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DJs Do Battle Using LeapFrog Fly Fusion Pens

OK, so maybe it’s a friendly battle, but a test of mad skillz nonetheless, one that went down at San Francisco’s Shine nightclub not long ago. Every notebook that comes with the $80 LeapFrog Fly Fusion pen has this music-making console on the back, so you too can lay some breaks and beats yourself when…

GE’s Universal Flip Phone Remote Dials Up Star Trek Reruns

We’re not sure why you’d want a universal remote that actually has to flip open to use, but we’re not going to tell you people how to live your lives. In the chance that you do, GE’s $18.99 Flip Unviersal Remote has the standard power, channel and volume buttons on top, with the numbers, video…

Colorware Colors Up iPhones in Style

Want your iPhone in a color other than silver? Apple can’t help, but Colorware’s got you covered. You saw what a good job they did on on Xbox 360, so there’s no reason to think their quality will be anything but spectacular for the iPhone. You can send in your existing iPhone and have them…

Superbooster USB Wall Plate Gives You USB Anywhere

Instead of running USB over USB and getting only a few feet of range, Superbooster Wall Plate lets you run USB over Ethernet and up to 150 feet of range. What does this mean to you? It means you can install one of these wall plates in your living room, kitchen or bathroom, and get…

Turn iPhone’s Back All-Black with Back Cover Replacement Kit

We’re perfectly happy with the brushed aluminum backs of our iPhones, but some people are disconcerted by the difference between the back’s black bottom and aluminum top. Now the Cellular Nationwide Network is offering the Apple iPhone OEM Metal Black Rear Cover, a replacement for that aluminum back that gives your iPhone an ominous-looking, totally…

Italians Launch Sonic Attacks With Labor Limae Speaker Gun

The pole-mounted speakers from Hi-Fi Center in Italy look loud and probably sound loud. It’s a two-way bass reflex loudspeaker that looks like a speaker gun, and includes carbon fiber enclosures and red elastic suspension to keep it pointed in the right direction—namely, your face. It’s got a recommended power of 100 watts per side,…

Twitter fever’s all but subsided at GizHQ, but if you’re still Twittering away, here’s the iPhone client for the faux-mini-blog app. [Thincloud]

Wii Fit: The Parody

Sarcastic Gamer, the Ron Livingston-esque voiceover guy that brought us the Microsoft Surface Parody, is at it again. This time he’s taking the piss out of The Wii’s Wii Fit fitness game. We really liked the idea of getting exercise on a white board, but Mr. SarcGam doesn’t agree. After watching his video, we see…

iPhone Nano Before Holidays? (Again)

It sounds crazy, so soon after launch, but the iPhone nano could be coming out before Xmas. Kasper at Apple Insider claims: • “The second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod functionality with rudimentary cellular capabilities.” •”More resource-heavy internet browsing and email capabilities are not expected of the device.” •”Pricing of the…

Flash Drive Wrist Band Can Store the Entire Contents of Its Wearer’s Brain

If you’re wearing one of those colorful wristbands anyway, might as well store some data on it, and this USB Flash Drive Wrist Band from Brando is more than happy to help you pack 512MB on board. No, that’s not much data, but this is about the most painless way to carry around data there…

Sony Ericsson P1 Smartphone Reviewed (Verdict: Worthy Successor to the P990)

We’ve been eyeballing the Sony Ericsson P1 smartphone for a while now, but the reviews are finally in. The verdict? It’s pretty good. Besides being smaller than its P990 predecessor, it has the hybrid QWERTY keyboard (which is actually comfortable to use), a pretty decent 3-megapixel camera and a bunch of extras best fit for…

iPhone Applecare $80$69 For an Extra Year, Says Pogue [UPDATED: Confirmed]

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in Pogue’s Missing Manual PDF, on page 277: “The iPhone comes with a one-year warranty. If you buy an Applecare contract ($80) you’re covered for a second year.…

Latest Zune Arts Video From Fulltank Is a Real Ad

This latest edition to Zune Arts, Microsoft’s repository for community-made Zune videos, looks as good as anything from either Microsoft or Apple on TV. It looks more like a short film than an ad, which is something touched on in the interview with the creator and the agency that’s in charge of the whole effort.…

Apple Applies for Wireless iPod Patent, Welcomes Us to the Social?

Apple’s had a few smash hit releases lately, so we’re watching its patent applications more closely than a brownnoser’s lips to his boss’s ass. Here’s another patent app, this one showing an iPod wirelessly controlling a media server running iTunes. Beyond that, the server can also send files back to the iPod for some wireless…

Botanicalls Let Your Plants Call When Thirsty

Instead of having to remember to water your plants every day, how about installing a gadget that allows them to call you when they need water? Botanicalls does just that, with a soil-moisture sensor that detects whether a plan needs water and call you (on the phone that’s connected to the plant) with the results…

LG BH100 Hybrid Disc Player Plus 10 Free HD DVD or Blu-ray Discs!

I rarely use exclamation points in my headlines, but this deal seems too sweet not to. I’m talking about a LG Super Blu hybrid disc player that can play back HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs for $1200, plus any combination of Ten in stock HD DVD or Blu ray discs, for free. https://gizmodo.com/first-review-lg-bh100-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player-ve-231149 Good job,…

iPhone Mates With Sony Dock Like a Jack Rabbit On an Antelope

At Sony’s holiday line show last night, we got to check out one of Sony’s new pair o’ docks for iPod, the clock/radio ICF-C1iP in black. Of course, the first thing we did was stick an iPhone in it, like giggling school kids watching a pair of goats getting busy at the petting zoo. Too…

iPod Karaoke Patent Brings Fear to Mass Transit Riders

Some may call this latest iPod/iPhone patent from Apple “dynamics lyrics display for portable media devices,” but we call this Karaoke City. The patent details a scheme to activate “karaoke style lyrics,” which then grabs lyrics and displays the lyrics in time and in sync with the music that’s playing. This way, the right words…

AMD Quad Core Phenom Gaming System in the Flesh (and Blood)

Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks to John Woo’s new game Stranglehold. AMD is still mum on pricing and final specs, though they did reaffirm…

Foot Mouse Gives You an Extra Pair of Hands

Attention foot fetishists and carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers: Here’s a new take on alternative pointing devices. Slide your foot into the FootTime Foot Mouse’s slipper attachment and then you’re off and running, controlling the cursor with one foot and pressing six buttons and a scroll wheel with the other. Yeah, there was a foot mouse…