The newest iPod patent says that the “touch” and the “screen” don’t have to go together. The next gen iPod will have a normal display covering the front, and a separate touch surface on the back. Here’s how it’ll work. The front screen of the iPod or iPod nano shows…
We really like the idea of ebooks, but their low contrast and pokey refresh rate just about ruins the experience when using devices such as the Sony PRS-500 Reader pictured above. Now, Cambridge, Massachusetts, company E Ink, the inventor of this tech, has decided to spruce it up with a…
The iSave is a rather simple gadget that has just clinched the runner-up prize in Metropolis Magazine’s 2007 Next Generation Awards. Attach it to either your sink or a showerhead and it will show you just how much water you are using for your morning’s ablutions/scrubbing last night’s taco melt…
The least tempting thing about 3’s X-Series so far has been the handset range: for such an inspiring network concept, the handsets were what I like to call Minogues… as in Danni. Nice enough, but there are others you’d rather spend your time with. But NOW! Things are looking a…
If looking at the news gives you the idea that the world is going to hell and the Apocalypse is about to break loose on Earth, look no further. What you hear is the noise of thunder and the trumpet-playing beast, because we have found the definitive proof: Behold, the…
In an interesting reversal, departed PC World Editor Harry McCracken has returned to the magazine as “vice-president, editor in chief”. What’s even more surprising is that CEO Colin Crawford has been dropped from the CEO position and is taking up the executive vice president, online position. He’s even given the…
There are some great Mac Mini setups out there, but none of them would hold up to military conditions. Enter VictorSystems. They took your typical pint-sized Mac and covered it in aluminum armor, wrought plates and finned heat sinks. Now the Mini is combat ready. But what good is a…
There’s more than one fancy slider out there, you know. If you are sick of the Ocean (Already? You’re too jaded, my friend), then feast your eyes on the Pantech IM-R200. It’s a slider that features two LCD screens, one that slides out from beneath the other. While one might…
We’ve had the Helio Ocean for a few hours now, so we thought it’d be a good time to go over the core features and answer a few of your questions while we were at it. First off, the core features. The dual sliding works just as well as we…
Okay, he didn’t specifically talk about the same Folding that the PS3 does, but a similar research application. Moore told Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News: Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners,…
We hit up Intel’s launch party this afternoon to check out some more next-gen Centrino Duo goodness and much to our surprise we came across a pair of fresh-outta-the-oven small form factor PCs that plan on borrowing features from the new mobile platform. First up is AOpen’s new Mini PC…
Gizmodo is among the lucky dozen to get a finished production boxed version of the Helio Ocean. This phone of enormous importance to Helio, Earthlink, and Sky Dayton. It’s got to be the company’s Sidekick, Q and iPhone killer all in one. We’ve already shown you video of Ocean in…
Buffoons at the Department of Homeland Security have come up with yet another genius plan. Deputy Director Rolf Dietrich thinks it would be “a really, really neat thing” to equip all cellphones with special detection devices that could sense radioactive isotopes, toxic chemicals, anthrax and any other creepy-crawlies that might…
You can’t have a new laptop without a bump in the graphics department. Today NVIDIA bought its GeForce 8xxx series GPUs to the mobile world, introducing them as the 8600M and 8400M (GeForce 8M Series). These GPUs are the first ones to bring DirectX 10 compatibility to your notebook, In…
If, like Shakira, you need to be connected Whenever, Wherever, then Teltonika’s little HSDPA USB modem has your name written all over it (rather like my brother thinks Shakira should have his name written all over her). Plug the little thingo into your laptop and you should have high-speed Internet…
Behold the Microsoft oPhone. “This phone breaks every paradigm we’ve ever had,” earnestly intones the Microsoft employee on this video spoof shown at Mix ’07, a conference held by Microsoft for Web designers, developers and decision-makers in Las Vegas last week. Judging from this video, it looks like the company…
So today marks the debut of Intel’s new Santa Rosa platform. Aside from the fact that your notebook is officially outdated, what else does this mean? What does Santa Rosa offer that you’re missing out on, and more importantly, is it enough to warrant buying a new lappie? First things…
Since the Apple TV set-top box does have an operating system on board, it is possible to run games on it, and Omelette 1.0 is the first one created specifically for it. It’s a simple puzzle game by some dawg named Canis Lupus where you line up eggs, and as…
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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…
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…
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….
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…
If you’re like Adam over at Lifehacker who has a copy of Vista but a graphics card from 1997, nVidia’s got you covered. The latest entry-level GeForce 7200 GS is their cheapest standalone graphics card, but still meets the requirements Microsoft’s set for running Aero. It’s 50% better than integrated…
No, it’s not a magic eye. It’s actually 426,000 cell phones, the same amount that are given the ol’ pink slip every day in the United States alone. Artist Chris Jordan thought that this number was just too big to imagine, so he decided to put it into perspective for…
Designed to match Kohler’s WaterTile Body Spray shower nozzles, these Polk Audio SoundTile speakers give you music in the shower without having to balance a ghetto boombox precariously on the tub lip. The 4-inch by 4-inch speakers are connected by coax wires to your sound source on the outside of…
Pioneer Europe just unveiled details on their 8th generation Plasma tech 24 hours before the US event. This is something we heard about at CES, and that HDTV lovers can get riled up about. (Go ahead, woot out loud, it makes sense this time.) The most important pieces of the…
Late Night’s Conan O’Brien recently traveled out to San Francisco to shoot a week’s worth of shows. During his time out there he managed to visit some pretty famous studios, including Lucasfilm and Intel (who were sponsoring his San Franscisco shows). Check out part 1 of his Lucasfilm visit above,…
If you’re a fan of Sony Ericsson’s P990 Symbian smartphone, you’ll definitely scream like a little girl when you hear about the newest P1 phone. Not only is it 25% smaller than the 990, it’s got a 3.2-megapixel camera, 512MB Memory Stick Micro slot, push email through BlackBerry Connect, Wi-Fi…
Who needs stairs? They’re so last century. If I had my druthers, going up a floor in a building would be done via escalator, and going down would be done via slide. Giant tube slides, to be exact. You might think it’s impractical, but that would just mean that you’ve…
In addition to the S500 we showed you earlier, Sony Ericsson is also tossing out the T650, a cousin to that slim slider. A candybar, it packs a beefier 3.2-megapixel camera while remaining only 12.5-mm thick. It’s also a 3G phone, making checking your email or RSS feeds a snappier…
