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Here’s another cute clamshell from Motorola. The V Series V191 comes in a dreamy pale blue and silver, while the internal antenna makes it slim and easy to tote. An external monochrome display can be easily seen in bright sun and shows caller id, while the internal display is full color. Also comes with a…
Thieves in the UK won’t get far stealing a car outfitted with this tech. It uses the car owner’s keys and cellphone as an identification method. Try to start the car without the cellphone and it gets marked as stolen. Police can then track the car and prevent it from restarting once it’s been turned…
She’s mighty mighty – tasty! We’re already getting Unidentified Gizmodo Gingerbread Objects (UGGOs) in [email protected] and we want your submissions ASAP! Please make them at least kind of geeky and, if you can, write “Gizmodo” on there somewhere so we can be sure you and your sister didn’t pull out the old snapshots of Christmases…
It’s baaaaack. Say hello to the Fluffpod iPod case for the Video iPod. Yes, it’s soft, it’s pink and it’s damn well fluffy. A clear plastic cover protects your video screen so you won’t miss a minute of Geena Davis in Commander in Chief, and docking base access makes it easy to refuel your pod.…
Some of us have real lives with jobs and families to tend to. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t in touch with all you gen-gamers. I mean, playing World of Warcraft for 11 hours straight and then selling the gold on eBay is the job of the future, right? So, we present to you the…
As part of our continuing efforts to whore ourselves out, we’ve found a new way to make Gizmodo accessible on your mobile device (Palm, Blackberry, or Pocket PC). This new service downloads the latest Gizmodo content whenever you sync, so you can read it on the go, whether you’ve got a wireless signal or not.
McDonald’s has pissed off yet another artsy kid again. The Meat Helmet looks at the absurd attempt of fast food chains to market to the health conscious and such. Basically, it’s headgear that forces you to chew to burn calories. Chewing burns about 70 calories an hour, so if you start chomping down on things…
Looks like the FCC is showing off the C290, a Motorola clamshell phone to be sold by Sprint. It’s a pretty basic PCS Vision phone without a camera (lawyers rejoice!) or even an external display, but it does spark my interest, especially since Motorola hasn’t dealt with Sprint since the V60v. Maybe we’ll be seeing…
New Yorkers pride themselves on not knowing NOTHIN’ about NO technology. Well, when you see this bastard scooting down the street on his Segway in 25 degree weather, you kind of think twice about the time you pantsed that little math twerp in P.S. 102. That kid, who is now probably running one of them…
Here’s a look at first-generation flash card adapters for the PSP from Chinese third-party manufacturer Lik Sang. There are three products, the Neo2in1, Neo4in1 and Neo5in1 Pad. The Neo5in1 Pad is also an AA Battery pack, and will be attached to the PSP. The other two seem to hang from a cable somehow, which just…
JVC hits it big with its D-ILA technology, which is really just LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon). With the 70-inch, rear projection HDTV, JVC is aiming to take a bit of the market from leaders like Sony. LCOS basically lets light reflect off the liquid crystals, instead of shining right through them, supposedly making a…
The Commodore 64 was way ahead of its time in 1982. 16 colors, 320 x 200 pixels, and 64kb of RAM for under $600 made it the single best-selling computer of all time. Commodore is coming back to the US with three products that will be unveiled at CES in January: the Commodore Multimedia Tower,…
We’re going to try to make this a little more interesting by splitting up all of the types of iPods, but in most cases that probably wont work. Get your vote in after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled…
We’ve known that iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Philips, would be releasing a nice ePaper device sometime in 2006. The company has finally revealed details of its first product, the ER 0100 (codenamed Iliad), a 8.1-inch ePaper reader with 1024 x 768 resolution and 160dpi fidelity. That’s just a hair under the Sony Librié’s 170dpi,…
Looks like another episode of Apple Versus the World in our PCs category. You know the drill, give us your vote after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.
For a dollar less than a grand, you too can get yourself an Epson PowerLite Cinema Home 20 projector. Using a 3LCD projector, a new alternative to DLP, it has (shocker) three LCD panels and is also known as high-temperature polysilicon or HTPS. Also has 480p native resolution, 1200 ANSI Lumens of brightness, 1000:1 contrast…
I’ve been watching SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) for a few years now and I’ve never been blown away. However, this weather station seems to get a few things right—it uses a dedicated data stream to pick up excellent weather info, it never needs setting, and it does what it’s supposed to do without lots…
Here it is, the finalists for the best Home Entertainment product of the year. Put in your two cents, in the form of a vote, after le jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.
Go, Honda, go! Green is good these days and Honda wants to help save the environment by announcing its plans to start mass-producing solar cells for both residential and industrial use. The plant, which will be on the site of a car plant on the southwestern Japanese island of Kyushu, should be able to generate…
This week at Treehugger: The chairman of Intel takes a shot at the $100 laptop for developing nations, is he right or just missing the point? Recycling electronics for charities: We just know that you gadget-geeks have enough obsolete tech in the closet to make these charity organizations happy. Be generous. Did you know that…