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M.A.D. Gamepad Features Tiny, Detachable Steering Wheel

The M.A.D. Gamepad is a mini USB gamepad that features an even minier steering wheel. We're not sure it's the most practical, ergonomic gamepad we've ever seen, but we sure admire the effort and, we'll be honest, the ludicrousness. Here's what just the wheel looks like: More »

3:20 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Mark Wilson
1,830 views, 10 comments

Latest by Upsilon: If you increased the size, this would be the perfect controller to fit in the hands of the Cloverfield monster. ~Y more »

gaming

Dell Offering XBox 360 Elite Bundle With XPS M1730 Laptop Build

If you are one of the very few people on this planet who are simultaneously shopping for a $3000 gaming laptop and an Xbox 360—today is your lucky day. Dell is throwing an Elite bundle into their top-of-the-line XPS M1730 system until July 24th. While it is not completely free, it is definitely going to save you some money vs. buying the two items separately. So, even if you are a die-hard PC gamer, you could probably turn the Elite bundle for a profit. [Dell]

2:25 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,758 views, 12 comments

Latest by michaelleung: Lame... more »

cellphones

Meizu M8 iClone Finally Coming in August?

Meizu will finally release the iPhone-wannabe M8 in August, according to a cryptic message board post by CEO Jack Wong. The first version will have 128MB RAM and an unspecified amount of storage, and a second version should ship in October with 256MB RAM and 8GB on-board flash. The funniest part? The M8 will cost around $320, or $120 more than the AT&T subsidized 8GB iPhone 3G here in the US of A. Luckily for them (and us) this probably won't see its way outside of China. [Meizu via Electronista]

5:30 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Benny Goldman
5,826 views, 39 comments

Latest by n/a: $320 for No GPS, NO 3G, and No Support Network. They make good mp3 players (copied apples) but they added a better equalization. They don't support the players they make now. The OS they are running is MS 6.1 with their own more »

notebooks

Satellite Pro S300, Tecra A10 and M10: Toshiba's First Centrino 2 vPro Notebooks Can Be Fixed Wirelessly Even While Frozen

The Satellite Pro S300, Tecra A10 and Tecra M10 all have Toshiba's EasyGuard with shock and spill protection, a business card reader, a combo USB 2.0 eSATA port, and sleep-and-charge USB ports. A point of differentiation is that the Tecra A10 and M10 both rock Centrino 2 vPro, which has tech for the enterprise set so IT can fix your comp wirelessly, even when it's frozen. More »

12:01 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By matt buchanan
2,181 views, 6 comments

sweet christ i'm blind

Russian Ravers Blinded By Best (and Last) Laser Show They'll Ever See

Another reason I'm glad I was never a rave kiddie whenever it was trendy in the US: Trippy lasers beamed into your eyes will blind you. A gaggle of Russian ravers at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival discovered this after tents erected to deflect heavy rains partially refracted lasers intended for skyward illumination into their eyes, resulting in nastiness: "Retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80 percent, and regaining it is already impossible." Ouch. Strangely, this makes me want to watch Go. [Reuters via Geekologie]

12:40 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By matt buchanan
9,498 views, 66 comments

Latest by n/a: its Russia baby :D all kinds of stuff happens there haha. Heyo to russian members in this site. more »

shakin'

Samsung M3510 Music Cellphone to Have Shake, Tilt Control

Some information has leaked out about Samsung's upcoming M3510 music-player cellphone, and it looks like it'll have some accelerometer-driven control built-in. A bit like the ShakeSMS app for Nokia phones and the Sansa Shake MP3 player, the M3510 will let you shake it in different directions and turn it around to control the music player and other apps. Other than that it's a 0.39-inch deep candybar, with 2-inch screen, 2-megapixel camera and FM radio, and it'll cost somewhere between $310 and $390 when it's released. [Unwiredview]

9:15 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,363 views, 1 comment

Latest by ANoel: Does it have a violent shake STFU-mode ? more »

july 4th

Giz Service Announcement: Aim Fireworks Into the Air, Not At Your Mom

Well, we hope you've had a good day off, a great BBQ and plenty of watermelon. Also, we hope that you didn't blow up your face. We'll leave you with one last Consumer Product Safety Commission clip that proves, once and for all, that it is NOT okay to point fireworks at friends and family members. They may end up in a storm of smoke and fire. Happy 4th everybody! [CPSC]

4:00 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Benny Goldman
12,703 views, 30 comments

Latest by Captain_Sarcastic: Always light fireworks with a friend nearby so you have something to shove in the way in case of emergencies. more »

july 4th

Giz Service Announcement: Fireworks + Indoors = Bad Idea

If you're anything like us, you're probably deep into your 12th beer by now. You may think that now's the perfect time to test some of those firecrackers in your kitchen. Well, don't, or you may end up like this guy and his house, both blasted to smithereens by some lousy M-1000s. Take it from us and the Consumer Product Safety Commission and have a happy 4th everybody! [CPSC]

2:00 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Benny Goldman
9,151 views, 26 comments

Latest by Tysto: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I want my m-1000s, dammit! And nunchucks! I'm a militiaman! more »

july 4th

Giz Service Announcement: Fireworks and Watermelon Don't Mix

Hey, we here at Gizmodo, together with Nancy Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, want to remind you to have a safe 4th of July. Don't use illegal fireworks for anything dangerous. Like blowing up an M-1000 inside of a watermelon. In slow motion. Happy 4th weekend everybody. [CPSC]

12:02 AM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Benny Goldman
15,634 views, 39 comments

nvidia

Lots of Nvidia Laptop Graphics Cards Are Overheating, Dying

Apparently some previous-gen Nvidia graphics cards that shipped in "significant quantities" of notebooks are defective, built and packaged with "weak" materials that are leading to them to overheat and fail at a "higher-than-normal" rate. Enough are bad that Nvidia is taking a $150-$200 million hit on its earnings for the quarter. Do you have one of these cards? More »

2:16 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By matt buchanan
14,977 views, 55 comments

graphics cards

M-Series Is Industry First Quad-Display GPU, Says Matrox

Matrox keeps updating its multi-display thingamajigs, this time with the first Quad-Head GPU in the industry, according to the company. The M-Series M9140 LP PCIe x16 can drive up to four 1920 x 1200 screens with 512MB of RAM. Matrox says its for business time, so hedge fund managers and fans of the Conchords will be able to get their graphic information overdose for $599. [Matrox via The Inquirer via Crunch Gear]

6:30 PM on Sun Jun 29 2008
By Elaine Chow
5,048 views, 17 comments

I'm depressed

Super Creepy Snow Globes are Filled With Death, Not Cheer

When I think of snow globes, images of pleasant Christmas settings usually come to mind. Even now, on a hot summer's day, the thought is kind of refreshing. However, it seems that artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz must have had a traumatic incident involving snow globes, because the imagery they have created in their Travelers series is just a tad on the disturbing side. Hit the following gallery to see what I mean. If you want go a step further and actually purchase one, they can be had for $750 apiece. [Project Page via Inventor's Spot via DVICE]

5:50 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Sean Fallon
17,450 views, 43 comments

Latest by N@tedog: I rarely laugh out loud at pics on Gizmodo (what can I say. I've got a unique flavor). I did to this one. more »

storage

Samsung's 500GB HDD and 250GB/7200 RPM HDD For Laptops

Today Samsung announced that two new laptop hard drives, the Spinpoint M2 and M6, are ready to ship with specs that offer a 2.5-inch 250GB HDD with a 7200rpm rotation and SATA II 3.0Gbps along with a 500GB HDD with a 5400rpm spindle speed, 8MB cache, and 3.0Gbps SATA respectively. That makes the M2 one of the fastest laptop hard drives on the market and the M6 the highest capacity laptop hard drive on the market. The Spinpoint M6 is available for $299 and the MP2 fort $199. Full details are available in the press release after the break. More »

2:20 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Sean Fallon
3,427 views, 25 comments

Latest by Norcross: @gilt1234: Nope, no Mac stuff at all here (other than the wife's iPod). This would go well in my Toshiba laptop more »

robots

Insider Vid Shows WowWee Femisapien Fembot Knows All the Moves

The Sega E.M.A. fembot we showed you on the weekend is really the WowWee Femisapien, and WowWee has just popped up a couple of "insider videos" of it in action. They show the cleverer parts of the tech, and get Femisapien doing a little swashbuckling: though the two 'bots are just going through a set of scripted moves, the end result fencing match is impressive. In the second video, WowWee inventor Mark Tilden shows exactly how smart Femisapien is at learning moves as you pose it. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Kit Eaton
3,903 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: Wait, so this is from WowWee? Odd. MSNBC kept calling these "Robot Girlfriends"! more »

robots

Sega's E.M.A. Robot Is a Brazen Minx, Has a Glamorous Body, Also Kind of a Slut

We've seen midget-sized female robots coming out of Japan for a little while, but Sega Toys' Eternal, Maiden, Actualization (E.M.A.) robot seems like the most fully featured one yet. Or at least the sluttiest. The bot is 38 cm tall, has a "glamorous body," can hand out business cards, walk "like a lady," and even kiss you when you stick your face close enough to hers. Sega's marketing this toward adults (obviously) and will charge $175 each. Not too bad, actually, considering a few months with this and the confidence builder DVD, you'll be able to know what it feels like to be a socially awkward Japanese teenager. [Sega Toys via Crunchgear] More »

12:30 PM on Thu Jun 12 2008
By Jason Chen
15,649 views, 49 comments

Latest by Pyao lyang shen: @Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive: Oh Gawd. hahaha. oh man. I've seen a lot of these popping around japan, hey you guys remember that guy that built his computer into the back of a plastic doll of an more »

review

Lightning Review: Keeping Your iPhone? Clear Armor Apache-Grade Scratch Protector Reviewed (B.S. Alert)

The Gadget: Case-mate's Clear Armor film for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPod classic (80GB and 160GB) or BlackBerry Curve protects against scratches using a military-grade Scotchgard film from 3M.

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3:45 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Sean Fallon
29,716 views, 34 comments

Latest by royeiror: off topic, that BlackBerry 8700 is tough, it lasted a lot without the shield. more »

home entertainment

M21 Flat Panel has Mid-Century Roots with 21st Century Tech

Over the weekend at the Dwell on Design show in Los Angeles, Designer Joe Wilkerson displayed his newest furniture creation, the M21 Flat Panel. The name might not be that telling, but this beauty is a mid-century themed console that houses a 42" plasma screen. Apparently this updated retro-console was attracting a lot of attention at the show. And why not, the M21 Flat Panel combines the oh so trendy mid-century modern design with 21st century tech. More »

7:30 AM on Mon Jun 9 2008
By Christopher Mascari
2,910 views, 23 comments

Latest by hisham: Ugly. more »

nvidia

Nvidia GeForce 9M GPUs 40 Percent Faster Than Last Gen, Bring Hybrid SLI to Notebooks

And now for the real Nvidia meat this week: The GeForce 9M series. Besides promising 40 percent faster performance than its last gen of notebook graphics cards (8M if you're keeping score), the 9M series brings Hybrid SLI to notebooks for the first time—the high performance GPU kicks in when needed, or it drops to the low-power one when things are chill. They go from the budget 9100M G to the top o' the line 9650M GT (which delivers 132 gigaflops), though they all support Blu-ray 2.0 spec (with 1080p output and PureVideo HD processing), PhysX, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort 1.1 and mo'. You'll be seeing these puppies in "over a hundred notebook models beginning this summer." More »

9:00 AM on Tue Jun 3 2008
By matt buchanan
5,117 views, 11 comments

Latest by Preyfar: Elsewhere on the planet, new owners of $4,500 Alienware M17Xs shed silent tears... more »

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