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You know, I just… I’m fine with this. The Bluetooth SIG, the organization that guides and promotes the wireless standard of the same name, has selected American-born Teutonic superstar David Hasselhoff — promoted as “Hassle the Hoff,” which presumably means something kinky, involving hair, perhaps — to be the next spokesperson for the group in…
Now I’m sure you’ll correct me if I’m wrong, but do any of the current movie download services offer their wares in DivX format? Because if not, where exactly does Samsung, when detailing its plans to upgrade some of its DVD player firmware to support DivX, intend its customers to get the files that “can…
When you give teenagers a bunch of Lego, nine times out of ten your going to end up with a leaky Lego bong that they try to seal up with the shellac from the garage, and you’re going to have to take them to the hospital after they inhale still-toxic-even-if-water-filtered fumes. But on that tenth…
Feature Creep is a new weekly column on Gizmodo which explores the intersection of gadgets into mass culture. This week editor Sanford May looks at what it will take for an eBooks to finally compete with dead tree publishing. The common wisdom is that eBooks will have a hard time for two reasons: bad reader…
If you’ve always wanted a goofy looking alien head alarm clock that could wake with 50 seconds of your favorite MP3, then the Japan Trust Technology corporation would like to sell you this USB MP3 clock that “with favorite sound comfortable awaking!” It even runs on three batteries instead of AC power so you can…
I could tell you all about this new Sharp SM-SX300-H amplifier’s delta sigma chips and 256-bit oversampling, or maybe regale you with stories about its copper chassis, gold-plated connectors, and it’s Ohms — oh lord, does it have Ohms — but what you really are interested in is the fact that it looks very shi…
I would advise not clicking on the Transportation Futuristics link unless you have 30 minute or so to kill, because the Berkeley online exhibit is chock full of yesterday’s future today, and if you’re like me it’s impossible to stop looking at all the kooky ideas. Even better, as much as I love design concepts…
So between Fujifilm, Yakumo, and Mamiya nine different cameras have been release in the last 24 hours or so, including a total of six new Finepix models, ranging from the “no-nonsense” E-series cameras to an update to (local favorite) S5000, the S5500. Not only is the S5500 at least 500 better, it now sports a…
I would really like to see SK Telecom’s new cell phones for kids with antennas that look like human ears, so if you happen to catch a picture (I couldn’t find any on the SK English site), send that puppy in. The new phones have a built-in GPS unit that will allow parents to track…
So I actually walked by the subway ads for the upcoming Brittany Murphy/Ron Livingston pic ‘Little Black Book’ without once realizing that she was plucking a Palm from his pocket instead of, you know, a book. I even went so far as to think about how silly it was that they would base a movie…
Although the picture on the Honhai CT-PMP58A portable media player product page looks like it was done in MSPaint, the 5.7-inch unit does have one interesting feature (presuming it’s a real product): the ability to play VOB files, the raw format in which video is stored on DVDs. That means that instead of transcoding DVDs…
The Symphony4U is another flash memory MP3 player (get it?), this time from Korean manufacturer Chic. In all, it’s nothing terribly special, although it does have a decent battery life (25 hours on two AAAs) and sort of an interesting thumb-button right in the middle. I’m sure someone will eventually pick up the Symphony4U for…
One of the major complaints about the Nintendo DS after its showing at E3 was that it ugly as all hell, and while I sort of thought people were overreacting just a little, I can’t say I was upset when Nintendo unveiled this final hardware design of a much more angular and adult-looking DS. Nintendo…
We sent the intern out for ice and he came back with a round-up of last night’s Motorola webcast, including more details about the new Motorola handsets and their new seamless mobility platform. And no ice, I might add. Last night at 7:00 PM CST, Motorola held the “MOTOMEDIA Webcast,” where in addition to new…
Some of the graphic design geeks over at Kirupa Forum decided to have a ‘Logo Design Battle,’ a sort of visual arts freestyle competition, and they chose Gizmodo to riff off of. And as much as we love our current design (not that we aren’t always tweaking), we thought it was pretty cool they liked…
In a ground-breaking trial, Alaskan prosecutors have accused a driver who accidentally killed a couple in a car accident of watching a DVD on an in-dash player during the accident, something that is not technically illegal in Alaska, but possibly still convictable as manslaughter (I’m presuming). We’ve all done stupid things like operate electronics while…
How much do the iPod mini’s colors matter? If you look at Apple’s mini lifestyle website, you can see that each color is being marketed to a slightly different space, with the green and pink models being aimed at women, the silver and blue at men, and the gold as a sort of unisex middle…
Cellphone site HowardForums’ infamous ‘BengalBoy’ got his hands on one of those v. v. hot Motorola RAZR V3 phones and had the temerity courtesy to rub it in our faces share it with us all via about eight million pictures. That phone already has its detractors — some say it isn’t powerful enough — but…
CNet’s David Carnoy has a word of warning for the less-Froogled among us: be sure to make sure your shiny new gadget isn’t a clone, or you might be paying too much. Many electronics firms purchase and brand devices from other vendors, then pass the savings on to themselves. CNet has broken down a few…
It’s not 1998, I promise, despite this announcement from Microsoft and Thomson (RCA) to release an updated MSN-branded set-top box for browsing the web and streaming media from other household PCs. To launch in October, the $200 broadband-enabled box will come with a wireless keyboard and remote and will not have much in the way…