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Although the mobile phone might be the ultimate connectivity device across distances, there is still a void for extremely close proximity communication. Yeh, well you can always “talk” to the other person, but that would be too easy. Enter the Fuse wearable wrist display, a wristband with a programmable LED display and controller that “fuses”…
After writing about technology all day, the Gizmodo staff likes to sit down to a cool, tall glass of White Gold. How do we like to serve our milk? Well, we definitely don’t like to lift up the container and tip some into a glass. We like to use an elegant, if slightly silly, milk…
Mark Levinson (yep the same folks that provide the audio system in your Lexus) showed off the No51 Media Player at CEDIA. The company considers this product a milestone, as it is the first ever Mark Levinson-branded DVD/CD player. It doesn’t play DVD-Audio or SACDs, which means this is similar to the DVD players that…
Say what you will, but it kind of gives me a little bit of a tickle when I see an MSNBC writer send a shout out to another NBC personality. It’s kind of insidery, you know? It also reminds me of the way my grandpa used to shuffle into the living room to tell jokes…
More remotes for all you couch potatoes out there. Philips introduced it’s latest way to “give technology the finger” with the new beautiful color Pronto TSU7500 and the greyscale TSU3500 programmable remote controls at CEDIA. Both remotes have 3.8 inch TFT LCD displays and include more hard buttons than the units they replace. The new…
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FeliCa is Sony’s contactless IC card system. It is a card that essentially controls everything of your life. The FeliCa card provides access to many different services and contains information regarding pretty much everything about your life. The card is extremely secure and has high speed processing. The FeliCa card will be integrated into the…
Who woulda’ thunk it, but these images came straight from our friendly allies Poland on the country’s PDA Club site. Though there is basically no solid information on these new HP wireless smartphones, but it’s nice to dream—and look at Polish photos. Rumour has it that if we do see these devices, they will be…
While we’re on the subject of technology to keep us off our feet and on the couch—are we ever really off it? — Logitech introduced new remote controls at CEDIA, the Harmony 9800 Pro and 895. Logitech welcomes these remotes to the family with its first implementation of RF to IR relaying ($99 transceiver), which…
There has been lots of news, rumor and speculation since the ROKR and nano were released last week. Instead of posting dribs and drabs about how hard it is to access the ROKR sim card or the algorithm for determining the weight-offset of the nano when placed inside a pocket protector (took me all darn…
The nano has already been dissembled and now hacked. It sounds like the nano does not mod as easily as its predecessors. But instructions on how to changes the text, font and graphics looks easy enough. [Make] Samsung has raised the ire of everyone else in the NAND flash marketplace because they offered such a…
When Motorola says 100 songs, they mean it. It turns out that ROKR prevents you from adding more than 100 tunes, even if you are using less than the 512MB of space available (pity all the punk rockers who listen to 3 minute Ramones songs). [Dave’s iPaq] The iTunes interface is clunky. Nothing wrong with…
Next time you go out on a “dark and stormy night”, you might want to bring along a safety net. Spectrum Electronics’ “Thunderbolt Storm Detector” is a handheld, portable device that detects storm and lightning activity from over 75 miles away and then warns you about the storm’s distance, approach speed, intensity, and estimated arrival…
The folks over at camcorderinfo.com managed to get an exclusive peek at Canon’s new HDV XL-2 video camera. The formal announcement from Canon should be coming later this week at the Canon EXPO event happening in New York City. They are also reporting that this new HDV XL-2 will only record in 1080i and not…
Crashing Dell’s party in the computer/TV biz, Hewlett-Packard introduced a new line of LCD TVs, along with announcing a plan to bring out LCD-TV models with integrated Wi-Fi capabilities in 2006. So look for 26-inch, 32-inch and 37-inch LCD-TVs with ATSC tuners, digital CableCARD slots and detachable side-mounted speakers (pricing not available yet) to be…
So some smartass at Microsoft decided he’d tell the world that the Xbox 360 will be “unhackable”. This in turn just begs for your product to be hacked to shreds. Listen to what Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group told the BBC: One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for…
Stand aside, powerful musician unions: the robots are here for your jobs. P.A.M. (Partially Artificial Musicians), created by a team led by composer/violinist Kurt Coble, is an ensemble of machine instruments. Motors and solenoids hack away at traditional instruments like violins, with each gesture sequenced in C++. Traditional instruments are only the beginning—eventually Kurt wants…
Ever wanted a HDD recorder but wanted to pop in your own HDD? DGICOM thinks so and has released the first DIY home theater box sans hard drive. It comes with a DL DVD burner and tons of inputs and hookups. The device is MPEG-1/2, AVI(MPEG-4 ASP/Xvid), MP3, WAV, WMA, JPEG, BMP and PNG compatible…
Asian phone wizard Pantech and Curitel is throwing in its PT-K1500 as more competition to the ubiquitous RAZR. Pretty, 16.9mm slim and weighing only 80 grams, it’s got MP3 capabilities and sadly for the Asians, only a 1.2 megapixel camera (c’mon, you can do better than that). But the slideout keyboard is totally cool looking…