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I was writing a column this month and mentioned the upsweep of solar-powered gear the last few months and my editor’s editor (why do I love blogging again?) was all huh?. And yes, okay, solar power isn’t anything new, but the new high-efficiency panels are really starting to happen, like this entire new ‘Solar Style’…
IT Media Japan has a few pictures up of some of the hardware (primarily Samsung) shown at the DMB Expo 2004. DMB is Digital Media Broadcasting, a television content broadcasting format that is getting a big push in Korea. Television on cellphones is still at a “I wouldn’t mind it” level of excitement for me—a…
Here’s my first thought upon seeing the KURO-SHOT flash memory drive with a VGA camera (besides that I want an orange creamsicle). When is Philips going to update the KEY019? I can’t tell you how many people have flipped out when I recommended it to them, then backed off when they discovered it only has…
OMGOMGOMG LIND-SAY! Double-L Double-D lost her Sidekick at a party—the very same party Paris Hilton lost her Sidekick at. Is that just crazy or what?!?!? So they like went into a T-Mobile store and straight locked it down for an hour while they picked out new ones, right? And Paris’s little dog was all, YAP!…
“When Gizmodo speaks, people listen.” And then void themselves, as we broadcast the same colliding frequency undertones played at a GWAR concert. But besides the big squishy handjob that Gadget Madness gives us, this review of the iLo Digital Audio Player—that new $80 Wal-Mart special—gets ‘er done (to use official Wal-Mart parlance). I wish the…
Is it Christmas yet? Can we start drinking? Is that what people do for Christmas, or just my family? We get together over a steaming mug of Nyquil to share in The Yule Sob, then donate our tears to charity. There are still a few people kicking out there in gadget land, I hear, like…
And if you bridge the icing between the sugarplum traces, you can overcook this baby up to 500 degrees. (Thanks, John!)
Alright, that could have been worse, no thanks to [email protected] who decided to script 6,000 junk mails to the account. On the bright side, I learned how to break Gmail! Anyway, we have our winner.
Reader Devin Vermeulen and I have been trying to figure this out this morning and I thought I’d pass it on to you while I deal with the 6,000+ scripted mails that Gmail won’t filter out for this TomTomGo contest. My guess was that something funky had gone sour in the Airport Express itself, because…
Alienware machines are overpriced and over-hyped, but you’ve got to admit, when they go top-end they usually do it right. Jason Cross over at ExtremeTech reviews their latest desktop replacement laptop, the Area-51m 7700, and it’s pretty impressive—as it should be, since it forgoes most laptop parts and actually uses desktop chips crammed inside its…
Rio Japan has announced two new flash memory-based players, the Si-300 and the Si-200C. Both players use that very attractive “OLED screen behind a mirror” bit to hide their display when its not in use. The 2i-200C [pictured] is a pendant-style answer to the iRiver N10, although at 4cm square it might be a bit…
Alpine has announced that their newer Ai-NET series head units will now support either Sirius or XM satellite radio (although not both at the same time, I don’t think). Really, all it means is that the satellite receivers use the generic Ai-NET interface to connect, much like the Alpine KCA-420i iPod Interface, so you can…
Sprint has launched ‘Music Choice Today,’ a radio-like audio streaming service for the Sprint multimedia phone(s). For $6, customers can subscribe to the service, which offers a variety of genres (you might call them ‘stations’) for streaming pop songs to your earpiece. Unfortunately, the service is only available for a single phone at the moment,…
For those with pasty white gums, this Soladey solar-powered toothbrush will provide a loving bronzing that even George Hamilton’s dentist will love. Or it will convert light into negative ions to attract positive ions from acidic dental plaque or something—it’s Japanese; I hold myself to no accuracy. It’s part of a selection of green hygiene…
If I have any criticism of Sensory Impact’s ‘Subverting Objects of Violence’ piece, it’s that it’s too short. You can’t begin to fill my rage meter with couture ice blade molds designed to assist in committing the perfect murder, followed up by a one-off Hello, Kitty Head mecha, and then… it’s over. That sort of…
The Wetronome is a water-proof metronome for swimmers and runners, designed to aid in ‘stroke rate training.’ (Yeah, I see. Let’s just keep moving.) Although it looks simple at first glance, the Wetronome is designed to overcome issues specific to the environment it works in by remaining completely sealed. Programming the unit is done by…
The fact that the Verizon XV6600 (that recent Pocket PC HTC Blue Angel PDA phone) is EV-DO compatible just slipped right past me. That’s sort of, you know, encouraging (the EV-DO part, not my slipping mind)—I’ve been waiting for handsets to come out that would take advantage of their recently lit-up high-speed wireless network. And…
In my years of ranging across the open internet I’ve learned a few things., like never make jokes about dead hookers when you might have an IM window open to your grandmother. I’ve also learned never to trust any website that says, “You know, we already made this PDF thing. Why don’t you just look…
Nintendo’s new DS handheld gaming system (which I’ve been told is pretty much out of stock everywhere, although Nintendo is supposed to drop another shipment on the 22nd) apparently dumps out video noise that can be picked up by some older, presumably unshielded televisions. That probably wouldn’t necessitate an entire post, but Jim Younkin busted…
The issue of Mobile PC that’s on the stand this month has the sort of feature that I still can’t help but get off on—the future of gadgetry (or the present of product design, I guess). They just happened to put up my very favorite gadget from the feature online as a teaser—this “MicroMedia Paper,”…