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Reader Scott Moody notes that he just picked up one of the 12-inch Sony Location Free Wi-Fi televisions at a local electronics retailer. Sony officially launched the product on October 15th, but that’s the first confirmation I’ve heard of someone picking one up off the shelves. Sony’s location-free TV makes local shows portable [CNet]
Both Google and Babelfish don’t seem to want to translate Italian, but from what I can piece together, this furry bag from Samsung is one of two things: a really goofy research project for a motorized travel bag that knows its owner and responds to voice control; or a really goofy fake product Samsung is…
So I think this is like the fourth time that we’ve reported that the Neonode N1 Smartphone is on sale, but maybe this one is the real one. I just don’t know any more. The story this time is that customers in Neonode’s native Sweden will be able to pick up the tiny smartphone on…
I like the idea behind the Clear Choice Picture Belt. As their Star Trek befonted website clearly illustrates, you can take a clean slate, and make it as dorky as you want it to be. The idea behind the belt is simple enough—it’s a clear plastic strip with a buckle that you can insert various…
PlaylistMag bought a couple of 60GB iPod Photos and have shared their first impressions. One striking thing they’ve discovered is that copying over photos from a camera using a flash memory card reader will not allow you to then view them on the iPod Photo—you’ll have to import then via iTunes, since it uses a…
Reading this review of the PalmOne Tungsten T5 on BargainPDA is sort of painful, as the new flagship PDA from PalmOne is slowly taken down, notch by notch, from being a premier PDA worth consideration by anyone, to a half-baked device full of missing options and unpolished design decisions. That feeling is amplified by the…
I don’t check the stats all that much now compared to when I first started self-consciously editing Gizmodo, because I find it’s a good way to needlessly obsess about something you don’t really have that much control over in the first place. But I have been paying attention the last couple of weeks because we’ve…
I’m not quite sure what’s going here at the ConQwest 2004 game. It appears to involve Semacode scanning, high school girls, giant inflatable animal totems, and Dennis Crowley, one of the folks behind Dodgeball. (And really, I had you at high school girls, didn’t I, sicko?) ConQwest sounds like a lot of fun, as competing…
Philips Miravision LCD television—the one that turns into a mirror when you turn it off—has been awarded the presumably-prestigious Most Innovative Gadget prize in the UK. I can only guess that it’s prestigious, because someone wrote an article about it in The Guardian, and the Brits tell me that’s good. All in all, it is…
Sports equipment manufacturer Giro has their 2005 line of products out, including a new line of snowboarding and ski helmets that accept optional ‘TuneUps,’ a set of integrated, padded headphones that clip right into the helmet. Even better, they have a split out version called the TuneUps II which allows you to connect not only…
With all the Playstation Portable news floating around this week, I’ll go ahead and post a couple little pieces of information that may be of interest to you. First off, many people have been wondering how Sony is able to offer the PSP “at such a low price.” The answer lies in its manufacture —…
We did a short interview with Burke Jones, owner of FreePalms.com, a site pointed out to us today by a reader that appears to offer the same sort of deal as FreeiPods.com, except this time giving away Zire 72, Tungsten T3, and Tungsten C PDAs. Since they’re site is a little spartan, we figured we’d…
When I think of fondue, I think of a lot of things. Swiss warriors raging across the field of battle, then making up long enough to melt some cheese together, dip some bread in it, and get tanked before going back to bludgeoning one another; Iliad Song XI; the French with their Bourguignonne, a mouthful…
Traveling nerds know the value of the compact travel mice which exist in abundance, their smaller size serving both as the main pro and con: they don’t take up a lot of space, but they’re kind of a pain when you’re used to having your hand full of plastic, whiling away the hours between smoke…
It might not be fair to call this the first Treo 650 review (and he doesn’t), but Treonauts has a fairly in-depth breakdown of the smartphone after spending many hours with it and taking it through the paces. He’s pretty rocked by it, it seems, and while you have to take a Treo review on…
I really don’t have to explain this, do I? (Thanks, Jon!) Apple iPod Ashlee Simpson Karaoke Edition [AirBagIndustries] Related iPod Archives [Gizmodo]
PocketNow reviews the Koyono BlackCoat-T, a $40 t-shirt with a prominent zipper that lets you secret away gadgets (or whatever) in little woven-in pouches under your arms. I had my doubts, but Tim Adams says it’s not as awkward as one might think, although it takes a little two handed contortionism to get a ringing…
Quite a few owners of Gateway Media Center Edition home theater PCs are pretty upset with the company at the moment, as requests about the upgrade path for machines running the 2004 Edition of the Windows XP Media Center operating system are receiving conflicting information. Some are hearing an update will be made “by Thanksgiving,”…
A problem experienced by many portable digital audio device owners (I won’t say iPod, even if it is the undisputed market leader, cause everybody has different tastes and I aim to be sensitive, even to iPod haters and people who say I abuse italics) is the, “where the hell do I put this thing?” conundrum.…
For those who want to put some real class in their life, but are already weighed down by gold medallions and knuckle-spanning rings emblazoned with diamonds spelling out ROOT, Delkin has arrived on the scene with CD-R media containing some $0.20 worth of 24k gold per disc. Gold may not seem like a very sensible…