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Canon 40D DSLR Sample Shots On Flickr

Canon’s 40D DSLR has been shipping for a few weeks now, and Crave’s Stephen Shankland notes that samples shots abound on Flickr, if you’re curious to see just how good modern DSLRs are. He also points to Wyofoto’s comparison of the 40D image quality, and found it to be within spitting distance of Canon’s higher…

Samsung WEP500 Quarter-Sized Bluetooth Headset Available Now

Samsung’s just announced the availability of their tiny quarter-sized WEP500 Bluetooth headset for the US. It’s definitely small—weighs less than 9 grams and is the size of about a quarter—but suffers in low battery life because of it. 3.5 hours talk time and 80 hours standby time isn’t fantastic, but it does have 2 microphones…

HP will be launching PCs with Blu-ray/HD DVD dual-format burners in them next month, which will definitely be really expensive and probably not worth it to 95% of consumers. But hey, thanks for not taking sides, guys! [Digitimes]

New Hard Drive Sensors to Increase Density 5x, Read Times By 10x

Physics researchers are hard at work making sure you can store those episodes of House on your hard drive for as long as possible without deleting them with a new breakthrough using the magneto-electric effect. Drives can possibly have a storage density of 1 terabit per square inch (up from 200 gigabits now), and a…

FCC Extends Analog TV Support Until 2012

The previously mandated analog TV cutoff date of 2009 has just been extended by the FCC, meaning that even though broadcasters (the people like NBC who send out the shows) will be dropping the analog feed, cable operators (the local cable companies that take your money every month) will still have to support old ass…

Ex-MS Employee Has the World’s Fastest Ethanol-Based Car

Karl Jacob, an ex-Microsoft employee, has the world’s fastest ethanol-based car. He took his run-of-the-mill Dodge Viper and had it converted from a regular gas guzzling monster to an ethanol chugger. While Jacob didn’t drive the car himself, a driver from Super Viper hit 218 mph in July, a top speed record for an ethanol-based…

DPReview Does a 12-Page “Preview” of Nikon’s D300

Phil over at DP Review is previewing the D300, and although they call it a preview, without verdict, it is a 12- page affair with almost every detail of the new camera. That photo above is a representation of the camera’s 51 AF segments. Nuts, huh? He also runs down the liveviewfinder LCD and the…

Win an 8GB iPod Nano By Answering a Survey

Want to win an 8GB iPod nano? Sure you do. All you have to do is answer a few survey qustions, then email what the last question asked to [email protected], and you’ll have a chance to win one for yourself. Standard Gawker contest rules apply. Ends 9/22. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-nano-review-298676 The Survey!

LaCie Unveils 2big Disks at 2TB Each

Three more big disks from LaCie today, one called the 2big Dual, one called the 2big Triple and the last the 2big Network. They all look pretty much identical except for their connectivity ports on the back, since the 2big Triple has USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800, the 2big Dual has eSATA and…

Flowers by Alice (Part 5, 1992)

And now, the thrilling conclusion to the 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice. See also:Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 2, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 3, 1992)Flowers by Alice (Part 4, 1992)

IBM to Monitor the Hudson River with Solar-Powered Underwater Vehicles

IBM is gathering some goodwill points by partnering up with a nonprofit to help monitor a 315-mile stretch of the Hudson River. They’re going to be using a combination of sensor-laden buoys and solar-powered robotic underwater vehicles numbering in the hundreds. The vehicle, which sort of looks like a yellow sting ray covered in solar…

Initial tests show the iPod Nano and Classic outperforming Apple’s claims on battery life, sometimes by up to 6 hours.[iLounge via PowerPage]

If You Can’t Afford a Bugatti Car, Maybe You Can Afford Their Toaster

I really hope this trend dies soon: Yet another high-end auto maker is jumping into the gadget/home appliance business, giving non-rich people the chance to spend way too much money on something just because of a brand name, even if they can’t afford a six-figure car. This time it’s Bugatti, bringing their experience with engineering…

Gear4 BlackBox Bluetooth Stereo Speaker is the Nerd’s Ghetto Blaster

GEAR4’s BlackBox Bluetooth speaker system is both good looking and functional, having a mini LED display and two 24W speakers on board. It’s a black gloss finish, touchscreen controls, a USB-upgradable firmware, and fits right in on the bus, blasting out your Rock Jamz Vol. 3 from your A2DP compatible player for everyone to enjoy.…

Someone discovered yet another way to get ringtones onto your iPhone for free. This time it involves a command line editor, some changing of metadata, and your regular songs will be come ringtones immediately. [Xanga via TUAW]

HTC Juno Headed to T-Mobile?

We first heard of the HTC Juno when the rumor was that it was going to AT&T. Now Boy Genius says it’s going to T-Mobile, complete with the two-letters-per-key Suretype keyboard. Other guesses are that it will have HTC’s (now fairly standard) TouchFlo home screen that was debuted on the HTC Touch. Whether something like…

How Do I Unlock My iPhone? (Wait for the Package Installer)

Now that the iPhone free software unlock is available, you may be wondering how to use it. The answer: It’s complicated. We did it here with two iPhones, it works flawlessly but the unlock process is not for consumers. Fortunately, develogoddess Erica Sadun is coming to the rescue soon with a one-click graphic application that…

First Gullwing Stretch Limo Ferrari

This here is the world’s first Ferrari 360 Modena converted to a gullwing stretch limo. It’s 23 feet long, but with 400HP, goes zero to 60mph in about 6 seconds. These mods, and the extra 6 Recaro seats, cost £200k. Sounds like a deal to me. We’ve got one more photo of the gullwing in…

Sony’s Tall Omnidirectional Speaker is Cool Looking, Vague

Sony showed off this crazy omnidirectional speaker in Japan yesterday, and due to Google’s always-amazing machine translation, I don’t really get how it works. Why don’t I just let the translation do the talking? Perhaps you can figure out what the hell it means. Check it after the jump. When it fits in classification of…

False Hacker Poses as iPhone Dev Team Unlock Author, Tries to Grab $41,560 Donation

Click to viewA false hacker going by the alias of haRRo has tried to trick everyone by posing as the “sole developer” of a graphical tool to unlock the iPhone. The GUI application is really the work of Erica Sadun, Weblog/TUAW’s writer and one of the brilliant programmers who has been developing iPhone applications since…