there is a catch to creating such supreme graphiosity. Not only do you need a spare $12,000 lying around…