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iPhone Call Recorder: There Is A Fugly Piece Of Hardware For That
4:30AM Joanna Stern | If there isn’t an app you deem decent, make an unattractive, bulky hardware solution. At least that was this guy’s idea. Apparently making a switch box was the only way to inconspicuously record iPhone calls. More »
Gadgets
Sony PCM-M10 Provides Some Pro Features At “Budget” Price
10:30AM Jack Loftus | The next Cronkrite you certainly aren’t, but this $US400 “pro-level” PCM-M10 recorder from Sony might give that semi-serious blogger gig you have based in the garage a bit more chutzpah when you’re making interviews out in the field. More »
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11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More »
LG’s ‘Time Machine’ Plasma Don’t Actually Travel Through Time
11:04AM Nick Broughall | Considering LG launched its first HDTV with a build in hard drive years ago, I’m surprised we haven’t seen other companies offering the same feature. Maybe it was just that they hadn’t come up with a cool name for it, like ‘Time Machine’. More »
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Unnamed Japanese Electronics Catalog Circa 1970
12:50AM Mark Wilson | For the record, I would gladly purchase that Great Gazooish television today. [Dark Roasted Blend via bbGadgets] More »
Entertainment
11:53AM Nick Broughall | Panasonic this morning showed off their latest Blu-ray hardware, including two new Blu-ray recorders, a couple of Blu-ray players (BD Profile 2.0 FTW) and a portable Blu-ray player with the power to solve world hunger. Okay, maybe not, but it’s still pretty cool. More »
Panasonic Unveils New Blu-ray Hardware
11:53AM Nick Broughall | Panasonic this morning showed off their latest Blu-ray hardware, including two new Blu-ray recorders, a couple of Blu-ray players (BD Profile 2.0 FTW) and a portable Blu-ray player with the power to solve world hunger. Okay, maybe not, but it’s still pretty cool. More »
Gadgets
A Look at the Mysterious ‘Black Box’
5:40AM Mark Wilson | Any time a plane goes down, the black box recorder, once again, becomes a mythical machine whispered about in the back alleys of news broadcasts. So Wired assembled a technological rundown on the device. More »
Science
New Technology Could Display Your Dreams on Screen
3:00AM Sean Fallon | A research team at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Japan has successfully displayed simple images produced in the human brain on a computer screen. Dream recorder anyone? More »
Gadgets
Cogi Writes Down Your Conversations So You Don’t Have To
7:20AM Mark Wilson | As a lazy writer who is occasionally forced to interview an actual person, I still haven’t found the perfect solution to transcribing phone interviews without doing it myself. But a service called Cogi looks promising. More »
Gadgets
Teac’s LP-R500 CD-Equipped Record Player Fell Through Ugly Timewarp
1:30AM Kit Eaton | Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. This is Teac’s LP-R500. Ugh. Sorry, I’ll try pulling myself together: it’s a modern version of what my grandad used to call a “radiogramme,” cramming in an FM radio, a CD player, cassette player and record deck into one sleek ancient, massive, clunky box along with an amp and speakers. Admittedly it does let you record your vinyl and tapes to CD. But… ugh. Yours for an ugly $US700. [Akihabaranews via Dvice] More »
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