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Skype Calls Through Your Cellphone

This seems like a bit too much trouble for some free skyping, but what do I know. IPdrum has created a product that transmits Skype audio back and forth to a cellphone which then calls you on your cellphone. I know—wha? You basically need two cellphones on the same network, preferably with free in-network calling.…

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MSI MegaBook MS-1058

A pox on thee, MacBook. Can you beat a 12-inch AMD Turion notebook with ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M graphics and DVD burner? No, you can’t. This will be one of the first laptops running the Turion chip. No more specs, but it looks like a monster and only weighs about 4 pounds. MEGABOOK MS-1058 with…

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Why the Da Vinci Code is Full of It

Amidst all the chatter—”Jesus wasn’t divine and slept with the ladies,” “Tom Hanks has bad hair”—very few people were brave enough to bring up the real issues in Dan Brown’s smash best seller, The Screenplay for the Da Vinci Code Movie. Brown, it seems, doesn’t know anything about technology, biology, or art. His most egregious…

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Cardboard SLR

Strange stuff, this is. Apparently someone has built a single lens reflex camera out of cardboard and toothpicks. The coolest thing about this is that it uses a pencil to advance the film and even has a real rangefinder. We’ll try to contact the creator to discuss how he/she made this bugger. Picture Pages [Ueba…

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PS3 Controllers Don’t Vibrate Because They’re Cheap

The PS3 won’t have vibrating controllers because the plastic they’re made of is cheap and flimsy, says Immersion, maker of vibrating controllers. These sound like harsh words until you consider that they guy who said them, Immersion CEO Victor Viegas, has successfully sued Sony for infringing on their vibrating controller patent and now stands to…

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Fuji Raises Price of Film

Blaming the price of crude oil and silver, Fuji Photo Film is raising their film prices by up to 20 percent. Considering that Fuji and Kodak are the only folks still making commercial film, this is definitely not a surprise. Kodak has already raised their prices and considering that only my Crazy Aunt Debra uses…

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Wii Wets You Suwf De Web

The Nintendo Wii wiw come with a copy of Opewa, says Opewa head Jon won Tetzchner, de CEO of Opewa. This means you’d be awbew to bwose de web with your Wii wemote contwower just like a big boy. That’s supew! One issue, however, is how Nintendo will filter—er… fiwter—out all the PR0N for the…

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Sony Alpha DSLR Coming Soon

Reader Dv sent us a little tid-bit about Sony and their manueverings with the Alpha DSLR we talked about a while back. https://gizmodo.com/sony-alpha-dslr-unveiled-sort-of-173377 It seems Sony has purchased Japanese lens company Tamron and will be coming out with the Alpha DSLR with 20 Tamron lenses between June 12 and June 15. The Sony Alpha will…

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Crumpler Beer for Bags Program

Mad regimes like Crumpler only know one thing—coercion. To that end, they are holding a Beer for Bags event at their New York store where they will offer some of their messenger and laptop bags in exchange for cans of sweet, amber lager and ale. A selection of the company’s finest products, including the Barney…

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Magicbox IMP

Priced at about $200, this Wi-Fi radio streams Internet music as well as MP3s and BBC broadcasts. While we doubt it’s available here—and if it will be they’ll rebadge it—the concept is solid. You basically plug this thing in and connect to any of 2,500 free Internet streams. Listen, switch channels, repeat. Straightforward and quite…

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Gizmodo Clips: Archos Gmini 402 Camcorder

A short and sweet look at the Gmini 402 Camcorder. This thing is pretty cool—it lasts about three hours on one charge and can take video and photos. The games are kind of stupid but it’s a very usable little PMP. Archos, it seems, has done it again. Product Page [Archos]

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iPattern: Another Weird Watch

I don’t know, man. These things are just getting annoying. I love TokyoFlash and all, but is there just some guy hunched over a big watchmaker’s table dreaming up ways to piss off the people who want to read your watch? The top of this watch shows the hours and bottom shows the minutes. It’s…

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Anti-Spam Group Gets Uber-Spammed, Dies

Anti-spammers are like gazelles. They’re graceful, charming, and beautiful. Spammers, however, are like gazelle gut worms—they’re gross, cause horrible diarrhea, and eventually kill the host. A perfect example of this is Blue Frog. Blue Frog, and their service Blue Security, originally offered folks a way to spam spammers. First, customers would send spam to the…

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Manicure Necklace

When it just doesn’t feel appropriate to whip out your 40-piece hand, foot, and butt-crack cleaning kit, we offer this charming piece of functional jewelry. This dog-tag-shaped thing allows you to file down and then clean the feces, blood, and hair from under your coke nail. I’m saying WTF on this one, but you do…

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Sculpt Music with a Linux PC, PS2 Controller

Bored with the home entertainment PC? Dump URGE and head for real-time 3D music creation, a bit like what would happen if Pro Tools’ developers got replaced by an advanced alien race from deep space. The creators of Fijuu imagine a world where you sculpt sounds in gorgeous, morphing 3D landscapes, all using a PlayStation…

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MacIntel Buying Guide

We’re all for folks making the Switch to Apple—most of us here at art-nerd central did it a few years ago and haven’t looked back—and now that Boot Camp can load your iMac up with some Windows 98 goodness, everything is looking great. But what Mac should you buy? The folks at eHomeUpgrade graciously wrote…

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Wednesday Invites Chatroom Brawl: Roar

I have 70 comments invites just burning a hole in my inbox today, so head on over to the Gizmodo Campfire Chat Room. When you get your invite, please leave the room and head over to the E3 room if you want to chat and mumble amongst yourselves.

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Horse Airbags

We suppose this is eminently useful if you often ride the range in pursuit of the wild Jackalope or like to tip your ATV into the ravine of an evening. As we see, this is a wearable airbag that protects the neck, shoulders, front, and ass-bone, which is a medical term for the bone in…

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DreamAuthentics Gaming Cabinets

We’re big on the gaming cabinets, as you can see, simply because it was always our childhood dream to have a full-size arcade cabinet a la little Ricky in Silver Spoons. Now that we make actual money and are allowed to spend it, we just can’t bring ourselves to plunk down a few grand for…

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Sponsors Are Not the World

Skype Calls Through Your Cellphone

MSI MegaBook MS-1058

Why the Da Vinci Code is Full of It

Cardboard SLR

PS3 Controllers Don’t Vibrate Because They’re Cheap

Fuji Raises Price of Film

Wii Wets You Suwf De Web

Sony Alpha DSLR Coming Soon

Crumpler Beer for Bags Program

Magicbox IMP

Gizmodo Clips: Archos Gmini 402 Camcorder

iPattern: Another Weird Watch

Anti-Spam Group Gets Uber-Spammed, Dies

Manicure Necklace

Sculpt Music with a Linux PC, PS2 Controller

MacIntel Buying Guide

Wednesday Invites Chatroom Brawl: Roar

Horse Airbags

DreamAuthentics Gaming Cabinets

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

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

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

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

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

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?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!