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The Case of the Salty Rasher has been solved. I have nothing else to say except my new PSP is lovely, and it will surely not impose on your success a whit. https://gizmodo.com/im-not-saying-im-just-saying-9186 Gizmondo gadget gets BSODded up [TheInquirer]
If you like the white plastic looks of the iBook but can’t stand OSX, MSI’s Mega Book S260 offers a nice visual nod to Apple’s low-end laptops, while providing an Intel Sonoma foundation on which to build a Windows- or Linux- or whatever-based system. All in all it looks great, with a nice, white 1,280…
With a cock-eared AIBO listening just so… “G”Pod 80 terabyte Victrola [3DLuvr]
So it wasn’t the iTunes phone, but the Motorola E725 still looks dandy, with an EV-DO connection, a MiniSD slot for up to 1GB of storage, a built-in FM transmitter for broadcasting your music to your car or home stereo, as well as a normally-sized 3.5mm miniJack connector for use with standard headphones. Presuming they…
The Red Ferret Journal brings us the BottleSpy, a bottle opener that counts how many Michelob Ultras you’ve been conned into drinking. The LCD display keeps count and turns off after 15 seconds to save its battery. I’m thinking that if you can increment it by hand by toying with the sensor, that’d be great…
Another day, another robotic debut at the Aichi World Expo. Subaru shows off their RoboHiter, which is effectively a street cleaning robot. It’s equipped with GPS and position recognition and uses laser sensors and triangulation to, you know, move around and stuff. The RoboHiter “cleans floors and can pick up a garbage can” and will…
Medgadget reports on a recent award given to Conceptus for their Essure permanent birth control system. An Essure mico-insert is placed at the opening of the fallopian tube. It expands and anchors itself and soon, a tissue in-growth begins growing around the device, effectively closing off the tube entirely. The effectiveness of the device in…
Tasty screenshots of Windows Mobile 2005 (aka Magneto) abound now that the ROM has been leaked. I’m biting my tongue on the obligatory X-Men joke, but the screenshots look sharp. (Granted, that was how my grandmother used to describe me, so I’m really just assuming it’s a pleasant thing.) Check them out at PhoneMag (they…
We first mentioned the Sleeptracker watch earlier this month. Now, a watch designed to supposedly wake you up while at the lightest part of your sleep cycle leaving you completely rested sounds a lot like paid-advertising poppycock. Refreshingly enough, (note the subtle pun) the Sleeptracker more than lives up to its namesake and received quite…
This Sports Car DVD Player made me guffaw for a couple seconds, then I realized something dreadful: it costs 250 pounds, or “too many” American dollars. Sure, it has a 5″ LCD, plays DVDs and MP3 files, and even has a front bumper as a DVD tray. I even recall seeing something along these lines…
Samsung is the latest company to use gold and diamonds on a piece of electronics, this time coming on the “YP-W3L.” It’s somewhat difficult to tell where the gold and diamonds are on the thing, but frankly, I like it more that way. Samsung didn’t really skimp on the features, either: it’s probably one of…
We here at Gizmodo do not endorse Furries, furry objects, or anything related to fur (except for my dog). Nevertheless, we felt it was our obligation to report to you on a rather simple “furry” mod for your iBook. I guess the instructions can be applied to other materials as well. If it were me,…
LG’s MF-SE 430 just barely crossed the line between “something to report on” and “another boring MP3 player,” but all is well that ends well. The system consists of two speakers and a subwoofer, where you can directly insert the MP3 player itself. This is pretty good convergence if you ask me, but I’m really…
Wooden computer products are becoming more and more popular in Japan for some mysterious reason. The only wood names I could get from the product page were walnut and blackwood — you’re on your own for the rest. Some of you would probably do the logical thing and say, “well what the hell, my desk…
Whoa, remember that 0.85 inch hard drive from Toshiba that was announced like a year ago? Well it’s finally ready to go into production in April. And it was 2GB back then, but now it’s up to 4GB. Toshiba plans to put the drives in portable audio players and cell phones. Let’s hope they have…
iPod is great for playback, but it’s not much use when it comes to recording. Try Edirol’s R-1 instead: palm-sized, integrated stereo microphone, and recording to CompactFlash. With 1GB of CF running about $70 (the R-1 costs under $400), removable media is the way to go. And as opposed to cheap consumer audio gadgets, this…
This is why EVDO cellular internet is cool: the guys from EVDOInfo.com rigged together a little application using off the shelf parts to display on a web page their car, its exact location and velocity, as well as the current view out their window. It’s tricks like these that will make EVDO (and UMTS, if…
Someone in #gizmodo was questioning the merit of a Sony PSP case round-up, but now that I’ve seen that PSP411 has done that very thing, I’ve realized it was a good idea. Two lessons learned, the second being that I think I’ll buy a Logitech Playgear Pocket Case [pictured] almost immediately. The hard case doesn’t…
iPodlounge has details about the iPod Camera Connector and how photographers should expect the device to work with their other gear. Apple said that most cameras with USB connectivity can be used with the iPod Camera Connector, and must support either the PTP, Type 4 (Normal), or Mass Storage protocol. So that’s good, and means…
It looks like the problems with the HP iPaq h6315 over at T-Mobile are coming to a head, with the device pulled from both business and consumer sales sites, and an official, but unpublicized (until now) exchange program for disatisfied customers. It looks like T-Mobile will be offering refurbished Treo 600s and BlackBerries to those…