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Music Fans in UK This Weekend Treated to Pedal-Power For Their Phones
The only real problem with today's portable electronics is battery life. The gear gets more powerful but sadly battery technology really hasn't kept up, that's why we write about things like solar power. But there are also nifty things called dynamos, devices you pump or crank to juice up your batteries. O2, a large mobile carrier in the UK, will be installing bicycle-powered dynamos around a festival it's sponsoring this coming weekend to charge up music fans' mobiles. Sure, they could have run power cables and created power stations, but where's the fun in that? And as anyone who's been to a large outdoor festival in the last few years knows, you're going to want to power up at least once a day or else you're cut off. And if you've got our luck, it'd be right before Winehouse takes the stage, so you'd have no bawdy SMS session to distract you. [Pocket Picks]
11:26 PM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Matt Hickey
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Latest by sharmanova: They did this at Virgin Festivus in Calgary, Canada. The booth was d-e-a-d. Akshuley, for an "environmentally" focused music festival the site was an epic eco-disaster. I couldn't help but look out at the great unwashed and more »
dwp
Digital Water Pavilion at Zaragoza World Expo Inaugurated (Verdict: Wet)
Remember the Digital Water Pavilion I previewed last year? Devised by a bunch of MIT brainiacs, who described it as being rather like an inkjet printer controlling droplets of falling water, it was finally inaugurated last week at the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. Although the video is only short you can see the brazilliant effects of the water. Most interesting, however, is what the pavilion needs to make it go. More »
iphone
T-Mobile Will Offer iPhones for 1 Euro (With Hefty Monthly Contract)
This 3G iPhone deal from T-Mobile isn't quite free, a la O2, but at one euro it's pretty darn close. Like the 02 deal, however, the low price point is available only for customers that are comfortable signing away large chunks of their life via a mobile phone contract. To get the T-Mobile deal, you must choose the highest monthly plan, which will cost you 89 euros per month (about $136). [I4U]
gaming
Bangai-O Spirits For DS Uses Old Timey Audio Recordings To Share Levels
The Nintendo DS remake of the old Dreamcast favorite Bangai-O Spirits has one very notable feature that we haven't seen in years. Kotaku found out that instead of using Nintendo's local Wi-Fi or over-the-net DS codes, you share levels via audio recording. Once you've designed something you want your friends to see, it'll play back that level as an audio recording that you can record it as an audio file on your computer, then send however you send files normally. More »
iPhone 3G
European Bastards to Get Free iPhone and Great Monthly Plans
It's official: O2 and Telefonica users in the UK and Spain will get the iPhone absolutely free if they sign up for a 18-month plan with a $88 monthly cost. But how "free" is free? Is this really a better deal than AT&T's $1,975 24-month plan price? The answer is yes, absofrakinlutely. Those countries got really good deals, enough to convince me to buy the new version: More »
5:16 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
24,477 views,
93 comments
keyboards
I-O Data's Mini Bluetooth Keyboard is Cute, Looks Familiar
Sure, Bluetooth keyboards that help with text-entry to your cellphone or PDA aren't new. But this one from I-O Data has three things going for it: it's petite, it doesn't fold with over-complicated mechanisms and it's very cute. Dare I say it's taken a few style pointers from a bigger, shinier Bluetooth cousin? Yes, I think I may. No info on pricing or availability. [Akihabaranews]
smartphones
Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year
One fun rumor bopping around the phone sites is that MWg, the smartphone maker previously known as O2 Asia, will be rolling out a Windows Mobile 7 phone in the fourth quarter of 2008, specifically the Flame II shown above. That's about a year earlier than we last heard. Everyone sounds skeptical, but you never know, the timeline could have been Boy Genius, or to see the whole MWg presentation, have a accelerated because WM6 isn't exactly a crowd pleaser. If you want a more complete roadmap, check out Boy Genius; for the original video presentation from MWg, look at MoDaCo. Either way, take it with a grain or two of salt. [MoDaCo via BGR]
8:29 PM on Sun May 11 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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5 comments
Latest by MeeM: It's about time manufacturers took screen sizes seriously. 2.8" is decent, but if they intend on using VGA or better resolution in a compact device, they should at least use a screen size of 3" or larger. The more »
iphone
iPhone Stocks Being Replenished, Not Sold Out, Say UK Retailers
Despite the rumors of iPhones being out of stock in the UK, it's not really true—according to the retailers themselves. Reghardware has spoken to both O2 and Carphone Warehouse, and both say they're just tackling getting more 16GB iPhones for their online departments. Apple themselves have stock and O2 and Carphone Warehouse have iPhones available in their high street stores. Does this info mean they won't be getting any more 8GB versions, though? Well, we can speculate that, but we don't know. It also leaves us wondering what this news does to the iPhone 2.0 rumors. [Reghardware]
11:50 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Kit Eaton
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12 comments
Latest by eleazar: @workingonyourinvoice: They claimed that 3G chips were too big, but there were already phones extremely close to the thinness of the iPhone with 3G chips in them. And power hungry = battery life, like I said. I personally more »
clothesline
Cord-o-Clip: The Clothesline Goes Version 2.0
The thing those two happy chappies are demonstrating is yet another high-tech clothes-drying device: the Cord-o-Clip. What makes this gadget whizzy? Well, you know when you go out to hang clothes on your line, and you're juggling with the laundry and a bag of pegs, maybe with a couple jammed between your teeth because you've got no free hands? And then you drop a sock and a T-shirt? Not anymore: cord-o-clip uses a pair of lines on a pulley system that has captive pegs ready to grip onto your clean stuff. More »
usb turntable
Vestax Guber CM-02 USB Turntable Really Something
Despite having crates and crates of vinyl, I am too lazy (and too strapped for space) to shell out for a USB turntable. Another reason is that most of them look like shite. But this one, the Vestax Guber CM-02, is gorgeous. Delishy-wishy. It totally poops on last week's non-usb, acrylic home-made versions (sorry Mike) and, oh, I've got a warm feeling this Friday morning and am going to think about that weekend I'll spend converting all my old 12" into files when I buy this. DJ Deals has it for $499, but our buds over the pond at Gizmodo Japan say it's on for $233. [Gizmodo Japan through Google Translate]
holster
Nurses and Doctors rejoice: you can now buy Crocs for your cellphone! Ok, so the Crocs "O-Dial" [sic] is actually a shoe-themed cellphone holster, but it is official. Why your phone would enjoy the lightness, comfiness... um, waterproofness and stain-proofness of those lovely rubbery, resinous shoes is another matter, though. Oh — its got raised inside surfaces to protect device screens, and an adapter so you can use it to store credit cards? Ah yes, we understand now. It's a marketing thing. And yet, cunning Giz reader, what better uses could you put your croc holsters to?
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Crocs Make Shoe-Themed Cellphone Holsters, We Wonder Why
Nurses and Doctors rejoice: you can now buy Crocs for your cellphone! Ok, so the Crocs "O-Dial" [sic] is actually a shoe-themed cellphone holster, but it is official. Why your phone would enjoy the lightness, comfiness... um, waterproofness and stain-proofness of those lovely rubbery, resinous shoes is another matter, though. Oh — its got raised inside surfaces to protect device screens, and an adapter so you can use it to store credit cards? Ah yes, we understand now. It's a marketing thing. And yet, cunning Giz reader, what better uses could you put your croc holsters to?
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funny
Researchers Have Developed a Working Laugh-o-Meter
Researchers at Kansai University in Japan have developed a machine that has the capability to scientifically measure the quantity of a person's laugh as well as the sincerity. The device works using a series of electrode sensors that monitor the amount of bioelectricity generated by various muscles involved in laughter. The data is then whisked away to a computer where it is analyzed an assigned a numerical score based on its quantity. More »
new cellphones
Behold the latest offering from Samsung and B&O: the 3G, dual-slider F400. Slide the front upwards and you get your keypad, slide it down and your B&O speakers heave into view. As well as the 2.2-inch QVGA display, there's an RDS-enabled FM radio and MicroSD card slot. Price is expected to be around the 380€ mark, which is around 552 of your buckeroonies, when it launches in March. [Tech Digest]
Samsung and B&O Join Forces for the Dual-Slider F400
Behold the latest offering from Samsung and B&O: the 3G, dual-slider F400. Slide the front upwards and you get your keypad, slide it down and your B&O speakers heave into view. As well as the 2.2-inch QVGA display, there's an RDS-enabled FM radio and MicroSD card slot. Price is expected to be around the 380€ mark, which is around 552 of your buckeroonies, when it launches in March. [Tech Digest]
6:49 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By AddyDugdale
2,960 views,
2 comments
self calibrating tv
Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision HDTV Self-Calibrates With Its Robotic Appendage
Tuning your television is something only videophiles and Gizmodo readers do (seriously, normal people don't care enough to spend a few hours on this), but Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 4 might change that practice. The 1080p TV has a built-in robotic arm with a camera on the end that swings down in front of the display in order to test the picture. More »
bathtub fun
Bath-O-Matic Fills Your Tub for $8000
Fine, it's a little more complex than that. The Bath-O-Matic from Unique Automation is an automated bathtub filler that draws a bath just the way you like it. Through a touch screen interface, bathers can choose the temperature and height of the water, as well as any combination of oils, bubbles and fragrances.More »
clips
Conan Wastes Time By Playing With OS X Photo Booth Filters
If you hosted your own daily talk show and had to kill 43 minutes of air with no writers backing you up, you'd eventually pull out stuff you have lying around the office and try and make a sketch out of it. This is exactly what Conan does, making with the OS X Photo Booth Filters like every teenage kid who visits an Apple store. Except when Conan does it, it's kinda creepy. [Late Night]
If you hosted your own daily talk show and had to kill 43 minutes of air with no writers backing you up, you'd eventually pull out stuff you have lying around the office and try and make a sketch out of it. This is exactly what Conan does, making with the
3:15 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Jason Chen
11,952 views,
46 comments
Latest by MarkB: @Paradise: He still does the "In the year 2000" skit. Makes it even funnier now that it's passed by. more »
video review
Tub Test: How Waterproof Is a Waterproof iPod Case?
We've told you all about H2O Audio's Waterproof iPod cases and its improved H3 headphones , but until yesterday we never had the chance to try them out for ourselves. Team player that I am, I hopped in the tub, turned the G-Funk to 11 and took the plunge. More »
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4:00 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Benny Goldman
8,844 views,
62 comments
