Amazing Gadgets

TokyoFlash, everyone’s favorite super-nerd watch designers, have a new offering: the BPM Watch. What makes it unique is the sweet BPM counter that can detect how many beats per minute the music you’re listening to has. Continue reading »

Samsung LCDs are known for their typically high contrast ratios, and their new Bordeauxs follow in that tradition, packing a 17,000:1 contrast ratio, which is several notches higher than your standard contrast ratio. But don’t be fooled by numbers alone. The TVs, which come in three sizes (40-inch LN40M81BD, 46-inch LN46M81BD, 52 inch LN52M81BD) feature the Advanced Common Application Platform (ACAP), which is a fancy way of saying they let you interact with programs you’re watching, whether it be by downloading feeds or content from the Web. Not to mention they’re all 1080p sets. Unfortunately, there’s no word on if we’ll see them here in the States.

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Here’s a deeper look at the Walkman phone line’s latest high end model, the W960, most notable for its generous and 8GB of storage, WiFi, 3.2 MP cam, and a 320 x 240 pixel touch screen that can be used to browse media. Sounds familiar to Apple’s offering, except for the physical keypad and it only has European 3G, no EDGE. Then there’s the beet-red w910, seen in May, without touchscreen, Continue reading »

We first caught a glimpse of the Motorola A1200 back in December. It has since been rebadged the MING which apparently means something like “open” in Chinese or “nasty” if you happen to be mingin’ in the UK — guess that’s why this pup is heading to the greater China market first, eh? In a schizophrenic fit, Moto claims to be targeting business users with this device yet lists it under the “entertainment series” of handsets on their .hk site. Continue reading »

Sony’s finally upgrading my beloved Sony XBR3 LCD, so gorgeous, it was chosen as the display of choice by Playstation for the PS3 launch, and even Apple for their Apple TV demos. The new LCDs are 1080p, running a full 1920 by 1080 res, with 10-bit panels that can resolve color 64 times that of 8 bit panels. Continue reading »

Taiwan based company Sunix offers a unique solution to the problem of hooking more than one display to your computer, and for users with graphics cards that do not support two monitors. Continue reading »

Mark this as extremely questionable, but Bloggingstocks.com says it’s legit. The word on the street is that Microsoft is dropping the Xbox 360 core system to $200. Continue reading »

Dutch manufacturer Sweex has released their new Blizzard MP4 player. This player comes with 2.63-inch with 262k colors display and a 1.3-megapixel camera for capturing photographs at 1280 X 1024 pixels and capable of recording video at 640 x 480-pixel resolution. Continue reading »