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Set to debut in Europe this October, the Sony Ericsson Idou is a full-touchscreen smartphone with a 3.5-inch display and GPS. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-idou-arrives-in-second-half-2009-with-16-5153954 The first model in a new series of entertainment phones from Sony Ericsson, the Idou is being marketed as a device capable of providing “unlimited entertainment.” On the bill are music, video, photo,…
Jerry Russell has spent 10 years and $80,000 of his own money developing the Jaromatic—a device that can open just about any bottle or can. Jerry is 68 now, and wants to retire. In order to finance his well deserved rest, Russel is hoping to sell the Jaromatic, patents and all for $250,000—or license the…
What’s more adorable than a robot baby floating around in a steampunk uterus? Lots of things. I just hope these steampunk weirdos don’t gather around in their Victorian garb and start constructing more gross mechanical body parts. [Clockworker via Nerdcore]
While the TSA introduced whole body scanners as a means to search passengers posing a greater security risk (like those who set off metal detectors), they now plan to use the invasive technology on everyone. https://gizmodo.com/new-security-camera-can-see-through-clothes-218015 Apparently the trials at 6 airports have gone so well that the TSA would like to have all passengers…
DoubleTwist, the file-sharing, media-organizing, device-syncing software project from DVD Jon was previously only available for Mac. Now they’ve opened the beta up to Windows users, which I’m sure will bring in a lot more downloads. https://gizmodo.com/a-look-at-doubletwist-dvd-jon-s-file-swapping-media-pl-5161477 For those unfamiliar, DoubleTwist promises compatibility with most personal, consumer electronic devices, including cellphones, cameras, camcorders and MP3 players,…
First YouTube. Then Twitter. With Diddy’s latest project, the official Diddy iPhone app, he’s going after the likes of Scoble and Kevin Rose as the king of New Media. The app mostly lets people send in live photos of their Diddy worship, which is then compiled into a mosaic (yay?!) and catch up on the…
What have we here? Why, a fresh shipment of what is, after Pioneer’s exit from the TV business, now among the most valuable retail inventory around—the sole remaining Pioneer Kuro plasma TVs. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-exits-tv-business-no-more-sweet-plasmas-5148562 I ran across this scene today outside Park Avenue Audio on 29th and Park in Manhattan—a shop that caters to A/V junkies…
Where would nerds be without duct tape and zip-ties? Both are useful in a wide range of scenarios (don’t say kidnapping), but if you had to pick your favorite, which would it be? Which Is Your Favorite Quick Fix? ( online surveys)
The first beta of iPhone 3.0 wasn’t fit for everyday use, but for me, beta 2 is solid enough. And there’s even more reason to go for it: You can use MMS! It’s easy. https://gizmodo.com/our-iphone-3-0-how-to-coverage-all-in-one-place-5177518 This is the method that has worked for us and a few others that we have confirmed solid—if you know…
In the 17th century, when groups of men plundered the seas in ships filled with rats and scurvy, they agreed on a code to keep themselves civilly uncivil. I propose the same for BitTorrent. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-use-bittorrent-like-a-pro-5187630 My code isn’t necessarily the code for everyone. But it is the code for my ship, my computer, my slow-ass…
The National Federation of the Blind’s Imbroglio with the Author’s Guild and their distaste for the Kindle 2‘s text-to-speech function is heating up. Today they took it to the Guild’s own doorstep here in NYC. Basically the story is this: the Author’s Guild raised issue with the Kindle 2’s new robotic text-to-speech feature, which can…
Symbian is the planet’s most popular smartphone OS—everywhere except the US, that is. It’s also arguably the most boring. In this last, most urgent installment of the cellphone revitalization series, we alleviate your Symbian shame. Symbian’s dominance isn’t evident here in the US, as it’s driven by smartphones—like Nokia’s N series or Sony Ericsson’s P…
See that? That’s what it would look like if the Joker had a DSLR when he broke out of jail. It’s also from our Gizmodo Flickr pool. We want your photos. All you have to do is log in to your Flickr and go here, join our group, and start hitting “send to group” on…
Google’s redesigned mobile Gmail site for iPhone and Android is live and it seems better than the original in every way: It’s faster, more app-like, and has an improved user interface. We like. https://gizmodo.com/browser-based-offline-gmail-demonstrated-on-iphone-and-5156357 It moves a lot faster between pages that don’t require fresh data because it uses database storage on the iPhone and…
According to the script, each person’s consciousness only takes 300MB. Do you believe it? Does this make you want to watch the series more or less? [io9] https://gizmodo.com/caprica-script-reveals-how-many-brains-you-can-store-on-5202459
Whether it’s just a coincidence or divine intervention, it appears that the real Jesus phone narc’ed on its 16 year old owner while he was bragging to his friends about a burglary. For one reason or another, the phone dialed 911 and picked up a conversation he was having with his friends about stealing a…
The brick-and-mortar Circuit City may be dead, but if the placeholder on their website is any indicator, its spirit may live on as a website-only business. Excited? Eh…[Circuit City via CrunchGear]
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If you think it’s tough to decide on the make and model of your next laptop, imagine the internal debates to come when we can upgrade eyeballs as casually as RAM. [Bogen Freund/Flickr via bbGadgets]
Last week, I asked all of you OCD readers to submit pictures of your awesome, over-the-top workspaces. And man, does my desk suck compared to a lot of yours. How much do you think all of the gear in the below gallery is worth? More than I’ll ever have, that’s for sure. In any case,…