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Yamaha’s Latest Electronic Pianos Fix What’s Baroque (Gallery)

Today at Yamaha’s line show in NYC, pianos took center stage. Yamaha, one of the world’s biggest piano makers, has been innovating on the design for years. The current crop of radical, digital shifts forward: • Disklavier 2.0 – $10,000 to $80,000 – Grand piano’s brand new software streams digital player-piano songs over the internet,…

Second Life Avatars Are Portable As Purse Dogs Now

As the Virtual Worlds conference kicked off in Silicon Valley yesterday, IBM announced a partnership with Linden Lab, makers of Second Life, to create portable avatars that you can bring with you to any virtual world. But how? IBM and Linden Lab say they are developing open data formats, or a “universal character creation system,”…

Eco-Power Display Turntable Lets You Show Off Stuff From All Angles

Brando touts this small Eco-Power Display Turntable for displaying collectibles, anime figurines as you see here, models and such, but we would suggest using it to shoot videos of small objects, making it look like you’re doing a Steadicam move arcing around them. That’ll work well under video lighting, too, because this $15.90 turntable has…

Philips Offering 50-inch Plasma HDTV for Under $1,000 Shipped

Philips has a pretty sweet deal going on right now in its online outlet store, offering a bunch of refurbed plasma TVs for prices as low as $949 for a 50-incher with shipping costing a mere $30. Yeah, they’re refurbs and last years models, but a 50-inch plasma shipped for under a grand is tough…

Sony Responds to Bravia Ad Rip Off Allegations/Proof

Despite the fact that the ad agency and studio Sony hired to create their bunny Bravia ad, Fallon and Passion Pictures, clearly and blatantly ripped off LA-based artists Kozyndan, it’s standing behind them and denying that anything dickish was done. https://gizmodo.com/sony-bastards-ripped-off-the-bunny-tsunami-ad-307398 Basically, Passion Pictures got in touch with Kozyndan two years ago about working with…

Mont Blanc Jacuzzi Party at 15,711 Feet Was Low on Oxygen, High on Booze

A group of 20 people have celebrated a party in a huge jacuzzi at the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps at 15,711 feet. They had to carry 45 pounds of equipment each, custom-made to work with less oxygen, lower pressure and “against wind and freezing temperatures.” Full gallery and details…

Outrageous Audio Equipment Gallery: For Audiophools Only

We asked readers for examples of outrageous audio equipment, and boy did we get a boatload of responses! Thanks to all our readers who sent in suggestions for our list of audiophile accoutrements. Dive into the gallery below for the grand exhibition of audio enhancements and tomfoolery, with gadgets and geegaws from the sublime to…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We contemplate traveling to the Tokyo Motor Show to steal a Honda CR-Z, carry our meager stacks of cash in some DB Clay Version 3 Wallets, and straighten out our drives with the A-Balance Golf Tee. We also take a tour of Kazakhstan using the Borat Travel Guide, hit the town…

Get Ready for Halloween With Stupid Spooky Furniture

Here’s a selection of spooky-ook furniture you can buy if you’re opening a haunted fairground attraction*/Madame of the world’s least sexy themed brothel*/looking to scare seven shades of shit out of your kids*/on the shortlist to decorate Marilyn Manson’s new crib*/a very sad and lonely individual*. Anyway, it’s expensive, it’s bad taste (that bloodied -baby-cradle…

Nissan Round Box Has Most Incredible Dash We’ve Seen Yet

Our brothers from another mother over at Jalopnik posted this great video of the Nissan Round Box concept car from Tokyo Auto Show. Honestly, the vehicle looks a bit like a minivan molested a PT Cruiser on the outside. But the inside has a dashboard that’s absolutely amazing featuring superfluous graphics up the wazoo. Granted,…

Fujitsu Flepia e-Reader Displays 4,096 Colors

Keep ignoring e-paper and e-readers, but as we see more color displays it will slowly take over the world. And Fujitsu just showed off some of their sweet new color e-reader prototypes. These readers feature 8″ or 12″ displays, boast 4,096-colors and XGA 768 x 1024 resolution…all on top of touch screen capability. The only…

Video of Chinese Citroen Transformer Shows off Its Size

Remember yesterday’s photos of the Citroen that a couple of Chinese guys lovingly turned into a Transformer ? Our sister site Jalopnik has uncovered a news report of the cut-and-shunt-it-into-something-altogether-more-wondrous-than-a-Citroen leviathan and Bloody Norah is the bugger big. [Jalopnik] https://gizmodo.com/hefty-assed-transformer-built-in-china-from-a-citroen-309054

Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Speaker MBS-100 Looks Like a Disease

Sony Ericsson takes its design chops to the limit with this Portable Bluetooth Speaker MBS-100, a softball-sized orb that reminds us of something we saw in a microscope when we put some soap scum on the slide. With its rechargeable battery that’s said to last five hours, it’s just about small enough to take with…

Volkswagen Slipstream Is Mix Between Car, Segway and Star Trekish Pod

The Slipstream is Volkswagen’s idea for transport in 2057: a pod that changes from futuristic car on the road, with the driver laying down, to Segway-like vertical transport in a cities so overpopulated that normal cars would be absolutely impossible. Much more agressive than the current Toyota i-Real concepts, the Slipstream can reach 250mph on…

Sagem Porsche P’9521 Cellphone Looking Good in Amsterdam Grope Session

The Sagem Porsche P’9521 cellphone has resurfaced after its initial intro we showed you last June, and this time there are clean and sexy pics along with some first impressions from LetsGoMobile. The phone will be available sometime before Christmas exclusively at The Phone House for a Porsche-like price of €1200 ($1685). Egads, that would…

Payittome, a Begging Website for Gadget Addicts and Other Unfortunates

From time to time we get sob stories here at the Giz, where unfortunate souls are so enthralled with our gadget coverage that they just want that stuff sooooooo bad. Bad enough to beg us to post some publicity for their personal begging websites. Well now, here’s Payittome, a “wish fulfillment” website set up specifically…

Sony PS3 Getting IPTV, Beats Microsoft to the Punch

After all of Microsoft’s big talk about IPTV at last year’s CES, it will be dark horse Sony PS3 that rolls out an IPTV service first. Because according to The Korea Times, Korea’s big telecom operator KT will provide its HD Mega TV service to PS3s starting this November (better late than never). Since Mega…

After starting manufacturing last May and unveiling it in July, Boeing is now saying there is going to be a six-month delay in Dreamliner’s initial deliveries. Sorry airlines and anonymous billionares, you will have to wait. [Boeing] https://gizmodo.com/boeing-787-lego-like-building-begins-kicks-airbus-nuts-262412

Sprint LG Rumor Messaging Phone No Longer Just a Rumor

Sprint clearly didn’t want Verizon enV users to have all the messaging fun: the LG Rumor looks about the same size as the latter-day enV, with a slideout QWERTY keypad. Features include 1.3 megapixel camera, (new?) Sprint POP3 e-mail client, Bluetooth, a MicroSD card slot and GPS with Sprint Navigation. The catch, if there is…

Toyota i-Real Concept “Car”

We were pretty excited about this Toyota concept “car” called the i-Real, Toyota’s successor to the way too sci-fi to be real i-Unit. Just hear the pitch: it’s a car the wraps around your body, allowing you to zip through life with little encumbrance from mortal legs. Meanwhile, when going at high speeds, it will…