These things would rock the asses of the masses if only they were what they appeared to be. You get a 3.1-megapixel camera with 10x optical zoom for $150, so that’s really not too bad, but the binoculars just serve as viewfinders. Dual camera lenses might be asking a bit much on a $150 camera, … Continued

A lot of you have been pointing out the news about Mattel’s new JuiceBox that’s showing up today, mostly stemming from this review on the AP wire, I think. If you haven’t heard about it, the Juicebox is a $70 portable video player for kids that uses a proprietary flash memory card format so that … Continued

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I sort of thought Sony killed the Aiwa brand, but I4U is reporting a new Aiwa-branded flash player called the XDM-S710BT with a 100-hour playtime and a Bluetooth interface—which is sort of hot, now that I think about it. It’s only a 256MB player, unfortunately, but everything else looks solid. There are too other models, … Continued

Here’s another “ruggedized” phone on Sprint PCS, the Sanyo MM7400. Not sure why, but it seems Sprint likes these rubber-encrusted mobiles more than other carriers (except for maybe Nextel). This one comes complete with 16MB RAM and a VGA camera with 3-mode flash. No Bluetooth, nothing really cutting edge to justify the $380 MSRP except … Continued

I just noticed I’ve spent $55 at AllofMP3 since I discovered it about 6 months ago or so. Excepting live music, that’s more money than I’ve spent on music in years. Yeah, yeah, I’m a filthy artist-hating pirate, whatever. All I’m saying is, I’m willing to spend money when I can download what I want … Continued

LED lights are pretty cool, literally and figuratively. These weightless lamps are no exception, with the added bonus that, well, they’re weightless (virtually). Designed by Afroditi Krassa, the World View is a cluster of 91 LEDs hanging from a helium balloon, anchored to the floor (or whatever surface) by a spool. They’re being developed for … Continued

I haven’t heard much about this Miniket multi-function thing that’s on the front page of Samsung’s site—in fact, it’s sort of disturbing that we haven’t heard more since it was announced in other markets in October. It’s pretty easy to grok, though: it’s a tiny flash-based MPEG4 camcorder that can also take still images and … Continued

It’s interesting to wonder if these new ‘mobisodes’ beings touted by Fox and Vodafone will end up being worth a damn. As part of their 3G launch, Vodafone has commissioned 24 one-minute episodes set in the world of the television show “24” (although it’s not mentioned if Keifer and other cast members will appear). The … Continued

A lot of you have asked to see the sort of working environment we have here at Gizmodo so I thought I’d share. That’s me with the dank ‘stache and my body-double on the right. I’ve got to head into the city later so I thought I’d grow a dupe while I stay here and … Continued

There’s a new flash player from Digital Mind Corporation (called the DMC Flash Player) that actually looks like a pretty good deal. $100 will net you at 256MB player (MP3 only) with a built-in SD/MMC card slot. That takes my three personal favorite things in a flash player—cheap price, built-in USB plug, and easy expansion—and … Continued

Even bowling is being revolutionized by Bluetooth. And I don’t mean having a Bluetooth bowling ball you can manually drive into the pins—which would rule—but instead a wireless scoring interface developed by GeTronics in cooperation with Hitachi Labs, called the “With AL” bowling front-end. I call it a front-end, but I’m not sure if that’s … Continued

In the event you find a spare $23,000, we request you send it our way. Then, at least, we could afford Fujitsu General’s new “LPF-D711” projectors. Equipped with the capability to reproduce oh, only 10 quintillion shades of color (trivia: there are 43 quintillion possible positions of a Rubik’s Cube), it’s also got 1080p (1920 … Continued

Japanese Ratoc Systems Corp. has a new lineup of wireless audio products called the “REX-Link” series, and some of them are even specifically designed to fit your 3/4G iPod or iPod mini. More after the jump. There are four products in the series—two “receivers” and two “transmitters.” Receivers come in the form of the “CR-RX01” … Continued

Even Santa needs to carry around his iPod mini at all hours of the night. The 3,150 yen “Marware SportSuite Safari JingleSuit for iPod mini,” besides having one of the longest product names in history, is a 2mm thick neoprene case for your iPod mini equipped with white fake fur. This makes quite a recursive … Continued

Looks like Samsung has a new EV-DO Pocket PC phone coming out, and MobileBurn got to check it out at Samsung’s showcase event yesterday. Nobody really knows what carrier will offer it at this point; speculation leans toward Verizon. The i730 (or is it i790? MobileBurn isn’t clear on what’s what) features a sliding thumbboard, … Continued

HP has the new iPaq hx2750 product page online, detailing information about the new Windows Mobile 2003 SE Pocket PC. While it looks fully-featured in general, with a 624MHz processor and a whopping 214MB of user-accessible RAM, it does only have a QVGA screen—we’re saving all oohs and aahs these days for only Pocket PCs … Continued

A new robot is on its way to Iraq under the banner of the Navy which can be used for remote operations diverse as surveillance or rocket launchination (although I doubt there is any actual plans to arm them). Shown here with a multi-purpose claw, the Talon robot from Foster-Miller can even work underwater to … Continued

The compact, all-in-one desktop PC seems like a chimerical fantasy for manufacturers. Seems that they’re either shoddy iMac clones or simply overpriced small form factor PCs with monitors glued on. Sony tries again with the VAIO VCG-M1, available in the UK for the equivalent of around $1500 since early last week (and in similar form … Continued

The Inquirer is reporting that the Xbox 2 will be released in three versions and will in fact be called ‘Xbox Next.’ The standard Xbox Next will have no hard drive; the Xbox Next HD will have an hard drive and what sounds like may be PVR functionality. Most interestingly is the Xbox Next PC, … Continued