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Although it hasn’t been officially announced, it looks like T-Mobile has already started selling the SGH-T309, a new tri-band clamshell by Samsung. It has a 0.3 megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom, which is pretty chintzy but at least it has night mode and LED flash. There’s also a self-timer function with 3, 5, and…
This was bound to happen: People everywhere have discovered how to get their DVD movies and TV shows onto the new video iPod for free. And really, it’s not that different from ripping a movie onto the PSP, except for a different transfer process. For starters, we found this excellent HOWTO from Mark Pilgrim on…
Plantronics on the Moon By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch Neil Armstrong touches down on the moon, equipped with a corded phone instead of a Plantronics headset. He manages to utter the first half of his trademark phrase before tragically walking beyond the range of the handset’s tether. After Armstrong is flung into the cold,…
When the good people of Sharp gave Gizmodo a spankin’ new M4000 WideNote laptop to do with whatever we pleased, my first inclination was to grab it and run away fast while yelling w00t! The notebook is only 3.8 pounds, so I could have run fast too, ga. But then reason intruded and I realized…
We’ve got a man on the inside. Hopefully we’ll have a bit of info soon. The Apple store is now down, so expect some hardware announcements. Cell traffic is closed in the room, but I suspect it’s just Javits center sucktasticness going on. PowerPage.org has some content up and our boy inside says it’s just…
Frankly, I’m stunned. Not to silence of course, but stunned all the same. Japan’s biggest mobile operator has actually taken a cue from the US and announced a new line of push-to-talk cellphones. Of course, they’re going to be 3G, high speed walkie-talkie phones, but still, we did it first! DoCoMo is talking about unveiling…
This week at Lifehacker: Don’t pay for video at the iTunes Music Store – subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes. Create your own own iPod videos. Or forget the White Status Symbol of Apple Cult Membership, and watch your video to go on a big screen PocketPC. Of course, if you do decide to…
A bunch of special edition Xbox 360 faceplates were given away at E3 2005 as a promotional thing, and I didn’t get one even though I was there the whole time. I could’ve picked one up on eBay but I didn’t feel too desperate. Well it turns it’s a good thing I didn’t get it,…
WSJ tech columnist and his aide-de-camp Katie had only 24 hours to try out the new 5th-gen iPod (plenty of time, considering it s only supposed to run for 2 hours playing video) and, somewhat strangely, describe the player’s video capability as a “kind of business or social experiment”. [WSJ (reg)] NY Times columnist David…
Creative has always wanted to be Apple and news flash: They’re not. So when iPod Video was announced, you knew it was only a matter of time before Creative shit their pants and rushed to come out with the Media Vidz player. Creative didn’t even have enough time to spell “Videos” correctly. Either way, what…
Yawn, another day, another over hyped groundbreaking Apple announcement that has all Mac fan boys weak in their knees. Today is no different; Apple will be unveiling it “latest pro innovations” later today in NYC. Our cohorts over at Think Secret are reporting on the rumors of what this announcement will feature. There are unconfirmed…
Feel you need some style and freedom in your grilling? Leave it to the German company LoeweVonAppen to make a stainless steel and aluminum portable barbecue called the Pizzoni. Weighs about 7.5 Kg and can be assembled in just minutes! So next time you need to take a grill with you, maybe to a nice…
So Sony is working their way into the media center market, but in Sony fashion they are too good of a company to just have a plain old “media center” so they are labeling their new device as a “digital living system.” Good news for Sony is that this computer is, in fact, not a…
Since everything in this business seems to be about the biggest, smallest, quickest, slowest, it’s no wonder Viewsonic has now announced the “world’s fastest monitor.” If anyone cares, the new 19-inch, 2ms VX922 LCD monitor has a native resolution of 1280×1024, contrast ratio of 650:1 and brightness of 270 nits. Of course, only China will…
This sounds too good to be true. Imagine a time when you never have to be without an Internet connection. And really, unless you’re in the shower, I mean never. The WiFi.Bedouin is basically a WiFi node stuffed in a backpack. Though disconnected from the Internet, it forms what the creator, Julian Bleeker, calls a…
If you’re a neighbor to the north, you best run down to your local Rogers dealer so you can pre-order a pink RAZR. Only 5000 will be available for pre-order and last I checked, it’s hip to have a pink RAZR, so make haste. Why should you get one though? Easy. $25 from each phone…
We love VoIP. Stick it to the man and all that. But if you’ve ever used it, you know about the inability to connect to a 911 line in case of an emergency. Looks like we’ve finally found a solution that everyone can agree on. The SOYO Group Inc. has announced its VoIP Phone Adapter…
People may say that Walkie Talkie’s have lost their appeal since we were children, but people are managing to release cool gadgets like this to spark my appeal and completely forget about the slew of cell phones, pagers, push-to-talks, and string/can gadgets in my pocket. The range on this goes upwards of 1.5 miles outdoors…
This is the world’s first long range Bluetooth headset integrated into cattle. So basically farmer Joe doesn t have to carry his fancy phone out on the pasture while doing his farmer Joe work. When a call comes in he simply has to go to the nearest cow ass and proceed to yell into the…
First, Motorola came out with the pink RAZR. Now, Nokia has decided to best it with a line of fashion phones named aptly the L’Amour Collection. Obviously marketed towards women and teens, these phones run from the extremely slim and expensive 7380 ($600)—which first appeared yesterday—to the affordable, attractive 7360 ($300). Throw in the middle…