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This is the Wacom Intuos3 A5 Wide writing tablet. The active writing area measures a little over six inches by ten inches to properly replicate a widescreen or dual-monitor setup. “With as much as 50 per cent of the creative community soon using either widescreen or dual monitors, we’re confident that the Intuos3 A5 Wide…
Today’s DAP Headlines: Take a breath of fresh air with the C&C Air from SK. The newest version of Napster is out, clearly aiming for Yahoo’s market share in the online music subscription business. Sony brings out Mr. Bean (no, not Rowan Atkinson) to promote their new flash player, and Olympus exits the DAP business.…
Sony is throwing its hat into the video conferencing ring with the PCS-TL30, an integrated video conference system that comes with a 1.3 megapixel video camera, microphone and stereo speakers. Obviously, with that low resolution, I’m not too worried about the boogers showing, but it does come with a 17-inch TFT monitor and the whole…
The Army always shoots for the moon when it comes to making their soldiers stronger, better, and more efficient. Now the Army has been watching Aquaman one to many times it seems, as they want a “Microfabricated Biomimetic Artificial Gill System based on the subdividing regions of clef, filament, and lamellae found in natural fish…
If you install too many of these, you could feasibly cause the fabric of the universe to collapse. You see, this is a shower shower. It showers your shower, cleaning it after your shower. So if you showered the shower shower, and then showered the first shower shower then you’ve basically got a shower shower…
Spread Eagled… for Value! By Brendan I. Koerner Last Friday, my girlfriend and I played hooky and ventured southward to Sunset Park, a polyglot Brooklyn neighborhood. On our way to an excellent Turkish restaurant on 60th Street, we passed by a JCPenney catalogue store—y’know, one of those joints where you can pick up those Sure…
Keitai KunKun have developed “smell tones” as the next-gen ringtone. Using the these smell tones, you simply set up the enclosed liquid to hang off your phone. When you get a call or message, instead of a ring, you can get a smell alerting you to pick up your phone. I don’t see how this…
Though not quite cutting edge, Boyounb Tech has come out with a product that will allow you to use Bluetooth technology for a handsfree cellphone headset without a Bluetooth-compatible phone. The product includes a bluetooth dongle that attaches to the ear phone aperture of your cellphone and comes in 4 colors with matching dongles. Runs…
The crew of that cruise ship under siege by plundering pirates drove off the scoundrels by using their Long-Range Acoustic Device as an ear-drum shattering sonic weapon. [Union Tribune] Music cellphones are going nowhere fast in America, even though they’re pretty popular in other countries. According to the article, 2% of U.S. cellphone users have…
This baby is called the Cyclone Cleaner and I’ll give you one guess to figure out where it comes from. If you said Japan, give yourself a pat on the back, because yes, you’ll only find this fantastical sucker—HA!—in the Land of the Rising Sun. Sleek, easy-to-use and damn fine-looking, the Cyclone is cordless with…
Casio is joining the big phone party in the US of A. Although this Japanese company is mainly known here for those exciting calculators, it now plans on supplying us with 3G cellphones as well as ramping up its brand name for digital cameras. This all comes from the President of the company, Kazuo Kashio,…
There have been mobile gaming pads in the past, all with a recurring theme: they suck. The XEG Mobile Gaming Pad, on the other hand, has a sharp design and excellent form factor — and might even induce me to play a game on a cellphone one day. The controller is arranged like a basic…
I say it’s damn good to see TiVo finally changing its business model. Right now, you’ll actually get a free 40 hour TiVo box when you pay the $16.95 per month service fee. Of course, this is only a year agreement, so we can’t be sure what the company has up its sleeve. But huzzah…
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Okay, it’s not a car. But it’s still a Ferrari, right? So you could tell everyone you own a Ferrari. What you really own is the limited edition Acer-branded Ferrari LCD monitors: the F-19 and F-20. A 19-inch and 20-inch monitor, respectively, the F-19 weighs in at 7.1kg, has a 500:1 contrast ratio and includes…
Ben Heck, maker of all systems portable, has done it again! Inspired this time by the Game Boy Micro, Heck has created his own NES Micro. Designed from the ground up, he manufactured his own case, complete with graphics, to house the system. Then he went and ripped out a bunch of NES parts, wired…
Aren’t we all past the point where we need to rip our CDs? The whole “Rip, Mix, Burn” era peaked in 2002 and anyone with CDs at this point should probably just keep listening to the Technics 100-disk changer and give it up. Anyway, the iLoad is a little thingie that rips CDs to your…
Last night Olympus took the M-Robe for coffee and said, “it’s not you, it’s me.” Olympus is all camera, and should have known it was never going to work out with an mixed-breed MP3 player that had some camera functionality on its mother’s side of the family. Not a huge surprise that it couldn’t, “keep…
When Podcasting started, and there were just six channel of Adam Curry, I was hot to get in on the action. Now there are so many Podcasts that it’s become the audio version of Usenet — and I never, ever, want to be able to hear the people on Usenet. Things are going to get…
I think this picture is really all we need to say about this product. You put this bra in the microwave and it comes out all toasty. According to the BBC, and they’re rarely wrong except about the perversions of their Royal family—Prince Charles was in fact sired by a horse—this bra “can heat to…