<![CDATA[Gizmodo: mystery]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: mystery]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/mystery http://gizmodo.com/tag/mystery <![CDATA[Mystery HTC Android Phone Appears, Discloses Nothing]]> An HTC Android phone popped up today, offering few clues—aside from a few hastily snapped pics—about what it's called, what it does, or what it wants.

Touch sensitive menu keys? Check.

And there's our pal Android, and a camera of indeterminable mega pixelage. [The Unlockr via BGR]

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<![CDATA[LG Wants To Pay You $10,000 for Your Chocolate Phone]]> I don't know if it's a competition, or some crazy way to recover experimental chips—but LG is on a global hunt for 5 of its Chocolate phones. They've placed newspaper ads across 12 countries with specific serial numbers:

If you're listed, well I guess you have the golden ticket (Willy Wonka, chocolate, see what I did there?) Anyway, you have until tomorrow to let LG know. It all seems quite cryptic and strange. What does LG want with my 5-megapixel DIY porn, anyway? We could find out about a week after the hunt closes. But what do you think? [LG via Klik.tv]

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<![CDATA[What Is This?]]> Besides the sexiest display of LEDs I've ever seen. [Jalopnik]

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<![CDATA[How Can a Hard Drive's Platter Shatter, Without Evidence of Impact?]]> "Another day, another replaced hard drive," Chris Cook thought at his tech support desk while unwrapping the unit, fresh from storage. Until he turned the fixed Dell on and heard the weirdest rattling noise ever.

The drive didn't mount. It spinned up, but nothing happened. The BIOS didn't show anything and the noise, that horrible rattling noise of a thousand-cockroach horde running viciously through a tin tube, kept roaring. "Something is very wrong here," he thought after trying every trick in the book. It was then when he decided to open the drive on the bench at his Spring/Nextel's tech support office. Voiding the warranty of the new Fujitsu MHV2040AH drive, he was shocked when he found this mess:

"Shattered? How the heck can a hard drive plate be shattered in this way? This is not possible."

The drive was new and there were no visible marks outside. And as you can see in the images, the drive plate shattered on its own. Somehow. There are no signs of hammering or violence anywhere, except for the metal shards themselves. Chris swears that this is what happened and has no explanation about it, except that the 10,000rpm engine of the drive may have gone crazy at one point. I find that unlikely but who knows. Any expert in hard drives out there can tell us how this may happened?

While you think, here's some good music that matches the theme of this post (at least in its title). [Thanks Chris]

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<![CDATA[What Is Inside This Huge Mystery Box?]]> I just can't say because it's under ultra-heavy embargo. The kind of embargo that, if I talk, will make someone to send ninja cyborgs from California to get me killed, chopped, and made into dumplings.

(It's not a TV)
(It's not a portable)
(It's not a dead hooker, you psychos)
(It's not a Real Doll—they come in bigger boxes)

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<![CDATA[Mysterious Curved Mouse Gets a Countdown to its March 4 Release]]> thelight.jpgWe're as in the dark as you are about this mysterious mouse on speedofthelight.com, but it seems to be some kind of corded mouse? For gaming? Called "The Light"? Either way, those curved left and right mouse buttons seem fairly ergonomic for flack gunning in UT3, or clicking for the 10,000th time mining ore in World of Warcraft. Only five more days left to find out what this thing is and why it doesn't have all those extra buttons on the side like we enjoy in Logitech's mice. [Speed of the Light via Crunchgear]

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<![CDATA[Sony Teases With SonyDrive]]> sonydrive.pngIt's hard to tell what this SonyDrive website is, partially because it's in Japanese, and partially because the product doesn't really look like anything we'd use. Judging from what's behind the bow, this can either be an industrial paper cutter, a 1980s electric typewriter, a gigantic notebook that can withstand a nuclear explosion, a scale for dogs, the PlayStation 4, the ashes of former PlayStation chief Kutaragi, a new MiniDisc Macro, a Bravia TV Shuffle, a Green-Ray movie player, the actual ending to Halo 3, or something we might actually buy. We'll see! [Sony]

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<![CDATA[What's In Sony's Bottle?]]> Sony_Bottle.jpgYou know companies are always trying to wine-and-dine tech reporters, but this has to be the weirdest example. Tonight I received a package containing this bottle and nothing else.

Clearly, the message on the label is the important thing: there's a Sony VAIO event in New York City next week that I should attend. But the label says nothing about the contents of the bottle. Nothing. Is it alcoholic or non? Is it real or is it a prop? What would the VAIO division of Sony Electronics be putting in a bottle? And, finally, should I drink it or pour it down the drain?

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<![CDATA[Mystery Video of Sony Ericsson Cellphone: Answers on a Postcard, Please]]>

Nope. Nada. Zilch. No idea. Beats us, kiddoes. All we know is that this tantalizing clip—five seconds, at most—of a new Sony Ericsson was put up over the weekend. And nothing on the SE website in Japan seems to correspond to it. Curioser and curioser, said Alice.

Video of mystery Sony Ericsson phone [Mobile Mentalism]

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<![CDATA[Cingular Site Redesigned: What Phone is This?]]> cingularphone.pngCingular's gone and redesigned their home page, making it much more navigable, prettier, and more Web 2.0 (which means nothing). But there's one question nobody can seem to answer: what phone is this toothsome girl holding?

It's not the W300i, the only white music-phone that we can see on Cingular's lineup of flip phones. So readers, do you know what so-far-unannounced phone this is? Guess in the comments, and the winner gets a cookie.

Welcome Page [Cingular]

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<![CDATA[Archos 400 PMP Possessed by the Devil?]]> archos_wtf.jpgWe've seen exploding batteries and laptops on fire, but this has us scratching our heads. Reader Tommy sent us an intriguing note this morning along with a group of pictures of his destroyed Archos AV400 PMP, which looked like it had been possessed by demons.

Hi Gizmodo.
I thought I would send this to you because I can't seem to find an explanation. Enclosed are pictures of my ARCHOS pmp. I walked into my office one morning to find it split open as if it had exploded from within. There are no signs of an internal fire or anything that suggests the cause. It just looks as if a tiny gremlin escaped from the center of the device using Hulk-like brute force. Do you have any idea what could cause this???
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<![CDATA[Disappearing Update for Motorola Q Mystifies]]> motoq01.jpgThere's an on-again off-again update for the Motorola Q smartphone that has made a quick appearance on Motorola's site and then mysteriously disappeared. A glance at the Motorola update site shows that it's back to tease mode, telling us this software update is "coming soon." Wonder what happened?

Anyway, it looks like Mot plans a few added capabilities, with highlights being the ability to use the Q as a modem with added dial-up networking functionality, some OS enhancements for Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0, and the ability to access websites that support frames. Get the full wonky details of the update after the jump.

Motorola Enhancements
1. Dial-Up Networking (DUN) - Q can now be used as a modem - either tethered or via Bluetooth to the PC.
2. Multiple NAI - Allows handset to be enabled for modem use on the network.

Cold Boot
1. Provides users the ability to master reset device using key-presses if device becomes locked after forgetting Device Lock password.

Proxy Server
1. Enable Q to access network via different proxies (corporate IT feature).

Motorola Software Upgrade Tool
1. Tool to conduct upgrade of prior Motorola Q Software Version
2. Available on www.hellomoto.com/update
3. Download takes approximately 30 minutes


Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Enhancements— (AKU2.4)

1. OS Enhancements
2. Improved browser experience
3. Allows Q to access websites that support frames which increases the variety of websites that a user can visit.
4. SMS to E-mail functionality now supported
5. Bluetooth separated from Airplane flight mode. Users can now independently Bluetooth while airplane mode is enabled. (E.g. Listen to Bluetooth stereo & MP3 music while on a plane)

MSFP
1. Push E-mail: When new e-mail arrives in the corporate mailbox, e-mail will be pushed automatically to the Q
2. Global Address Lookup
3. Enhanced security

Motorola Q ROM Update disappears... [Mobility Today]

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<![CDATA[Who Owns the iPhone.org Domain? Who Do You Think?]]> internic.jpgWhile we patiently waited for our self-imposed moratorium on Apple posts to be lifted, a tenacious tipster tossed us a tantalizing tidbit: guess what well-known computer company owns the domain known as iPhone.org? Well, it's easy enough to look it up.

After a quick trip to InterNIC we did a Whois search, and what do you know? The domain belongs to some fruit company in Cupertino. Proof that the next phone from Apple will be called iPhone? Naw. But it's a clue, just a little clue.

Thanks, Mohammed!

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