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Stock Up On Eneloops And Lightning Cables And Power [Deals]

Eneloops are the best rechargeable batteries, and the Power Pack is a great way to jump into the ecosystem. $34 gets you 8AAs and 2AAAs, along with a great battery charger and ridiculously useful C and D spacers, which allow you to sub in AA in place of C or D batteries. [Amazon] Eneloop Power…

The Best TV, Your Nominations

Welcome to the first entry in a series we’re tentatively calling Gizmodo Select. Our first category is the big one: Televisions, and we can’t wait to dig through your nominations. If you’ve participated in a Lifehacker Hive Five or Kotaku Co-Op, you already know what to do. If not, it’s pretty simple: Post #1: You…

Power-Ups and Crash Damage Make These RC Cars a Real-Life Mario Kart

Griffin isn’t the first out the door with an RC toy that uses your iPhone as a remote control. But it is the first company to come up with some compelling ways to use the iPhone’s touchscreen for more than just steering. Its new Moto TC Rally car is packed with sensors that detect crashes…

Noninvasive Macbook Air Storage Expansion, Game of Thrones [Deals]

If the SSD in your MacBook Air or MacBook Pro is squeezed for space, this clever device sits nearly flush in your SD card slot and adds 128GB of extra storage. Today’s $98 price is over $20 less than the previous low. PNY StorEDGE 128/64GB Flash Memory Expansion Module | $98/$52 Pick up the Kindle…

Report: Apple Supplier Flextronics Used Indentured Employees

Bloomberg Businessweek has an in-depth report today alleging that electronics supplier Flextronics used recruiters who charged workers exorbitant fees to place them in Malaysian plants, confiscating their passports and deserting them in employee housing without food when production idled. The full story is a must-read, but this is the basic timeline: Apple contracted Flextronics International…

Shooting Challenge: Use Your Smartphone

A new wave of smartphones is here, with a new wave of powerful optics behind them. (41 megapixels, anyone?) And to both celebrate and document the new wave of phone photography, we want to photos that have been shot and edited on nothing but your phone. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-1020-review-at-last-a-terrific-camera-in-a-great-886123042 The Challenge Take and edit a photo on…

Brookstone, Starbucks, Xbox 360 And Wii U Bundles, Ghosts [Deals]

Products like the FitBit are rarely discounted, so you have to get creative if you really want a deal. A LivingSocial Brookstone voucher might not seem that exciting at first blush, but you can parlay it into an effective $25 off the most desirable products with the stickiest prices. Dig, and let us know what…

The World’s Most Obscene iPhone Dock Is Bigger Than a Pony

With 28 speakers blasting around 125 watts, the original Wall of Sound made for an obnoxious home stereo system—let alone an iPod dock. But its creators have returned with a bigger and better solution: the Wall of Sound 2.0 that adds an extra 16 speakers, bringing the total to 44 (in addition to a pair…

Rdio’s new iOS app recommends music based on your listening habits. Hardly innovative, but useful.

Make Your iPhone More Useful with This Sleek Dock

If you’re like most people, you stopped using docks back when Apple stopped including them with iPods. That’s exactly why we were so pleasantly surprised when we saw the Bluelounge Saidoka lightning charger for iPhone. It actually looks useful! The dock works like any other dock—plug in your phone and it charges—but it gives the…

Apple Wishes It Could Tell You More About US Government Info Requests

Like everybody and their sister in Silicon Valley, Apple is now publishing transparency reports. The Cupertino company’s first ever disclosure on the number of government information requests just hit the web, and like everybody else, the number of requests from the U.S. government is super high. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-half-of-government-requests-for-user-data-com-1207647585 We’re talking super high here. While the United…

iPad Air Review: Bigger Gets So Much Better

It’s hard to imagine that it’s been only three years since the original iPad came out, since tablets were a part of our daily world. Sure there were tablet computers before, but there weren’t tablets the way we know and use them today. And while the iPad changed personal computing forever, it has remained mostly…

Knock for iPhone Is the Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Unlocking Your Mac

Passwords are obnoxious, but until desktops start coming with a fingerprint/retina/any other type of body part scanner, they’re stuck dealing with the passcode security of yesteryear—or so it would seem. The new Knock app for iPhone, though, takes a more fun approach. If you’re an iPhone owner that uses a Mac in any capacity, you’ve…

Panasonic Smart LED, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Dexter, [Deals]

We recently recommended you buy the Panasonic ST60 Plasma, because it’s the best TV. However, if that’s way out of your price range, or you don’t like Plasma, then this 50″ Smart LED, also from Panasonic, which is selling for $1300 elsewhere, is only 750 bucks today on Amazon. Ballerina not included. [Amazon] Panasonic 50″…

Google Now Is Finally As Good on iOS as Android

Google just pushed a major update to its search app that effectively makes Google Now as useful on iOS as it is on Android. That means iPhone users can finally enjoy all those cool features like Google notifications telling you who won the World Series and what time to leave your house to make that…

Flipp Delivers Circulars To Your Tablet Instead of Your Porch

Smartphones and tablets may have replaced a daily newspaper for many of us, but saying goodbye to the morning gazette also meant losing those weekly circulars and a surefire way to keep track of when dish detergent’s on sale. Thankfully, a new free app called Flipp, available for iOS today and Android early next year,…

Good news, fitness freaks: Nike’s Move app, which brings Fuelband functionality to the iPhone 5s using its M7 motion-sensing co-processor, is now available in the App Store.

Audio-Technica ATH-ANC9, Pebbles, Kindles, Chromecasts, Moto X [Deals]

Audio-Technica has announced that they’ll be offering a $50 rebate on their fantastic ATH-ANC9 headphones. I’m currently wearing a pair of ATH-M50’s, which are my favorite headphones ever, one of the most popular items we ever listed deals on, and the headphone of choice around the office. Wireless, or wired with phone controls, can be…

The Best Large Tablet Display (It’s Not the iPad Air)

A new generation of full-size flagship tablets has just started with the near simultaneous launch of the Apple iPad Air and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. They both have top-of-the-line and state-of-the-art displays that have been significantly improved (in different ways) from the 2012 models. Here’s which one’s the best. The Google Nexus 10 is…

Woz: I Wish to God That Apple and Google Were Partners

If there’s one man who talks tech sense it’s Woz—and never more so than in a recent interview with the BBC. Woz would love it if Apple and Google played friendly, and he makes a very, very good point. Both have strengths and weaknesses, after all. He explains: “Sometimes I say ‘Go to Joe’s Diner’…