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Click to viewIt may come as a surprise, but none of us here at Giz moonlight as hip-hop producers. Thankfully Henny from thabizness.com does, and he put the iPhone sequencer and sampler app BeatMaker through its paces. You can load in your own samples, sequence them up with applied effects and EQ and then export…
After spending $5 million of the city’s tax dollars on high-tech, self-cleaning public toilets and then watching them quickly devolve into disgusting havens for just about every urban deviance imaginable, the city of Seattle is trying to cut their losses by vending all five of them on eBay where they can be yours for $89,000…
The iPhone (both 2.5G and 3G) might not come with an A2DP Bluetooth in place, but you can easily add it on yourself with this Infinixx adapter. It’s $62, but works with the iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod video, iPod color and iPod mini, meaning you can basically turn any fairly recent…
It kind of looks like a Zen Stone, and it is certainly a far cry from the Zen X-Fi, but this little MP3 player has been discovered hiding on Creative’s Hong Kong site. Apparently, the 4GB Zen Krystal is designed to be a sports player with a pedometer that functions similarly to the Nike+ line.…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to create some really honest gadget ads. You know, ads that say things companies would never actually advertise about their products, but actually give you more correct info than a real ad. Alternatively, you can make the ads brutally honest about the consumer it’s aimed at. Be…
Of course it’s a refurb, but it’s tough to pass up an Xbox 360 Premium (non-HDMI, wireless controller, 20GB hard drive) for $200. With free shipping and a 60-Day limited warranty, it’s certainly a tempting way to take your chances with a formerly red-ringed system. Then again, $100 more will probably get you a more…
No doubt inspired by the Japanese video site Nico Nico Douga that overlays scrolling comments over videos during playback, the Anobar sits on top of a TV and scrolls messages from others watching the same channel in real time, along with emails, Twitters, news headlines, or any other feed. The Anobar uses a pricey 640…
Your old themes will be compatible with The New Xbox Experience, Xbox LIVE guru Marc Whitten assured us when we talked to him at E3. Here is what they may look like (the interface still isn’t totally final). You’ll notice is that it’s easy to stick a wallpaper over the top half of the grey…
Tao Xiangli may only have an elementary school education, but he built his own 20-foot, 1.8-ton submarine from some metal barrels and miscellaneous parts he could scrap together. Fitting only himself, the interior also houses pressure meters, oxygen tanks, headlights, video cameras and a TV monitor. The entire submarine cost Xiangli $4,366, or about one…
The all-in-one device is not a new trend by any means. Whereas we’ve recently combined music players and cellphones, our great-grandfathers were tinkering with other ways of saving pocket space…discreetly. In this rare English Patent Curiosa Railroad Pocket Watch Gun, designers stuck a 3mm pistol inside an otherwise inconspicuous pocket watch. Here’s the reveal “shot”:…
Intel’s Centrino 2 notebook platform officially launched yesterday, and brought an armada of new laptops with it. Centrino (2) is actually just a brand name for a mobile platform, which is really a fancy way saying a combination of Intel parts: a processor, chipset and wireless module. The latest and greatest is Montevina, which is…
The tireless iPhone Dev folks who managed to jailbreak the iPhone 3G within five days of launch have announced that the first Pwnage tool will be released shortly, but it will not support a baseband unlock of the iPhone 3G. The team is still working out the particulars of the unlock and rightfully wants to…
Last Friday might’ve been the most important day of the year for Apple, but today’s looking pretty shiny too: Gartner estimates that sales of 1.4 million Macs last quarter effectively make it the number three computer maker in the US, trailing only Dell and HP, thanks to a swoopy 38 percent growth in Mac sales.…
While most of us are adolescently psyched to see the Batman bike in the Dark Knight, we’re aware of the crude reality that even trained stuntmen couldn’t ride the thing without falling off. But it’s OK, because we’ve found a suitable superhero replacement. Inspired by the lightcycles from TRON, France-based Enzyme Design has created the…
If I ran Wal-Mart and was brainstorming ideas to pump up customer satisfaction, offering Dell tech services would be near the bottom of my list. Free Snickers would probably be near the top. Anyways, you can guess which one Wal-Mart is actually going with. Wal-Mart and Dell are testing the Solution Station by Dell in…
Today Amazon is launching a beta of Amazon Video On Demand, which will stream TV and movies from all the major studios (save for Disney/ABC, which is still in bed with Apple) and take the place of Unbox. The service will instantly stream rentals or download purchases to your PC. But Amazon also has plans…
Two days late, the first beta of Opera Mobile 9.5 is available right now. While it’s a developer-focused release, 9.5’s snappier response, overhauled UI and better standards support make it worth making the jump now, if you’re just a little adventurous. [Opera] https://gizmodo.com/opera-mobile-9-5-beta-available-july-15-5020740
The HTC Diamond isn’t even out yet in the US, but a leaked photo shown over at BoyGeniusReports seems to show that HTC is planning a new version that doesn’t have the Diamond’s trademark crinkly, angular shape. The smooth-sided, round-reared phone is dubbed “Victor” apparently, and seems to be in every function identical to the…
This week at TreeHugger: We look back at 17 electric cars that were featured in our archives during the past 3 years, including speed demons like the Eliica (top speed 250 mph) and Wrightspeed X1 (0 to 60 in 3 sec). The not very useful, but oh-so-fun Circular Bike, aka Vicious Cycle made from salvaged…
Being a Star Wars die-hard from back in the day, everything I’ve seen or heard about the new Clone Wars series and film has made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. I guess this Clone Trooper “laptop” is no exception-sweet case, QWERTY keyboard, but all junior will be doing is playing educational…