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First Sony gets themselves knee-deep in DRM problems, and now Microsoft is the next to piss us off with special DRM protection re: Xbox 360. The 360 is perfectly capable of streaming music from a networked PC, unfortunately there seems to be a little problem when trying to load MP3s onto the hard drive in…
So it appears that both computers and bean enthusiasts can live in peace and harmony. Looks like a dude named Johannes Hjort planted some beans inside his keyboard and watered them. After a few days, the beans started to sprout and grow within the keyboard. Some started to lift the keys up like a creature…
Why aren’t traffic signals solar powered? There must be some good reason—like maybe the idea doesn’t work…? Well, Lintec Corp is marketing solar-powered traffic signs. They are wireless, too, and supposedly save $2,800 on electricity over 10 years. (Which doesn’t sound like much—I will pay more than that for home heating next month with the…
We’ve heard rumours of a delayed PS3 launch, but Sony is still promising Spring as its release target. Seems the next-generation DVD format war has been at the center of delay theories. “The PS3 was touted as being the first high volume Blu-ray player. You want to have an installed base of players if you…
What a difference the Asian market makes. Though Xbox 360 units sold out ridiculously quickly here in the US and in Europe, analysts in Japan are saying that gamers are planning to take a more wait-and-see attitude. Even so, the 360 launches in Japan on Sunday and preorders on the web seem to be looking…
The X-45C looks like it means business. This is a bigger killer drone—over 18,000 pounds—that offers a remote viewer a point-click-and-eviscerate user-interface for destroying the enemy. While the current crop of drones must be piloted remotely, this one apparently can track a target all by itself, ensuring that one of these things will get loose…
The trouble with hunting for an HDTV is that the clerks at most retailers futz up the contrast and brightness and then show cartoons with unbearably saturated colors. Before you buy one, you’d better re-calibrate those suckers to see what they really look like. Trouble is, calibrating an HDTV requires serious hardware or at least…
Nokia opened the doors to its very first flagship store yesterday—in Moscow! I guess the budding mafiya market is something they want to grab early—after all, they go through cell phones like candy, changing SIM cards almost every day to evade Putin’s raiders. Promising 17 similar stores in the next 2 years, Nokia says these…
Elecom realizes that some people HAVE to play World of Warcraft for 46 hours straight without a bathroom break. So they kept that in mind when designing their new line of cordless mice. These bad boys come in red, blue, white, and black and have a helluva battery life. The smallest one goes for 25…
Joel, the wiggly little fellow behind Consumerist, is holding a fund raiser for the CHILDREN at Barcade in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. If you do not live in New York, please do not bother driving here just for this, because the roads are icy and it sucks here today. Barcade is just about the coolest bar ever,…
With Apple and NBC partnering to allow downloads of shows like Knight Rider and Dragnet, people are wanting more and more TV shows on their iPods. Wouldn’t it be nice to skip the $1.99 fee, record any TV show, and then send it right to your iPod? We thought so, too. Luckily with EyeTV’s new…
These are the KS003 sunglasses from Evergreen. They have an MP3 player built in, but that is no excuse for making glasses this ugly. Unlike, say, the Oakley Thump 2, these have wires built into the earbuds so they hang down like bad Counting Crows dreads. The sunglasses only have 256MB and play MP3 and…
Sony has mapped its way into the portable GPS market with the NV-U50 and NV-U70T. The touch-screen display is 3.5 inches, and has an 80-degree viewing angle. It comes with a “smart cradle” and attaches with a one-touch release suction cup. Sounds like Sony supplied its own GPS chip for the nav-u, and it has…
Looks like Pioneer will be the first to bring a PC-based Blu-ray disc drive to market with its BD1.5. We don’t have much more information than the fact that it will be internal and shipping sometime next year. Pioneer PC-Based Blu-ray Disc Drive [Bios Magazine]
If you want to impress the lady this year, you’re going to have to forget about the Magenta RAZR and go straight to gold. Looks like Motorola has put out just 1000 gold RAZR V2i phones to Dolce & Gabbana boutiques around the world, and if you want one, you may have to put on…
Here are a few more DVD burners coming from Sony before year-end. The DRU-810A ($65) is an internal model with an ATAPI interface, and the DRX-810UL is an attractive silver external model ($132). Both support 8x DVD+R Double Layer (DL) recording speed, and can burn up to 8.5GB of video, data, music or images on…
Microsoft is teaming up with LG to design the LRM-519 digital media recorder. This features all of the bells and whistles of the average consumer electronics home entertainment system: RF, digital audio, composite video, standard audio, s-video, telephone, Ethernet, DVD burner, USB, IR, and even old-school serial controller. This DVR works a little different than…
The name Krell usually signals high-end equipment to me, so it’s no surprise to see its Evolution One monaural amplifier includes such power in a graceful package. I mean, let’s face it, really high quality audio components aren’t usually the most attractive things around, and the Evolution One looks like it won’t upset most women…
Listen up parents: Excited about your little toddler eventually becoming a cell phoning, surly teenager? Why wait 15 years when you can get them wasting your plan minutes now. The Teddyphone is the ideal phone for small children. Actually this thing does have some useful parent features such as reverse listening, an SOS button, speed…
The Gizmodo Gift Guide is now inhabited by a fire demon who mines silicon deep in the core of planet bl h. Yes, Magma is another Mimobot USB key. Can’t decide which Mimobot to buy? Decide in the Gift Guide. https://gizmodo.com/more-mimobot-133563