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The remote controlled plane photography dudes went nuts on New Year’s Day, and they’ve just compiled their aerial photographs from the US, Europe, and Australia. Seemingly none of them got arrested for being Al Qaeda cells or something. We wonder where this will lead: every gadget finds its ideal application, and we’re pretty much thinking…
While Joel’s getting settled at CES—and I should remind Joel right now that the Vegas Strip hookers are actually not an official part of CES—let’s catch up on bits of the morning news: · What Apple won’t ever, ever give you: the iPhone. · What you can actually get for your Apple products: iPod gadgets,…
Keeping with the fresh announcements of new Vaio desktops and laptops today, Sony has also announced a new version of their “RoomLink” network media player, the VGP-MR100. Because the RoomLink requires Vaio Media Server to be installed on a the host PC, users without a Vaio still seem to be up the creek without a…
Sometimes things are bigger than we think they are: space, that taco platter I tried to eat last night… and perhaps we can add iPod minis to that list. Ipoditude and Apple Insider float a rumor that people who are now ordering the 4 gig mini are actually getting 5 gigs, and that the 5…
Akiba PC Watch, a division of Japanese tech news giant Impress Watch, has posted the results of their “Weird Items Found in Akihabara” competition. Over 1,000 users submitted a total of 6,305 entries, and exactly 64 products have been labeled “Weird.” Many of the products have been covered here at Gizmodo — such as the…
Brother site Kotaku is hearing that there is some sort of deal working between Microsoft and Gizmondo that will lead to Halo showing up on their portable device. The GPS-enabled portable gaming device is also getting some backing from Electronic Arts and Sega. A Gizmondo rep goes as far as saying that their device is…
Having just talked about the new Vaio laptops, I somehow feel obligated to mention the new Vaio desktops. But are they really new? No. On the very high end of things is the Vaio type R desktop, with a 3.8 GHz CPU, two 250GB hard drives (intertwined by RAID 0, nonetheless), and 1GB of RAM.…
Saitek s CES line-up includes some pretty cool gadgets. Besides a new laser-cut keyboard that actually glows blue light through the individual keys and a joystick that features a separate throttle with a digital display, the peripherals company is jumping on the very overloaded poker bandwagon. Later this month they will be releasing a handheld…
Sony has announced their Spring 2005 lineup of Vaio laptops. Things look to to be pretty standard, with simple updates to the current type S, type T, type A, and type E notebooks (spells EAST), but they’ve also got two new ones — the type Y and type F (spelling FEASTY, or F YEAST). The…
While certainly not the first time I’ve seen a product like this, Japanese manufacturer Logitec also appears to be jumping on the “use hard drives instead of flash, because flash is expensive” boat. Less than 0.4″ thick and 1.96″ wide and tall, Logitec’s LHD-PBM2GU2 has a 2.2GB capacity, and costs around 17,800 yen ($170 USD).…
What consumers want—an out-of-box way to share and transmit files between different storage media and computers (and users)—is exactly what manufacturers don’t want to give them, but they’ll tease us a little. So, if you’re really rich, DigitalDeck Entertainment Network is busting out an in-home network PC to gear to DVD sharing system that costs…
PC World pimps its most-likely-to-succeed gadget list for a Consumer Electronics Show preview: · The Jabra headset is the first* LCD bluetooth ear-thingey talker; not outrageously priced at $119 either. · Lexar’s JumpDrive Lightning (in 1 gig and 2 gig capacities) is extremely, extremely shiny, and we like it just because of that. Besides, you…
The SafeTurn is a wrist-mounted LED light for bicyclers that flashes when it senses the rider’s outstretched hand. I can’t quite determine if it has a directional blink, changing depending on the angle of the cycler’s arm, but it would certainly make sense that it would. You can find out for yourself in February, when…
Samsung, who is showing off this new “world’s largest” 21-inch OLED display, has also announced their products that are to be shown at this year’s CES. While we’ll definitely dig in with some more details throughout the week, there’s some appetizing bits in there already—I’d be happy to include a 57-inch LCD or a 67-inch…
Lucent and Cingular completed a test today of some next generation cellular data technology that hit data rates of up to 3Mbps. The service, called High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), is built on the UMTS service that Cingular is slowing deploying in some markets and could possibly reach speeds as high as 14.4Mbps. I hit…
I have a soft spot in my heart for ugly electronics, but this new Micro MultiMedia Player is sort of tragic. I like the built-in camera and everything, but I’m afraid I can’t look at it without hearing Sloth ask me for a Baby Ruth. We could go through the trouble of translating the stats…
Last-minute reports are indicating that Bill Gates’ pre-conference keynote address at CES will probably not unveil the Xbox 2, despite rumors to the contrary (and contrary rumors). Now it appears the Xbox 2, code-named ‘Xenon,’ will be shown off at the Game Developers Conference or perhaps even E3. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-2-to-be-unveiled-at-ces-23602 Xbox 2 announcement looks unlikely as…
PCWorld’s review of the Gateway Photo Jukebox is less than compelling. The 5GB hard disk-based player’s size is “close to those of the heavier 20GB Apple IPod,” while the color screen is too small to really be of much use, especially for viewing photos. All in all, it looks like another also ran—maybe that’s why…
ZapToPhone are selling “Tsunami Aid Ringtones,” the proceeds from which will be donated to UNICEF’s tsunami relief efforts. Different levels of donation are available, with each level (up to $9) netting you a different ringtone, all of which are the national anthems of affected countries. Assuming everything is going to UNICEF (and there’s nothing to…
Vonage is dropping some killer gear on us today, with product announcements that include this new Wi-Fi Voice-Over-IP handset from UTStarcom that will let Vonage subscribers make calls anywhere they can log onto a Wi-Fi connection. With an 80-hour standby time and three to four hour talk time, the F1000 looks practical enough to use…