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The nylon Hoodman sun shade shields your laptop from glare and prying eyes. Too bad it’s the laptop fashion equivalent of the ballcap neck shades your dad wears to baseball games. Even sillier is the Hoodman ThermalRest, a keyboard wrist rest with an adjustable heater. Because, you know, everyone tells themselves, “Hey! My computing experience…
Here’s a power strip worth mentioning. The color-coded Smart Strip is designed with the PC user in mind. See that big blue plug? That’s where your main PC power cable goes. The other red ones? That’s for stuff like your monitor, printer, and speakers. When you turn off the PC (or whatever is connected to…
Polaroid is going to hit the PMP market big it seems. The company’s new Portable Media Player with 80GB of storage was shown at CES and it looks promising. Aside from the huge amount of storage that’s included, it features a widescreen display for crisp movie viewing. The interface seems to work fine, and even…
So your Mom’s birthday is approaching, you have $20, and you need a gift, stat. How about making Mom a vase? With this DIY vase kit, you can easily make a beautiful vase to put flowers in for real cheap. Plus she’ll love the fact that you made it (sort of) and put effort into…
Surprisingly, after seeing this, I realized there isn t much activity in the iPod case modding world. Probably because the iPod is small and sleek enough as it is and does not require any further case modification. Well Mr. JavaMoose on Flickr has created a case mod for his iPod by modding an old Geiger…
Peter Moore had a recent interview with the Japanese website ITmedia where he admitted that the Xbox 360 could possibly see a Blu-ray external add-on. Even though it was announced at the Microsoft keynote at CES that the HD DVD add-on would be coming soon for the Xbox 360, Moore said this isn t certain.…
Shimafuji s SEMC5701 is a palm-sized Linux-based PC. The size is 2-inches by 2-inches by 1.7 inches, and it has all the necessary functions of a PC. It has the VR5701CPU processor from NEC, 64MB SDRAM, and 16MB flash ROM. The kernel has to be downloaded and installed from a Linux site. It carries a…
Sure, there were all those cool HDD camcorders shown at CES this year, but sometimes you have to get back to basics. Like JVCs line of five MiniDV camcorders, all of them are a bit easier to use, with an Auto button that switches you between manual and automatic operation. All five also have a…
I have to say, it’s a weirdass concept, but I wouldn’t mind having it up in my home. If you haven’t seen it, Philips MiraVision Mirror TV is pretty much just that: A LCD monitor that, when turned off, is a reflective mirror. Certainly nicer than a big black screen in the bedroom. So it’s…
As expected, with the release of the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, Sony has some planning to do. The PS3 is due out sometime this year and PS2 sales are slumping. So Sony will most likely cut the price of the PS2 it seems from $150 to $130 to attract more buyers who can’t afford the…
This week at Lifehacker: Get the most out of your video iPod. Buy the best quality recordable DVDs. Cube warriors, firewall your attention at the office. Fold up a pen and stick it in your wallet. Finally, remedy LCD screen burn-in. https://lifehacker.com/hack-attack-get-the-most-out-of-your-video-ipod-147494 So you got yourself a shiny new video iPod over the holidays. Know…
The Bose SoundDock By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch A glossy magazine insert (spied in The New Yorker) asks readers to “Insert iPod “—not literally, mind you, but rather by pulling on a small tab marked “open.” Doing so reveals (rather unsurprisingly) a splashy picture of the company’s iPod dock, annotated with praise from Wall…
Dan Lurie, who’s been guiding the poor Compaq-using member of the Gizmodo team, overheard two Apple employees in the hall as they left a briefing: Guy: Have you heard anything about 12 and 17? Girl: Right now we only have 15.4, but Steve said last night that we would be getting 12 and 17. Now…
There’s no denying the pull of satellite radio. And for the first time, it looks like major CE companies want a big piece of the new satellite pie. Enter RCA, which announced at CES that it would be using something called SiriusConnect to bring Sirius Satellite Radio content to a bunch of different audio devices.…
If you can’t afford a flat-panel HDTV just yet (and, bless your heart, it may be a while ’til that happens), you should seriously check out what Samsung calls its SlimFit TVs. In new 30- and 27-inch models, these thinner, more manageable HDTVs are under $1000 and are all only 16 inches deep. That’s 30%…
It can be done you know. Sometimes, somebody does make something look even nicer than Apple. Like BRAINic, which seems to make some totally rad looking MP3 and PMP players. The Morphe D5 is a tiny movie player with a 2.5 inch screen that comes in 1-4GB capacities. And not to worry, it plays all…
I always like to hear more about fuel cells and Panasonic came out with some good news on this front with its announcement of a new fuel supply method, that would halve the size of current fuel cells—perfect for powering portable devices. Called the Direct Methanol Fuel Cell system, the cell itself is 400cc (24…
Do you demand the dopest umbrella around with the ultimate rain-prediction technology? Look no further than the Forcasting Umbrella from Ambient Devices. Announced at CES, the Forcasting Umbrella does what every umbrella on the face of the earth should do: lets you know if it’s going to rain. The umbrella is connected to Ambient’s network…
God forbid you be at the gas station using a Windows CE-based pump, but if you trust it, go for it. Company Dresser Wayne is manufacturing a gas pump dubbed the Ovation(R) iX dispenser. The idea is that the pump will be connected to the internet, and in states where you don’t have full-service, you…
At CES, we got to check out the cases for both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD for feature films being released on each format. However, we only admired them from behind a glass case. The Inquirer points out that though Blu-Ray has a smaller and odd shaped design, HD-DVD is even worse. Better throw away those shelves…