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Contest Reminder: Last Day to Win a TiVo Series 3

Still haven’t entered our trivia contest to win a TiVo Series 3? Skip work and do it today, because this is your last chance to win. Hit the link below to see the questions. Questions [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/trivia-contest-win-a-tivo-series-3-274358

Ars Technica’s iPhone Review Long and Distinguished

Ars Technica’s iPhone review is long and touches upon some great things we missed, like activation itself, as well as a few hacks, and tons of videos. But it gets a full post for its full-on destruction derby stress test including lots of keys, gravel, knives, boots, concrete, and a toilet. This isn’t a malicious…

Fourth Xbox 360 Configuration Coming Up?

There’s a big keynote coming up tonight at E3, and snoops from the Gamerscore Blog caught a shot of the rehearsals for that presentation. Well, well, looky there: There’s a fourth Xbox on stage. Wait a minute, we thought there were only three configurations on sale. Let’s see, we have the Core, the Premium, and…

Sidekick Slide Pic Surfaces

If you’ve wondered what the Sidekick Slide looks like, now we have more than just that render we showed you last month. Boy Genius has somehow uncovered a real photo of it, with little other info but this single pic. So go ahead, behold the beauty, the majesty of Danger’s T-Mobile-bound Sidekick Slide, otherwise known…

SoonR Talk Brings VoIP to the iPhone

For those worried about no Skype support on the iPhone, fear not anymore. Hollywood-based SoonR has created an AJAX application that enables Skype usage on mobile devices. By installing their application on your computer and logging into the SoonR site with thier iPhones, users have a VoIP-capable device that helps cut down on monthly minutes.…

MacScoop’s “trusted sources” claim that Apple’s upcoming ultra-portable is due out by the end of 2007, have a 12-inch screen, be 0.6-0.7 inches thick, and weigh 3 pounds. None of that is hard to believe, but we’re still asking, what about an optical drive? [MacScoop] https://gizmodo.com/macbook-mini-pushed-back-to-2008-256430

Contest Reminder: Last Day to Win an iPhone

Today’s the last day for entries in our Made in Eureka iPhone contest. If you haven’t entered yet, you’d better do it soon. [Giz Contests] https://gizmodo.com/were-giving-away-an-iphone-270738

There’s a fantasy wish list for the next iPhone floating around, and we’re not buying it. It’s just a fanboy trying to get some page views. If only Apple were that loose-lipped. [HowardForums]

Solar Laptop Charger Gives More Than Just A Laptop Juice

Though the Solar Laptop Charger & Portable Power Kit is billed as a great way to charge your laptop in a pinch, its honking 300-watt power pack features a standard plug that will have everything from power tools to blenders operating portably. If you can find about six square feet of space, just unfold the…

Will It Blend? Transformers Edition

In another obvious ploy for publicity, page views and notoriety, the Blendtec Corporation this time puts the Transformers to the test in its (figuratively) fire-breathing and (literally) nail-chewing blender. What will happen? Will Bumblebee suddenly transform into the formidable beast he really is, fighting his way out of that spinning cauldron of certain death? What…

Starck Veiled Watch Tricks Your Eyes

If you like famed designer Philippe Starck, you won’t be able to resist his latest creation, the Veiled Watch. Its electroplated crystal looks so much like the band that it’s hard to tell where one stops and the other begins. First appearing to be merely a stainless steel bracelet, if you look carefully you can…

New Procedure Turns Beer Bellies into Bigger Boobies

Ladies, you’re perfect just the way you are. Don’t let society get you down and ruin your body image. You’re beautiful. Not convinced? Do you think you need a bigger chest to get that promotion or to snag a quality man? Well, it’s your life. A new procedure can take fat cells from your belly…

Cyber Snipa Warboard Gives Gamers 20 Programmable Macro Keys

You’ll barely have to do anything yourself with so many programmable keys on this keyboard. The Warboard gives you 10 assignable macro keys physically—five at either end of the keyboard—and an additional 10 by way of the toggled “macro mode.” That’s a total of 20 buttons you can play with, each macro allowing you to…

InFocus Dips Toe Into 1080p With Play Big IN82 Projector

Welcome back to the home theater projector derby, InFocus, and congratulations on rolling out your first 1080p DLP home projector. The next iteration of the company’s Play Big series is named IN82 and cranks out a 4000:1 contrast ratio in that glorious resolution of which we are all so fond. It has the latest HDMI…

Business Intelligence Analysts, Interactive Creative Directors, and more

Interactive Creative Director – T3, San Francisco, CA Account Supervisor – Direct Mail – T3, Austin, TX Junior PHP Programmer – SalesBuilder, Los Angeles, CA Business Intelligence Analyst – PITT OHIO EXPRESS, Pittsburgh, PA .NET Developer – Confidential, Fresno, CA Quanalyst – The Motley Fool, Alexandria, VA Free to be NGE! C# or Java Developers…

iRiver Clix 2 Goes 8GB in Korea

You’re familiar with our Clix 2 and Clix 2 Rhapsody review already, but iRiver’s just announced an 8GB version of the player for release on July 11. Unfortunately for you, it’s only in Korea, so we’ll have to wait a bit longer to get our hands on one. Just like in making kimchi, patience pays…

Anti-Helium Makes Jay Leno Talk Like Ving Rhames

There are few joys as pure as inhaling helium and talkin’ real funny. Well, helium isn’t the only gas that changes your voice when you inhale it; sulfur hexafluoride is kind of like the anti-helium, making your voice insanely deep when inhaled. Watch above as Jay Leno and manhunk #372 from Transformers get baritoned. Where…

Analyst: Xbox 360 Price Cuts Imminent

Microsoft is holding their E3 press conference tonight. What should we expect? Well, according to overpaid palmreaders analysts, Xbox 360 price cuts are in the works. You didn’t think Papa Microsoft would let Sony go unanswered, did you? Basically, $50-70 price cuts are expected on all three Xbox 360 models. Wedbush Morgan-analyst Michael Pachter predicts…

Sony’s $100 price drop on the PS3 bumped the console up to #1 in the video game sales chart on Amazon. [Amazon]

RIAA Wants the XM-Sirius Merger to Hinge on Their Demands

Say, we haven’t heard from the RIAA in a little while. What are they up to? Oh, evil you say? So nothing new. The latest offense is the RIAA mounting a court challenge to force satellite radio companies XM and Sirius to pay them more in licensing fees and not allow users to record songs…