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Incase Protective iPhone Cover Tested (Verdict: OK)

This Incase Protective cover is the first piece of iPhone retail-bait I couldn’t resist in the Apple store. The good: It’s the sleekest of all cases in stock there, so it won’t make your iPhone look like a Tonka truck; it’s rubberized, available in black, red, and grey; and has a neat topographical pattern all…

Hands-on With Nyko’s Wii Party Station (Verdict: Crazy Awesome)

We just got a hands on with Nyko’s Wii Party Station and we can safely say that it’s crazy. Crazy awesome. It’s got pretty much everything you want to have when you’re having a Wii house party, and it’s designed cheaply enough ($24.99) for every Wii-owning family to use as an accessory to enhance their…

Cellphone Transforms Into Deadly Robot

Check out this transforming cellphone concept found over at Parkoz Hardware. It turns into a little bi-pedal bot, complete with twin miniguns. Definitely reminiscent of scenes from Michael Bay’s Tranformers, with a little bit of Batteries Not Included, Short Circuit, and Robocop (ED-209, anyone?) Koreans get the coolest cellphones, so it figures their concepts are…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We take to the skies Maverick-style with Air Combat USA, hit the court in some Roger Federer Gear, and head to the theater in some Transformers T-Shirts. We keep track of our favorite MLB teams on the Liveboard, mount our new LCD on the Loop Media Center, and finish some household…

Ghetto Wii Wheel From Billet Mechanical Takes You Back to the ’80s

If you thought the plastic-looking Nintendo Wii Mario Kart wheel was a little too classy, Billet Mechanical has the wheel for you. First, it’s not even a wheel. It’s a Knight Rider-like half steering wheel that has grips on the two ends for gripping. It’s not like you’re doing hand over hand on regular wheels…

$100 off any Helio device and a 1GB Micro SD Memory card, as long as you pay monthly via Visa. [Helio]

Poll: Is Your iPhone Earpiece Too Quiet?

Informal poll time. I’ve been getting a few reader complaints about iPhone earpieces being too quiet. Before jumping to conclusions, I figured I’d ask around. Since complaining is a duty of the dissatified, please do me a favor and vote if you’re happy, too. (I personally have had no problems with earpiece volume.) Gawker Media…

HD DVD players are supposedly outselling Blu-ray 3:1 in Europe this year. They neglected to tally PS3s, conveniently. [Reuters]

Motorola Expands ROKR Music Phone Line with PEBL U9

Just like with the MotoRIZR Z6, Motorola is taking an old phone and placing the ROKR moniker on it, essentially turning it into a badged music phone. This time they’re taking the Moto PEBL U9 and making it a Moto ROKR U9. It’s got RAZR2-like music controls, mini USB headphones (no 3.5mm jack), and the…

Closer Than We Think! Polar Oil Wells (1960)

Sometimes ideas of the paleo-future not only elicit a chuckle for their scientific improbability but, in the case of “Polar Oil Wells,” political improbability. Baby penguins watching their habitat melting wouldn’t be a very popular image today. This Closer Than We Think! strip ran in the January 17, 1960 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Valuable…

Avatar Machine Further Distances You From Reality

Do you play so many videogames that you feel weird walking around without being able to see yourself from a third-person perspective? If so, you need to uninstall World of Warcraft and reacquaint yourself with the sun and your peers. If that seems like too difficult a prospect to handle, you can always just get…

Apple iPhone Battery Bug: Battery Icon Doesn’t Show 100%

You know the reports of people saying their iPhones don’t charge up all the way? Turns out that’s actually a UI bug and not a bug with the iPhone’s battery. The bug, demoed in the image above and confirmed by Apple, is the battery icon in the standby screen when your iPhone is plugged in.…

Star Wars Darth Vader Back Buddy

Strap on the Darth Vader Back Buddy, and you’ll have the most feared fallen Jedi mofo toting around your stuff. $20, and guaranteed to be 100% wheeze-free. [Entertainment Earth via Neatorama]

Yesterday’s Must-Read News

Ranging from E3 announcements to next-generation Samsung Blu-ray players, Tuesday’s news was anything but boring. In order to help you catch up with anything you may have missed, here’s a list: • Gateway Introduces Colorful, HDTV-Friendly M-Series and T-Series Entertainment Laptops • EyeClops Magnifies Anything 200x, Sends Images to TV Screen • Zune Patent for…

Bobby.TV versus Justin.TV, as UK Police Get Helmet Cams

Following successful trials, British policemen are to be issued with head cameras while they are on the beat. The 3 million ($6.1 million) scheme, which led to an increase in the number of convictions of offenders when it was tried out in the southwestern town of Plymouth, is to be rolled out throughout the country.…

Logitech desktop speakers for $15 after shipping. [Mwave.com]

Fancy Lawnmower Doesn’t Come with This Guy, Unfortunately

We love the show American Inventor here at the Giz. Not because it pumps out inventions we’d actually want, but because it highlights how insane inventors are. Take a look at this horny grandpa who uses his crazy laugh and saucy ways to get his fancy lawnmower past the committee of “experts” on the show.…

Mac Jobs, PC Jobs

Staff Writer / Reviewer – infoSync World, New York, NY Senior Macintosh Support Technician – Quick Ceph Systems, San Diego, CA Software Programmer – Language Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX (DFW Metroplex ) Senior Software Engineer / Technical Project Manager – Language Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX (DFW Metroplex ) Interactive Creative Director – T3, San Francisco,…

Further Playstation 3 Price Cut Predicted

Capcom, the developer behind multiple treasured video game series such as Street Fighter and Resident Evil, is forecasting yet another substantial price cut for Sony’s Playstation 3. Said Capcom Chief Financial Officer Kazuhiko Abe to reporters: “…the price has been cut once and it is likely to be cut again towards the end of the…

iPhone Field Test Mode Lets You Spy On The AT&T Network

Richard Baguley, chief cellular ninja over at WirelessInfo.com, just published a number that, when called, turns your iPhone into a mobile field testing station. Suddenly, up pops a new menu (as you can see on our own iPhone at left) that provides detailed reporting on strengths and characteristics of the cell towers in your area,…