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Check out the Hong Kong Apple store online and you’ll see a couple of lines of text that’ll tempt, tease and beguile you if you’re dreaming of an unlocked iPhone 3G: “iPhone 3G purchased at the Apple Online Store can be activated with any wireless carrier. Simply insert the SIM from your current phone into…
Pansonic’s line of Toughbook laptops is already pretty extensive, but it’s getting more so: Panasonic’s just come up with the 8-series of “business-rugged” notebooks. The F8, T8 and W8 all come with a Gobi 3G mobile broadband system built in for roaming internet access. The F8 is being called the “world’s lightest 3G-ready notebook with…
Some of you P2P fans may want to know about a new coalition called Arts + Labs. It may sound like some kind of open-source hippie think tank, but it’s actually a powerful alignment of film and music copyright owners (NBC Universal, Viacom and the Songwriters Guild of America) and tech firms and ISPs (Microsoft,…
A sink-in-a-drawer is a great idea, right up to the point when you realize what a bad idea it is. Sure, you know, makeshift loft studio in lower Manhattan, no room for toilet and sink in the bathroom—why not put it in a drawer, and slide it away when you’re destined for the throne? But…
I hate rumors and I hate rumor sites. Or better said, I hate stupid rumors and dumb rumor sites. But I especially hate useless people who try to fabricate them and fail miserably. Like this MacBook Pro, which is a gross Photochop done by someone who actually doesn’t have a clue about what perspective means.…
Click to viewDo you think the original KITT’s dashboard was so overloaded with useless indicators and LEDs so dumbstastically stupid that it made The Hoff look like a Physics Nobel Prize winner in leather pants? Then you still haven’t seen this. Can anybody please tell us what the hell the number is in the middle…
Who isn’t ready for Windows 7? That wiser, stabler, more streamlined OS with Vista’s good looks but an even prettier Start button and an alleged 15-second boot time? Heck, even Bill Gates is excited to get on to the next version. You can get your hands on a “pre-beta” version of Windows 7 by attending…
A bus driver in Honolulu, Hawaii, was suspended without pay recently after he was discovered playing video games while driving. Photos taken by a concerned passenger caught him red-handed with his PSP, and she complained that he would play at stoplights and “with two hands… at times, while he was driving in traffic.” As baffling…
We’ve seen some of the BlackBerry Storm’s older UI in blurry shots and videos, but it’s obviously gotten a recent facelift—especially the keyboard, which used to look absolutely gross. Storm Reviews has a load of pics of the freshest UI off of Vodaphone’s version, and it looks pretty good, though I find the italics for…
As hot as a girl playing the Wii can be (Very NSFW link!), it is imperative that you wait for some real private time before touching yourself in an impure manner. And for the love of God—do not keep the Wii controller in your hand when you do it. Actually, it is best to just…
Muxtape, the simple, awesome and insanely popular online mix tape creator went offline last month with a brief explanation: “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.” Since then, we haven’t heard anything about it. Until now. Justin, the creator of Muxtape, just posted a long,…
Hyperion Power’s plans to develop and sell portable nuclear reactors first came to light last year—but most people probably brushed off the idea as some sort of fantasy. Whether that is true or not, Hyperion seems to be committed to the project. A recent interview with Hyperion CEO John Deal revealed that they have every…
Just in time for the rumored Oct. 14 MacBook event, AppleInsider has a source (notably without a track record) who’s supposedly seen the new MacBook and MacBook Pro. Matching—or perhaps simply using—current speculation, the source says that the two will look like a cross between the MacBook Air and current iMacs, with tapering and black…
Are you a big Metal Gear Solid 4 fan? Interested in playing around with Solid Snake’s, uh, rubber band gun? Well, a crazy Japanese fan has created a completely metal rubber band gun based on the game, dubbed the Silver Wolf. It even has a laser sight onboard, allowing you to precisely aim at your…
Once you go open, it’s hard to be closed, as T-Mobile’s finding out. Following the launch of the totally open G1, T-Mobile is set to open up its crappy, closed T-Zones WAP browser that populates most of their new feature phones. Hopefully that means the full web, though they haven’t confirmed that. Still, a radical…
RP Cuento sent us this time-lapse video showing how he built his 2,558-piece Lego Mac Pro, which he dubs Bricked Mac. He also told us a few more facts about this fantastic Lego computer, starting with a basic question: Does it overheat? https://gizmodo.com/perfect-lego-mac-pro-is-two-computers-in-one-5052333 It doesnt really overheat too badly. If I’m running batch compressor stuff,…
Since Blu-ray was announced, there’s been a lot of talk about its impending obsolescence in the face of digital downloads. Just last week, Samsung took a low blow at the format, predicting its lifespan to be only five years. Sony fired back, claiming that the “Blu-ray format will not only coexist with the networked era,…
One of the most puzzling announcements to come out of the release of the T-Mobile G1 was the fact that there would be no desktop app to sync your data. While you will be able to sync you contacts and calendar info remotely (at no cost) out of the box, you must submit to storing…
If you purchased Metallica’s new album Death Magnetic, you may have noticed that it sounds like complete shit. But don’t blame Metallica, producer Rick Rubin or mastering engineer Ted Jensen—the real culprit here is Apple and their dammed iPod. While the “loudness wars” have been going on since the late ’80s, the development of digital…
When a tipster passed us the link to T-Mo’s G1 User Guide quick-start guide and I read over the 48-page PDF, the first thing I noticed was a misspelling of Google as “Goggle.” The second thing I noticed was that when I do end up checking out the phone, I’m definitely going to need the…
