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AT&T Wireless is now offering Motorola’s V505 [pictured], V220, and V180 quad-band GSM phones. All include the usual cast of creature features: MP3, speakerphone, MMS, laser shuriken, etc. The V505 alone offers Bluetooth; all but the V180 do video playback. Indeed, the V505 looks a lot like a GSM version of the V710 with less…
Good news for Korean diabetics (although they probably already know all about it—this has apparently been in the Asian press for a while), the LG KP8400 is a phone, a crappy camera, and a blood sugar testing device. LG got together with healthcare manufacturer Healthpia for this otherwise unremarkable phone, and it sure does bring…
Hey awesome, a $200 five-megapixel camera! Without any sort of optical zoom! And “the worst LCD screen that I have seen on any of the digital cameras that I have reviewed,” says Mark Goldstein! Wow, that Concord Eye-Q 5062AF sounds great! I ate some pills! I’m going to hug everybody! Concord Eye-Q 5062AF [PhotographyBlog]
Halo Labs is developing an airbag system for motorcyclists that fits inside a jacket and was kind enough to put three hypnotic, cringe-inducing, yet hilarious videos of their product tests online. I especially like the end of video one, where the cartoon man is launched over a car, tumbling and spinning, only to land in…
I don’t know anything about this sound system, but I know what I like: turn up that motherfucking sousaphone! (Thanks, Kokogiak!) Update: Gizmodo readers come through. It’s a speaker system from Avant Garde. Product Page [AvantGarde-USA]
It’s obviously not quite ready to go into production, but Toshiba is showing off one of its 0.85 inch hard drives… not exactly inside an SDIO card, but more like glued on-top-of. That promises two potential options: a hard drive in SD form-factor, as PDALive proposes or an SDIO version of the hard drive where…
The folks Turtle Beach were kind enough to inform us that they’ve announced a new PCI-based video capture system as of yesterday (they sent us the sweetest press release, really). The Video Advantage PCI captures from a wide array of digital and analog sources, and includes something not entirely unlike Creative’s Live! Drive to bring…
The world of designer phones just got a little pinker with the announcement of the Baby Phat by pot-smoking model-cum-psuedodesigner Kimora Lee Simmons. The Phat, based on Motorola’s i830, is a painful mess of faux feminine frailty, criss-crossed by pleated reminders of the day bed your uncle first touched you on. Not that I think…
CEATEC JAPAN 2004 coverage continues today with a few random, but still cool, technologies. It seems like things have basically gone into “chill” mode until Saturday, the final day of the show. Today’s coverage includes a “reversible LCD,” bandwidth of the human body, a camcorder with 802.11b streaming, and a capacitator to charge laptops in…
Impress Watch has pictures of a new Nano-ITX board from VIA and it’s pretty amazing. When almost your whole motherboard can be cooled by a single spanning heatsink, I’d say you’ve just opened up a whole new world for case modders and home theater nuts. The Nano-ITX board on display, the Epia-N, uses an 800MHz…
Google has quietly added an SMS service to its offerings, allowing you to get local business listings, product prices, dictionary definitions, and more just by sending a short message to 46645 (GOOGL). I just tried it and didn’t get a response back, but I also have a hard time getting calls in this apartment sometimes,…
Good Lord, the iPod rumors are starting again. Think Secret is claiming Apple is set to release a 60GB version with a 2-inch color LCD, iPhoto synchronization, and audio/video-out to fit into their currently absent $500 price point. Their sources say the new units are already in production and should see delivery within the next…
According to yesterday’s press release from Samsung, the tri-band SGH-D500 (which we first told you about here) has been unveiled and is scheduled to hit the European market in the fourth quarter of this year. It remains pretty vanilla features-wise for a Euro phone, but it does have a pretty reasonable 80MB of storage for…
PCMag’s review of the Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router illustrates the promise of the yet-to-be-ratified 802.11n standard—the speed of the Pre-N networking is of the most bad of asses, like 40Mbps at 60feet (4x that of 802.11g)—but there’s always a danger in using devices that are pre-standard. If Belkin’s implementation differs from the final spec, you…
I4U is reporting that the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T3, the even smaller follow-up to the already wafer-thin DSC-T1 is in stores, available for as low as $470. And unlike the Japan-only DSC-T11, the T3’s lens has an electrically-operated cover that will keep it suitable for pockets. Sony DSC-T3 in Stores Now! [I4U] Related New Sony Cybershots,…
Rollei, previously mentioned for their nifty-looking MiniDigi vintage analog look-alike, has a new camera available ‘as of mid of October’ according to their web site. With a 4.2 megapixel CCD, a pretty nice 10x optical zoom lens, and a relatively fast 3.3 frames per second shutter speed, they look to have a pretty decent product…
Our new brother site Kotaku has information about a new home arcade cabinet called the “Quasimoto,” a three-flavor cabinet that not only plays PC games—presumably for something like retro-gaming emulator MAME—but also for Xbox, Playstation 2, and Gamecube. Matt brings up a good question: why would we want to play home console games standing up…
Maybe not cutting edge, but pretty neat nonetheless. The Perific Wireless Dual Mouse allows you to move around, do whatever is natural, while retaining your mouseability. No more hunching over a desk for cursor control. Stand up, sit down, lie down, whatever you like. It may not change the world, but it could change the…
Motorola is saying the MPx220 clamshell smartphone is “on its way!” I don’t know if that means its shipping to stores, mailing out to pre-orderers, or on a slow boat crossing the Pacific. However it pans out, expect it soon. Plus, the first 1,000 people who register an MPx220 purchased through AT&T Wireless will get…
Impress Watch’s coverage of Day 2 of CEATEC JAPAN 2004 continues, as we “acquire” more images from them to show to you, valued Gizmodo reader. As is usually the case with the second days of conventions, this day was much more low-key than yesterday. In fact, most of the coverage today won’t be on products…