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Michigan Teenager Creates Nuclear Fusion from His Basement

Using parts he found on eBay and at his local hardware store, high school senior Thiago Olson managed to achieve nuclear fusion from his home in Michigan. For all you non-science nerds (myself included), nuclear fusion occurs when two hydrogen nuclei crash together and form a helium nucleus. It requires very high temperatures (over 100…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 26

Turn Your Bathtub Into a Big, Dirty Speaker

Nothing says “relaxation” like a hot bath. Well, until a bit of time has passed and then your hot bath turns into a lukewarm soak in filthwater. But I digress. One thing that makes bathtime more relaxing is music, but due to the fact that listening to your iPod in the tub will probably kill…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 26

Samsung Deigns Americans Worthy of Their Slimmest Phones

Last month in Barcelona Samsung announced a line of super-slim phones under the Ultra II moniker, with all but one of them headed to overseas markets with no plans to release them stateside. Good news! Samsung has decided that brutish, lazy American consumers are now worthy of spending their hard-earned money on Samsung’s sexiest line…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 26

Finally: Helio’s Ocean Smartphone is Here

Those maniacal bastards at Helio finally launched that smartphone we told you about a few weeks back. The Ocean’s most remarkable feature is its double-slider: it’s like a triple decker of LCD, QWERTY, and Dialpad. That also makes it kind of not-skinny at 0.86 inches, around the thickness of last year’s Hiptop 3. https://gizmodo.com/helios-next-device-the-oz-smartphone-241711 But…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 26

New, Discounted Sharper Image iPod-Ready Speaker Docks

Sharper Image, the company made famous for selling everyone else’s iPod-ready crap, is joining the fray themselves. They have released a plethora of iPod-ready speaker systems ready to suck up your dollars, and have discounted some of their other models. There are so many I am even going to do a bulleted list—a list I…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 26

Sony Ericsson Brings its First HSDPA Phone to the States

Sony Ericsson’s mobiles usually don’t make it to this side of the Atlantic, but that trend changed today with the Z750, SE’s first HSDPA phone for the States. Essentially what that means is the phone will stream video and let you surf the Web at superfast speeds (for a mobile at least). Like the Z310,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 26

Boring but Important Stuff

“You’re right, my camera does have 8 Megapixels!”—ripfire4 Ok, today we’re trying to try something new at BbIS, connect all the stories together. First off we have motion computing launching their LE1700 slate tablet. The highend will top out at $2200 and sports a 12.1-inch touch screen and a 1.5GHz Core2Duo processor. Now from processors…

Tech News Ben Longo Mar 26

Diebold Sues Massachusetts Because the State Doesn’t Like Them

Diebold, everyone’s favorite manufacturer of easily hacked voting machines, wasn’t happy when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided to go with one of their competitors when purchasing voting machines for the disabled. In fact, their feelings were so badly hurt by the snub that they’ve decided to sue the state. https://gizmodo.com/diebold-voting-machines-secure-as-never-231321 Yes, Diebold is suing because…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 26

Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone has a Pedometer

galleryPost('w580', 8, 'Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone'); Sony Ericsson has added the W580 to their repertoire of combination MP3 player cellphones. And in another giant twist of the year, Sony has also announced that they will be launching the phone Stateside first! A phone coming exclusively to the U.S.? Suck on them apples, Europe! The…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 26

Walt Disney Explaining the Carousel of Progress to General Electric (1964)

Disney produced attractions for many companies during the 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair. One of these attractions was the Carousel of Progress for the General Electric Pavilion showing, "how life has changed through electrical energy." Below is a clip from a short promotional film Disney produced. The film was not intended for the public but…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 26

Apples and Oranges Hands-On: Apple TV vs. TiVo Series3 HD

Click to viewMaybe you’ve had a snootful of Apple TV, but here’s a comparison with a twist: We’re going to compare Apples and oranges, pitting Apple TV against the TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder. From the outset, realize that the Apple TV is not a personal video recorder, and can hardly compete against the…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 26

Sprint’s Samsung Upstage is Two-Face Without the Horrible Disfigurement

Just as we told you last night, the Samsung Ultra Music phone has been rebranded the “Upstage” and is taking its dual-sided music/calling to Sprint. The phone itself (see our grope and gallery of it from CES) has two faces, one with music controls and a larger screen and the back (front?) with a dialpad…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 26

TwoView Enclosure Makes Traveling with Dual Displays a Cinch

Having a dual-monitor setup at home is great, but for traveling you can’t top TwoView’s Dual Flip-up Flat Panel LCD unit, which houses two LCD screens and a keyboard inside a suitcase-sized aluminum shell. Once flipped open, out come two 15-, 17-, or 19-inch displays along with a built-in keyboard. The screens support resolutions of…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 26

Today at Giz

Those crazy kids, Lam and Chen, flew on down to Sin City: Orlando, Florida, to cover CTIA ’07. But they don’t mind, they’re always looking for reasons to go away on long trips together. So don’t forget to check out our non-stop coverage all week. Remember that triple slider from Helio we told you about?…

Tech News Ben Longo Mar 26

Gadget-Charging Lamp Doesn’t Actually Do Any Charging

While a lamp that charges your gadgets might sound like it has some high-tech guts to it, in actuality this is basically a lamp with a hole for you to run chargers into. Sure, it looks clean and classy holding that ugly pink RAZR, but it’s not a dock or anything. It merely has the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 26

Build Your Own Car and Save

Mitsuoka Motors of Japan hopes you don’t mind putting in a little bit of elbow grease when you buy one of their cars, as you’re gonna have to go ahead and build it yourself. Their mini-cars are about eight feet long and have a top speed of 31 mph, making them more like go-karts than…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 26

Details Surface About the $1 Million Laptop

We’re finding out more about that mysterious $1 million laptop we told you about last week. It turns out you actually get fairly up-to-date tech for your million dollars, including a 17-inch LED backlit screen, a 128-gig hard disk and a slot-loading Blu-ray drive. Still, that’s not quite a million dollars’ worth of tech. Things…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 26

XM’s Touchscreen Patent Puts the Buttons on Your Fingers

XM Satellite Radio is taking a different approach to the touch-screen/gadget craze. They have a patent on a gadget whose functions are mapped out to your fingers instead of its screen. Wanna switch stations, use your middle finger. Wanna access the menu, use your index finger. The technology would rely on your fingerprints to work…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 26

Live from CTIA 2007: Giz at the Magic Kingdom of Cellphones

Jason and I just touched down in Orlando, Florida, ready to cover the Disneyland of cellphone tradeshows, CTIA. It’s warm, sunny, but also muggy and buggy. I think I ate a ladybug on cab ride over to the convention center. Protein. We don’t know what news’ll hit tomorrow, when the show starts, but If the…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 26

All Nike Shoes to Become Nike+ Compatible

AP Nike President and Chief Executive Mark Parker recently said that all Nike running shoes will become compatible with the Nike+iPod sensor by the end of the year. There were no other details offered, but I would suspect that over the year Nike will slowly phase out the old kicks in favor of new ones…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 26

Michigan Teenager Creates Nuclear Fusion from His Basement

Turn Your Bathtub Into a Big, Dirty Speaker

Samsung Deigns Americans Worthy of Their Slimmest Phones

Finally: Helio’s Ocean Smartphone is Here

New, Discounted Sharper Image iPod-Ready Speaker Docks

Sony Ericsson Brings its First HSDPA Phone to the States

Boring but Important Stuff

Diebold Sues Massachusetts Because the State Doesn’t Like Them

Sony Ericsson W580 Walkman Phone has a Pedometer

Walt Disney Explaining the Carousel of Progress to General Electric (1964)

Apples and Oranges Hands-On: Apple TV vs. TiVo Series3 HD

Sprint’s Samsung Upstage is Two-Face Without the Horrible Disfigurement

TwoView Enclosure Makes Traveling with Dual Displays a Cinch

Today at Giz

Gadget-Charging Lamp Doesn’t Actually Do Any Charging

Build Your Own Car and Save

Details Surface About the $1 Million Laptop

XM’s Touchscreen Patent Puts the Buttons on Your Fingers

Live from CTIA 2007: Giz at the Magic Kingdom of Cellphones

All Nike Shoes to Become Nike+ Compatible

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