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If unofficial company confirmations are your thing, and you’ve been following Nintendo’s all but certain Wii price cut, feast on this: One Nintendo fan site eavesdropping on a retailer call claims the company confirmed a $50 cut for Sept. 27. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-wii-price-cut-to-199-in-two-weeks-5359148 If that sounds a bit confusing and unconfirmed by anyone but that particular web…
Got a second and a few hundred bucks to spare? Great, then check out this short list of loftily priced smartphones coming to an AT&T retailer near you, sometime in October: Updated. The first two phones are the HTC Tilt2 and Pure, or Touch Pro2 and Touch Diamond2, respectively. According to sources at BGR, the…
We’ve been seeing little hints about the Samsung Instinct HD over the last month or two, and now there’s a little more: Accessories have begun arriving at Best Buy. We expect the handset to launch within a few days. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/sprint-announces-samsung-instinct-hd-by-mistake-5357233
The iPod Nano‘s camcorder is pretty okay, but it’s just so obvious—what happened to the days of camcorders hidden in tie-clips and eyeglasses? The wristwatch camcorder is pretty sneaky and surprisingly not ugly. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-nano-review-5356015 The lens itself is located within the number 2, and its 1.3MP camera takes AVI video at a resolution of 352×288.…
If you feel like your coworkers just don’t ostracize you enough, these fuzzy bear and rabbit USB hand warmers are sure to do the trick. “Why does that guy have his hands jammed into a stuffed animal’s esophagus?” they’ll ask. Though I’ve had the good fortune to have never worked in an office, I have…
A video has been posted to YouTube by a group called “DarkForum” in which plans for a card skimmer are demonstrated and a contact email for sales of said illegal device is listed. Screw these guys. Let me reiterate: Card skimmers are not cute hacks or experiments. They’re illegal devices used to steal money from…
The iPhone dictionary famously doesn’t take kindly to cussing, but here’s a notable exception. This autocorrection takes an insult from the anatomical to the excellently profane, helpfully providing an even more vulgar word in case you need it. [Twitter] https://gizmodo.com/how-to-fix-the-ducking-iphone-puritanism-5103129
For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the right way. First off, some reasons to take this road: iTunes is a decent audio encoder, and it’ll get your music…
This image was lost some time after publication. Hugo Gernsback wrote a syndicated piece in 1925 that imagined the world of 1975. It appeared in the February 8th edition of the San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) and has an interesting mix of hits and misses. Highlights from the article are excerpted below. You can…
Here’s a statement I never thought I’d write: The newest Zune is selling out everywhere. Congrats to this underdog manufacturer “Micro-Soft” for finally hitting the big time! https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-review-the-pmp-evolved-5360126 Of course, as commenters have pointed out, it’s possible, if not probable, that Microsoft is using the time-tested tactic of short supply to make sure it sells…
We’re hard at work setting up the Gizmodo Gallery for next week and we’re constantly updating our progress over on the Twitter. Check @gizgallery to catch a look at the furniture we’re assembling with world’s smallest drill (WARNING: don’t sit on that chair), and the mystery gadget of the day. Plus we’ll be updating the…
While AT&T says 7.2Mbps is as fast as their 3G service will go before they roll out 4G, T-Mobile began rolling out HSPA+ 3G service in Philadelphia at the insane speeds of 21Mbps, ahead of their 2010 predictions. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-bumping-its-3g-to-hspa-7-2-in-six-more-cities-5355470 Though as John said, this HSPA+ is a stopgap and may leave T-Mobile in the dust…
A Holiday Inn in New York City, with the help of master house-of-cards builder Bryan Berg, has built a guest house (lobby, bedroom, bathroom) out of 200,000 key cards. That even extends to the undoubtedly-painful key-card toilet paper. Berg is the world-record holder of pretty much every house-of-cards award there is, and this hotel suite…
Game maker Foundation 42 is one of the first developers to get an app working on the Zune HD, and it looks like it wasn’t too difficult a process, taking only 12 hours. This is a good sign. The game, a fun little word puzzler called Wordmonger, is already available on several platforms (iPhone, various…
Netbooks have some drawbacks to go along with their tiny size and low price, one of which is an occasional inability to play HD video particularly smoothly. But Via’s definitely making inroads—check out this video for proof. Intel’s Ion also runs HD video pretty nicely, but Via’s really paying attention to media playback. Via’s EPIA-P710…
Whenever we throw epic events like Giz Gallery ’09, we like to put together a reader meetup so that we can berate torture maim hang out with commenters in real life. Sometimes it’s nice to converse in the physical realm. On Friday the 25th, we’ll be staying open late from 8-10p, where you can kick…
We’ve started setting up Gizmodo Gallery and we still need someone with electrical expertise to come in and wire us up a couple of outlets that run on a 220v circuit and string some extension cords for us. And we’re willing to pay you MONEY. If yourself, or someone you know is up to the…
Right-clickas or a MacBook flippas, I think we can all agree to hate malvertising, Internet ads filled with malicious code. Someone needs to take down the companies who are putting that crap online. Wait. Microsoft is on the job already? https://gizmodo.com/mac-or-pc-the-rap-272501 Apparently Microsoft’s legal team’s first battle is to uncover exactly who is behind some…
Microsoft is warning employees to “never approach a cougar,” as one of the kitty cats has been spotted near the Redmond campus. Or at least that’s what we’re told. I’m thinking that it’s actually Mrs. Gates who’s taking a stroll. According to CNET, the memo sent to employees urges them to “make sure to give…
The life of an iPhone is hard and you know it. After spending the day searching for 3G and running apps, the iHammock takes the edge off. This dock is actually a sweet idea. Too bad it’s just a rendering. I love to take naps in hammocks, but that’s not why I think the iHammock…
