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3g iphone

100+ iPhone 2 Designs I Guarantee Steve Jobs Won't Unveil Anytime Soon

I recently challenged you all to come up with the most ridiculous iPhone 2 concept designs possible, and boy oh boy did you ever deliver. What you're about to see is over 100 of the most impractical, nonsensical and flat-out retarded cellphone designs the world has ever seen. No, you won't be seeing any of these on stage at WWDC next month and you certainly won't see them at the Apple store, but hopefully the sheer insanity and creativity of your fellow readers will tide you over until the real thing drops. Enjoy.

2:31 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Adam Frucci
47,033 views, 29 comments

Latest by geedots: How come the gallery doesn't show all of them? I have to manually search through to find mine. Bummer. more »

sony ericsson

First Live Shots of Sony Ericsson Paris

Shots of Sony Ericsson's Paris have been popping up here and there over the past month, but get yourselves an eyeful of the five-megapixel slider. Hang on, should I spell that "Eiffel?" [Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog]

6:25 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Addy Dugdale
4,346 views, 13 comments

nintendo wii

Nintendo Wii's Nintendo Channel Screenshot Tour and Hands-on

The Wii's "Nintendo Channel" just went live, giving you a way to both watch trailers of current and upcoming Nintendo games, and feed Nintendo information on what games you play. What's the latter for? So Nintendo can better customize the trailers of games to recommend to you, thus making you buy more games and completing the cycle by feeding THOSE stats back to them. How good is it? Okay, I suppose. The other stuff, like downloading DS demos and finding game information (how many players, whether the nunchuck is supported) is more useful. Hit the jump for a huge gallery tour.

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6:34 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jason Chen
7,790 views, 13 comments

Latest by ColdAsIce: The best part is that on May 12th, we are going to get WiiWare! I like the idea of being able to download cheap games like the FF demo in the videos. I will gladly pay $10 for a crappy more »

home entertainment

Pioneer Kuro 2008 First Impressions: New Thin Plasma and Projector Beat All

Today we took a look at the Kuro 2G plasma compared to the 1G and others. We also had a look at the JVC-made projector that Pioneer is branding Kuro Elite. The hype—if not the price—seems totally worth it. But instead of trying to tell you how much I enjoyed the display of in-yer-face contrast comparison, take a look at the pics I snapped. I marked some with shutter speeds, so you can get a better sense of what we saw. More images of the thinnest Elite plasma monitor and a look at the projector after the jump. More »

Feature

12:29 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Wilson Rothman
12,026 views, 27 comments

Latest by austek: There's a reason Pioneer won Popular Science's Best of What's New 2007 feature. Pioneer's KURO redesign of plasma technology delivers results. Details on the technology behind KURO at [www.presentationtek.com] more »

home entertainment

Pioneer Elite SC-07 and SC-05 Flagship Receivers (Plus the VSX-03TXH and VSX-01TXH)

Pioneer's got new Elite 7.1 receivers, the high end SC-07 and SC-05, and the lesser VSX-03TXH and VSX-01TXH. The SC-07 has a Burr Brown Sampling Rate Converter (SRC) to upscale audio to 192 kHz 24-bit res, and dual HDMI outputs for multiroom output. The SC-07 and SC-05 also work with Pioneer's new Blu-ray player to activate the "Precision Quartz Locking System (PQLS) that synchronizes data between the Blu-ray Disc player and the receiver, providing listeners with the ultimate precision in CD playback." I kid you not, Pioneer is working on making CDs the yesterday technology of tomorrow! All four receivers do new lossless formats ("DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS-HD High Resolution, Dolby® TrueHD and Dolby® Digital Plus" ) and room tuning.

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9:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Brian Lam
5,412 views, 22 comments

Latest by graham1010: What would you do with 9 s-video ports? Looks great though. more »

record breaker

World's Tallest Lego Tower Reaches 100-Foot Mark

Once again, the record for the world's largest Lego tower has fallen. Last year, the Lego bricks towered 96 feet over Toronto. This year, in celebration of Lego's 50th anniversary, participants at Legoland in Windsor, UK built a tower resembling a Viking longboat mast that managed to hit the 100 foot mark using 500,000 bricks. Hitting the 100 foot mark is definitely a fitting way to celebrate the 50th anniversary—but I can't help but wonder how high they can go next year. [Metro and Daily Mail]

6:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,946 views, 37 comments

Latest by Sculptor_Dan: @designguybrown: Can someone do the maths on this? There's a shitload of brick out there. more »

weapons

That Chanel Rocket Launcher Is SO Iraq Spring 2007

I remember a simpler time when a man needed only a rocket launcher, a sash of bullets and a red headband to mow down countless non-Caucasians. But in artist Peter Gronquist's The Revolution will be Fabulous, he explores a more complicated world of designer weaponry—one where you don't want to be caught dead wearing a pink Gucci rifle after Labor Day. We're aware that there's a deeper political message going on here, but we'd like to take the opportunity to point out that Gizmodo only recommends adding timelessly chic black weaponry to your arsenal.
[Gallery 1988 via DVICE and Vinyl Pulse]

1:30 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Mark Wilson
8,011 views, 20 comments

Latest by HeeroYuy01W: Pimped RPG from Army of Two? more »

zune update

Zune 2.5 Update Screenshot Tour

If you haven't yet gotten the chance to update to Zune 2.5, here's a screenshot tour that takes you through the new and notable changes. A lot of the stuff is the same—it's only a point update and not one to change the fundamental features—but there are great updates in the social portion of the software. Hit the jump for the full tour.

12:10 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By Jason Chen
6,603 views, 29 comments

Latest by quikboy: 2.5 is awesome. My Zune's working better than ever now, and the software doesn't suck so much (but still doesn't compare with WMP 11). I hope the Fall update is just as great, since the Zune is doing the Spring/Fall big more »

blu-ray

Panasonic's DMP-BD50 Their First BD-Live Blu-ray Player

Today in NYC, Panasonic showed off its DMP-BD50, the company's first BD-Live Blu-ray 2.0 player—and the second in the market besides the PlayStation 3—setting the price at $700. It's an improvement over the DMP-BD30, which will stay on the market as a $500 step-down. In addition to BD-Live (and the requisite Ethernet port), it will decode all new DTS and Dolby Digital codecs internally, as well as bitstream them to a compatible receiver, if that's your preference. The player, initially announced at CES, will ship in "late spring," presumably the next 4-6 weeks, and will not need a firmware upgrade to be 2.0 compatible—a requirement of the $400 Sony BDP-S350 player due out around the same time. Fact sheet after the jump. More »

11:44 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,273 views, 20 comments

Latest by scarbrtj: @MarvinDog: Not to be picky, but they do have the bandwidth. Coax can handle 100+ Mbit/s. PCM, DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD, etc., have bandwidths in the 10 (20 max) Mbit/s range. It would have been problematic for the powers-that-be to get more »

gadgets

EP2502 Cellphone Watch: Surprisingly Stylish, and Waterproof

There's something about the idea of cramming a cellphone into a wristwatch that keeps the designs rolling out, but is this the first one with a touch of style? Possibly, with that metal case and strap, and looking not too horrifically fat to wear. The EP2502 even has a 1.3-inch OLED touchscreen, a 2-megapixel camera, tri-band and Bluetooth support and claims to be shockproof. It's also supposedly the World's first waterproof cellphone, though we don't know to what waterproofing standard. More »

11:30 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Kit Eaton
8,525 views, 31 comments

Latest by blacksh33p: Will some reputable site ::coughgizcough:: call bullshit on this already and order the thing for review? It all seems wayyy too good to be true. more »

wireless nunchuck

Lightning Review: Nyko Kama Wireless Nunchuk

The Gadget: Nyko's Kama, a Wireless Nunchuck for your Wii that syncs up with an included dongle on your Wiimote.

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11:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Jason Chen
7,743 views, 20 comments

Latest by 8bitvillain: I'd get this as a gift for a friend if they were casual players and were easily excited with wireless controls lol. It seems kind of pointless for hardcore gamers to spend that much money just for wireless- especially if more »

htc

HTC Touch Diamond: the Blurb, Specs and Official Pics

We came, we saw, we blogged, or Venimus, Vidimus, Blogimus, as they used to say in Roman times. HTC's press release for the Touch Diamond is after the gallery.

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8:45 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Addy Dugdale
19,236 views, 46 comments

Latest by OliverTwist: @LagunaSol: I typed "black" when I meant "white." And then I ran far, far away. more »

steampunk

Modded Violin adds Steampunk-esque Styling, One Extra String

Steampunk modding, love it or hate it, has caught on and led to everything from LCD monitors to Nerf rifles getting the treatment. And now we have this steampunk-ish modded violin, that's seriously cut-down and gutted, and packs in tubes and wires and faux valves. Plus one extra string. More »

7:22 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,245 views, 24 comments

Latest by Set to evil: Abney Park is Frickin' cool www.abneypark.com more »

compusa

CompUSA: It Lives!

After it died, CompUSA was bought by Tigerdirect, and here are some of the first pictures of the freshly awakened PC retailer. Even better, the zombified store is reported by reader Martin B. to be better than its pre-undead version:
It's a much better store than it used to be, full of components, motherboards, and lots of actually _helpful_ people who know computers.


9:36 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Brian Lam
7,713 views, 38 comments

Latest by Vexorg: All three of the CompUSA stores near where I live (Redmond WA) shut down in the first round of store closings last year, and all three have sat empty since then. Of those, two are basically right next to Best more »

lightning review

Lightning Review: Samsung Access Mobile TV Phone for AT&T

The Gadget: Samsung Access, the second (and cheaper) phone launching AT&T's mobile TV service. More »

8:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By matt buchanan
6,009 views, 12 comments

Latest by firesign: @marcplante: no, it's not mobitv. it's based on mediaflo and is a different service, which is why it only runs on certain phones, currently two on at&t's service. more »

lenovo ideapad u110 review

Lenovo IdeaPad U110 Review (Verdict: Short Ride In A Reasonably-Paced Machine)

The Lenovo IdeaPad U110 comes in the wake of America's new obsession with tiny laptops. I could tell you that it's powered by a 1.6Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor (4MB, 800 MHz), packing 120GB of PATA storage and up to 3GB of RAM (2 tested), but all you want to know is that it's over half a pound lighter than the MacBook Air and will impress the fellow yupps at Starbucks. Still, if you're interested in seeing if beauty is more than ultra-glossy skin deep, hit the jump to see what I loved and hated about the Lenovo IdeaPad U110.

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3:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Mark Wilson
11,502 views, 21 comments

Latest by woolie: Best use of obscure reference in title since the GTA IV Koyaanisqatsi trailer. more »

iphone 2.0

iPhone 2.0 Firmware Will Have Handwriting Recognition, Go to Japan and China?

A blog on the Wretch.cc network (kinda like a Chinese blogspot) has screens from the Chinese version of iPhone's 2.0 firmware, detailing the new handwriting recognition. If it's real, which it seems to be, the new firmware will let people draw in characters with their fingers, then pick the closest approximation among choices that pop up.

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12:46 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Jason Chen
4,626 views, 18 comments

Latest by Knirfie: @iscangel - A 3G iPhone won't work in Japan, they'll need to produce a (W-)CDMA iPhone if they want to sell in Japan. more »

art

Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden

This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008. An unrelated but cool Interview with Bruce, by Cool Hunting\, after the jump. [TaoMC at Makers]

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5:18 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Brian Lam
12,722 views, 19 comments

Latest by quasimotto: not impressed. do that ball trick with artichoke & jalapeno dip, then call me. more »