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First Day of Summer: Keep Those Brewskis Cool

Since today is the first day of summer, it’s a good time to start thinking about how to keep your brewskis cool—and these byobags have a good chance of actually working. Don’t these little insulated carrying cases just scream “take me out to the ballgame?” Might be a good deal, since a nice cold frosty…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 21

CucumberLab Sound Machine Vinyl/MP3/CD Player + Wine Rack

We’ve all been patiently waiting for a combination record player, MP3 player, CD player and wine/liquor rack and now CucumberLab, a design firm that specializes in making avant-garde designs for all sorts of quirky things, has delivered one unto us with its Sound Machine. The speaker is clearly inspired by the old gramophone, from which…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 21

Tuning Fork

Stuck in the Middle With Cable By Brian L. Clark If you’ve read any past “Tuning Forks,” you know I feel nothing but contempt for the current cable company monopoly over who provides my service. With two companies’ lines running behind my house, the idea I only have one to choose from annoys me no…

Tech News Johnb Jun 21

Guitar Afire: Light Pick

LEDs are so small that now they can even fit into a guitar pick, and Santa Cruz Light Wells (SCLW) has placed a group of eight of them on the Light Pick, which is powered by a tiny watch battery and also functions as a metronome. It’s available in a variety of colors, and in…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 21

Gizmodo Idol Contest: Winner

Congratulations to Youtube user, wplate. You have won the hearts of our readers with your gadget-y rendition of that Little Mermaid song. We will get your pairs of Super.Fi earbuds on the way—so nobody can ever have to hear you sing Disney tunes again—courtesy of Ultimate Ears. Thanks to everyone who participated and submitted videos.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 21

iBand Prototype Handshake Recognizer

Ah, Corporate America, with its esoteric rituals and power lunches. One of the more recognizable aspects of this subculture is the role of the handshake: who’s hand is on top, how firm was the pump and how sweaty were the palms are but a few of the attributes used to discern the intentions of the…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon Jun 21

T-Mobile’s Sidekick 3 Launch Plans

A T-Mob employee just sent this PDF detailing the launch plans of the Sidekick 3, the hottest broadway musical cellphone of the season. Some choice items: Two stores are going to carry this on June 28th for current customers, Madison Ave in NYC and Wilshire Blvd. in LA. Indirect dealers, i-Dealers, National Retail and VAR…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 21

Gawker Clips: Like TV, Only Onlinier

Now a message from our non-MSM overlords: Isn’t reading hard? Take a break from mental toil and let meaning flow in the most passive way possible – video! Featuring both original and recommended content, Gawker Clips offers you the latest video clips from all our titles in one refreshingly context-free location! That said, Gawker Clips…

Tech News Johnb Jun 21

CEA Fights Back With Forceful Ad

The Consumer Electronics Association fired back at the content industry, publishing a print ad in a Washington newspaper that rips into the RIAA and MPAA for fear mongering and spreading disinformation. The CEA is trying to persuade congresspeople to oppose legislation that restricts satellite radio. The group convincingly makes its case by tapping the history…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 21

Lenovo L570W All-in-One

Lenovo has unveiled the L570W all-in-one widescreen PC. It packs quite a bit of punch for being a machine that is generally targeted for the more casual PC users. It is powered by an AMD Turion 64 processor and has up to 1GB of DDR memory, integrated webcam and TV-watching capabilities on the 17-inch widescreen…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 21

iUbi Blue PMP2500B

Little bit of a pirate? Worried that you will have to convert all of your videos to play them on the go on any other average PMP? No worries here. The iUbi Blue PMP2500B supports every damn format imaginable. Here is the massive list: MPEG-1, 2, 4, DivX 3.x, DivX 4.x, DivX 5.x, Svid, WMV9,…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jun 21

ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer: Be Afraid

For those living in fear of unseen forces all around them, here’s the ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer, an electromagnetic frequency (EMF)-blocking blower that will keep those villainous magnetic fields away from your catastrophisizing hyper-vigilant chickenshit vulnerable brain. That’s right, all of this technology around us just can’t be good. It’s all too easy, this…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 21

Network Cable Tester

Granted, this $40 network cable tester isn’t as flashy as, say, a flaming iBook, but when your cables need a-testin’, look no further. As you might imagine, it tests the integrity of various networking wires, including 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T. It’ll find and identify problems like shorts, open wires and crossed pairs. No one ever said…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jun 21

Coming Soon: Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1

We first heard of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 earlier this year, a result of the year-long collaboration between Panasonic and Olympus, and now this product of their partnership is coming to fruition with Panasonic shipping the 7.5-megapixel camera to the United States in early September. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-olympus-leica-join-forces-captain-planet-s-157027 The Lumix DMC-L1 is Panasonic’s first digital single lens…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 21

Samsung Unveils Ultra-Edition Cellphones

Samsung has unveiled three phones that are part of the “Ultra-Edition” line of cellphones. The three phones include the Ultra Edition 6.9—or X820&mdashwhich is a candybar style phone being labeled as the world’s slimmest phone; the Ultra Edition 12.9—or D900— which is a slider phone targeted at business professionals and the Ultra Edition 9.9—or D830—which…

Gadgets Travis Hudson Jun 21

Audio-Technica ATH-EQ330 Headphones

Audio-Technica is releasing its ATH-EQ330 clip-on headphones in Japan this November. While they might not look as attractive as some of the company’s previous headphones, these do have a number of features that might interest those who wish to replace their dreadful Apple earbuds, but not for an arm and a leg. https://gizmodo.com/funky-audio-technica-headphones-171344 What does…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jun 21

Sony to Ship VAIO TX3 Next Month

Sony is set to ship its VAIO TX3 laptop, a one-inch-thin and light jewel with an 11.1-inch display at 1366×768. The smart-looking 2.75-pound subnotebook is running a power-sipping 1.2GHz U1400 Intel Core Solo processor, giving it seven hours’ worth of battery life on a single charge. Its light weight is due to its carbon fiber…

Tech News Charlie White Jun 21

Microsoft Enslaves Transmeta Engineers, Building Portable XBox

According to Dean Takahashi, author of The XBox 360 Uncloaked, half of the 360 hardware team is now working on a portable XBox along and that Transmeta has dedicated 30 engineers to do Redmond’s bidding. No “real” information yet, but with all the fake mock-ups and Origami hype, we’re not holding our breath. One interesting…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 21

Wii Not Wii (??)

Our stump-brained cousins over at Kotaku finally pulled one over on us. They had a very small piece about Nintendo thinking about maybe possibly not naming their new console after pee-pee. According to an apocryphal marketing guy named Mike, they’ve gotten over “200,000 e-mails with complaints about the Wii” and that they may or may…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 21

CD-ROMs Last Two Years

Time to back up the porn collection, folks. According to IBM engineer Kurt Gerecke says that data burned to homemade CD-ROMs lasts two years on average, and that’s only if you keep it in a climate-controlled vault under Mount Ranier. Maybe IBM is just trying to sell backup services or CD-ROM polishing cloths—God knows they’re…

Tech News John Biggs Jun 21

First Day of Summer: Keep Those Brewskis Cool

CucumberLab Sound Machine Vinyl/MP3/CD Player + Wine Rack

Tuning Fork

Guitar Afire: Light Pick

Gizmodo Idol Contest: Winner

iBand Prototype Handshake Recognizer

T-Mobile’s Sidekick 3 Launch Plans

Gawker Clips: Like TV, Only Onlinier

CEA Fights Back With Forceful Ad

Lenovo L570W All-in-One

iUbi Blue PMP2500B

ZeroPA Low EMF Hair Dryer: Be Afraid

Network Cable Tester

Coming Soon: Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1

Samsung Unveils Ultra-Edition Cellphones

Audio-Technica ATH-EQ330 Headphones

Sony to Ship VAIO TX3 Next Month

Microsoft Enslaves Transmeta Engineers, Building Portable XBox

Wii Not Wii (??)

CD-ROMs Last Two Years

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