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Phew. Snappy name, eh? So snappy there’s no room on the headline for a bad pun. Lucky you, I say. Anyway, this is a new ExpressCard/54-compatible sound card that uses Creative’s X-Fi Crystallizer and 3CMSS-3D technology to give your laptop surround sound. There’s a 7.1-channel speaker docking module and all this creamy white goodness (which begs the question: if it’s only Windows-compatible, why did they do it in white?) will cost you $106 from late May. – Ad Dugdale
Creative “XFi” of XCard/54 Correspondence [PC Watch through Google Translate]
Today is a very exciting day for Gizmodo. Serious, too. We’ve got all sorts of exciting cellphone news. But first something for the best communication device I can think of: the penis. This surgical stainless steel corkscrew-cum-caterpillar thingy (the Ouch! factor is lessened by its silicone rubber “comfort contact zones” )is the Extensys 4000, a “penile elongation therapy device” according to its creators, Dr Ameyda and Dr Cenilo.
The good doctors’ boast is that nightly use of the Extensys 4000 over a four month period will give you an extra 1 centimeter in the trouser department. They also claim bigger and better orgasms, a higher sex drive (of course – you’re going to want to show off your new willy, aren’t you?) and harder erections. By the way, Ameyda is an orthodontist, but ladies, don’t let your boyfriend persuade you that it will fix your teeth while it’s working on him. – Ad Dugdale
Product Page [Extensys Lab]
The gigantastic high-definition Toshiba Qosmio G40 someone leaked last month
is out in Japan and soon it will be available all over the world. As expected, it comes along with the Qosmio F40 just in time to join all that hot Santa Rosa action from LG, Samsung and HP.
Unlike the HP Dragon, that 20-inch titan that can be used as a laptop, desktop, surf board and truck loading bay, the 17-inch panoramic Qosmio G40 is a full high definition beast. It’s powered by a NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB of RAM, running at 1,920 x 1,200 pixel. The top of the line model comes with a Core 2 Duo T7300 processor, 320GB hard drive and a HD DVD player/recorder built-in, plus 1 GB of flash RAM for accelerated Vista operation. To complement its HDTV capability it also comes with digital/analog TV tuner (yes, that thing on the side is the antenna), remote control and four speakers, plus HDMI and S/PDIF digital AV outputs.
Enough? Not really. This technological terror even comes with more stuff, right after the jump.
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Everything’s coming up Santa Rosa these days, it seems, and this is the first whiff coming from Samsung. The SENS P55 notebook is a tough-looking silver machine with 15-inch screen. As well as a fingerprint reader and TPM module, there’s a speedy GeForce 8600M GS graphics chip, which might give you better gaming, if that’s what you want to use it for.
Not as sexy as yesterday’s fetishists’ dream, LG’s X-Note laptop, but good-looking specs. Right after the jump.
Here’s the deal on the Palm Treo 755: It’s a 750 generation variant, running on Palm OS and Sprint instead of Windows Mobile and AT&T/Cingular/Whatever. That means its got that Sprint EVDO we know and love, even if it is at slightly slower Revision 0 speeds of 400-600 kilobits/sec.
On the hardware side of things, the phone has an Intel Xscale 312MHz proc, 128MB or RAM, and a 320×320 screen (instead of the Samsung 300MHz chip and the 240×240 screen of the Treo 750), and will come in blue and dark red in that silky velvechron finish I can’t stop manhandling. On the software side of things, Palm’s shipped the phone with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Bejeweled, IM for AIM, Yahoo! and MSN, and some unique Google Map integration.
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Google Maps tweaks are…
The HP Mobility Summit is going down in Shanghai as we speak, and they’ve just unleashed no less than 13 lappies. I don’t care about any of them as much as I care about the Santa Rosa powered HDX Dragon, previously leaked, now unveiled in all its scaly glory. The 20-inch pivot hinged monster that is built to bite Acer and Dell’s 20-inch lappies right on their ass. Beyond our explanation of what we like, two Giz friends happened to get video tours and reviews on day-zero.
I love this machine’s design. First off, the 20.1-inch widescreen ultrabright has a generous 1680 x 1050 resolution, backlit by two lamps. A hinge let’s it swivel from two places, the middle of the panel’s back and the standard location, for optimal screen positioning. HP even promises to bump the res to true 1080p-capable 1920 x 1200 pixels in a future version. Secondly, the keyboard tray is so generous that it can fit a media center remote in its left side, and a built in SD/HD OTA tuner (something many vendors have abandoned.)
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Laptop Mag reviewed one of the first preproduction samples, and quoted their performance results:
It’s springtime at New York University, which means the students in the Interactive Telecommunications Program truck out their graduation projects. These range from conceptual artworks (like Andrew Schneider’s “Experimental Devices for Performance” shown above) to innovative interfaces and games. This gallery shows just a few of the works on display. Look for more details on the most interesting projects later tonight and tomorrow. –Noah Robischon
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Look, your friends weren’t telling you, so I thought I’d step in and cut the crap. You need some schooling in the ways of taking good night photos.
While we’re on the tail end of our PMA camera lovefest, this spot enlightens us (hehe) on the dark art (haha… hmmm? Yeah, I’ll leave) of good low light shooting. I use the Slow Sync flash mode on my compact digital a lot, and this little spot of insight explains why it is such a clever flash mode. If you don’t know your rear curtain from your front, take a look.
Slow Sync Flash [Digital Photography School Blog]
Thanks Darren! Image by Voxphoto
Down at PMA I got a chance to get up close and personal with the new Mark III update to the EOS 1D from Canon. It’s a shame they have run out of numbers, because the Mark III doesn’t do justice to the fact this is a complete ground up rebuild of their flagship dSLR.
There is a lot of news out and about on this camera, so here are a few features you may not have spotted elsewhere (I hadn’t):
It looks more like the Canon HV10 than a Powershot, and it is a bit of an oddity in what it can do as well. The Canon TX1 is built to house a very smart 10x optical zoom, gives 7.1Mp images AND 1280×720 HD video as well. Optical stabilisation? Damn right.
When you first pick this one up, it feels really weird and you could give up due to the awkwardness. But after a quick two minutes of play, you find the ‘right’ way to hold it and then the whole thing clicks. These are some non-federation steps we’re seeing here, but it’s worth a test drive in a store before you dismiss the strange design. This is very portable, and delivers better imaging than most compacts because it has the housing room for a really good lens. Clever, clever.
The video is nice, but you won’t be getting more than a few minutes on even a 2GB card, but then isn’t most video about catching a good few moments here and there? I know I don’t use my old DV camcorder anymore. I catch my baby boy more often on the VGA video mode of my compact digital — easier to shoot, easier to share.
Once again, more pics below! -Seamus Byrne
UPDATE: Oh yeah! $699 too. None too shabby.
