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From the people that brought you the relatively good-looking PaperHub comes the TrestleHub, an “Art-Techno” USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 hub constructed of aluminum and glass designed to perfectly complement your collection of Klingon battle dildos. Available in a variety of sassy colors, the TrestleHub is the culmination of years of toil, made manifest by…
Pantech & Curitel have a new clamshell handset for the Korean market, called the PH-K2500V, which includes not only built-in OCR for scanning text with the camera, but also features software to audibly transform text into speech.
MobileBurn reports on the progression of those pretenders to the throne, Gizmondo, who at CES showed off their new (doomed to burning, dripping failure) handheld gaming console. I’ll admit, the device itself is fairly cool, with a nice screen, built-in GSM/GPRS connection, Bluetooth, and more, but I still can’t imagine any sort of real success…
“Now we know what the bulge was.” It might be a wee bit old, but it’s news to me. (Thanks, Hixter and Kokogiak!) U.S. President George Bush a confirmed Apple iPod user (images included) [MacDailyNews]
Here’s Part 3 of our discussion with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, where we talk about the Xbox 2, its role as the hub of the next generation’s living room (hint: maybe not the center, but it’s sounding awful hard-drivey. Also, “base thing?”), as well as Microsoft’s plans for the future of Xbox Live. If you…
A company called Enfora has released a funky-looking sled that clips to the back of the PalmOne Treo 600 and 650 that ads Wi-Fi (802.11b), freeing you up to use the SD card slot for other things (like storage). Each sled has its own battery that will enable up to 3 hours of Wi-Fi use…
Yamaha has released its YSP1 “Digital Sound Projector” multi-channel surround system in North America—well, Canada, which is just like North America, but with wolves. We talked about the system perhaps just a bit disparagingly in November, prompting a few of you to explain that the 42-speaker component was actually quite fantastic—certainly a better speaker than…
We at Gizmodo use only the finest internets. 80 hand-crafted ports, wrought from rare Imperial Russian sockets, filamentous diamond, and bell-steamed ether. Each packet header is presented to us for a tasting, after which we will SYN or ACK it, as is our wont. So when we noticed Truvia was selling a hand-crafted couture computer,…
I don’t mean to be a bastard, but this future sort of sucks. First of all, no jumpsuits. Secondly, being covered in fur isn’t a temporary genetic fashion statement, but instead a precursor to gay mascot sex. While some may pine for a future filled with shark-finned rockets and ray guns, I am more of…
Fate conspired to keep the LaCie Silverscreen drive from my notice, for I have both handled it at CES and skimmed this report at MacCentral without realizing what exactly it was I was looking at. Thankfully my friend Aron set me straight, pointing out that the relatively inexpensive USB hard drive could play a variety…
Sennheiser is launching a new line of headsets designed specifically for PC gaming, topped out by the PC 160 model. Built in collaboration with professional gamers, the new open-air headsets are designed to be awesome, yet totally rad. There isn’t any price on them yet, so it’s hard to say if they’ll be worth the…
A new DLP chipset from Texas Instruments has allowed both Mitsubishi and InFocus to show off these tiny projectors. While both are low-light, small-screen units—a 27-inch screen is quoted instead of the typical 60+ inches of many other DLP projectors—the small size isn’t the only notable thing about the tiny displays. Both of them use…
High-end memory vendor Corsair’s newest offering is over the top, but holds a hacky promise that I’m sure people will be exploiting soon enough. Their new XMS XPERT memory modules have a 10-character alphabetical LED display on top (think old school calculators, says ExtremeTech) that by default displays memory speed, voltage, and temperature. But if…
Like the JamPlug, the GuitarPlug is another smart design that skips the amplifier entirely, instead routing monaural audio from a guitar’s quarter-inch jack to your PC via an on-board USB connection. DVForge is also releasing the MicPlug, which is the same idea, only with an XLR connection on one end. Presuming these work with a…
In a fairly major coup for DivX Networks, Apex Digital has announced that all of their upcoming 2005 product line will support DivX natively. I don’t know how that’s going to work for their televisions, say, but for items like portable video devices and DVD players it makes perfect sense. And as much as it…
Creative was showing off this Zen Micro Photo at CES, a 6GB hard disk-based player that will have a 160 by 160 pixel OLED color screen. If the sales numbers Creative is throwing around are anywhere near accurate (and let me qualify that they are basically just saying “we sold a ton”), the Creative Zen…
The Pirkus is a fine-looking robot kit that can, once assembled, be controlled via a Bluetooth-enabled phone. The kit isn’t cheap—it’s quoted at 1,000 quid—but it’s no slump when it comes to abilities, with fully articulated arms and legs. It can even do handstands. You can pick one up next month in Japan from that…
It’s sort of a big deal that Apple sued Think Secret, for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the question as to whether a blog or ‘non-major website’ has the same rights to protect sources that any other publishing outlet does. There have been various meditations on this over the last…
Virgin has taken the wraps off their new wearable player, a 128MB/256MB coin-sized unit that will retail for $100. There’s not a lot to it, and the looks are sort of pedestrian, but if pendant players are your poison then you might give it a look. With tomorrow’s announcement of the iPod Flash, it’s hard…
MacMerc has a roundup of Griffin Technology’s newest products, being announced this week at MacWorld. Not all of the links back to Griffin’s site work yet (although some, like this AirClick remote, are already online), but it gives you a good idea of what to expect from the iPod and Mac peripheral vendor this week.…