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After its Hello Kitty Special Edition laptop, you’d think NEC had nothing else up its sleeve, but they’re back—in black. The newest laptop in its stable is the LaVie G Type J Black Limited Edition with 12.1-inch LCD. Weighing in at just 35 ounces, it comes with a battery that promises to last for 6…
Varioptic has finally made its Arctic 320 liquid lens—something we mentioned over two years ago—available for camera makers to use in their products. A zoom and auto-focus lens, the 320 has no moving parts, so it changes shape without any fragile mechanics. It uses electricity to change the focus of the lens by altering the…
Finally, Apple rolls out the 1GB iPod nano at a gorgeous $150 price point. With the same form factor and interface as the larger-capacity models, it can hold about 240 songs or about 15,000 images. Apple is also giving us a late Christmas with the announcement that it will reduce pricing of its 512MB and…
Some contestants in the 2006 New England Belt Sander Racing Association Winter Nationals created—and raced—a Hello Kitty-themed belt-sander. The sander, originally an industrial DeWalt, is now topped with a blushing Hello Kitty and pink and white logos and safety grating. While the sander did win Rookie of the Year, shown above with its handsome trophy,…
The newest addition to the Plustek scanner family is the OpticSlim M12 Plus portable scanner. The only real addition to this scanner from the older Plustek M12 is that it can now scan legal-sized documents and create PDFs by pressing the scan button. Nothing earth-shattering, though it can scan up to three pages per minute.…
While web servers took up an entire room not too long ago, now you can get one that’s the size of your thumb. WebServUSB gives you complete web server functionality on a USB thumbnail drive. As a technical demonstration of miniaturization prowess, this is quite impressive. But we’re scratching our heads as to how we…
Elecom announced two more USB hubs coming on the market in the middle of February. The “U2H-I4S” (about US27$) is a USB 2.0 hub with a top port for either a portable player or flash memory. The “U2H-U4B” (about US21$) is a USB 2.0 hub with one independent port and three other ports. It is…
If you’re looking for a fireplace but don’t have room for a chimney, here’s a hot-looking unit from German designer Peter Maly. Part of the Sieger Design Fireplace Collection, the Plaza Ventless Fireplace can be installed in a free-standing configuration or mounted on a wall, and burns a unique alcohol gel that radiates heat without…
Western Digital has upgraded its “Passport Portable” USB drive. Now you can get one with 120GB capacity. Formerly, units were 40GB, 60GB and 80GB, so this is a considerable upgrade. Retails for about $277. Western Digital ups USB drives to 120GB [The Inquirer} Pricing on Western Digital Passport hard drive line
Here’s a padded shoulder bag perfect for the music lover in all of us. Includes a pair of sewn-in satellite speakers, a removable battery-powered amplifier and of course, a flip-up holder for full-size or mini iPods. The bag is big enough to hold a 15-inch laptop but the alkaline battery-powered sound system sounds pretty good…
Looks like LG’s newest RH7800 series DVD-HDD recorders will be using Hitachi Deskstar 160GB hard drives to store up to 220 hours of digital video content. The LG recorders measure just 2 inches and use Hitachi’s Smooth Stream technology for a better video streaming experience. The drives are based on he ATA-7 AV streaming feature…
There’s a big thing in Japan right now where all sorts of professors from multiple universities are claiming that puzzles cure aging of the brain. As a result, Japanese toy manufacturers have started to produce lots of electronic puzzle games to reach some of the target groups that they can’t hit with Pokemon and hentai.…
All right, folks, we hope you have all had time to check out all of our finalists in the Laptop Confidential contest. Your vote counts! Whoever receives the most votes will be awarded a Lenovo laptop valued at $1,499. Please, don’t cheat; it makes all of us cry when we have to disqualify people for…
Here is the second batch of finalists in our Laptop Confidential contest. Thanks for all of your entries—be sure to check out all of them here. https://gizmodo.com/laptop-confidential-contest-150650 Second group of five entries after the jump. The Last Hope Garbage Blog The Shinei Deadline Star Noirs
All right, folks, it’s been a week since the contest ended and after many late nights full of movie watching and debate between the Gizmodo staff, we have finally decided on the final 10. They will be going in a no-holds-barred voting battle where you, the savvy readers of Gizmodo, will decide on a winner.…
It will be interesting to see how the Mobile ESPN hard launch goes, and how many real sports fans will spend their money on the Samsung MVP phone with Sprint Nextel’s EV-DO service, memory card and megapixel camera. Though available online since November, the Super Bowl marked the day you could go into any Best…
If the ultimate shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa had created a PC keyboard in the 15th century, it surely would have looked like this! At least that’s what the package for this Links Bamboo keyboard suggests. This finely finished piece is called “Takechiyo” (in Japanese take means bamboo and chiyo translates to perpetuity) and was created by…
You say you want romance? Valentine’s Day would be nothing without Pentax’s his and hers versions of its OptioWpi waterproof digital camera in red and blue. The camera is the same in all other features: 6.0 megapixel sensor, 2.0-inch LCD monitor, 3x optical lens and 9-point Autofocus. Just in cooler colors. For love. The waterproof…
This awesome-looking Samsung SGH-P900 phone will be announced next week at the 3GSM World Congress (for mobile phones) but here’s a pic and some updated information in the meantime. It’s a flip phone with a rotating TV viewer and includes an electronic program guide and recording features. Comes with 100MB of internal memory and a…
Show the world how geeky you actually are by carrying this handbag that is covered in keyboard keys. This keyboard comes in black and white and features almost all of the keys on the keyboard—minus the non-traditional shape keys. The keys are in no particular order. Get your geek on, ladies. Guys, stick with the…