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Sun Microsystems has decided to come into the ring swinging with its latest microprocessor called the UltraSparc T1. Codenamed Niagara (boy, that’s ominous huh?), the chip uses around 70 watts of electricity, which is at least 30 percent less than most other microprocessors. It consists of eight processing cores on just one piece of silicon…
Today seems to be chock full of products similar fashion to this one. This is a good idea, but the design is poorly done. The wristband remote portion appears to be pretty cheap and doesn t look very iPodish. Although the upside of a product like this is my dream of having an RF iPod…
This is kind of like that bush from the Three Amigos. It’s basically a plant wired up to a theremin. Using custom-designed software (obviously, they didn’t have MySingingPlant 2.5 for OS X available to them), the plant triggers various samples based. That’s not all, sensors detect when people are near the plant so a little…
Massimo Piccardi (no relation to the good cap’n) and colleagues at the University of Technology in Sydney are developing a system that can more accurately monitor luggage is left all by its lonesome in airports via surveillance cameras. The current technology primarily relies on human eye’s to track people and their luggage, so errors can…
Some of you drivers out there may be fond of certain cars. A lot of old motorheads love cars like the GTO, Camaro, and Chevelle. A lot of 17-year-olds from the suburbs on the other hand prefer the sound of Civics, Accords, and Tiburons. Whichever you like, why spend all your money on parts when…
We like it when readers take a situation into their own hands. Peta was getting sick of having to always take off his headphones from his iPod when his cellphone rang. Enough was enough, so he bought a Bluetooth headset on the cheap ($9), ripped out the speaker, and added a 3.5mm audio out jack…
Yeah, that is right. It is a microphone that is sound-proof. Unfortunately it isn t sound proof as in keeping you from hearing my drunk self from singing of Journey at the karaoke bar, but sound proof by keeping every other noise out of the microphone. The design appears to be a bit, awkward. But…
Gizmodo has been featured as a candidate in the second annual Blog-X Awards. This award gives, you the people, a chance to vote for your favorite independent technology blog. Please help us win this, the award would go terrific next to my Best Abs and Best Bird Call awards from 1989. Also there is Starbucks…
So some crazy inventor out there gets an idea. Why not take a product that capitalizes on being tiny and quadruple its size by adding all kind of crazy crap to it. Well, it’s worked before. This tower quadruples the size of your Mini to simply add an HDD enclosure, speakers, 15W subwoofer and a…
I actually know someone who was dumped over an SMS. Now, it’s not the best way to do things, but at least, if they guy had used the eMoto mobile messaging service, he could have gotten away looking a little more like a human than an insensitive schmuck (though don’t get me wrong, I still…
Today’s DAP Headlines: We’ve got a nice collection of Cowon A2 pictures, Toshiba comes up with the Gigabeat P-series and Oracom mashed things up a bit, stirred it around for a while before eventually burping out the UB-880. Cowon’s A2 seems to be part of this new generation of PMP/PVRs, alongside with Archos’ AV500, Digital…
This week in Jalopnik: A luxury wheelmaker offers a free Bentley with a set of gem-encrusted rims; XM Satellite builds our dream traffic app; design students compete to design a killer Ferrari prototype; we review Honda’s newest (and wonkiest) Civic; a Michigan man redeems the honor of a lost hot rod legend of the ’60s;…
Ruh roh. T-Mobile and the Sidekick2 have got themselves in a boatload of trouble. There was a batch of updates pushed onto select SK2s a few days back and they seemed to have some negative side effects—that side effect being completely frying of the radio firmware. Yeah stuff happens, this isn t the fault of…
The Gigabeat lives for another day with Toshiba’s announcement of the Gigabeat P-range of MP3 players. The players are small, sexy, and colorful, looking to take over where the iPod Mini began. They all have a 1.1″ OLED screen, which can display images as well as text. Compatible with WMA files as well as MP3s,…
Panasonic may have finally realized that although the whole 16 x 9 flat panel TV thing is great for some things, there needs to be some variation. Especially when it comes to smaller LCD TVs, where you may not be watching beautiful moving images all the time. So, if you’re tired of watching your non-digital…
I have something of a penchant for acting out scenes from ’80s movies in real life. Whether it is using my favourite chat up line, “come with me if you want to live” at bars, instinctively contorting my body into a wobbly “crane” position when faced with impending violence, or coaxing drunken fat friends into…
There has been lots of FUD about what exactly the high definition capabilities of the Xbox 360 will and won’t do. Will the games look decent on regular TVs? Will it work with 1080i screens? Will it show DVDs in 720p? The folks at Coldforged are gathering up the answers in a FAQ that is…
We told you about these NTT DoCoMo FOMA N902i series cellphones last week. But we didn’t get to mention one of the best parts. The phone, developed by NEC, will add an electronic still image stabilizer that will give the 2 megapixel camera the ability to provide 4 megapixel resolution, using pixel interpolation. Yes, we…
The erotic watch has always been a dirty little secret in the watchmaking industry. These watches were made for lads about town who wanted a bit of jerky hardcore sex before the era of QuickTime and PSP PR0N. Tiny figures were attached to the parts of the watch and they moved about, thrusting and parrying…
A World of the Insatiably Enabled By James Craig My friend Randy is a technical consultant for IBM. He codes Java and provides user feedback for internal development teams. Like most of us, the majority of Randy s work involves communication through phone or by email. And like most of us, his mobile phone is…