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Contest: Win a Xbox 360 + HD DVD Player

The Xbox 360 is finishing up its second year on the market, which means this is the perfect time to get in on all the great titles coming out this holiday season courtesy of Gizmodo. From Mass Effect to Lost Odyssey to PGR4 to Halo, it’s hard to beat the amount of games on 360.…

The Supper Surround Stereo: When a Mug isn’t a Mug

This concept stereo designed by Taguchi Craft, is made to blend in with your kitchen. There’s currently no word on pricing, but they’re scheduled to pop up around winter 2008. Might be better in a shelf in the kitchen than on the table. I’d keep trying to drink from the midbase driver or something. [Design…

Zilopop Sucks Away Bad Breath With Stainless Steel

This Zilopop supposedly rids your breath of weird smells by going into your mouth for two minutes. Does anyone have the science on this? Sounds and smells odd to us. In comparison, our Bongo rubs a stainless steel bar after he cuts “onions and things like that.” Not to rid his hands of the stench,…

Video of New Microsoft Surface Table Apps

T3 UK was late to the Surface Table coverage, but they did well by catching a video that shows off some visually stimulating concept apps that Chen wrote about a few weeks ago. I like the pond app that shows ripples on touch, and the multitouch paint app that can read all 10 fingers at…

Osaka’s Super Potato is a Retro Gaming Mecca

Bashcraft of Kotaku fame just took me on an amazing guided tour of some of Osaka’s best geek haunts, including Super Potato, probably the sweetest video game store I’ve ever been in. Because there are no game rentals in Japan (but renting CDs is big, for some reason), the market for used games and consoles…

AppleInsider’s Leopard Guides…Get ‘Em While They’re Fresh

The AppleInsider crew has been previewing the dev builds of OS X Leopard for a few days now, and like clockwork, Apple has been asking them to take them down. Today’s addition is the review of Mail 3.0, complete with historical overview. This guide has the To Do list linked to emails, and data scrapers…

Today the RAZR2 started selling from TMO for $250 with 2GB of internal memory. Now all major US carriers have the phone, so it should be selling well to the mainstreamers. [More details on the RAZR2 variants] https://gizmodo.com/the-unknown-differences-between-the-razr2-carrier-to-c-288452

Bill Maher’s New Rules for Robot Sex and Marriage

Sure, robot marriage might be even better than the old-fashioned boy/girl variety, but Bill Maher lets you know about the new rules you’ll need to know along the way. [Real Time with Bill Maher, via HBO]

Halo 3 Legendary Edition—the one we unboxed—is on sale at Amazon for $20 off retail today. Get yours now so you can see how badly we kick Kotaku’s ass. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-halo-legendary-edition-looks-like-a-weapon-ha-302544

Dealzmodo: Refurbished Toshiba HD DVD Player For $179

This may be the first-generation HD DVD player and it may be refurbished, but hot damn if this Toshiba HD-A1 isn’t cheap. $179 is all you need now to get into the HD game, which is probably the cheapest place you can get an HD DVD player other than the HD DVD add-on for the…

Philips Electronic Tattoo Concept or Peter Petrelli Tantric Sex Video?

WARNING: EURO-STYLE SUGGESTED SEXUAL CONTENT If you caught that weird tattoo moment in Heroes last week, you will especially appreciate this new Philips Design electronic body art project, Skin: Tattoo. The girl makes the dude’s tattoos ooze mysteriously by getting him into a tantric embrace. My only confusion: with such a scary soundtrack, it kinda…

LG’s running a contest giving away free loot for 15 to 30 second clips of basically anything—the theme’s “life’s good when…”—so basically anything. [LG Video Contest]

Sony Ericsson and Motorola Plan Superfriends of Smartphone Platform Development

Sony Ericsson’s selling half of its UIQ smartphone software unit to Motorola, which will be run independently of both companies (it’s “not a joint venture”) with the goal of “creating a platform which can be shared by a number of operators.” In particular, they want to eventually knock Nokia’s Symbian-based S60 off the top of…

Broadcom’s Latest 3G Chip Has Longer Life, Cheaper Costs, iPhone Potential

Broadcom’s latest 3G HSUPA BCM21551 chip is a bigger deal than its somewhat dry press release indicates. The all-in-one 3G chip is both cheaper and has a “very long battery life” when compared with current 3G chips, which have the problem of sucking your phone’s battery faster than an unclogged shower drain. The new chip…

Sony Bravia Ad Covers Pyramid in String

This Sony Bravia ad that aired in Egypt may or may not “take inspiration” from an uncredited artist (we haven’t checked), but it is quite neat. Not to spoil the ending for you (it gets covered in string!) but, well, a pyramid gets covered in string. If actual Sony Bravia refresh rates were this bad,…

Independence, the iPhone jailbreak, activation and SSH installation app, has been updated to 1.2.2, and now supports iPhones running the infamous firmware version 1.1.1. [TUAW]

Zune Almost Matches iPod Battery Specs

The battery life specs are in on the new Zunes, and they match up pretty well to the latest iPods. The Zune 80 will get 30 hours on audio and 4 hours on video, and the 4 and 8GB flash Zunes will get 24 hours audio and 4 hours video. In comparison, the 80GB iPod…

LCD Monitors So Durable You Can Cut Sushi on Them

AG Neovo’s X-20AV monitors coated in NeoV Optical Glass are so durable, the company recently used it as a cutting board to cut and serve sushi off of. Other than being knife and scratch resistant, the panels also supposedly enhance image quality as well. It’s hard to demonstrate how much better an image looks by…

Best Buy and Microsoft Get No Love From Supreme Court on Racketeering Charges

The Supreme Court ruled today that Microsoft and Best Buy would have to face a lawsuit alleging fraudulent sign-up of MSN customers, a crime that violates the Mafia-busting RICO anti-racketeering act. Here’s the backstory: In return for a $200 million strategic investment from Microsoft back in 2000, Best Buy promised to sign up customers to…

iPod 5 and 5.5G Get Firmware Upgrade to iPod Classic

Unlike with the Zune upgrade, Apple didn’t back-port all the new features in the iPod classic to the iPod 5 and 5.5Gs, even though the hardware wasn’t all that different. Good news for you, because hackers have figured it out themselves and released an upgrade so you can get in on the new menu action.…