A Californian company called Entempo is marketing a new hard disk-based player called the ‘Spirit,’ that sort of looks goofy (and probably a bit big, if it uses a 2.5-inch drive), but offers quite a bit of bang for the buck. For just $200—and as low as $140 at some places online—you can get a … Continued
Professionals into High Definition video will dig Sony’s new “HVR-M10J” HDV recorder, intended for use with non-linear editing systems. Hell, I’m not an editing professional into high definition video, and I still like it. Not only does it support HDV up to 1080i, it also supports good old DVCAM and DV (SP), so you can … Continued
Arms. Legs. You value yours, don’t you? That’s why we here at Gizmodo think you should steer clear of Sharp’s new $3000+ Blu-Ray recorder. It is the first Blu-Ray recorder to feature an internal 160GB hard drive, but gee whiz. Sure, you get a DVD burner thrown in the unit “for free,” but would you … Continued
Just caught wind of this new ultralight from Seagull Aerosports, unveiled at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh back in July. Basically, you buy the cockpit (or “pod” as the manufacturer calls them) and attach wings from a standard hang glider. The pods come in two versions, the Escape Pod and the Pod Racer. The primary difference … Continued
It finally happened. Someone with a prosthetics lab has made a real ‘Thumb Drive.’ It’s a 128MB version that is going for $30 right now on eBay, but they promise larger sizes are to come. I’m going to go whimper softly in a corner for a bit if you don’t mind. (Thanks, William!) REAL THUMB … Continued
Product Highlights • PAC-MAN, Ms. PAC-MAN, Galaxian, and MAPPY for Palm OS [NamcoGames] (Site goes up later today.) • New Flash Players from Samsung [ChaitGear] • Wireless chips embedded in paper [TheInquirer] • DivX Portable Media Devices [I4U] • eCoustics Gift Guide [eCoustics] • Samsung SCH-A815 Slider Phone [PhoneArena] Reviews • Club 3D OmniChrome [TrustedReviews] … Continued
I need to build a loft over the bed in our apartment, because we have a big open space with no closets and need a way to pack stuff away that doesn’t involve fire. Unfortunately, my technique with lumber is the same barely-successful one I use when programming or babysitting: just keep hitting it with … Continued
Samsung’s OneNAND flash memory, previously only available in densities up to 512Mb (that’s megabits), has now doubled and will be availble in 1Gb (that’s right, gigabit) shortly. This high-speed flash, for use in all kinds of mobile devices from cameras to PDAs, can be read at over 100MB (yes, megabytes) per second, which is four … Continued
The SMS Guerilla Projector takes messages sent to it via SMS and projects them onto any surface. Built from a cellphone, a camera, and slide projector by the London-based collective ‘Troika,’ the idea is to shoot messages onto surfaces that might engender a reaction from surprised drivers, causing them to take wrong turns, veer off … Continued
As of this Friday, you’ll be able to pick up Motorola’s V265 from Verizon for around $150, or $100 after rebate. Nothing particularly exciting here, unfortunately, with a relatively crappy camera (640 by 480), no Bluetooth, etc. But it does feature BREW 2.1 so you can send even more money to Verizon for downloading add-ons … Continued
From Coleman, known mainly in the US for their camping and outdoorsy equipment, comes the King Cobra multifunction lantern, TV, AM and FM + weather band radio, and siren(!?), perfect for sitting by the fire and watching grainy newscasts on a tiny black and white screen. Not bad for $90, I guess, but I’d rather … Continued
Speaking of Google rumors, check out this bit from reader Mark Consuegra: I’ve been using the google SMS feature since I heard about it on Gizmodo and it’s definitely behavior changing. I’ve saved at least $5-10/month on directory assistance calls I would have begrudingly had to make, and I like not dealing with an operator. … Continued
Looks like Gmail is about to officially offer POP access, according to this message in their support database. This function has already been enabled by lots of third party tools, but has been expected from Google themselves for quite a while. It doesn’t appear to be actually be enabled yet—not for me, anyway; a few … Continued
My buddy Noah Shachtman runs a blog called DefenseTech—if you’ve been reading Gizmodo for long at all you’ve probably seen a few links from here (what can I say, he buys me bourbon). After a long, sordid dance he’s finally enlisted with Military.com to sponsor DefenseTech, which I presume means he can now devote more … Continued
Enlux is the first company to release LED-based lightbulb replacements for your household halogen and incandescents. They claim their white bulb alternatives are twice as energy efficient (colored bulbs more than ten times as efficient) with estimated lifetimes of around 50,000 hours of operation. That’s more than five years continuously lit, and even then they … Continued
Vodafone has lit-up its 3G wireless network in a variety of markets (none of them which are the US, just in case you were a bit confused). To go along with the launch, they’ve introduced 10 new phones, including the Sharp 902, the first 2-megapixel cameraphone in Europe [pictured]. We’ll have more details later if … Continued
It’s a passively interactive art project, but more importantly, it’s a robot. Translator II: Grower senses the carbon dioxide level in the air via a small digital CO2 sensor, and gradually wheels itself around the room, graphing the CO2 levels on the wall in green ink. I guess as a robot it’s kind of boring—it … Continued
Niveus Media has announced its upgrade plans for purchasers of its Niveus AVX Media Center 2004 PCs—something that shouldn’t be so noteworthy, but with all snuffle about Gateway’s lack of an upgrade path for its products is probably worth mentioning. Niveus has two options: pay $10 for an upgrade CD; or pay between $600 and … Continued
Four Saudi Arabian ministers have suggested the Kingdom-wide ban on cameraphones be repealed, due to the overwhelming influx of phones equipped with cameras —and perhaps as an acknowledgment of the backwards thinking that prompted the ban in the first place. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to have a ban on the … Continued
Little more info and a pic of those potentially wearable speakers we talked about last Friday. It looks like you can pick up a 5.5cm by 30cm strip of speaker material for under $150 from Protro. Not bad, but a whole leisure suit might be prohibitively expensive at this point. Also, looking at the pic, … Continued