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Playboy Adds iPhone Fever to List of VD They’ve Caught

Hugh Hefner may not be able to have a cellphone within 10 meters of him thanks to the fact that both his mechanical heart and mechanical genitals suffer from radio interference problems, but he knows what the kids like. And the kids like them iPhones. Step one: iPhone. Step 2: make a set of “sexy…

Waiting In Line For an iPhone? Take a Picture and Be On Giz

Since you’re a reader, you may love Gizmodo, but did you know that Gizmodo loves you right back? Here’s a chance for us to prove it. Today or tomorrow, if you or your friends are in line for an iPhone, whether you’re at an Apple Store or an AT&T shop, take out your skanky old…

TiVo’s lifetime service transfer is back, and as long as you’re transferring from an old machine onto a 80 hour Series 2 dual tuner, all you have to pay is $300. [Zatz Not Funny]

Apple Employee Address Reveals iPods With OS X, AppleTV Focus, and Improved Macs

In addition to giving Apple employees a free 8GB iPhone by the end of July, Steve Jobs had a few more things to say in Apple’s closed-door internal meeting today. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-at-apples-all-hands-meeting-today-announce-273304 First, Jobs talked about how new Macs they have coming up will be “off the charts,” and then talked about how they want the…

Fake iPhone Makes You King Camper of the Jesusphone Line

Now you can bamboozle everybody in the iPhone line with this new and improved iPhone papercraft model. Just print it on some thick paper, cut it out and discreetly tape it together, and everybody will think you’ve already gotten your iPhone like Mossy and Pogue. Yeah, there have been iPhone cutout patterns before, but we…

PS3 Firmware 1.82 Available

Along with support for AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) video support (which most people don’t care about), update 1.82 has improved backward compatibility with PS2 and PS1 games (for the software BC consoles, most likely). No big list for which titles have been changed, but head over to the Status Site to be sure. PS3 Update…

Steve Jobs, at Apple’s all-hands meeting today, announced that every full-time employee who’s been there longer than a year will get a free 8GB iPhone by the end of July. [Daring Fireball]

iPod Dock Bracket, Altec Lansing iM7 vs. Cambridge Soundworks Playdock i

THESE DOCKS WORK WITH THE IPHONE!! READ THIS POST!! Full disclosure: We have no clue if either the Altec Lansing iM7 or the Cambridge Soundworks Playdock i will work with the iPhone. We were lying to get you to read the next review in our iPod Bracket Battle. You don’t have to if you don’t…

Greg Packer, iPhone Camper: Drunk Toy Edition

Noted iPhone waiter Greg “The Line” Packer may look nice and gentleman-like now, but wait ’til you see him with a mug of booze. Just 4 AA batteries in this Happy Drinker, who has more than a passing resemblance to Greg, will make him drink, dance and jiggle his stomach. How they managed to capture…

Amateur reviewers say the Transformers movie sucks…and is totally awesome. https://jalopnik.com/the-jalopnik-transformers-movie-quasi-review-an-amerib-273051

How to Comment: Commenter Hall of Fame

Joining our commenter hall of fame today is homerjay, who’s made great comments for over a year now. The one that put him over the top was this, in the iPhone Sighting Video post: Do you really think your iphone experience is going to be any different from this video? Its not like chicks are…

Gizmodo iPhone Wallpapers Show Faces, Darth Vader, Hello Kitty

Click to viewRemember the JesusPhone smiley dude? Yeah, he spent the last few months going around the world, surfing and going to parties with His Steveness. Well, now the JesusPhone loves you and even Andre the Giant. Gizmodo loves you too. And if you love the JesusPhone and you are planning to get one soon,…

Minimalist Cellphone, Where Less is Less

This cellphone design by Jacob Palmborg is for all those who loathe the iPhone and are sick and tired of hearing about it. This one’s just a cellphone that plays a bit of music and stores a list of your contacts, nothing more. What a concept! It has an attractive OLED touchscreen interface that appears…

Altec Lansing’s Powered Theater is First Foray into Home Theater

Altec Lansing enters the home theater market for the first time with its Powered Theater line, shipping in August. Designed to be big on sound and small on space, Powered Theater comes in two flavors: the advanced two-piece PT8051 or the bigger, single-piece PT7031. Thanks to their slim forms, the units should complement home theaters…

The Floodgates are Open: iPhone Accessories

OK, so there were some new things at Digital Experience. And, surprise surprise, they were iPhone-related. That’s right: iPhone accessories! Get ready to see about 10 million variations on these items in the coming days/weeks/months/years. Video by Nick McGlynn https://gizmodo.com/digital-experience-features-the-best-of-last-months-tec-273219

Apple’s iPhone availability tracker lets you know which stores have the phone in stock, and which have been sucked dry by iPhone campers. [Apple]

Pogue Mad at Josh Quittner for talking some smack. In DP’s defense, I do think that Pogue is no less inside the Apple game than Mossberg. (Books, Conferences) Or anyone in this field, including us. But everyone loves watching a fight. [Netly]

Warners delay launch of Total HD Until 2008

Warner’s Total HD discs, expected at the end of this year, will not now be making an appearance until 2008. The announcement, made yesterday by the entertainments giant, gave no reason why tills will not be jingling with Total HD sales this holiday season, leaving room for speculation. It could be that there are problems…

Video of USA Today’s Ed Baig taking the iPhone to 5th Ave. linesitters [MyiTablet]

Digital Experience Features the Best of Last Month’s Tech, Today

Last night here in NYC the Digital Experience event rolled through, bringing with it all sorts of tech companies looking to show off their wares to the tech press community. What happens when this event takes place two days before the biggest product launch of the year? No new products! Whee! So feast your eyes…