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Seagate missed the opportunity to announce this yesterday right when Maxtor did, but they also have a 500GB hard drive on the horizon. But instead of that, we’ll mention the “Momentus FDE,” a 2.5 inch drive from the company that can encrypt data. The encryption is hardware level, and you’ll need some sort of key…
Oh yeah. We put a bead on this one and we got our man. Here we see DOG driving and wearing the Thump. Why doesn’t he turn on the radio? Well, he’s too “product-placementy” to do that. Now, however, we see the one, true reason for Thumps to exist—they, like many other Oakley products, go…
The P800 has all its parts in the right place: 40-80GB hard drive, 3.5 LCD screen, mono speaker, headphone jack, etc. There are some features, however, that set this bad boy apart. Photographers rejoice: the P800 is able to read RAW images, so rather than looking at your pictures through the tiny 1 screen of…
J.D. Powers and Associates has given T-Mobile a big gold star in Wireless Customer Care Performance. While T-mobile may not have the best nationwide coverage, their customers are happy overall. The award was given because T-mobile answers customer s calls promptly and resolves customer issues, often during the first call. Verizon’s phone was dead so…
Attention Gizmodo readers. This is an all points bulletin—reader Matt has spotted the Oakley Thump MP3 player in the wild. Where, you ask? On the ursine mug of Dog “The Bounty Hunter” on AE last night. Anyone with a screenshot of Dog sportin’ the short-long and the Thumps gets our undying love and gratitude. And…
The only good I can see out of this is a series of hysterical news stories on street gangs who are now Wardakking (short for War-RFID-Jacking) by walking past unsuspecting passers-by and stealing their credit card numbers, identities, and immortal souls. Chase actually had a card with RFID in it back in May, but suddenly…
Acer appears to have a Media Center Edition PC they’ve been keeping from us Yanks: the Acer Aspires L200. I couldn’t find any actual dimensions of the machine, but as the article says, it looks to be about the same size as a DVD player. Considering the specs inside, it would be worth taking a…
Microsoft, in an effort to follow EU anti-monopoly rulings—what do they have against Mr. Monopoly aka Uncle Pennybags?—will be shipping a SansaWMP version of Windows. What does this mean? Not much, but it’s kind of fun to see the hoops MS now has to jump through to get past a jaded and IT-savvy group of…
Let’s begin with a quote from Yoshiyuki Sankai, professor at Tsukuba University: “Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future.” Let’s put that up one more time, just for good measure. “Humans may be able to mutate into supermen in the near future.” Yes, folks, it’s a 33-pound supersuit that turns…
Another day, another Taiwanese company with MP3 players we’ll never see. The company behind them needs to learn a few things about marketing, however, since they say the “mTrix” is “targeted at the female consumers, small and easy to use.” Zing! Features on the players include color screens, integrated hard drives, and video playback. New…
This new furniture from Nel, some Mexico City design group, may not be too shabby. In fact, if you can stitch your own furniture together, shipping furniture may turn out to be far more economical. There aren’t really any other details about these chairs, lamps, or other “functional 3D objects” (whatever that means), but they…
Say you’re a “celebrity”—a musician or filmmaker or model/pet food commercial actor or former MVP—and say you got off the coke and started a big fixation on “gadgets:” nice watches, cars, and Apple computers. Say you wanted to visit New York and your TM coach suggested you channel your “addiction energy” into creating something. Well,…
Here’s a comic strip I came across today about “The Five Stages of Intel Macs” (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance). It made me guffaw, but your mileage may vary. The Joy of Tech! [Joyoftech via Cult of Mac]
Hitachi Maxell and Verbatim got together over weekend for the annual HD DVD Barbecue, and while they were there, they figured out mass HD DVD-R production. In fact, existing DVD-R lines can supposedly be converted to HD DVD-R lines in a matter of minutes. Hopefully for them and the entire HD DVD camp, it won’t…
JVC also took the time today to announce the “XA-MP101” and “XA-MP51″ flash audio players, respectively with 1GB and 512MB capacities. The players are quite small at just under 2″ across and tall, and a smidgen over 0.5” deep; but since JVC also announced they’re shooting for a 10% domestic (Japan) market share by 2006,…
Add red to the rainbow of colors the Nintendo DS is available in. Set to be released on August 8th in Japan, the new unit provides gamers with all the same Nintendogs glory that they have come to expect. The price and all specifications remain the same. For some reason, this reminded me of that…
JVC has upgraded those XA-A50 earphones we talked about some time ago, with the “XA-AL55” model. Improvements include an upgrade to 256MB of memory (from 128MB), a wider variety of colors (black, white, silver, red), and apparently nothing else. They still seem to have the same dorky appearance as was clarified by our hands-on a…
Attention all the ladies in the house: please raise your hands in the air. Excellent. Now say “Yeah.” Perfect. Thanks for your support. As a gift, we are offering you the Lips flash MP3 player which looks just like every flash player in the world except for one thing—this one is vaguely lipstick-shaped. I know…
It appears we’ve been OEMed. This f-tech beastie == this Kemiz beastie and you can be sure that some of the folks like Garmin will be using this same body in their solar solutions down the line. So what does this thing do? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/wireless/gps/index.php#solar-powered-bluetooth-gps-106717 So glad you asked. Well, it uses a Trimble FirstGPS chipset…
Who knows what Sierra Wireless was thinking. Maybe their executives were all pumped up after an MBA vs. future-MBA alumni football game and they were all like “ROCK! Let’s make a keyboard phone and beat Nokia!” and the tech team was all like “No. It will take too long and be horribly and awkwardly out-dated…