Jason Chen

Xbox 360 Price Drop Brings Sales Way Up On Amazon

People like cheap things. Just like the PlayStation 3 price drop caused its sales to tent, the Xbox 360’s slash made the Xbox 360 Premium rocket to #11 in sales in video games. The other two, Elite and Core, also went up as well. Forza 2, the 360’s racing game, also benefitted from the price…

Speaking of texting while driving, some girl is texting while driving on the Wild 94.9 Justin.TV feed [JustinTV] https://gizmodo.com/89-of-americans-want-texting-while-driving-outlawed-286731

How to Comment: Walkthrough

If you’re looking to comment in our iMac Walkthrough, but don’t have a comment account here’s how: https://gizmodo.com/our-imac-arrives-walkthrough-on-the-way-287444 1) Click on the “Register” link on the top right of the page. Fill out the form by choosing a username, password and email for your eventual comment account. 2) Choose a post, click on it, and…

Lightning Round: Newertech MacBook/MacBook Pro Battery Charger

The Gadget: Newertech’s MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Charging Station, which let you charge and condition laptop batteries without having to swap out the one in your laptop. The Verdict: Great build quality, fast charging, and overall convenience makes the price a non-factor when you need to charge multiple batteries simultaneously. The Catch: It actually…

HTC Nike Touchscreen Slider

This HTC Nike (P5500) Windows Mobile 6 smartphone found in HTC’s roadmap looks almost exactly like the HTC Touch we reviewed before, except it has a slide-out numpad. Our thoughts? Genius. One of the big complaints about the Touch was the fact that you could only use the onscreen keyboard to dial. And as you…

Samsung Blast Gallery

The $99 Samsung Blast may be bordering on T-Mobile’s bargain bin, but it’s actually a quite sexy phone. Sexy, thin and light are the three terms we’d use to describe it. Check out this gallery to see what we mean. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-launches-samsung-blast-287163

TV Tetris Brings Tetris Anywhere

You know we’ve arrived in the future when we have a Tetris game that can be enjoyed just by plugging it into the TV. These TV Tetris controllers allow you to enjoy your second favorite Russian game from the ’80s (their roulette game is still #1) with nothing but a Tetris-shaped controller and a TV.…

Stethoscope Replacement Can Image Your Lungs in Seconds

Instead of having a doctor put one cold-ass stethoscope onto your back, Deep Breeze’s Vibration Response Imaging system puts 42 cold-ass stethoscopes onto your back. By using acoustic vibrations, the machine—hooked up to a computer—can produce an image of your lungs in mere seconds. And if you calibrate it juuuust right, it can even see…

Apple’s posted a 30-day iWork ’08 trial for you to fiddle with if you’re not sure whether or not it’s worth your $79 yet. [Apple]

Boob Mousepads Become Boob Pillows

Some enterprising Japanese company has taken those Japanese mousepads with anime boobies on them and blown them up. Now pillow sized, the mousepad/pillows provide your hands with something to do while relaxing. It’s probably a very nice neck and head rest as well. [AkibaOS via Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/this-summer-brings/dork-pillows-with-humps-287064.php

Contest Reminder: Win a Gamepod Chair

Still haven’t entered in our Flash Gordon Gamepod chair contest? You still have time to answer a bunch of trivia questions and get an entertainment chair of your very own. https://gizmodo.com/flash-gordon-contest-win-a-super-comfortable-gamepod-h-285878

Those aluminum and glass iMacs revealed yesterday actually have DirectX 10 capable graphics cards from ATI, which means that your Boot Camp Windows gaming will be able to kinda handle Crysis. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/new-imacs-are-directx-10-ready-287105.php

Apple iMac, iLife, iWork Questions? Ask Us!

If any of you have any questions about the new iMacs, the new keyboards or the iLife and iWork software suites, let us know and we’ll ask Apple for you. Either email the questions to us in tips@giz, or post a comment below. We’ll get back with the answers later today.

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger:The Delft University of Technology has built a solar-powered mouse, testing whether super-functional, well-designed renewable energy products can encourage users to go green; it seems to us that your hand covers the mouse most of the day and at night the lights are out—perhaps it’s best for casual computer users. In our…

Apple adds Gigabit Ethernet to their Airport Extreme units, finally resolving one of the biggest gripes we’ve had with the router. [Apple]

HTC Advantage Available Now For $899

The HTC Advantage, HTC’s not a girl, not yet a woman smartphone/umpc hybrid is available now. You can pick one up on Amazon and CompUSA for $899, and take it wherever people don’t stare at you funny for using a big phone with a keyboard. The specs, to refresh: • Windows Mobile 6 • 5-inch…

Hands-on With the Slim Aluminum Apple Keyboards

Click to viewWe just played with both the new Apple keyboards, both wired and wireless, and found them actually quite good. It’s no longer mushy, like the old models, but almost exactly like the keys on the MacBooks now. They have the same space between individual keys, and pretty much the same tactile feel when…

Live at Apple Town Hall Summer ’07 Event (10AM PDT Tuesday August 7th)

[UPDATE: We’re here….very, very, early.]Soon, we’ll be heading down to Apple HQ to provide you with a liveblog of their Town Hall event. The party actually starts at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT), but the pre-game show will start hours before that. We’ll have the Justin.TV cam rolling (which we’ll have to shut off…

Contest Reminder: Win a Gamepod Chair

There’s still time to enter the Flash Gordon home entertainment chair contest. Just click on over to see how you can win your own chair that produces sounds while cushioning your junk. https://gizmodo.com/flash-gordon-contest-win-a-super-comfortable-gamepod-h-285878

Contest Reminder: Win a Gamepod Chair

Hey folks, just a reminder that you can still enter in the Flash Gordon home entertainment chair contest. Just head to the post to see the questions and how you enter. https://gizmodo.com/flash-gordon-contest-win-a-super-comfortable-gamepod-h-285878