Latest

Pioneer Elite Pro-FHD1 Plasma: 50 Inches, 1080p

We saw the Pioneer Elite Pro-FHD1 plasma display at CES way back in January, and now it’s time for the 50-inch 1080p screen to ship, at long last. Last time we saw the thing, it had a crispy-critter-looking picture, with nice dark blacks and plenty of contrast, as well as some fine-looking 1080p resolution. There’s…

Tech News Charlie White Jul 17

Laser-Carved Wooden Cityscape Coathangers

Maybe the inside of your closet is not fancy enough lately, or you fancy yourself a fashion mogul. Either way, get yourself these cityscape coathangers and decorate an area which will be rarely seen by anyone but you with wood carvings of the five major fashion and design capitals of the world. These laser-cut wooden…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 17

Eureka Contest Quick Update

This is just a quick update that our Eureka contest is still going on with a 60GB video iPod up for grabs. This contest is being sponsored by SCI FI channel and their upcoming show, Eureka, that premiers Tuesday, July 18. Interested in winning the iPod? Better get moving, the contest deadline is Tuesday at…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 16

USB One Man Band Keyboard/Guitar/Vocal Box

You sing, you play guitar and bass, you record and play live, you play keys, and now you want a single USB device to handle everything in a single box. First, you’re more talented than us. Second, you might want to check out Line 6’s upcoming TonePort KB37. Announced at the summer music equipment trade…

Gadgets Peter Kirn Jul 16

The Week In Comments

Magnetic Floating Bed: Oh. Your. God. what’s all this crap about the poles reversing and ending up on the ceiling? The bed floats by being repelled from the floor. The poles reversing would mean it would be attracted to the floor. Unless the magical pole-reversal fairies come in the night and move all the magnets…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 16

The iPod Phone: MDA + pPod

One of us—ok it was me—picked up a T-Mobile MDA (HTC Wizard) yesterday and have been messing with it nonstop. It’s very timely that our buddy Phillip Torrone from MAKE pointed us to the video he made using the old pPod software that Apple had canned a while back to turn the MDA into a…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 15

Motorola Canary Gets FCC Thumbs Up

Listen up you thin form-factor Motorola lovers, the next phone to complement your Q, RAZR, and SLVR has just gotten one step closer to hitting the shelves by getting FCC approval. The phone, named the RAZR K1, has been approved as a quad-band GSM and EDGE phone. Check out all of our hip-hoppin’, be-boppin’ Canary…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 15

Micro-T M689 Retro Brick Cellphone

Eat your heart out Zach Morris. The retro brick phone is making a triumphant return thanks to Hong Kong manufacturer, Micro-T. It’s big, it’s ugly, it’s gaudy and it will likely make the ladies weak at the knees. This retro brick phone has gotten a few non-retro upgrades that include a LCD display, polyphonic ringtones,…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 15

Gizmodo Today

News Other Bits and Bytes LG CU500 HSDPA Phone Available on Cingular The Room Defender Helio’s First Ad Kiss KS200 MP3 Player Horseman LD Bellows-Type Camera Mount For With Nikon and Canon DSLR iPodweek – The Best of iLounge Microsoft Employee’s Thoughts About Xbox 360 HDMI USB Wireless PC Lock 4WD Spybot

Tech News Charlie White Jul 15

Other Bits and Bytes

•Sony, Samsung to Build $2 Billion LCD Plant [The Inquirer] •Lawsuit: School Cellphone Ban Violates Parents’ Rights [New York Times] •World Cup Streaming Flops [The Register] •Gaming Addiction Treatment Center Opens in Amsterdam [ars technica] •EA Unveils Six Games for the Wii [San Francisco Chronicle] •It Can’t Be That Hard To Buy A Dreamcast [Kotaku]…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 14

LG CU500 HSDPA Phone Available on Cingular

Cingular releases its first HSDPA phone with the LG CU500 flip. The CU500 has a swiveling 1.3 megapixel camera, music keys, microSD, stereo Bluetooth and weighs 105 grams. https://gizmodo.com/lg-cu500-slim-clamshell-forthcoming-167622 The phone has a pretty average talk time of 3.5 hours, but it’s the first phone to use the new HSDPA network, so quit complaining. But,…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

The Room Defender

This toy is great both for your kid and for the office. The room defender works by pointing it in a direction where you want it to auto-sense movement. The victim crosses its field of vision, the Defender fires 16 foam discs at the unsuspecting intruder. The defender has four modes, target, ambush, warning, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

Helio’s First Ad

Pretty funny ad for Helio, the phone phone phone damn it, the phone company with MySpace Mobile. Interesting setup that’s actually happened to us once! You could not believe the reactions our parents gave when we came home with an Asian man that one time. Helio’s First Commercial [iSee Video – Thanks Vincent!]

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

Kiss KS200 MP3 Player

This Kiss KS200 looks quite similar to the Datasafe oomi we posted about the other day. So similar, in fact, we wonder if one isn’t an OEM of the other. https://gizmodo.com/pebble-mp3-player-upgraded-renamed-datasafe-oomi-186579 The KS200 comes in 512MB and 1GB versions, which have a playback time of 15 hours and takes about 2 hours to charge. The…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

Horseman LD Bellows-Type Camera Mount For With Nikon and Canon DSLR

If you needed a camera with a wide field of view, coupled with large megapixel count, your only choice was super expensive high megapixel cameras. Not anymore, with the Horseman LD, which fits standard Nikon and Canon DSLR bodies into its frame to allow you to take landscape shots and stitch them together later. The…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

iPodweek – The Best of iLounge

This week at iLounge: It turned into sports and fitness week on iLounge with the major launch of the Nike+iPod Sport Kit and Nike+ shoes and apparel, as well as the release of Speck’s new Active Sport Armband and iSkin’s DuoBand Dual Layer Armband and Protector. Our First Look at the Nike+iPod kit has extensive…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 14

Microsoft Employee’s Thoughts About Xbox 360 HDMI

A Microsoft employee ponders on what Microsoft would do if they were actually to implement an HDMI port on the Xbox 360 (there isn’t one now). We talked about the possible leaked pic of a development board having HDMI a few days ago, and the employee thinks if this is true, Microsoft would offer an…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 14

USB Wireless PC Lock

Unlike the other USB PC Lock, this PC lock locks your workstation from prying fingers, instead of just the USB drive. https://gizmodo.com/rf-locking-usb-flash-drive-167114 When the USB receiver is plugged into your machine, as long as the transmitter is in range, your PC acts normally. As soon as you walk out of range—with the transmitter in your…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 14

4WD Spybot

MacroSwiss’s Spybot 4WD weighs only 6kg (13 lbs) and can go anywhere thanks to its weird “Flapper Wheels”. The spokes-like wheels allow it to climb 45 degree slopes, go down stairs, and be tossed (by explosives?) up to 30 feet. The Spybot can even go through water with its paddle-like wheels, and can handle more…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jul 14

<3 Sponsors

A big, giant e-hug goes out to Nokia, Slingbox, BMW, Best Buy, Palm, Sprint, SCI FI Channel, HP, Microsoft Windows Server, Sony, Dice, Hersheys and Texas Instruments. 18/f/Cali here looking for sponsors for a good time. Interested? Check out my hot web page here. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 We want to know about you! Fill it out a…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jul 14

Pioneer Elite Pro-FHD1 Plasma: 50 Inches, 1080p

Laser-Carved Wooden Cityscape Coathangers

Eureka Contest Quick Update

USB One Man Band Keyboard/Guitar/Vocal Box

The Week In Comments

The iPod Phone: MDA + pPod

Motorola Canary Gets FCC Thumbs Up

Micro-T M689 Retro Brick Cellphone

Gizmodo Today

Other Bits and Bytes

LG CU500 HSDPA Phone Available on Cingular

The Room Defender

Helio’s First Ad

Kiss KS200 MP3 Player

Horseman LD Bellows-Type Camera Mount For With Nikon and Canon DSLR

iPodweek – The Best of iLounge

Microsoft Employee’s Thoughts About Xbox 360 HDMI

USB Wireless PC Lock

4WD Spybot

<3 Sponsors

Latest news

Someone Finally Took a Good iPhone Photo of the Moon. Good Luck Copying Their Trick

In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating ‘Attacks’ Against It

Artemis 2 Day 6: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

Anonymous Sources Detail Sam Altman’s Alleged Untrustworthiness in New Report

Steven Spielberg Still Wants to Make a Horror Film ‘Someday’

Waymo Has Stopped Testing Its Robotaxis in New York City and No One Knows What Happens Next

Samsung Pushes Monitor Deals Further, the 34″ ViewFinity Hits a Record Low at Nearly 40% Off

The Best Anti-Meta Smart Glasses Are About to Have Tough Competition

Latest Reviews

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Let us help find what you are looking for...