Jason Chen

Cisco Killing off Linksys Brand, All Your Router Are Belong to Cisco

Those of you with any brand loyalty to Linksys will shed a tear at Cisco’s announcement to kill off the Linksys name entirely. The only reason Cisco kept the name after they bought out the smaller company was for brand recognition in the US (Linksys was much better known among consumers). The big C has…

The iPhone Crane Game

Those you who didn’t get an iPhone in our Eureka contest earlier this month can head down to Point Pleasant, NJ, and try your luck there. Instead of coming up with a cool invention, all you have to do is master the forbidden art of pulling crap out of a glass box with a crane.…

Fans of Yahoo and Windows Mobile can have both now that Yahoo! Go 2.0 has been released. Phones like the Sprint Mogul and AT&T 8525 can get in the action. [Yahoo Go]

Remember that limited edition Simpsons Xbox 360 Microsoft was giving out as prizes? You can buy them on eBay. Current price: $2550. [eBay via TVSquad] https://gizmodo.com/limited-edition-colorware-xbox-360-commissioned-for-sim-259405

Dvorak Uses Mac, Likes it, Recommends it to Friends

John C. Dvorak, the man Mac users love to hate, has used a Mac. His verdict? He actually likes it quite a bit. After using the iMac for a project for some unnamed company, he found that they’re very quiet, “slicker” than PCs, and has a feeling of being faster and more solid than Windows.…

Halo 3 Toy Weapons Have Realistic Light, Sound, Recoil, and Vents When Overheated

Playing make-believe Halo 3 with your friends in the backyard is fun enough with cardboard boxes for helmets and aluminum foil for guns, but what if you had a real replica plasma rifle? Jasman Toys is bringing its line of Halo 3 Covenant (bad guys) weapons with Laser Pursuit technology to Comic-Con this week. Each…

Apple Plans Product Transitions Before September

Owen of Valleywag noticed this yesterday in the Apple’s earnings call: CFO Peter Oppenheimer threw out an interesting tidbit as sort of an aside about some product transitions before September. Curious indeed. What could these be? He didn’t elaborate further, but what could constitute a product transition? Those new iMacs we’ve seen rumors about for…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We go jogging Gump-style with the Nike Vintage Running Collection, hit the beach in some Vilebrequin Okoa Maui Boardshorts, and learn that public parks aren’t just for homeless people while we fly the Prism Quantum Kite. We also cart around the nephew in the BOB Sport Utility Stroller, become super-popular with…

The Cutest Compact Flash Cards Ever

Are these not the cutest goddamn Compact Flash cards ever? Those Japanese really know what they’re doing. [Rakuten via Gizmodo Japan]

Paw Jacuzzi

We enjoy dogs as much as the next person, but giving them a little paw jacuzzi to warm and wash their mitts is a bit far. Sure, 5800 yen ($48) isn’t that much to pay for a good soak, but c’mon. This is a dog. He won’t know the difference between a paw jacuzzi and…

Customizable Analog Clocks Show What Time it is Anywhere

Got a lot of family all over the world? Need to stalk and track every single Giz editor? This customizable analog clock is for you. It shows the time on a 24 hour scale, divided up into night and day, and gives you five hands that point to various time zones throughout the world. This…

Toshiba Portege R500 1.73 Pound Ultra-Portable Notebook Goes Solid State

The 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege R500 may have cleared the FCC, but its younger, slimmer brother just weighed in at 1.73 pounds. How did Toshiba do it? By swapping out a standard hard drive and putting in a 64GB solid-state flash drive. The R500-S5003 has no moving parts (there’s no DVD drive), and will cost $2,699.…

Second Rotation Buys Your Old Gadgets

If you want to dump off your old cellphone, camera or MP3 player but don’t want to deal with the hassle of not getting robbed off Craigslist, check out Second Rotation. These guys have a gigantic “bluebook”-like list of what gadgets are worth and will pay you cash money within ten days of receiving the…

Apple Earnings Call: The Highlights

Apple’s earnings call is today, and we’re monitoring to see if there’s any good information coming out of it. So far, Apple’s sold 270,000 iPhones (from the data summary PDF). Actual earnings call coming up soon. • 9,815,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 21 percent growth over the year-ago quarter • 1,764,000 Macintosh(R) computers, representing…

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Wooden Car Goes 90km/h, Costs $32,000

Unlike the last wooden car, which was only wood-skinned, this Japanese wooden car is made entirely out of wood. Well, except for the engine and other mechanical parts. The Japanese wooden car was made by a furniture manufacturer, costs $32,000, and is probably the most dangerous car ever. Video after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/handmade-wooden-skinned-car-is-a-craftsmans-masterpiece-243852 [Wood Car…

RoboFlusher Holds Toilet Flusher Down For 10 Seconds

If you’ve got one of those lousy toilets that require you to actually hold down the flusher the entire time you have to flush, you have two options. One, get a new flushing mechanism from Ace Hardware that’s not a piece of crap. Two, build your own RoboFlusher that holds down the flusher for you,…

Unconfirmed: Retailer Says Xbox 360 Getting Price Cut August 8

This is all unconfirmed for now, but a retailer is saying the Xbox 360 will get a $50 price cut come August 8. We haven’t seen any pricing rumors since E3, where everyone thought the 360 was going to lower its price to match the PS3’s “price cut,” but that didn’t happen. Peter Moore told…

AT&T Gets the Pantech C150 Low-End Cameraphone

If you thought that AT&T was becoming a high-end boutique cellphone shop with handsets like the iPhone and the HTC 8925, Pantech’s latest addition to their roster will straighten you out. The C150 is a pretty nice looking low-end cameraphone with a VGA camera, Bluetooth, Yahoo Mail, AOL, Windows Live Mail support, MP3 ringtones, picture…

Ten 300 Xbox 360s Given Away at Comic-Con

If you’re lucky enough to head down to Comic-Con tomorrow, you’ll get a chance to both see a special screening of 300 and enter in a giveaway to win your own 300-inspired Xbox 360. As you can see above, it’s matte black—which probably means it’s an Elite—and has Frank Miller-styled blood spatter and a profile…