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Skype Goes Mobile… Sort Of By Carlo Longino Voice over IP telephony provider Skype has developed a large and fanatical following, attracted by its ease of use and call quality. The free calls don’t hurt, either — leading to plenty of questions along the lines of: “When will I be able to use Skype on…
Squeeze it like you mean it baby! The Squeezebox 3 has been released from Slim Devices and it’s got all kinds of features. Don’t know what it is though? The Squeezebox is an MP3 player for your network that will work on Mac or PC. It scans your music libraries then alllows other networked Squeezeboxes…
Mac users usually get screwed over in the world of PVR stuff, which is a damn shame because us Mac users are all about multimedia. myTV.PVR is a new white box about the size of the Mac mini. Built by Eskape Labs, myTV.PVR is a TV Tuner with a built-in MPEG encoder designed specifically for…
You sent in your tired, your poor, your totally wrecked, melted and disgorged laptops. We have received many unbelievable photos—check out some of the wretchedness after the jump—but it’s not over yet. Tomorrow, Gizmodo’s crack team of forensic editors will scan hundreds of entries and pick the top 3 (well, maybe 5 because there are…
Sony ain’t no dummies. Realizing the zeitgeist of the Mac, the Japanese company has finally created the DRX-81OUL/T, a DVD burner that will be compatible with your Macintosh. Shipping next month, it is an extrernal and dual layer DVD drive loaded with Roxio’s Toast 6 Lite and will allow you to burn up to 8.5GB…
The NeKo is a high-end Windows PC that’s also a full-blown musical instrument and recording workstation. Generation 2 now looks like a Porsche (it uses the same premium paint as the roadster), and acts like a Borg. Plug in your favorite hardware synth, and its Clone feature assimilates all the sounds into the collective, via…
Fujitsu Siemens Computers has announced the Pocket LOOX N500 and Pocket LOOX N520, two PDAs with integrated GPS functionality. Preinstalled with Windows Mobile 5.0 Premium edition and Navigon’s MobileNavigator 5, these handhelds are based on a 312MHz Intel XScale PXA270 processor, 64MB (50.49MB available) memory, 64MB (26.79MB available) Flash ROM, and have a 3.5-inch LCD…
Korea gets even more goods from Samsung today! The SPH-2300 DMB, which we talked about yesterday phone gets the satellite treatment with BIFS technology. BIFS, you ask? Who cares. It lets you interact with Spanish soap operas is all we know. You can enjoy the DMB on a QVGA screen with video-on-demand as well. Oh…
We mentioned the Leapfrog FLY Pentop Computer before, but this time, it’s finally hit shelves. As we mentioned, this is a computer built inside a special pen “computer”, and works with specially made paper. For example, you’ve got some crazy calculator function: you draw some numbers on the paper, a plus sign, and an equal…
The LA Times profiles Mark “The Cobra Snake” Hunter, who’s living large on the LA party scene for his gregarious digi-pic snapping. The article says he’s packing something called a “Canon D20” but judging from the photos, we think the author meant to say the hipster is using a Canon EOS 20D. [LA Times (reg)]…
Our girlfriend over at Lifehacker—well she’s a girl and she’s our friend but she’s not our girlfriend or anything but we went for a walk in the woods near my house and she was all like “I love Terry” and I was like damn and then we lost my dog—turned us on the Frappr, a…
Hipster beltbuckles have got nothing on this waist contraption from Feelspace. Strap this electronic compass around your waist and one of those circular green sensors vibrates to tell you which direction is north. The creators describe this using more fancy terminology: “vibrotactile stimulation.” Not exactly a fashion statement, but the goal of this research is…
I have a soft spot for LED watches and the guy who sells these, Simon in the UK, comes out with a new one every fifteen minutes or so. This is the XRay, which looks kind of like a TV. Brushed case, red face, and sexy glowing numerals. What more could you ask for? He’s…
To alleviate the guilt you might have for leaving your little pooch or kitty at home to fend for themselves, there’s this unusual phone-shaped device made specifically to play back a 10-second message at set intervals until you get home. “We love you!” you could say, or “Get off the couch!” you could warn. Perhaps…
Just when you thought Canon already spent its Powershot load for the year, here’s another one, and this time, it’s wireless. That’s right, the Canon Powershot SD430 Wireless has wireless support, with an antenna built right into the camera. But before you get all excited that you’ll be able to post your high-quality pics to…
What’s this, now? 9 PS2 games and 38 Playstation games might not be backwards compatible with the PS3? Holy poop, you say. That’s terrible. Why would that be? Well: “We believe multiple factors are responsible,” said Reiko Sakamoto, a spokeswoman for SCEI in Tokyo. The latest console uses a new chipset — the chip that…
AOC Displays launched a couple of professional line Envision LCD displays last week, the EN7750 and the EN2028. The EN7750 is a 17-inch monitor, with 1280×1024 resolution, an 8 millisecond response time, 300 cd/m2 brightness, but only has an analog input. The EN2028 is the bigger and better sibling, with a 20-inch display, 1600×1200 resolution,…
This is the Canon Optura 600, it is another MiniDV camera coming from Canon. This is jumping on the multipurpose gadget bandwagon by providing exceptional still image pictures which is sometimes hard to come by with a compact MiniDV camera such as this one. On top of the good quality MiniDV recording, this video camera…
Don t toss out the ol’ Roomba yet. This is just a prototype for a robot powered by a Mac Mini. The Mac Mini works in conjunction with an iSight webcam to fulfill every robot-loving Mac-fanboy’s wildest dreams. This prototype appears to be powered by 13,000 AA batteries. Mac mini Robot [Kulturtechnik]
We first saw the phone awhile ago, but now we know for sure that Cingular’s the carrier for this curious-looking clamshell. The dual-hinge design opens either vertically or horizontally, to reveal a regular keypad that also acts as a mini QWERTY keyboard. It comes with Bluetooth and EDGE connectivity, voice recognition utilities for message dictation,…