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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.…

Skintile Electronic Sensing Jewelry Blings Your Mood

Designed by Philips alongside Stella, a project that is developing flexible electronic substrates for the medical world, Skintile jewelry is an adhesive body adornment that can light up depending on your mood. Everything is contained in the substrate—energy supply, sensors, actuators and display, and Philips rather saucily claims that it is “arousal enhancing.” Well, I…

Coolness Roundup: Joost a Minute, and Star Wars, the Guest that Stayed Too Long

This week on episode 107 of the Coolness Roundup, the Gurus of Cool answer home theater questions and talk about watching videos via peer-to-peer internet streaming video service Joost. In Cool/Not Cool, Charlie and Stephen wonder why the weird, Elvis-like Star Wars phenomenon just won’t go away. [Free Podcast at PodShow or at Coolness Roundup]

Olevia Rolls Out Cheap 65-Inch LCD HDTV

Syntax-Brillian cranks out some cheap Olevia LCD TV sets, but now it’s outdone itself with the 265TFHD, a 65-inch LCD HDTV that’s the lowest price on one of its generous size we’ve seen yet. It’s a mere $6,999. That’s not a bad price, considering that the Sharp 65-inch LCD we’ve had our eyes on is…

PC Mag’s linkbaiting 100 Favorite Blogs piece has this under our entry: “… Now that’s what we call tech writing.” Thanks baby! [PCMag]

Citizen Develops Seismic Earthquake Early Warning Watch

There’s nothing to stop Japan’s infamous earthquakes, but there are better ways to get ready for them. Citizen is developing the Seismic watch to take advantage of the country’s “Earthquake Early Warning” radio service. It will pick up the radio signal as much as 10 seconds faster than the cellular text-message alternative. The way the…

Switchbike, The Transformer Cycle for Pedaling Flip-Floppers

Not sure if you like to ride your bike sitting up straight or getting all laid back? Then the Switchbike is for you, letting you go all AC/DC on your bike, riding it upright in a conventional style or transforming it into a recumbent bicycle when the spirit moves you. With a quick flick of…

FiOS TV Getting an Upgrade; Here’s a Sneak Peek

Now we’re really jealous of the lucky ones who already have FiOS TV, Verizon’s fiber optic-network-based cable TV replacement gets you all the HD channels you can watch, premium content and a dual-tuner DVR. Hey, sounds a lot like cable TV, doesn’t it? That DVR is getting a lot more sophisticated, and Zatz Not Funny’s…

7 Takes On Palm Centro

Released just yesterday, the Palm Centro has our eyes for a few reasons. First, their Treo smartphones have some of the highest ratings in smartphone history on review sites like CNET. So when Palm essentially shrinks their famous Treo and drops the price to $99 with contract, we have to take a closer look. So…