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Afraid your Xbox doesn’t have enough memory for the New Xbox Experience? So is Microsoft, and they’re willing to sell you the storage space you need for a much reduced price. You can now log on to the company’s Xbox site to see if you’re eligible for one of their special memory upgrade offers. Under…
French performance art troupe “Not So Noisy” have spent the last month “assembling” giant, life-sized Autobots from normal cars, and shooting the action from overhead. Of course, they’re not really building anything. They’re really arranging cars (or people) in an empty parking lot so that it looks like Optimus Prime knocked back a few too…
Whatever hellish limbo the BlackBerry Bold is trapped in keeping it off of AT&T, it’s poking out its head just a little bit. If you’ve got an unlocked Bold running on AT&T, you might notice a few new icons and service books for YellowPages.com Mobile and AT&T Navigator just got pushed to it. So it…
Transportation Security Administration baggage screener Pythias Brown is the reason you hate flying with expensive gear in your bag, especially if you ever flew out of Newark airport. Over the last few years, he stole at least $200,000 worth of electronics. Not just a camcorder here, a laptop there, or an Xbox 360 or two,…
Surprise, the reason your ski jacket doesn’t have a heater in it is because nobody likes lugging around the car battery required to keep it running. But like many portable electronics, Aevex harnessed the stored energy of lithium-polymer batteries, form shaping them to fit snugly inside a glove. You get 4-6 hours of hand baking,…
WIth their Blu-ray-playing AX3200 desktop PC and accompanying 24-inch, 1080p monitor, Acer just released two affordable, HD-friendly products at a combined price that sits just over $1000. With the compact dimensions of around 10″x4″x14″, the AX3200 desktop has 2.1 GHZ AMD Phenom X3 8450 processor, HDMI-out, Dolby Home Theater 5.1 sound and nine USB ports.…
Here we were, thinking Windows 7 was simply a codename (and a fairly boring one at that—where’s Longhorn? Whistler?). Now, on the official Windows Vista Blog, MS has came out and declared “Windows 7” the official name of Vista’s successor, dev-only pre-betas of which will be released at the upcoming WinHEC and PDC developer conferences…
For an impatient geek there is nothing…NOTHING more annoying than standing behind someone in a grocery store that has the audacity to write a check in the 21st century. That is why I head for the self-checkout lines. Generally, only those brave enough to tackle the machine and handle the pressure of nerds staring them…
It has been a couple of months since we first heard the rumor that the 3G-enabled Sony Ericcson W760a and its updated Walkman interface would arrive on AT&T, but it appears that the day has finally arrived. Features include a 3.2 megapixel camera, GPS and full-HTML web browsing for $129.99 after a two-year agreement and…
Back in the good old days, the weak, slow and stupid would be eaten by lions, leaving the quick and the smart to live on and breed quick and smart babies. But these days, any moron can wheel themselves around a Wal-mart on a motorized scooter, buying Hot Pockets with food stamps while talking on…
Tomorrow we’ll see the first fresh MacBooks in almost a year, and likely the first all-new case designs since the arrival of the MacBooks—or before that if you’re a stickler, since the MacBook Pro is basically the same as the PowerBook G4, and the MacBook ain’t so different from the iBook G4. Check out our…
At their best, gadgets transcend the world of technology and become “living” works of art. The following ten gadgets are awe-inspiring in their complexity, mind boggling in their motion and beautiful enough to stand alongside the work of any old master. Naturally, there is a clock or two, but there are also calculators, a Rube…
President Bush signed into law today a bill that will create a centralized position in the executive branch, appointed by the president, to head up the fight against piracy and intellectual property violations. The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP) is backed strongly by the usuals—MPAA, RIAA, etc.—and yet faced some pushback…
Technically speaking, you have better navigational capability in your car than the entire airline industry. Why? Because they are still relying on an antiquated WWII era traffic network that often takes aircraft on zigzagging routes towards radar beacons—costing carriers billions of dollars in wasted fuel each year. To make matters worse, the plan to upgrade…
With new Macbooks seemingly imminent, I thought it’d be a good time to look back in time to the first Apple laptop that changed portable computing forever: the original PowerBook. Back in 1991, Apple wasn’t the company it is today. There was no iPod, no iTunes Music Store, no iPhone. At the time, laptops (or…
We’ve written about the amazing iLIMB bionic hand before, but the newest version of it was showed off on the Today Show this morning, and it looks pretty incredible. For one, the guy who had it was able to simply pop one off and put another on without skipping a beat, with the new hand…
We’ve certainly seen our fair share of insane, overpriced equipment aimed at overmonied audiophiles (usually from Furutech), but this is a new one to me. The Audio Desk Systeme from Germany takes your CD, spins it at a super-high speed, and uses a blade to cut it down to a more perfect circle. Apparently, this…
We’re here at Cupertino to bring you the full blow-by-blow of today’s Apple MacBook Event. Keep up with our liveblog at live.gizmodo.com. It’ll automatically refresh for you, but if the system just isn’t fast enough then F5 to your heart’s content. After all, you never know when John Mayer could show up. Oh, and there…
Circuit City isn’t planning on going gently into that good night. First they offered a more aggressive price match guarantee and now they are offering a buy one get one 50% off sale on all $50 Wii games. If you are still playing the Wii, you might want to jump on this deal before the…
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