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I have a dirty secret: this is the first time that I’ve held the MPx. And as typical with meeting any internet crush in real life for the first time, I’m really surprised how huge it is. In phone-mode, it feels gigantic. In PDA mode, it feels better, but still awkward. Maybe it’s hard to…
Here’s a picture of those MuVo Micro flash players. They look nice, but not mind blowing. I actually tried—stared at them for almost ten long, intense seconds—but nope. Mind intact.
These are the new Creative Zen Micro 5GB players, and they do not suck. They have a very nice heft in the hand, and a nice, translucent plastic back cover, like an iPod had turned itself inside out. The screen is crisp and the touch pad is pleasing. It’s clear they’re betting a lot on…
I’ve forgotten the name of the company that makes these ‘home theater glasses,’ but let me tell you: boy, do they suck. Not only did they not line up to my eye, cutting off half the screen, the units kept falling apart when I tried to slip them onto my giant gourd. What image I…
PC Magazine’s booth had these clear ‘towers of technology,’ which I guess are the sort of things you have to display at a trade show when you don’t actually make anything yourself. Although most of the stuff was cool but crusty (at least to Gizmodo readers), they did have a pair of these new Dell…
Apex had their MP-2000 portable video player out on the floor, and it was everything a portable video player should be. Which is to say, it was portable, and it did play video. The controls were a little wonky to me, but I could get around and select clips just fine. I’ve seen better screens…
Well, the good news is that DigitalLife is better than CeBit America. The bad news is that CeBit America wasn’t a very high hurdle to leap. I’m on the show floor now, munching a corn muffin, and I thought I’d show you guys some of the stuff I’m seeing. Most of the stuff are things…
Looks like there will be a couple new kids on Cingular’s block soon: the all-in-one e317 [pictured] and the ‘little brother’ x427. The e317 has most of the features popular in the American market, including the near-ubiquitous integrated camera, dual color LCDs, and AIM or ICQ messaging, for $150. The x427, on the other hand,…
The OQO Model 01, finally having moved from the realm of vapor into the waiting hands of eager dweebs, is still the smallest ‘full PC’ yet (despite having been announced some 2390 years ago), complete with hard drive, FireWire, USB, QWERTY keyboard, and Windows XP Pro or Home—no CE here. But that doesn’t mean it’s…
Too bad this ‘costume’ will run you in the neighborhood of $800. Of course, it’s not really a costume, it’s actually the Cobra Nimbus: a military style low-light optical enhancer with IR illuminator and 1x zoom. Perfect for enabling you to see those big bully bastards crouched behind the bushes, waiting for you to walk…
GodMode got a hold of these pictures of this Sony Ericsson mystery phone. Anybody ever seen it before? It’s looks a little too out there to be a real unit to me. With its trapeze spinning screen it looks more like a design concept than a production phone. The original pics on GodMode are little…
Earlier last week I was charged with reviewing the Vapir by Air2, purported to be one of the cleanest and most effective methods to inhale plant products. In the name of research and Science I humbly accepted the responsibility. There are several models to choose from, but I had the corded version which starts at…
Good lord, Motorola dropped a whole boatload of phones last night. I don’t think it makes sense for us to into every last detail about them today, but there are some interesting overarching qualities, like the fact that they’re all clamshell and the fact that they all have Bluetooth. The sexiest is clearly the V620,…
I got a chance to fool around with Samsung’s Portable Media Center last night for a bit at the pre-event press boozing for the DigitalLife show. I should have taken a picture of the YH-999 with something next to it for reference, but you’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s much smaller…
Word up to Archos and the official announcement of the Gmini XS200, the claimed “world’s smallest” 20GB MP3 player (and it does look pretty tiny) that happens to have an extremely pleasing price—just $250. Archos’s other new small player, the Gmini 400, is already my favorite portable video player of this generation, so I have…
I’ve had a nasty bias against SC Johnson’s Scrubbing Bubbles ever since, as a small child, I discovered that the bubbles do not actually have whisker brush mustaches. I knew even then that they were not likely to be sentient—I wasn’t retarded— just like the Kool Aid man was not actually a living, breathing creature,…
Dead? No? That’s too bad—we’ve got a hot deal for you. The hot Death market has lead Japanese mega-price search site kakaku.com to open a new section they’re simply calling “Sougi,” meaning “funeral.” Though the funeral price-search engine currently covers only the greater Tokyo and Kanagawa areas, the company is planning on expanding it to…
We reported on K Opticom’s “Kaori Web” system back in July, which you may remember as “that computer that can create smells.” In the surprisingly vaporware-free country called Japan, PC Watch’s “Yajiuma PC Watch” feature has covered “Kaori Web” first-hand. Just for a quick recap, this system was jointly developed by Tsuji Wellness and France…
Yomiuri Shimbun brings word that Toshiba has developed a portable “Sleep Measurer,” which apparently measures the depth of one’s sleep. In what the company has called the “world’s first” of such a device, normal consumers can measure the depth of their sleep from the comfort of their own home. The measurements are based on the…
November 23rd will see the release of the “Celebrate Cell Phone Open!!! Tamagotchi Plus” electronic pets in Japan, from none other than original creator Bandai. The price is acceptable at around $20, but the main feature of the new toys is their ability to interface with your (Japanese) mobile phone via infrared. Exactly what this…