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Gizmodo Gallery: Social Commentary Meets Expressive Design with HeHe

” Smoking Lamp” (HeHe, 2005) Interview/Article by Jonah Brucker-Cohen In the diverse discipline of design for public and private spaces, artists are constantly creating new ways of envisioning our relationship to the objects we interact with daily. Exploring this connection is Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (collectively known as “HeHe”) whose work provides glimpses of…

The Zune’s officially getting a price drop down to $199 starting tomorrow. That means if you bought your Zune in the past week, take it back tomorrow for a pricematch. [Zune Insider]

Department of Duh: Microsoft Admits Zune Phone Not Unreasonable

The not-new-but-still-enjoyable video above is pegged to a fresh quote from a Microsoft exec, via Reuters: “It wouldn’t be unreasonable to think at some point there might some integrated thing,” Mindy Mount, chief financial officer of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division, told investors at Citigroup’s global technology conference. That was in response to asking about…

Dealzmodo: Emprex 32-inch HDTV For $397

My really cheap buddy, who specializes in cheap things, being cheap, and saving money by being cheap, confirms that this is a pretty good deal on a 32-inch HDTV. It’s an Emprex—which may not scream quality to you—but is actually decent if all you want is HD without paying too much. Shipping’s extra. [Outpost –…

Messiah’s PS3 Remote Has Drool-worthy Design

Despite looking like some sort of a PS3 VoIP phone, Messiah’s Darklite PS3 remote merely controls movie watching on your PS3. The remote, styled like a slider cellphone, features simple navigation controls on top, and slides up to reveal advanced controls underneath. A USB dongle plugs into the PS3, acting as a charger and IR…

iPhone Dock v2.0 Program is Awesome

Check out Nate True’s iPhone dock 2.06 app that was rewritten to be accessible in any app, making it good for switching between programs. Swipe your finger from the bottom right of the screen toward the center to pull up the starburst menu. This is the best way to make more icon space for your…

Fake Logitech G25 Edge Fan Art Shows Optimus-Style Keys

File this in the realm of totally false (Logitech said “this is definitely made up”), but here’s some fan art of a possible Logitech G25 keyboard. It has their EDGE-line stylings, but combines Optimus style changeable display keys with a scrolling circle pad on the left. Yeah, we could see ourselves using something like this,…

Japanese Chair Desk Optimizes Space For Tiny Japanese Workers

Just when you thought you’ve graduated from college and escaped the desk + chair combination furniture, here comes the Thanko Chair-Desk. It’s a standard rolling office chair, yes, but it also has an attachment with a desk-surface for writing/computing. Very useful for Japan’s 200 sqft. apartments, but definitely useful for a workplace that no desks…

Samsung SP-A800B DLP Looks as Good as Its Output

We got to see in person the Samsung’s SP-A800B DLP projector. This beast is enormous and beautiful in person. The finish was sleek and glossy, as you can see in the pictures, and the output matched the looks. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-sp-a800b-1080p-dlp-projector-perfect-for-death-294995 Samsung had put up the obligatory home cinema setup. We went in and braved the movie…

Serena Williams and HP Ads

More US Open/gadget combo posts. Here’s a new HP ad by Serena Williams. Fact: I recently discovered that these commercials were made on HP workstations at the Goodby Silverstein agency in SF, not Macs as I’d assumed all ad agencies do. This comes by way of an HP exec, but only the people at Goodby…

Palm Cans Foleo (For Now)

We just got word that the controversial Palm Foleo has been canceled “in its current configuration.” I know, I know, you’re terribly upset, all five of you who defended the offbeat mobile companion when it was introduced last May. In a message on the official Palm blog, Palm CEO Ed Colligan wrote: https://gizmodo.com/palm-foleo-a-laptop-for-your-smartphone-264550 In the…

FleetHorse: The Horse-Powered Car

Hey guys, I’ve got the best plan to both keep our cars and reduce our reliance on oil. Know what it is? It’s so awesome. Ok, here it is. You take a van, right? And then you hollow out the back, and stick a horse inside. Dude, isn’t it great? A horse-powered-car! Duuuuude, just picture…

Please, Stop the Apple Leaks

The new iPod, we know its coming. I’m kind of bummed out I know about it already. The last few months, Apple leaks have been so thorough, they’re eating away at the Apple Event Reality Distortion Field. But maybe the days are done where I can show up to a Keynote and make an o-face…

Mercedes First Car With Google/Yahoo Maps “Search & Send” (Video)

Here’s a video by Mercedes-Benz detailing how their new Search & Send system works with Yahoo Local (It also functions similarly with Google Maps). Although we’re not too sure what they’re smoking over there in Germany, because in one of the other videos they claim the old way of getting directions into your car was…

Braille CDRs: They Just Now Thought of This?

We’re not sure how unorganized blind people were able to keep track of their CDs before (other than sticking them into a computer and playing them back), but this Braille CD-R from Mitsubishi is a fantastic idea. They have two layers of high viscosity ink that creates 0.1mm Braille bumps in order to easily identify…

Lonely Tenniscentric Transformer Wishes the US Open was Two Months Ago

With the US Open in full swing here in NYC, tennis fever is sweeping the globe. Combining tennis fever and the quickly waning Transformers fever, Sony Ericsson came up with this badass commercial featuring a transforming ball launcher. It’s too bad they’re advertising a phone rather than the robot, as the robot really puts the…

Toyota Releases $300 iPod Integration Kit For All Current-Model Cars

It’s fantastic news for Toyota and Lexus owners, as the car company has just released an iPod adapter kit to directly link the player with your car’s audio system. The kit fits into all current Toyotas and Lexuses and connects inside the glove box so you can control the iPod with your head unit (or…

California Bans Mandatory Subdermal RFID Tagging

Paranoid California readers, you can now relax thanks to Senate Bill 362. No longer can employers require you and your coworkers to have RFID chips embedded in your skin. If they are caught doing so the State of California will slap them with an initial $10,000 fine, followed by a subsequent $1,000 fine for each…

iPhone’s ApolloIM, the First Native Instant Messenger Gets An Update: Sucks Quite a Lot Less

Remember the early alpha of the first native iPhone AIM client we wrote about a week ago? It’s out of alpha and into beta, and incidentally sucks quite a bit less, which means it’s quite usable. https://gizmodo.com/first-native-iphone-aim-client-released-kinda-sucks-293759 They’ve gotten rid of problems such as having to hit a key to bring up the keyboard, the…

Samsung Beat Clamshell Musicphone Heading to T-Mobile This Month

Following up on the Samsung Blast, T-Mobile is going to receive another slider a clamshell from Samsung this month in the form of Samsung Beat. It’s going to have a 1.3-megapixel camera, myFaves compatibility, on-face music control buttons, a green ring speaker and various other standard features that aren’t really worth listing. How much on-board…