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You may recognize Hop-On from their wide array of cheap-o disposable cellphones and budget-friendly mobile devices. The company is looking to build on this reputation by unveiling six new phones including the $125 HOP 1801 smartphone and the HOP1809 which they claim will be one of the cheapest 3G capable phones you can buy. It…
Forbes spotted an interesting pile of unmarked brown boxes at Quanta Computer in Fremont, CA, the company that handles West Coast distribution of Apple’s gear (along with that of plenty of other companies’ stuff). But what’s so interesting is that the boxes right were spotted right beside iMac freight (those white boxes), and they look…
Qik’s been doing live video streaming (think live YouTube) from Nokia S60 cellphones for a few months now, but Mobilecrunch has the scoop that they’re expanding to Windows Mobile phones shortly. The support and partnership will be officially announced next week at Tech-Ed, which will give WM users the ability to stream stuff like concerts…
Sega Toys knows what Japanese people want: something to complain to that couldn’t possibly think badly of you. It’s called Pekoppa, and it’s got a chip inside that will bend, stretch, and lean the plant according to how you speak to it. According to Sega it’s “a good listener,” will have 200,000 units floating around…
No wonder Solid Snake is so grouchy in Metal Gear Solid 4. Sure, the MGS4 Bluetooth headset looks like the most badass one ever, but the sound quality is apparently horrible—like you’ve been kidnapped and gagged with Liquid Ocelot’s underwear. How are you supposed to banter with Roy Campbell while ducking exclamation points if he…
So yesterday you saw our iPhone 2.0 wishlist, packed with things we’d love to see. But the new iPhone has really had the intertubes throbbing with rumors, as people desperate to get their hands on the new tech dig up info. Or at least, desperately look for info in the strangest places, and invent wishful…
Don’t be too surprised At airport security When you miss your flight [Custom Phones via SlipperyBrick]
Ever been on the golf course, knocking back a few beers, when nature calls? It may be against club rules to duck into the rough for a leak—that’s why the UroClub, developed by awesome urologist Floyd Seskin, is an answer to your prayers. Just place an inconspicuous towel over your junk, unscrew the cap of…
Man has long been attempting to combine the destructive vices of gambling and alcohol. Now, with the $60 Slot Machine Drink Dispenser, our fuzzy dreams can become a reality. We can just pull the lever and watch as our favorite cocktail drops into a glass. Storing up to 1.5L of liquid at a time, it’s…
OK, OK, so the weed in question is actually the jatropha plant, a weed indigenous to India and Africa. But still! Air New Zealand is planning to fill one of the four engines of a 747 with the weed and the remaining three engines with normal jet fuel to test the potential of using jatropha…
Ladies and gentlemen, after hours of studious dissection of Apple keynotes (requiring countless YouTube clips, a non-linear editing program and a pile of empty Hot Pockets boxes that reaches our ceiling), we’ve figured out just how Apple “does it” and presented “it” to you here. Launching a new iPod or iPhone isn’t about the new-fangled…
Anyone hoping to get their hands on the Touch Diamond this month in Europe will have to hold their horses. HTC looks to be delaying the launch of its touchy-touchy titchy phone until the end of the month. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-diamond-the-blurb-specs-and-official-pics-387497 HTC Touch Diamond™ – Delay In Stock Delivery Due to circumstances beyond our control the estimated…
Click to viewDo you remember the $1.2 B-2 Stealth Bomber that crashed during take-off? Well now a video has been released of the event. But let me warn you—it’s really, really hard watching so much taxpayer cash wastefully go up in flames, especially when the travesty unfolds so slowly. Apparently the plane’s sensors were fooled…
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In vino peccatus… perhaps the saying should go like this, given the kind of hangover a bottle of wine can result in. And designer Kacper Hamilton might well agree. His Seven Deadly Glasses wine glasses are meant to physically represent each sin. So there’s the phallic Pride glass, contrasting with the curly Greed glass—that hangs…
Yes, we get it, some of you don’t care about Apple news. While that may seem like sacrilege to other Gizmodo readers, we don’t want you to suffer. And as WWDC approaches, you will suffer. So bookmark this link, and technically you won’t see anything tagged “Apple.” If you do see an errant Apple post…
Little known fact (that we just made up): Steve Ballmer once had a newspaper thrown through his front window. After eating the newspaper delivery boy and his entire family , Ballmer sat down with to chat about the future with The Washington Post. And among other things, he pegged a date for the death of…
We’ve already seen a version of this: Autoliv’s hood airbag system, but Toyota Gosei (an offshoot of, no prizes for etc etc, Toyota) has gone one better. As well as protecting the pedestrian from being squished like a bug on a windscreen, it has airbags down the side of the car, both front and back,…
While several companies are working on a 64GB CompactFlash card, Microdia will be the first to actually bring the technology to store shelves (in Australia) this month. Dubbed the Microdia 64GB XTRA ELITE CF, the card features super fast 45MB/second read and write speeds and promises to hold somewhere around 19,000 high resolution JPEGs from…
This, is Hasbro’s new Millennium Falcon, unveiled to ExtremeTech’s Brian Heater in a Manhattan hotel yesterday. The only reason the toy giant reworked it was because the original mold broke, which made us chuckle. Thirty percent larger than the original, it’s got room for up to 18 action figures—and Han and Chewy (the only two…