Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros announced today, Apple also unveiled a Magsafe Airline Power Adapter.
This small device plugs into the power adapter on airplanes and gives your MacBook or MacBook Pro a charge while up in the air. The Magsafe Airline Power adapter is available now for $59, and is unfortunately, not compatible with automobile power ports, even though they look similar. – Travis Hudson
Product Page [Apple]
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Edifier MO Alarm clock speaker made for iPod [newlaunches]
The Canon Digital IXUS 900 Ti is without question a typical IXUS camera. Although a simple, effortless operation is the most important thing, they leave no doubts about the fact that there is much more to a camera than looks alone. Innovative technique is repeatedly used to increase the level of ease and user-friendliness.
until now! MCE Tunes installs as a plug-in within Windows Media Center Edition and allows you to play, sync and fondle your iTunes music, even those songs encapsulated in DRM.
If it works as advertised, MCE Tunes can definitely fill a niche for you Windows Media Center users out there, especially since it's only $30. Too bad you haven't man'd up and set up a MythTV box yet. – Nicholas Deleon
Product Page [MCE Tunes via Zatz Not Funny ]
Talkshow with Spike Feresten Our GPS system proposed a route through the most crime-ridden area of a large American city at 1AM last weekend, and we were wishing our GPS unit were aware of crime statistics. Maybe Discriminav is not that far from a real product after all. Behind comedy lies at least some truth. Not that we're for discrimination or anything like that. Help us out here. – Charlie White
So if you have no interest in ever having children, tough guy, keep yapping away on that cellphone. Don't worry, you would've made a bad father anyway. – Nicholas Deleon
Men who use mobile phones face increased risk of infertility [The Daily Mail]
Ya, that's because you'll be paying about a buck per gigabyte every month for the privilege of online data mirroring. It costs $50 for 30 GB, and plans scale to about $300 for 690GB. The boxes themselves run power PC processors, have 128 MB of RAM, and check for software updates every hour. –Brian Lam
Zetabytes Zbox [via crunchgear ]
We wouldn't recommend putting it in your mouth, but you can use it in testing your network on the go. And it definitely fits in your pocket. – Jason Chen
Linux Computer Shrinks in Size [Gizmodo]
building Halo games for the Xbox 360, movie studios Fox and Universal have jumped ship and decided not to produce the movie version of the hugely popular first person shooter.
Rumours abound why they have bailed, ranging from not wanting to stump up over $135m to make it and being told to ‘get stuffed’ when they wanted more creative control. Tantrums, rattle throwing and cheques being ripped up ensued. Still, they are only money men and Jackson, Microsoft, writer Alex Garland and the crew are still onboard. According to a statement from Microsoft:
"We are disappointed that Universal and Fox wanted to significantly renegotiate the financial points of the deal. But the Halo franchise is hugely popular and our goal remains the same - to find a partner that shares our passion and will creatively collaborate with us to best represent the story and spirit of the Halo franchise. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and the rest of the creative team are dedicated to ensuring the Halo movie becomes a reality. We are already in discussions with potential partners who recognize the value of the Halo brand and its appeal to consumers worldwide.”
So, the Master Chief will make to the big screen yet and, with any luck, it will be better than the average Doom. Please. -Martin Lynch.
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Nevertheless, this weird-looking hand works on 2AA batteries and starts when you clap. A cool office toy for guys who want to scare little children on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day. – Jason Chen
Product Page [What on Earth via Book of Joe ]
All bow down and stay back from the edge of the road when this beast passes. Spotty teen car customisers, take note: it’s not about the flashy flame stickers or the ridiculously big exhaust pipe you use to make your Nissan Micra sound like more than the mobile hairdryer it is – it’s about what’s under the hood.
Built in the UK, this is the fastest road-legal car on the planet with a 9.3ltr V8 that generates over 2,000bhp. Red Victor One can do 0-60mph in 1second. Yes, 1 second. It leaves the Maclaren F1 in its dust over a quarter of a mile – almost four seconds faster. There is just one downside though: 5 miles per gallon. Still, I’d love a spin.
This clip comes from the Hardcore Street series of DVDs, which you can find here . -Martin Lynch
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If you want an iPod dock that looks as good as your iPod, be ready to shell out £80 bones to grab this one for Xmas. – Jason Chen
Product Page [iDream USA via iLounge ]
Although the Nikon Coolpix P3 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50 have good image stabilization and performed notably better with the feature on, the Sony DSC-T30 and the Pentax Opti A10 produced better images. Why? Because they're better cameras, and image stabilization is just one part to getting good picture.
One thing of note is that the Pentax Optio A10 moves the CCD around instead of the lens to provide image stabilization—uncommon thanks to the lens' lighter weight. But the results say the A10 performs just as well as the others. – Jason Chen
DCI Comparison Feature: Point-and-Shoot Image Stabilization Tested [Digital Camera Info]
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It's Linux based and has a 400MHz Intel processor coupled with 64MB of RAM. And that slash you see there is a CompactFlash slot for expanding memory. But wait, no power over ethernet? WTF? Still, as far as mini PCs go, this one wins hands down. Even if it has a clunky name only an admin could love. It'll set you back £110 quid. – Louis Ramirez
GumStix NetStix 400xm-cf [Press Release ]
Sony Reader , an e-ink e-book reader, I mentioned a slight flicker on the screen when it refreshed pages. Here's a video of that, and here's all our prior coverage .
–Brian Lam
Sony Reader Review [Giz]
This isn't anything regular consumers can go out and purchase, but you can try and get your company to hook one up for communications across different branches. – Jason Chen
HD Telepresence Arrives [Scobelizer via Slashgear ]
Direct Link to Video [Podtech]
Best of all, it's only £20.00, which is cheaper than an actual drum set, and makes it all the less painful when your wife throws it away. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Hammacher via The Raw Feed ]
18x DVD club with this 18x LightScribe -enabled burner. The DVD940i is the first HP LightScribe drive to go up to 18x, and it also records all DVD and CD formats as well. Hopefully the increased speed means the LightScribe labeling system sped up as well, because as we saw before , it takes multiple burns to get the LightScribe system just right. – Jason Chen
HP to join 18x DVD writer league [Reg Hardware via uber gizmo ]
This cleverly named Sharp Pencil Quality TV is a set of the DIY variety. Although its screen is only 2-inches across, the screen resolution can be as precise as your pencils are sharp. It supports premade Video-On-Pulp scrolls for Kill Bill Volume 1, Dirty Harry, and Dr. Strangelove. Pencils and paper not included. –Brian Lam
Stane's Island Sharp Pencil Quality TV
I’d like to able to describe the intricate rules of the game and reveal the subtle wrist-action and button-combos needed to make you the winner, and Supreme Being Of The Universe. But I can’t because they don't exist.
You just hold on while the voltage increases and he, or she, with the greatest pain threshold – or thick rubber-soled trainers – wins. Dumb but cheap at £17 here . – Martin Lynch
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Besides, the Pantech PG3600V is a phone. The iPod isn't. This celly has an MP3 player, Bluetooth, 1.3-megapixel cameras, etc. So what if it has a circular button pattern? I like it, and that is all that matters. Fuck the iPod, yo. . – Travis Hudson
Emulate iPod - Pantech PG3600V Cellular Phone [Handcellphone]
hate the iPod , but others still buy the damn thing like it's going to lead them to El Dorado or something. So if you and the 2G iPod nano are gonna do the tango for a while, it's best to use protection, like XtremeMac's TuffWrap cases. Besides automatically making you more of a man (or less, depending on how you view using protection), the TuffWarp protects the nano from all the day-to-day harassments that all too often do them in. It's made of "rugged silicone" and not that pansy "regular" silicone found in bootleg cases. Better still, the case comes with a dock connector so you can have the case on and have it plugged into a dock at the same time. Clearly, we live in the most advanced civilization on Earth: our iPods can be docked and be inside a case simultaneously.
The TuffWrap should be available on or around the beginning of November. It's the hot jawn of iPod cases. – Nicholas Deleon
Press Release [XtremeMac]
Windows Mobile phones we cover here, more than a few readers probably took the plunge and picked up a WinMo phone for themselves—then subsequently discovered that they need to download third party apps in order to make the phone great. Lifehacker's got a few tips on which ones you should make room for.
The better ones: Agile Messenger (an IM app), AudioPod (a podcast app), eReader (for reading eBooks), Kevtris (Tetris), and Skype (VoIP, as if we needed to tell you). Most of these are both free and good, and are almost a necessity if you want to do anything with Windows Mobile, which has a skeletal amount of bundled software. – Jason Chen
11 Killer Freebies for Your Pocket PC [Lifehacker]
great for nature photographers . £80 from Eclipse—kind of ironic the name of the company is Eclipse, and they make solar gear. – Travis Hudson
Product Page [Via Gearlog ]
smallest phone we've ever used , the Haier Black Pearl phone is perfect for slipping into your pocket and slipping out for a night of fun.
But what about everyday use? Is the UI as good as the phone is small? How about the sound quality? And the screen quality? How much functionality did they have to sacrifice to cram everything into such a small package? The answers, after the jump.
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The FX6001 does carry a above average price of £190. Overall, it does the job it was built to do, and that is it. Nothing too special – Travis Hudson
Fossil FX6001 Bluetooth Watch Hands On [CrunchGear]
metal and rubber , in and of itself completely mind-boggling and on more than one occasion made me question my own hollow existence, but it can also walk up walls. So the government has been lying to us! I totally called this back in '47.
There's a video of this totally radical robot, like, walking up a wall. I could've sworn that only the Son of God could do that, but the Japanese sure do have a knack for creating robots with little actual, real world utility. – Nicholas Deleon
The Wall-climbing Robot [Newlaunches.com]
Wow. We were ready to snap one of these babies up until we found out it costs £3,800.
Another pic of the seat, plus a video, after the jump. – Charlie White
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they'll let you download from the Internet even when your PC is off, so you can start a download, take a nap, and wake up to a hard drive full of pr0n. That's our kinda router. Pricing isn't set yet, but Asus' previous BitTorrent router is going for £130 odd. – Louis Ramirez
Native BitTorrent Support [via Yahoo News ]
If you don't like that way of telling time, you can customize it to your liking, giving you a readout in the conventional way or a few others as well. And no, there's no "two hairs past a freckle, eastern elbow time." Available with a stainless steel, leather or silicone band, it's £250 online. Although we're not big fans of digital watches, if we were to have one, this would be it. – Charlie White
Product page [Quadtec, via Wrist Dreams]
This device can turn your PDA or Smartphone into a GPS system. It is completely wireless—powered by solar waves and connecting to your PDA device via Bluetooth. The product page suggests combining this device with the TomTom navi software for voice-guided navigation. At £70, this device seems like a nice addition to any gadget arsenal—watch out for all of those waves, though. The combination of solar, GPS and Bluetooth can't be safe for the 'ole noggin. – Travis Hudson
Product Page [Via The Gadget Blog ]
Accommodating any sized tube of toothpaste inside, it gives you one-handed dispensing, pumping out the toothpaste when you push on the bottom with your toothbrush.
It's hard to tell exactly how this £30 thingamajig works—the company says there's a "patented X-Pump" that mechanically forces out the toothpaste— but we'll believe it when we see it. – Charlie White
Product Page [Sharper Image, via Coolest Gadgets ]
Ditch the Delorean and simply rearrange the blocks to time travel anywhere in that specific day. Of course, everyone around you may thing you are nuts for having brunch at 10 p.m., but in all reality they are the crazy ones , not you. Ninety bucks for a time traveling device? That is practically a steal! – Travis Hudson
Product Page [Via OhGizmo! ]
rocket-powered bike ), this truck is powered by a 2,750-pound thrust nitrus oxide rocket. But wait, it gets better. The engine is controlled using a handheld gaming controller (we wonder which controller he used) and dash-mounted LCDs let the driver and lucky passenger watch the engine as it propels them straight to their death. The pick up, which is the only kind of pick up we'd ever want to drive, was shown at the Wirelfly X Prize Cup this past weekend. Click ahead for a bonus video of the rocket in action. It's worth it. – Louis Ramirez
It's kind of sad to see this happen—I'm a pretty big fan of the low-end Samsung phones. Hell, they have a pretty strong grasp of the low-end market and it is odd to see Sammy just throw it all away so they can pursue the business-phone market that is already dominated by HTC, Blackberry and Palm. Oh well, good luck, Samsung. – Travis Hudson
Samsung makes early exit from low-end phone market [MobileMag]
The iPod gets so much adoring and worshipful press—we ink-stained (pixel-stained?) wretches are fawning over it 24/7—so we figured it was high time somebody took it down a notch or two. As my Gizmodo colleagues hide in the closet, they've shoved me out into the limelight to take the heat, offering my Top 10 Reasons Why I Hate You, iPod. So get your flamethrowers ready. Here goes:
There's no FM: we have some great FM stations around these parts, one jazz station in particular that I listen to all the time in the car. I can't do that with the iPod. How much more would it cost to put FM in that thing, maybe two bucks? Get over it, put the damn receiver and there and be done with it.
More haterage, after the jump.
– Louis Ramirez
pretty damn big , but this box is ridiculously huge .
At least the homeless folks will be able to ditch their refrigerator boxes for the PS3 boxes. Or maybe this is just a scheme to gouge the Christmas wrapping paper market. – Travis Hudson
PS3 box revealed! [PS3 Land]
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LEGO flame thrower is still tops on our list, but if you wanna leave behind a few creepy journal entries before you go ballistic with your homemade flame thrower, may we suggest you leave them behind on this PC. Built by Art Levine, the PC's got strobe lights and its own liquid-cooling system. Easily one of the better-looking liquid-cooled PCs we've seen. Check out the vid for the full tour.
– Louis Ramirez
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Now even 30,000 feet in the air you can ensure your exploding MacBook and MacBook Pro battery always has a full charge. Along with the Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros announced today, Apple also unveiled a Magsafe Airline Power Adapter. 
As the resident retro-junkie I fully endorse this alarm clock speaker dock made by Edifier MO. The dock is shaped like one of those classic circular bell-style alarm clocks with the iPod sitting in the center finishing the design. Unfortunately, the functionality of this alarm clock stops there. Because the iPod has no way to display the time with a large font, it has no way to function as just a regular clock. Not much else is known about this dock—I wonder if it comes in white, I would assume so. 
