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A new Sirius Satellite Radio has dropped called the Star Mate, billed as the smallest radio yet. The three-line display device is only 6 ounces and will hit the ground for only $130. Star Mate – unveiled today from Sirius Satellite Radio [OrbitCast]
Having gotten my bell rung a few times during my high-school glory days—I was a punter, natch—this gizmo really speaks to me. The halo-shaped sensor for Simbex’s Head Impact Telemetry System (at the bottom right of the image) fits inside the helmet, and measures the force of each tackle. For now it’s just being used…
OMFG Worst. Trip. Ever. I’m at CES finally, though, and have big, big stuff to talk about. Expect short, bursty posts—not because I don’t want to dazzle you with my dick jokes, but because there’s just so much to cover, both CES and not. Here’s a little blurp: Cingular’s rebate form for the Treo 600…
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No news isn’t always good news, and Bill Gates didn’t have much to say at last night’s keynote address: nothing new about the XBox, and he pushed his lovefest with TiVo and the slowly-developing plans for digital media transfers between storage and players. Best of all: The presentation was marred by several technical glitches, including…
Since I was cursed with stubby fingers, texting’s always been a pain. So you can be sure I’ll be scrambling to land one of the first SCH-a890s, equipped with voice-recognition technology. Still, I guess I shouldn’t get too excited—so-called QuickPhrase only recognizes a list of pre-programmed sayings, like “Will call you later.” But I’m guessing…
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…