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I managed to play around with the FinePix Z1 when it was first released several months ago, and was quite impressed with the sleek metal feel of the camera, as well as the super-fast power-up and almost no shutter lag. So I’m glad to see that Fujifilm released its successor today, the Finepix Z2, which…
Friday’s Chanel show in Paris featured a giant iMac monitor and keyboard, but it was branded with the fashion house’s trademark interlocked Cs. Towering over the runway, the monitor displayed the fabulous proceedings below in sports arena-worthy glory. What Karl Lagerfeld was trying to communicate with this dramatique step into the computer age is a…
Our technologically ignorant half-brothers at Oddjack have dug up a bit of Apple Press Conference betting. Bodog has odds on what will be unveiled at Apple s press conference on October 12th, which has tech geeks all frothy with anticipation. So far, the heavy favorites are a video iPod at 3/2, iPod upgrades at 2/1,…
Miami gets everything. Great cuban sandwiches, South Beach, Diddy giving away expensive watches, and now they they’ll be the recipients of the world’s largest high definition LED display for Dolphins Stadium. Measuring about 15.2 metres by 41.8 metres, it’ll make the screen that holds the “largest” record at Turner Field (in Atlanta) look downright, well,…
Looks like Warner Brothers isn’t ready to take any sides in the HD DVD/Blu-Ray deep divide. In fact, the company has decided to back both of the next-gen DVD formats and wait to see who comes up aces. Though Microsoft and Intel were hoping to sway the entertainment companies to HD DVD with their recent…
There’s been a nasty rumour flying around that Microsoft has been working on a DVD that would only play once. Now, the source of that once claimed hoax has stepped forth. Alistair Baker of Microsoft in the UK claims Microsoft’s DRM software now gives the owner of content “total control over how it is viewed.”…
Well, I suppose bitching is the sincerest form of flattery. An anonymous grumpster has created the Gadget Blog Corrections Blog, which is a blog about gadget blogs who blog poorly. For example, we mentioned the Flashpoint Sharedrive approximately 5,000 times this and last year, each time become progressively more enthused until we simply wet ourselves…
Samsung announced the SPH-V8400 today that’s only 15.9mm thin. The slim and light new slider phone has an MP3 player, a 1.3 megapixel camera, an electronic dictionary, photo-editing functions, a “USB disk” (eh?), file viewer, and voice-dialing. No further details on it, though it’ll be on display at the Korea Electronics Show starting tomorrow. And…
Custom Installation has just jumped the shark (or as we like to say now in honor of TomKat, jumped the couch) with Polk Audio’s new LCi-UP Ultra High-Performance In-Wall/In-Ceiling Louspeakers (yes, that’s the complete official name for them). Made for IP networked systems, Polk promises the speakers will still sound groovy with analog systems as…
In the market for a TV set shaped like a baseball or a container of french fries? Designer TV manufacturer Hannspree sets up a boutique in San Francisco’s Union Square. [San Francisco Chronicle]. Japanese feds consider charging a royalty, destined to be called the iPod tax, on MP3 players. The tax would amount to 2%-5%…
London saw a 15 percent rise in robberies between April and June, and a fivefold increase in the number of muggings and snatch thefts. The cause? Mobile phones and digital audio players. Chief Superintendent Paul Forrester of Merseyside police said the victims were mostly students and teenagers. Some children carry phones and iPods [worth] over…
I’d hardly call this thing a G5 when it doesn’t even have the sexy stylings of an Apple G5 of some sort, but that’s ok. The G5 is a cute massager that offers a deep, relaxing drubbing via interchangable heads. The price ranges from $350 for a model to keep at home when your sig.…
Not sure how many people actually own or use the the ZVUE portable media player, but if you’re part of that proud minority you’ll probably be psyched about the new, improved player Handheld Entertainment has announced. Though there’s no name for it yet, it’ll come with on-board flash, lithium-ion battery, slightly thinner profile and lighter…
Creative, I like your products. I dig your Micros and the Micro Photo is pretty cool. But could you possibly have come up with a better name then the Zen Sleek? I mean really Dr. Obvious. Sleek? You want us to go into a store and say, may I please look at that Sleek over…
Every day something new happens with Blu Ray. Today though, shipping dates were announced from Panasonic that they will be shipping Blu-enabled products in Spring of 2006. Not bad. Dell also has plans for Blu Ray early next year so we can all count on Panasonic getting cozy with Dell probably. The plan entails support…
Finally, it turns out that the much-rumored Sony Ericsson Hermione phone is actually the P990. The just-released phone seriously packs it on with both UMTS and WiFi, and comes with a new UIQ3 open software platform that’s based on the Symbian OS. And if that doesn’t have you drooling, it also has a 2.8-inch QVGA…
It’s not enough that you can play games on your iPod and cellphone, now you can play games on your digital camera too. Japanese manufacturer Kenko recently released the Z510, a pretty decent camera with 5 megapixels, 2.8x optical zoom, and 7x digital zoom. It comes with four different games built-in, including Tetris. It’s unlikely…
I present to you the newest line of headphones from ezGear: “ultraEars”. In ways these new SX70 headphones solve the problem of hurting your ears (extremely common with the white iPod headphones) by providing you with 3 sets of in-ear buds you can change in and out to get the right fit. On the other…
Our Spanish Gizmodo cousin woke us up this morning with a bit of news about the iPod Video which was apparently discussed on BBC 6 in some bit of interstitial programming. I’m calling bullshit on this, but take it how you will. During a broadcast earlier in the day, BBC 6 Music news reported Apple…
Palm is apparently shipping out mobile phones with Linux on them sometime this year. Rumor has it that they’ll be using Wind River Linux to power the devices—that’s the same company that makes the OS for the Mars Rovers. Could this mean we’ll see a Linux-based Treo on planet Earth in the near-future? Probably not,…