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The PetsMobility PetCell is only a concept for now, but the patent-pending collar could be great—if you don’t mind spending a lot of extra cash on your pets. The idea is simple: it’s a cell phone and GPS unit on a collar, with its own private number. Using caller ID, it automatically picks up when…
This is how Photochoppers rolled in the olden days: Put hood on Atari; take a screenshot; develop film; paint edits on prints with watercolor; invent scanning device to transfer image into digital 16 color file that spanned 200 floppy discs; upload to BBS over 300 baud modem, giving yourself enough ratio to download ever phreaker…
These generic flash MP3 players (look like an OEM version of this) have been showing up on Ebay lately with a nice set of features: 1GB or storage, FM radio, Voice recorder and an OLED Display. They even use a rechargeable battery instead of AA or AAAs like many flash players. In fact, except for…
Introducing the Go-L Shufflufagus. 5,000 terabytes of solid-state storage, vapor-chilled batteries with nanoceramic stickulon paper booster, and 256-character display (on the back; pictures available upon signing of NDA). (You rock, Betty.) http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/index.php#batmax-030756
Product Highlights • Giga Designs intros Cube VRM, dual-1.6GHz Cube upgrades [MacMinute] Or get two Mac minis. Business • Sony Video Chief Admits Strategic Mistakes [Sony] I love Kutaragi. I really hope he gets to run Sony. • Can Sony reinvent itself as cool? [CNet] Yes. • Sony, who cares? [Kanai] I mean no. Reviews…
Skype is our babydaddy around here. I don’t use it much for making calls to real phone numbers, but Denton practically cried when he made a Skype call over a hijacked Wi-Fi connection in the middle of Tokyo—it was one of those great moments that happen when our disaffected attitude about technology takes a break…
Okay, TiVo is dead. Go over to eHomeUpgrade and read Thomas Hawk’s excellent round up of first impressions of the slow-to-arrive, slow-to-please TiVoToGo service. TiVo, already back on their heels, had one shot at finding secure footing in this portable media market, and that was to drop the DRM hassles (or at least make them…
In general, the federally-mandated On Board Diagnostics 2 (OBD2) platform has been a real pain in the ass. Required on all cars from model year 1996 on, the advanced computer and sensor system makes it a lot more difficult to add aftermarket modifications to your car—the go-fast kind, not the ruin-my-aerodynamics kind. There is a…
Does a portable video player with just 5GB of storage appeal to you? If so, Erae will be selling the FOCE F3-3510 someday. It was shown off at CES, but doesn’t have any sort of real web presence yet (except the one we’re helping create for it now). It seems like an awkward size to…
Advertisers are our hermaphroditic gastropod lovers, entwined as we are in a milky embrace. If you’d like to twist external organs with us (especially the wallet), come out of your shell. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 • Voom: “The Most HDTV Anywhere” • Broadvoice: “The Broadband Revolution” • Monster: “When will you make a million?” • SpySweeper: “The most…
KDDI/AU is probably my favorite Japanese wireless carrier (although they were recently acquired by software giant Softbank, so we’ll see what happens there). They’ve got four new phones out in their WIN and CDMA20001x platforms, but only the Sanyo W31SA is particularly interesting, with its built-in FM tuner, MP3 player, and MiniSD support (not to…
Okay, this isn’t a gadget, but it’s the most surreal headline I’ve had in my feed reader in a long time. I was so ready to pee at a crazy “UR FILEZ ARE OWNED” flashing skull and I would have totally deserved it. New virus masquerades as news headlines [CNN]
While we’re on the small form factor tip, Tech Report has reviewed the Trigem Kloss KL-I915A, a not-entirely-repulsive PC that’s designed to fit nicely in a home theater environment (you can tell because it has a big knob). It might have some issues squeezing some graphics cards into the oddly-shaped PCI area, but it integration…
NEC has a new class of PCs aimed at Japanese business users, notable not for their specs (which are far from the edge that cuts), but their 66mm width—just barely wider than a standard DVD drive. Thin is definitely the new small. Don’t expect these machines in the US, like, ever, but it’s possible someone…
Breaking news! Liebermann can use Photoshop! Also he can continually run his company into the ground, then engage other ‘ventures’ into giving him money! Also I think he drives an ice cream truck! I mean, seriously, look at this thing. If anybody wants to pay me cash money to healing brush together a masturbatory mutant…
Konica Minolta has announced the next 5-megapixel DiMAGE cameras, the Z5 [charcoal] and Z20 [silver]. The Z5 is an update to the Z3, with a 12x optical zoom and anti-shake technology. The Z20 is an update to the Z10, with an 8x optical zoom. In fact, the cameras are pretty similar, although you’ll get a…
The fascia design of the Soltek QBiC Mania small form factor PC really makes me want to put chili cheese on something. Or alternately, smother something in gravy—something that once had lungs, or even the lungs themselves. Plastic chrome wings might be hottest design choice ever to grace a Sonic drive-in, but I think I’ll…
Until someone puts one of these BatMax battery life booster under a scanning electron microscope and tells me exactly what it is we’re looking at, I’m going to presume that ‘nanoceramic material’ means ‘tiny porcelain urns,’ used by tiny, toga-clad Greek philosophers heft amphorae full of sloshing electrons. I’d say that’s just as likely as…
Sony has submitted the UMD optical disc as an official standard for movies and and software, allowing other companies to produce content that will play on the Sony PSP (as well as new devices that would support the format). The 1.8GB discs aren’t a bad format, but it’s impossible to say what desire other companies…
BusinessWeek has confirmed that Motorola is working on a whole suite of V3 Razr-like phones, including a candybar model (as we’ve mocked up) and versions that will come in a variety of colors. They also mention that three-quarters of a million V3s have been sold since November—it’s clearly a breakout product. And BusinessWeek has learned…