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UK model train outfit Hornby has developed a locomotive engine that is powered by real steam, yet runs on standard ’00’ gauge, 12-volt track. After filling a small tank with distilled water, the locomotive slowly heats up over the next five to ten minutes, using power from the track like a regular toy engine. Then,…
Digital underwater photography is really coming into its own, with the rapid adoption of digital cameras pushing out a lot of the film-based units of the past. No surprise, really, especially when you consider the massive additional number of photos flash memory gives a photographer in an environment where switching film means switching cameras or…
Some rabid PalmOne fans noticed this page over the weekend on the Software Connection site, a ‘Top Ten Software Downloads’ collection for the yet-to-be-announced Treo 650. Shown in a tiny image are three versions of the 650, in what appears to be a carrier-branded blue model on the left (some have speculated AT&T, T-Mobile, or…
Good morning, internets friends. I have a hell of a headache—not from whisky, as you might suppose, but from an unknown culprit. I suspect yesterday’s marathon Katamari Damacy session might have a little bit to do with it. It’s a hard row we bloggers hoe, but I’m sure I’ll make it somehow. https://serif.kinja.com/the-happiest-days-of-our-lives-21830 On a…
The Bookeen Cybook is an odd bird. They are pitching it as an eBook reader, and with a 10-inch 800 by 600 pixel screen and the ability to read a variety of open eBook standards (PRC, PDB, DOC, HTML, RTF and TXT, although no PDF) it is probably better than using, say, another smaller PDA…
PhoneMag reports that the Motorola MPx220 will be available nationwide in Best Buys from Sunday on, for those of you who really wanted to get your hands on one but weren’t lucky enough to live near a Best Buy that participated in the soft launch. Phonemag actually flew out and picked up one last week…
Mitsubishi is planning on releasing a $400 heads-up-display for those looking for bargain-basement augmented reality or just an at-hand excuse on why you never, ever get laid. That’s going to pull them out of their poor financials, I’m sure. I just realized this post is going to haunt me when I’m caught wearing one of…
It is good to know that this horrible week is capped off by a single bit of good news: Liebermann Computers is dead. I don’t hate small businesses or anything—in fact, I love watching well-run startups kick the ass of the big players (see: NewEgg)—but when a company whose stock in trade was not innovation…
XM Radio had quietly pulled its XM-to-PC interface off the market right before announcing its new music service that let subscribers listen to XM stations on their PCs (but not record anything). That put a real cramp in the plans of TimeTrax, the company (guy?) whose software allowed XM subscribers to record copies of songs…
Kotaku has word on the new Logitech Wireless Xbox Headset, a rechargeable over-the-ear boom with a 30-foot range. It’s definitely on the expensive side at $80, but Logitech has also really been making stand-out wireless gaming accessories this year, so it might just be worth it. Of course, I’d have to upgrade to Xbox Live…
The headline may ring your duh-bell, because this was semi-announced at the Tokyo Game Show—but in fact, it wasn’t entirely “announced,” in the formal sense anyway. The news that the PSP would support MP3 came from the specifications sheet distributed during the Tokyo Game Show. Not like it matters though, because as it turns out,…
Product Highlights • Logitech Unveils Harmony 680 Remote [DesignTechnica] • More on WAZ Tempe Electric Wi-Fi Carts [Tian] Business • Neilsen To Add DVR Viewing Habits Into Ratings System [HomeTheater.About] • iRiver Turns Focus on In-Dash MP3 Players [MP3NewsWire] • Netflix sees Amazon entering DVD rentals [CNet] Reviews • Sony DCR-PC350 Camcorder Review [CamcorderInfo] •…
Microsoft commissioned a design firm to come up with some potential “Media Center PC of the future” concepts, including this wall-mounted version with a removable touchscreen, and this magazine-rack design with a wood veneer. Can’t say I’m too fond of the wood grain on it (unless it were real wood), but I have to admit…
Information about the new Zaurus SL-C3000 units is coming out of Japan and it’s a serious contender. Not only is it in the flip-top clamshell with QWERTY keyboard form-factor that we’re so fond of, it also happens to come with a built-in 4GB microdrive. Now why, you might ask, would I be excited about the…
Speaking of hating children, there’s no better way to distract them from their plans for world domination than to keep them knee-deep in toys and games. That’s why it’s your duty to drop everything and check out this year’s Child’s Play Charity, sponsored by the crew at Penny-Arcade. Last year’s charity raised over $250k worth…
Now I’m going to presume that if you’re a Gizmodo reader who also has sired those mewling, soft-skulled futures-of-our-species that marketing drones call “kidz” that you have enough presence of mind to completely pass over Mattel’s new “Juice Box” media player for children. The Juice Box is totally another attempt to befuddle over-protective parents who…
We don’t normally talk about kitchen products, but this Disney Smoothie Maker is just a little too bizarre to ignore. Nothing quenches like the liquified innards of a cartoon mouse’s dome, especially when dribbled out though his tracheal shunt. Available soon in a child’s nightmare near you. Press Release [PRNewsWire]
AlwaysOn Wireless wrote us to say that their WiFlyer portable Wi-Fi base station is now shipping. The WiFlyer stands apart from the variety of other portable Wi-Fi access points buy having a built-in modem, handy for setting up a mobile workspace when no quality internets are to be found. If you find yourself using your…
The JazzMutant LEMUR is a “MultiTouch Control Surface”—a touch-sensitive tablet, in demarketroided terms—that is designed to act as an interface for a variety of OpenSoundControl-capable software, including Reaktor. It’s not the hardware that makes it unique, exactly, but the library of modular control interfaces that can be put together to control music software in real-time.…
The Hip-E computers desperately want to be cool. I can understand that—I was young and white once, too. But here’s a little something I picked up on my way to being the pan-cultural icon I am today: no matter what marketing people tell you, wearing a Papa John’s button doesn’t give you any street cred.…