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Bill Gates took to showing off the ultra-portable concept tablet PC at WinHEC 2005 yesterday. Roughly the same size of a Creative Zen PMC, the concept calls for a tablet running Windows XP Tablet Edition, some form of wireless and greater battery life. The idea is to make such technology more accessible and therefore more…
Looks pretty cool, if very vertical market-y. Essentially, it’s a convertible with the old IBM black casing, bluetooth, and WiFi. Nothing extremely amazing except for the fact that it’s IBM has been avoiding tablets like the plague for the past few years and now suddenly jumps in with a with a standard model. Could the…
When it comes down to it, all phones are interactive. However, the Pantech PH-S6000 is apparently more interactive than most. It uses 1mm, an SK Telecom system that allows users to talk to animated characters in order to request media and services. There’s also a Bluetooth, dual flash camera (?), a camcorder,GPS, and GIGA functionality…
Maybe this image is new, maybe it isn’t—I’ve been somewhat out of the loop the last couple of days. Nonetheless, I hadn’t seen it. Don’t lust after it too much, however, since it looks like it’s already dating someone. Wouldn’t it be a good idea if the wireless controllers could be recharged just by putting…
Reader Jenna was kind enough to pass on the news that the above Voodoo Knife Block which we covered back in February is now FOR SALE! Oh, rapture! https://gizmodo.com/raffaele-iannello-knife-block-33956 We are glad to inform you that Voodoo 5-Knife Holder Display will be available for sale in June, 2005. The sale price is set for $40.00…
Another gem brought to us by our friends at MAKE, TechDesign proves that they have entirely too much time on their hands, producing their own MP3 player in classic Radio Shack style. The MMC MP3 player was built to read an MMC (obviously), is powered by a single AAA battery and can display ID3 tags…
An easy way to stop junk mail at the gates, this brushed stainless steel mail organizer by Dominique Brunet works perfectly if your postman is the willing-to-learn type. Hang more than one set around the house and I’m sure you’ll come up with some creative uses—a set above the headboard in your bedroom, for pictures…
Is your hard drive still poking along at 1.5 Gbps? Samsung is now shipping one of the first SATA II hard drives with 3.0 Gbps throughput at about $93 for the 80GB HD080HJ, which is a nice, low price point for the consumer market. https://gizmodo.com/maxtor-sata-maxline-iii-big-buffer-rush-16654 Seeing as how SATA I is still being adopted across…
Brian Ducharme has a great piece on integrating a stereo into your scooter so that you can share your passion for ABBA with passersby as you see fit. He includes rather detailed instructions for ripping apart your scooter and installing PCWorks speaker system into whatever nooks and crannies its design will allow. Or, you know—headphones…
After posting the T-Mobile coverage maps, we received word from the field that Sprint also has a map of their towers. It appears that folks in wide stretches of North Dakota have one tower to share between them, but their rugged, North-Country nature lets them suffer in silence. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-personal-coverage-check-100994 No word yet on if Verizon…
Sony has announced that the PSP will be available in Europe starting on September 1, 2005 for 249 ( 179, $340) and will be offered in the standard Value Pack format, as per its launch in the US and Japan, so if you were perhaps hoping for, I don’t know, a built-in fish & chips…
The next time you’re in the back country and run out of potable water, whip out your MIOX Water Purifier. Or, with suburban sprawl being what it is, visit a gas station or grocery. Same difference. Unlike a gas station, however, the MIOX is about as big as a large felt-tipped pen and can destroy…
Belkin’s new USB 2.0 4-Port hub is built especially to accommodate the iPod shuffle, including a “patent-pending, top-loading USB port for easy access.” Why Belkin is under the impression they need to patent something this “innovative” (OMG it’s on TOP!!!) is beyond me, but it’ll be only $30 when available in June. It also includes…
Nokia is handing out their press kit on USB keys. That’s sort of brilliant. It’s schwag that is your job to keep. Next time they should load it on one of those 4GB phones or have a small, strong-backed child memorize all the details.
GNR8 shows off the Liquid_Light series of lamps, presenting a drop of light in a “fluid” form. Designers B ro F r Form explain: A product needs more than perfect function and ergonomics. A product needs spirit, emotion, and poetry! For between $360-$400, spirit, emotion and poetry come at something of a premium, to be…
Here is the Nokia N70, the Nseries phone billed as some personal multimedia super computer or some such thing. I barely used it at all—I came back to upload pictures—but it’s clear that Nokia’s new concept in cell phone design is ‘make them really heavy.’ See another uninteresting picture of the back (including the two…
They Nokia execs are still in the conference deflecting good questions like, “Does convergence even matter?” from journalists. You don’t care about that—you care that I was holding the upcoming Nokia N91, a solid, heavy metal phone with a built-in 4GB hard drive. I’ll go out and play with the interface here in a bit.…
I skipped out on the Q&A because the Nokia execs were being obstinate chodes (“Q. What is the resolution on the N90? A. Find out later!” Real A. 2 Megapixel, no optical zoom). However, that means that I’ve gotten these first pictures of the new Nseries phones, including this N90, which will be launching in…
A new type of optical film has been developed by Autotype. Dubbed Autoflex MARAG, (MARAG being far too fun to say aloud) the “MothEye Anti-Reflective, Anti-Glare” screen film is based on the structure of the eyes of night-flying moths. The eyes of the moths, we’re told, have evolved to collect as much light as possible,…
The Nokia N70 is billed as the ‘world’s most powerful multimedia computer’ or some such claptrap, but they didn’t really make it clear how it would reach that lofty claim. I don’t see a keyboard on it, so I’m skeptical. Plus, Nokia has a tendancy to put really lethargic processors in its smartphones, so even…