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One of the major questions still unanswered about the iPhone 3G on AT&T is whether or not you can do family plans with it. Good news. AT&T just let us know that yes, Family Talk plans ARE available. Voice plans start at $39.99 a month (same as the regular one-line starting plan) and additional lines…
It was only a matter of time before someone decided to tackle a Lego version of Disney-Pixar’s cute little cash cow Wall-E. After a three month planning session, Joe Meno, editor of BrickJournal magazine, managed to get the job done. The result is a very impressive model that features a moving neck and arms along…
Firefox 3 is finally available, which means you should go download it. They’re trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, so if you’re at work, go to everyone’s cube and download FF. Even if your office computers are locked down and can’t use FF, just download it…
“Right about now it’s about that time for me to holler Girl, I wanna waller in the back of my Impala Woo, don’t need no tickets for this thing Just jump on in, let me hit them switches on the train” Wait, this song is about WHAT?? As for the Electric Bike Train, it’s a…
Laptop Magazine got a hands-on with the Garmin nuvifone, and this new batch of UI shots shows it may be a promising competitor in the touchscreen smartphone market. While most cellphone makers still don’t understand less is more when it comes to the touchscreen UI, Garmin seems to have embraced this, giving the nuvifone big,…
Surely at least a few of our readers have encountered the dead iPod icon, and now one crafter has taken it upon themselves to immortalize the moment in cross-stitch. No longer will the sad music player invoke the agony of money lost, but the joy of afternoons at grandma’s and the smell of freshly baked…
The Ergonomic Workstation from Ergo Motions may look like a dentist’s chair, but I must say that if my dentist had this thing in his office, I would be in there for a root canal right away. Ergo Motions mission is to help gamers and heavy workstation users avoid the repetitive stress injuries and posture…
Last week, I invited you to design some gadgets that, if they actually existed, would be totally illegal. While the response wasn’t as big as our amazing unlikely spokesperson contest, we still got some pretty solid, albeit f’ed up, entries. Hit the jump to see the top three winners and the rest of the winning…
Sony Ericsson is joining the mobile internet dongle game with the new MD400 and MD400g USB modems. Both are pretty diminutive, and pack a folding antenna and retracting USB plug to keep the size down, and both have HSPA connectivity with 7.2Mb/s download and 2.0Mb/s upload speeds. They also have card-reader slots, for MemoryStick Micro…
We saw a number of iPhone SDK applications demoed during the WWDC keynote last week, some of which-like the physics-based game Enigmo-were fantastic. With over 250,000 kits downloaded and 4,000 admitted to the iPhone beta program, we’re sure you guys have come up with something as good, or even better than that. That’s why we’re…
Inventor Don French has just developed this AutoMate, which is like a version of Gigapan, but for DSLR cameras. It lets your camera do time lapse movies, time lapse panoramas, event triggers and more. Some cameras like the Nikons already support it, but AutoMate adds a PDA/cellphone interface as well so you can trigger it…
A long-known exploit of Twilight Princess has allowed software enthusiasts to take control of the Nintendo Wii and launch their own homebrew. Not anymore! Because Nintendo’s latest Wii Menu Update (version 3.3) not only brings the ability to move a Mii from the Mii Plaza into the Mii Parade directly-OMG-it also happens to patch the…
One of the biggest things missing from the iPhone is Flash support, rendering many sites unreadable and keeping us from enjoying Flash video via Mobile Safari. It’s been a feature that people have long clamored for, but due to the pissy releationship between Apple and Adobe, it hasn’t happened yet. Now, Adobe says it’s gotten…
For $20, the Bulbcap will cover an otherwise naked light bulb. We worry about diseases and babies as much as the next guy, but this is just absurd. [Molla Space via BLTD]
The Sony Ericsson F305 motion gaming phone leaked this weekend is now official, making for the start of this F-line of “fun and entertainment” phones. The phone’s got a 2.0-inch screen, O and X gaming buttons, a dedicated PlayStation button (to bring up games), quad-band EDGE, 8 hours of gameplay, an optional Power Pack CPP-100,…
Twice we’ve brought you leaked info on Sony Ericsson’s upcoming C905 cellphone, and today at last Sony came good with official specs. The camera in its slider body is indeed an 8.1-megapixel one, with xenon flash, auto-focus, face detection and image stabilization. The phone’s also pretty full-featured, and is GPS-ready, with a 2.4-inch TFT screen…
OK guys, here’s the deal with the meetup: if you want to come watch a sweet minor league ballgame with some Giz editors and your fellow readers, now’s your chance. We’re going to the Brooklyn Cyclones game on June 28th, which is a Saturday. We’ll be getting field box tickets for ourselves, which are $15,…
Amazon is launching a pair of new discounts for their MP3 album downloads, ”Daily Deals” and “Friday Five.” Daily Deals are deeply discounted albums-today that deal is Coldplay’s X&Y for just $1.99. And Friday Five are five albums discounted to $5 every Friday through the weekend. If you’re looking to (legally) expand your MP3 collection,…
This week at TreeHugger:Production of the first commercial hydrogen car has begun: Honda’s FCX Clarity fuel cell vehicle will be available to a select few in California, but there’s a problem with it. And finally, the Queen of England has decided to invest in wind power by buying the prototype of the biggest wind turbine…
LaCie’s LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra has been around for some time, but it’s just gotten a major capacity boost. Now the external eSATA/Firewire 800 drive supports up to 1 terabyte of storage by utilizing two 2.5-inch 500GB drives in a RAID 0 configuration. It’s not quite iPod-sleek storage, but the Little Big Disk can…
