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Posts on ‘July 17th, 2007’

Drink And Drive: Beverage Buddy Brings the Brews to You

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!The Beverage Buddy is a rather useful little remote-controlled buggy for those of us whose inner sofa monster can be conjured up at regular intervals. It brings a couple of cans - or bottles - in [...]

Sprint set to launch ‘Friend Finder’ location service

Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Handsets, Software, Sprint-Nextel
Sprint seems to be a huge fan of rolling out handset-based tracking and location services. It’s latest, dubbed “Friend Finder,” uses Loopt’s technology to allow Sprint subscribers to get that social networking on while wireless. Like other LBS applications, the GPS chip inside that handset is used [...]

In Brief: A researcher is claiming that he has created …

A researcher is claiming that he has created a Mac OS X worm which was able to infect 1,500 systems in his controlled network. The worm, unfortunately named Rape.osx, uses a vulnerability that will not be undisclosed until they finish their work and get their thirty pieces of silver. [Sunnet Beskerming via Slashdot]

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High Five!: iLIMB Bionic Hand Looks, Feels Like the Real Thing

We at the Giz are fond of both hands and bionic things - so this iLIMB, from Scottish firm Touch Bionics, is so far up our street it’s parked in our car port. A prosthetic hand with five separately-powered fingers, the iLIMB functions via the electric signals generated by the remaining portion of a patient’s [...]

Absolut New Orleans

Filed under: Spirits
At the Tales of the Cocktail festival this week in New Orleans a new version of Absolut vodka is being launched. The festival is an annual event celebrating the art of mixology. For the first time, the Swedish vodka company is naming a flavor for a city. Absolut New Orleans is mango-flavored with [...]

Samsung’s entry level SGH-E236 comes into view

Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, GSM

If a VGA cam’s all it takes to float your boat, here’s an interesting flip that might be worth a closer look. Samsung’s SGH-E236 flip makes up in appearance what it lacks in capability, featuring a curious circular loudspeaker and touch controls up front but making do with a meager 160 [...]

Sony strengthening its own CMOS manufacturing operations

Filed under: Desktops
It looks like the previously low-lying race to cram CMOS sensors into a broader lineup of digital cameras just got a bit more noticeable, as Sony is tooting its own horn by announcing a ¥60 billion ($490.4 million) investment to “strengthen its CMOS sensor manufacturing operations.” More specifically, the firm is hoping to [...]

Princess Diana’s Dresses Unite For A Good Cause

Filed under: Apparel, Events
The latest event to honor the ten year anniversary of Princess Diana’s death is an exhibit of 25 designer gowns that Diana had auctioned off at Christie’s a few weeks before her death. The “Diana, Princess of Wales: Dresses for a Cause” exhibit will take place at the Appleton Museum of Art [...]

Motorola’s V9m up front and center for Verizon

Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, 1xRTT, EV-DO, CDMA

With all the hype about built around the Motorola V9m, we thought it only right to add some more fuel to the fire. One of our old pals hooked us up with some marketing pics of the V9m for Verizon Wireless in all its slender glory. The [...]

Sony’s dark-side: the ICF-C1IP alarm clock and ZS-S2IP boombox iPod docks

Filed under: Household, Portable Audio

What started as a begrudging trickle of iPod accessories from Sony has turned a steady flow. Meet the new ICF-C1IP iPod Dock Clock Radio and ZS-S2IP iPod Dock Boombox. The radio (available in black or white) brings a wireless remote for control of the iPod, radio, and volume functions with a [...]