Brian Lam, Author at Gizmodo

Microscope Cellphone Strap

Cellphones are getting smaller, no doubt. And screens? Sharper. So one day soon we’ll all need this little microscope cellphone strap just to read our text messages. Does up to 15x magnification. I want this thing, esp as my eyes fade into mole-vision from blogging 18 hours a day. Microscope Cellphone Strap [TokyoMango]

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 18

Deep Frying PC Makes French Fries. Does Not Slice or Dice.

Following in the spirit of PCs cooled by submerging their electro guts in oil, Sc4freak over at Hard OCP’s forums took an aluminum tray, filled it with 12 liters of canola oil, and dropped in an old Pentium II 266 with Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra. Nothing a geek ain’t see before. https://gizmodo.com/oil-cooled-pc-117633 Then he played…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 17

Update: Gizmondo and the Brokeback Enzo

Stefan rejects his plea deal, meaning this trial is still going down. Had he accepted the deal, he would have had to say sorry for embezzling in excess of $500k, and plotting to conceive one of the crappiest gadgets the world’s ever seen, the vaporous, gaming handheld with Bluetooth and GPS. Jalopnik has the exact…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 17

Official: iPods Infected by Virus

Apple just called Giz Editor Noah Robischon to apologize about a few video iPods—less than 1%— that shipped with the Windows virus RavMonE.exe. The virus snuck onto iPods made after September 12th, via a Windows assembly line machine. The bug won’t cause any damage to macs and iPods, but it will reduce the security of…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 17

Ivory Cellphone

This slider cellphone has a shell of ivory, intricately carved with dragon designs. The ivory, harvested from Elephant, Mammoth(?) and camel teeth, taking three engravers over 3 months to make. Only six available, worldwide. The brightside: At over $20,000 dollars, the proceeds will go towards destroying baby seals using dynamite and AK-47s. Amazing the things…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 17

Sleepypod Mobile Pet Bed Keeps Kitty Electrically Cozy

Kitty goes crazy when you tell him to get inside that creaky old pet transporter. He just knows you’re taking him to the vet for some anal probing or a shot. The best way to trick em into going to without going all claws is probably to spoil him with this heated pet bed that…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 16

Is the PS3 Controller Garbage?

IGN UK took the SIXAXIS PS3 controller to town, groping it rough in some back alley behind their cubicle farm, going on to say it feels cheaper than the joypad on a Chinese NES knockoff. Chinese Atari knockoff, even. The newly-designed lower L and R shoulder triggers feel more like they belong on a prototype.…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 16

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Gizmodo loves charts. This stuff holder from Artemy Lebedev, makers of the Optimus keyboard, looks like a chart of the gradually increasing diameter of my gut, from age 20-29, when you face its green side towards you. Flip it around to see the… the red side of the chart, downward, as if it were mapping…

Gadgets Brian Lam Oct 16

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

The voices in Charlie’s head are nothing compared to the cacophony coming from his dashboard. Take a look at this video, where you can hear the voices of four GPS units as he test which tell us to turn soonest. The smooth-sounding male voice is that of the Honda Civic Hybrid’s built-in GPS unit, the…

Gadgets Brian Lam Oct 16

Zune vs iPod: The 5 Year Battle for Souls

Steven Levy didn’t just find out how to meet women using iPods. He writes an article comparing the Zune vs. iPod battle as one that’ll be sorted only after 5 years, much like J Allard’s Xbox and its stand against Sony’s Playstation 2. Clearly, that battle has been going well for J, against all odds.…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 16

Steve Jobs On Zune WiFi Getting You Laid

Steven Levy, the Newsweek tech reporter has the kind of inside access at Apple worth Walt Mossberg’s weight in gold. Check out this locker room talk about the size of Zune’s “social neworking” je-ne-sais-quoi from his Q&A with Steve Jobs. Levy: Microsoft has announced its new iPod competitor, Zune. It says that this device is…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 16

Packing or Not?

How many of you gizmodo readers are ladies? And what subset of lady readers are offended by our boyish lockeroom jargon? I’m guessing about 12 percent, with a meager 4 percent offended. The rest charmed. Or so offended that you never come back again. Just curious if our ranks are more animal house or co-ed…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 16

Palm Treo 680: You Care, I Eat Crow

I said I didn’t care about the new-ish Palm Treo 680 that seemed to be little more than a colored Treo 700 with a few tweaks, and its antenna chopped off. Against my judgement, many of you voted that you were excited for the shitty little budget smartphone. I feel sorry for you, because you…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

Space Invaders Cufflinks

Continuing our obsession with all things classic gaming, check out these Sterling silver Space Invader cufflinks. Only $35 bucks, or 140 credits. https://gizmodo.com/space-invaders-alarm-clock-bew-bew-203567 Etsy [Via Fabulist]

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

007, Dial Another Day: Sony Ericsson W850i Unboxing

We’re so dissapointed that James Bond is packing outdated Sony Ericsson cellphones in Casino Royale. I suppose that’s fitting for an actor who didn’t know how to drive stick shift before the film. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-releases-limited-edition-james-bond-k800-207508 We can’t help Bond drive any better—we’ll leave that to our bros at Jalopnik—but we can give old Q a hand…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

Limited Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG and Diane von Furstenberg

The Special Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG that we saw a few weeks ago, is finally official, and available for preorder on the 30th of October. There isn’t any special added functionality, just the same old browser, trackball, 1.3MP camera, instant messaging and killer QWERTY. You’re paying, of course, for the camo paintjob. Perfect for…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

Sponsor High Fives and Butt Pats

Thanks for the dolla bills, y’all. Without the help of Audi, Best Buy, Blackberry, Business Software Alliance, DICE, General Motors, Google Checkout, HD-DVD, Intel, Logitech, Maxtor, Mio, Nokia, Radio Shack, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint Business, and Texas Instruments, there wouldn’t be any Gizmodo. Just a sad little Live Journal account and a gadget blogger. Keep…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

Lumenlabs Projector: 144-Inch Picture for $500

Those Lumenlabs guys are smart. First, they gave us DIY instructions for making projectors that looked like baby carriages made out of LCDs and cheap lightbulbs. Of course, who the hell has time to muss around in their basement like that? And baby carriages are for babies, like CRT TVs. https://gizmodo.com/diy-home-projectors-183343 That’s why they’ve come…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 13

Inflatable Fist Flicks the Bird

This window mounted fist sits on your rear windshield, just waiting for some jackass to flash you his high beams or honk his horn. At this point in time, you can slam on your brakes, let him rear end you, and sue him into oblivion. Or you can pump up the rubberized middle finger, and…

Gadgets Brian Lam Oct 12

Palm Treo 680: Who Cares?

Ok, amidst all the buzz of the new Palm device, I’m sitting here, googling and studying stat pages, wondering whether or not we should care about the Treo 680. Compared to the 700p, it has a similar processor, screen, OS, with double the amount of RAM (64MB vs 32MB), the same amount of internal storage…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 12

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Microscope Cellphone Strap

Deep Frying PC Makes French Fries. Does Not Slice or Dice.

Update: Gizmondo and the Brokeback Enzo

Official: iPods Infected by Virus

Ivory Cellphone

Sleepypod Mobile Pet Bed Keeps Kitty Electrically Cozy

Is the PS3 Controller Garbage?

Vector Holder Charts My Imaginary Demise

Insanity: Four GPS Navs Shouting From One Dashboard

Zune vs iPod: The 5 Year Battle for Souls

Steve Jobs On Zune WiFi Getting You Laid

Packing or Not?

Palm Treo 680: You Care, I Eat Crow

Space Invaders Cufflinks

007, Dial Another Day: Sony Ericsson W850i Unboxing

Limited Edition Sidekick 3 by LRG and Diane von Furstenberg

Sponsor High Fives and Butt Pats

Lumenlabs Projector: 144-Inch Picture for $500

Inflatable Fist Flicks the Bird

Palm Treo 680: Who Cares?

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