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Britz’s Rosetta Speakers Perfect for Weird-Shaped Gamers

Consisting of two satellite towers and a downward-firing amplified subwoofer, these red LED-illuminated Rosetta speakers from Britz have been designed with computer or gaming setups in mind. Featuring IHSS (Independent Harmonic Surround Sound), they are probably a bit too weedy for hardcore gamers. If you ask me, both towers and sub look like the kind…

Water Tower Apartment Looks Great Inside, Misses Fiery Magical Eye on Top

Someone in the Netherlands transformed a water tower into a cool vertical apartment. The results are amazing, and the spiral stairs are guaranteed to keep you fit and/or drive you mad with so much spinning. Looking at the guy sliding down the wall, someone already thought about a better route for descent. [Materialicious via Boing…

iSpin ‘eTurntable’ Lets you DJ With iPods

The iSpin is a mixer that uses two docked iPods as inputs, and provides a range of effects like reverb, flange, hi/low pass filter and scratching sounds. While this would be fine for some DJs, it won’t suit everyone because you can’t beat-match with it. It’s probably more suited to a house party than a…

Giant Paper Boat Made from Tetrabriks, Allows Real Sailors on Board

Artist Frank Boelter has constructed a 9-metre paper boat from the stuff used to make Tetrabrik packs and is sailing it up the Elbe. The 37-year old artist came up with the idea one breakfast time, while he was sitting at his kitchen table fiddling with an empty milk carton, which he cut up and…

Matsushita has agreed to cover the direct costs of the huge Nokia battery recall that covers 46 million units. The company will cover logistics costs, call center costs and replacement battery costs. [Nokia]

Wooden Creative Zen Stone

Captain Ødegård created this Creative Zen Stone out of pine, although he seems to have accidentally scaled up the dimensions to a huge 8.25″ x 5.5″ x 2″. Check out a video of it in use after the jump. It’s internal components aren’t actually from a Creative because they’re too expensive in the Captain’s home…

Epson’s V500 Color Scanner Works Fast, Lets You Blow Up Pics

Epson has debuted its new color scanner. Aimed at amateur photo freaks in a hurry, the V500 cuts warm-up time and scanning time, meaning you can get through a pile of negs, slides and photos in less time than other scanners, thanks to its ReadyScan LED technology. You can blow pictures up to 17 x…

Wizz Dual Screen DVD Player Is Double the Fun, Allegedly

For a $232 price tag, this Japan-only Wizz CSDP-500 portable multimedia player and matching CLCD-507 7-inch LCD dual screens looks like a good option for video-on-the-go fans. The $86 40-ounce CSDP-500 plays DVDs of all kinds as well as video, music and picture files in MPEG-4,MP3,WMA and JPEG formats using it’s built-in USB port, SD…

Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)

Part 2 of the US West concept video Flowers by Alice features the business tools of the future. Voice recognition technology seemed to be very popular in concept videos of this era. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)

Cowon’s online tech support is claiming that the Cowon Q5 PMP is coming out sometime in October. Is it finally coming to the US? We’ll believe it when we see it. [Thanks, TJ] https://gizmodo.com/cowon-q5-pmp-with-hsdpa-and-gps-announced-again-250553

Transformers Hand Fans Make You Cooler, But Not With The Ladies

Our colleague over at Prime Diary has hipped us to a pair of Transformers hand fans that serve a purpose while upping your geek-cred. Painted as either Optimus Prime or Megatron, each fan has a removable top revealing a soft fan blade that offers instant cool when you and your Autobots roll out. Judging from…

DivX Connected Hands-On

I got to play with DivX’s Connected set top box that we showed you last night, and found a few more things out about the prototype. (Much of this could change by launch.) •DivX Connected Server runs on PC, and does the file serving as well as the decompression of most video content. •Only supports…

Palm CEO Responds to Engadget Spanking With Thanks

A few days ago, Ryan Block, Pete Rojas and Josh at Engadget wrote up a plan of attack for Palm and its aging Treo. Addressing problems with every aspect of the still useful but no longer glorious smartphone, it had some good points, and you could tell that they were writing it out of genuine…

Panasonic’s Pixi Phone Dock Automatically Sends Your Pictures to Mixi

When we’re sending naked pictures of ourselves to people we’ve never met, we want the process to go as quick as possible. Industrial Facility and luckybite — two UK Design firms — know that, and have teamed up with Madori Kuroda, Panasonic Japan’s Chief mobile device designer, to create a prototype phone dock called the…

Mitsubishi Blu-ray Player to Broadcast 2D Movies in 3D

We’ve all watched Fight Club and wished that Brad Pitt’s rippling biceps would be a bit more, well, 3D….right? Either way, Mitsubishi is releasing 3D Blu-ray players that will be able to make any 2D movie 3-dimensional. Before you get too excited, just know that you’ll still have to be wearing 3D glasses (hip-looking, 80’s-styled…

David Pogue reviews macro software that’ll speed up your computer usage; he ends up with a list of 5 for the Mac and PC you might find useful. [NYT]

Interactive Graffiti Billboard Lets You Be Simultaneously Tough and Geeky

Finally, graffiti and technology have joined to create something beautiful. Mark Ecko is designing digital citylights that will consist of a giant LCD screen and a Bluetooth interface that will allow passerby’s to “spray graffiti” by accessing the screen via Bluetooth. They will then be able to use their cell phone cursor to spray any…

Apple Notebooks Up to 17.6% of Market Share

Apple notebooks are in third place for US market share at 17.6 percent. That’s not far behind the leaders, Dell and HP, which have an approximate share of 50% total, together. Interestingly, 19% percent of Gizmodo readers use Macs. [Macworld]

A Note to PR Folks: I’m Begging for Universal Loan Agreements

So, you know me. We’ve worked together for years. When I need a review unit, I email you, and we work out the details and everything is gravy. Easy. Except for that silly loan agreement that we have to fill out every single time. And don’t get me started about the faxing part of it.…

LCD Burn-in Exists, And It Isn’t Pretty

Despite what the floor salesmen at Best Buy tell you about Plasmas vs. LCDs, LCD TVs actually do get burn-in. Sure, it takes longer to make that “Fox News” logo locked into your TV even when you’re watching, say, The Venture Bros., but it’ll get there. As you can see in this 22-inch Sharp LCD…