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Happy Holidays From Your Friends at Giz
Happy holidays, ladies and dudes. Thank you for reading. Because if it wasn’t for you, we’d all be working at Best Buy. I’m hanging out in this ’70s-styled Tahoe cabin with Lisa, my brother Jon and Ruby the Dog. And I sang a song for you while Jon played the ukelele. The rest of the … Continued
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Why Tech Holiday Gift Guides Are Dumb
I’ve always been resistant, as an editor, to the idea of a Xmas gift guide. That’s because they’re a bit cliche; but today, I realized the very practical reason why I don’t like them. You have to be crazy to try to shop for a gadget addict by using one of these lists. I just … Continued
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Fuji Gives In and Whores Megapixels Like Everyone Else?
A few months ago, I happily wrote a post about Fuji camera’s continuing decision to build sensors with fewer megapixels in exchange for better light sensitivity. Apparently, that philosophy has not kept up. Proof: Old generation Fuji point and shoots like the F30/31 are going for more than double the original retail price on eBay … Continued
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Dealzmodo: PS3 Plus 15 Free Blu-ray Discs for $499
As part of Walmart’s Thanksgiving madness, you can get an 80GB Playstation 3 plus 10 Blu-ray discs (under $30 in value), plus the 5 free titles you can get with mail-in rebate. That’s the biggest deal we’ve seen on HD discs since the $99 HD DVD players. This bloody format war, we call it the … Continued
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Jeff Han Talks Multitouch, iPhones, and Lame Minority Report Jokes
Click to view Bumping into Jeff Han, a man highly obsessed with touchscreens, was a highlight of my Nextfest fly through. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel’s 16 foot long multitouch system and I got a chance to ask him about the UI, what he thinks of and the iPhone and other systems, and how … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
Apple iPhone Review
Click to view[Updated 4:37PM 7/11/07] Greetings irrational fanboys and Apple haters! Ten days and 12,000 ~13,500 words later, our stone-cold look at what it means to own an iPhone is done. Before we get to the in depth hands-on, here’s the verdict I’d give any good friend: Wait to buy the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116 Wait for … Continued
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Whoa, Samsung’s LN-70F91BD Next Gen LED Backlit LCD Leaked (At 70-Inches!)
This is not just another LCD. Samsung’s 81-Series LCD is the best LCD I’ve ever seen, thanks to its LED backlight. I’ve stared into the inky blacks of its display and it trumps most plasmas on darkness. Here’s the long awaited successor, the 91-series, found on Samsung’s Korea website at 70 inches diagonal. The display … Continued
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Why the Fujifilm S5 Pro DSLR Camera is only 6 Megapixels
In the shadow of 10 Megapixel DSLRs like the Nikon D80 and Canon Rebel XTi, and even a bunch of 10 megapixel point and shoot cameras, you might wonder why the S5 Pro Fujifilm camera, due out in 2007 is only rated to 6 Megapixels. DP Review explains that Fujifilm decided to bow out of … Continued
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