It’s official: I can’t use normal mobile phones anymore. Clunky user interfaces, arbitrary conventions, learning curve… They should all die.
The Gadget: HP’s LX195, their stripped-to-the-core (but Apple Time Machine capable) implementation of the Windows Home Server, which comes with a 640GB internal drive, but can only be expanded via the four USB ports in the back.
The product: Le Whif, a puffable chocolate canister that offers the sensation of eating chocolate without the calories.
The Gear: E-Mu’s Pipeline low-latency wireless music system, which lets you cut the cord on your guitar-and-amp rig for about $US200, or add portable wireless connections to your home sound system.
A specialised networking card—with blingtastic LIGHTS—designed to murder lag for gamers, the $US130 Killer Xeno Pro practically screams “snake oil.” It’s not quite.
The Gadget: A 2000mAh battery pack for the iPhone that gives you portable juice for up to a day as well as a USB port for your other gadgets.
The Gadget: The Samsung Alias 2, a relatively standard phone that differentiates itself because it has 34 E-Ink buttons that change depending on your current app or orientation. Yes, that means QWERTY typing.
The Gadget: An IR to Bluetooth adaptor for the PS3, letting you use any Logitech Harmony universal remote to (finally) control your PlayStation 3.
The Gadget: The Logitech Harmony 1100, a touchscreen, colour universal remote that follows up the Harmony 1000 as the top-end unit in Logitech’s remote line.
newVideoPlayer("/balloon_gizmodo.flv", 504, 398,""); Fanboys rejoice, because now there’s an application that will let you “blow, touch, and play” with your iPhone: MyBalloon, an almost-perfect balloon simulator. Let the bad puns begin.
