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I wouldn’t get too excited yet, but this could be promising news. A few users over at the T-Mobile forums have reported that their lost address book contacts have come back. Here’s what they had to say: https://gizmodo.com/the-great-sidekick-data-outage-of-2009-t-mobile-offers-5380117 What’s interesting is that the three posters all have one thing in common: they switched-off their phones.…
Leap into the future of wireless device-charging with Powermat. Their Home & Office Mat (pictured) charges up to 3 devices at once. And when one is finished, the mat stops charging just that one. We think that’s just wonderful. Just enable your device(s) with a Powermat receiver (that seamlessly bonds to your device), pop it…
If Tutankhamun died today, no one would wrap the pharaoh in cloth—that stuff is useless when one’s body rises again in the afterlife. What any guy always needs on hand is a long, radioactive orange extension cord. This lamp is of a similar mindset. Wrapped in its own cord, the lamp will rarely be out…
As if my iPhone didn’t have enough of my DNA in the form of grease fingerprints, dead skin cells, and other precious bodily fluids, now I can add some more of it in wallpaper form. French DNA laboratory Helys can do it for you. It works like this: Pay $147 and they will send you…
At a Nokia event announcing the surprisingly decent pricing for the Booklet 3G, Best Buy‘s CMO said that Best Buy currently sells “30 percent of the computers in the US.” https://gizmodo.com/nokias-very-nice-net-booklet-3g-is-299-plus-your-sou-5380524 I’m guess the qualifier is that it’s 30 percent of the computers at retail, not including biz or education, but still, that’s a crazy…
Surprise, Nokia’s Booklet 3G—a very nice netbook—is just gonna be $299 on Oct. 22, way below previous estimates of like a bajillion dollars. Granted, you’re signing your soul over to AT&T for $60/month to get it that cheaply. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-booklet-3g-hands-on-nice-netbook-but-how-much-5378466 The pricing plan is $60 a month to get the $299, which you have to agree…
GelaSkins makes stylish, reusable skins for iPhones/iPods, Blackberries laptops and Kindles. But now, instead of choosing from their designs, you can upload your own art to customize your gear. (Disregard the indescribable ugliness of the lead shot and reach out with your imaginations.) While GelaSkins can’t come out and make this point, their new design…
Five months ago, someone cobbled together a spoof video about an iPhone app that could remotely unlock and start a car. Oh, how we laughed. Now, take one guess at what Viper SmartStart, an iPhone app announced today, actually does. https://gizmodo.com/car-controlling-app-is-fake-but-fun-anyway-5272561 The free app connects to a Viper SmartStart hardware module installed in your car,…
OLPC’s Give One Get One initiative has delivered around 11,000 XO-1 laptops to Afghanistan schools alone. But power is a problem when you get off the grid, so the team there has had to think outside the box. https://gizmodo.com/olpc-give-1-get-1-returns-nov-17-at-amazon-5056838 They’ve developed this prototype human powered machine that can charge an XO-1 laptop while in use,…
This is how you show you care: By meticulously hand-painting a controller for your girlfriend. Or, that’s how you get her to play videogames. Or you want a pink controller, and you say it’s for your girlfriend. [Flickr via Technablog]
Vudu promised its 1080p a la carte streaming movie service would be coming to the LG BD390 Blu-ray player by the end of last month, making LG’s connected box just about the best on the market. Well, it’s a little late, but it’s here, and it brings with it some new goodies: namely, Rotten Tomatoes…
Leave it to a Japanese team—leaded by Hideki Koike at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo—to develop a touch display that uses rubber to allow you to actually touch real three-dimensional thingies. Hideki, you got me at rubber. The system uses transparent rubber, an overhead camera, and an LCD panel that emits polarized light. The…
If you run a TiVo Series2, Series3, TiVo HD, or TiVo HD XL DVR, you should notice a new option to download movies through Blockbuster On Demand. Rentals will range from $3-$4 as the service accompanies other streaming options like Amazon and Netflix. [AOL Money via Engadget]
It’s not even worth trying to keep track of the piles upon piles of pocket camcorders on the market today, but only a couple shoot 1080p (UPDATE: almost). And only one does it in such a minuscule package. Spec for spec, the Picsio is a near-match for the Kodak Zi8—currently the best pocket camcorder on…
3 buttons, 3 million topics: Wikipedia in the palm of your hand. OpenMoko‘s $99 WikiReader arrives today, and could be useful for kids (or luddites), but it’s an odd little gadget in a world of 3G smartphones. The WikiReader isn’t a connected device. Instead, Wikipedia comes on an SD card. You can pay $30 to…
The GlideTV Navigator—a trackpad remote for an HTPC, AppleTV, WMC, Boxee, PS3 or Mac—is shaped so strangely that you figure the ergonomics must be amazing. Featuring a trackpad, backlit buttons and connectivity with most devices through a wireless USB dongle, the Navigator combines crucial mouse functions with practical remote functions in a barebones, minimalistic design…
Sonos’ wireless home audio system is great for convenient, hiss-free streaming, but it’s pretty pricey. The S5 changes that (a little), by incorporating a receiver and speaker into one unit—compared to the $350 ZP90 which requires separate powered-speakers. https://gizmodo.com/sonos-improves-wi-fi-with-zoneplayer-zp90-and-small-sel-5033093 The ZonePlayer S5 will be $400 on November 10, and gives you an all-in-one option to…
As you may have heard, the 10.1-inch Aspire One D250 dual-boots between Android and, err, Windows XP. It has a 1.66GHz Atom 280 processor, 6-cell battery rated for 9 hours, and is now up for pre-order on Amazon for $350. https://gizmodo.com/acers-android-netbook-arriving-in-time-for-the-eggnog-5373006 Other specs are unchanged from the current model, including 1GB memory, 160GB hard disk,…
SanDisk’s X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they’ll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they’ve started shipping. Right now, they’re only shipping in 8GB and 16GB capacities, which have been long available,…
Disney retail stores, like many other venerable chains, have been suffering in recent years. But Disney’s got an ace in the hole (or, accurately, on their board): Steve Jobs. Think Apple Store meets Zac Efron. Weird, I know. Updated: Good old Stevesy runs pretty much the most profitable retail chain in the country, the Apple…