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This week, we’re having a bonus MS Paint contest. That’s right, two contests in one week! Get excited! If you don’t feel confident enough in your Photoshop skills to enter our Olympics-ruining contest, this is for you. I want you to create your dream gadget using MS Paint (or equivalent rudimentary image program). Submit your…
It’s only been three weeks since the Mac “clone” company Open Tech made its debut, but it’s already putting itself up for sale for $50,000. In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo said that they were going to “beat Psystar and not make the mistake they did.” By this we took…
AT&T was calling me to set up an interview with their CTO, but all I could hear was garbled noise on my AT&T iPhone. “I can’t really hear you!” I shouted, as if volume would clear the channel. It’s always been like this, in my home in San Francisco. While the howls of iPhone 3G…
Woot’s deal of the day is a 65-inch 1080p LCD TV for only $2300. It’s Olevia, which isn’t the greatest brand-its parent company filed for bankruptcy recently-but it does seem like a decent set for the price. As a very interesting side note, when Charlie wrote up the announcement last year, he made the proclamation…
The results from Wired’s worldwide-and yes, unscientific-survey of iPhone 3G download speeds are in (though the map seems to be down): It’s the network. Well, at least, the iPhone’s 3G issues aren’t simply a hardware problem, as a bunch of mad scientist Swedes vetted this morning. Germany and the Netherlands, which have a solid, mature…
We were pretty easy on those early gen Blu-ray players, but now that the format has had some time to blossom, there’s no excuse for a unit like the Yamaha BD-S2900 or its $1,200 asking price. Lacking BD-Live or an Ethernet port to upgrade the firmware should be enough to keep you away from this…
The folks at Aircell, providers of the Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi service that launched on American last week, have admitted that the ban on video and VoIP chats via Skype and other clients is not bandwidth related, it’s for the sanity of everybody else on the plane (much like the in-flight calling ban that’s started to…
OK, the Olympics are over. Time to get back into the Gizmodo fold and see what you missed this weekend during the closing ceremonies. Don’t worry, there are a few Beijing posts mixed in for nostalgia purposes, but sadly, no beach volleyball: • Tomorrow’s solar panels: Made of pizza, nail polish and sprayed on with…
With the ever-falling prices of flat panel LCD and plasma displays, it was only a matter of time before the rear projection television died a tragic death. Since 2007, their sales in the market under 60 inches have dropped by 32%, meaning that 84% of the rear projections sold today are now 60 inches or…
We’ve had eyes on both of these for a while, but Nokia today has dropped a couple new N-Series phones into the official UK chute, and they are expected to follow stateside soon. The N85 slider (left) appears to be replacing the N81, and the N79 candybar does the same for the N78 (even though…
The speakingObject is a voice-synthesizing board that’s easily tweaked with two buttons and a typical three-axis accelerometer. What’s that mean? You get a completely original, vaguely human techno-ready track with the flick of a wrist. And yes, it’s only a matter of time before some tripped-out a’hole at a concert is doing this right next…
The amazingly convincing 3D anamorphosis app iHologram we showed on Friday turns out to be just a technology demonstrator rendering rather than a real app. Its developer, David O’Reilly, apparently wasn’t trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes with the cool clip of the strolling cat, but just demonstrate how the 3D effect could…
The CVT i3101 is not so different than the countless other iPhone/iPod alarm clocks we’ve seen on the market, but it does have a few standout features. First off, it’s wall-mountable, saving you ever-precious nightstand space and giving your home that “wow, I have electronics stuck to my wall just like Tony Stark!” feel. Plus,…
Tris, the free version of Tetris for the iPhone that we loved (’cause it was free!) is being pulled from the App Store. Apparently, The Tetris Company called up Apple and it no likey. Its creator, Noah Witherspoon, says that while he thinks The Tetris Company’s copyright claim is thin-and would be thinner still if…
HTC’s Dream phone, with Android goodness, hit the FCC last week, and details have been popping up elsewhere too: But a new pic over at FCC has given us a concrete bit of data at last… the Dream’s size. It’s a svelte 55mm, or 2.17-inches wide, and 115mm or 4.53-inches long. That’s a jot shorter…
The Dark Knight pretty much confirmed that if Batman used any phone, it wouldn’t be the iPhone, but we can’t help but take a…professional…interest in the BatRest all the same. A folding polypropylene stand, the BatRest (just 1.2mm thick) can fit in your wallet before getting deployed in your darkest hour. As the flight attendents…
To mark the 30th Anniversary of the minifig, Gizmodo is celebrating a video contest with Lego. The objective: to create a movie in honor of the minifig. The short could be made using any technique you want as long as it’s creative and fun (check the full rules after the jump). https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-video-how-lego-builds-its-minifigs-5041136 The prizes? Huge…
The combination isn’t exactly the most obvious, but hey, I’m a gamer, and hey, I like paying $5 a glass for a pretentious beer that tastes identical to Budweiser. The Stella Artois PSP was manufactured in a limited edition for the Fosters employees who’d be brewing the “import” in Australia for Australia-part of the official…
Denver’s Pepsi Center and Invesco Field are just fine for their concerts and professional sporting events. But when the Democrats come into town for their National Convention this week, the two buildings are getting technologically gutted. In fact, Qwest, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, AT&T, Level3, Comcast, EchoStar, Hewlett-Packard, and Symantec all teamed up to give the…
A couple of Swedish scientists at a company that sells test chamber facilities for wireless devices decided to put the iPhone 3G’s antenna to the test, in the light of the phone’s supposed connectivity issues. Their verdict: “the values are completely normal.” In other words, it compares very well with the antenna strength in both…
