Hasta La Gadget!

The camera market is overcrowded with major players, but a small company called GoPro that makes cameras for action videos convinced venture capitalists it’s got prospects.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

CNET reviews the Panasonic DMP-BDT210, finding that its built-in Wi-Fi, simple user interface, Amazon Instant streaming, and blazing fast disc-loading speeds make it CNET’s favorite Blu-ray player of 2011 so far.

The pensive and gadget-savvy Mike Calore. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com

Join Wired.com’s product reviews editor Michael Calore on Facebook Thursday starting at 1 p.m. Eastern time (10 a.m. Pacific) as he answers your tech questions and gives a behind-the-scenes look at Wired.

When we passed the 200,000 fans mark on Wired’s Facebook Page last month, we asked our readers what they’d like to see more of. You gave us more than 600 comments, and one of the top responses was learning more about the Wired staff, including what goes on behind the scenes and what gadgets we use.

You asked and we deliver, as Michael will be revealing his list of favorite gadgets, posting photos, and answering questions. He might even reach into the way-back machine to find the last five Webmonkey hats from the swag closet (since his last position here, before moving to the gadget side, was Webmonkey editor-in-chief).

There’s a long history of alarm clocks that promise a better way of waking you up in the morning, but few quite like this Acoustic Alarm built by designer Jamie McMahon. As you can see, it’s not technically an alarm clock, but it does have an alarm of sorts: four tunable strings that are plucked using a spinning guitar pick. Unfortunately, this one’s strictly one of a kind for the time being, but it does actually exist in prototype form — made of birch plywood, walnut and stainless steel, no less — and you can check it out in action in the video after the break.

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Microsoft blogs that Windows Phone 7 owners who used “unofficial update mechanisms” won’t be able to gain access to the latest Windows Phone 7 build.

Originally posted at The Digital Home