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The TransPod, designed specifically for the deliciously screen-less iPod Shuffle, is another-in-car-dongle (AICD) that bucks the trend—look at it… it’s black! That’s right. This FM transmitter with front frequency read-out—no MP3 information for you!—is blacker than black. You ask yourself “How much more black could this be? and the answer is: None, none… more black.…
Kind of hard to figure out where these go. They’re kind of like little port condoms for your laptop so you don’t get bag munge into your USB plugs. Designed to fit Powerbooks, these non-sticky plastic thingies cost up to $20 and match your port line up perfectly. An interesting, if obsessively clean, idea. Radtech…
T3 is reporting that the .mobi domain will be available next year as a dedicated domain for mobile sites. While this is all well and good, couldn’t they have made it .mo? .mb? Most phone browsers will still be using keypads to type in their domains. Now, instead of hitting the keypad 7 times—com— they…
A note from kind reader Michael, which states, in part: Attached I’ve included some pictures of the Metreon in San Francisco, taken not more than a week ago. Mind you that the Metreon is owned and operated by Sony, and has one of the largest Sony home electronics showrooms on the west coast as well…
Smaller is better? It’s debatable, but not when discussing miniscule MP3 players. MobiBLU has released the official smallest MP3 player in the WHOLE WORLD, the DAH-1500. This gentle elfin player, which weighs less than one ounce is just a cubic inch in size, uses a dongle to handle including charging and USB data transfer. Keep…
The only thing that makes my lonesome Friday night better is watching Army of Darkness (yet again) on a brand new vintage NES DVD Player! Brandon over at milkmycow managed to cram a DVD player inside of a NES console. The NES power button is still fully functional and the DVD tray manages to open…
It’s like a Bill Nye campfire! Make Magazine rips apart a can of Wolfgang Puck auto-heating coffee to see what makes it magically heat up. In short, Make has discovered that a combination of calcium oxide powder and water heats a can of over-priced espresso to 145 degrees in six minutes. Once activated a small…
No word on local availablity, but the Pontus HNP-3510 is a GPS unit that doubles as an MP3 player/PMP with touch-sensitive screen and MP3 and MPEG playback at 30 fps. An SD card allows for memory expansion. Nice styling, sexy size, and it works both in-car as well as on the go. I wish I…
T-Mobile is finally carrying the Razr for $199 after instant rebate. Better late than never, I suppose. [Thanks, Jeff] Product Page [T-Mobile]
In between posts today I’ve been running upstairs to sand down these plaster patches I had to put up after the electrician ran new wire through our house. It’s been quite a chore… posting something, hauling ass upstairs, slapping down a patch, sanding, slapping down some plaster, sanding… and I’ve noticed more and more plaster…
Because we can now buy 160GB of hard drive space for $44 we’re all putting hard drive manus out of business. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I have no sympathy for hard drive manufacturers’ low profits. Sure, the price war has made storage more affordable than ever, but hardware guru Om of GigaOm is…
Sony long avoided the GPS market, leaving munchkins like TomTom and Garmin to have all the fun and get all the chicks. Well TomTom beware: the Nav-U—maybe there’s an aviation version called the Up-U (HAH! Willie!)—is Sony’s first car GPS unit. Highlights include a nice UI, 2GB HD, detailed maps, and sexy styling. No word…
Another day, another PSP hack. The madmen at PSPUpdates.com posted PVNC v1.1, a VNC client for the PSP that allows you to connect to and control other computers running a VNC server. The program recreates the desktop of a remote computer on your PSP screen, a boon for the busy sysadmin who doesn’t want to…
Radio-calibrated movements aren’t all that new. Seiko has used them for years. However, this watch is much slimmer, about 3.5 mm, and can catch time calibration data from three different sites around the globe. As far as I know, the radio calibrated watches available here only work here or Japan, but I’ll confirm that in…
DefenseTech editor Noah Shachtman and frequent Gizmodo contributor is off to Iraq for some fun in the sun! He’ll be embedded with the Army and is writing regular dispatches from the City that Never Sleeps Because It’s Afraid of Mortars, Baghdad. Our thoughts and best wishes go out to him on his trip. Here’s bit…
This is all he-said, she-said still, but the Zen Vision has appeared AGAIN on Creative’s website. They’re being so coy with this. Why doesn’t Creative just come out and say it: that they don’t love you any more and they want to hurt you. Why else would they torture us so with such a charming…
Gizmodo fan Ben sent us this excellent rendition of the Gizmodo logo, sans Giant Soft-Focus Robot. He also makes big Lego video game characters like the Donkey Kong, the ducks from Duck Hunt, and Harvey Keitel. Thanks, Ben. Ben Mildenhall Home Page
This is a dedicated personal security device based around a 900/1800/1900 MHz GSM phone and GPS receiver. With the press of a button, your loved ones can locate you at the bottom of a well and send you messages of encouragement—”Them rats won’t bite you!” Nice mix of form and function. The case is all…
A little old and a little off-topic, perhaps, but almost every bit of electronics hardware we use every day comes into our country via container ship. This beauty is the Orient Overseas Container Line Shenzhen, out of Hong Kong. It is big. Thanks to large-scale automation, Shenzhen has a crew complement of only 19, and…
It’s big and it’s brawny and it wants to live in your car. No, it’s not your mother—it’s the INFILLL T3, a double-tall car in-dash car PC with a 1.6GHz CPU, a 40GB hard drive, GPS, and a lot more (although maybe not Wi-Fi, which seems miraculously shortsighted). Price and availability is still up in…