I was a bit worried about reviewing the Soda-Club 'make your own soda at home' gadget—I don't really drink soda, you see.
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Why fritter away those warm summer months inside when you can set up a full home theater on your lawn? This About.com article discusses everything you need to create your own Bedrock Drive-in right in the comfort of your West Nile Virus Mosquito infested yard. You'll need a few sheets, a projector, a DVD player, and a pooper scooper so you don't step in Fido's suburbia apples.
For those that didn't get in last time we ran a free EGM sub, here's your chance to cash in on free magazines.
We Gizmodians like our gadgets shiny and our movies uncut, but lots of folks want to censor movies, cutting them up the way they see fit.
Our inboxes are on fire with brand new information about the new Microsoft MP3 player. We thought the player was code-named "Argo", but we now got word that the final product name that's been flying around is the "Zune"!
Apple's not talking, but the company has filed a patent that shows a next-gen iPod with speech capability, telling you what song will play next in a variety of celebrity voices.
It might be time to change our way of thinking about processor speed. Now Intel is hinting at processors with 32 cores available by the end of this decade. Sure, the company predicted 20GHz chips by 2010 a few years ago, but now instead of higher gigahertz numbers, they're talking multiple cores that will result in a processor that will be 15 times faster than today's quickest chips.
showGallery('nvseries', 'gizmodoprime'); Samsung introduced the NV series of digital cameras, and its designers somehow figured out how to keep them improbably thin and stylish while hanging some honking long zoom lenses on the outside of a couple of them.
There's a hole in the copyright protection for Blu-ray and HD DVD movies that you could drive a truck through.
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Click here for directions, and enter in 142468 to join our Skypecast with T-Mobile execs Sam Bell and Jeff Folino. Comment on this postRelated: Gizmodo Skypecast Reminder : T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3Related: Gizmodo Skypecast: T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3Related: Sidekick 3 Unboxing
Reminder: Ok. Big change today. We're lucky enough to get two T-Mobile execs, Sam Bell, senior marketing manager, and Jeff Folino, senior manager of product development for the Sidekick, who are willing to tell us all about the SK3.
I haven't gotten a chance to try this puppy out with real BRDs yet, but this is Samsung's first Blu-Ray player and it has all the fit and finish of a fine Saab or maybe a Volvo. We're not talking Ferrari, here, but you wouldn't kick it out of bed for eating crackers.
Ok. Big change today. We're lucky enough to get two T-Mobile execs, Sam Bell, senior marketing manager, and Jeff Folino, senior manager of product development for the Sidekick, who are willing to tell us all about the SK3.
You haven't lived until you've seen Zapruder-esque footage of someone opening a Sidekick 3 and mumbling to themselves. Great stuff. Comment on this postRelated: CHT 9000: The First Chinese 3G PDA PhoneRelated: Qool Labs QDA Lite and QDA IconRelated: A Little Dom Perignon, Some Diamonds, and a Sidekick 3
This isn't a real product yet, but it seems that Nokia has a patent for a metal-detecting phone. While it was originally designed to assist folks with bad hearing, the induction coil in the phone can double as a metal detector for wanding down your friends and neighbors. Don't look for this in the next E61, however, because it sounds too creepy to actually end up in a product. – John Biggs
Make is featuring a breadboard-based timer that turns off your front bell for a pre-set period of time, thereby ensuring day sleepers will get their 10 hours rest.
The Matrixstream set-top platform streams 1080P H.264 video over IP. We'll talk to Aaron Keogh to figure out how they heck they're doing it. Click here at 1pm EDT tomorrow, June 30 to listen in and ask some hard-hitting questions (e.g. "What's a TV?" and "Where can I buy new shorts?"). Comment on this postRelated: Gizmodo TodayRelated: Gizmodo Today
Our intrepid cameraman Rich threw together a few highlights from last nights Digital Experience event here in sunny New York City.
For those that have been living in a closet for the past few months, the long-anticipated T-Mobile Sidekick 3 has finally hit the shelves, for existing T-Mobile customers. There are two places you can pick one up in person: either at Madison Ave. in NYC or Wilshire Blvd. in LA. For the other 48 states, just log into the T-Mobile site, hunt down the "Upgrade Your Phone" link and you can be a cool kid in no time.
Oh, WinFS, we hardly knew ye! Sure, I was always a FAT32 guy, but WinFS promised to be.
In the hard-edged world of international marketing, you do not want to put your boys at risk when trying to beam your message to millions via Bluetooth.
Business dorks rejoice! Owners of the 8700 and 7130 can now download Sonaplayer, a video player for RIM's ubiquitous devices. Thrill as you install beta software! Rejoice as you download video! Wonder at the majesty of it all as you reboot your Blackberry! Cry as you realize you can't rip your own video yet! So now all we need is a video player for the SK3 and we'll be set.
Well, it had to happen. The eBay run-up on the Sidekick 3 is now reaching ridonkulous proportions, with some folks paying $4,050 for a hunk of electronics. Heck, I'll bet Sharp, the SK3's manufacturer, paid that much for their R&D;—"What should we do?" "Well, let's stick a trackball on there! And make it smaller!" "Score!"
Not unlike ourselves, the Availbot falls down when your friends leave. However, instead of falling down in a bar near the river, the Availbot connects to your PC or Mac and can tell when your buddies enter and leave your IM session, giving you a leg up over other's who are unable to tell a little red "Away" icon from a green "Available" icon. – John Biggs
Happy Pre-Fourth of July Weekend! In honor potentially blowing a limb off, we're offering something that will protect your iPod nano from a direct blast of an M80.
Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker. You're gonna have to get your own Korean Hasee L230E/15.
They have labor laws in China? Apparently so, and Foxconn has admitted that they've went well beyond the limit. Chinese workers can be forced to work up to 36 hours extra a month without Inspector Knacker of the Peking Yard raising an eyebrow, but Foxconn's 80 hours is well over this maximum.
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