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Best Buy Goes 3D for Cheaper At 200 Stores On March 10; 900 Stores By March 21

If you’re sick—literally or figuratively—of 3D now, just wait until the end of the month. HD Guru has Best Buy’s schedule for rolling out 3D capable HDTVs and Blu-ray players from Samsung and Panasonic, and they’re coming soon. The Guru claims that sales and demonstrations of 3D gear will commence at 200 Best Buy locations…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Televisions Are Born In Places Like This

This man is tightening a mold in a Samsung factory in Kaluga, Russia. Inside that mold is a portion of what will soon be a television. Let’s take a tour of the rest of the factory. Samsung opened this particular factory in 2008 and its been putting out products ever since. Aside from quality inspections,…

Gadgets Rosa Golijan

New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections By Tricking Your Brain

People of the world who hate hate HATE going to the dentist, rejoice: DentalVibe is a new device that completely eliminates the pain when they are sticking a stainless steel needle into your gums. All by cleverly fooling your brain. Developed by Dr. Steven G. Goldberg DDS and Bresslergroup, DentalVibe vibrates at irregular intervals. While…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

TiVo the Dinosaur Just Got a New Jetpack

The new TiVo Premiere is like dinosaurs who got upgraded with laser jetpacks: Fancier, but potentially outmoded in a world populated by tons of ninjas with nuclear shuriken. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-premiere-details-and-first-hands-on-like-imdb-on-5484003 I saved up enough money to buy the first-generation TiVo—one of the Philips models, I think—when I was still in high school, and mostly used it…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung’s 3DTV Gets Early Review: “You Won’t Be Sorry You Bought This”

Samsung’s first 3DTV has been reviewed ahead of release by the UK’s largest tech site, TechRadar, who has has nothing but glowing words to say about it, claiming “we don’t reckon you’ll be sorry you bought this Samsung.” They watched Monsters Vs. Aliens on the 40C7000 TV, with a BD-C6900 Blu-ray player from Samsung. The…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Sigma Says “Me Too” With Its Own Micro Four Thirds Fighter

Christ, this is getting complicated. Mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses that promise near-DSLR quality without DSLR bulk are verifiably exploding. After the now-established Micro Four Thirds format from Panasonic and Olympus, Samsung jumped in with its Hybrid NX camera. Yesterday, Sony revealed its own spin, the Alpha concept. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-nx-series-cameras-have-compact-bodies-dslr-hea-5162590 And now, there’s Sigma, known for…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Samsung Sells the Most Flat Panels, But Vizio Is Lurking

In 2009, Samsung’s shipments of flat panel TVs (plasmas and LCDs) rose 22.6%, making them the number one US supplier, moving 6.6 million televisions in all. But you know who grew way, way, way more? Vizio. Between 2008 and 2009, Vizio nearly doubled their US sales, which grew 92.1% as the company sold 5.9 million…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung’s Best Ever Point-and-Shoot: TL500 Shoots RAW With Ultrafast F1.8 Lens and Twisty AMOLED Screen

Samsung’s new TL500 is capable of shooting RAW with a crazy fast F1.8 lens and lets you view it all on a twisting AMOLED screen. It’s possibly Samsung’s best point-and-shoot ever, and it could be a Canon S90 killer. In October, we swore that the Canon Powershot S90 would never leave our pockets. But we…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Samsung TL350 Shoots 1080p Video and 1000fps Video, Take Your Pick

Not to be upstaged by the TL500, the Samsung TL350 point-and-shoot offers its own unique bag of goodies: it shoots RAW, shoots video up to 1000fps, has an AMOLED display, and can capture 10MP stills while shooting 1080p video. The TL350 sports a 10MP CMOS sensor and a 24mm Schneider lens capable of 5x optical…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Samsung’s Rugged Cameras: AQ100 Stays In The Shallow End, SL605 Sits By the Pool

Samsung’s AQ100 and SL605 are billed as being waterproof and durable, respectively, but they’re really not all that waterproof and durable. Still, the AQ100 shoots 720p video on the cheap and can go for a dip, if not a dive. With the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2‘s 30 foot waterproof rating, the 10 feet of waterproofness guaranteed…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Samsung’s About to Own More of the TV Market Than Any Company in 60 Years

Samsung’s the biggest TV maker in the world. It beat Sony 4 years ago. But it’s getting even bigger. Soon it will pass 20 percent marketshare, which the WSJ points out is “a threshold not reached by any manufacturer since the earliest days of the industry more than 60 years ago.” Think about that. Also…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Even Kingston Knocks Off Kingston microSD Cards?

Bunnie Huang, one of the minds behind the famous Chumby, encountered a strange production problem when building Chumby Ones with Kingston microSD cards—namely, some microSDs appeared to be dysfunctional counterfeits. The catch? They were bought directly from Kingston. https://gizmodo.com/chumby-one-review-totally-frivolous-but-totally-adora-5403517 Huang’s observations took him down a rabbit hole of microSD manufacturing, a fairly epic quest to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Samsung Wave Seems Like a Very Bad Joke

When Samsung first announced their Bada OS cellphone operating system I thought they were crazy. After seeing their flagship Bada OS phone—the Samsung Wave—in action, I don’t think they are crazy anymore. They are suicidal. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-first-phone-with-the-bada-os-will-be-released-5463974 I will have to try it myself, but just looking at this hands on is making me cringe. [Mobile…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Two Dozen Telecoms Unite to Form Apple App Store Rival

AT&T, Orange, Telefónica, China Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and several more carriers have announced the formation of the Wholesale Applications Community, which aims to create a viable alternative to Apple’s walled-garden approach to apps. They’ll be joined on the hardware side by LG, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson as they attempt to create an open system for…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Samsung Shows The Future Of Its Camera Phones With New Sensor Technology

Samsung’s headline act may’ve been the new Wave handset yesterday, but here at Gizmodo we’re equally interested in the guts of these portable talky-phones. Take their two new CMOS sensors for phones, which show the future for Samsung’s new camphones. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-waves-hello-to-wave-s8500-smartphone-with-bada-5471459 The S5K4E2 is a 5.0-megapixel sensor that measures just 1/4 of an inch and…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung’s 4G N150 Netbook Will Be The Fastest In These Here Parts

Mobile World Congress isn’t just about smartphones and dumbphones. Oh no. Samsung’s going to be showing off a 4G netbook, a version of the N510 which we first caught wind of last August. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-n510-ion-netbook-arriving-next-month-for-599-5334738 Samsung’s been showing off 4G demos since 2006, with plans to roll our products in 2010. It’s now the second month…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung Waves Hello To Wave S8500 Smartphone With Bada OS and SUPER AMOLED Screen

It was hardly a well-kept secret by any stretch of the imagination, but at MWC Samsung’s Wave S8500 has raised its head. It’s running the new Bada OS, and has one of those 3.3-inch SUPER AMOLED screens we saw before. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-touchscreen-amoled-phone-shown-off-ahead-of-bi-5466561 The SUPER AMOLED screen is a 3.3-inch capacitive job, with an 800 x 480…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Live Photos and Specifications of the Samsung S8500 Wave Emerge

Yesterday we saw the Samsung Wave from afar, today we get our first close look at Samsung’s first Bada-powered handset. The Wave is indeed the S8500, the first handset to receive Bluetooth SIG certification for the new Bluetooth 3.0 standard. Ironically, Bluetooth was left out of the list of leaked specs but we will presume…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Man Dumped Over Sexts Pre-Loaded In His Phone

A Winnipeg man has been dumped by his girlfriend of two and a half years, after she found his phone riddled with sext messages. Only problem? He didn’t write any of them. Virgin Mobile did. Apparently the cheeky monkeys over at Virgin Mobile had pre-loaded a number of suggestive text messages into at least one…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Best Buy E-Cycle Billboard: Where Old Gadgets Go to Shill

If you happen to be in Times Square any time soon, you may notice this billboard for Best Buy’s electronics recycling program. Make sure you take a close look! It’s composed entirely of outmoded gear. While part of me would hope some VHS players and bulky monitors would be allowed to fade away with dignity,…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Best Buy Goes 3D for Cheaper At 200 Stores On March 10; 900 Stores By March 21

Televisions Are Born In Places Like This

New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections By Tricking Your Brain

TiVo the Dinosaur Just Got a New Jetpack

Samsung’s 3DTV Gets Early Review: “You Won’t Be Sorry You Bought This”

Sigma Says “Me Too” With Its Own Micro Four Thirds Fighter

Samsung Sells the Most Flat Panels, But Vizio Is Lurking

Samsung’s Best Ever Point-and-Shoot: TL500 Shoots RAW With Ultrafast F1.8 Lens and Twisty AMOLED Screen

Samsung TL350 Shoots 1080p Video and 1000fps Video, Take Your Pick

Samsung’s Rugged Cameras: AQ100 Stays In The Shallow End, SL605 Sits By the Pool

Samsung’s About to Own More of the TV Market Than Any Company in 60 Years

Even Kingston Knocks Off Kingston microSD Cards?

Samsung Wave Seems Like a Very Bad Joke

Two Dozen Telecoms Unite to Form Apple App Store Rival

Samsung Shows The Future Of Its Camera Phones With New Sensor Technology

Samsung’s 4G N150 Netbook Will Be The Fastest In These Here Parts

Samsung Waves Hello To Wave S8500 Smartphone With Bada OS and SUPER AMOLED Screen

Live Photos and Specifications of the Samsung S8500 Wave Emerge

Man Dumped Over Sexts Pre-Loaded In His Phone

Best Buy E-Cycle Billboard: Where Old Gadgets Go to Shill

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

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Toshiba’s 65-inch Smart Fire TV Now Matches 43-Inch Pricing After 44% Drop on Amazon

Kash Patel’s Email Account Hacked, Iran-Linked Group Takes Credit

Repair Workers Accidentally Stumble Upon Lost Remains of Legendary ‘Fourth Musketeer’

Dreame Aero Pro Wet Dry Vacuum Mop Drops 20% Shortly After Launch in the Spring Cleaning Sale

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

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