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Conventional Vs. Solid State Hard Drive Race, Sony TZ91

The Sony TZ91 is available in two flavors. You can get the computer with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, or you can load it up with a 64GB solid state drive (for around a $1000 price premium). Check out this video to watch the SSD toast the moving hard drive by about 12 seconds when…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Dec 1

Tokyo Is No Longer One of Top 10 Expensive Cities

We write about Japan and its geek mecca Tokyo with some frequency here on Giz, which is why we found this recent census data so interesting. Tokyo slipped from the 10th most expensive city in the world to 13th, according to a survey by ECA International. The survey factors in the city’s price of things…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Dec 1

8GB Asus Eee PC Priced and Quasi-Dated

It looks like a Dynamism product listing has revealed about when the 8GB Asus Eee PC will be hitting store shelves and for just how much damage to your bank account. Listed for $499 as expected, the tiny laptop featuring 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of RAM will be shipping in mid to late…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Dec 1

EA Chief Says Black Friday Completed Next-Gen Console Transition

Two years after the Xbox 360 kick-started the next-gen console race on a Black Friday week, EA chief John Riccitello says this year’s Black Friday completed the transition to the (now) current-gen consoles: “It’s been the longest, hardest transition in the history of the industry…Last Friday marked one of those points where you can say…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 30

The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees

Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 million new subscribers before it hits the wall, pretty…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 30

PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year

The PS3’s still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It’s launching next year in Japan only. And the launch content seems pretty anemic unless you’re into cars and racing:…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 30

Pepsi and Amazon Giving Away 1 Billion MP3s

The Great Pepsi MP3 Giveaway returns, but this time with…Amazon? Yup. Starting Superbowl Sunday (Feb. 3), Pepsi’s stuffing 5 billion bottles of Coke soda with download codes, but you need five of ’em to get a free song. That’s right, there will be no casual Pepsi drinkers getting free songs on Pepsi/Amazon’s dime—which is about…

Commerce Matt Buchanan Nov 30

$250 Flat Fee Producers Offer Writers Guild for Internet Distribution Is Way Lame, Still Screws Writers

The Writers Guild strike languishes on: Heroes ends for the year next week. In a bid to end our suffering, the producers’ trade group has made a “groundbreaking” offer to the Writers Guild, grandiosely titled the “New Economic Partnership.” The deal’s a mind-blowing less-than $250 flat fee for an hour-long show to be re-broadcast on…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 30

Tag Heuer’s Cellphone is a Watch Phone?

The announcement earlier this week that Tag Heuer was designing a luxury cellphone didn’t inspire shock as much as a raised eyebrow, but Biggs the watch fetishist over at Crunchgear dug through his old archives and found this rendering. Dated January 18, Dialaphone.uk found these renders of a possible Tag Heuer cellphone watch that’s both…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 30

How to Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Headsets

Our experience with Bluetooth headsets tells us that you first have to place it into discoverable mode before any other device can connect to it, but this video claims otherwise. The man in the vid explains that just by knowing the default code (0000 on just about every headset) and spoofing your device as a…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 30

Amazon Kindle Gutted, Splayed, Violated

Readers who enjoy the Amazon Kindle e-Book reader‘s concept for letting you consume literature in electronic form—but won’t purchase one until they see what’s inside—will love this post. RapidRepair’s taken apart the Kindle bit by bit, showing you exactly what’s inside. Unless you’re a hardware engineer, seeing the internals probably don’t add much to your…

Commerce Jason Chen Nov 30

Dealzmodo: Refurbed 30GB Creative Zen Vision: M for $100, 8GB Zen Micro for $70

They’re refurbs, which makes the deal less shiny than the crapload of cheap Zune 30s, but they come with decent warranties so don’t let it put you off. The 30GB Creative Zen Vision:M is $100, which ain’t too shabby dealwise. But the better one is the 8GB Creative Zen Micro for only $70—a good deal…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 30

TiVo-Compatible SDV Tuner May Enable Video on Demand

Remember the USB connector device we pointed at a couple days ago that could bring two-way cable communication? It be this Motorola USB SDV tuning resolver. Dave Zatz explains that this tuner, which will plug into the back of your TiVo in order to enable two-way communications between your box and the cable company, will…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 30

Coffee Mug Knows When You’re Going to Burn Yourself

Our father told us that the best way to test whether a steaming cup of anything was cool enough to drink was to just drink it. It wasn’t until the fifth time we were in the hospital that we discovered that the man wasn’t our father. If we had these heat-sensitive On/Off mugs, which change…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 30

Breakfast Bike Tray Spells Death Wish

Eating while driving is inadvisable, but at least you have a bunch of “car” between you and the thing you hit. Not so when you’re on a bicycle, which is why this BreakFast tray—which holds your breakfast AND has a slot for a cup—is probably a bad idea. Sure, if you can manage to balance…

Gadgets Jason Chen Nov 30

iPhone Battery Replacement Video Tutorial

Dru and Nate over at Gearlive don’t only have awesome looking matching beards, they also have matching love for replacing the iPhone battery. Their video tutorial lets you see—in moving picture—exactly how to shove a new battery into your phone. It’s hardly been six months since the phone has been released, so most of you…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 30

Glowing ETree Lamp Can Be Bent Into Any Shape

This ETree floor lamp is certainly distinctive looking. Built out of multiple strands of electroluminescent tubes that you can manipulate into pretty much any shape, it’s like a glowing, malleable sculpture for your living room. It looks really cool, but I have trouble picturing it fitting in with the décor with many living rooms. Maybe…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 30

AT&T Kills iPhone Plans For Deaf Thanks To Non-Deaf Douchebags

We wouldn’t usually call people douchebags lightly (ok we would), but when you complain that deaf people are getting special treatment when they’re offered a $27.99 non-voice, data-only plan for their iPhone, you’re one huge douchebag. A Colorado AT&T store was offering said plan for the hearing-impaired—since they get very little use out of a…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 30

Apple Files Patent For Worst Idea Ever

Back in May of 2006, Apple filed a patent for the “compactable memory disc adapter,” an adapter than can retrofit 8cm optical media to play in 12cm drives. The adapter can be folded during shipping, allowing less packaging to be used in shipping Apple software. And those 8cm discs? They would play great in Samsung’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 30

Creative Confirms that its Zen is Coming with 32GB Flash Memory

Last week we showed that Creative was upping the memory of its Zen to 32GB — well, now it’s official. According to the British version of Crave, the powers that be are still being cagey about the launch, but they did say this: https://gizmodo.com/32gb-creative-zen-leaked-325652 Don’t expect it anytime before the second quarter of 2008. There’s…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Nov 30

Conventional Vs. Solid State Hard Drive Race, Sony TZ91

Tokyo Is No Longer One of Top 10 Expensive Cities

8GB Asus Eee PC Priced and Quasi-Dated

EA Chief Says Black Friday Completed Next-Gen Console Transition

The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees

PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year

Pepsi and Amazon Giving Away 1 Billion MP3s

$250 Flat Fee Producers Offer Writers Guild for Internet Distribution Is Way Lame, Still Screws Writers

Tag Heuer’s Cellphone is a Watch Phone?

How to Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Headsets

Amazon Kindle Gutted, Splayed, Violated

Dealzmodo: Refurbed 30GB Creative Zen Vision: M for $100, 8GB Zen Micro for $70

TiVo-Compatible SDV Tuner May Enable Video on Demand

Coffee Mug Knows When You’re Going to Burn Yourself

Breakfast Bike Tray Spells Death Wish

iPhone Battery Replacement Video Tutorial

Glowing ETree Lamp Can Be Bent Into Any Shape

AT&T Kills iPhone Plans For Deaf Thanks To Non-Deaf Douchebags

Apple Files Patent For Worst Idea Ever

Creative Confirms that its Zen is Coming with 32GB Flash Memory

Bitdefender Total Security Now Costs Less than Your Coffee Order — Covers Up to 5 Devices With One Subscription

Ozempic Shreds Bones? How a Small Study Turned Into a Big Health Myth

Anker’s Soundcore Translation Earbuds Are Now Nearly 7x Cheaper Than AirPods Pro 3 After a Sudden Price Drop on Amazon

Volkswagen Shuts Down Tennessee Plant’s EV Production at the Worst Possible Time

Using Emojis at Work? You’re Not Going to Like This Study 😮

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