Star Trek

Syd Mead

As a robot designer for Short Circuit, concept artist for Tron, a production illustrator for the first Star Trek movie and a “visual futurist” for Blade Runner, Syd Mead has contributed to the paleo-future through some amazing movies. Flickrtarian Michael Heilemann recently posted a set of Syd Mead concept art. Be sure to check out…

Tech News Matt Novak

Star Trek Voice Activated Light Dimmer: Pretend You’re Talking To Computer

Just one day after a voice activated answering machine comes a voice activated light dimmer, complete with wholly unnecessary Star Trek (no, not that smartphone from HTC, silly goose) branding. It plugs into any power outlet then responds to Star Trek-themed commands like, “Computer, Off.” Magic! It even has the voice of the show’s computer.…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Low End Theory: The ChipCorder vs. the Axis!

By Brendan I. Koerner The best teacher I ever had was this crazy Jesuit with a prodigious gut, Madame Mao glasses, and ridiculously overactive sweat glands. He was a cartoonish sight, but also a fantastic entertainer—a prerequisite for getting a bunch of horny 15-year-olds interested in the Peace of Westphalia. Part of his approach was…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner

Trekkie Spends $15k on DIY Star Trek Home Theater

It’s one thing to model your home theater after the command bridge in Star Trek, but it’s a completely different ball game when you build it from scratch all by yourself. Yet that was Gary Reighn’s goal back in 2002 when he first started working on his Star Trek home theater. The finished project looks…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

HTC Star Trek: The Next Generation

HTC’s gone and Picarded up their Star Trek (Cingular 3125) smartphone—which incidentally got pretty great reviews all around. No real details on this save for the picture on their roadmap, which shows that there’s going to be a fancy smancy camera (at least 2-megapixels is our guess) and the same flip-phone form-factor. Plsu there’s music…

Tech News Jason Chen

Cingular 3125 Clamshell Smartphone Reviewed (Verdict: Spock Gives this Phone a Thumbs Up)

No offense, Mobiledia, I love you guys, but this review is ridiculously long. Seriously, 3,500 words about a smartphone is a bit too much, don’cha think? After spending the better part of this week actually reading the review I found out what you think of this phone. Let me sum up the 3,500 words for…

Tech News Travis Hudson

HTC 3125 Launch Party in New York: Enjoy the Decadence

Loyal Gizmodo readers will know that Cingular launched the 3125 (also known as the "Star Trek phone") last week. What readers might not know is that Cingular and HTC threw quite a little fiesta in the cellphone’s honor. Watch as over-worked and under-appreciated tech journalists, um, party down and generally make fools of themselves. Yes,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser

This is much cooler than the one we built for ourselves when we were kids out of a pack of chewing gum, a rotary phone, our dad’s tie, and an Atari 2600. The Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser looks quite similar to the original prop Shatner and Nimoy were pointing at each other—inbetween rounds of…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Cingular Launches 3125, a.k.a. the HTC Star Trek

Cingular’s finally releasing the HTC Star Trek under the super catchy name “Cingular 3125”. We’ve seen reviews of the Star Trek before, back when it was still overseas and called by its maiden name. https://gizmodo.com/qtek-8500-dopod-s300-htc-star-trek-reviewed-verdict-s-184706 Laptop Mag takes the Cingular model for a spin, and finds that it’s slim like the RAZR but smart like…

Tech News Jason Chen

Michael Westmore

Michael Westmore won an Academy Award for his work on Mask, but he is better known for his otherworldly creations. A member of a Hollywood makeup dynasty, Westmore has worked on every iteration of Star Trek since The Next Generation. It was he who gave the once flat-foreheaded Klingons their pronounced cranial ridges, and he…

io9 Lauren Davis

Cingular Gets HTC Star Trek and hw6920, hw6925 iPAQs Next Week

Looks like the HTC Star Trek launch date for Cingular was pretty much on target. The $100 rebate available for the phone seems to be there as well. https://gizmodo.com/htc-star-trek-on-cingular-around-august-8th-190062 The news today i that the hw6920 and hw6925 iPAQs are going to be launched next week as well. Both are sporting a $50 rebate, but…

Tech News Jason Chen

Trekkers Rejoice: HTC STRTrK FCC Approved

The HTC STRTrK, the slim Windows Mobile 5.0 flip phone that we looked at a few weeks back just got FCC approval. That means availability, probably from Cingular in the next few months, is imminent. Kirk and Spock fans alike will get to finally flip open the phone in the classic Star Trek manner and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Qtek 8500/Dopod S300/HTC Star Trek Reviewed (Verdict: Star-tastic)

What do you get when you cram a Windows Mobile Smartphone into a RAZR form factor? Surprisingly, not a dumbed down phone. The Qtek 8500 has the WM5 Smartphone OS and dimension-wise, is only slightly longer than the RAZR when opened. When it’s closed, they’re practically identical. The phone has all the WM5 smartphone features—push…

Tech News Jason Chen

Hasee’s KHAN Series 15.4-inch Laptops

Kirk: Khan, you bloodsucker. You’re gonna have to get your own Korean Hasee L230E/15.4 Laptop now, do you hear me? Do you? Khan: Kirk. You’re still alive, old friend. Kirk: Still, “old friend.” You’ve managed to see me in the 15.4-inch screen, but like a poor marksman, you keep missing the target. Khan: Perhaps I…

Tech News Jason Chen

Christie’s Auctioning Off 40 Years of Star Trek Memorabilia

CBS Paramount cleaned out the Star Trek garage and is putting its finds up for sale at Christie’s New York this October, putting 4,000 lots of over 1,000 items on the block in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Star Trek original series tv show. Captain Kirk’s leisure suit (photo above—and no, we don’t…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com

One On One With the HTC StarTrek Phone

The kind-hearted team at Mobility Today got their hands on the HTC StarTrek phone recently. The phone, which was shown at both CeBit and the 3GSM show in Barcelona, appears to be designed in the vein of the popular television series, though communication devices back then probably weren t powered by Windows Mobile 5 for…

Gadgets Gizloco

HTC Star Trek Phone

Though we’ve shown you images of the HTC Star Trek cellphone before, it’s finally been formally announced at the 3GSM show. Also known as the i-mate Smartflip, it’s a thin, clamshell phone that runs Windows Mobile 5. Specs include a QVGA display, quad-band GSM, EDGE data, 64 MB ROM / 64 MB RAM, a MicroSD…

Tech News Tgrumet

Replicating Starship Voyager Causes Bankruptcy

Believe it or not, transforming an entire apartment to look like the Starship Voyager from Star Trek costs a bit of money. Tony Alleyne started transferring his apartment after his wife left him, and $175,000 worth of maxed out credit cards later we can safely say he is a tad obsessed. The apartment is full…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Star Trek “Dork-a-phone”

Looks like Nickelodeon and Virgin are teaming up to release another hunk of branded crap into our hands. This time it’s a Star Trek cellphone that is designed to resemble the Starfleet communicator from the series. It will be powered by Sona Mobile’s Sona Wireless Platform and has a tentative Sept. 30th release date, yet…

Tech News Johnb

Syd Mead

Star Trek Voice Activated Light Dimmer: Pretend You’re Talking To Computer

Low End Theory: The ChipCorder vs. the Axis!

Trekkie Spends $15k on DIY Star Trek Home Theater

HTC Star Trek: The Next Generation

Cingular 3125 Clamshell Smartphone Reviewed (Verdict: Spock Gives this Phone a Thumbs Up)

HTC 3125 Launch Party in New York: Enjoy the Decadence

Star Trek 40th Anniversary Phaser

Cingular Launches 3125, a.k.a. the HTC Star Trek

Michael Westmore

Cingular Gets HTC Star Trek and hw6920, hw6925 iPAQs Next Week

Trekkers Rejoice: HTC STRTrK FCC Approved

Qtek 8500/Dopod S300/HTC Star Trek Reviewed (Verdict: Star-tastic)

Hasee’s KHAN Series 15.4-inch Laptops

Christie’s Auctioning Off 40 Years of Star Trek Memorabilia

One On One With the HTC StarTrek Phone

HTC Star Trek Phone

Replicating Starship Voyager Causes Bankruptcy

Star Trek “Dork-a-phone”

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