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MoMA (not the Museum of Modern Art) has been “cordially” informed that their EVE handheld gaming platform, recently shown (and almost universally panned) at E3, infringes on Icelandic massively-multiplayer game developer CPP’s trademark for their (excellent) space war/asteroid mining simulator, EVE Online. Guess MoMA was too busy designing gaudy, awkward handheld gaming machines that no…
Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded the 100 millionth song from iTunes Music Store, winning the 17-inch Powerbook, a 40GB iPod, and a 10,000 song gift certificate. I just want you to know, Kevin, that the Powerbook will probably give you herpes, and should be immediately quarantined in our labs. Read – iTunes 100 Million…
There’s not much to go on at the moment, but one of the Mobile9 forum users posted some purported images of the upcoming Sony Ericsson refresh, the P910. After all the hub bub surrounding the original leaked ‘Layla’ information, I don’t think it’s going out on a limb too much to say that these are…
Good morning, my champions. Let us die in glory together. Why, we could even listen to our rousing music on these slim-line Elecom ASP-700i speakers, designed specifically (obviously) for the iPod. I did mention that our ultimate battle would be waged at our desks, nibbling on cupcakes, did I not? All hail the right-click of…
They aren’t shipping yet, but it looks like Amazon has set up their Personal Media Center page to promote both the Samsung Yepp YH-999 [pictured] and the Creative Labs Zen Portable Media Center. While there’s not a whole lot of information about the devices that you haven’t already heard, but if you’re itching to pick…
CamCorderInfo has the first review I’ve seen of the Sony DCR-PC350, the new pocket-sized camcorder with the 3.31-megapixel sensor. Sadly, although it’s a pretty decent review in general, they don’t talk too much about the still image quality, something I’m sure many of us would like to know more about, since one of the major…
Hot on the heels of those Linksys High-gain Antennas we mentioned yesterday are a pair of external, stand-alone units from D-Link, a 4 dBi omni-directional antenna called the ANT-0400 and a 6 dBi directional model called the DWL-M60AT, priced at $30 and $40, respectively. Both models have native SMA connections (for attaching them to your…
There are a variety of great gadget ideas in IDFuel’s first “Bonfire” gadget contest, including the winner, the “Bluebird” Bluetooth luggage tag. Besides lighting up when the bag tag’s owner presses the mated dongle, the Bluebird could also signal your cell phone when your luggage is nearby — as in nearby on the airline conveyer…
South Korean firm i-Bead is releasing a new 1.5 gigabyte hard disk player with a built-in 65k-color screen. Although there’s no word on price yet, the feature set looks nice, with a built-in FM tuner and recorder, line-in recording, text viewing (something that is missing from way too many players), and USB 2.0, as well…
Just because the Western world has poo poo’d the MiniDisc doesn’t mean Japan is ready to let the dream die quite yet. Sharp has release a new MD player, the MD-DS55 Auvi, in four new colors — including staff favorite, pink. It doesn’t appear that the new players use Sony’s new Hi-MD standard — the…
Could I love MoCoLoCo any more than I already do? Apparently, yes, I could, because they keep finding and profiling great things like this ASP Space Aquarium, a gorgeous aquarium that “eliminates the awkward edges and angles associated with conventional aquariums.” They don’t have a website up with prices (or a website, you know, at…
Sharp had some interesting things to say at its recent press event commemorating its 8th year in the cellular phone market, namely that they hope to increase worldwide sales of their handsets by adopting, at least for market of their product line, Symbian OS. Most of Sharp’s current lineup use the venerable ITRON embedded OS…
We don’t have a ton of information about this Automatic Blood Donation machine, but how much information do you really need? I do wonder, though, if this isn’t perhaps a blood donation machine, but instead some sort of fancy blood testing machine, given that Japanese preoccupation with blood types and what have you. Either way,…
Our pal Josh Rubin points out some new stuff from DesignFRONT (or FRONT Design — we can’t keep up with these fancy Swedes), including these two lovely pieces of electronics work that appear to be set in hard acrylic. The left one is a regular stereo receiver, and the right is a CD player that…
You know, I’m amazed we have sponsors, too, but who am I to judge? If you’d like to contribute to the gradual erosion of quality in media, advertising with us is a great place to start. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027 This week’s sponsors include: • CollectiveGood.com – Mobile Phone Recycling “Help the environment and your favorite charity” •…
If you’ve got no concern for your laptop at all, please purchase and enjoy one of these corrugated cardboard PowerPizza boxes. Although they look sturdy enough, I’m thinking we’re probably looking at novelty use, unless you find big pizza boxes the perfect form factor for hauling through subways or airports. Purchase now for £12.99 and…
Microsoft tries their hand at peripherale couture with a new mouse designed by industrial designer Philippe Starck, reminiscent of the hemispheres of a brain, they say. To me, it recalls the smooth contours and glowing comfort of … the mouse. Still, I give Microsoft room to get as fruity as they want — their mice…
A Burlingame, California, entrepreneur has filed a patent for hollow headstones fitted with flat LCD touch panels that will allow the deceased to play messages to visitors from beyond the grave (Reader Bradley Davidson, who submitted this story, dubbed it the ‘DIEpod.’) Before death — which makes you look ten pounds lighter on camera, at…
So what happens when you call somebody selling you a pre-release Motorola A630 on eBay a cokehead? Well, they write you up a fantastic exclusive review of the handset, complete with custom pictures. Read the whole thing after the jump. Oh, and that eBay auction? He sold his A630 for a cool grand. Eightballs for…
So I discovered this awesome thing. If you sleep three extra hours in the morning, you’ll feel fantastic, but for some reason, everything is three hours ahead. Perhaps if I had been sleeping on this KLOC Floor Lounger last night instead of a hard subway bench I wouldn’t have neglected my internal clock’s alarms —…