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While we enjoyed gaming with the wireless surround sound headphones we tested in our Battlemodo, the major inherent flaw with the systems were their lack of voice-chat capabilities. Now Turtle Beach has announced the Ear Force X4 wireless headphones that combine Dolby 5.1 decoding and voice chat in a package that’s compatible with the Xbox…
If your old iPod is suddenly about to become useless when you acquire an iPhone 3G, why not repurpose it as something else? One enterprising modder took an iPod that had been accidentally run over by a car (yeah, I hate it when that happens) and turned it into a fully-functioning mouse, with the buttons…
Those visiting Apple stores later today won’t be able to buy the iPhone 3G, but at least they’ll be able to check it out in Jumbotron form. Here’s the iPhone 3G in its official capacity as an unusable giant Apple store display, which according to our sources will be on show floors today. And if…
If anyone doubted that this is going to be a weekend of worldwide mass hysteria, here’s a clue: after a few hours there are no more iPhones 3G available for pre-order in the UK. O2’s pre-ordering site was activated this morning and-after being down for a few hours under the massive demand-it now says that…
Some of my best childhood memories are napping-away in the back bed-seat of our old van. But this four-axle GMC is going to make me need some therapy. Because aside from stylish oak kitchen cabinets and a comfortable La-Z-Boy recliner, the van makes room for a sauna (and they don’t just mean that the A/C…
TmoNews has an anony-tip that they’ll be firing up their 3G network in those 20+ top markets on Oct. 1. The rumor’s fairly squishy, but it’s not totally whack—T-mo promised to roll out 3G in major markets throughout the year, plus we’d heard those top markets would be balling along by the end of it.…
One of our favorite cameras, the Casio EX-F1, is getting a new firmware update that adds yet another awesome feature: prerecord movies. This allows you to capture video starting a full five seconds before you fully press down the movie button, letting you catch stuff that your beer-slowed reflexes would have missed with any other…
Who’d have thought that the humble power strip would warrant so much creative design attention? Not me. But I like this e-Ball power strip design from Mashallah design: it’s kind of like the UFO one, designed to deconflict many chunky power bricks, but taken into an extra dimension. In fact, the first thing it reminded…
This may or may not be a redesigned MacBook Pro case-we’re calling it a hefty rumor like the Chinese blog that sourced it. The only major difference from current designs that we can honestly see is a series of unexplained circular indentations (possibly just from prototyping) along the Apple logo (which, incidentally, is said to…
Some information has leaked out about Samsung’s upcoming M3510 music-player cellphone, and it looks like it’ll have some accelerometer-driven control built-in. A bit like the ShakeSMS app for Nokia phones and the Sansa Shake MP3 player, the M3510 will let you shake it in different directions and turn it around to control the music player…
Sony’s firmware 2.40 for the PS3 was pulled from servers after bricking several systems. Now at least one customer support service is reporting that firmware 2.41 will be released later this week. While Sony has yet to send out an official press release on the topic, it’s looking like those who didn’t download their in-game…
After attending the last G8 summit in Japan, politicians didn’t leave empty-handed or with one of those “your parting gift will be a better, more peaceful world” cop-outs. Oh no, instead they got custom double-lacquered Nintendo DSs depicting a pagoda and breeze of cherry blossoms. And as if that weren’t enough, they received Manga-style caricatures…
Click to view If you want to have your own F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, look no further because Stephen Trimble-from the always-good The Dew Line-has sent us high resolution instructions showing Lockheed Martin‘s construction process. Piece by piece, the instructions look straight from the Pentagon’s Lego set. Grab yours after the jump, along with…
Click to viewBoth sending and receiving of me.com mails is working now. Following a tip by reader Gizmodo reader Tom, we have tested this with our own Mac.com accounts. It works perfectly, both for sending and receiving. Setting it up is very easy: 1. Go to your mail program. 2. Create new account. 3. For…
Weird… but I kinda want to hear more. That’s roughly how I’d describe the sound output of the Thingamakit, a strange "noise monster" DIY synthesizer. I like the fact that it uses some sort of optical feedback: adjusting those tentacles affects how the sounds are generated, which then gets fed back to the LEDs in…
Fancy a BlackBerry Curve that earns you $50? At the moment, Wal-Mart is running an online deal that means the normally $149.99 phone will cost you just $49.99, and after rebates you’ll actually be $50 in profit. The T-Mobile Wing and BlackBerry Pearl (normally $299.99 and $99) are also going for free, and will get…
Just last month we were reporting 42GB research DVD technology, but Panasonic’s scientists have blown that figure out of the water with a 400GB optical disc. The trick’s been done by making a 16-layer deep Blu-ray disc, and a player with sufficiently clever optics that it can pick up the light scattered by all those…
In Dubai, they’re doing things big these days. Big hotels, big palm tree islands, big wallets, and very soon, big $281 million fountains. The biggest one in the world, in fact, and it will be large enough to give the famed fountains at the Bellagio in Las Vegas an inferiority complex. At 825 feet long,…
Careful what kind of digital camera you give your kids from the Disney Store these days, otherwise the spawn of your loins could end up putting a goatse right up against their chubby cherubic faces. Then, their virgin innocence robbed from them, they’ll probably go around leaving this 8MB camera in the darker places of…
In a Nikkei article set to publish Monday, it was revealed that Toyota has green lit plans to offer solar panels on its popular Prius hybrid vehicle. The solar panel option will be available on the high-end Prius model when it receives a redesign in 2009. Strangely, the Japanese business newspaper also reports that the…