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Some gadgets scream out for an adorability upgrade, like netbooks or Roombas. Headphone splitters aren’t exactly one of them, but Splitterbot is too cute to deny. As much as there’s nothing more adorable than sharing one pair of earbuds, one bud per person, sometimes you just gotta have the full stereo. Splitterbot is here to…
The Steelcase Cobi, starting at $400, is unique in that it’s a higher-end office chair that you get to customize quite a bit of how it looks—avoiding the late ’90s dotcom sea of chairs that look exactly alike. Here’s what you do. Go to the site, then go through the “3 minute” process of choosing…
Sony, just about the biggest and most far-reaching electronics manufacturer around, announced a first-quarter loss of $390.5 million. They’ve been taking a beating across the board from Apple, Nintendo, Nokia, Canon and Samsung, and aren’t excelling in any one field. Sony’s suffered through management shakeups and a lack of vision lately, and while this specific…
This ad for Procter & Gamble’s Rejoice conditioner uses the tangled mess of power lines in Bangkok to get its message across. Pretty brilliant, no? [BusinessWeek via Book of Joe]
With all the gadgets we report on, it’s hard to keep track of which ones are shipping or when they’ll be available. We’ve put together a list of gadgets, some we’ve reported on and some we haven’t, that are shipping today. • Onkyo’s DV-BD507 Blu-Ray player is now available stateside after an official European unveiling…
Here you have another proof that demonstrates why Apple’s iTunes App store approval process is screwed: theXchange, a new iPhone application to put people in contact to have sex, photos included. As you can imagine, the content gets extremely strong. https://gizmodo.com/apples-chickenshit-approval-process-has-gone-too-far-5325539 Hottest Girls was the first one to appear, disappearing within hours of its launch.…
Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless. https://gizmodo.com/big-brother-amazon-remotely-deletes-purchased-copies-of-5317180 Now a class action lawsuit has been filed that seeks punitive damages for those affected by the…
When it comes to extended warranties, we have always recommended that they be avoided. However, I am curious to know what percentage of you have actually purchased an extended warranty and why. https://gizmodo.com/news-flash-best-buys-extended-warranties-are-rip-offs-5326361 Have You Ever Purchased An Extended Warranty On Electronics?(surveys) I’m also curious to know whether or not you ever had to use…
The followups to Sony’s PRS-700 eBook reader seem to have surfaced in some service manuals dated July 2009. The two readers have these specs: https://gizmodo.com/sony-prs-700-reader-review-blinding-glare-kills-all-im-5097999 The PRS-300 will be available in red, black and silver and has a five inch display with 440MB of internal storage (no expandable memory card slots). The PRS-600 will also…
If you have a tangle of cords and power strips behind your desk, you might want to consider one of these cable management solutions. And while you are at it, show us a picture of what your are dealing with. If you have neatly organized your cables, feel free to show that in the comments…
Just before everyone got completely tired of just talking about how weird-looking Fuji’s grin-faced, two-eyed 3D point-and-shoot is, some news: It does work, and it’s extremely cool. This according to the Brits at Stuff, who’ve actually got one. https://gizmodo.com/smiley-fujifilm-3d-point-and-shoot-camera-does-video-l-5320136 After briefly making fun of its looks and girth (it’s fatty fat, like and EP-1, apparently),…
This t-shirt investigates the oft overlooked “other half” of the battle. So if knowing is half the battle, what’s the other half? Lasers. 25% red. 25% blue. We”ll all sleep better having reconciled this age-old conundrum. $20 [Nerduo]
Apple’s free iDisk app has potential to make that $60 a year for MobileMe even more worthwhile, but for now it’s little more than a fancy file viewer with mediocre management capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-owners-score-free-mobileme-idisk-app-5325597 With the iDisk app, you can view supported files like documents, PDFs, even stream music and movies (provided they’re in the right…
On the heels of the myTouch 3G release, it appears visual voicemail has made its way to the Android Market. The voicemal app, along with long awaited Sherpa local entertainment app come as part of a larger AppPack bundle. Apparently, a new data plan from T-Mobile that includes visual voicemail also includes an updated “My…
There are plenty of great deals to be had in today’s Dealzmodo. Check out the bargain on Futurama Volumes 1-4, or the super cheap mega-pack of AA batteries. Computing and Peripherals: • 17″ HP G70t 2.0Ghz Core2Duo Laptop for $569.99 (normally $799 – use coupon code SV2132). • 15″ Acer AS5516-5474 2.0GHz AMD Athlon Laptop…
Creative’s Zii, which is either an extremely exciting platform for Android PMPs or a boring developers’ tool (nobody knows!) has turned up in CNET Asia’s offices. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long before they got a little handsy. Like Creative’s introduction video before it, CNET’s hands-on is more about seeing the hardware than…
The New York Times’ David Pogue is sick and damned tired of wireless carriers wasting our time and our minutes with their intentionally drawn out voicemail messages. And he wants your help to get them to change. You know the messages: “At the tone, please record your message. When you have finished recording, you may…
BoingBoing Gadgets’ netbook compatibility chart is a great resource for putting Mac OS on netbooks. But before taking the Hackintosh plunge, here are the major contenders’ strengths, pitfalls and quirks to consider, plus guides for when you (carefully) jump in. Rob’s chart, with all its scary red marks and mysterious orange ovals, has the tendency…
We can do better than mere yellow paint, and these crossing signs by Christopher Lavelanet combine what looks like steel and high efficiency backlighting to blind us to the troubles ahead, day or night. [CL Designs via coroflot]
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