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Tech NewsChrome Notebook Sleeve
Chrome has made a Padded Laptop Sleeve that fits just about any MacBook computers. It’s light and easy to carry. It costs $34.00 has an optional shoulder strap for an extra $9. They’re based in the UK, but it looks like they also ship on over to us, so that’s niceCali, which is also nice. … Continued
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Call for SkypeCast Participants
Hey, GadgetMakers, OEMs, and assorted PR folken—we’d like to talk about your latest and greatest on our Gizmodo Skypecast. Email us at tips at gizmodo dot com with the subject “SKYPECAST” to discuss setting up a time to come onto the SkypeCast and discuss your product.
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Gefen DVI-3000HD
Need to transmit USB, HD video, and serial over six miles of fiber optic cable? Sure! We all do! The DVI-3000 HD delivers 1280×1024 pixel video with HDCP compliance and costs $1,999. While we can’t quite figure out why you’d want to do this—maybe wiring up a campus for video?—we’d love to transmit video to … Continued
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Naneu Camera Bags: Not Just for Cameras Anymore
Naneu is a pretty well-known maker of camera bags but they’ve come out with a few updated pieces including the Military Ops Tango and Sierra. These are actually laptop bags with space for your DSLR. The Tango holds 15″ laptop and the Sierra holds a 12″ model and there are padded inserts to ensure you … Continued
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Pig and Bear Nano Contest
What our cousins over at Jalopnik lack in street smarts they make up for in giving stuff away. To wit: they are offering a free iPod nano to anyone who can fill in the thought balloon hovering over the heads of those two lovely characters. The winner will be chosen by your friendly neighborhood Jalopnik … Continued
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SkypeCast Time
It’s almost Noon. Head on over to Skype and join in the potential train wreck. I’m closing everything on this G4 and will try, but probably fail, to mute everyone immediately so we can actually have a conversation. Today we’ll be giving out invites as well as a DLO Nanotube courtesy of the kind folks … Continued
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Sapphire HDMI X1600 in the Wild
Just when I got my head around DVI they stick us with an HDMI graphics card. The X1600 has been floating around quite a bit and they’re rarely in stock. It’s a low-profile card so it will fit in a media center, naturally, and its the first card that is fully HDMI/HDCP compliant, which is … Continued
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Reader Steve Proposes U-HIP
Sometimes we’re like Simon from Americon Idol, sometimes we’re like that weird lady from I Wish I Was a Millionaire or whatever, and sometimes we’re like the people from American Inventor. Reader Steve noted, quite rightly, that we don’t like UMPCs. He’s proposing a U-HIP, an image of which we see here. We’re not going … Continued
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Kiber 6040/1030
Kiber is a Dutch company that makes a number of interesting watches based on Swiss and Japanese automatic and quartz movements. They just released the light yellow 6040/1030 automatic chronometer using a Valjoux movement with date as well as hours and minutes elapsed registers. What makes this special, you ask? Well, it uses a very … Continued
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Lego Coffee Maker
These kids deserve our love and respect. They not only made a Lego Coffee Making Think With Tubes and Stuff (TM), they also posed next to it, rocking the full science fair regalia. I have pictures like this in the family album—me hanging out with my Atari 800XL, for example—and I don’t look half as … Continued
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TiVo Guru Guides a Go Plus KidZone
Run home right now and turn on your TiVo—the TiVo Guru Guides are running and you can now get recommendations from folks from Entertainment magazine and CNET, among others, as well as some sort of celebrity programming recommendations system so we can see what K-Fed is watching: four hours of buzzing static, some sex tapes, … Continued
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SkypeCast Redux
In an effort to get this SkypeCast thing working correctly before we actually begin bringing live people on—you know, cool people, unlike me just whimpering into a microphone—we’d like to invite you to another attempt at getting this bloody thing to work. Today we’ll be giving out invites as well as a DLO Nanotube courtesy … Continued
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Polk I-Sonic Entertainment System
Polk has been promising this mini-system for half a year now and it should be available in September. It’s essentially an all-in-one stereo with some nice surround-sound tricks to make sure you hear audio goodness in every corner of the room. It was hard to tell if it was actually working at the Digital Life … Continued
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Citizen Bluetooth Watch
The VIRT from Citizen is the first Bluetooth watch in the whole entire world. This limited edition monstrosity, the VIRT W700 connects to your phone and displays caller IDs and vibrates when you get a call. This presumably allows you to keep your phone in a chest at the bottom of the sea and, when … Continued
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SDHC: Like SD Cards, Only Incompatibler
Panasonic has created a new SD card standard, SDHC, that can transfer data at 5MB/s and costs about $262 for a 4GB model. Best of all? They’re incompatible with current SD devices yet they look so similar that you’d be hard-pressed to tell them apart in a dark alley. Why did they do this, you … Continued
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Inside the OLPC Laptop
WorldChanging has an in-depth look at the One Laptop Per Child project and the associated cheap laptop that kind of looks like a cute orange bunny. These antenni create wireless mesh networks automatically and cover USB and power ports in nasty environments. It has a 7.5″, non-backlit screen and a tiny keyboard. The laptop can … Continued
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SunRocket: Like Vonage, But With a Flat Fee
Not sure how this stacks up to the rest of the big boys yet, but we talked to some folks at SunRocket the other day and they told us about their $199 unlimited yearly calling plan with 30 minutes international calling and all kinds of E911 hotness. Plus, there’s no cancellation fee. If you’re already … Continued
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YouOS: Wha?
I love lots of heavy Ajax stuff as much as the next guy, but this is crazy. It’s essentially a web-based OS with lots of little sub-prgrams and all kinds of UI cred. It’s such a good idea you can almost smell Google’s heady musk wafting under the door. Just signed up for a full … Continued
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Top 10 Strangest Clocks
Even bloggers have slow news days, but thanks to the Interweb, they don’t have to hire expensive art people to make fancy, graphics-heavy round-ups of old junk. All they have to do is rock the old IMG tag and they’re set. That said, TecheBlog rocked the IMG and EMBED tags to create a list of … Continued
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AircordAV Wireless 1080p Box
Wireless media streaming has always been a Holy Grail for AV types, and it appears a few folks have gotten pretty close to not choosing poorly. The AircordAV transmits 1080p over 802.11g using a some strange dongles. This looks like vaporware right now—pretty CG-tastic, but it might be worth a look. Or then it might … Continued
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