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Tomorrow’s Entire Nokia Event Leaked?

The guys over at Nokia blog supposedly received an itinerary for the virtual Nokia Go Play event. The itinerary mentions the Nokia N81, Nokia N95 8GB, music store, NGage and some more suspect mentions, like “Pjotro dance footage” and “event bloopers.” Joke or not, we’ll find out in a few hours when the event hits…

GameTech’s Nintendo DS USB Rom Adapter Lets You Share Game Saves

We like devices such as the M3 Perfect for loading DS Roms and homebrew projects, but you can’t really save data from actual DS games you might own. GameTech’s upcoming USB dongle lets you upload game save files to your computer and use them as your please. Insert your DS cart into the dongle, the…

Brix Modular Cell Phone Concept Can Expand to Big-Screen Proportions

Watching TV on a cell phone is about as fun as taking a drill to your eye — and that’s something concept designer Seokwon Hong hopes to alleviate with the Brix. The Brix is a modular concept for a cell phone that would allow you to create a bigger and bigger screen depending on how…

Olympus E-3 Flagship DSLR Released in Korea

It’s DSLR season, with Canon and Nikon loosing their latest and now Olympus is following up with their E-3. We saw this camera first hand at PMA, unnamed, but obviously a replacement for the 4-year old E-1. Four years! Hey, that’s pretty nifty, Olympus — wait til your camera is actually out of date before…

Electronic Spin the Bottle Helps You Relive Awkward Youth

We all remember sitting awkwardly in a circle, playing spin the bottle and getting our first kiss with a braces-wearing uggo in a group of giggling school children. Well, now you can relive those wonderful days with Toys4Me’s Electronic Spin the Bottle — a game that takes all the difficulty out of both spinning and…

Apple Special Event Goes Down September 5

Mark your calendars, because what Jesus told you before is true: Apple is planning a Special Event for the Wednesday following Labor Day weekend—that’s September 5 at 10am Pacific. You can bet we’ll be there to pick up whatever drops, but judging from the picture, I’m gonna put my money on iPods. Maybe even fat…

Embargo Agreements Only Work When Cat Stays In Bag

Today’s lineup highlights the futility of most news embargoes. I can count perhaps 10 items that leaked before the official US announcements. I can’t tell you what they are—ironically, I’d be breaking now meaningless non-disclosure agreements. And while I’d like to say that all these came from master sleuths or connected Deep Throats, most leaks…

LEDs Hidden in Corks Light Up Booze Bottles to Eerie Effect

Lighting designers’ minds must be turning toward boozing it up lately (joining those of your humble narrators), because this is the second time in as many days we’ve noticed special lighting devices that somehow illuminate containers full of alcoholic beverages. This clever idea involves a battery-operated LED, nestled within a cork that takes its place…

Xbox 360 Repair Turnaround Times Are Down in the Crapper

The recent Xbox 360 warranty extension to three years has really done a number on the repair queue. Everyone must be sending in their broken Xboxes, since the turnaround time has increased from two weeks to as much as six. Anecdotally, it so happens that three people I know sent in their 360s around this…

Dealzmodo: 60GB PlayStation 3 and 8 Blu-ray Movies For $472.04 Shipped

If you thought that Eight HD DVD + Toshiba Player deal this morning was good, check out this Blu-ray + PS3 deal Amazon’s also got going. It’s the same idea: get a 60GB or 80GB PS3, pick three Blu-ray movies from the list of 105, and get the movies for free. You can then mail…

Nokia Set to Release a Whole Slew of New Phones

It looks like the Nokia press conference tomorrow is going to be more like Phone-a-Palooza. According to Gearfuse and their “official” press images, Nokia will be launching at the very least five models tomorrow inlcuding: the N81 (Gaming Phone), N95-8GB edition (Music Phone), 5700, 5610 and the 5310 (XpressMusic). Not much else is really known…

First UI Shots of the Blackberry 8820 with WiFi

Pinstack has shots of Blackberry’s flagship 8820 with GPS/WiFi, in the wild. Unseen before is the UI for hooking up said 802.11 to networks. Good porn shots for Blackberry nerds anxious for the full QWERTY and wireless. Still no camera, though. [Pinstack] https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-capable-blackberry-8820-becomes-official-279496

IBM Sued After $1.4 Million Server Dumped on Floor by Forklift

IBM is being sued after one of its servers was damaged in transit. T.R. Systems, who was shipping the beast to its customer the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and who had to shell out for a replacement, claims that the computer giant did not package the $1.4 million behemoth correctly. Want to hear how…

Laptop Confidential II: We Have a Winner!

All the votes are in for our Laptop Confidential II contest, and the winner is the video above, entitled “The Gizmodo Informant,” a brutal look at the torture of an innocent detective whose clueless captor can’t figure out that “mocodomzig” is Gizmodo.com spelled backwards. The winner, calling his group “Hidden Agenda,” takes the $2000 laptop…

Six Months Free T-Mobile HotSpot With PSP Ownership

Own a PSP? Any PSP? It doesn’t even have to be new. All you have to do is HAVE one and you can get 6 months of free T-Mobile HotSpot access for your PSP so you can connect to the net and play games with your buddies. We don’t think you can transfer this PSP…

Take a Giz Survey, Win a $250 Amazon Gift Card

Where else besides national television and your creepy uncle can you get stuff for answering questions? Here, that’s where. Just click through and answer the survey, then email [email protected] and tell them what the last question asked. The lucky winner will get a $250 Amazon Gift Card, which is enough for a Nintendo Wii if…

Pantech 180, Thinner and Smaller than Helio Ocean, Coming Up on AT&T

Look at this Pantech C180 that Boy Genius Report just uncovered, branded AT&T and looking a whole lot like a smaller and thinner Helio Ocean. Unlike the Ocean, this Pantech slider runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard, but just like the Ocean, it has that appealing dual-sliding arrangement, where a horizontal slide reveals a QWERTY keyboard…

The 22-inch widescreen version of the 3D monitors I couldn’t use are now available for $999. [Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/ces-2007-iz3d-updates-to-a-22-inch-widescreen-3d-monit-226101

HDTV Pinball Machine is Art and Teaches Kids Stuff

Ceci n’est pas un pinball machine. Actually, it is, but it manages to be all sorts of things as well. It’s an art installation that’s currently on show in Barcelona, as well as an interactive game for kids, And, best of all, it uses a widescreen HD telly as one of the displays. Called King…

NSFW: Optimus Prime, Darth Vader Get Nekked With Boobies

There’s not much we can say about these nudie shots of Darth Vader and Optimus Prime other than words of relief that our childhood attractions are finally vindicated. Despite being the heroes of both Generation X and Y, these two really know how to get down and dirty. This is NSFW, btw, in case you…