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Those of you with a Windows Mobile phone in the audience just lucked out, because a new, extra classy cellphone game is on the way. It’s called DUI: The Long Drive Home, and it puts your drunk driving skills to the test through the magic of your phone’s camera and an exciting progression of minigames!…
The MacBook Air weighs a little over three pounds. Airy, but there’s lighter. Not surprisingly, Apple wants to weigh that little—under three pounds. The easiest way to cut the fat is to use a material less heavy than aluminum that won’t compromise the body’s integrity. Enter carbon fiber, which AppleInsider says might replace the Air’s…
Griffin has announced updated versions of their TuneBuds Mobile and SmartTalk products for both versions of the iPhone, the iPod nano 4G, iPod touch 2G, and iPod classic (120 GB). TuneBuds are intended to be an alternative to Apple’s upcoming premium in-ear headphones—both offer a built-in microphone and remote for answering calls and controlling playback,…
Want a Guitar Hero III Les Paul Bundle for $39.99? We got it. Want a Gateway 17″ Widescreen LCD monitor for $99? That too. A bigger Optiquest 22″ Widescreen display for $150? Yes. Maybe a 4GB SD HC card with adapter for just $9 (nine dollars)? Totally. Hit the jump for today’s gadget deals, with…
Google just added voice and video chat capabilities to Gmail, the perennially in beta web mail program. It uses a special web browser plug-in available for PC and Mac, which requires Firefox, IE, Chrome, and a camera. The plug-in only weights 2MB. For now there’s no video support in Google Chat, but you will be…
This holiday season we’re taking a break from our usual schedule of eating candy canes to throw an event called Gizmodo Gallery. “Gizmodo Gallery?” you ask, “What’s that?” It’s basically the best of Gizmodo come to life, in NYC meatspace from the 4th to the 7th of December. UPDATE: I’m rolling a few device details,…
In the interest of thwarting credit card theft, Visa is testing some pretty interesting card technology with a handful of European banks. Using what appears to be Visa’s mutant hybrid of a credit card and a pocket calculator, users can enter their PIN into the card itself and have a security code generated on the…
Circuit City might yet outdo Best Buy on Black Friday deals for another year. Bank of America has given Circuit City a $1.1 billion loan that’ll help cover its operating expenses until it’s expected to come out of bankruptcy next year, giving it a second chance. Still, I don’t see how even a billion dollars…
The next time some tough guy on the street tries to pressure you into buying cheap Christmas bulbs JUST SAY NO! Apparently, the market for counterfeit holiday decorations is increasing at an alarming pace—and these lights can pose serious safety hazards. They may try and sucker you in by saying things like “this is the…
The Tritton AX Pro is not a bad looking wired surround sound headset that happens to be compatible with PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 audio and chatting. It features full Dolby Digital 5.1 hardware decoding, along with inline adjustments to independent front, center, rear and subwoofer channels—comprised of eight speakers in all.The catch is, of…
Apple might be sailing skippy amidst the flood of financial doom, but it doesn’t mean they aren’t sensitive to the shrinking disposable income of their customers. Or you know, they just want to take the movie store metaphor a bit further. Either way, the iTunes Store now has a bargain bin for movies—a weekly selection…
Congratulations to Dave McCall for winning our 007 on Blu-ray contest. He will be enjoying a Bond fix a little earlier than the rest of us now that he has 6 Bond titles on Blu-ray and a shiny new PS3 to play them on.
Click to viewIt’s a common practice: you put a bunch of movies in your Netflix queue that are classics. You know, long, serious, depressing movies that you feel like you should have seen by now but haven’t. Then they arrive and sit untouched for weeks while you watch Wayne’s World 2 for the fifth time.…
With all of the dangers lurking out there these days, you probably shouldn’t let your toddler out of your sight for any length of time. However, should they escape your clutches this electronic wristlet concept could deliver text and graphic symbol messages to the child via a solar-powered display. My thought on this is that…
The spawn of the XM Sirius fusion emerges tomorrow, and Orbitcast has picked up the complete channel listing for XM subscribers that goes into effect in less than 24 hours. It’s fairly grim for some diehard XM fans—a lot of rock stations have been erased (bye bye punk channel) or are being replaced by Sirius…
Microsoft’s Live Mesh, a file synchronization system across Windows XP, Vista and Mobile along with OSX, has looked fine from a technical standpoint…we’ve just been lacking some actual programs to take advantage of the infrastructure. At a recent developers conference, Microsoft announced their first four Live Mesh applications to excite the public and developers alike…
According to a MacBlogz source, AT&T’s upcoming 3G iPhone tethering plan will run $30 a month over existing subscriptions and have a 5GB cap. That sounds about right to us, as the plan is identical to that which AT&T already offers to Blackberry users.They also explain that the connection will simply be cut if you…
I wouldn’t sacrifice a working SNES for this mod, but if you have a broken one in your closet somewhere, transforming it into a digital alarm clock is an interesting (and inexpensive) way to give it new life. As you can see in the video, the display can be set using the standard controller. Plus…
By the looks of things, this double-wheeled bike concept can easily stand alongside gems like the 12-foot tall bicycle, face to face tandem bicycle and the running bicycle in terms of sheer stupidity and pointless danger. Since there is no chain attached to the lower wheels, I can only assume that the upper wheel is…
T-mobile’s G1 has been given the teardown treatment again by the guys at iSuppli, and their official estimate of its materials price is $143.89. The most costly part inside is the dual-ARM processor baseband at $28.49, followed by the display at $19.67 and the 3-megapixel cam at $12.13. Obviously this doesn’t include external costs such…
