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Jacob Appelbaum, a geek who is currently trekking in Iraq, posted this image of a roadside IED. The ringer is attached to the explosive trigger and the word on the street is that a GSM jammer would shut these things down pretty easily. We talked about this a few months ago, but this is an…
Armored transport was never so eco-friendly! This prototype hybrid hummer uses a Diesel engine—just like your parents’ old Volvo—and two hybrid motors to get up to 50 miles per gallon. No word yet on the bud vase, iPod dock, and cool MPG/electrical system readout. Hybrid Could Fill Humvee’s Boots [Wired]
You there, in back. Stop laughing. Now, where were we? So this is an electrical impedance test designed to detect cervical cancer. It is apparently more accurate than the traditional PAP test. The device sends high frequency currents through cells and can register the slight differences in healthy and cancerous areas. As one wag in…
“Tohoku University Future Technology Collaborative Research Center’s Professor Ryuta Kawashima Presents Memory Training For Adults” is probably the longest game title I’ve seen in a long time, but this isn’t exactly a game. Rather, this software utilizes the handwriting and voice recognition features of the Nintendo DS so users can solve simple calculation and spoken…
In cooperation with Sony Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo is experimenting in using plastics created from plants for mobile phones. To be more specific, the plastic is created from the starch and sugars of corn and potatoes, which is then fermented with lactic-acid bacilli. The plastic is destined to become water and carbon dioxide, as it will…
I could tell you about the wide variety of features on Mitsubishi’s new “REAL” LCD TVs, but would you really care? Notable is the “Auto Turn” feature, which will let you use your remote to control the rotation and tilt of the screen. The REALs can rotate a full 30 degrees to the left or…
Sony’s new QUALIA 002 is an HDV camera based on their “HDR-FX1” released in October of last year, with only a couple improvements. The “Vario-Tessar T*” lens has been dropped in favor of Carl Zeiss’s “Vario-Tessar SQ (Specialized for QUALIA).” I’m not even close to understanding what sort of difference that will make, so I…
MPEG-4 support is slowly but surely finding its way to flash audio players, whether or not they have a screen large enough to make it practical. One such player is the new “MPIO-one,” equipped with a 1.04 inch OLED display capable of displaying 65,000 colors. Yeah, the colors are there, but the resolution isn’t; you…
BlueDot’s new “BDP-1930″ has everything I was seeking in a portable DVD player except for a low price. It features a slot for an SD memory card, Memory Stick, or MMC, as well as a DVD drive. What really struck me as nifty, though, was the universal playback support: MPEG-4 SP, DivX, XviD, MP3, and…
Rockridge Sound Japan will be introducing their semi-portable “DVP-3” DVD player today in Japan. For about 9,980 yen, the player isn’t much larger than a couple DVD cases stacked up, and it weighs only slightly more. While the MP3 and JPEG file support was no surprise, the integrated Dolby Digital decoder certainly was. Product Information…
According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Sony and Toshiba are making steps towards creating a single next-generation format, rather than subjecting consumers to a format war between Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Sony (behind Blu-Ray) had the following to say: In order to offer users with a nicer environment, we are continuing talks with various companies…
Do not, under any circumstances, lose the remote for any of these things. The article is a wee bit stale, but these laptop-controlled mines—which can be deactivated remotely, as well—look to improve upon the old-fashioned landmine model: bury, wait twenty years, maim/kill, repeat. Called Matrix mines, they’re designed to be placed on the ground and…
It’s been a long time since I rock and rolled, but this kind of makes me want to take up Old Lucille again. Variax Line6 makes custom, programmable guitars called the ‘Variax’ that can mimic any type of stringed instrument known to man. Now they have hot software that allows you to change everything from…
The Aquaglider is an inflatable Jetski-like vehicle for kids, powered by a rechargable electric motor and designed to hold up to 110lbs. That’s disappointing for fatties like me, sure, until you realize that at only £150 apiece, you could get one for each foot. Sadly, it’s UK-only, so these models are for Thames punters only.…
Qualcomm and Apocalyptically-named Firetide are teaming up to offer 25Mbps wireless Internet in Europe, which is next to China. By using self-healing mini-access points, Firetide’s VOIP-ready network will work alongside existing cell networks to add that little extra something to the average European’s day. These mesh networks have already been tested at the State Fair…
Dan’s Data reviews the Deck Keyboard, a bullet-proof keyboard rated for 50 million keystrokes (that’s five times more than standard, they say) with an individual LED behind every key. It’s not that it brings anything particularly new to the desktop, but it does manage to do everything a keyboard should and look pretty, to boot.…
Now that we’re starting the Gizmodo Barber Shop Quartet—Intern Liam is a soprano—we need good gear. That’s why I was so excited to see that you can use the SingStar, originally designed for the PS2, as a USB dual mic connector for GarageBand. David at the Apple Blog had a SingStar and must have been…
I suspect someone over at Playboy isn’t totally retarded. First they make smut for the iPod, then they take special cheesecake and format it just for the PSP screen. The first two image galleries of images and video are free (that’s how they get you (to masturbate)). https://gizmodo.com/playboy-ibod-27954 Playboy Station Portable [Playboy] Bonus Link: Treorotica…
We looked at the MobiBLU DHH-100-5 last November and someone out there has finally done the hard work of playing music on it for us. https://gizmodo.com/mobiblu-dhh-100-5-finally-stateside-26250 The DHH-100-5 is a 5GB hard drive audio player with a grayscale screen and SD card slot. Oddly enough this player has a built-in speaker for the cracked folks…
Is the Flash Drive the horse and buggy of this Ferrari age? Will the rugged hard drive come by and kick sand into our puny 512MB dongles? Does anyone care? As a user of both flash and HD drives, I can tell you one thing: hard drives hold more. I know you were expecting some…