Brian Lam

Save Our Signal: zBoost YX-510 Cellular Repeater Hands-On

I’m a mile from the giant antenna in San Francisco, Sutro Tower. But my phones never really get good reception here. This repeater can create a stronger signal in your apartment’s most vacant cellular airspaces. It’s not bad, but maybe is a little expensive. Then again, it’s a lot cheaper than finding another apartment where…

New iMac Impressions and Full Hands-On

You’ve seen our hardware video and gallery (below again for your viewing pleasure) and know all about the New iMac’s specs. I guess it’s time to take an extended look at it, and I might as well turn on the Justin.tv lifecam [UPDATE: Done with the Lifecam]. I also just got back from Cupertino where…

Video of the New iMac, Keyboard, and iLife’s Best (Plus a Round Up)

Here’s a video I took in Cupertino today of the new Apple keyboards, iMacs, and what I consider the best features of iPhoto and iMovie: skimming and…skimming. As for the rest of the day, here are the highlights: •New, thinner iMacs, crafted from glass and aluminum like Mr. iPhoneface, with 20 and 24-inch screens. Awesome,…

Aeroscraft ML866 Flying Yacht

Set to be launched next month, the whale-looking Aeros ML866 uses a combination of buoyancy (like a blimp) and lift (like a plane) to cruise comfortably through the air with over 5,000 square feet of interior room, it has more lounge space than some houses. It can take off vertically, without taking up runway time…

Digitimes is predicting a video-playing flash iPod in September. Digitimes, being based in Taiwan, does have easy access to manufacturers, but their track record is mixed, as are all of ours. We’ll see soon enough. [Digitimes]

iPhones already have the “Send to Gallery” feature in the photo menu, but you need iLife 08 to take advantage of it, and you have to have a .mac account on your handset. [TUAW]

Motorola announced MOTOMAGX at Linuxworld today, their Linux and ALL CAPSLOCK OS. MOTOMAGX promises openness, flexibility and support for third-party applications.” That includes JAVA and web 2.0 apps. Awesome. I’m glad that the company is a) spending money on software and b) will have an alternative OS to Windows Mobile. [CNN]

New Apple iMac and Keyboard Gallery: Slim, Glass, Metal and Super Grope-Worthy [UPDATED]

Click to view[UPDATED: Many, many more photos]Here’s a gallery of the sleekest iMac ever, with its sightly retro but ultra-futuristic Star-Treklook. The new keyboard is not only as razor-cool as expected, but it also feels quite good as Jason has discovered in his hands-on. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-slim-aluminum-apple-keyboards-286976

Microsoft Xbox 360 Price Cuts Officially Official

Yep, the rumored Xbox 360 price drops we’d read about in leaked retail flyers from Toys R US to Circuit City are true as of August 8th. The 20GB model will be $350, the Elite with 120GB of storage will be $450! And the core?! Right, no one cares about the core. The logic behind…

Sidekick 4/LX/Shuriken Gets FCC’d

The rumored Sidekick LX, otherwise known as the Sidekick 4, has been as hidden and stealthy as a ninja, but now it’s been outed by the FCC. There aren’t more details or images, but supposedly is a Sharp device (like the 3), has Danger OS v4.4, a 400 x 208 pixel screen, EDGE, and a…

If all those flyers are right, sometime this week, the Xbox 360 will be a few dollars cheaper. We’ll have to wait and see. [Xbox] https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-retailer-says-xbox-360-getting-price-cut-a-282391

iFuntastic 2.5 Has an iPhone File Browser

iFuntastic 2.5 is out, and along with ringtone, carrier logo, and icon swapping, you can now browser the file system. This means you can swap out any images and sound file on the phone. Intel-mac only, for now. [iFuntastic at iPhone Alley]

Labeling a Post a Rumor is Not a Free Pass to Write About The Gadget Equivalent of Unicorns

TO: Gizmodo Staff FROM: Brian Lam SUBJ: Labeling a Post a Rumor is Not a Free Pass to Write About The Gadget Equivalent of Unicorns We posted a tip yesterday, labeling it a rumor, that later turned out to be fake. That happens often. But what is totally unacceptable is that the source was 100%…

Sony’s showing off their Cell processor (“Cell Broadband Engine and RSX graphics processor) at SIGGRAPH this week. The +230 GFLOP setup will be demoed processing 4K images. [Sony]

DefCon Badge Hacked in 10 Minutes

Now, now, don’t get too excited. Creator Joe Grand designed it to be hacked. Still, 10 minutes is a pretty respectable time for the soldering, reprogramming and reflashing job done by Dave Bullock, Wired’s photographer at the event. The badge features an LED display with scrolling text, and it even has an easter egg (typing…

NBC’s DefCon Mole Outed, Stalked by Hackers and Press

Michelle Madigan, Dateline NBC’s DefCon mole, armed with hidden camera, was trying to sneak in as a programmer and tape hackers admitting to illegal activity. Instead, DefCon’s NBC mole uncovered the plot. DefCon staff lured her to a large hall telling her that the Spot the Fed contest was in session and that she could…

Canon 40D DSLR Prosumer Flagship Images?

That’s what is reported to be a 40D, the successor to Canon’s 30D prosumer flagship. The highlights of improvement appear to be a live view LCD, boosting the MP rating from 8.2 to 12 or 13, and Small RAW image format. Sounds fanciful, especially as we’ve heard all sorts of other numbers out there for…

Hands-On Vmoda’s Vibe Duo Headphones for iPhone (Verdict: Punchy, No Remote)

What made these $100 headphones irresistible Apple store iPhone retail bait? If it was a sin to use white earbuds with a nano, it surely was a sin to use it with a $600 phonepod. They’re also the only headphones to launch with the iPhone that explicitly work with the recessed headphone jack. They sound…

VMWare Fusion Review by Mossberg

Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it’s a review of VMWare’s Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply: Parallels has more features than Fusion…But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall. Jacqui at…

The Creative Zen V Plus was bumped from 8GB to 16GB, making it the first to have that much Flash. Singapore only, for now. [Creative via Electronista]