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While I think the Surfster Double Black looks like a head-on date with a tree waiting to happen, it does have one redeeming quality. That quality being it conveniently doubles as a two-person body board. That means once you get out of the hospital and finish your rehabilitation in the late spring, this thing will…
This is Accelerator Suit Duke, and he’s been deemed the “most advanced action figure of all time.” Watch him run, watch him shoot, watch him ruin your childhood’s conception of everything that is good. Jack pretty much nailed it after the trailer premiere during the Super Bowl: “it doesn’t really feel like G.I. Joe, you…
Nerf just can’t stop. Last year it was Rambo Jr.’s Vulcan Gatling gun, and now they’ve raised the bar again—the CS-35 shoots 35 darts from a rotating drum magazine with pump-action auto fire. Holy shit. https://gizmodo.com/nerf-vulcan-ebf-25-fully-automatic-toy-dart-gun-rambo-357952 As you can see, it’s autofire that still depends on your pump-action to squeeze out the darts, and you…
Some official pics discovered today have taken the lid off two new Samsung phones, the OmniaHD and its musically inclined sibling, the BeatDisc. The folks at Samsung Central are somewhat perplexed by the big reveal, however. The UI looks very Windows Mobile, when what it should resemble is the S60 5th Edition. The OmniaHD‘s screen…
For it’s 20th anniversary (I can’t believe Super Soakers are 20 years old!), Hasbro is bringing back the classic Soaker, complete with poignant 1989 neon, back to market. Will kids today respect the best? https://gizmodo.com/evolution-of-the-super-soaker-watergun-5022149 They’ve made one slight change-no longer can you completely unscrew the lime green bottle for a quick dump-over-the-head grenade attack;…
Sony Ericsson kicked of the MWC show a bit early today with a press conference for a slick new phone: The enigmatically named Idou. With an OS based on Symbian, the Idou continues the cameraphone megapixel pissing match with an impressive 12 megapixel camera/Xenon flash combo. Once you snap those gorgeous cellpone photos, they’ll be…
I got some quality time with a Garmin Nuviphone G60, riding around Barcelona in the back of a jet-black Mercedes limo. My hands-on impression: This smartphone-meets-GPS-meets-media-player feels like a winner. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-asus-nuvifone-g60-screenshots-and-specs-5152095 I don’t know what it really is: A cellphone that is a GPS or a GPS that is a cellphone. Of course, the cellphone…
I guess that if the Garmin Nuviphone G60 is a GPS smartphone, the Garmin Nuviphone M20 Windows Mobile is a smartphone GPS. It’s quite smaller than the G60, but the demo didn’t work quite right. It seems that the Garmin Nuviphone M20 we tried—which still doesn’t have a release date—is an early prototype. As a…
The Canova dual screen LCD laptop from V12 Design we profiled back in July is slowly exiting the concept phase and could actually be headed for the all-important production stage of development. https://gizmodo.com/v12-design-delivering-dual-touchscreen-laptop-within-tw-5023505 The boost in street cred is due entirely to the fact that V12 Design has hooked up with an American firm called…
I’m now in my Barcelona hotel after coming up from Madrid in the bullet train (wheeee!) I will be covering the Mobile World Congress 2009, which will be loaded with new products. Stay tuned.
Chinese electronics companies taking design cues from Apple is nothing new, so we won’t dwell on it here. Instead, the SmartQ 5 could (stress could) match the Cowon P5 with similar features and better pricing. https://gizmodo.com/cowon-p5-portable-media-player-has-5-inch-touchscreen-5028780 The only trouble with that is, as the link to the P5 shows, Cowon has had a few months…
This swiveling, QWERTY-equipped Sony Ericsson mobile is expected to debut sometime this week over in Europe at the Mobile World Congress. Here’s what we know. Not much! That’s what we know. But there is this, from the Esato forums (via Phonearena), whence the included image was leaked: Speculations point out that it will not be…
After abominations like Indiana Jones 4 and the Star Wars prequels, what do you think? Watch the great trailer for The People vs George Lucas-featured at io9 and tell us your verdict in the comments. https://gizmodo.com/review-new-indys-most-deadly-trap-is-the-movie-itself-393034 My verdict: Exile in Dagobah. Or failing that, Albuquerque. Plus a remake and rewrite of the prequels, Indy 4,…
If you’ve been wondering whether you’ll be able to receive strong DTV signals on your old TV, the FCC has thoughtfully created a site to help you out. You enter in your address, and the site gives a list of the digital signals that you should be able to pull in, helpfully color-coded in green…
The stakes are high. There can only be one true victor in all fart battles: fart tennis, volume contests, holding it in during school/funerals/weddings/sex, and now, in iPhone apps. Who will reign supreme? iFart and Pull My Finger, the two gladiators, joined the App Store at around the same time, and both achieved some success.…
Shimano, makers of high-end bike gear I can’t afford, is making a push for its Di2 battery-powered gear shifter. Why make the time-tested bicycle design more complicated and harder to service? Aerodynamics. The Di2, which costs a prohibitive $4,000, uses very sensitive paddle shifters placed just behind the brakes. The front derailleur has a tiny…
Some stylus-wielding European posted a video on YouTube previewing Windows Mobile 6.5, honeycomb and all. It’s a little choppy, and we’re not sure how he got it, but it looks like the real deal. [Engadget]
This beautiful, sharp video, captured with a Canon EOS 5D MarkII and a 15mm fisheye lens inside a protective canvas bag, really shows the mountain fun we’re missing here on the surprisingly-temperate East coast. The video was shot at Powder Mountain, which certainly earns its name, out in Northern Utah. Makes me want to try…
Steam has the much-loved zombie shooter Left 4 Dead on sale this weekend only for $25 instead of the usual $50. Did you guys know that Mike Patton (of Faith No More) does the voices for the "Infected" characters in the game? I’ve never played it, since scary games give me scary dreams, but since…
Why leave your car out in the cold while your smartphone gets all the app fun? Hughes Telematics is aiming to bring downloadable apps to car dashboards, and the possibilities are pretty crazy. Hughes plans to start rolling out the new dashboard consoles in about 2010, and gives examples like an emissions monitor, web-connected security…
