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The editors over at Techeblog have compiled a list of 10 of the strangest MP3 players. Topping the list is a Pez MP3 player and a Teddy Bear MP3 player brings around the rear. Some of the other highlighted MP3 players include a brain-wave emitting, scratch-n-sniff and toilet based MP3 players. Unfortunately and surprisingly most…
Casio will introduce two digital cameras, the 8.1- megapixel Exilim EX-Z850 Zoom (left) and the 6-megapixel Exilim EX-Z60. The EX-Z60 has a 3x optical zoom in a small form factor with nicely rounded edges. It has a 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder and a startup time of just 1.4 seconds. The higher-end Exilim EX-Z850 Zoom features an…
The Viliv P1 came out overseas last year and knocked our socks off. It’s a 30GB PMP that looks like the bastard child of Jessica Rabbit and an iPod Video and could herald a new era of cool portable video. The P1 has a 4-inch screen, FM tuner, audio recording, video and audio out and…
FiringSquad has posted a long, well-written, and comparatively pithy discussion of Intel’s current hole. The chip company, once the only player in a vast market, is now seen as a second-tier player in the high performance game. Because they shot their wad with Centrino, they are currently perceived as catering to—and are producing chips for—the…
Sony confirmed the April release of its HDR-HC3E high-definition camcorder, a compact device that the company hopes will bring HD videography into the mainstream. In addition to recording in the high-quality but low-bandwidth and low-cost HDV format, the camcorder also can connect via HDMI directly to an HDTV for viewing or to a recording device…
Interesting… it appears NBC is piloting one of its new shows, “Conviction,” on iTunes for free. The show is already being publicized on the POTN (Plain-Old Television Network) but this is an interesting first—hyping a show by distributing electronically and kind of figuring out how to tweak things through feedback. The comments seem a bit…
We’ve been eagerly awaiting new Canon SLRs from this year’s PMA Show in Orlando and we’re happy to report that the EOS line has gotten its first upgrade. The 30D is a 8-megapixel digicam with 2.5-inch LCD and the addition of spot metering. Interestingly enough, the 30D is cheaper than its successor, the 20D and…
If you ve ever leafed through your purse (or European carryall or “murse”) late at night looking for change or something like that, you know what a pain it is to have to scrounge around, eventually landing your hand in an open Chapstick. The Black Hole Light is a $16 LED that attaches to the…
From the “USB Crap That Probably Doesn’t Work” File, here s the USB Air Purifier. It uses something called Anion Technology to get rid of all the badness in the air, including allergens, pollutants and odors. Simply plug it into the USB port on your computer and off it goes! Spring is right around the…
Reuters is reporting that an experimental foam material being developed to protect nuclear weapon electronics could be put to a much more hippy-approved use: surfboard cores. After the major surfboard core manufacturer, Clark Foam folded last year, a polymer chemist at the Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, got to thinking that if they could…
We’re pretty big fans of 37 Signal’s web-based applications around here—we use Basecamp almost every day. So when they offered us a free trial of their new web-based chat application Campfire, we had to give it a shot—especially the ‘guest chat’ features which allow us to put this link at the end of the post…
When you can’t innovate, replicate — and then demolish the competition you’ve copied from. Last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the Redmond Rumbler is in the process of making a Skype-style VoIP service for Microsoft-powered cellular phones included in the mobile Microsoft Office Communicator software to be released on a limited basis within the…
The only thing hindering my iPod Video is the inability to fully enjoy the video in public. Believe it or not I get self-conscious watching fetish porn in public. The foreign company, Digital CowBoy, has released a product for all of the fetish porn fans out there. This privacy filter makes the screen on the…
(2/20/06) It was a positively presidential day at the Gizmodo neck of the woods, starting with a look ahead at Microsoft s nutty idea of offering the way-late Windows Vista in eight flavors along with a forecast of how late and costly Sony s PS3 will be. We also posted a couple of reviews to…
N. Satyanarayana, a graduate student in India, has figured out a way to miniaturize a windmill so it can be used to charge a cellphone battery. It is a simple fan blade that is attached to a generator, also it’s waterproof so it can even be used in the rain. Imagine clipping one of these…
Never missing an opportunity to think, talk, dream, fantasize about, and of course, drink beer, we bring you HomePub, a kitchen appliance that combines a refrigerator-freezer with a super-kegger. HomePub s draft beer system is nestled inside the door, where its manufacturer says it doesn’t take up any space in the refrigerator. Its quiet dual…
A quartet of great-looking LCD flat-panel HD displays were just introduced by Toshiba. Along with the 47-inch panel pictured here, there are three other models availible in sizes of 32, 37 and 42 inches. The two largest screens offer 1920×1080 resolution, with the biggest hanging a slimline speaker system on the bottom. All have two…
Tiger Woods will be retiring in no time as soon as I hit the tour with this laser putting trainer. It uses infrared laser guiding to assist your shot. It won’t compensate for the slope of the green, but at least you will be able to hit the ball in the correct direction this time.…
Much to the delight of Japanese school girls everywhere, Konami is developing a toy that will fuse two of biggest trends out there: MP3 players and portable, digital pets. This toy is called the Otoizm. Otoizm will require people to raise their digital pets by feeding them some block rockin’ beats. Otoizm is connected to…
Samsung is still pumping out the hits with the X11 Core Duo laptop. The 14.1″ laptop runs a 1.66-GHz dual core CPU and an nVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 graphics chip with 512MB GPU memory. It comes with 512-MB RAM and an 80-GB hard drive, standard and will be about $2000 when it comes out in…