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iPhone Headed for Canada This Month?

Attention friends to the Great White North: the Apple iPhone is rumored to be coming your way by middle of this month. The leak is said to come from an insider at Canadian fashion specialty department store Holt Renfrew, and the 8GB GSM iPhone will reportedly sell for $799. If these rumors are true, and…

Instant Baby Machine (1930)

This scene from the 1930 film Just Imagine shows how babies will be made in the futuristic world of 1980. The clip directly follows the scene we looked at a few months back about meal pills. https://gizmodo.com/just-imagine-1930-512629681 Thanks again to Amy Macnamara for this paleo-futuristic classic that hasn’t yet been released on VHS or DVD.…

1mm Thick Flexible Plasma Display Debuts at CEATEC

Recently at CEATEC in Japan Shinoda Plasma Corp unveiled a plasma screen that tops out an an extraordinary 1mm in thickness. Plasma tubes aligned between film-form electrodes not only make the screen thin enough to be bent (as the image above demonstrates), they also make it extremely light. In fact, the 43-inch screen prototype weighed…

Bang & Olufsen Serenata Hands-On Video

Zara over at Shiny Shiny got her hands on the Bang & Olufsen/Samsung Serenata phone, which isn’t just a phone, it’s a "personal music system." Even after watching the video it’s unclear how the music UI capabilities outclass say, the iPhone, but the external speakers seem like they sound pretty great—it even has bass. Not…

Man’s Spare Room Filled With Almost Every Apple Model Ever Made

Click to viewThis is James Savage’s spare room, which contains one hundred Apple computers. He has more than 150 in his house and all of them are working perfectly, from an Apple II+ and a Lisa to the latest MacBook Pro. James sent us this image for our best computer rig contest, so we asked…

According to research done by some analysts, the best guess as to how many people voided their warranty by unlocking or hacking their iPhones is 150,000. That’s a lot of unhappy customers. [Fortune]

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We do some droid decorating with Yumi Modal Statues, serve up some dogs from the Waring Pro Hot-Dog Griller, and wash them down with some fresh beer from the Heineken DraughtKeg. We also bring an urban feel to the dinner table with the Stoplight Pendant Lamp, relive the summer’s biggest laughs…

Razer Announces Scary-Sounding Lycosa Keyboard and Piranha Headset

Razer unveils its Lycosa keyboard and Piranha headset today, adding to its lineup of gamer-specific peripherals such as its impressive 4000dpi Razer 3G mouse teased last summer and shipping this month. The wicked-looking Lycosa keyboard has illuminated nonslip rubber keys and a 1000Hz polling rate that the company says takes just 1ms to respond to…

Hype Sheet: Sony’s Dead Serious Side

The Pitch On the eve of the new Bravia ad’s debut in the U.K., it’s worth taking a gander at one of Sony’s more prosaic creations. This commercial doesn’t hawk a specific product, but rather Sony’s entire lineup of high-definition goods—part of the company’s ongoing “HD World” campaign (a.k.a. the “Feel” campaign, a.k.a. the “like.no.other”…

X-Ray Hackers Show Tinest Crystalline Structure Ever Seen

What does this one-micron sized object look like to you? Despite what Freud would say, that boldly thrusting little guy is a microcrystal, once classified as a powder too tiny to be imaged using X-rays. But a bunch of European X-ray fiends have rigged up a special X-ray diffractor at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility,…

New Toshiba HD DVD Recorders Also Write HD to Regular DVDs

Panasonic isn’t the only one showing off high-def recording at CEATEC. Toshiba announced three new HD DVD recorders, including the new flagship Vardia RD-X7. All of them can convert MPEG-2 to AVCHD MPEG-4 on the fly, and can store high-def video on DVD-R (2 hrs) and single-layer HD DVD-R (6 hrs) discs. Pricing and availability…

Wireless Sensor Monitors Athletic Performance

Hang this gizmo behind your ear, and it measures your posture, gait and other biomechanical data, perfect for athletes who want to improve their performance. The scientists who created it at Imperial College in London also say it will also be useful to monitor orthopedic patients as they recover from surgery. It can measure step…

Video of Sony Rolly in Action Shows It Is Not That Annoying

Gizmodo Japan got a ears-on with the Sony Rolly, the rolling white egg that plays music and lights up so you can easily locate it in the dark and kick it out of sight. Our brothers-in-arms think it’s cool enough and that it will reach many people. We think is cool but a bit of…

US 3G Costs Nokia N95 a Mere Hour of Battery Life

When you go from the old Nokia N95 to the new US-spec 3G HSDPA version, you lose about an hour of browsing life. That’s due to the larger battery, and the folks at WirelessInfo.com were actually expecting even more of a drain, so this is good news. More: The N95-3 has a 1200mAh battery, which…

Belkin n52te SpeedPad, More One-Handed Gaming

The Belkin n52te SpeedPad is a sexy update of the cult classic Nostromo SpeedPad N52. Meant to replace the keyboard (and even mouse) for hardcore PC gamers, the controller offers 15 programmable keys, an 8-way thumb pad and full ergonomic support for extended play (a.k.a…a regular day in our life). But most of this was…

Achieve Immortality with Ink Afterlife Photo Printed Using Your Ashes

Here’s the next step in mankind’s never-ending quest for eternal life: Ink Afterlife, where cremated and ground-up ashes are mixed in with printer ink, and end up in a photograph. The ghouls at InkAafterlife.com supply you with a one-ounce barcoded vial, into which you lovingly place the powdery essence of the dearly departed. Send that…

D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head

When our own Brian Lam beat up a blonde at Nextfest to test D3O soft body armor, we were…well, a little weirded out, but also impressed and a bit proud. But Brian, being the upstanding citizen that he is, refused to see the woman hit in the head. https://gizmodo.com/video-of-a-blonde-being-smashed-by-a-shovel-while-tha-300134 That’s why the press brought in…

Capsuli Emergency Solar-Charged LED Lights in a Pass-Around Pack

Park these Capsuli rechargeable LED emergency lights on their miniature solar-powered charging station, and when havoc strikes and all the lights go out, you can pass these around to all the occupants of your darkened abode. A quick twist turns on the LED inside, giving you just enough light to keep from stumbling all over…

Sony Bravia Ad Showcases Mick, Keef and a Tsunami of Bunnies

Our Jesus will be a happy bunny. The new Bravia ad from Sony has one of his favorite tracks ever: The Stones’ She’s A Rainbow. I’m happy because there’s a giant rabbit made out of Play-Doh, and New Yorkers are happy because— well, it never pays to be typecast, does it? [Sony Bravia via Media…

An Australian bank is using the price of 4GB iPod nanos in 55 countries as an economic indicator. In Brazil, it costs $369.61; in France it costs $225.82, and in the US it costs $149. Supposedly this shows a weak US dollar; all I see is that Brazilians are getting the shaft. [Reuters]