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Apple begins shipping its MacBook Pro notebook computer today with a surprising announcement. Apple has increased the processor speeds of the notebooks from previously given specs. The $1999 MacBook, previously announced to be shipping with a 1.67GHz processor, now includes a 1.87GHz Intel Core Duo; the $2500 model now ships with a 2.0GHz Intel Core…
Still snowed in? Well, go make an igloo! And here s a nifty way to do it: Grand Shelters Icebox is a tool used to mold your igloo, snow brick by snow brick, with a form attached to a pole. The tool has settings adjustments for each layer and weighs about 5 lbs. sans snow.…
I’m a little skeptical about calling this the world’s smallest external hard drive, but whatevs. This isn’t Guiness. This is more a USB-key than anything else, but it has a 4-GB hard drive inside and is about 2.6 inches long, so I guess it qualifies. Japan-only at this point and it should sell for $220…
OK. This isn’t a gadget but this is so important that it has to go up. I can’t believe we missed this. Anyway, it appears that eating sweets in Japan is not masculine. The solution? A “candy suppository?” A hot caramel injection straight into the spine? Nope—candy shaped like fast food. It appears that men…
It is touch-screen mania up in here. So here’s the deal. Earlier we reported on Apple’s touchscreen patent documentation. Also the documentation appeared to show a tablet-esque device that used a possible multiple-touch feature. Now a project has emerged that demonstrates possibly a similar multi-touch system. Is this a clue to how Apple’s tablet will…
The Inquirer is reporting that Creative Labs will be releasing a set of surround sound wireless speakers that will be announced and maybe even demoed at CeBIT early next month. The rumored speakers will either be 5.1 or 7.1. This would be great peripheral that could eliminate some of that dreaded surround-sound cable clutter while…
Designed to be more appealing to the “kids,” NEC s VoToL PK-MV300 is a mobile media player with a small twist: it looks like a perfume bottle. You young people really love their perfume, or so we re told. It s not bad for a media player, either. The VoToL can play MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and…
Here’s a great way to keep tabs on Gramps or that little one. It’s called the SKeeper by Tadiran LifeCare, and it’s a wearable personal communicator with distress alarm. With its easy-to-use controls, it lets its wearer immediately contact predefined telephone numbers, such as a relative or emergency services. When the alarm is triggered, the…
Netgear is teaming up with Zetera to develop a toaster Storage over IP (SoIP) system. The system, Netgear’s Storage Central SC101, will allow for two IDE-based hard drives to be connected to an entire network for some smart file-sharing and storage. A controller card within the toaster uses DHCP to set up individual network partitions,…
NVIDIA announced the GoForce 5500, a new mobility GPU that may what’s in store from cellphone and mobile multimedia device makers. NVIDIA said its GoForce 5500 can display a resolution of 1024×768 on a cellphone, and it s also able to handle 10-megapixel still images. A 1024×768 cellphone? A 10-megapixel camera on a cellphone? Well,…
Here’s a guy who took a four-year-old 15-inch flat panel display and turned it into a work of art he calls “TransTFT.” Antti Hakala s idea was to expose the workings of the monitor, bringing all of its technology out into the open for all to see. He started by removing the LED panel from…
Get out of the way, everybody, here come the puppies! On a monorail! They even look like they’re enjoying it, too. Built by their handy master, James Horecka, a couple of them are apparently wondering how easy it would be to jump off. What started out as a joke turned into a weekend project for…
Apple Touchscreen Patent Documentation https://gizmodo.com/apple-touchscreen-patent-documentation-154248 Yeah because that’s going to be great to watch video on when your slimy, oily fingers and smudged up the screen! Unless they figure out a way to make the screen self-cleaning, I remain skeptical.” HBO Wants No Recording of Shows Ever https://gizmodo.com/hbo-wants-no-recording-of-shows-ever-154042 Oh my god! HBO has lost their…
The United States Army is testing lasers on the battlefield. Ionatron, Inc. of Tucson has developed a weapon called a femtosecond laser, which creates light pulses that last less than 10 trillionths of a second. These pulses carve a channel of ionized oxygen in the air which can conduct electricity. Then, the weapon blasts lightning…
We knew things were getting bad in Serbia, but this is ridiculous. Our beloved blogging brothers-in-arms from Jalopnik tell us about a Serbian Yugo with a rather unusual fuel source. Instead of pulling the car along with horses, somebody tapped into a different kind of 125-year-old technology and ended up with a car that’s faster…
It’s a bit esoteric, but Epson has just unveiled a new music-playing chip for cellular phones that could make anything—from the gimpiest clamshell to the “FREE WITH SIGN-UP” candybar—a music phone. The S1V30220 plays back MP3 and AAC files and has an MMC/SD card interface and FAT filesystem support, meaning that all of the hardware…
The Tag Heuer SLR and Carrera are two watches inspired by the lines of two well-known sports cars that we’ll never own. Like those selfsame sports cars, these pricey timepieces are fast, expensive, and uber-sexy. The SLR, shown here, is completely automatic and has an internal rotating chronograph. It comes in a limited run of…
Nokia introduced two camera phones, the 6131 and the 6070. The 6131 is a folding design with a 1.3-megapixel camera. Unique features include its one-handed easy-open, and its dual-screen viewfinder, where you can use either the main screen and the outside screen as a viewfinder for the camera. It also has a digital music player…
3GSM, deemed the world’s premier mobile event, is going on right now in Barcelona. Now while we don’t happen to be there, we will still bring you all of the hot news information via some blogosphere cohorts who happened to be attending. Nokia Let’s see, we have the 6070, 6131 and 6136. Also there is…
We’ve been watching the W950 for a while now and it appears that it’s going to be finally available. 4GB of storage space let’s it out-Nano the Nano and the styling is a massive improvement over the sherbet accident that was the original Walkman phone. The W950 also has push email, improved graphics, and is…