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Props for the Mobile DTV alliance, formed by bigwigs including Nokia, Intel Corp., Motorola, Texas Instruments and Modeo. Looks like we won’t have to wait as long as we may have thought for good DVB-H, mobile TV technology in the states. I know I’ve been experiencing some TV envy lately after watching Europe and Asia…
I thought the cooperation to find a single ultra-wideband standard seemed to good to be true, and now we can kiss the idea goodbye for quite a while as the IEEE Task Group TG3a disbands. Forced together to come up with this standard, it seems that the group has given up because the members of…
Well, we were lucky enough to be nominated for best tech blog in the 2006 Bloggies—thanks all you cool hot crazy sexy readers out there for nominating us—and now we need you once again. Please pop over to 2006.bloggies.com and vote for your favorite tech blog—Gizmodo! How happy will we be if we win? {—————THIS…
SLRs are certainly attracting attention lately, but we got wind of an odd story that’s certainly a little out of the ordinary. Seems Alana Harford, Chief of Engineering at Canon, is talking about coming out with the very first digital SLR camera/phone called the Digital Rebel XCP. I’m not sure who in god’s name would…
No, this isn t a cop that comes to shut down your illegal power usage. It is just another device to prevent your kids from playing too many video games or watching too much TV. Slap the power cord in the locked box, set up the timers, and pow! Your kids will spite you for…
Straight from the Dreamcast Emu world comes word of this licensed Sega plug and play TV gaming system (you know, the kind that plugs right into the TV—no discs, no console). There will be 10-in-1 and 20-in-1 systems. Each unit will include: 7 Sonic games, 5 Alex Kidd games, 2 Phantasy Star games, and others.…
If those thumbnail USB drives just can’t hold enough for your voracious need of disk space, step up to a pocket-sized high-capacity USB 2.0 external hard disk drive. This CMS ABSmini Backup System will quench the thirst for space of even the hungriest diskmongers, and is available in 20GB, 40GB and 60GB capacities. Built of…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I like the tablet PC concept, but in real life they’re kind of glorified PDAs that are excellent for very specific apps and useless as an every day PC. That doesn’t really stop me, however, from gawking at them when they come around. This Fujitsu Siemens…
If you’ve been waiting for only the highest of HD resolutions before you spring for a projector to grace that luxo-sport home theater of yours, here’s one that brings the price down to just $16K. British projector maker SIM2 Multimedia is getting ready to ship its Grand Cinema HT3000, a single-chip DLP projector that delivers…
Hold on to your children, my friends—looks like their gonna get another reason to dig into mommy’s and daddy’s pocketbooks soon. Fisher-Price, toymaker extraordinaire, is planning to release a new line of products called “Kidtronics” which should be previewed at February’s International Toy Show in NYC. Now, I know we’ve been dealing with Furbies and…
Here’s some more accessories from Creative, which is fast becoming one of those companies I love in 2006. I’m still stoked about the Creative Zen Vision:M it announced last year, and now I can ogle the new Gigaworks T20 stereo desktop speakers that give good sound without a honking subwoofer that has to sit somewhere…
Data storage manufacturer Imation has acquired Memorex for 330 million bones with additional payments of up to $45 million to come in the future. The deal should be completely sealed by the second quarter of 2006 and Imation expects an increase of $34 million annualized operating income. Memorex has been around since the 1970s when…
We told you last week about Konica Minolta giving up on camera-making and transferring assets of its SLR business to Sony, but we didn’t know how serious Sony was about getting into the SLR game until now. Looks like the company is pointing to the outfield, Kevin Costner style, announcing its aim to pick up…
Chinese gadget fans are all wet for the Iwod portable media player—and who can blame them? The G10 is an MP4 player that also supports AVI, MP3, WMA and has a built-in NES emulator. The 2.5-inch LTPS screen does 16 million colors and 882×228 resolution. It runs Windows, has an SD card slot, and USB…
A little Valentine’s gift from Apple. At least that’s what we’re hearing from reliable sources (two of them, in fact). Just thought you’d like to know.
Dutch powerhouse Philips is poised to introduce (though only in its home base in the Netherlands for now) the VP-5500, a Wi-Fi-enabled VoIP telephone. What makes it so special? Well, it s powered by Linux, so it s automatically awesome. As far as features go, the VP-5500 comes with a built-in VGA camera that rotates…
Extremetech is featuring a rundown of the PSP and all of its audio capabilities. If you have a PSP and use it for music listening, this is definitely worth a read. They discuss all of the firmware changes, optimizing sound, transferring music and even a little bit of hacking. Check it out, yo. Hacking your…
It appears that Sony has made a big boo-boo according to the company’s website. A notice was found that states four models of their S-series Vaio computers have a severe defect. The systems can possibly have two different problems: either they will randomly shut down or fail to boot completely. The affected models are: VGN-S16GP/LP/TP…
Belkin is jumping on the wireless USB bandwagon with this four-port hub. That’s right, it’s packing wireless USB, letting you roam free with any USB device. Using Motorola spinoff Freescale s Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology, this hot connection gives you data rates that are a hundred times faster than Bluetooth. So imagine, you walk into a…
This is a handy little device. It lets you grab the image from your cellphone or PDA and link it to a PC. From there, it’s PowerPoint heaven, I guess. Or you could just show everyone the blurry rock concert photos you’ve been collecting all these months. In any case, the Project-a-Phone is essentially a…