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Germany has brought us numerous things both good and bad. It’s almost like a trade-off. We get to drive our Mercedes-Benz around as long as we’re cool with scat-porn and horrible metal bands. Well here’s another tradeoff from Deutschland: Dead cats for cheaper fuel! That’s right. Christian Koch, 55, from the eastern county of Saxon…
Today’s DAP headlines: We scoop up some details on PQI’s mPack 500, take a look at the latest iOps DAP and witness the resurfacing of Mpio’s HD400 and 500. Finally, there’s a peculiar-looking MP3/CD player that goes by the name of Beond M800. PQI set foot in the PMP market a couple of months ago…
Truly rendering the PC unnecessary in digital photography is the new Lexmark P450, the world’s first inkjet photo printer with a built-in CD burner. But that’s not all; you can also print from a variety of memory cards, from a USB flash drive, also via a Bluetooth adapter, so that you can finally print out…
There’s an old urban legend that basically says there’s about $500 worth of metal in a car and the rest is pure profit. Not sure that’s true, but you can be damn sure that Intel chips cost $40 to make. Obviously, there are some exceptions, but I can’t imagine that at the rate at which…
At CEDIA, iPod control was everywhere, Crestron, Niles, Monitor Audio, Oxmoor, Denon, Harman-Kardon, Pioneer, B&K, Russound and Onkyo/Integra all had integration. I find a flaw in the pursuit of home iPodding on massively expensive systems, since those that have the money really ought to have media servers that can deliver music to their iPods instead…
I have an old Compaq iPaq Jukebox from, say, 2000, what still runs like a champ. It’s basically the same as this Musica dealie, which is to say it has a CD/DVD ripper, can stream audio—the Jukebox’s audio streaming was pretty primitive,though—and it stores music onto a hard disk. The Musica, unlike the beastly Jukebox,…
I’ve never really fallen for the “fancily colored” gear like U2 black iPods and orange RAZRs—they don’t exist, BTW. Got your mouth watering for a minute there, design boys?—but we might as well show some love to this Mr. Cartoon black Sidekick. While not unhackable, you can be stylishly chic with your all-black Mr. Cartoon-branded…
Here’s a nifty trinket from Panasonic: An SD card copier. To make it extra nice, there is a wee switch that lets you copy either the entire contents of the card, or just the photos. This “pocket copier” is coming out in October in Japan. Any readers out there want to translate the rest for…
Physical therapists: robots might take away your jobs. [Chicago Sun-Times] Palo Alto-based Airgo Networks has two Wi-Fi chips in the works that will make your wireless homework a lot faster. [San Jose Mercury News] Parents rejoice: it’s easier than ever to stalk your children. [Journal Sentinel] Windows Vista is still a year away from its…
Joel Johnson — First, I apologize for my lack of updates. I’ve been holding off because I’ve been too busy to blog and because I wanted to have something cool to show you guys before I took the time to write. Fortunately, I think this is pretty cool. Some volunteers came down with a low-power…
I’m going to be flat out frank. This is stupid, period. It is a heavy coat with a VGA digital camera built in. I may be going out on a limb here, but if anyone is actually considering owning a product like this, I would assume they already have a camera phone that could handle…
Worried about going into cardiac arrest while using your cell phone? Yeah, me too. Luckily, Active Corporation has introduced a new product bundle for your Treo 650 called ActiveECG, which turns your pda into a “diagnostic quality, portable cardiac monitor.” The next time I run a marathon or eat a really big steak, I’m sure…
Touchscreens just got a boost with Immersion’s latest “Tactile Touchscreen” technology, the TouchSense. Now, instead of merely using the touch screen as a keyboard and mouse replacement, you can literally “feel” the interface as you interact. With embedded haptic actuators into the screen, buttons, scroll bars, and other interface regulars can be “felt” as they…
Lifting hazardous waste at the office is now simple with the Rechargeable R/C Tiny Engineering Car. Simply charge up this small toy and maneuver it toward the material in question. Whether it’s the overflowing ashtray of your office mate, rotting old sandwiches on your desk, or even the keg of toxic waste that this toy…
It’s not like us to toot our own horns here at Gizmodo—we hire elves to do that for us—but we get a lot of email from readers in search of a basic MP3-player buyer’s guide. Well, I wrote a little something up for Runner’s World and it talks about all the different types and even…
Canon’s new HD camera, the XLh1, looks like something that you can use to shoot your remake of “The 1,000 Blows” featuring drag queens and hand puppets. The folks at CamcorderInfo are live-blogging CanonExpo as we speak and they’re probably pumping their hands in the air, so we’ll keep our eyes peeled for more info…
Rejoice PSP owners. A 2GB Sony Memory Stick will finally be available end of this month for $199—or less! The product name is the MSX-M2GS, and can read speeds of up to 80Mbps on high speed enabled devices. You had me at “hello.” Preorder yours at Sony Style.
One thing I know about Danish-owned Bang&Olufsen: Everything they make looks really, really good (even monkey enjoy the delicious phones they make). So hearing that Samsung has partnered with the high-end consumer gadgets company to produce a phone, made me squeal with delight. Almost. And that’s mainly cause I haven’t seen it yet. So I…
Can’t go without Howard Stern in the morning? Help is on its way. Sprint inked a deal with Sirius, allowing 21 channels of the company’s music to be downloaded from any of its multimedia handsets—all for only $6.95 a month. Good going Sprint. As if the satellite radio presence orbiting CEDIA this week wasn’t indication…
LCD TVs are usually found only in smaller sizes. Usually, when you think big and flat, you think plasma. It’s not that there’s much sense to this, it’s just the way the CE industry has been marketing things—and it’s finally changing. Although Sharp showed us its 65-inch AQUOS HDTV LCD TV last January at CES,…