The Cartoon Network is selling a $40,000 replica of Space Ghost’s desk that features a pop-up 15-inch LCD screen, surround sound speakers, a built-in mini-fridge, and a cordless phone. I know a lot of people who like Space Ghost, but I doubt I’ve ever met a Space Ghost fan who was so fanatical that they’d … Continued
This week’s New York Times Magazine has a whole slew of great articles by James Gleick, Paul Boutin, Cory Doctorow, and others about the networked digital home. All of the pieces are available online, but this is one of those all-too-frequent weeks when picking up the Sunday Times is truly mandatory. Read
In case you missed any of them, some highlights from the past week of Gizmodo: Sony’s Personal Video Player is a reality Samsung’s i600 Smartphone out today Belkin backs down Gateway’s digital jukebox It gets worse for the N-Gage The tyranny of TiVo Sony’s new super skinny Vaio The Embrio Repeat after me: there is … Continued
ExtremeTech review of the Dimension 4600C Media Center PC, Dell’s new desktop PC running the new 2004 of Windows XP Media Center, Microsoft’s new version of the Windows operating system which is designed for recording television like a TiVo, organizing and playing your MP3 collection, looking at your digital photo album, etc. Interestingly enough, the … Continued
There’s a new cellphone jammer out which disguises itself as a cellphone (to better escape detection, we presume). The SH066P comes in two versions, one for jamming cellphone signals in North America, and another for the rest of the world, and can render useless all of the cellphones within a radius of about 10 to … Continued
Tom’s Hardware Guide review of the new DJ Console from Hercules which is sorta of like a set of digital turntables for mixing and playing MP3s. Interestingly, the DJ Console can also double as an external USB surround sound card for laptops that can output 5.1 channel Dolby Digital surround sound. Read
Another review of the new Zodiac, Tapwave’s Palm PDA designed specifically for playing games, this one by Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News. Like almost everyone else who seems to have gotten their hands on one, Mike likes it quite a bit, saying that it has the best screen he’s ever seen on … Continued
After our post yesterday about how AT&T Wireless is finally carrying the Treo 600, a few people wrote in asking when T-Mobile would get its act together and finally offer the new smartphone as well. Well, rather than pester us about this (not that we minded), resourceful reader Zach Conine just contacted T-Mobile customer service … Continued
iRobot, the company behind the Roomba, doesn’t just make robotic vacuum cleaners. They’re also building robots that could group together in swarms and be used to clear landmines or rescue earthquake victims: The point of the Swarm project is to be able to program lots of robots to communicate with each other using proprietary Behavior … Continued
Lik-sang has a photo of the iQue, that new Nintendo console-in-a-game-controller which is coming out in China soon. There are also rumors that the iQue was designed by the same guy who did the Zodiac gaming handheld for Tapwave, and that the console’s release won’t be limited to China. Read
Some details have been revealed about the iQue, Nintendo’s new game console for the Chinese market. We’re finding this a bit hard to believe, but the Register is reporting that the iQue, which will play Nintendo 64 games, is set to retail for under $10. The iQue, which will be contained entirely within a game … Continued
Got $2,400 and an intense compulsion towards voyeurism? Well than you might want to start saving your pennies for the X-Reflect Goggles, which looks like a pair of regular sunglasses but is actually two video cameras with infrared filters attached to head-mounted display. The manufacturer claims that you’ll get x-ray vision with the goggles and … Continued
From Sharp, the latest version of their Linux-based Zaurus PDA. The SL-C860 is an update of their SL-C760 and SL-C750 handhelds, and has a 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, and a 640×480 resolution LCD screen that swivels around to reveal a tiny keyboard. For whatever reason Sharp hasn’t bothered to really market any of the … Continued
Our sibling blogs, Gawker and Fleshbot, aren’t the only ones who can cash in on the Paris Hilton sex tape scandal. Wired mag did an interview with America’s newly minted porn star where she reveals her desire to get the “biggest flat screen you can get” and that her cellphone of choice is the suitably … Continued
Following up on their new line of CDJ1000 and CDJ1000MK2 CD players for DJs that let’s you cut and scratch CDs sorta like how you would on a turntable with vinyl, Pioneer has a new video turntable for mixing and manipulating DVDs. The DVJ-X1 lets you “scratch,” loop, and cue video just like you can … Continued