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CES 2007: Just Around the Corner

The Gizmodian force is about to invade Las Vegas for CES 2007, where will separate the real from the unreal, the solid from the vapor and the truth from the bullshit. We’ll give it to you straight, and never bore you. The CES onslaught begins on Saturday, January 6, and you’ll see more posts on…

Tech News Charlie White

Hard Drive Race Off: SSD vs HDD

Back in October we showed you the first laptop to pack a solid state hard drive, but what we couldn’t see was just how fast these new flash-based lappies ran. Thanks to Fujitsu we can now show you the speed difference between a flash-based notebook and a typical HDD-based system. Maybe I’m just pessimistic, but…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: We ring in the New Year with a glass of bubbly and a quick lesson on how to wire up LEDs. Wal-Mart has visions of solar power dancing in their heads, with a new project that could give the retail giant over 100 megawatts of solar power. Lastly, the best of…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Wiimote Controls USB Missile Launcher

In today’s episode of "More Cool Wiimote Hacks" we revisit our hero, the Wiimote, ready to megadestroy a cat with the help of a handy USB Missile Launcher. This hack isn’t nearly as impressive as some of the others out there because it utilizes the directional pad, and not the motion control. A+ for effort…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sittin’ in UR Fridge, Protectin’ UR Foodz

…is what the Fridge Alarm does. No, it won’t tell you if one of your friends takes the last brew, but it will let you know if you accidentally leave the door ajar. The Fridge Alarm has a light sensor and an alarm that will sound if the sensor detects light for 30 seconds or…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Ping Pong Ball Prowess: Miraculous Shot After Shot

We’re just wondering how long it took this guy to perfectly nail so many shots of those ping-pong balls into a variety of glasses. Just look at some of those ricochet shots. The entire video is just downright remarkable. Another amazing video involving quarters and shot glasses, after the jump: These videos must’ve taken an…

Gadgets Charlie White

Hands On: Silent Mouse is World’s Stealthiest (And Why it Sucks)

Who wouldn’t like the idea of a perfectly quiet mouse? You can mouse around with reckless abandon without bothering anyone else, rustling up all your daily porn without a peep coming out of that little rodent—no clicky noise, no scroll wheel ratcheting, no nothing. That’s what enticed me to buy the Thanko Silent Mouse, which…

Tech News Charlie White

Ultimate Flu Vaccine to Give You One Less Excuse for Missing Work

Remember the bird flu epidemic that was supposed to be killing us all off around now? The one the local news had you terrified of before they made you terrified of spinach and Taco Bell? Well, not only was that all hype, but scientists have developed the “holy grail” of flu vaccines, permanently protecting against…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Snowboard USB Flash Drive is 2Cool4School

Yeah! Snowboarding is rad, man! ACP EP has paired with Burton for the Snow Drive, a USB flash drive in the shape and design of snowboards. It even includes an LED activity light, you know, just like your real snowboard. This drive is available in capacities up to 2GB with prices starting at $17. Speaking…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Avis Bringing WiFi to Their Rental Cars

The worst part about renting a car, besides the cigarette stink and high cost, is the fact that you can’t surf the web while driving around in it. I guess. I mean, I never have an urge to surf the web while driving, but I guess I just don’t have a big enough desire to…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Ebay of the Day: A Working iPhone

Yep, you heard it right, no tricks here. This “iPhone” showed up over on the Ebizzle and already has bids up to $500, so it must be real, right? Not really, it looks like a horribly done, knock-off of an iPod nano. The interface looks nothing like Apples, the charger actually looks like the adapter…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Adwatch: Zune Weirdness

Microsoft seems to have pulled a play out of Sony’s book with some really strange advertisements for the Zune. Check out the cooler of the commercials above, and the weirder after the jump. Edit: After further investigation, these are actual fan-made ads for the Zune. That must be why they have nothing to actually do…

Tech News Travis Hudson

CES Sneak Peak: Asus XG Station Pumps Up Your Notebook’s Media

Though it looks more like a high tech speedometer, Asus’ XG Station is an A/V workstation designed to give your notebook some extra media muscle. The unit hooks up to your laptop and packs discrete graphics chips as well as support for Dolby output. It’s expected to make its debut next week at CES along…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Blue-Jacking—No, Not That Kind of Jacking

Smurf masturbation jokes aside—this is a real thing, and somebody could hit you for a lot of money doing so. According to these bloody Brits, a recent Bluetooth exploitation is hitting the pocketbooks of folks all over. Blue-jacking involved taking control of—including making expensive phone calls—another’s cellphone via a Bluetooth exploitation. Watch this Brit call…

Privacy & Security Travis Hudson

Apple Teaser Sets High Hopes for Macworld

You gotta hand it to them. Aside from keeping the best secrets in the industry, Apple sure knows how to build up hype. Their latest teaser comes straight from the company’s homepage where a shiny Apple logo is seen rising from the horizon over the bold proclamation stating that the “first 30 years were just…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

CES 2007: Gizmodo Jumps All Over It

We’ve been preparing our plan of attack on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for almost a year now, and will unleash a huge squadron of eagle-eyed and skeptical reporters onto the show floor and into those all-important back rooms to bring you first-hand looks at more gadgets, devices and products than you can shake a…

Gadgets Charlie White

Toshiba to Roll Out Cheaper HD DVD Players Next Week?

Toshiba is taking the gloves off next week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where the company might introduce a third line of HD DVD players that will be even cheaper than its current versions. Toshiba chief Yoshihide Fujii offers this tantalizing hint: “At first I thought the price threshold is $499.…

Tech News Charlie White

Xbox 360 HD Movie/TV Downloads Doing Well, More on the Way

The ability to download HD movies on the Xbox 360 was deemed by industry insiders to be the most successful story in digital downloads of 2006. Movie downloads for sale or rent from the Xbox Live Internet service are doing surprisingly well, and Microsoft is in talks to procure more content from all the major…

Tech News Charlie White

Play All Your iTunes on a Wii, DRM Be Damned

Now there’s a way to listen to your iTunes on a Nintendo Wii, by using a clever workaround involving the Opera browser. Unless Apple breaks this functionality on its next update of iTunes, you can install a little application called dot.Tunes on your Mac or PC, and then you can access all those tunes in…

Tech News Charlie White

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CES 2007: Just Around the Corner

Hard Drive Race Off: SSD vs HDD

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Wiimote Controls USB Missile Launcher

Sittin’ in UR Fridge, Protectin’ UR Foodz

Ping Pong Ball Prowess: Miraculous Shot After Shot

Hands On: Silent Mouse is World’s Stealthiest (And Why it Sucks)

Ultimate Flu Vaccine to Give You One Less Excuse for Missing Work

Snowboard USB Flash Drive is 2Cool4School

Avis Bringing WiFi to Their Rental Cars

Ebay of the Day: A Working iPhone

Adwatch: Zune Weirdness

CES Sneak Peak: Asus XG Station Pumps Up Your Notebook’s Media

Blue-Jacking—No, Not That Kind of Jacking

Apple Teaser Sets High Hopes for Macworld

CES 2007: Gizmodo Jumps All Over It

Toshiba to Roll Out Cheaper HD DVD Players Next Week?

Xbox 360 HD Movie/TV Downloads Doing Well, More on the Way

Play All Your iTunes on a Wii, DRM Be Damned

This Is A Photo Gallery

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