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iRiver is now selling a co-branded FM transmitter for its products (or anything with a headphone-out, really) called the AFT-100. It’s meant for in-car use, obviously, with front-mounted controls to change through the entire FM band—you can even save three presets, which is very cool. I’m sort of down on FM transmitters for my own…
Slappa sent out a press release this morning that was sort of calling do-over on their new Hardbody iPod cases. https://gizmodo.com/slappa-hardbody-case-for-ipod-25250 After some consideration we have decided that the pictures included with the release do not do our case justice. I can get with that sort of regret—I was in a yearbook once, too. Here…
Remember when you got your first CD burner and blank discs cost like $5 apiece? Every burn was a special, delicate event, too fragile to even move the mouse for the 45 minutes or so it took to write that massive 650MB disc. And when you were done, you gave it a special label, usually…
Okay, so Cingular put the Razr back on their site for order/preorder, which certainly signifies something. From everything I’ve heard lately, it’s going to be in stores by the 15th (next Monday). At this point, though, it’s anybody’s guess. Good luck! Home Page [Cingular] Related Motorola Razr V3 In Cingular Stores? [Gizmodo] Cingular Selling V3…
Wow, I sort of want this really badly, but I know it’s going to bid up beyond what I can afford in the next 3 days. This Star Trek Communicator uses Bluetooth to connect to your cell phone as a hands free device, meaning you can keep your actual phone in your inside pocket (or…
A Californian company called Entempo is marketing a new hard disk-based player called the ‘Spirit,’ that sort of looks goofy (and probably a bit big, if it uses a 2.5-inch drive), but offers quite a bit of bang for the buck. For just $200—and as low as $140 at some places online—you can get a…
Professionals into High Definition video will dig Sony’s new “HVR-M10J” HDV recorder, intended for use with non-linear editing systems. Hell, I’m not an editing professional into high definition video, and I still like it. Not only does it support HDV up to 1080i, it also supports good old DVCAM and DV (SP), so you can…
Arms. Legs. You value yours, don’t you? That’s why we here at Gizmodo think you should steer clear of Sharp’s new $3000+ Blu-Ray recorder. It is the first Blu-Ray recorder to feature an internal 160GB hard drive, but gee whiz. Sure, you get a DVD burner thrown in the unit “for free,” but would you…
Just caught wind of this new ultralight from Seagull Aerosports, unveiled at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh back in July. Basically, you buy the cockpit (or “pod” as the manufacturer calls them) and attach wings from a standard hang glider. The pods come in two versions, the Escape Pod and the Pod Racer. The primary difference…
It finally happened. Someone with a prosthetics lab has made a real ‘Thumb Drive.’ It’s a 128MB version that is going for $30 right now on eBay, but they promise larger sizes are to come. I’m going to go whimper softly in a corner for a bit if you don’t mind. (Thanks, William!) REAL THUMB…
Product Highlights • PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN, Galaxian, and MAPPY for Palm OS [NamcoGames] (Site goes up later today.) • New Flash Players from Samsung [ChaitGear] • Wireless chips embedded in paper [TheInquirer] • DivX Portable Media Devices [I4U] • eCoustics Gift Guide [eCoustics] • Samsung SCH-A815 Slider Phone [PhoneArena] Reviews • Club 3D OmniChrome [TrustedReviews]…
I need to build a loft over the bed in our apartment, because we have a big open space with no closets and need a way to pack stuff away that doesn’t involve fire. Unfortunately, my technique with lumber is the same barely-successful one I use when programming or babysitting: just keep hitting it with…
Samsung’s OneNAND flash memory, previously only available in densities up to 512Mb (that’s megabits), has now doubled and will be availble in 1Gb (that’s right, gigabit) shortly. This high-speed flash, for use in all kinds of mobile devices from cameras to PDAs, can be read at over 100MB (yes, megabytes) per second, which is four…
The SMS Guerilla Projector takes messages sent to it via SMS and projects them onto any surface. Built from a cellphone, a camera, and slide projector by the London-based collective ‘Troika,’ the idea is to shoot messages onto surfaces that might engender a reaction from surprised drivers, causing them to take wrong turns, veer off…
As of this Friday, you’ll be able to pick up Motorola’s V265 from Verizon for around $150, or $100 after rebate. Nothing particularly exciting here, unfortunately, with a relatively crappy camera (640 by 480), no Bluetooth, etc. But it does feature BREW 2.1 so you can send even more money to Verizon for downloading add-ons…
From Coleman, known mainly in the US for their camping and outdoorsy equipment, comes the King Cobra multifunction lantern, TV, AM and FM + weather band radio, and siren(!?), perfect for sitting by the fire and watching grainy newscasts on a tiny black and white screen. Not bad for $90, I guess, but I’d rather…
Speaking of Google rumors, check out this bit from reader Mark Consuegra: I’ve been using the google SMS feature since I heard about it on Gizmodo and it’s definitely behavior changing. I’ve saved at least $5-10/month on directory assistance calls I would have begrudingly had to make, and I like not dealing with an operator.…
Looks like Gmail is about to officially offer POP access, according to this message in their support database. This function has already been enabled by lots of third party tools, but has been expected from Google themselves for quite a while. It doesn’t appear to be actually be enabled yet—not for me, anyway; a few…
My buddy Noah Shachtman runs a blog called DefenseTech—if you’ve been reading Gizmodo for long at all you’ve probably seen a few links from here (what can I say, he buys me bourbon). After a long, sordid dance he’s finally enlisted with Military.com to sponsor DefenseTech, which I presume means he can now devote more…
Enlux is the first company to release LED-based lightbulb replacements for your household halogen and incandescents. They claim their white bulb alternatives are twice as energy efficient (colored bulbs more than ten times as efficient) with estimated lifetimes of around 50,000 hours of operation. That’s more than five years continuously lit, and even then they…