Thursday, February 7, 2008
Phones
Motorola Gifts Personalised Copies of Its ROKR E8 to Oscar Nominees
11:54PM Addy Dugdale | Just like they did at last year’s ceremony, Motorola is gifting 2008’s Oscar nominees with personalised versions of its as-yet-unreleased ROKR E8. Yeah, yeah, you probably think we are turning into a celebrity website, but, given the past few weeks of will they, won’t they? speculation as to whether they are getting out of the handset market, this announcement means, IMO, one thing. More »
Music
Heart MP3 Players Lock Together With a Kiss, Lock Us Over Sickbag
11:22PM Gizmodo US Edition | These MP3 players grab on to every single lovey-dovey Valentine’s cliché: a separable pair of players for you and your other half, that look like kissing lovers when they’re stuck together in a cutesy heart shape. We don’t know where you can buy them, but we do know they’ve got touch controls, have 1GB memory each, cost the equivalent of $61 in China and are absolutely sick-makingly hideous. [Zol, New Launches] More »
Music
Toshiba T802 8GB Gigabeat Is Wireless, Slim and Cheap
10:12PM Addy Dugdale | Toshiba has upgraded and updated the Gigabeat T401. Now known as the T802, the slimline PMP now has wireless network connectivity, 8GB of flash memory, and claims 16 hours of MP3 playback or five hours’ video use with WMV support. Price is $300, available in Japan from February 15. [Impress through Google Translate] More »
Music
Toshiba Gigabeat V81: More Screen, More Memory, More of the Same
9:49PM Gizmodo US Edition | The new Toshiba’s Gigabeat V81 portable digital TV has a 320 x 240-pixel 3.5-inch screen, fitting 40 hours of recorded TV into its internal 8GB memory, which is double the previous version, expandable with an SD card. They claim 10 hours of broadcast viewing, and 13 hours of playback video viewing with WMA, WMV and MP3 compatibility. Too bad the TV reception only works in Japan, where it will be out for $350 this month. [AV Watch and Akihabaranews] More »
Gadgets
Magno Radio Gives Your Tunes Some Eco-Friendly Wood
9:44PM Gizmodo US Edition | This Magno radio is simplicity with knobs on, very retro-toytown, if you ask me. Designed by Singgih Kartono, it is made from sustainable wood instead of nasty non-biodegradable plastic like every other audio gadget out there. It’s “MP3 player compatible,” (which we guess means it’s got a line in) has AM/FM and shortwave reception, and is available for a whopping US$275 from April 1. [Areaware via LikeCool] More »
Phones
Modu Mobile Phone Changes Function with Jackets
8:38PM Jesus Diaz | Modu’s tiny mobile phone could be inserted into multiple “jackets” to change its function. Or better said, the Modu phone carries your data, giving your personality to whatever gadget you insert it into, GameBoy cartridge style. After seeing all the pictures of the different jackets and the announced prices, the video and the idea makes a lot more sense now. More »
Phones
Leaked Motorola M990 GPS Phone is a Car Phone? Wha?
6:10PM Jason Chen | Unwired View points out the weirdness in this Motorola M990 Smart Rider GSM phone. Yes, it’s got an integrated GPS, EDGE and quad-band GSM, but its description makes it seem like it’s tailored for 1993, not 2008. More »
Design
Norwegian Ski Hotel Placed Right On The Slopes
2:45PM Adrian Covert | io9 found this great concept by Danish design architects BIG which places a hotel against the side of a mountain with the idea that hotel patrons can finish off a ski or snowboard run by riding directly to their floor. The hotel looks absolutely epic, and I like the way the wavy lines of the hotel match the tracks left on snow by skis and snowboards. [BIG via io9] More »
Gadgets
This Is Not What Your Girlfriend Wants For Valentine’s Day
2:05PM Matt Buchanan | Sixteen years ago, after watching too many MC Hammer videos, Paul Lyons decided to patent the sleaziest thing he could think of (imagine taking that guy from Dual Action Cleanse infomercial’s face and turning it into an equivalently sleazy product): A condom that plays music with every thrust. More »
Cameras
