Jason Chen

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: We’re all about energy this week, as we mark another notch in the “world’s biggest” belt, with an 80 Megawatt solar “farm” in California. Solar’s chill cousin, “ambient vibe energy,” gets some love with this generator that harnesses the power of tiny vibrations. The Pentagon announced a public prize competition to…

LED Picnic Blanket Classes Up Outdoor Dining

Why eat in the dark when you can shove a bunch of LEDs on a picnic blanket and call it a day? We can’t come up with a reason, so head on over to Instructables to see how you can build your own. All you need is a string of 64 LEDs, a bunch of…

BeeJive’s JiveTalk The Best iPhone IM Client So Far

Seeing as eBuddy and Meebo either only kinda work or support only AIM, and Trillian Astra isn’t actually available yet, JiveTalk looks like the only good solution for mobile IMing on the iPhone. Not only does it support AIM, there’s MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber support as well. And it’s FAST. https://gizmodo.com/im-on-iphone-become-trillian-astra-tester-276008 In our…

How to Comment: Live

Hey folks, we’re going to be at E3, and we’re going to be broadcasting LIVE, on Justin.tv’s helmet cam. You enjoyed Lam’s late night cursing when we lined up in the cold for the iPhone, now you’ll enjoy my mid-afternoon cursing as I endure the breezy beaches of Santa Monica. Harsh. Don’t know how to…

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

You saw our gigantic review of the iPhone, but now it’s time to win one. And by now, we mean NOW, because the contest ends tomorrow, July 10. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116 Contest [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/were-giving-away-an-iphone-270738

The US Navy Wants in on BoatCars

If you thought only Richard Branson and other well-off BoatCar enthusiasts were the only ones interested in being active on both land and sea, well, you’d be wrong. The Navy’s eyeballing this as well. The Naval Surface Warfare Center is looking at high-speed amphibian (HSA) craft, like this BoatCar, to quickly go from land to…

World of Warcraft on the iPhone Kinda

Remember that remote control iPhone to Mac app we showed you last week? Someone’s used that to get World of freaking Warcraft working on the iPhone. It’s not exactly "desktop quality," but he does get the ability to chat and execute some basic commands. You won’t see another Jenkins episode reproduced on the iPhone though,…

80GB PlayStation 3 To Get Icky Software Emulation for PS2 Games

We all knew the European PS3s use software emulation to play PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games, but all our US PS3s were doing much better hardware “emotion engine” emulation. But if you want one of the fancy new 80GB PS3s, featuring twenty—count’em, twenty—more jiggabytes than the 60GB model, you’ll have to deal with software…

Wi-Fi BlackBerry Cherry Picked by FCC

All you BlackBerry lovers envious of other people’s smartphone’s Wi-Fi capabilities can stop pining—the FedComCom’s got you covered. Late last week, the FCC just approved what looks like a 8800 series BlackBerry with 802.11a, b and g. It’s GSM, but looks like it’s destined for T-Mobile. Not much other details than that, but we’ll keep…

Contest Reminder: Win a TiVo Series 3

Still haven’t entered our trivia contest to win a TiVo Series 3? You’d better hurry, because the contest ends July 10. That’s tomorrow, in case you weren’t sure what day it was today. Contest Questions [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/trivia-contest-win-a-tivo-series-3-274358

Video: The Xbox 360 Transformer

We knew we saw the Xbox 360 transform and tear the eyeballs out of some guy during the Transformers movie, and now we have video proof so we can enjoy it at home. There it is, complete with a clipped version of the startup sound. Oh and in case you were wondering whether the movie…

Gizmodo’s Female Reader Cellphone Study

Samsung commissioned a boring cellphone survey for single women that asked them whether they had “text shame”, which is sending a message and realizing that they shouldn’t have sent it, whether women use it as an address book, whether they pretended to have reception trouble, and whether they had their friends call them on a…

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Gets Spotted Bigfoot Style

Found in the depths of some German forum, a DPreview member says these pictures are for the yet-to-be-announced Canon EOS 5D Mark II. No real details to this camera other than the fact that it’s going to replace the 5D (obviously). See the back after the jump, but don’t expect a “make me a professional…

Toshiba Portege G900 Screen Video

You saw the unboxing video of the Toshiba G900 yesterday, but Matt from Tracy and Matt have a video of the screen up today. It’s hard to tell from the video (screens are here), but that 800×480 is really huge. And in a device only slightly bigger than other slide-out-keyboard Windows Mobile smartphones, this seems…

Ghetto Blaster Bag

Got an anniversary coming up? Get your lady this Ghetto Blaster bag and watch as her nostrils flare, her eyes get really really big, and then beady—then duck as she makes a swing at you, and dodge as that knee comes flying up. After the festivities are over, you can explain to her that this…

Japanese Portable Hot Plate Cooks Everything

For 10x the price of a George Foreman grill, this $200 grill/hot plate set better cook 10x the amount of stuff. It does. From the horrible Japanese translation, this Zojirushi grill looks like it can roast meat, grill vegetables, make fried rice, smoke meat, cook vegetables, make chow mein and a bunch of other things.…

Gearlive figured out how to get IRC working on the iPhone. Awesome news for time travelers who are planning a trip back to 1999. [Gearlive]

Magnetic Pajama Buttons Get You From Clothed to Naked in 0.5 Seconds

If you’re anything like us, your major complaint about pajamas is that they’re just too hard to take off. That, and how urine stains never seem to wash out completely. These magnetic pajama buttons don’t do much about problem #2, but they totally take the clothing-removal equation to the next level. Of course, these magnetic…

Someone wants to fuck you in the ass for your iPhone. Females only. Ugly assholes need not apply. [Fleshbot (NSFW)]

iPhone Headset Doesn’t Support Noise Cancellation

If the official iPhone Bluetooth headset is $129, what would you expect it to have? More than just auto-pairing via the dock, right? Well, a reader just told us he called up Apple support and asked them whether the headset supports noise cancellation. They said no. Not only that, they recommended that he buy a…