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pobject width="494" height="399"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fTCbgHS13X8hl=enfs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fTCbgHS13X8hl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="494" height="399"/embed/objectWhile the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/wiimote/"Wiimote/a control came as a fabulous gaming surprise, it has its sensitivity drawbacks, something that the Truemotion 3D system ireally/i overcomes. Check out the demo videomdash;it's amazing. Sixense designed this thing to use magnetic field detection so it can track both your hands on the controller position in full 3D real-time, with an accurate 10 millisecond refresh rate. Since it gives a far more realistic input system for playing with stuff, it's basically the way future game controllers'll work. And since people like Activision and EA are interested it may actually make its way into a real product. [a href="http://sixense.com/"Sixense/a via a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/25/truemotion-3d-enables-true-motion-control/"Engadget/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/paper_water_bottle_01.jpg" width="340" height="430" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/I tend to avoid bottled watermdash;my tap-water's fine and way cheapermdash;but since millions don't think the same, this concept from designers Brand Image would be a way to reduce the eco-impact of all those nasty plastic bottles. The 360 is a paper bottle, molded from 100% recyclable, food-safe paper, and its simplicity makes even the venerable cardboard Tetra Pak drinks carton look outdated. These things are almost "printed-out," they stack, are re-sealable, and look fab. These ought to be real, and when they are I hope they get the texture of the "lip" right: you don't want fuzzy cardboardiness there. [a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/360_paper_bottle_11829.asp"Core77/a]script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"galleryPost('360paper', 3, '');/script/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/toshibasdcards.jpg" width="494" height="243" style="display:block;" /Sandisk may have a 16GB microSDHC card already a little sneakily on the scene, but now Toshiba's announced it's joining the game with one of its own. The card is compliant with SD memory standard version 2.00, as are the other two cards Tosh is making: The 8GB and 16GB SDHC cards with a maximum write speed of a speedy 20MB/s. All of these tiny memory units are due for production and sale over the next two to three months, so you'll be slipping them into your cellphones and cameras from early '09. [a href="http://www.toshiba.com/taec/"Toshiba/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pbr style="clear: both" img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/jvc_sp_aw303.jpg" width="494" height="284" style="display:block;" /Waterproof MP3 speakers aren't new, but compared to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5066436/idive-ipod-case-and-speakers-are-waterproof-up-to-300-feet"some/a a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/waterproof-dock/music-tube-ipod-speaker-looks-like-a-tube-of-shower-gel-306936.php"of the/a earlier offers, JVC's SP-AW303 speaker box is neat and has an unusual design feature: plastic wrap. Sure, it's not iexactly/i Saran wrap, but the thin transparent membrane is designed to pin your MP3 player safely inside while letting you prod its buttons. The whole box is bathroom-proof, and has a couple of 28mm battery-powered speakers that're good for about six and a half hours of playing. There's also a remote, though what it controls on your MP3 player is a mystery (volume alone, I suspect). Out now in blue, white or pink for $80. [a href="http://www.audiocubes.com/product_info.php?products_id=2577"Audiocubes/a via a href="http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/11/24/jvc-sp-aw303-splash-proof-speaker-keeps-your-audio-player-dry-with-plastic-wrap/"OhGizmo/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/huggable2.jpg" width="494" height="297" style="display:block;" /Normally you think science, lasers, and silicon chips when someone says "MIT," but Huggable is an MIT invention nonetheless: it's another smart robot companion, a bit like a href="http://gizmodo.com/379052/paro-the-5000-therapeutic-seal-now-available-in-america"Paro/a meets Teddy Ruxpin. Its body is covered in sensors and motors, including webcams behind his eyes and a speaker in his nose, and its designed to respond to you and react like an electronic pet. But it's a little smarter than Paro: it can act as a telepresence device, echoing the movements of a remotely-manipulated Huggable./p pAnd the remote bear can also be moved by you, which opens up the chance for the possibility of remote-controlled cuddles. It may, at this point, help to remember the bear's intended for uses in places like hospitals, and in early-learning applications./p pIt's the latest version of a device that MIT's Personal Robots Group has been working on for a while, and as you can see it's a research device so it's not exactly wonderfully cuddly at the mo. Still, the group's working on a refined version that'll be used in real-life human-computer interaction experiments. [a href="http://robotic.media.mit.edu/projects/robots/huggable/overview/overview.html"MIT/a via a href="http://www.botjunkie.com/2008/11/24/robodev-mits-huggable-telepresence-bear/"BotJunkie/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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24
Nov
BlackBerry Storm Torndown To Reveal Secrets Of Its Click Screen: A Big Button [Blackberry Storm]
pbr style="clear: both" img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/blackberry-storm.jpg" width="494" height="370" style="display:block;" /The guys over at a href="http://www.phonewreck.com/2008/11/21/blackberry-storm-review-and-teardown/"PhoneWreck/a couldn't contain themselves: they've already taken the a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/blackberry-storm/"BlackBerry Storm/a apart into a pile of little tiny pieces. And they discovered the secret behind it's "click" touchscreenmdash;the whole screen's backplate presses on a single microswitch, so it's one big button. They also found the Qualcomm MSM7600 processor in there somewhere, and laid blame for sluggish phone performance on that multi-tasking chip's plate, since it runs just about everything on the phone. [a href="http://www.phonewreck.com/2008/11/21/blackberry-storm-review-and-teardown/"Phonewreck/a via a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/11/24/blackberry-storm-torn-apart-and-mysteries-revealed/"Crunchgear/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pbr style="clear: both" img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/32gb-mini-9_01.jpg" width="494" height="188" style="display:block;" /Dell's Mini 9 may be going for a pretty a href="http://gizmodo.com/5045262/insipron-mini-9-going-for-99-if-you-buy-another-dell"good price/a already (and an irritating a href="http://gizmodo.com/5065657/dell-inspiron-mini-9-ships-with-annoying-disk-partition-error"disk error/a) but check out this deal sweetener: Dell's added a 32GB SSD option for just $100. The base model with that larger solid state drive is thus $449mdash;and to me, that's pretty bonkers good value. [a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwxa1c=usl=ens=dhscs=19kc=productdetails~laptop-inspiron-9"Dell/a via a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/23/dell-adds-100-32gb-ssd-option-to-inspiron-mini-9/"Engadget/a via a href="http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/?p=7130"Geekygadgets/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/marantz1.jpg" width="640" height="480" style="display:block;float:none;" /This IS301 dock system from Marantz looks pretty swish, particularly as the dock part can be rotated for wall-mounting, but it's a little confusing. It adds Bluetooth remote streaming to your hi-fi, which is nice, can charge iPods (including touch, but not iPhone) when it's powered up, and it allows for direct control of Marantz receivers, but what's up with the S-video out on the base station?/p pDoes that mean wireless video streaming from an iPod? From the press releases looks like perhaps not: there's only A2DP Bluetooth profiles, and there's mention of a Cat5 network cable connecting the base unit to another extender unit with the S-video socket. But that'd make it wired, right? Anyway, it's due out in Japan in January, with a $270 price tag putting it in the audiophile category. [a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=jau=http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/sa=Xoi=translateresnum=1ct=resultprev=/search%3Fq%3Davwatch%2B%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG"AVWatch/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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pbr style="clear: both" img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/blackfriamazon.gif" width="494" height="225" style="display:block;" /Ok, so it's only a selection of the sale products, but Amazon's a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/black-friday/"Black Friday/a sale is actually underway now. There're some sales on Blu-ray players, headphones, lots of external hard drives, GPS units and such, and one eye-catcher so far is a Sony Vaio VGN-SR140 13.3-Inch laptop reduced by $600, which is 38% off. Check it outmdash;you might find the bargain you're looking for four days early. [a href="http://www.amazon.com/Deals-Electronics/b/ref=amb_link_82693751_9?ie=UTF8node=540734pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_s=center-5pf_rd_r=0ANWF5KB8BJWJWPGGER8pf_rd_t=101pf_rd_p=464327191pf_rd_i=384082011"Amazon/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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Nov
AdminPatch Pain-Free Hypodermic Alternative Does It With Millions Of Needles Instead [Drug Delivery]
pbr style="clear: both" img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/nanobiosciences.jpg" width="494" height="278" style="display:block;" /Nanobioscience's AdminPatch sounds like a pretty amazing way to deliver drugs into the body: it's got a metal surface covered in millions of tiny microneedles that puncture the skin. You may instantly think "Ouch!" but since these are so small and pierce the skin shallow enough to avoid pain receptors, the system is apparently painless./p pIt's a way of delivering water-soluble drugs locally or systemically through the "micropores" it makes in the skin and it works continuously when it's stuck to you. The pores collapse quickly when the patch is removed, lessening the chances of infection./p pBetter yet, it's simple to use, and it's easy and cheap to manufacture, so it's got a pretty good likelihood of existing in real products soon. Good news for many a trypanophobe, I'd saymdash;at least those who need the kinds of drugs that Adminpatch can deliver. [a href="http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2008/11/nanobiosciences_wants_to_build_a_general_purpose_transdermal_drug_delivery_system.html"Medgadget/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/
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