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BolsiPlus: Add Pockets To Anything (Verdict: Please Don’t)

If looking at the news gives you the idea that the world is going to hell and the Apocalypse is about to break loose on Earth, look no further. What you hear is the noise of thunder and the trumpet-playing beast, because we have found the definitive proof: Behold, the BolsiPlus. BolsiPlus are sticky pockets.…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz May 9 '07

Cheap Gadget Roundup: Monkeys, Obscene Gestures and a Useful Toilet

Don’t quite have the money for a Helio Ocean but feel like getting a gadget high? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a roundup of cheap gadgets that are both neat and, well, cheap. Cheap as in both low in price and quality. Get an FM radio monkey for anyone who’s born in the year of…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 9 '07

Zune 2 Details: Even Larger Screen, Hard Drive

Although the announcement on Monday didn’t happen publicly as we first thought, select developers did get to see the Zune behind closed doors and signed NDAs. iLounge’s source tells them Microsoft demoed more than one upcoming Zune at the event. https://gizmodo.com/no-zune-announcement-today-258322 First was the flash-based Zune which everyone was expecting, which earned a “not bad”…

Tech News Jason Chen May 9 '07

PC World Editor Harry McCracken Returns Victorious

In an interesting reversal, departed PC World Editor Harry McCracken has returned to the magazine as “vice-president, editor in chief” as of this morning. What’s even more surprising is that CEO Colin Crawford has been dropped from the CEO position and is taking up the executive vice president, online position. He’s even given the editorial…

Tech News Jason Chen and Brian Lam May 9 '07

Quick News: Comcast, Akon and More

Joost added two new partners today, Warner Bros. and Heavy.com. While Heavy.com will be showing off new content, Warner plans on only shelling out “vintage” shows. Singer, Akon, found out that you can’t get away scott-free if you dry-hump a 15-year-old preacher’s daughter. Verizon Wireless has decided to no longer sponsor the concert tour he…

Tech News Ben Longo Photo: Getty Images May 9 '07

Pyromaniac’s Delight Rube Goldberg Machine

Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do. So just hit play and prepare to be entertained to an embarrassing degree. College Humor [Neatorama]

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 9 '07

Intel’s New Core 2 Duos Get Priced

Now that we’ve shown you the technology and the hardware behind Intel’s new Centrino Duo platform, it’s time to talk CPU pricing. What do these new Core 2 Duos cost? It depends. They range from the top of the line 2.40GHz T7700 ($530) to the Core 2 Duo processor LV L7300 at 1.40GHz ($284). https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-intels-new-santa-rosa-platf-258885…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 9 '07

Toughen Up Your Mac Mini With VictorSystems

There are some great Mac Mini setups out there, but none of them would hold up to military conditions. Enter VictorSystems. They took your typical pint-sized Mac and covered it in aluminum armor, wrought plates and finned heat sinks. Now the Mini is combat ready. But what good is a beefed-up Mac if you don’t…

Tech News Ben Longo May 9 '07

Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You

At last night’s ITP Grad Show at NYU, we saw this super-sweet project that essentially creates robotic paparazzi. It’s a smart robot, as it knows what humans like: skin, and lots of it. It has sensors that detect how much skin someone is showing, and it takes more pictures and yells at them more as…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley May 9 '07

Sony VAIO FZ: Burns Blu-ray Discs, Looks Like a MacBook

Some days it just feels like Groundhog Day. With Santa Rosa popping in more places than the Virgin Mary today, each post feels exactly like that and here’s the Sony VAIO FZ to prove it. Not only it has the already-sickening brand new Intel chipset, but it was leaked at the beginning of the month.…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 9 '07

Pantech’s Slider Features a Touchscreen with Tactile Feedback

There’s more than one fancy slider out there, you know. If you are sick of the Ocean (Already? You’re too jaded, my friend), then feast your eyes on the Pantech IM-R200. https://gizmodo.com/first-unboxing-of-the-helio-ocean-258988 It’s a slider that features two LCD screens, one that slides out from beneath the other. While one might argue that this has…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 9 '07

PS3 Melee Watch: Again With the Violence

Just when we thought PlayStation Violence was almost at an end, a student at Cal State Fresno shot three other students over an argument about a PlayStation. The model of the PlayStation wasn’t specified, but we’re going to assume that it wasn’t over a PS2 or a PS1. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3-violence-continues-to-everyones-surprise-257846 Long story short, it seems the…

Tech News Jason Chen May 9 '07

Helio Ocean Core Features and Hands-on Impressions

We’ve had the Helio Ocean for a few hours now, so we thought it’d be a good time to go over the core features and answer a few of your questions while we were at it. First off, the core features. The dual sliding works just as well as we saw back at CTIA. The…

Tech News Jason Chen May 9 '07

Brian Lam on Cranky Geeks Today!

Hey folks, our Brian Lam is on Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak today, chatting about hairstyles, gadgets and wearing underwear on their heads. Make sure to tune in at 12:30 PST (that’s in 10 minutes!) to see Brian sweaty from running all the way to downtown San Francisco from his apartment in that getup. Cranky…

Tech News Jason Chen May 9 '07

Helio Handset Number Sharing Step-by-Step

One of the many sweet features that Helio offers is the ability to transfer your phone number to different devices via the account preferences page on the website. This feature not only simplifies setting up a new phone, as you will see in the photos that follow, but it also makes it possible to switch…

Tech News Noah Robischon May 9 '07

Sizemodo: Helio Ocean vs. Everything (including iPhone)

We know you’re itching for more Helio Ocean coverage, so here it is: a live Sizemodo of the Helio Ocean vs. every phone we have. First, we’ll kick it off with a similar type of device: the slide-out QWERTY smartphone. In the middle we have the Helio Ocean, on the left there’s the T-Mobile MDA,…

Tech News Jason Chen May 9 '07

Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding

Okay, he didn’t specifically talk about the same Folding that the PS3 does, but a similar research application. Moore told Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News: Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that’s of…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 9 '07

$200 Electronic Cigarette Helps Kick the Habit

China’s Golden Dragon Group has introduced the first ever electronic cigarette. This “electronic cigarette” is really just a battery-powered nicotine inhaler that looks like a cancer stick. The device even emits vapors to give you that smoker look. The e-cigarette is already available in China, Israel, Turkey and some European countries and by the proven…

Health Travis Hudson May 9 '07

iPod + Vista = BFF (Finally)

Microsoft published a final compatibility update for Vista iPod users that should eliminate any problems still happening. This patch fixes the problem that caused iPod to get corrupted after trying to eject using Windows Explorer or “Safely Remove Hardware.” Patch [Via Vistablog]

Tech News Travis Hudson May 9 '07

AOpen and Niveus Crash the Intel Launch Party

We hit up Intel’s launch party this afternoon to check out some more next-gen Centrino Duo goodness and much to our surprise we came across a pair of fresh-outta-the-oven small form factor PCs that plan on borrowing features from the new mobile platform. https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-intels-new-santa-rosa-platf-258885 First up is AOpen’s new Mini PC Duo (MP965), which uses…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 9 '07

BolsiPlus: Add Pockets To Anything (Verdict: Please Don’t)

Cheap Gadget Roundup: Monkeys, Obscene Gestures and a Useful Toilet

Zune 2 Details: Even Larger Screen, Hard Drive

PC World Editor Harry McCracken Returns Victorious

Quick News: Comcast, Akon and More

Pyromaniac’s Delight Rube Goldberg Machine

Intel’s New Core 2 Duos Get Priced

Toughen Up Your Mac Mini With VictorSystems

Auto-Paparazzi Likes Celebrity Cleavage as Much as You

Sony VAIO FZ: Burns Blu-ray Discs, Looks Like a MacBook

Pantech’s Slider Features a Touchscreen with Tactile Feedback

PS3 Melee Watch: Again With the Violence

Helio Ocean Core Features and Hands-on Impressions

Brian Lam on Cranky Geeks Today!

Helio Handset Number Sharing Step-by-Step

Sizemodo: Helio Ocean vs. Everything (including iPhone)

Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding

$200 Electronic Cigarette Helps Kick the Habit

iPod + Vista = BFF (Finally)

AOpen and Niveus Crash the Intel Launch Party

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