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When Will You Pounce on the Leopard?

I’m curious about when everyone is going to upgrade to Mac OS 10.5, better know throughout the galaxy as Leopard. I mean, I’m excited about all the new features but if I screw up my Mac, I’m totally SOL. Do I rush in where angels fear to tread and all that? What are you going…

Comcast Blocking Gnutella and Lotus Notes Traffic?

The fact that Comcast was caught by the AP blocking BitTorrent last week wasn’t much of a surprise (even if it was a disappointment), but more people have done self-tests and discovered they’re possibly blocking even more application traffic. The EFF found that not just Gnutella—another file sharing app—was being blocked, but Lotus Notes, an…

TTYL, Going to Drive Iron Man’s Car

Hey, I’m taking the afternoon off to drive a few new fine Audi R8s, strictly to find out more about the tech under the hood and on the dash of course. That’s the car, soon to be featured as Iron Man’s car in the upcoming movie. Let’s hope Downy doesn’t wrap it around a tree…

The Sony Building in Ginza is a Museum of All Things Sony, Except the PS3

The Sony Building in Ginza stands tall just off the main department-store strip in the neighborhood, featuring a multi-story showroom of all things Sony. They’re showing off their latest and greatest tech, such as their super-thin, 8-inch XEL-1 OLED TVs and the Rolly speaker, as well as pretty much everything else they sell. It’s kind…

Weekend Writer Wanted: Tech Blogging Experience Preferred

Do you enjoy tech? Do you enjoy writing about tech? Have you already written about tech? Then you could have a chance at being our new weekend writer. If you’ve got tech blogging experience and want to take it to the next level, send in an email to [email protected] with the subject “Weekend Writer Submission.”…

Mossberg Keeps On Dreaming of a Phone Revolution

Mossy’s column today is a remix of his Wireless Telcos as Soviet ministries joke, told first in a June 2005 column. He complains about phone companies locking handsets to carriers, and making them lame little pocket convenience stores for ringtones, and so on (my words). The timepeg is Apple’s new promise of a software development…

Sun Scrapping Mobile Java, Moving Devices to Standard Java

Sun’s starting to phase out mobile Java (Java Micro Edition) that’s been the standard on cellphones and other small devices in favor of their standard edition, which are made for PCs everywhere. Sun VP James Gosling’s reasoning for shifting everyone over to Java Standard Edition is because “cellphones and TV set-top boxes are growing up,”…

Cupcake Kitchen Timer Might Get You a Batch of Cupcakes or Two

This might be the perfect device to get someone to make more cupcakes for you: The Cupcake Kitchen Timer, which at 3.5 inches tall is almost big enough to qualify as a cake. Or you know what? You could take a giant leap and makes some cupcakes yourself! Don’t bite into this one, though—it’s made…

Testicles Of The Future Will Have Support

Men will have a tough time in the future apocalypse, what with the robot uprisings and the brain-eating sludge. But at least they’ll have exciting undergarments. The Ball Bra: “Futuristic” and “High-Tech” Underwear For Making Sexy Time [The Bachelor Guy]

Ordinary-Looking Lamp Has a Little Surprise Inside

At first this looks just like a mild-mannered table lamp (except for the fact that it’s almost six feet tall), but open it up and you’ll see a tiny table lamp sitting on a table. It’s like those Russian nesting dolls. We would like to see the tiny lamp opening up to reveal another table…

Embraer and BMW Team Up for Luxo-Jets

You might know Embraer as the company that makes those pint-sized regional jets that you wedge yourself into to get from here to there. But imagine one of those jets as a private plane as you see in the picture above, and with a BMW interior. Brazilian company Embraer has teamed up with BMW’s Los…

What You Missed Last Weekend

If you missed the weekend blogging spectacular, here’s your chance to catch up: •Verizon dropped their UM150 USB modem. •Wisin & Yandel inspired Zune got us all hot and bothered. •Optimus Prime visited us from eBay. •Japanese designer, Aya Tsukioka showed off safety concept clothing. We laughed. •I got it wrong about the Zune 2,…

Contest Reminder: The Last Day to Enter Our Xbox 360 Contest

Today’s the last day to enter our Xbox 360 and Xbox 360 HD DVD contest. We’ll be picking a winner at the end of the day today, so get your entry in! Here’s how to enter. https://gizmodo.com/contest-win-a-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-311104

Sony Ericsson’s somewhat sexy MBW-150 Music Edition Bluetooth Watch with phone-call and music-player control is now for sale at the SE online store in the UK for around $400, though you may have trouble getting it across the Atlantic. [

Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 720 Projector Has a Rock-Bottom Price

Epson stretches deep into the cheap seats with its PowerLite Home Cinema 720 (the similar Home Cinema 400 is pictured here), figuring in a lot of the higher-end attributes of its Epson Home Cinema 1080 big brother at a rock-bottom price of $1,299. Out back there’s an HDMI port and all the other usual suspects,…

Ginza’s Apple Store and the Buttonless Elevator

The Apple store in Ginza, an upscale shopping neighborhood in Tokyo, is the first Apple store to have opened outside of the US. While most Apple stores are pretty similar, with their long, blonde-wood tables filled with toys for people to play around with, some of the flagship stores have little things that make them…

Hitachi Rolls Out P7K500, World’s Most Energy-Efficient Hard Drives

If you’re going to leave that computer on all the time, might as well have some energy-efficient drives inside. That must’ve been what Hitachi was thinking when the company replaced its DeskStar line with these P7K500 energy-savers, rolling out in capacities from 250GB to 500GB. Even though the drives run at 7200RPM, they’re up to…

Sewer Slime Can Fix Bridges and Form Your Clothing

Imagine one day waking up, showering then coating yourself with a slime normally found in the sewers of England, which immediately takes the shape of your pants and shirt. It might sound like Spiderman 3—or just totally freakin’ disgusting—but an industrial designer is taking the concept seriously, studying something called “biofilms” for use in self-repairing…

Money-Saving Comcast TiVo Spotted, Spy Shot Gallery

Maybe being stuck with Comcast isn’t so bad if you can get TiVo without paying $299 for the lowest-priced TiVo HD hardware. That’s because Comcast is using Motorola hardware that it’s already deploying, and loading it up with TiVo software it’s rolling out to its New England customers first. Plus, you get that beloved bone-shaped…

Electronics Industry Analyst Group Dismisses Greenpeace Claims on iPhone

First Apple dismissed Greenpeace’s claims, saying they are still in the process of eliminating PVC and brominated flame retardants from their products. Now an electronics industry analyst group says that Greenpeace study is not only alarmist, since all substances are approved for use by EU regulatory requirements (the strongest in the world) but also has…