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For $129, Dell Latitude D610 and Precision M20 notebooks can now be outfitted with shock resistant hard drives. A dampening material inside the hard drive enclosure provides added protection of up to 145 percent (how they came up with that figure is unclear, but the butterfingers here at Gizmodo are sold). This is in addition…
Ok, so we were a little off. Stuff is always more expensive in Switzerland anyways—5 dollars! Why I oughta!—but we weren’t far off. There will be two tiers of XBox 360 pricing: The $299 version will come with the console, cables and 1 wired controller, but the $399 version will come with the 20GB hard-drive,…
LG Korea is crafting a new tri-band GSM phone that is 15mm (.59″) thin. Not quite as slim as Siemens’ CC75 .50″ candy bar. But in exchange you get a 262k TFT screen and a multi-color backlight. To say nothing of the GSM, GPRS, WAP, VGA camera and loads of other acronyms that come standard…
Mike over at GizMag.com pointed out this interesting device. It’s a water purifier that costs about $2 and lasts about one year. There are no replaceable or electric parts and it uses simple suction to filter out most major pathogens. Over 6,000 people, mostly children, die of water-borne diseases each day. The LifeStraw, quite clearly,…
Denon DJ has released some fancy and hi-tech DJ’ing equipment. The DN-S3500 is a tabletop CD/MP3 player packed with enough features to make DJ Gunnar at the Garage Tekno New York Klub in Berlin take of his headphones. Here are just a few of the advanced features: a high torque direct drive motor, four built-in…
We beat this riot thing into the ground yesterday, but that doesn’t mean even more crafty folks can’t beat it even further today! We present the ultimate in post-riot apparel, the “I Went to Henrico County for a $50 iBook and But All I Got Was Kicked in the Balls” t-shirt. Get yours today by…
Independence Technology has released the iBOT 4000 Mobility System. This is the techiest wheelchair around. The sheer density of computers, software, sensors and gyroscopes could probably send a man to the moon and make me some toast at the same time. The electronics ensure stability at all times and this allow for the wheel chair…
I got a bit angry at Safari a few days ago, I’ll admit that, but it was warranted. I’ve installed SafariStand, which is kind of a “crash protection” thing for Safari, and I’m back to using her on a daily basis. So far so good. However, it’s good to see that some folks are checking…
A few big name hotel companies such as Hilton, Accor and Omni are funding research into hotel alarm clocks. Apparently the current alarms being used in hotels are too complicated to use so a new stupider easier alarm clock is in the works. One prototype alarm will have two displays—one for current time and another…
Logitech is pumping out a new keyboard/mouse combo every minute, it seems. By far the most mind boggling feature about this peripheral combo is the fact it has a remote—it’s like a peripheral for peripherals. It’s so M.C. Escher. This combo, named the S 510 Media Remote, has some nice advanced media features: image rotation,…
FM transmitters, step aside. Bluetooth audio transmitters are the wave of the future. Not too many of them out there, but Scosche has just released a Bluetooth wireless interface for iPod and other MP3 players that will enable streaming audio from your portable player to your car or home receiver. It connects directly to the…
More news on the 2005 iBook Riot, held today at the Richmond International Raceway. A new video shows trampling inside the building. Riot cops arrived on the scene late in the morning to quell the crowd. (What does an iBook riot cop carry, a menacing Mighty Mouse?) The consensus from participants: It just wasn’t worth…
Sony has just announced two new WEGA televisions, a 50- and 60-inch model for $4,000 and $5,000, respectively. These micro-display monsters—DLPsLCoS, really, but Sony has their own language that they use—offer real 1080p resolution as well as all of Sony’s patented interpolation and sharpening firmware to make things all crystal clear and pretty. These models…
This new LaCie external hard drive has three inputs—FireWire 800, FireWire, and USB 2.0—and supports up to 300GB of storage space for about $1 per GB. 800Mbps burst speeds and a fanless design make these stand out in the long line-up of external drives. Plus they’re silver, which is nice. Product Page [LaCie]
Besides being a great and invigorating morning tonic, your urine can now be used to power electronic devices. Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering, in an effort to make everything as clean as possible, is working on a urine-powered biobattery: When a drop of urine is added to the copper chloride paper, a chemical reaction takes place…
Okay, this looks like an accident waiting to happen. The Arkon VG242 windshield mount attaches to your windshield via a strong suction cup, and the neck is flexible to about 360 degrees. Then you clasp your PSP on, and your passengers can attempt to beat your high score in Wipeout Pure. PSP411 insists the mount…
What do you get when you mix record heat, $50 4-year-old iBooks, and a burgeoning back-to-school season? Riot! Folks in Richmond, Virginia piled up at the doors of the Richmond International Raceway to get their hands on one of about 1,000 laptops. The ensuing chaos caused one intrepid shopper to lose her footwear: “This is…
I think the coolest thing about this page is that in German an Oilcomputer is an lrechner, which sounds very Checkpoint Charlie spy mission. “Sir! The lrechner is ready! We must attack!” The creator of the lrechner, Markus Leonhardt, basically dunked his entire PC into a fish tank of grease. It keeps the entire thing…
The Sky IM8500, which is probably going to be Korean-only, is a crazy looking 2-megapixel cameraphone with a very unique and never-before-seen design feature: a center scroll wheel. I wonder where they got that idea from? Perhaps it was from the mythical one-eyed Cyclops or from Earth’s orbit around the sun. Interesting. Otherwise, not much…
Oh, those jokesters at Sync! Always Joke Joke Joking. What did they come up with this time? Some gadgets for football players, including the air cooled jock strap, shown above. Plus they even have the football phone of the 21st Century – the Pigskin Slider. Silly Sync! Gridiron Gadgets [Sync]