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Earlier this month when Nokia first dropped the news of the N80, top brass said it would not be on the market in the US until the first quarter of 2006. But now that both the N80 and N71 have received FCC approval — partially, at least — there is a chance these N-phones will…
Samsung has released two Korea-only phones that come with a nifty feature: gesture recognition. By gesture, Samsung really means movement. The SPH-S4000 and SCH-S400 phones come with software to take advantage of this feature. A pedometer is included so you can count your steps to the local McDonalds, you can change tracks on the MP3…
Next time you’re in the local supermarket shopping for some bleach, don’t look down. That is, if you don’t want to see an advert. The IntelliMat is a 1.5cm rubber mat with 4 seperate LCD displays built-in, which makes up a 30-inch display designed to bring you ads and store content. An interesting approach is…
Today NTT DoCoMo announced a new model currently under development — the FOMA SA800i, made especially for children (specifically, elementary school kids). The phone is expected to go on sale in Spring 2006 and features: – GPS, allowing you to check where your child is, either from another mobile phone or from a computer –…
This week at Lifehacker: You’re home, you’re eating turkey, you’re fielding computer questions from Mom and Dad, Uncle Lou and Aunt Mitzy. Fix Mom and Dad’s computer and add some memory to that 4-year-old Dell while you’re at it. Plus: Organize and charge up your mobile devices in one place, and speed up the ol’…
CoverBuddy is a cute piece of software that makes your PSP somewhat useful. Using your Wi-Fi network, you can access iTunes and control it with your PSP. It’s $20 and works with Mac OS X, though a Windows version is planned. Could be worth the bucks if you are wandering around your house a lot,…
This is one of two Lego-based shrines entered into the Apple iPod 30GB video player contest. And the iRobot shrine with the spooky 80s face is among the worthiest thus far. Keep building… what else are you going to do while the turkey roasts? Entries must be accompanied by a photograph in JPG format 72…
The war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray continues to chug on endlessly without a true winner. But we say “Screw em”, because Maxell along with InPhase Technologies is coming out with some dope shit using holographics. Using cartridges (read: floppys), the new technology will support up to 1.6TB with data transfers at 120MBps. Yeah. That’s a…
If you’ve dreamt of laying down beats on your Treo, listen up: an update to the Palm favorite BeatPad from miniMusic could make handheld musicians very happy indeed. There’s now a built-in instrument that works with many higher-in Palms (including the Treos) so you hear high-quality sounds instead of beeps, and the software now exports…
Well, this is for all you knitters out there. Time to get out those needles and start working on these mittens with iPod pocket that all your favorite gadget lovers will be barking for this holiday season. The pattern, in case you’re wondering, is downloadable as a PDF at iPod Mittens. Be sure to save…
We know you’ve got an old VHS tape with an ASIA music video lying around somewhere. Give it a watch and you’ll be back in love with hexagonal drumsets in no time. This site is completely devoted to hex drum kits and has galleries of all kinds of hexagonal drum kits and pads. Synth drums…
They’ve already turned stomp boxes into butt probes. Now Metasonix, creators of agonizing-sounding audio gear, have turned their warped minds to synths. The result is the Wretch Machine, a truly analog synthesizer crafted from vacuum and gas-filled tubes, with glowing green bars as meters and joysticks for control. It’s due next year for $2500; until…
We here at Gizmodo are thankful for the following things: XBox 360, Nokia N90, TiVo, Suicide Girls on the iPod, BoingBoing, Tur–duck–hen, a good slice of a Brooklyn pizza, our families, the part of Kansas where Intern Travis lives (GO EFFEMINATE FARMERS!), cheesesteaks, the StikAx, and PR0N. Have a nice holiday.
The features are pretty much the same as Samsung’s D600 phone, but the more recent SCH-B360 now has DMB (Digital Media Broadcasting) capabilities, letting you watch your fave TV shows. And what do you think this does? Well, I’ll tell you. Its diminutive size makes it the smallest DMB phone yet. Ok, so watching any…
By Alexander Roy When was the last time you saw a trucker pulled over for speeding? The question never occurred to me until the summer of 2003, as I was preparing for the Gumball Rally, one of the spiritual descendants of the infamous Cannonball Run. I needed to know how truckers cruised at 85 miles-per-hour…
Hey TiVo, here’s some juicy competition for you. LG’s LRM-519 Digital Media Recorder is a Microsoft-powered DVR that has a 160GB hard drive, USB ports, 90-minute buffer, DVD burning capability (cool), and can play back audio and images from your PC. And like the Network ReplayTV of old, you can send video, audio, and pictures…
In the beginning of the month we alerted you to Wal-Mart’s super low-priced PCs and laptops to be flogged on Black Friday. Now we’ve been told that it gets even better. For $378 without any rebates, you can get your hands on an HP Pavilion ze2108wm laptop, installed with AMD Sempron processor with PowerNow! technology.…
Biggest CE bust of the last few years? DVD recorders, which have dropped to about 200 bucks on average, but are just too damn hard to operate. [WSJ (reg)] A M.I.T. grad (and dot com kajillionaire) has a dream. A dream to bring Japan s high-tech electronic toilets to the U.S. but so far, Americans…
Parents, PingAlert is perfect for your nerdy little kid. Next time he’s getting his ass kicked on the playground for lunch money, he can use PingAlert to give you the heads up. You enter a special number into a speed dial on the phone, and it dials the KidsOK service which then sends an SMS…
Popular Science has a wonderful feature about colored bubbles. The inventor, Tim Kehoe, spent 11 years figuring out a way to make bubbles with color that disappeared after the pop. And then the bubbles broke on the kids, on the parents, on cars, on Haddleton’s prized German Shepherds. It looked like there had been a…