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Perhaps it’s telling that the Kyocera SoHo/KX1 clamshell phone is said to be “attractive,” and “solid,” with performance that “makes quality phone calls,” yet still only manages to get a 2.5 out of 5 this PC Magazine review. I mean, if they aren’t billing it as a smartphone and it excels at everything that Kyocera…
CinemaNow has announced their intention to offer High-Definition movie downloads in Windows Media High-Definition format. While that’s fine and dandy, right now they are limited to a selection of IMAX movies from MacGillivray Freeman Films, which isn’t the most compelling selection in the world (although I love me some documentaries, for real). The CinemaNow HD…
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I’m not sure what’s better: the fact that someone finally developed a toilet seat filled with LEDs or the fact that they named it GALACTIKA. There are those who believe… that what we do here… began out there. Far across the apartment. In the kitchen. The GALACTIKA comes in a variety of sure-to-be-trippy colors and…
You said we should be indexed in Google News about six months ago, but we are not. Please fix it and stop hiding behind the fact you’re in perpetual beta. Your Friend, Gizmodo
I’m of the school that if you’re going to drop $7,250 on a videogame accessory, it should never make the pretending experience more realistic at the expense of comfort. When I’m fighting to rescue my sister from a legion of lava ninjas, I would prefer not to feel the sizzling slap of magma every time…
Josh Rubin says these wacky space shoes, supposedly designed for use by cosmonauts, promise to be “the next major accomplishment in footwear engineering,” but I don’t see it happening. Can you imagine trying to play basketball in these? Or walk through snow? What kind of astronaut can’t play snow basketball? I’ll grant that they’re kind…
Looks like the iBook isn’t the only Apple machine getting an update today, although the new Powermac isn’t exactly an upgrade. The new model is a low-end option taking the place the older G4 Powermacs once filled, with a single 1.8GHz G5 processor and a 600MHz frontside bus (the dual 1.8GHz model has a 900MHz…
Apple updated the iBook, as we heard they would yesterday, signified by the industry-standard image of an thrashin’ snowboarder. The 12-inch model has dropped to just $1,000, with a built-in AirPort Extreme and a 1.2GHz G4 processor. There is no way in hell anyone can bitch and moan about Apples being too expensive with that…
Mitch Altman is an asshole. And not just any asshole, but one of those snotty holier-than-thou types who has nothing better to do with the money he made as a founder of 3ware than to develop a device with the sole purpose of imposing his viewpoint on others. See, Altman hates the television and its…
So you know that special U2-edition iPod we told you about yesterday? An article in Forbes has confirmed that it is indeed going to happen (nice catch, Think Secret), although it will only include “portions of the Irish supergroup’s 25-year catalogue,” not the entire back catalog as we had heard. But the big news? The…
It’s good to know that in this age of failing voting machines, spyware-laden PCs, and the conspicuously still-missing personal jetpack that mankind continues to extend his mastery over the cellphone. A man named Nico Morawa from a little European country called Germany has beaten the world record distance for cellphone throwing, attaining the now-ultimate distance…
In all the chatter about the new Dell Axim X50s, I had missed that Dell had also released the update for the older (but still quite viable) X30 line to upgrade to the latest Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition this weekend. I’m sure most of you X30 owners probably know about it, but on the…
If you happen to live out in a field, Yamaha’s new “MyRoom” private room will provide you with that porta-potty-like privacy without the godawful smell. Coming in at a costs of no less than $4,200 USD, the “private rooms for adults” come in three variations—the “deluxe” model adds additional soundproofing. Just imagine: a private 2.5…
Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD, has a stronger backing, is further along as far as commercialization is concerned, and as of today, even offers a “bridge”…
A Japanese company called Lucas is selling a line of leather-bound zinc-alloy USB flash drives with capacity up to 2GB. A little tab of leather holds on the end-cap with a sort of buckle, hopefully staying the inevitable loss of the cap for at least a little while. Although the flash drives are fairly reasonably-priced…
The best way to show off a new cameraphone that takes immaculate, gorgeous 5-megapixel images would probably be to show a postage stamp-sized 0.05-megapixel picture, right? I mean, I hope so, because that’s all Telecoms Korea snagged off of Samsung’s webpage, where the phone maker had leaked out the first images of the SCH-250. Even…
Kyocera has announced the “Tu-ka S” phone, with jack for features, intended for Japan’s Tu-ka cellular network. And when I say “jack for features,” I mean i—this phone is equipped with no LCD of any sort. Sure, I understand how it’s supposed to be simple, but you can’t even tell what numbers (if any) you’ve…
Blaming competition and slacking sales, Sharp has announced their intention to sell through their existing SL-6000 Linux-based handheld and then withdraw from the American PDA market. Sharp will continue to provide support and service for existing products lines for the immediate future. The company joins Sony and Toshiba in removing itself from the collapsing US…
In a land that time forgot—but just for a second, then time was like, “Oh, duh. America!”—there was a fancy little automotive audio system called the Chrysler “Hiway Hi-Fi,” that used nothing so fantastic as a magnetic tape, but instead a proprietary type of record developed by CBS Labs with music from Columbia Records. Surprisingly,…