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It won’t be out until August, but SDI Technologies are already pushign their iH5 Alarm Clock, most notable for its built-in iPod docking station. They also claim that the iH5’s ‘Reason8’ (get it?) speaker chamber (get it now?) will help provide a decent enough sound that you’ll even use the iH5 when you aren’t trying…
Wow, Sony can’t catch a break. First the Queen of England buys an iPod mini. Then, at a luncheon with new Sony CEO Howard Stringer—a known Englishman Welshman (Welsh, English, whatev! Don’t make us bomb you.)—the Queen chided him for making products that are difficult to use. “I have a lot of trouble with your…
While it might be some’s natural inclination to toss this off as a goofy product, I think there’s something to a waterproof bag that protects your cellphone from moisture. The ‘Aqua Talk Flex Plastype’ soft case is a nylon and polyethylene bag from a manufacturer who normally makes cover slips for storing futons (possibly a…
Welcome to cuckoo world! Sony, in all their majestic wisdom, has decided to hunt down and kill PSP importers in the UK. Let’s read this, shall we? “The Japanese electronics giant Sony is demanding that companies importing its hotly anticipated PlayStation Portable to Britain reveal their customers’ identities so the equipment can be tracked down.”…
I use my Shuffle regularly, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t cheat on it with other flash players. The iRiver T20 is kind of like that cool young thing at the office, all flash and excitement. You just want to pop out its sensuous USB port again and again while the poor, morose Shuffle sits…
I had not realized that Victorinox had upgraded their Swissbit USB key/Swiss Army knife combo, but Trusted Reviews got their hands on one and proclaim it a winner. It’s got a new look, obviously (the new model is called the ‘retroALOX’ but I don’t know my knife history well enough to tell you if that…
Although we’ll still err on the side of caution and recommending buying your speakers and amplifier separate from your DVD unit, Samsung’s new “home theater in a box” setups do have a wealth of extra functionality, including HDMI connections, video upscaling, and USB Host functions that allow you to plug cameras and portable devices directly…
Having shown us all that the way to win the world’s heart is through syrupy, nebulous lyrics and lilting adult-contemporary strings, what more could Coldplay do to cements its image as the Least Offensive Band on Earth? How about a co-branding agreements with Solio, the makers of a solar charger? Ignoring the irony of a…
GadgetMadness reviews the Octave 5-in-1 Multipod Camera, a little USB stick with a built-in VGA camera. It’s definitely hit or miss, with iffy picture quality and a horrendus start-up lag (over 15 seconds, they say), but the video quality works well enough. GadgetMadness had the right idea: the Multipod is durable enough to strap onto…
Archos, maker of portable audio and video devices, and EchoStar, maker of invisible radiation that is decoded into alternating bands of colored phosphor or vibrations on a paper cone, have announced a limited partnership. Essentially, Archos will make portable/home AV devices that carry EchoStar content. What does this mean? First, it means that Archos and…
Nokia’s first Nseries phone, the N90, is set to be released in the US as an exclusive to RitzCamera, of all places. Expect it to be expensive—Nokia thinks very highly of their phones in the first place, and the N90 is a ‘luxury’ model, with a Carl Zeiss lens and a metal body. Since you…
Sportsmen love their music. They like to listen to it, to run to it, and the cycle to it. Qoolqee knows this and has created the X, designed for Sportsmen. It is waterproof, shockproof, and comes in 256MB, 512MB, and 1GB flavors. Like the Shuffle, it has no screen. Unlike the Shuffle, will never be…
It’s PSP hour here on Gizmodo. Reader Alex writes: I was on an Alitalia flight coming home from venice and one of the pilots approached me and told me I couldn’t use the PSP because it “interferes with the plane’s computer.” I told him the WiFi was turned off and he said it doesn’t make…
Hey, can anyone else get the SNES emulators to load smc roms on the PSP emulator? Oh, you don’t have the new Kxploit hack that lets you execute unsigned code from the MemoryStick? Yeah, you should probably go get that, since it totally blows PSP emulation and homebrew wide open. Look how much people like…
The Behringer Tweakalizer DFX 69 is a dirt-cheap all-in-one DJ box for scratching and effects. The $150 device packs in real-time scratching of audio and beat-synced DJ-style effects (filtering, pitch change, EQ, delay, flanger). It’s currently available in Europe, but coming to the U.S., too. This brand has been hit-or-miss as far as quality, but…
I don’t even know if that’s a title, but I have a quick technical question about the radio interference chirps that are sent by phones right before phone calls that can be heard in speakers or seen in CRT monitors. If you know what those are, could you email me at [email protected]? I’d appreciate it.…
No, it isn’t a bunch of bearded guys from the 70s making synth pop and peeing on you. Instead, this is a shower head that bathes you in chromatherapeutic light. What’s chromatherapy, you ask? It is an incredibly advanced science designed to allow ex-hippie baby-boomers to make money in the many years between their last…
A vibrating alarm is such a “No Duh” feature that I can’t believe no one else has done it in a mass market watch. The Casio GW-400J has all kinds of good stuff including Waveceptor atomic time synchronization, solar cells, tide charts, and moon phase indicators. Generally, this is watch for swimmin’ and surfin’, but…
WowWee, maker of the RoboSapien and the RoboPet, has launched the RoboRaptor in the UK, of all places. What, we’re not good enough? Anyway, this robotic dinosaur can perform full, bi-pedal gaits and can be playful, aggressive, or nervous. Kind of like my cousin. The RoboSapien can also control him with his powerful robot mind.…
Am I the only one extremely disappointed by the fact that these upcoming Lucas-approved USB keys don’t offer a Han model? On the other hand, maybe that explains why Artoo was such a puss in the original trilogy—the carbonite freeze shorted out his rocket boosters and oil slicks. And Threepio is simulated-living proof that no…