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Storage Pro Imation has come up with a strange but interesting union of a disk drive in tape form. Called Ulysses, the product is said to give users 10x faster disk to disk to tape back. It is a Serial AT (SATA) 2.5-inch hard disk drive in a standard tape cartridge. Imation integrates tape and…
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it’s another crappy phone. Or maybe a really cool looking USB key, like an iKey, with bouncy icons. OR MAYBE IT’S A VIDEO iPOD. Or maybe it’s just like a really cool upgrade for the Mac Mini. Maybe it’ll be blue or like pastel pink. You know, for the ladies.…
Let your co-workers have that boring ol’ office calculator; you can show off a much cooler space-age version. The cleverly-named Roswell Calculator by Lexon Design has a super-sleek aluminium body with round keypads. It features an amazing transparent 2-line LCD display, as well as an Euro converter for those who live in or frequent Europe.…
Sometimes someone comes along with an idea that’s awesome. TOTALLY AWESOME. This is one of those ideas. The iDuo is a simple iPod dock that fits the regular iPod and iPod mini as far as I can see. It’ll perform your basic dock functions, has S-video out, audio out, and what not, but wait there’s…
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Fujitsu debuted bendable color e-paper xtreme ultra at CEATEC. The screen/paper/whatever won’t break or anything when bent, thus making it the ideal replacement for paper. Lots of visions are in the works for this new e-paper such as advertising in transit, books, manuals, and other various paper replacements. One cool feature is the ability to…
From the makers of the iGuy comes its feline cousin, the iKitty. Yes, those crazy Speck guys are at it again with this cat-inspired iPod case. It’s not as posable as the iGuy, except for the tail, and is mostly just for show. You can also access the dock connector and headphone-jack with it. And…
Today’s DAP Headlines: The cat is on the prowl in the form of iKitty, a “case” from SpeckProducts. Cowon’s long-awaited 60 GB iAudio X5 has finally reared its head, on Ebay of all places. The first 4GB competitor to the iPod nano is here (from Sandisk), and hey, while you’re at Walmart buying tampons and…
You know your sibling or neighbor is going to piss you off one night while you’re trying to get some sleep. No reason to let them off easy now that the Sonic Alarm grenade is out. Complete with 3 separate noise levels, all you do is grab the grenade, pull the pin, and throw. 20…
Well, Dell, who woulda’ thunk we’d get an open-source computer from you so soon? Sounds crazy, but it’s true. Mundane, PCs-of-the-people Dell have introduced its Dimension E510n PC that comes with a blank hard drive and copy of FreeDOS OS, which you’ll have to install yourself. Gor $849, you get a Pentium 4 processor, 512MB…
At first, I wasn’t quite sure why you’d bother with the smallest plasma display, but soon realized that plasma has always been shown in large formats, leaving the small stuff to LCD displays. So, Panasonic has decided to show a new 1080p, 50-inch prototype that has more than 2 million pixels, quick response to moving…
Before you wonder what the heck we’re doing posting about business cards, let me tell you that the rCard is no ordinary business card. The rCard is a card that plays video and comes with a 1.875″ x 1.875″ full color flat screen, speakers, a navigational button, 1 gig of memory, and a USB port.…
Virtually Yours By Carlo Longino ESPN is synonymous with sports in America. And while the cable net has made some slight forays into the wireless space with a mobile version of its website and some games and applications, its Mobile ESPN service is looking to translate the SportsCenter experience onto a phone. Mobile ESPN is…
Powerful and pretty, the AJP D900T-X will blow most laptops away with it’s masssively powerful specs. It’s got a NVidea Go 7800 GTX GPU, 3.8 GHz Intel P4 and support for 2.8GB of RAM. And don’t forget the 100GB 7200 RPM hard drive. Throw in a massive 17-inch screen and I’m impressed. Ok, but do…
As you may have noticed, Gizmodo is now available in eight languages. Thanks to our excellent partners, VNU Media, an international media powerhouse, for helping us through this launch. While we are unsure how most of our high-brow humor will translate into the mother tongues—how does “Sucks Big Monkeys” sound in Italian?—we are definitely happy…
Seems South Korea is getting lazy and wants to deploy robots to help teach children. The Korean Advanced Intelligent Robot Association (KAIRA) will have 64 educational robots deployed by the end of 2005. That’s really soon and a bit creepy. They’ll be helping children learn English and will correct mistakes and can read stories to…
Logitech doesn’t own the market on wireless headphones for your iPod. Now there’s the icombi AH10 wireless stereo headphones by AirLogic Co., Ltd. And in case you’d actually like to use them with something other than an iPod, they also work with computers, mobile phones and gasp other MP3 players as well as your home…
You’ve been reading about it for years, but accident-avoiding cars are finally hitting the road. USA Today highlights some specific models, such as the 2006 Acura RL, which automatically stomps the brakes if it senses an impending collision. In the near future, look out (and if the systems go haywire, Look Out!) for cars equipped…
Well, they are Dutch. So it makes sense that Philips would come up with some funky designs for our digital future. With softer names like Chameleon and Momento we’ve come to the calmer section of the gadget-sphere. Here’s a lamp shade that changes color. Look at those movie clips playing inside a glowing orb. And…
The Nokia 888 Concept Phone from wunderkind non-functioning product designer Tamer Nakisci of Yanko Design takes you to the not-too distant future, where liquid batteries and flexible touch screens and back-talking killer computers are everyday realities. It bends, it curls, it clips, it’s a fashion accessory and a..phone. Will the technology ever exist to make…