Archive for December, 2007

Todays Gadgets

Monday, December 31st, 2007

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Our official Gizmodo Reader of the Year for 2007 is David Bacio, also known as Deputy Sheriff David Bacio. He was one of the runners-up in the Inappropriate Gizmodo Browsing contest, submitting a…

I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she’d talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle “ugly” btw, which is important as anything else for a gadget that’s designed to be looked…

Microsoft’s PR department are attempting new and innovative ways to get Windows products to the masses. Their latest effort involves the launch of a YouTube channel with various promotional content….

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Friday, December 28th, 2007

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Info is sketchy thus far, but Nikon lovers will be interested to know that the next lower-end digital SLR from the company might be called the D60, and reportedly will make its debut in Spring 2008….

We seldom find a use for wearing a Bluetooth headset on our ear when we’re not making calls, but this Wendy’s employee has found one of the only three valid exceptions. It all started when a…

While I desperately could use a new car (OK, it’s fine and I barely drive, but my ego could certainly use it), I have a hard time buying into any technology in the auto market. Gas prices are only…

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007

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Colorware, the company that spruces up iPods, iMacs, iPhones, Zunes and Xbox 360s are coming back with a series of new items starting with BlackBerries on New Year’s Eve. If you don’t already have a…

Bad news: Rhys Millen, the crazyperson who’s been prepping to do a backflip in a truck on New Year’s Eve all week, had a little accident. OK, so not that little of an accident, but that’s not going…

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Monday, December 24th, 2007

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The Christianity 2.0 movement continues in South Florida, where the town of Bal Harbour received a GPS-equipped Baby Jesus statue to replace a previously stolen Baby Jesus staute. A Cincinnati lawyer…

Hey, this is a little random, but if you’re bored visiting relatives with no gadgets to fiddle with, here’s a tutorial for making a a bottle rocket out of matches and foil. Beats helping with the…

Why ship your RRoD Xbox to Microsoft for free repair, when you can sink more money into it and use it as PC case? But all joking aside, Tech E Blog has a nice feature on this casemod, which features…

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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

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Have you ever imagined the romance of drifting off to sleep in front of a crackling fire, your favorite book spread open on your lap, perhaps, and a cup of coffee or cocoa beside you? Perhaps the reason that [more…]

Dell’s XPS M1530 is no slouch on the specs front, so the crummy low-res screen you were stuck with was a mildly bewildering (non-)choice. Cue power of the internets, and Dell’s open ear via…

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Friday, December 21st, 2007

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Guitar Hero, the game that lets you pretend to rock with a plastic guitar, has just been ported onto Verizon and Verizon cellphones, which don’t look anything like a guitar. For $11.99 (or $4.49 a…

The Nokia N-Gage gaming system has already returned in software form on current series phones, but this patent for a handheld-like device seems to show that Nokia wants to make another serious thrust…

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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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This concept design for a hammock is very admirable, but it fails on many levels. One, it takes away the enjoyment of watching people wrestle unsexily with a bunch of string puporting to be a bed….

An earphone microphone, aimed atpeople who work in loud environments—construction, lawenforcement, showbiz reporters at a Michael Jackson trial—has been developed by Sanyo. In…

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Saturday, December 15th, 2007

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Do you like to play Frisbee? Many people can spend hours and hours chasing those simple plastic disks with their friends, be it at a park, on the beach, or even in the relative privacy of their yards, but [more…]

While one of the major quibbles with Kindle is its sure-to-darken-your-wallet $400 pricetag, apparently knowledge is priceless, since the sold-out snowspeeders have been going for up to $1500 on…

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Thursday, December 13th, 2007

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Tiger Direct has the Logitech Harmony 550 universal remote control for a cheap $69.99. We’ve got one of these ourselves, so we can safely say that it’s the most cost- and time-effective way to…

What do you get for the man who has everything this Christmas? Well does he have a Terminator? No, we didn’t ask if he had HD DVD. Does he have a Terminator? Yeah, that’s what we thought. Well, if…

The oft-bought-and-sold ReplayTV found a new master today in the form of DirecTV. My theory is that they just really liked each other’s names. (In case you didn’t realize it, there’s no such thing as…

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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Now that USB video is a reality for many PC users, it makes sense that someone would take that technology wireless. It also makes sense that it would come from DisplayLink, developers of the USB…

As promised, here are stats for 20 different Intel chips from the past 35 years, most of which I included briefly in the Moore’s Law video I made earlier, along with bonus factual tidbits I came…

Johnny Lee’s description of “Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote” may sound boring, but it’s actually a very cool and very innovative use of the Wiimote. Since you can hook…