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With just three hours to go, the explosion of leaked shots and last-minute rumors continues. However, if you didn’t had enough with those and our crystal-clear MacBook Pro 15-inch mock-up , here are even more real crystal-clear images that show the top and bottom of the MacBook Pro 2008. https://gizmodo.com/spyshot-shows-what-looks-to-be-the-new-macbook-pro-5062954 According to the shots and…
Finally, my bedroom recreations of “Pocket Calculator” (nay, Taschenrechner) will be blessed with the added touch of reality they so obviously deserve: a Stylophone, the late-60s pantheon of touch-controlled synthesizers, is coming to the App Store in December for $6. Music geeks are really going all out on this platform, and I like it. Yep,…
Giz pick of the week: IMAX Anything Just in case you enjoyed Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as much as Trey Parker and Matt Stone (or our former Editor Jason Chen), there’s always the slew of IMAX double feature releases hitting shelves today. Cosmic Voyage/Destiny In Space and Space Station/Mission to…
The Howl Tissue Pillow is kind of ingenious, even though it’s the kind of thing you would only use in bad situations. Like when you have a cold and are stuck in bed and need a never-ending supply of tissues to mop up the mucus and junk pouring out of your head. Or if you’re…
That is, once you’ve put on the blinders necessary to peer only into the screen to enjoy this $7 theme add-on, which ditched the Pearl/Curve’s rough quasi-future typography (thank God that has been changed) and icon set in favor of the Storm’s slick new UI. The icons even look like they’re being touch-clicked when you…
Already the format of choice for, ahem, somewhat clandestine distribution of digital video files, DivX has now officially partnered with Warner Bros. to distribute video in the format. Sony beat WB to the punch by about 9 months, and we’ll have to wait even longer for Warner to come around to HD DivX, which won’t…
Asus has not so surprisingly decided to recall the Eee Box B202 mini PCs infested with the W32/Usbalex worm in Japan. The virus-y boxes are confined to the land of Gojira, since it was only on Eee PCs tailored for the Japanese market. The numbers in play are pretty sad, actually: Asus built a wimpy…
John Gruber, who foretold the Oct. 14 event many moons ago, has just dropped what appears to be the motherload of what’ll be announced. Besides confirming the spy shot, he confirms what I thought when I saw there wasn’t a separate mouse button—the entire trackpad (which is glass, as was rumored) is a button, kind…
The MacBook event today inexorably means Giz will be crammed full of Apple posts. It just one of those things, like gravity. But unlike gravity, you can do something about it! Clicking here will take you to a wonderful land where Apple doesn’t exist, unicorns roam free and Tom Cruise is our lord, savior and…
Connecting monitors to computers via USB isn’t really that exciting anymore, but this little dreamboat from Century Japan does something much more than that: it runs on bus power. In other words, this thing is powered just like your trusty flash drives, mice and soda can-shaped USB humidifiers. A tiny, portable, fully functional secondary monitor…
In an email of talking points circulated by Microsoft spokespeople, the company addresses the various rumors about today’s new MacBooks, preemptively claiming that they will be overpriced, underspec’d and locked down. They offer charts comparing the feature lists of similarly priced Windows and Mac notebooks and make numerous accusations of an “Apple Tax.” The email…
Formed from the same genetic ooze as Pantech’s Slide Duo smartphone and rebranded Helio Ocean handset, the Matrix is a mildly frustrating device: spec’d with the best, but dressed in the worst. An HSDPA-enabled handset with GPS, a full QWERTY keyboard in addition to a dialpad, and two cameras should have the software to leverage…
My parents live in a pretty big house—well, at least it seems big if you’ve spent the last five years living in various closets in New York. One of the most annoying things about occasionally blogging from there is that sometimes, depending on where you are in the big house, the wireless connection will crap…
Here’s a crystal clear image of the new MacBook Pro 2008. At least, if you trust yesterday’s alleged spy shot. I created it using that image as a guide for those of you too impatient to wait until tomorrow’s Apple event, like myself. https://gizmodo.com/spyshot-shows-what-looks-to-be-the-new-macbook-pro-5062954 Just like it happened with the iPod nano mockups, let’s hope…
Sure, the new MacBook’s about to be revealed and that’s super exciting, but some of us around here are actually starting to feel the effects of the recession and could sure use a good deal right now. For you belt-tighteners, here’s a cheap and quick upgrade from Newegg. The online retailer’s offering a Corsair 4GB…
Years after selling notebooks in Asia and Europe, Samsung has finally braved the jump to the U.S. market. The company will be releasing five different notebook lines to North America, including its pretty little 10-inch netbook for $499 and the super skinny X360 starting at $1,599. Other lines include their Q-series all-purpose notebooks, their R-series…
Earlier this evening, something with the proposed price of $899 appeared on Apple’s product lists, causing certain parts of the internet to cry out that perhaps a low-end MacBook was in the works. Now, according to Macrumors and AppleInsider, it looks like the item will most likely be a 24-inch LED Apple Cinema Display, rather…
For those of you aspiring to be the next Satellite Radio Raheem, here’s a few newly leaked photos of the upcoming Sirius SUB-X2 Boombox. Much like the current SUB-X1, the new music player will sport a front-panel headphone jack, auxiliary input for other MP3 players, and a universal docking system. I wonder if that docking…
Flip Mino, one of the best cheap camcorders money can buy, can now be personalized to your heart’s delight. The new Flip site allows you to choose from hundreds of pre-made designs, upload your own image, or make a one-of-a-kind pattern using their awesomely trippy pattern generator to be printed on the camera’s shell. Better…
As is always the case, this undercover iPhone pic of what appears to be the new MacBook Pro is too blurry to rule for sure one way or the other. But as far as spyshots go, this one’s looking pretty solid. And just like with the presumed-fake-and-then-verified-true iPod nano leaked pics from last time (coincidentally…
