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T-Mobile has confirmed that the first Android phone (dubbed HTC Dream) would be released before Christmas. While they did not give an exact date, all signs are pointing to October as the most likely month for a rollout to begin. [Yahoo] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-htc-dream-spotted-in-real-life-leaked-video-5035388
If you suffer from that sexiest of learning disabilities (ugh, sexlexia), you too might enjoy shooting off your Zapp Brannigan Atomic Ray Gun at unsuspecting bystanders. The gun itself is based off of Japanese Ray Guns of the 1950s—as is a bunch of the retro stylings of the Futurama set—but updated to include your favorite…
Captain Kirk’s original chair cost $304,750 when it was auctioned off back in 2002, but now you can own your own replica chair for only a bit over $1000. You won’t get Shatner’s actual butt imprint in your chair (nor his fart remnants and other juices), but you will save quite a bit of money…
A few weeks ago we ran some rumored specs of Dell’s answer to the Eee, the Dell Inspiron 910 (aka Mini Inspiron and Inspiron Mini). Now we’ve gotten our hands on the full (internal) 910 web documentation. Along with scoping shots from every angle, we’ve learned that the 910 will support SSDs up to 16GB…
Have a favorite guitar that you wish you had two of? Right now on eBay you can pick up a “guitar photocopier,” a contraption that can carve a new guitar body for you that’s exactly like another guitar. Essentially, you put your guitar down underneath it with a block of wood next to it that…
When you’re done riding the coattails of Olympian Michael Phelps take a look at what you missed this weekend here at Gizmodo: • Leprechauns were drag racing with a 100% functioning miniature V8 Corvette engine. • How did you watch Micheal Phelps win his record breaking 8th Olympic gold medal? • Bono loves the sound…
Back in 1969 RCA made an attempt at a high-end TV that was a vision of the sets of the year 2000. The Two Thousand was even made in a limited run of 2,000 and cost $2,000. That’s around $12,000 in today’s money, but for that price you got a 23-inch Hi-Lite tube that had…
The FCC’s test report—found by I Started Something—for an upcoming “Portable Media Device with 120GB Hard Drive” by Microsoft is the 120GB Zune, and was first tested June 19 of this year. What’s this mean to you? Not a whole lot, since this Zune is the exact same size and shape as the old one,…
Yes, my friends, someone has made a bikini that vaguely resembles a classic NES controller. And suddenly that topless beach sounds a whole lot less appealing. Of course, one day women will go nude except for a pair of gloves. And in that era, we’ll be obsessed with thumb to index cleavage (making the Power…
In Brazilian industrial designer Fabio Dabori’s world, we won’t brush our teeth with bristles, synthetic reminders of a barbaric time we cleaned our teeth with animal hair. No, we are enlightened beings, and we will make our pearly whites beam eerily with…a sponge. Electric toothsponges. Dabori says that his patent-pending Giro Sponge holds water, massages…
As revealed in that leaked Sprint roadmap from last month, Sanyo’s Katana Eclipse and the RAZR VE20 become real phones today. The Eclipse is replacing the DLX, and it’s headline gimmick feature is that the sides light up, rave style. And the VE20 is an, um, RAZR, but slightly less loathsome than usual. They’ve both…
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This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model’s just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to avoid shaky hands, sneezing and stepping incautiously for a whole 20 days while he put the card model together, detailing even…
Have you been looking for an ultraportable with a bit more oomph? Have you always wanted to try a tablet/convertible laptop? Here’s a nice deal from HP to score the Pavilion tx2500z for $700 and free shipping. While it’s a hefty 4.5lbs, the system features a 12.1″ touchscreen, AMD Turion 64 X2 RM-70 2GHz dual-core…
For those of you keeping score at home, HTC’s Dream, due to hit T-Mobile in October as the first Android phone, just got tapped by the FCC’s rubber stamp. Unfortunately there aren’t any of those h-o-t product shots that the FCC is usually known for to give us a better look at the device, just…
Were I an old geezer right now, my gadget-cravings would no doubt include this multifunction walking stick. It’s adjustable, has in-built suspension, an LED flashlight, flashing signals and an alarm and is one bad-ass walking assistance device. Ok, so it’s probably designed mainly for hikers and other outdoorsy-types, but if your grandma or grandpa is…
Before Gizmodo, I worked in the bowels of the broadcast industry for a number of years. I was either shooting video or cutting video every day, all day. And while Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects were both tools I used with some proficiency on a daily basis, I’ve never seen a post production…
The classic arcade cabinet of yesterdecade gets a snazzy makeover in the Retro Space machine from designer Martijn Koch. It’s a tribute in part to “honor the design of the first ever arcade cabinet” which was Computer Space, from 1971. So it’s got arcade-quality controls for two people, including the ever-important trackball (good news for…
Until now to telescopic-zoom an image with your iPhone 3G involved a quick sprint in the general direction of your photo’s subject: But now Brando has a version of their telescope add-on for the phone. The lens is a 6x zoom bolt-on, and comes with a transparent mounting system/iPhone case much as before. It’s also…
Way back in April was when we first showed you details on Lenovo’s Ideapad U8 mobile internet device, and Lenovo’s just launched it at the Beijing Olympics. The palmtop phone/PC has an Intel Atom Z500 ticking away inside at 800MHz, GPS, dual cameras, and with 1GB of RAM and a sizable 6GB SSD. Connectivity-wise, it’s…
