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M-Audio announced a new flash looking keyboard that happens to double as a FireWire interface to your PC. The $600 Ozonic features a 37-note keyboard and built-in analog inputs, including a single XLR microphone input with phantom power. Even better, it’s bus powered, so it’s just one cord between you and your PC. Is it…
My nigga Noah Shachtman, who I call ‘nigga’ because neither of us is black, drops mechanized science in this story for Wired, talking about a new prototype Talon robots that will be hitting the sunny deserts of Iraq—fully-armed. I won’t say this is a spectacularly bad idea, because 1) it’s awesome, 2) robots are unthinking…
I saw a bit about flowering phones yesterday, but couldn’t find a picture. I must have been looking in the wrong place, though, because good ol’ Tree Hugger found one with a minimum of fuss. The idea is simple: when you’re done with your phone, shove it into the dirt. The casing is made from…
Sanwa Supply has a new line of animal-shaped screen cleaners out, called “Mopets.” At only 819 yen (about $8) a pop, who could possibly resist a Golden Retriever, Dachshund, Panda, Hamster, or Raccoon Dog? Why, they even double as wrist rests. Did I mention Hamster? Just lining that up there. Product Information [Sanwa Supply]
Did you know Choctaw was one of the few languages that had a tense to indicate the veracity of the statement being said? I read that on Slashdot yesterday. Did you know Slashdot was staffed entirely by elves, or men dressed like elves? I love their little shoe bells, which are known as ‘Gawlowski’ in…
Reader Brian MacFarland dropped a link over on Treo Central to our story about the new SD Wi-Fi card drivers for Palm’s Tungsten T5, where we made an off-hand comment about the need for those drivers on the Treo 650. And even though we were just one of many to report that news, I’d like…
Not only is Soldam’s new “PANDORA RHAPSODY” case one of the smallest on the block, I’m perfectly willing to say it’s one of the coolest looking, too. Measuring only 7-inches (185mm) across, tall, and deep, the PANDORA RHAPSODY case needs a small motherboard; one of these mini-ITX deals. In fact, it even comes with a…
There’s so much to the TraxData TravelStudio that it’s hard to know where to begin. Here you have a portable device which can read almost any media (CF-I and II, SD, MD, MS, MS Pro, MMC, CD, DVD) connect to any TV or PC and play many media formats (DVD, VCD, MP3, JPG, MPEG, WAV)…
Kanguru’s Audio Flash has apparently shipped, with USB 2.0 and a still-kinda-rare OLED screen. Looks like it supports MP3, WMA, and WAV, and has all the standard trimmings. Pricing isn’t mentioned, but excepting the OLED screen there’s no reason to think it’ll be much different than competing flash players. Kangaru Solutions Ships the Audio Flash…
I gave the Aliph Jawbone headset a pretty hard time the first time I saw it, but to its credit, every single person I know who has used the corded hands-free units has been pleasantly surprised. This review on PocketNow is no exception, so if you’re expecting to discover some fatal flaw, don’t bother clicking…
If you happen to be unskilled in the art of yo-yo, you may have your cream with the Camper’s Dream, a reasonably priced human-powered ice cream mixer. Basically, you roll the ball (which looks suspiciously like a repurposed hamster ball) around for 20 minutes, and you have a pint of ice cream. As far as…
Yo, Liebermann Computers! Fucking die, already! Liebermann Inc. has strict news release policies stipulating having any published article to be internally reviewed and approved for content and veracity before distribution. MaximumPC chose to completely disregard, bypass and not comply to such obligations and publish an article falsifying the true status of this corporation and its…
Sister site Kotaku is speculating that the speculation about the Xbox 2’s unveiling at this year’s CES might actually be bogus—not because Microsoft didn’t plan to do so, but because the platform won’t be ready to rumble. Hard to say—a Bill Gates keynote without the Xbox 2 will sort of be ho-hum—but Kotaku has a…
Congratulations to Fastap for actually getting a product to market using their hybrid keyboard/keypad input method. The LG 6190 is an otherwise uninteresting clamshell and will be shipping on Canadian carrier Telus . I’m all for alternate input schemes, though, so I can’t wait to hear what people have to say about Fastap’s practicality in…
iRiver dropped this teaser image on their website yesterday, mostly to draw attention to a new redesign. As you might have inferred, it’s working, as everyone speculates what exactly the new product might be. Most are thinking it is a new ‘mini class’ hard disk player, since currently iRiver is missing a 5GB (or more,…
Virgin Mobile is aiming to prevent drunken dialing in Australia by providing a way to blacklist numbers so that they can’t be called until 6AM. According to a survey by the company, over 95 percent of drinkers make phone calls after imbibing, with 30 percent of calls going to the most dreaded of recipients: ex-partners.…
Klipsch has a good name in audio—well earned, I’d say—so the announcement of a pair of cheap portable speakers is getting a fair amount of buzz. The ProMedia Ultra 2.0 aren’t tiny, but they look to be of a size that can be crammed into the bottom of a decently-sized laptop bag, and the short…
So I’ve barely started shopping for Christmas yet, except for my baby brother, who is easy—robots, robots, guns, robots. But fortunately all those shopping guides from we hack writers are starting to hit the web, and rather than do our own Gizmodo recommendation list—which honestly would just be more of the same, although we’ll definitely…
Product Highlights • Sensor Network Mimics Synchronized Calling By Frogs, Cicadas [ScienceDaily] • 3G Phone Rival Calling Collect [Wired] Business • HD-DVD picks up Hollywood support [MacWorld] • DoCoMo’s i-mode to expand into Britain, Ireland [JapanToday] Reviews • Sprint Treo 650 [InfoSync] • Nintendo DS [ArsTechnica] • The Complete U2: The World s First Digital…
Unison continues to make oddly-shaped flash memory MP3 players—and I’m just fine with that. The new Soriya MF100 isn’t anything special from a technical standpoint, but it does have a nifty slide-out bit that hides the controls—effectively a giant hold switch. Slider Style MP3 Player: Unison Soriya MF100 [I4U] Related Unison TMS600 Launched [Gizmodo] http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/index.php#unison-tms600-launched-026452