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Starting today, longtime customers of T-Mobile (22 months+) are being offered an unlimited voice plan just for $50 a month. Finally, something for enduring that long 3G wait! The plan, which originally kicked off in San Francisco, offers unlimited minutes for $49.99/month on a single line or unlimited minutes for $89.99/month on a two-line family…
Cracker Jacks were fun as a kid, cause the prizes were supposed to be there. But what about when you find a stinky old Nokia cellphone in a bag of chips? Eeeww. Emma Schweiger found the Nokia in a bag of Clancy’s Ripple Potato Chips from her local Aldi store. That night, while she was…
I just noticed that tons of commenters on our latest Pirate Bay trial update were saying that the site was down, and sure enough, others are reporting that the Bay is indeed under attack. Reuven at Sys-Con.tv is saying it’s an orchestrated DDoS assault, and that the culprit may have hijacked a botnet to make…
Sony’s new lineup of Blu-ray related devices include stand-alone players that connect to BD Live via wi-fi, and home theater systems that are able to stream media back and forth with other Sony S-Air audio gear. The BDP-S360 and S560 standalone players not only connect to BD Live over wi-fi for bonus content, they also…
Considering we’re one financial slipup away from living out The Grapes of Wrath, we can now get excited when Sony crams higher-end features like network widgets into their budget-friendly, W-series Bravia LCD HDTVs. These DLNA-compliant, 1080p displays come with Ethernet ports, so you can get on the internet and connect to widgets, which include Amazon…
It’s easy to not appreciate the engineering that goes into the most simple of devices, like this Art Lebedev Spectrus USB hub. A few ports, a few rainbow stickers—easy, right? Err…wrong. Granted, Art Lebedev was trying to design a USB hub with a somewhat high concept—to resemble a prism. And granted, Art Lebedev isn’t known…
I’m pretty content with my lot in life, but these Red-Dot-Design winning in ground bathtubs from Kasch make me wish I was filthy, stinking rich. I’d just need champagne to complete the elitism. [Apartment Therapy via Core77]
The really swell thing about Olympus’s E-620 DSLR really is the swingy live view display, which twists and contorts like a limber yoga master—compared to every other DSLR screen, anyway. https://gizmodo.com/olympus-e-620-entry-level-dslr-has-swiveling-live-view-5159226 It’s supposedly the only swivel live view display in a DSLR, for now. Sony’s a300 and a350 DSLRs’ screens tilted, but it doesn’t go…
One of Chen’s deepest, darkest fantasies is a set-top box that records shows and pulls in torrents at the same time. Italian hardware firm Telsey and software maker TVBlob just made it—the BlobBox—a reality. https://gizmodo.com/fantasy-gadget-the-ultimate-next-generation-connected-5022106 It’s not exactly a TiVo, and it’s only capable of storing over-the-air TV (and in its current form, just European…
Best Buy is set to start selling the Brammo Enertia motorcycle, which is powered by large format lithium-phosphate batteries. Weird! Best Buy Capital invested a few million dollars in Brammo last September, and features like integrated GPS and Wi-Fi chips make this an especially gadgety ride, which helps explain how it got to the big…
The M1-Pro is magnificent in its own right—a laptop stand carved out of a block of aluminum. But we like the M1-Pro anthropomorphizes the MacBook Pro into a strange, four-legged bug. Aside from the four-legged creature’s brushed aluminum good looks, the stand also features a dual heat-pipe design meant to draw heat from the MBP…
See what I did there? Cause Samsung’s TL320 HD video capable camera has an ooooOLED screen and cool retro analog gauges? So, just how great are they in person? https://gizmodo.com/samsung-tl320-12mp-wide-angle-point-and-shoot-has-amole-5158533 What I really wanted to do was play back 720p video on the TL320’s screen to better divine the OLED difference, but it’s pretty early…
First the spy shot, then the spy video, and now finally the spy packaging? Is this really what’s coming March 24? They do all match, at the very least. [Wired] https://gizmodo.com/supposed-mac-mini-2009-spy-shot-shows-so-many-usb-ports-5156823
The Pirate Bay “spectrial” is wrapping up, with the prosecution having just made its closing arguments. The two main arguments that the prosecution made were that the folks behind The Pirate Bay were responsible for allowing piracy to happen and that they’re organized and rich. As to the first point, prosecutor Hakan Roswall said that…
I just can’t say because it’s under ultra-heavy embargo. The kind of embargo that, if I talk, will make someone to send ninja cyborgs from California to get me killed, chopped, and made into dumplings. (It’s not a TV) (It’s not a portable) (It’s not a dead hooker, you psychos) (It’s not a Real Doll—they…
Sorry to already shatter your expectations. An exception to the mostly mainstream camera gear we’re scoping today is this working prototype of Leica’s super-high-end S2 DSLR, a spartan tank of a 37-megapixel camera. https://gizmodo.com/were-looking-at-tomorrows-cameras-today-and-tomorrow-5162928 It’s heavy, like a piece of war equipment, and feels like its built to withstand aerial bombardment—though it’s supposedly a bit…
Yamaha has refreshed their entire home theater in a box (HDIB) line with the YHT-791 ($850), YHT-591 ($650), YHT-491 ($550) and YHT-391 ($450). Here’s a quick summary of the systems: YHT-791 • 7.1 Channels (90W x 7) • 10-inch, 100-watt YST II sub • Four HDMI Inputs • Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MasterAudio; Dolby Digital…
Someone sent a video camera on a seven-and-a-half minute ride on a sushi conveyer belt, capturing amused and surprised eaters as they discover that they’re the subject of someone’s weird tentacle-eating video. The fun almost stops when some lady in the kitchen gets uppity, but luckily enough the sushi chefs put it back on track…
Today and tomorrow at the PMA photo show, we’re going to be checking out tomorrow’s—well, next month’s and the rest of the year’s—cameras. We’ve actually seen most of these cameras already—it’s not just Apple, but everybody’s schedules revolve less and less around trade shows—since Canon, Nikon and others have already revealed their cameras for the…
Last weekend, our friends at PopCultureShock and I braved the crowds at WonderCon in SF, where we passed one camera around to see what wonders we could spot. This is what we came up with.