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It sounds like wireless, Bluetooth iPods are a certainty, either from Motorola or Apple (or both). One of Moto’s execs let slip that iPod owners will be able to broadcast music through their car speakers via Bluetooth, as well as plug-in their phones to answer hands-free calls with all the volume management stuff that makes…
Phonemag has details of the Nextlink ‘Spider’ platform, a Bluetooth-based wireless stereo and cellphone headset. The prototype they showed PhoneMag is integrated into a pair of glasses (with built-in MP3 player controls), but there’s no reason Nextlink couldn’t build a similar system into a more traditional set of headphones. Nextlink doesn’t expect any products from…
Sony Japan has announced that the Clie is kaput in July. That’s good, because I always hated looking up the HTML entity for the stupid é. It’s bad if you like PalmOS PDAs, though. While there was little hope that Sony would return to Western markets with the PDAs, it was still a boon to…
Kids need hobbies, like knife juggling, or pretending to like David Bowie. There are rare times when those hobbies can be exploited to form money making ventures, such as when the kids of Stuffed Robot.com turned slipshod pillow sewing into a (hopefully) profitable robot making enterprise. Do you need to spend $35 on a stuffed…
T-Mo has finally gotten around to issuing an official statement about The Hacking of Paris Hilton [NSFW Pics]. We provide our analysis after each section of their detailed and reassuring response. https://gizmodo.com/paris-hiltons-sidekick-ii-hacked-what-about-yours-33637 T-Mobile is investigating the reported disclosure of Paris Hilton s information. “We are trying to confirm it is actually Ms. Hilton by comparing…
SanDisk is continuing to show off their new SanDisk Ultra II SD PLUS flash memory card that has integrated USB happiness—the one where the card folds back to expose a USB connector. No cables, no caps, no card readers, you just plug the card straight into the nearest USB port you can find. I’m the…
In sixth grade, a classmate showed us his brand new “unbreakable” glasses. After three introductions into the concrete wall at high rates of speed by my skeptical friend, there lay a slightly scratched lens and disjointed frames, the object of such pride just minutes before. My point is simple: Call something “drop-proof” or “spill-proof” or…
Opera Software ASA (the web browser folks) has announced their new voice-enabled Electronic Program Guide, allowing people to control their DVD players, DVRs and digital TV boxes via voice. Opera plans on licensing and branding the technology to OEMs and cable operators, so it might not be very long before the Battle Royale between pop’s…
In what is certainly not a dry run for the impending post-Hiltongate Celebrity Uprising, the U.S. Army recently test-fired a set of rockets from its Vigilante unmanned helicopters. It will surely be just a few short weeks before these drones sweep up and down our streets, launching Hellfires into crowds of shambling, B-list starlets driven…
Axonix Corporation has announced their answer to the Kaleidescape DVD movie jukebox, the considerably more affordable MediaMax. Boasting a similar feature set to the Kaleidescape, the MediaMax also jumps on the Sonos bandwagon by offering multi-room music playback, with the option of also displaying your photos for a cutesy slideshow. Additional features include its ability…
Even now, meat popsicles, we walk among you. (Thanks, Dystopos!) World Famous Russian Clown Brings Snowmen to Moscow [MosNews]
Swedish company Adamond has announced the ZK1, a flash player that supports a variety of formats (including favorite of dozens, OGG Vorbis) with a storage capacity of 2GB. Beyond that it’s fairly standard fare for this sort of player, with a built-in FM radio, recording, and line-in encoding. It’s expected to launch in March, the…
It’s important not to do anything useful ever. At the very minimum, one should only do enough to pay for toys that keep us amused, like these “Keitai Vyuun!” which translates to something like “Mobile Phone Zoom!” which translates exactly to a set of stick-on, wind-up wheels for your mobile phone. Useful is for people…
The good news is that the Sony Ericsson S710a—the highly-anticipated 1.3-megapixel cameraphone—is here in the States, via Cingular. The bad news is the price: $500 with a contract. While the phone is nice, and the pictures it takes are a cut above almost every other cameraphone picture out there, it’s a bit ridiculous to pay…
If you need one example of why handsets provided exclusively from the carrier is a bad deal, look at the excitement around the new Sanyo MM-5600 available via Sprint PCS. It looks nice enough—especially the 1.3-megapixel camera—but it’s hardly cutting edge, especially for $430. But since the only phones you can use on Sprint/Nextel (or…
There is a beauty here, to see this Mac mini violently seizing the back of this plasma screen. A tiny parasite, forcing its will onto the giant host, preempting sitcom reruns for flashing Jobsian indoctrination. And who would have thought the method of this plasma display’s utter consumption would be two zip ties? They tie…
Sony’s new flash player is lovely—I can’t get enough of the smooth sub-surface OLED displays. The new model has shown up on a few web pages here and there but hasn’t been officially announced. It beats the pants off the iPod shuffle in everything but capacity, as the largest model shown so far is only…
I’ve had a very private love affair with holograms for as long as I can remember, pulling my parent’s Visa card out and sitting mesmerized for hours, gently swaying from side to side. So it goes without saying that I’d think the technology Smart Holograms has developed is kickass, even if I have mostly no…
Natural Widgets’ NaturalRecorder is a Series 60 piece of software that allows you to record all your phone calls without any intervention on your part (besides installing and configuring the software). Previous cell conversation recorders suffered from memory management issues, but NaturalRecorder will fill your phone’s memory up to the brim before it starts overwriting…
Given the opportunity to choose between chafed hands and more game time on their Nintendo DS, it should be obvious what every Japanese schoolboy would choose. Actually, nevermind. But still, they have options: the Hand Charger for the Nintendo DS, for one. Hopefully self-explanatory, (you turn the crank for a few minutes and you get…