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A tipster just leaked these Dell Latitude 2100 ‘Welch’ laptops to us, which have a 10-inch display and are aimed under $600. The best part are the names: School Bus Orange and Red Apple. Here are the details: they’re a new Latitude notebook design branded for the education market using the Atom architecture. They can…
We’ve covered the original and wireless FyreTV boxes already, but the porn-on-your-TV streamer has finally gotten to a point where it’s stable and usable. And it really is great. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-fyretv-the-best-porn-in-the-living-room-343506 The newest wireless box, combined with the latest firmware updates, make this box a porn streaming solution that’s practical in that you can hook it…
UMPC Portal has gone through the trouble of putting every netbook and UMPC released in recent history into one big collage. Sure, you could probably pick out a model or two that aren’t here (especially since I cropped a row for the lead shot), but if this picture illustrates anything, it’s that, yes, the netbook…
The cable company (which you may be using RIGHT NOW), had $21.7 billion worth of debt at the end of 2008. BILLION. That’s not good. If you have a choice, you may wanna switch carriers. [NYT]
It’s officially spring, making it the time for spring cleaning. This week, we’re doing a photo contest instead of a Photoshop contest. We want to see your disastrously messy desks. Yes, finally you have a reason to show off your disgusting workspace rather than be ashamed of it. Simply take a picture of it and…
Click to viewThere are plenty of robot builders, but none bring as much elegance to engineering as Shigeo Hirose. His creatures are Star Wars, Iron Giant and Dean Kamen rolled into one cybernetic maki. Truth is, I’d never heard of Shigeo Hirose or the Hirose-Fukushima Robotics Lab at Tokyo Tech until I read Wired for…
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If you don’t mind a refurb (and its 90 days of warranty instead of a full year), you can save a couple hundred bucks today only with a new two-year plan. [ATT via BGR]
This print ad by Ogilvy & Mather for India positions Glaxo’s Eno antacid as the pure white daisy in the muzzle of an assault rifle of tasty pain. The Dorito gunsight…damn. [Coloribus via Kottke]
If you’ve read Gizmodo since 2007, you may remember our iPod Dock Bracket. After 17 head-to-head matches, the Grifin Amplifi came out on top as champion. And now it’s just $50. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-dock-bracket-finale-altec-lansing-imv712-vs-grif-285573 The Amplifi is a utilitarian machine, but it has excellent sound for a budget iPod dock—probably because it’s built upon a real wood…
This is what it’s like driving the Google Street View van across the Golden Gate Bridge. Seems a bit choppy: Click to view[Flickr via BuzzFeed]
As a kid, I was obsessed with Pee-wee’s Playhouse. As an adult (at least according to my pricey movie stubs), my refined tastes would prefer The Ramp House, a “skateable habitat.” The Grecian house is more than just a home with a skateboard ramp in the living room. The ramp (which happens to double as…
According do DigiTimes, the upcoming Asus Eee E1004DN will be the first Eee netbook to include an optical drive when it hits in mid-April overseas for about $550. Every time I fly, I’m amazed by how many people I see watching DVDs (not just digital files) on their laptops. So if these DVD-wielding Eees do…
Beautiful, beautiful replica flash drive here. It costs $3,500. Kidding! Although with eBay bids starting at $95 for 4GB, it may as well be that expensive. [Zungua]
By popular demand, I’ve made the Vulcan Betty Page into a cool and sexy iPhone wallpaper, but also into a high resolution computer background series. You can get them all at io9 https://gizmodo.com/mystery-huge-box-hint-1-betty-and-her-phaser-5179988 To add this as a background for your iPhone, hold your finger against the image and save the image when the menu…
Have you ever been watching a profanity-laden movie and wished that you could replace the curse words with a baby’s laughter? LG has. (Not to spoil the fun, but yes, the video appears to be a viral promotion for LGenius (aka fake). We apologize if we got your hopes up for swapping out the desperate…
We usually don’t dish on Asia-only release dates to preserve your Occidental sanity, but since price and date for the U.S. drop of the new Micro Four Thirds, 1080p-capturing GH1 is still mysterious, let’s look. According to Impress, the GH1 will be available April 24 at an estimated cost of ¥150,000. That’s a dissapointing price,…
Just like AT&T, some Apple stores are now selling iPhones without a contract for $599 (8GB) and $699 (16GB). But unlike buying these phones at AT&T, you don’t need an existing AT&T contract to take advantage of the offer. And there’s no account limit on the amount of iPhones you can buy. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-soon-selling-iphones-without-activation-for-600-a-5174094 Like we…
Kotaku caught a GDC presentation by Masato Kuwahara, Nintendo’s DSi Hardware Group leader, where he ran through some Game Boy concepts that fell off the fast track at one point or another. http://kotaku.com/5184237/nintendo-shows-unreleased-dual+card-dsi-gba-touch?skyline=true&s=x The nearest miss is the dual-card DSi, apparently rejected for being a little too fat. Also shown was a 1998 Game Boy…