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Cingular is now joining the Push-To-Talk party. Cingular’s service is pretty basic, though it includes simple conference calling and a “Buddy List” that lets you check if the person you’d like to call is around before you go ahead and expend the energy to push that button. It also includes an easier way to switch…
In a joint project between LG, Intel and Korean Mobile carrier KTF, LG showed the first laptop to include an EV-DO receiver. With a max speed of 2.4 Mbps, the LG LW20-EV lets you browse the web at higher speeds and it can even be accessed in confined spaces, like your morning subway commute. It’s…
What does Gizmodo want for the holidays? A GPS device showing the shortest route from one perfect gift to another. Until the day someone invents that, Gizmodo is your shortest trip from a media center keyboard to a living room computer and all the gadgets in between. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-media-center-keyboard-135190 It’s all in the 2005 Gizmodo Holiday…
Looks like Siemens is deciding to jump on the RAZR bandwagon, even though the RAZR’s trendiness factor has started to die a little. The SLV140 is a triband GSM phone with UTMS support and has some features that make it a tad bit nicer than the RAZR. Some of these include a 2-megapixel camera, video…
I’m talking to you, Mr. MySpace-loving indie garage band member. Now, much to your delight and the misfortune of everyone else in the world, you can record your emo power ballads wherever you damn well please. The Fast Track is a small USB-powered device that allows you to record vocals and guitar directly onto a…
It only took Square Enix twelve games and numerous spin-offs to finally start profiting off those Final Fantasy fanboys across the globe. This is the drink called Potion. It will be released in March to coincide with the release of Final Fantasy XII. It appears to be just another cookie-cutter energy drink that contains enough…
No, this isn t Bob Marley-style jammin’, this is hardcore combat radar jamming. Raytheon received a $15.5 million bid for their IED Countermeasure Equipment (or ICE system, yes, that is an acronym within an acronym, and yes, the universe is going to collapse upon itself). The device, roughly the size of a large gym bag,…
More speedy CompactFlash news from Kingston with what the company calls the “Ultimate” line of cards. All three CF cards have a sustained write speed of 100x and come in 1GB, 2GB and 4GB storage capacities. Pretty much designed for professional photogs, these CompactFlash cards provide a seamless flow of imaging info from camera to…
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RIM has gotten into more problems, yet again. RIM may be forced to stop selling BlackBerry hardware and software in the U.S. completely if a judge decides to strike them down. Today U.S. District Judge James Spencer denied the request by RIM to enforce the terms of its $450 million patent settlement with NTP. An…
Pretty much everything you need from a bigger laptop smashed into a nice-looking tiny tot of a machine, the Fujitsu T70M weighs about 2 1/2 lb. and comes with a 1.2Ghz Pentium CPU, 60GB of hard drive space and a DVD burner to boot. Rounded out with WiFi and a 56Kbps dial-up modem for all…
Another Nokia phone announced today is the 6233. A Triband GSM candy bar phone with 2100Mhz WCDMA support, the 6233 also includes a 2-megapixel camera (that’s more like it), color display, 3D surround sound stereo speakers and an email client that comes with a neat spam filter. Also comes with OMA Digital Rights Management v2.0…
Your impressive collection of mp3s is nice and all, but it does nobody any good just sitting on your PC s hard drive. Wouldn t you like to be able to play all of those files through your state-of-the-art stereo system that set you back a couple of Gs all those years ago? That s…
This is probably the greatest thing ever made. Seriously this time. Let’s say you’re a broke college student right? You come home really high hungry one night and demand food. You have no money, some bread, cheese, little bit of meat left, and some soda. What do you do? You grab your Toastabags out of…
Looks like Sony’s been busted for using a really old codec for its next-gen Blu-ray format. For its first Blu-ray movies, Sony will encode with MPEG-2, which is the same codec used for today’s old-fashioned DVDs. Don Eklund, senior vice president of advanced technology for Sony Pictures, has gone on record as saying: Advanced formats…
Meet SORA, the latest and greatest secretarial robot to come out of Japan. She has an integrated camera, microphone, speaker and business card scanner. She can take pictures of people and even act as a videoconferencing unit to communicate with those dirty people you don t want stinking up your office. The only downside about…
TiVo just can’t seem to stop itself. After announcing the odd ability to choose what commercials you’d like to view, the company has added even more strange services. Now it looks like you’ll be able to use TiVo to buy movie tickets and check local weather from your TV. Of course, this is only for…
The folks at Griffin Technology have come up with some new headphones for your iPod shuffle: TuneBuds. These earbud-style headphones make the most of the shuffle’s ability to be dangled worry-free around your neck by doubling as a lanyard. Plugging directly into the USB connector, TuneBuds make the nest of wires which used to typify…
Yup, they look like normal, white golf balls, but lo and behold, these HenkaQ balls actually change colors when they’re exposed to sunlight. The surface of each ball is treated with a photochromic compound like the kind used on those gay sunglasses (and I mean that in the 8th-grade sense, of course) that get darker…
Austrian scientists have created the world’s first quantum byte! Yes, you read right. The byte, which is comprised of 8 calcium ions, is said to be a first step to creating the elusive quantum computer, a sort of holy grail in computing. These quantum computers are supposed to solve a litany of computer problems in…