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The as-of-yet unreleased 6682 apparently ended up in the hands of the Phonescoop folks who like what they see. This smartphone runs Symbian and has quite a bit of range, even in harsh radio environments. Overall, it’s a cool, keyboardless contender to some of the better smartphones out there. Review: Nokia 6682 [PhoneScoop]
The first camera I ever owned, back when the Nicaraguan Contras were front-page news, was a Kodak Disc—the 3600, if I’m not mistaken. My parents thought I was intelligent and responsible enough to take care of a high-tech machine; little did I know that they d scooped up the unit at a church swap meet,…
Sirius unveiled its first wearable portable radio today, the S50. It schedule records up to 50 hours of programming, and supports MP3/WMA libraries through a PC dock. Full color display and voice-assisted channel navigation (wha?!?) are included in the 1.9-inch by 3.9-inch black on silver case. Available in October for $359.99. Update: Reader Marty Z…
Okay, maybe that’s a little harsh. But c’mon now, the most well-known MobiBLU on the block is the DAH-1500i, which everyone knows is the world’s smallest MP3 player. It has gotten rave reviews, people all over have been talking about it, it’s even getting up there in popularity with the Shuffle! And now the MobiBLU…
Despite all the wireless technology pervading our landscape, microwave signal pollution has become somewhat of a perceived threat (insert tinfoil helmet joke here). The “Electrosmog Detector” senses the invisible EMF signals in your vicinity so you can either frantically run in the opposite direction or get a beautiful gaussian tan by bathing in the microwaves.…
European cellphone users finally start to use 3G, Flash Lite will appear on Canadian phones, Gen-Y is lost without their gadgets, St. Louis students can’t escape the all-seeing eyes of school officials digicams, and the Chicago Sun-Times really, really likes USB flash drives In Europe, cellphone users are finally ponying up the dough for 3G…and…
The kids over at Intel have released new information regarding the latest architecture for their processors. Some of the highlighted features that will be making their way onto your PC are: dual-core processing, 64-bit, 65nm process, virtualization, platformization and improved performance per watt. Basically what all of this means is that Intel will be taking…
The Mac Mini gave up the ghost today but the rest of the crack Gizmodo Team will be serving you as I try to reassemble the wasted vestiges of my sad, pathetic life as an OS X lover.
The subway can be a sticky place in the summer, but the TranStrap might be the perfect way to combat other commuters for pole space. Simply attach the heavy duty nylon webbing, aircraft grade aluminum, and high-friction neoprene hook to the closest train pole and watch as other pedestrians give you dirty looks. Now you…
Mark Hadfield is obviously an environmental savvy hippy who is dead set on revolutionizing the way we transport goods. Mark is a student at Central Sain Martins and is working on the Fairpack project for his Master’s thesis. The Fairpack project is a non-profit organization that is attempting to supply retailers with affordable environmental friendly…
Some call it industrial mountaineering or technical rope access, but Virgin.net calls it by the more technical term: “Spiderman Climbing.” Granted, the PowerQuick does give you superhero-like abilities. It motors around 320 lbs. up the side of a building at speeds of one yard per second. It’s battery-powered, and one charge can take you to…
There is something about this new product that I can t seem to look away from. It is a bra/bikini top manufactured by Evian. Yes, that Evian, maker of all things watery. This support top contains a pocket to hold water, preferably Evian mineral water. The water cools the breasts to prevent the deadly disease…
JVC goes bargain hunting again with this compact camcorder, the GR-DF450. They seem to have packed a ton of features into this compact camcorder, which can be good and bad at the same time. The video quality is mediocre, bright-light and dull-light situations both bring out apparent recording flaws. And the still picture quality is…
I thought I was the cat s pajamas when I brought my electronic handheld baseball game to class (unfortunately, it was in eleventh grade and I got beat up, yet again). Maybe things would have been different if I had cooler electronics, like this Pentop computer. The Pentop is essentially a PDA without a screen.…
Take your legal and [illegally] downloaded trax on the road with this ultra-compact iPod wallet from iSoundz. The built-in speakers run on rechargeable Ni-MH batteries, and there’s enough juice to support over two hours of ear bleeding fun. To charge up, just unleash the USB cable and plug into the closest Mac or PC, or…
Many of you already know how we feel about the HTC Universal. Now the fine, fine folks at HTC have decided that instead of the obviously flat name of HTC Universal, its new “do everything” tri-band smartphone will henceforth been known as the IMate JASJAR. Not even George Lucas could think up such a silly…
That’s right, another Asia-only phone has been announced simply to piss us all off. It makes our petty attempts at mobile TV look like tea time at the Girl’s Place. Samsung’s SCH-B250 actually shows HD TV (which many of us can’t even get in our homes yet), coupled with a 2 megapixel camera, 128 Mb…
It’s been talked about, and reviewed as a good-looking, powerful smartphone running on the Symbian Series 60 OS, but Nokia has finally announced availability for the 1.3 megapixel camera phone—selling with Cingular service. Using an MMC Mobile memory card, (a 64 MB card comes bundled with phone and it has 10MB of built-in memory), you’ll…
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The Sanyo Xacti is cool because it has a “touch sensitive” shutter button. I know, smartass, all buttons are touch sensitive. But this one requires no pressing. You just tap it and it takes the picture, reducing the picture taking speed considerably and generally making life easier for you and me. Specs? Yeah, we got…