Brian Lam, Author at Gizmodo

$5 FON La Fonera Router Shares WiFi, Out Now

FON just released their second WiFi Sharing router, subsidized, for $5. Sharing?! Yea, remember? FON is that company that lets you hop other FON user hotspots, in exchange for making your hotspot open, too. Their new hardware, dubbed La Fonera, which literally translated means “The Winged Mallard Flies at Midnight.” We wrote about it a…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 12

Moto KRZR Unboxing and Grope

I got my hands on the Motorola KRZR. What can I say? You already know its the narrow, long followup to the now-classic Moto RAZR. The 1.9-inch screen is 176 by 220, and fair enough. The phone seems surprisingly hefty, in a good way. Yes, it’s so freaking shiny that it deeks out my DSLR’s…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 12

Limited Edition Star Wars USB Flashdrives

An Imperial spy informs us that Mimoco’s going to drop a Darth Vadar USB flash drive tomorrow. A limited run of 3500, too, so you’d better queue up now if you want one. They’re officially sanctioned by his royal Lucas-ness, and will go for $80 bucks for a 1GB version, all the way to $170…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 11

Fujitsu Notebook-Slash-Turntable

This Fujitsu laptop has a giant touchwheel on top that lets the notebook function as a digital turntable. It’ll even connect wirelessly to an iPod for its music. You really can’t have this one, though. Not only is it a Japanese CEATEC unveilling, but its a prototype. Humbug, anyhow. Who the hell wants to scratch…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 10

T-Mobile’s Announces 3G Data over UMTS, Late Better Than Never

Sometimes, peer pressure is good. One case: cellular data. While Sprint, Verizon, and even Cingular are already playing around with 3G speeds, T-Mobile, was stuck rocking the square EDGE/GPRS data connections that run at a little more than 100+Kbps. Until today. TMo just announced that they’re finally going 3G, starting in Q4 of 2006. Gizmodo…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 9

Lenovo X60 Tabletized, Gets the Achilles Hinge

I love the x60 Thinkpad. It’s small, solidly built, and has a model with built in cellular data. A few days ago, the blogs went mad over leaked info about an X60 tablet with Core Duo and Solo processors, and the ability to use both a magnetic pen (standard on tablets) or a finger to…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 9

O2 Jet Phone is Talk Time Champ and Best Travel Phone Ever

The 02 Jet phone has about 10 hours of talk time— that’s enought time to give you brain cancer with one extended call. The phone looks like a darth version of their Ice phone, but without the 1.3 megapixel face cam for video conferencing…and without much of anything else, either. That’s because it’s strictly business,…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 9

Who Sponsors Gizmodo’s Tenacious Posting Schedule?

You want to know? Really? Ok, it’s the kindly folks at Audi, Mio, Best Buy, Google Checkout, Radio Shack, Texas Instruments, AT&T, General Motors, HD-DVD, SV Supreme Vodka, Maxtor, Business Software Alliance, Sprint, DICE, Logitech, Blackberry, Battlestar Galactica, and Intel. I’m in charge of a news outlet that is both sponsored by fine German automobiles,…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 6

Prototype: Hitachi Mini Blu-Ray Camcorder

This little camcorder, revealed at the Japan-only CEATEC, records directly to itty bitty Blu-Ray discs, and looks like a Gundam shoulder mounted cannon. This reminds us of the low-end Samsung mini dvd-camcorder we wrote about a few weeks ago. Except that one was cheap and terrible, and this one will never see a Best Buy…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 6

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm

Did you know that Japan’s favorite and best selling cellphone strap is a golden poop? Tokyo Mango reports that over 2.7 million of the little shiny turds, said to be good luck charms, have been sold. There’s even a version in a baseball mitt, for “catching money”. Mitt, and info on purchasing, post jump. This…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 6

GhostBusters Proton Pack, Wand, and Trap

Developed by Dr. Egon Spengler and Dr. Ray Stantz after their residencies at Columbia University, the proton pack fires a stream of protons via a wand for use in paranormal investigation and capture. The protons, sometimes referred to as positrons, attack the negative ectoplasmic energy of a ghost, snaring the little bugger, holding it in…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 6

Shattered Ferraris, Swedish Mafioso, and Game Consoles: Gizmondo Investigative Feature in Wired

Friend, editor, and Super Trooper impersonator, Rob Capps put together this fantastic investigative summary of the high drama Bo Stefan Eriksson and the Gizmondo crew ran into this Spring. The fantastic art, by comic artistJae Lee is stellar, too. The reporting and writing was done by Randall Sullivan, Rolling Stone Somebody, and author of the…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 4

Rubik’s Cube Speaker

This Japan-only goodie is a desktop speaker system that flashes its cube-ness to the beat of your sound source. Sounds rather gimicky, useless, and I bet annoying after a day or two. What gets me interested in this gadget is the potential for futuristic Rubik’s cube action. Now that chinese kids can solve the original…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 4

Penny Arcade On the Zune’s WiFi

Gabe and Tycho deftly tackle the impending and terrible ramifications of the Zune’s WiFi powers. And to think that we’d thought it would be something akin to gravy, plus a cherry on top, plus a bag of chips. Which probably only sounds good when you’re really hungry. Anyhow, they’re right about the limited functionality, something…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 4

Comment Account Murder: Hasta La Vista, Ruiner

The governator hates crappy comments. He flew back in time just to take them out with an extreme Austrian accent. Starting with The Ruiner, who posts this turd-in-the-shape-of-words in response to Creative’s Xmod audio processor featuring a hugemongous knob: https://gizmodo.com/creative-xmod-promises-to-make-your-crappy-mp3s-sound-b-204903 “uhuhuhuh hu hu he said knob hu hu hu huhhuhuuhhuh” Crime: Only our dimwitted editorial…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 4

Helio 3G + WiFi Data Card a Cheap Double-Date

Helio, the cellphone company with mySpace on their speedy 3G handsets, has always offered unlimited data, but without any way to get that net-link to your laptop. Until now. This PCMCIA card rocks EVDO, good for 700kbps downloads, and WiFi that comes with access to Boingo hotspots. Not bad for $85 dollar a month. And…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 4

Unboxing and First Grope: Nokia E62 QWERTY Moto Q Killer

We wrote about the E62 a little while ago, but in case you’ve forgotten, this is Nokia’s Motorola Q killer. It’s got a bigger screen—2.8 inches—which equates to a slightly bigger handset. It does push email using the Blackberry system, but its EDGE connection feels downright pokey next to the EVDO we see on Verizon’s…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 3

iPod Vs. Zune Size Contest

Jake Luddington puts his iPod next to a Zune at some Canadian Tech Fest and finds the Zune a little bit bigger in all regards. We knew the Zune was somewhat big from the spec sheets. But nothing quite spells out “fat lard butt” better than putting the chubby new kid next to the popular…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 2

You Can’t Seduce With an iPod, Unless…

Keira writes in with her essay prepared with the single, gadget-obsessed male in mind. It’s titled “On Gentlemen Giving iPods as Gifts—Keira’s Primer on the Art of Seduction.” She believes that women do like iPods, but that they do not always make wise gifts, and subsequently, giving one won’t do much to improve your odds…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 29

SMC Skype Phone White Saintly Twin of Belkin Phone

A reader sends in an unboxing of the SMC Skype phone, which he got his hands on early. J. Chen notes its really similar, maybe identical, to the black Skype handset we looked at a few weeks ago. One good, one evil—but seemingly the same operating system on each. Click through for the gallery of…

Gadgets Brian Lam Sep 29

Brian Lam

$5 FON La Fonera Router Shares WiFi, Out Now

Moto KRZR Unboxing and Grope

Limited Edition Star Wars USB Flashdrives

Fujitsu Notebook-Slash-Turntable

T-Mobile’s Announces 3G Data over UMTS, Late Better Than Never

Lenovo X60 Tabletized, Gets the Achilles Hinge

O2 Jet Phone is Talk Time Champ and Best Travel Phone Ever

Who Sponsors Gizmodo’s Tenacious Posting Schedule?

Prototype: Hitachi Mini Blu-Ray Camcorder

Japanese Golden Poop Cellphone Charm

GhostBusters Proton Pack, Wand, and Trap

Shattered Ferraris, Swedish Mafioso, and Game Consoles: Gizmondo Investigative Feature in Wired

Rubik’s Cube Speaker

Penny Arcade On the Zune’s WiFi

Comment Account Murder: Hasta La Vista, Ruiner

Helio 3G + WiFi Data Card a Cheap Double-Date

Unboxing and First Grope: Nokia E62 QWERTY Moto Q Killer

iPod Vs. Zune Size Contest

You Can’t Seduce With an iPod, Unless…

SMC Skype Phone White Saintly Twin of Belkin Phone

Two Songs We Really Wish Were the Anime Outros for ‘Steel Ball Run’

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