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iRiver G10 May Become Reality After All

The iRiver G10 may be coming out in December after all, even if only for the Korean market. The release has been hinted by KT Cooperation, the WiBro carrier that was developing it with iRiver. It still looks as sweet as when it was last seen in Barcelona’s 3GSM last year and the specs are…

Kaleidolight Gives your Wall Ringworm

Designed by Ali Ganjavian, the Kaleidolight uses the light conduction of glass tubes to connect the outside wall with the inside. Each module consists of a clear glass cylinder with aluminum lid inside a Teflon-lined aluminum tube that you insert into the outside wall. You can see a pic of one of the modules after…

Trumpet Call Harmonica Lacks Balls for Keepy Uppy

This somehow ridiculous but irresistibly cool Trumpet Call Harmonica by Hohner will appeal to pros, amateurs and assorted failed blues musicians like myself. Tuned to C-major and made of solid pearwood and brass, the Trumpet Call is a 1907 design which includes five bells for some deep vibrato effects. Or so they say. And for…

Boy’s Flying Machine of the 20th Century (1900)

This image ran in a supplement to the December 29, 1900 Minneapolis Journal called The Journal Junior. The caption reads, “A look to the future: The boy of the present has a glimpse of the twentieth century boy.” Minneapolis Journal cartoonist Charles Lewis Bartholomew, better known as Bart, drew it. My nerd-excitement was off the…

Adobe Picks Blu-ray over HD DVD and Plots Anti-iLife Mac Strategy with New Elements Suite

As Adobe launches its latest Photoshop and Premiere Elements editions for Windows &mdash still $99 each or $149 as a combo &mdash there was plenty of talk why it chose Blu-ray over HD DVD, and about the return of a low-end product for the Mac OS aimed to challenge iLife at a moment of vulnerability.…

T-Mobile’s Wi-Fi BlackBerry Curve Is Fo’ Real and Quite Tasty

In the hot summer months, rumor was that the critically acclaimed BlackBerry Curve was coming to T-Mobile—and unlike the AT&T “exclusive” edition, the T-Mo one would have Wi-Fi. Last week, Jason Chen reported that the Curve would be equipped with T-Mobile’s Hotspot @Home for unlimited Wi-Fi calling at home or in Starbucks. Chen also posted…

AirRaid2 Hackers Tournament Announced

ThinkSECURE shall be hosting a hacking competition, titled AirRaid2, in the great city of Bangkok, Thailand. The tournament will take place on the 21st December 2007, so if you are a mean-bean hacking machine, say goodbye to another Christmas. The hackers will be set to work on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networks that will replicate conventional…

OLPC Releases Details of Christmas Sales Initiative

The XO laptop will soon be available for purchase in the US via OLPC’s “Give 1 Get 1” program. The business model is interesting; essentially, the cost of ownership shall be $400 for one XO laptop. The price shall also provide funding for a second XO laptop that will be donated, on your behalf, to…

Gizmodo’s Favorite Butt Plug

You read it right &mdash we are going official with our favorite butt plug. Here is the complete rundown of how it feels, what it does, where you can insert it and how much we love it. The power socket butt plug is made of hardened plastic, as such it has a tough plastic exterior;…

Man from Pennsylvania Sues Google for $5 Billion

Five-freaking-billion-dollars! Dylan Stephen Jayne, from Pennsylvania, is seriously pissed at Google and he is seeking his dues. The premise of his complaint revolves around the following assertion; “I, Dylan Stephen Jayne, plaintiff, has [sic] a social security number that when the social security number is turned upside down in its entirety it is a scrambled…

ThinkGeek’s Calculator Bot May Love You

When you are having difficulty with your arithmetic, would it not be great to have a small, robotic calculator at your beck and call? Thanks to ThinkGeek, now you can! The Robot Calculator will not only confirm parts of multiplication tables you are unsure of, it will also hold down your spare paper clips on…

Infinity and JBL Let Your Sub Go Wire Free

Both Infinity and JBL have just dropped two wireless subwoofers. The subs function utilizing a 2.4GHz transmitter/receiver setup and there are four selectable channels to allow you to pick the best possible reception. JBL’s offering, the Cinema Sound CSS10W, has a 10″ driver and will kick out 300watts. Infinity’s slightly beefier, PS212W, houses a 12″…

Researchers Hope to Aid Speech Therapy With Speaking Robot

The brains at Tokyo University of Science and the Musashino Red Cross Hospital have joined forces to create a robot that will mimic the oral movements needed to articulate speech. The machine currently consists of a silicone tongue and a motorized lower jaw encapsulated in an artificial mouth structure. At present, the robotics of the…

Smarthome’s Rotating Power Outlet Gives Your Chargers Space

Smarthome’s rotating power outlet may not be as neat as the E-Rope concept, but it is still awesome. The rotating power outlet does exactly what a rotating power outlet should do; it rotates around for incalculable convenience, providing your power at all sorts of crazy angles. https://gizmodo.com/design-concept-e-rope-modular-power-strip-185733 OK, so the design maybe a little limited…

Iamhuman Gives Your MacBook Wood

Is your MacBook/MacBook Pro having an identity crisis? Would you like to use it as an expensive, inconspicuous bookend? Well, Iamhuman have you covered, their unconventional vinyl skins should do just the trick. There are a few different deigns to choose from, the zebra skin and the wood veneer finishes are pictured above, but if…

Those smashing fellows over at Digital Photography Review just got their mitts all over the Nikon D3 preview unit. Check out their extensive run through for the complete d-low. [dpreview]

Simpson Punk Gets Steampunked

Our lovable yellow cartoon character of Simpson’s fame just got a little Steampunk makeover. Titled Biomechanical Artificial Roving Terrain, the toy features a sky dome for a head, within which is teeny-weeny Unibear figurine. The design is cool and we want one for our HQ so our offices can look arty and quirky, instead of…

The Giorgio Armani fashion show, tomorrow (24th September, 2007), will see the official, branded unveiling of the P520, the Samsung-Armani cell phone collaboration. [Reuters]

Stormtrooper Replica Helmet Looks Great, Costs the Earth and Smells of Plastic

If you love Star Wars as much as us, you may want to sit down and be in a caffeine free, relaxed state before reading this. Here goes, Master Replicas has launched a limited edition Shadow Stormtrooper helmet. Awesome. Instead of looking like a plastic turd as we were expecting, it actually looks rather smashing…

YouNeverCall Promises $10,000 to the First Cell Phone Caller from the Moon

OK, it is a marketing scam, but a clever one, so we shall humor YouNeverCall. The press release states that $10,000 shall be awarded to the company/person that places a cellular phone call from the moon to YouNeverCall’s HQ in LA. The deadline for the galactic telecommunication antics is January 7, 2015. The call must…