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Slacker Music Device Coming October~December

A reader just sent us in this tip about the music service/player Slacker, which coughs up music over Wi-Fi, Satellite, and the interwebberpipes. We saw this back in March, but until now there wasn’t a definitive release date. However, slacker support says: “The portable player is scheduled to be released within the next month or…

Honda CR-Z Hybrid Concept Car Too Awesome to Be a Honda

The Honda CR-Z hybrid concept is designed to the nines. The reality check, even if this is just a concept, it’s a concept built around Honda’s current-gen hybrid in this generation’s Civic Hybrid/Accord. No matter—the LED headlights, body lines, and dash are kind enough on the eyes: [Full gallery at Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/tokyo-auto-show-preview-honda-cr-z-concept-car-308556 Honda Announces Automobiles…

FCC Keeps Open Access Provisions for 700Mhz Auction, Delays It

Looks like Verizon’s alleged backdoor wheeling-and-dealing was for naught, as the FCC’s basically reaffirmed the open access provisions on the “C” chunk of the 700Mhz spectrum up for auction in what looks to be the actual final set of bidding rules. This should effectively end the ongoing back-and-forth venom-spitting between Verizon and Google, at least…

GTE’s Classroom of the Future (1987)

GTE’s 1987 concept video Classroom of the Future envisions a bright future for voice synthesis, speech recognition and insanely small monitors. Will’s acting career, however, holds less promise. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 This post originally appeared at Paleofuture.com.

Wide VGA OLED for Handhelds on the Horizon From Samsung

Samsung is currently hard at work on what should be the first OLED display capable of wide VGA (800×480) resolution on a screen that measures as little as 3.08 inches across. Quite a leap when you consider that up until now, the best manufacturers could muster was a quarter VGA (320×240) on displays of that…

How to Comment: Halo’s On

Slight change to our Halo match against Kotaku. It’s going to be Thursday instead of Friday, and we’re going to try and Justin.TV it live, as well as try and liveblog it while it happens. After the match is done, we’ll try and capture video from the replay and post it up. Look forward to…

iPolo Highlights iTalian Fashion

As if Kanye’s beautiful and brilliant prose about Italian fashion, shopping, and bilingualism wasn’t enough to convince you that Italy produces the nicest clothing, the iPolo will make you a believer. Just look at the fine craftsmanship that melds the douchebaggery of a sleeveless shirt with the jackholiness of an on-board iPod pocket. It’s the…

Disco Skating In The Twenty-Fifth Century With Buck Rogers

If you don’t know why the early-1980s Buck Rogers in the 25th Century TV series is damn near perfect, then this clip from the episode “Escape from Wedded Bliss” will explain it all to you. Earth is in danger because evil Princess Ardala (wearing the purple spangly lingerie and tiara) has declared that she’ll use…

Donkey Powered Mobile Business Unit Comes Fully Loaded

The HAPV or “Human and animal powered vehicle” puts a high tech twist on the old fashioned donkey cart by adding a solar panel that charges a 12-volt battery under the driver’s seat. The power is then used to facilitate cell phone connectivity, front and rear emergency lights and a small neon tube at night.…

Y-Wing Beats X-Wing, Gold Squadron Finally Kicks Ass

Click to view The X-Wing fighter at Plaster Blaster 6 this weekend got all the glory. But the model rocket with the biggest heart/size ratio goes to the underdog of a space bomber based on the Y-Wing fighter. Ion cannons? Check. More torpedoes than the X-Wing? Check. Fewer parts to tear off on liftoff? Check…not…

British Performing Rights Society Wants to Outlaw ‘Making Hearable’

Here you were, thinking the execs in the music industry couldn’t get any more offensively idiotic, when some Brits come along and set a new standard for hubris. Yes, the UK-based Performing Rights Society — the Brit equivalent of ASCAP or BMI — wants to make listening to music loud enough for anyone else to…

TiVo on Comcast Rollout Behind Schedule, Catholic Bear-Pope Shits in Woods

Captain Obvious is getting a promotion to Major today, as TiVo’s CEO Tom Rogers says the TiVo on Comcast rollout is a “little behind” schedule. For those of you like us who are on Comcast’s DVR (which stands for Dropping Video Regularly), TiVo has been planning to put their fancy UI on top of Comcast’s…

Sony Ericsson 2008 Lineup Leaked, Pictured

This pretty poster of pretty phones didn’t leak with a mess of details behind it—nothing at all on the K860, for instance. The W970 apparently uses a click wheel-like navigation deal and sports a 5MP shooter, along with a memory card slot. The K830, on the other hand, packs a 3.2MP camera. And that’s about…

SanDisk PR Spokesperson Vows to Shave Head if Zune Is #2 This Christmas

SanDisk PR spokespeaker Carmella Lyman just promised to ZDNet Writer David Berlind that she’d shave her hair if the Zune was #2 in the portable media player market after this Christmas. According to NPD group, Microsoft’s currently ranked 4th place with 3%, and SanDisk is in 2nd place with 10%. If the Zune really was…

MTube Linux-Based UMPC Is Tiny, Touchy, WiMax-y

The picture’s a little small, but you’re looking at a Linux-based UMPC with a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen and a WiMax hookup unveiled yesterday by Taiwan’s Science and Technology Advisory Group. Dubbed MTube, it packs a 1Ghz VIA CPU and 8GB of storage in its tiny 8.5 x 8.5 x 2cm body, but not a lot…

Star Trek Enterprise Phone

That’s right, you actually use the USS Enterprise as a handset—not a communicator or a phaser like a non-crazy product designer would have you use. And for $98, you get a William Shatner signature, a numbered certificate, a ringer that sounds like the Red Alert noise, and even redial and mute buttons. Much like the…

The corporate decapitation of Sprint may jeopardize the Xohm WiMax rollout in spite of its momentum, say analysts. That’s a shame, since we need all the wide-area wirelessness we can get. [FT] https://gizmodo.com/the-sprint-ceo-troubles-have-come-to-a-head-as-ceo-cha-308442

World of Warcraft “Guild Therapy” On The Rise

A new kind of group psychology is emerging — guild psychology, which is much more concerned with fights over dragons skins than dealing with abandonment issues. Your fellow warriors and monster-smashers can feel supported and validated without using “I” statements. An expert in guild psychology says the groups should have quality time together on a…

Precision Butter Cutter Cuts Butter Better

Did you know that 8mm of butter is the only safe quantity? 9mm will give you a stroke, and 7mm will ensure permanent erectile dysfunction—and to this end, the Precise Butter Cutter will protect you and your loved ones by allowing you to always cut 8mm of butter every single time. Just slide the ruler…

Gizmodo’s Japan Adventure: Possible Meetup and a Lesson on Junkets

So I told you guys I was going to Korea and Japan. Well, there have been some changes. I’m skipping Korea and just doing Japan for two weeks. Why? https://gizmodo.com/tell-me-where-to-go-in-seoul-and-tokyo-306750 Well, I was supposed to visit a company HQ in Seoul, tour their factory, design center, the works. But then, a week before I was…