Eric Limer, Author at Gizmodo

iWatch Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

If it feels like the promise of an Apple smartwatch has been looming forever, that’s because it has. And its shadow helped birth the army of other smartwatches that we have today. But now, finally, the near mythical iWatch is rumored to arrive very soon. We’ll be covering today’s announcement live right here, but in…

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Intel’s Core M Might Finally Give Us True Laptop-Tablet Hybrids

The perfect in-between device—something that’s as thin as a dedicated tablet and as powerful as a dedicated laptop—is something we’ve been promised for years. Once, it looked like the answer might come when Intel’s Atom chips—Bay Trail chips, specifically—got potent enough to power highly mobile machines that could hold their own against real laptops. Atom…

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HP’s Chromebook 14 Gets a Big Time Tegra K1 Boost

HP has a few power-ups planned for the holiday that are worth getting excited about. Specifically, its newest 14-inch Chromebook will be getting a fancy Tegra K1 chip, and the Envy X2 detachable is going to get a serious powerboost from Intel’s Core M Broadwell. The new 14-inch HP Chromebook packing Tegra K1 inside boasts…

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Lenovo’s New Thinkpad Helix: A Full, Fanless PC in an iPad-Size Body

Lenovo introduced its Helix detachablelast year, with a 11.6-inch, 1080p screen, a beefy Intel Core i5 chip inside and a battery-boosting keyboard dock. Pretty much a Surface Pro. This year it’s back with a new, slimmer body and it’s one of the first gadgets out there to rep Intel’s newest “Core M” brains. Intel’s Core…

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Acer Chromebook 13 Review: With Great Power Comes an Iffy Screen

Nvidia’s Tegra K1 is an absolute blast in an Android tablet and now the Acer Chromebook 13 is slapping it in a laptop body too. The result isn’t perfect, but it’s a promising look at where Chromebooks could go. What Is It? A Chromebook with Nvidia’s impressive K1 mobile chip for a brain. A $380…

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Gear VR: Samsung’s Answer to the Oculus Rift Is a Phone-Powered VR Beast

Google Cardboard’s smartphone VR is a cool trick, but Samsung has just announced a rig that shows just how legit smartphone virtual reality can be. Gear VR is like an Oculus Rift with a brain you can fit in your pocket, and it’s pretty incredible. Just like the rumors suggested, Samsung’s Gear VR is a…

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Samsung Gear S Hands On: A Tiny Phone That’s Still Big on Your Wrist

Last week, Samsung announced the Gear S: A Tizen-powered, curved screen smartwatch with a data connection that can take calls all by itself. We just got to see it in person, and man that curved screen is cool, but the rest of it not so much. The first thing to notice is obviously the 2-inch,…

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New HTML Is About To Make Your Phone Way Better at Using the Internet

Underneath every picture of a dog in a beekeeping suitand ice-bucket challenge videoyou see on the internet, there’s a complex framework of code. Soon, that framework will get a tiny tune-up that will make surfing the web on your phone faster than it’s ever been. When the internet on your phone gets laggy, the culprit…

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A Rad Mini Grappling Gun You Can Make Out of Desk Clutter

When I was in grade school, I used poorly engineered retractable pen cannons to fire tiny beads at my friends an enemies during class. I thought it was pretty cool but this mini grappling gun puts all my pre-adolescent tinkering to shame. In a quick and easy step-by-step mist8k shows you exactly how you can…

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Blink and You’ll Miss This Leaked Video of the Galaxy Note 4

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 should be coming very, very soon, almost certainly at Samsung’s Unpacked event next week. But in the meantime, it’s made a sneak appearance in an extremely short leaked video. Not the shortest we’ve seen, but close. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-note-4-rumor-roundup-everything-we-thin-1616936073 Posted by one-video-account TechTastic, the clip shows the Note 4 in all its massive…

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Rival Coffee Cup Makers Have Already Cracked Keurig’s DRM

When Keurig announced its new Keurig 2.0, it came with more than just the ability to brew larger 30oz K-Carafe cups. It also came with measures to ensure only Keurig-approved cups could be used. Those measures didn’t work. The new security precaution involved the use of some sort of specialized ink marking present on top…

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I’m Ashamed I Forgot How Freaking Great Tenacious D Is

Remember when Tenacious D came back and dropped Rize of the Fenix back in 2012? Maybe you’re like me and you forgot. Well we’re both terrible because god damn is its first song good. Earlier today I was listening to an episode of the (excellent) Comedy Bang Bang podcast featuring Jack Black and Kyle Gass…

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Samsung Gear S: Finally(?) a Smartwatch That Can Make Phone Calls

Yes, the rumors are true: Samsung just announced a smartwatch with a data connection. The Samsung Gear S can make phone calls. Because why the hell not? https://gizmodo.com/report-samsung-is-still-working-on-a-smartwatch-that-i-1580640910 The Tizen powered device offers a Dual core 1.0 GHz processor, a 2.0-inch 360 x 480 Super AMOLED display, 512MB RAM, 4GB onboard storage, a (measly) 300mAh…

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Watch Out Moto 360, There’s Another Gorgeous Android Wear Watch

Motorola’s 360 was the first beautiful round Android Wear, but it’s certainly not the last. LG is bringing one to the table as well, the LG G Watch R. Not to be outdone, LG’s second Android Wear outing has a few fancy special features of its own: No “flat tire” on its screen and a…

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Standalone Kinect For Xbox One Is $150, Coming in October

Not long ago, Microsoft took the Kinect out of some of its Xbox One bundles, dropping the price of the console to $400 and giving devs extra power to play with. If you got one of those and want to add a Kinect later, you’ll be able to in October, for $150. https://gizmodo.com/the-xbox-one-will-be-available-without-kinect-for-400-1575649648 That Microsoft…

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Read In the Tub? The Waterproof Kobo Aura H2O Is For You

We love a waterproofed Kindle, and we put one through hell, but that’s an aftermarket mod, not a feature that comes standard. If you want waterproofed reading on the cheap(er), the new Kobo Aura H2O is for you. Offering IP67 certification (waterproof for up to 30 minutes in 3 of water if the port cover…

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HP Recalls 6 Million Laptop Power Cords Because They Might Catch On Fire

Got a HP or Compaq laptop? Better check the power cord; HP is recalling 6 million of them due to a fire risk. The voluntary recall affects chargers included with some HP and Compaq laptops, mini laptops, and charging stations sold between September 2010 and June 2012 and only affects the power cord, the part…

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Second City’s Leak of the “iPhone 6” Is Perfect

iPhone 6 day is (probably) right around the corner and we’re all aching for as much early detail as we can scrape up. DOLDO411 is the latest to bust out an in-depth (and hilarious) scoop, but this is one that not even TMZ could confuse for the real thing. https://gizmodo.com/tmz-thinks-this-is-the-iphone-6-bless-its-heart-1622149808 Made of plyvar (or maybe…

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What Crowdfunded Project Has Screwed You Over the Hardest?

Crowdfunding isn’t the same as preordering. It’s a gamble at best. And with the Keryos Meteor coming out as one of the biggest crowdfunding fails in recent memory, we got to thinking: What other crowdfunding disasters have managed to slip under the radar? What projects have you backed that just didn’t follow through, either because…

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7 Glimpses into Android’s Beautiful Future

The newest version of Android (Lemon Meringue Pie?) is on its way, bringing with it a whole new look for Google at large. For now it’s just a beta, but designers are already playing with Google’s new guidelines. So far, so good. The following collection of GIFs aren’t official apps; they’re guesses, by some talented…

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iWatch Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know (Updated)

Intel’s Core M Might Finally Give Us True Laptop-Tablet Hybrids

HP’s Chromebook 14 Gets a Big Time Tegra K1 Boost

Lenovo’s New Thinkpad Helix: A Full, Fanless PC in an iPad-Size Body

Acer Chromebook 13 Review: With Great Power Comes an Iffy Screen

Gear VR: Samsung’s Answer to the Oculus Rift Is a Phone-Powered VR Beast

​Samsung Gear S Hands On: A Tiny Phone That’s Still Big on Your Wrist

New HTML Is About To Make Your Phone Way Better at Using the Internet

A Rad Mini Grappling Gun You Can Make Out of Desk Clutter

Blink and You’ll Miss This Leaked Video of the Galaxy Note 4

Rival Coffee Cup Makers Have Already Cracked Keurig’s DRM

I’m Ashamed I Forgot How Freaking Great Tenacious D Is

Samsung Gear S: Finally(?) a Smartwatch That Can Make Phone Calls

Watch Out Moto 360, There’s Another Gorgeous Android Wear Watch

Standalone Kinect For Xbox One Is $150, Coming in October

Read In the Tub? The Waterproof Kobo Aura H2O Is For You

HP Recalls 6 Million Laptop Power Cords Because They Might Catch On Fire

Second City’s Leak of the “iPhone 6” Is Perfect

What Crowdfunded Project Has Screwed You Over the Hardest?

7 Glimpses into Android’s Beautiful Future

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

Artemis 2 Live Updates: Countdown to the Moon 🔴

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

Chinese Startup Debuts Super-Bendy Robotic Arm for Orbital Repairs

Your Devices Are Targets. Bitdefender Shields Them All — For Less Than You Think

Of Course, ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Post Credit Scene Is Another Big Cameo

Proton Just Launched Meet, and It Makes Zoom Look Like a Privacy Nightmare

America’s Latest Unfounded Health Panic: ‘Vaccinated’ Blood Donations

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Samsung Gear S Hands On: A Tiny Phone That’s Still Big on Your Wrist