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Manufactured in Japan by Lupo, this new, recyclable PC case will certainly be touted by Green people everywhere. Definitely the first of its kind, it’s also made completety out of cardboard. Just remove all the perforated sections, fold along the dotted lines and you’ve got yourself a fully biodegradable—and functional—PC case. You might want to…
Sony has added a new color to the PS2 this holiday season. This new color will directly compete with the XBox 360 and folks will be so blinded by the tinsel-ness of it all that they will turn from MS and pick up a PS2 instead. Ahem. The new slim model PS2 in Satin Silver,…
As an update to its XACTI C5, first shown at the CeBit show in March, we’re finally getting a glimpse of the six megapixel version—the Sanyo XACTI C6. Attractive, small and thin, it weighs in at 140 grams and now has a recorded frame rate of 60fps. It’s still got its 5x optical zoom and…
Here’s a strange product from Kenko in Japan. These plastic lenses actually plug into your cameraphone, letting you take photos with different special effects. Probably not marketed to those of us who upload our images to the PC (and know how to use actual software), I’d bank on kids using these things. There are 14…
Hey, network geniuses. This has been bothering me during all my days as a “sysadmin” and just cropped up today. Say you have two networks… 192.168.0.X, subnet mask 255.255.255.0, gateway is 192.168.0.1 and 10.0.1.X, same subnet mask, 10.0.1.1. Basically, in this case, it’s an Apple Airport as the gateway and non-Apple network running wired. Now…
Wear a nice skirt when flying this thing. There is a good chance that this crazy contraption could cost you your life, so remember to dress your best when this thing plunges into the dirt. The H-4 runs on a 125cc, eight horsepower engine operating two propellers. It can supposedly reach upwards of 56 miles…
Personally, I walk a lot and ride my bike outdoors. When it rains, I continue to do so not letting a little water bother me. Sometimes though, it’ll pour for days and anything on me electronic is in danger of getting wet. That’s why when I saw this WATERWEAR case for the iPod shuffle, I…
With the new 5G iPod and its video capabilities, people are already hopping on to get exclusive iPod Video content out for their fans, a lot like when the PSP first debuted. Suicide Girls, if you don’t already know, is basically a whole site full of goth, punk, alternative girls showing off their incredible hoo…
Admit it. My alliteration skills are mad dope yo. Anyways, the Lapvantage Loft is designed to keep your laptop at eye level so your neck doesn’t break off or something like that. It is pretty sexy though and comes in Thinkpad black and Powerbook metallic colors. The Lapvantage has some neat standard features aside from…
Intel showed some “future innovations” today, though most of them weren’t anything you’d actually be able to put in your pocket anytime soon. Demonstrators were quick to explain to me that I would never see the exact products they were showing, but hopefully, sometime in the next 3-5 years, we’d see something similar. In terms…
I live in NYC, so even if I did still smoke, I’d be forced to cut down immensely since the new laws came into place a few years ago. The Japanese, however, are still puffin’ away just about anywhere they can light up, god bless them. So it makes sense for Matsushita to announce a…
Chalk another one up for the “smallest” prize as Compro Technology announces its VideoMate U900 “world’s smallest full functions USB 2.0 TV Box.” The tuner itself is smaller than a credit card—albeit a thick one— and allows for TV viewing, recording and video/audio capture through the USB 2.0 port of your desktop or laptop. And…
I admit, I haven’t used an encyclopedia for quite a while, but I remember those school days when I really did need it. Apart from taking up a ludicrous amount of space, they were always out of order—I was a weak kid!—and difficult to carry around. So what do the Germans do? In their fantastically,…
Dozens of hilarious stories and photos of busted laptops have been received as part of Gizmodo’s M4000 WideNote laptop giveaway—including this one—from a firefighter. So there’s a look at the competition. to those of you who have yet to send in your entries. Read of for all the contest details… When the good people of…
Good for you Microsoft. The company has decided to use an actual USB port for their Xbox 360 controller, so you can use it on the 360 or your PC without any hassles. And of course, Microsoft will sell individual controllers for Windows for just $40 a pop (including driver). However, if you want to…
This sweet-looking black beauty is Sharp’s latest PDA phone, dubbed the “W-ZERO3.” It’s a slider with a huge 3.7 inch VGA touchscreen LCD with 65,536 colors that almost dwarfs the QWERTY keypad underneath. Other features include 128 MB of built-in memory, a 1.3 megapixel camera, an Intel PXA270 416Mhz processor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a miniSD card…
The new Fujitsu is, well, really very pretty. It’s extremely slim. And it’s shiny too. Which I like. Weighing in at 1.38kg, it’s got a 10.6-inch, widescreen SXGA display, a lightweight titanium and aluminum case, optical drive, and an optional extra battery pack that’ll let you squeeze nearly 10 hours out of your battery. And…
We got this amusing email from a reader who heard from her local T-Mobile store that the Sidekick 3 may be coming out this December, but there’s also a private “invitation-only” list if you want to get it by late November. Here’s what she wrote: I went to the T-Mobile store in my area, it…
Vexed by Vextra By Brendan I. Koerner I usually blow off the guys who hand out drugstore circulars on the corner, but I made an exception last week—what can I say, I was feeling the whole brotherhood-of-man vibe that day. Good thing I shifted my policy, however, as this particular Rite Aid pamphlet advertised an…
That’s right, the battle goes on. Looks like HP feels left out of certain high definition DVD features as the company sticks with its original plan to back Blu-ray. “We’re still supporting Blu-ray but we’re very serious that we want these technologies. If in the end, they’re supported in one and then not the other,…