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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…

Lightning Round: Gomadic’s QuadCharge Universal Charging Station

The Gadget: Gomadic’s QuadCharge Universal Charging Station, which charges your phones, MP3 players, Bluetooth headsets and various USB devices all in one place. It saves space, plus organizes cables neatly with only one cord running out into the wall. https://gizmodo.com/gomadic-charging-station-hides-shame-displays-gadgets-263373 The Verdict: Sturdy build (slip-proof surface) and lots of charging tips allows you not to…

Rocket Phone is End-All Be-All of Phone Design

This is the phone your grandfather imagined you’d be talking on when he was a boy: the ShenZhou-VII. It’s shaped like a rocket ship, one that was designed to discover once and for all whether or not the moon really is made of cheese. Look out, iPhone! There’s a new granddaddy of cellphones in town,…

Epson to Ship Lowest-Priced 1080p Projector Yet

We just got the scoop from Epson: the company says it will indeed deliver that new-and-improved 1080p projector that we told you about earlier today to the United States this December. It will be called the Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 UB, and most startling of all is its price: $2699, a full $300 less…

Sony’s ImageStation online photo service will vanish on Feb. 1, 2008, but uploading, sharing and shopping will be dismantled by Nov. 12th. Users can move their photos to Shutterfly, and get a free 20-page photo book for their troubles. [ImageStation]

Germans Plan Colossal New Great Pyramid

Giving new meaning to the phrase “we will bury you,” a group of Germans has decided to build a new Great Pyramid that’s ten times the size and more than twice the height of the original at nearly 2000 feet tall. A group of German builders has gotten together with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaus for…

Leaked Sony Ericsson Phone Surprises No One with a Touchscreen

Everyone wants a piece of the touchscreen cellphone pie these days. Basically every phone manufacturer is now jumping on the bandwagon, and not just Chinese rip-off artists, either! Take a peeksy at this Sony Ericsson spy shot, which looks to be a buttonless touchscreen just like, well, basically every new phone being announced these days.…

iPhone Book Sneak Peek: Third-Party iPhone Application Tutorial

Pash over at Lifehacker has a tutorial up on how to install third-party applications to your iPhone. It’s notable because it comes straight from our iPhone Book, along with many more tips and tricks that you won’t find in other books (seriously, we’ve read the other books, and they don’t have them). Check out the…

The Worst Thing About IFA

This. Bleeping. Bag. Look, I’ve lost the power of erudition.

Think Secret Practically Promises iPod Touch/Nano Tomorrow, Pushes Stats

Hi there. Here’s a bit more party spoiler from the spies at Think Secret, who are all but promising that the iPod touch will be here tomorrow, at Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” event. Check out these beefy stats. •3.5-inch touchscreen, a la iPhone. A hard drive, not flash, for pricing and capacity limitations. Wireless…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: We discover that lowering the frame rate on your iPhone (or other video-playing gadget) will magically extend your battery life. Solar power goes on the road, as this guy uses the power of the sun to blog about his trip, as it happens. While we’re on the topic, check out these…

Coolness Roundup: Say Goodbye to HDMI Cables for Good?

This week on the 102nd edition of Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher talk wireless HDMI, how it will work and what it means to you and me. The Gurus of Cool also notice a few 3D television sets and monitors and wonder if they will be a big flop,…

Shiny Shiny Gets Hands-on With the Shocking Taser Guns

The lasses over at Shiny Shiny took the shocking taser gun and brought them out for a little fun—at each other’s expense. Not to spoil the fun, but Zara and Katie throw out their usually composed British demeanors and zap out all their latent workplace aggression in the span of 30 seconds. Susi from Shiny…

Floating Russian Chopper Seems to Fly Without Spinning its Rotors

This Russian helicopter is shown flying around with its rotors not moving. Have the Ruskies reverse-engineered some alien technology to create hovering helicopters? If so, why did the jackasses bother to put rotors on? Allow me to answer those questions. It’s a normal helicopter – no alien technology here, unfortunately. It’s actually an optical illusion…

Epson Shows Off Even Better EMP-TW2000 1080p Projector, Should be Cheap, Too

Just when we were thinking that Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080p projector was a great deal at $3000, the company comes along and stomps that down with an even better model, the EMP-TW2000. Set for a November ship date in Japan and probably later in the United States, this one trumps its predecessor with a…

Epson Launches PictureMate Dash and PictureMate Zoom with CD Burner

Epson jacked up its latest 4×6 photo printers with larger LCD screens (now 3.6″) and faster print times: they can handle a full-quality borderless print in 37 seconds. The new PictureMate Zoom includes a CD burner too, so you can dump a day of shooting to disc for archiving or sharing. The new PictureMates have…

Samsung Ultra F700 Smartphone Rechristened “Croix”

While “Croix” might be a crisper moniker for Samsung’s iPhoneish Ultra F700 smartphone, the French label reeks of trying too hard to sound classy. But, the name supposedly has legitimate roots in the cross-inspired interface of the phone, which we saw back in February. Aside from the name change, specs look the same, and there…