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This isn’t massive news, because any CPU can, in effect, run any operating system if you strip it down enough, etc. However, Sony says that the Cell “new multi-core 3.2GHz Cell processor developed jointly by IBM, Sony Group and Toshiba will support a variety of operating systems, such as Linux or Mac OS X Tiger.”…
So now Japan basically has everything cool we have and more. Japan, it seems, is Sony territory, and Steve Jobs is pretty excited about selling a few iPods here and there and maybe selling a track or two, depending on how the Japanese citizenry feels about things on any particular day. He doesn’t want to…
NEC originally came out with a credit-card sized phone a few years ago and that was cool. This one, however, is much cooler. The NEC N930 has Bluetooth, GPRS, a color touchscreen, and weighs less than a fat hummingbird. There’s even a VGA camera. Can’t quite tell if you can talk directly into it or…
A buddy of mine just mentioned a problem he was having in his apartment. Every night, at about 2 or 3am, some putz wakes up and plays the same song over and over again on the piano or, it seems, to a recording of a piano. If you live in Columbus, Ohio and you are…
Hi, the name’s Nicole Lee, and I have been a secret guest writer on Gizmodo for a little while now. I’ve outed myself today to tell you of my hands-on experience with the Mighty Mouse at the Apple Store in San Francisco. Because I’m nothing if not cheap, I just tried it out without buying,…
In the pursuit of wireless shiny things, you’re not likely to find anything much shinier (or more wireless, for that matter) than the Nokia 8800. Sadly, it doesn’t sound like it’s got much going for it apart from that, according to a review from infoSync World: a fairly boring set of features, including a mediocre…
Our blood brother over at Kotaku made a few pithy, pithy comments on the Gizmondo, which appears to be faltering. Interestingly, when I started making my calls I began getting odd reactions to my questions. It sounds like the U.S. pr firm for the Gizmondo release, is no longer handling press for the device. And…
I’ve been waiting for this moment. This is kind of like prom night, only I’m involved this time. See, I’m in love with something—the Zen Vision. It has everything I could ever want and more and it’s now available. We’re going to get married. You can’t stop us, Dad. Here are a few stories about…
We mentioned the new Casio Exilim EX-Z500 earlier, and now we’ve just heard Casio dropped three more new Exilim cameras today: The Exilim Zoom EX-Z120, Exilim Zoom EX-Z110, and the Exilim Zoom EX-Z10. All three have Casio’s “Anti-Shake” technology that reduces blurry shots when your hand is shaking, probably from the nine shots of tequila…
No sooner than it came to save the day did ArsTechnica decide to rip the poor bugger apart. As you may have suspected, the Mighty Mouse does not contain any biological components. Instead, there is a circuit board, some switches, and the little “squirrel ball” which we should all call the “nipple” from now on.…
Someone, for the love of God, point me to a spam filter or script or WHATEVER that can filter out this specific image. If I have to look at it again, I’m going to scream. I think it needs to be some sort of OCR system because I suspect the image changes slightly with every…
Ok. First mushrooms that sing like the murmuring waters, now a mecha with a huge dick. It seems like every couple of months you get a rash of these strange images from Japan and you kind of wonder if most of the time the citizens of Japan are hanging out doing normal stuff and then…
I don’t know why I’m so fascinated by MacIntel haX0rz, but I am. It’s just so nice to know that one day soon I’ll be able to wipe my drive clean of all my tainted XP installations and run sweet, beautiful Aqua all day long. It’s like a computer user’s paradise where Einstein and Gandhi…
This is pretty old, but they have a new catalog available and I think everyone out there is open to vaporizing a few herbs. I’m thinking a little oregano, maybe some thinly sliced garlic, a bit of basil. It’s like a pizza party in your nasal passages. The Vapir website is a little harsh on…
You saw what happened to Wallace Packard down the street. He’s paralyzed! From head to neck! Don’t you correct me. He’s hurt from that crazy skating you’re doing. And this is even worse. Two wheels? Well, Mister, you can’t even pick up your clothes off the floor and you’re going to ride on two wheels?…
Sony Ericsson is planning on selling phones that will change their behavior depending on time and location. At the basic level, this would mean the phone wallpaper changing depending on the time of year; autumnal leaves in fall, a Christmas tree in December, etc. Ring tones could also change depending on where you are… the…
Not sure on how new this thing is, but it’s the first time I’ve ever seen it. If you think the Roomba is fancy, you ain’t seen the Orazio Home Cleaner yet. Not only does it vacuum, it also wipes the floor with either a dry or wet cloth, thus polishing the floor so clean…
Sony has taken some stabs at giving e-books more popularity with the Librie e-book reader that was only released in Japan. The Librie uses some uber technologies to make reading the e-book as natural as possible. The main issue plaguing the e-book world is the issues of piracy. Sony has been trying to fight piracy…
It was barely two months ago when Casio released the Exilim EX-S500, and they’re already announcing the EX-Z500… in Japan anyway. We’re not too sure why, since they don’t seem too different from each other. The 5 megapixel EX-Z500 has a 2.7 inch display, 3x optical zoom, 8MB built-in memory, an SD card slot, and…
Firefly is a disposable camera that is shaped to fit your standard M203 grenade launchers (Now available at CostCo!). Load this thing into a grenade launcher and shoot it wherever surveillance needs to be done. During flight the Firefly captures recon pictures and sends them back to a PDA before hitting the ground and exploding.…