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Well this is something! Rumors are flying that XM will unveil a ‘wearable’ device next week that tunes in music from its subscription satellite radio service. Not only that, but the chatter is that the device will include a hard drive that users will be able to save recorded information to—I find that so tantalizing…
Kids at the Temasek Polytechnic school in Singapore are showing off their Robo Grand Prix Mini competitions, where tiny intelligent race robots they’ve designed travel around a slot car-like course. Their next showing is at the Singapore Motorshow in November, so if you’re in the neighborhood and like to watch robots race (which is almost…
While this review from a professed audio neophyte of the Niro 400 5.1-channel speaker system—a system that purports to provide real surround sound from a single 5-speaker box that sits in front of the listener—is generally pretty positive, she makes it a point to mention that the ‘surround’ effect from the all-in-one box is pretty…
I haven’t lived in an apartment with a steam radiator for quite a while, but it pleases me no end to know that people still make them. Not just making the traditional accordion style, but new twists on designs—even uses, like these steel MHS Hot Box radiator boxes that have space for rolled up towels…
It’s Friday, and I think it’s time you all learn where baby circuits come from. Mostly safe for work electronic components orgies after the jump. Is it hot in here or is there just a short? (Thanks, Manx(x)!) Yeah, I know, we’re children, but as our friend Dave Bug said about the pictures, “They were…
Reading this review of the Milwaukee 6546 2.4-Volt Two Speed Screwdriver by Loyd Case got me wondering: where are the good enthusiast power tool review sites? Case treats the Milwaukee like just another computer peripheral, with ratings and all the normal ExtremeTech stuff, but considering his job is to take apart about a hojillion PCs…
The FlashPoint USB flash drive has such a simple trick it’s surprising nobody else has gotten to it first. In addition to being a Mass Storage Device, it also has a female USB port on its backside that accepts other flash drives. Just push the nondescript button on the top and the FlashPoint uses its…
Everyday Robots, a new site from the people who produce PDA Buyer’s Guide, has a few sneak preview images from this year’s RoboNexus show, sort of CeBit for cyborgs that’s happening in California even as we speak. Besides commercial products like those from iRobot on display, there are also quite a few experimental robots on…
PhoneMag has a generally positive review of the new Audiovox SMT 5600, the new Windows Mobile 2003 SE smartphone available from AT&T Wireless. While it compares favorably to the Motorola MPx220 (a highly-anticipated, but ultimately disappointing phone with similar capabilities), it does suffer from a lot of the same shortcomings of all modern smartphones. Namely,…
Formac is ignoring their name and pushing their new Gallery Xtreme (Argh!) LCD monitors to both PC and Mac users alike, especially gamers. Their new 19-inch and 20.1-inch monitors have a fast pixel response time (just 15ms) but a reasonable price—just $600 and $900 respectively. If they perform as well as they should, the new…
If all dogs go to Heaven, and in Heaven they turn into glowing celestial versions of their mortal forms, and the vast catalog of unreasoning parasites and symbiotic bacteria that made themselves a home inside the canine are carried by proxy into heaven as well, I would imagine this Boalum tubular plastic lamp is fairly…
As of tomorrow, Italian mobile customers will be able to pick up the A1000 on Hutchison’s ‘3’ UMTS service. This smartphone, which was announced early this year, still offers some PDA-like features, including a touchscreen display. The real kicker, though, is its ability to conduct videocalls, and apparently the A1000 on the high-speed UTMS network…
On Monday, we offhandedly declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD to be the replacement of now standard DVD. Many have said that it’s “too early to tell,” but given both competitors have announced there will be products with their technology available to consumers before the end of 2005, we here at Gizmodo certainly don’t…
All I could say was “woah.” This doesn’t need too much explanation, except that the red-LED equipped keyboard is apparently water resistant and available only in Japan for about $100. Or is it? The maker of the keyboard, TG3 Electronics, has their homepage entirely in English and lists a Wisconsin address. Gizmodo does not condone…
I confess that I have been lusting after environmentally friendly cars since electronic cars and hybrids first hit the market. Now I’ve found a new object for my lust, as a company called Smart, affiliated with Mercedes, is bringing a new diesel-fueled mini-car to the US. This two-seater gets 70 miles a gallon — a…
As a replacement for their P-1000 photo viewer, you couldn’t ask for too much more. The hard drive has been upped from 10GB to 40GB, support for audio/video playback and USB 2.0 have been added, and the supercool 3.8-inch, 212 pixels-per-inch VGA LCD has been retained. Interestingly, the press release states that the P-2000 will…
If you want to drop some serious cash on an LCD flat-panel photo frame, the PhotoVu Digital Picture Frame is plenty expensive—fortunately it has tons of features, too. At its heart is a 1280 by 960 LCD panel in a 19″ frame (note the whole thing is 19 inches, while the panel itself is considerably…
Body Composition Monitors are getting more widespread, and this one, the Total Innerscan, gives some evidence as to why. For around $260, you get a bathroom scale which measures not only your weight but also your visercal fat rating, bone mass, basal metabolic rate, muscle mass, and percentages of body fat and water (amongst other…
Product Highlights • Intel unleashes new Pentium M [ArsTechnica] Business • Notebook sales continue to soar [TheInquirer] • PC Sales Suffer a Setback [PCWorld] • Toshiba to Launch HD DVD Notebook PCs in Q4 2005 [Reuters] • When Robots Rule the World [AP] Reviews • MSN TV 2 [Mossberg] • Logitech MX1000 – Laser Cordless…
California vendor Digital Mind Corporation has upgraded their 80GB Xclef 500 player line to now include a 100GB option. The player itself is as otherwise unremarkable as it was when it was upgraded last May, but ignoring its relatively large size (they use laptop drives), it does manage a 20 hour battery life—important when you’ve…