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apple mystery boxes

These Boxes May Hold a New Apple Product (Oohhh!)

Forbes spotted an interesting pile of unmarked brown boxes at Quanta Computer in Fremont, CA, the company that handles West Coast distribution of Apple's gear (along with that of plenty of other companies' stuff). But what's so interesting is that the boxes right were spotted right beside iMac freight (those white boxes), and they look to be about the same size and shape. So what could be inside? Take a look at more shots to decide for yourself: More »

2:25 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
26,348 views, 107 comments

Latest by n/a: I would gleefully eat nothing but Spam strait out of a can for the next year if some type of calamity would befall these boxes just to enjoy listening to the hysterical Apple weenies cry about how they were going more »

jerks

Dell's Wasteful Shipping Habits Take a Steamy Dump on the Environment

There are few practices as stupid, simple and damaging to the environment as wasteful packing. Take a look at this ludicrous box that Dell used to send a 2GB thumb drive. It's about 100 times too big, and it's not just wasteful because of the cardboard used. I, for one, am sick of seeing crap like this. More »

4:30 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Adam Frucci
13,937 views, 131 comments

Latest by Xenobiologista: @ubergoose: who do you get supplies from? Fisher Scientific shipping to where I am (UW-Madison) usually pads stuff with brown paper or recyclable airbags, and the boxes aren't ridiculously overstuffed unless you order like one thermometer at a time. more »

home entertainment

News Corp Set-Top Box Becomes DVR: Just Add External Hard Drive

How much simpler can it get? You take the HD satellite set-top box already sitting in someone's living room, perform a quick firmware update, plug an external hard drive into the USB jack and voila, it's a bleedin' DVR. Voila is right, though, since this News Corp-owned software fix is currently only available to Canal+ satellite customers in France. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no such thing for News Corp's DirecTV customers in the US, right? Nah, letting people keep their existing hardware is so un-American. It's bad for business, I tells ya! Press release after jump. More »

4:55 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,812 views, 5 comments

Latest by chebyrashka: @Wilson Rothman: Ah I see.. sorry.. Dish Network is coming out with the same concept soon also from what I read from their last show. Overall it's awesome. more »

home entertainment

Motorola Readies Up MPEG-4-Ready Next-Generation Set-Top Box Army Led by DCX3400

The Scratch: Motorola is launching a new line of MPEG-4 set-tops designed for HD video and surround sound—DCX. They all rock 1GHz tuners (good for bandwidth-binging HD and VOD) and support whole home networking, which is useful for sharing DVR goodness. The DCX3400 (picture) is a dual-tuner HD DVR, while the DCX3200 is a single-tuner HD set-top and the DX100 is standard def set-top box. The Catch: Whether or not you'll see 'em on your shelf depends on your cable company. [Motorola]

4:20 PM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By matt buchanan
1,978 views, 7 comments

Latest by koryglenn: It is most likely your UI app. I am guessing you are a comcast customer and use TV Guide. Pretty much everything you do with your remote on your DVR is controlled by that app. You should more »

recycled

Green Holiday Project: Make a Computer Box Reindeer

If you get a new computer for Christmas, you're probably SOL on timing, since it'll be about time to pack up the holiday fa-la-la-la junk, but you could always make a computer box deer to shoot in your backyard, especially if you hate your computer company. More »

3:20 AM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By matt buchanan
1,326 views, 7 comments

ring box

Gold Wedding Ring Box Has 2-inch LCD, Plays Video

As the married editors of Gizmodo can vouch for, when you ask your wife to marry you she's not going to remember anything about the box the ring comes in, just the ring itself. However, this ring box has a 2-inch LCD that can play back 60 minutes of video or 500 photos, which means you can present her with both a ring and naked pictures/video of her to enhance the mood. With this Euricase Multimedia Ring Box you can be sure your lady knows to judge a book by its (tacky, tacky) cover as well as its contents. Best of all, you can keep on using the ring as an alarm clock and a calendar! You win forever! [Euricase via Everything USB via Oh Gizmo]

2:00 PM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By Jason Chen
5,815 views, 10 comments

Latest by dbx: I'd upload porn vids to it and then give it with the ring. it would be lol. more »

comments

How to Comment: Boxes

I decided that yesterday was the day that I would clean out all the boxes from my apartment. Imagine getting multiple packages every day for months on end. That's a lotta boxes. So I spent the whole night breaking them down and watching the season finale of 24. What a letdown that was! At least they cleaned up the whole plot mess to give the next season a clean start. More Jack Bauer, less lousy romantic plotlines. More »

6:19 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Jason Chen
13,835 views, 11 comments

Latest by nothanks7: If you have to post a "how to comment" post every 2-3 days forever, maybe it's time to reconsider how the comment process works. more »

software

Netflix Set-Top Box Rumor Will Not Die

Following closely on the heels of its April 11 announcement that Bruce Willis' band will headline a concert series that I, for one, will not be attending, Netflix today announced the appointment of Anthony Wood, founder of both ReplayTV and Roku, as VP of Internet TV. More »

7:15 PM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
7,342 views, 12 comments

portable media

iPods To Be Used As Aeroplane Flight Data Recorders

While some folks would like to see the iPod banned, others are turning to it to help keep you safe. LoPresti, an aeroplane manufacturer, will use the iPod as its flight data recorder, more commonly known as the black box. Once outfitted with the proper software, the iPod interfaces with the plane using its dock connector port. The company expects that the iPod will old 500 hours of data on its hard drive. More »

11:46 AM on Thu Feb 22 2007
By Gizloco
1,906 views, 16 comments

home entertainment

PS3 Box is One Huge Biotch

We've known the PS3 is pretty damn big, but this box is ridiculously huge. More »
home entertainment

British TV Box Prompts Sea Rescue

Oops, this is somebody's big mistake. It looks like a 67 year old woman's Freeview TV set-top box sent out an emergency signal that launched 2 lifeboat rescue teams in Wembury, England. Poor Mary Donaldson was stupefied when officials from the Falmouth Coast Guard showed up at her door, asking why she would have sent the mayday signals. The same problem occurred in January in Portsmouth, England (which is near to Wembury) but there doesn't seem to be a logical answer for these rare instances at the moment. More »

3:37 PM on Wed Feb 15 2006
By tgrumet
98 views, 3 comments

Latest by agordon86: I say it's technology getting a mind of it's own. Hang in their Will Smith, "I, Robot" might just become a reality shortly. more »

gadgets

It's a SAD Revolution

Seasonal Affective Disorder is this year's "Hot Disorder" as voted by E! Last week we saw the SAD Body Clock and this week we see some other SAD light boxes. They provide a 20-minute light therapy session that can supposedly set someone up for an entire day with energy. These light boxes (a.k.a. lamps) begin at $400. More »

3:41 PM on Mon Jan 23 2006
By Travis Hudson
90 views, 3 comments