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The Inquirer details the Motorola Expandable Home Communications System, a bunch of peripherals orbiting the Ojo videophone, designed to extend the streaming video capabilities of the platform include other cameras and even your cellular phone. All of the peripherals are interesting, and of relative value—less than $100 a pop—but it does look as if you’ll…
This fine new bit of graphical add-in power is the new prototype Asus version of the Nvidia 6600GT. If you look closely, you might notice something a bit different about it—twice as many GPUs. Since the 6600GT can already run in SLI mode (where you hook up two cards for twice, or nearly-twice the power),…
Motorola’s first EV-DO phone for Verizon, the E815, has been approved by the FCC, and I am anxiously awaiting its arrival on our shores (of the East River). You see, while I’ve been lusting over that $80-a-month EV-DO data plan from Verizon, my laptop doesn’t have a PCMCIA card—part of the sacrifice of the small,…
Andrew Heavens has a short but interesting blip on his blog ‘Meskel Square’ about this Ethiopian classroom’s distance learning set-up, consisting of a satellite dish picking up Digital Video Broadcasts (DVB) from Addis Ababa that then outputs to a generously-sized Samsung plasma screen television. The schools next step is to get online using a satellite…
Apparently more screenshots of Windows Mobile 2005 Beta (aka Magneto) are out on German site Pocket Center (if that sort of things gets you hot and heavy). There are also some screengrabs of the newest version of Microsoft ActiveSync, showing just a little bit of how we can expect the new version to work. Maybe…
Freeplay, the same eco-friendly company that makes the Jonta wind-up flashlight, has another human-powered invention, dubbed the Lifeline radio. But unlike other solar- and crank-driven products from Freeplay, you can’t buy this one, at least not for yourself. Instead, each $55 purchase pays for one of the AM/FM/Shortwave receivers to be shipped to a developing…
It’s not really telling us anything we didn’t already know, but PalmOne has a ‘coming soon’ image up for the GSM/GPRS model of the Treo 650 smartphone. I guess technically this is different than the Cingular model we talked about last week, as that will be a GSM/EDGE phone (with GPRS service too, of course).…
My friend Matthias Bruggman is a freelance photographer, jetting around the world to take pictures of various interesting things, usually in the company of writers and other journalists. This morning he was denied entry onto an El Al airlines flight because he was carrying a Canon EOS-1D digital SLR camera and an iBook—neither of which…
This has got to be photoshopped, but if it’s not, I want to meet the person who commissioned it. Sassy kawaii capitalism kitty crossed with trombone-engined super-phallus makes my head asplode. Hello Kitty street racer [PlsThx]
Being a Japanese brand manager must be the best job in the world: Take an exclamation, add the word ‘Super,’ and append the product function. That leaves us, in this case, with ‘Oh! Super Toaster!’ a $10,000 toaster that not only slices whole loaves of bread but then toasts them with an infrared beam. But…
Some Japanese PSP owners have stumbled upon what they’re referring to as a ‘dummy updater’ on an official Sony website that might give some indication to the future direction of the portable gaming platform. Among other things, streaming TV services using Sony’s LocationFree technology might be in the works, as well as less traditional additions…
Gawker’s very own Jungle Pam, Jalopnik, has a bunch of pictures up of this awesome JL421 Badonkadonk, a hand-built desert cruiser that can be yours for just $20k (from Amazon, no less!) Each “Donk” is powered by a 6hp Tecumseh engine that can propel the Jawaesque Playa Crawler to speeds up to 40mph. And while…
As if we needed any more proof that 2005 was going to be the year of ‘computers as commodity’ consumer electronics, WinBook has announced two new companion products—a 30-inch widescreen 1280 by 768 pixel LCD and a Pentium 4-based Windows Media Center Edition set-top PC—for just $1,000 apiece. Now bear in mind, that’s after a…
There’s a bit of kerfuffle over a minor business report on DigiTimes that lists Apple manufacturer Asustek shipping iBooks and Powerbooks in Q2 of 2005 with G5 processors. There are a few reasons why this report is less-than-likely. The IBM 970FX processor, which Apple brands the ‘G5,’ is a pretty hot processors—cool compared to a…
Verizon intentionally crippled the Motorola v710, one of their first Bluetooth phones, and certainly one of the most highly sought after (at least at first). While Verizon’s up front (some would say brazen) attitude about their decision to limit the functionality of the Bluetooth stack was at first surprising and even a little refreshing, it’s…
That didn’t take long: soft-side case maker Tom Bihn has introduced a bag for toting the yet unreleased Apple Mac mini. How often people will lug their new half-Cubes around with them is yet to be seen, but for $40 you pick one up and try it yourself. MacCentral says teh eM2 has a ‘stretch…
MobileTracker is reporting that Motorola is teaming up with Oakley to create Bluetooth headset eyewear. Anyone seen any prototypes? I hate the Oakley Thump design, but the recent Moto/Burton gear looks decent. Also, anyone who already purchased the iPod shuffle: can you hit me up real quick on AIM or email? I have a quick…
Is the Matsushita/Panasonic Digicam NV-GS150 the world’s smallest 3 CCD digital camcorder? That’s what they tell me. The new handheld was shown off yesterday in Japan, highlighting its 2.32-megapixel sensor—pretty good for a video recorder, especially one just 123mm long. And the price isn’t half bad either: just $777. Also, if you’re hip to the…
Reading Bill Macrone at PC Magazine is the win to John Dvorak’s wang. Instead of hearing Dvorak bang out another column based on how his eggs and baby flesh are sitting that morning, Machrone tells us about how he’s been using his Cold Head soldering iron to weld together Fender Blues Junior amps. I give…
Quite a few people have been waiting for Cingular to get the PalmOne Treo 650, since up to now the only way to get a hold of the smartphone is to sign up with Sprint’s CDMA service. It’s definitely going to happen soon—there have just been too many signals heralding its release this week to…