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New ATI X2900 XTX Shames Nvidia 8800 to Second Place

I like it when rumors jibe with each other, and the latest ATI rumblings seem to go hand in hand with the initial X2900 XTX leak we posted on last month. The difference is this time around the card has been benchmarked. So just as a recap, this is the card that could power those…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 21

Titanic DNA Watch Made From Actual Titanic Parts

Romain Jerome’s Titanic DNA Watch doesn’t just name itself after the movie—which we still refuse to see—it’s made out of actual steel from the ship. Along with that, the watch face is painted black out of coal recovered from the wreck, and parts of it are made from platinum and other metals they could salvage.…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

XR-3 Hybrid: 225 mpg Electric/Diesel Available in May?

There’s a hybrid hoedown happening, with innovative ideas for efficient vehicles zipping around left and right, but this XR-3 Hybrid is different: It might actually find its way to the reality-based world as soon as two months from now. This diesel/electric hybrid is an odd-looking three-wheeler with a 40-mile range when it’s running on just…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 21

AppleTV First Unboxing

Packaging is one of the only things about the Apple TV that we haven’t seen already. I was lucky enough to get one early. Biggest surprise? No cables in the box.

Tech News Noah Robischon Mar 21

Cancel T-Mobile Service w/o the Fees

Keeping in line with our previous tips about cancelling Verizon, Sprint, and Cingular, here’s the way to get out of T-Mobile without ponying up $200 per line. Yes, it’s the same old SMS price-increase scheme, which worked with various success on other providers. https://gizmodo.com/weasel-out-of-your-verizon-contract-for-free-241184 This time, Boy Genius confirms that he cancelled two of his…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 21

British Woman is Allergic to “Modern Technology”

Man, and you thought your peanut allergy sucked. A woman in Britain is allergic to cell phones— and computers, microwaves, and some cars. She claims to be allergic to “modern technology,” but it seems that it could be more accurately be described as a reaction to the electromagnetic field put out by many devices. When…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 21

Panasonic Adds 16 Headsets to Audio Line

Yep, Panasonic is pretty much updating their ENTIRE line of headsets with the 16 new headphones that dropped today. All types and sizes have been added to their line, including noise-canceling headphones, high-quality aluminum earphones, and low-end earphones. • Noise Canceling Headphones: RP-HC500, RP-HC150, RP-HTX9 and RP-HC30 • High-End Earphones: RP-HJE500, RP-HJE300 and RP-HJE200 •…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 21

Palm Treo 750 Runs Windows Mobile 6 Pretty Well

Cingular users who picked up a Palm Treo 750 will be glad to know that the phone runs Windows Mobile 6 with very little trouble. Ciccone over at Mobility Today got his hands on an engineering sample from HTC and made this video of the phone using WM6 instead of WM5. So what’s notable? Well,…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 21

Boring but Important Stuff

Woof! Woof! Quote me! What would make Bill Gates think that he could beat real soccer player, Rafael Marquez, at his own sport even if it was on the Xbox? Well he tried, and failed, 2-1. Research firm, Interpret, is claiming that the reach of video games is bigger then just their sales figures. Well…

Tech News Ben Longo Mar 21

Sagem My Dual Radio 700 Crams Internet, Terrestrial Radio in Small Box

The Sagem My Dual Radio 700 may look small and puny on the outside, but inside it packs quite a punch. It can do Internet radio via Wi-Fi or Ethernet, FM radio and MP3 playback via an integrated USB port. It includes a nice, minimalist design, big LCD screen, remote and funky speaker for a…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 21

Cigarette Phone is Bad For Your Health in Multiple Ways

As if phones weren’t bad enough for your body already, now they’re going after both your danglers and your lungs. Well, at least this phone is. https://gizmodo.com/even-more-scientists-claim-cell-phones-damage-your-sper-245554 Coming straight at ya from nicotine-lovin’ China, this phone holds half a pack of cigarettes to help keep your pockets uncluttered. It also has stuff like a camera,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 21

Motorola To Win the Bid for Palm?

We’ve been keeping a steady eye on all of the Palm buyout rumors and the latest whispers from CNBC have Motorola at the head of the race. If united, the two might have a better chance of taking on Apple’s almighty iPhone. Think about it. Moto makes some nice phones, but their OS has always…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

Today in Giz

So what’s going on today? A whole lot of solar power, that’s what. Both a Nintendo Wii & an air conditioner get the solar treatment. So when those rolling blackouts come back we’ll be able to stay cool and play some Wii Sports. https://gizmodo.com/solar-wii-makes-sunlight-less-terrifying-245909 Also there’s a 1-year review with the iRobot Scooba. How did…

Tech News Ben Longo Mar 21

Shocking Alarm Clock

We’ve featured a bunch of alarm clocks over the years, but this one seems to be one that’ll either wake you up fast or you’ll smash it against the wall on the second day. On the surface it looks like a regular old school alarm clock, but when you reach over to shut it off…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

TabletKiosk Builds UMPC with Linux Support

Linux fans listen up. Next month TabletKiosk is debuting the TufTab, one of the first UMPCs that’ll let you ditch Windows for Linux. The 2-lb UMPC will be semi-rugged (thanks to a rubberized case) and for all you security freaks, it’ll come with a built-in fingerprint reader. There’s no WWAN, but you do get Wi-Fi,…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 21

Frankenfight: Affordable HDMI Receivers

Audio is hard. There are lots of wires and plugs and swearing. That’s why HDMI receivers, with their promises of audio and video over one cord, make us so excited. For today’s Frankenfight, two 7.1 HDMI receivers compete for that special place in our heart home theater. Onkyo’s TX-SR674 is a worthy contender, but how…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 21

Dicota Beat Mini Gamepad for Road Warriors

If you’re looking to take your PC gaming on the road but haven’t found a conveniently sized game controller, the Dicota Beat Mini Gamepad might do the trick. It’s designed in a compact form factor that folds up into a clamshell and weighs just 1.76 ounces. It’s built with serious fraggers in mind, too, with…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 21

World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Despite having a two-week battery life, it seems our razors always seem to run out of juice just when we need to run somewhere. With Sanyo’s “world’s fastest recharging shaver,” which gives you a week of shaving in only nine minutes (or one minute if you’re just going for that single shave), you’ll also be…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 21

Vending Machine Challenge: The Sport of Kings

We aren’t exactly athletes here at Gizmodo, but the The Master-Disaster Vending Machine Challenge II that happened here in NYC last night is our type of sporting event. The match involved two teams of three people each competing to see who could consume every item in a vending machine the fastest without puking. It was…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley Mar 21

LG KS20: Pradaless, Prada Update?

This is the KS20, a rumored update to the LG KE850, or Prada phone, as known by many. It will have the Prada brand name dropped. It is pretty similar to the KE850, but with a little more beef. It is said to run off Windows Mobile 6 Pro and includes 128MB of memory, a…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 21

New ATI X2900 XTX Shames Nvidia 8800 to Second Place

Titanic DNA Watch Made From Actual Titanic Parts

XR-3 Hybrid: 225 mpg Electric/Diesel Available in May?

AppleTV First Unboxing

Cancel T-Mobile Service w/o the Fees

British Woman is Allergic to “Modern Technology”

Panasonic Adds 16 Headsets to Audio Line

Palm Treo 750 Runs Windows Mobile 6 Pretty Well

Boring but Important Stuff

Sagem My Dual Radio 700 Crams Internet, Terrestrial Radio in Small Box

Cigarette Phone is Bad For Your Health in Multiple Ways

Motorola To Win the Bid for Palm?

Today in Giz

Shocking Alarm Clock

TabletKiosk Builds UMPC with Linux Support

Frankenfight: Affordable HDMI Receivers

Dicota Beat Mini Gamepad for Road Warriors

World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Vending Machine Challenge: The Sport of Kings

LG KS20: Pradaless, Prada Update?

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