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While a flood of 7200rpm 320GB notebook-sized hard drives dropped not too long ago from pretty much all the majors, Dell is actually the first notebook maker to ante up and offer them (from Seagate) in their 17-inch XPS notebooks. The ballyhoo is ’cause most notebook drives spin at a pokey 5400rpm, and if you…
When Bill Gates met South Korea President Lee Myung-bak earlier this month, he didn’t come with a free copy of Vista in hand. Instead, he gifted Lee Myung-bak with 1 of 100 similar hand-crafted Xbox 360s entitled “Peace.” The work of the head of a Korean company named Gookbo, each Xbox is decorated with mother-of-pearl…
Digital Picture frames have been gaining in popularity lately, marrying convenience of having multiple pictures in one frame with the inconvenience of teaching old people how to use them. What’s even better about this version is that it’s for your pets. Your dead pets. The urn can handle up to 75 pounds of pet remains—if…
Best, worst or most hilarious iPhone skin ever? VistaPerfection 2.0 is a complete Windows Vista skin for the iPhone with over 90 icons, wallpapers, a dock, sound effects and everything else Vista like the Sidebar and Start menu. I’m not sure why anyone would do this to their iPhone, but be warned, since it’s not…
Are you sitting? There’s a new Sidekick coming. I know, you absolutely never saw this coming. The FCC has approved the new Sidekick model (Sharp PV210) for sale in the US and even included this fancy barcode label. We’re still not sure if this model is the Aspen or Gekko—or how that whole mess is…
We may have a new dream TV. Samsung is set to unveil an 82-inch LCD with ultra-definition resolution (3,840 by 2,160) that refreshes at 120Hz sometime this week. But equally as exciting, the display will also come in a multi-touch flavor for education purposes. That version will run at just 60Hz. Unfortunately, we have no…
Sony’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1, has gotten loads of favorable reviews and hype (from us too). It does put out a hell of a picture, one that made our Wilson proclaim: “you’re essentially staring into what could very well be the perfect TV.” But Gary over at HDGuru isn’t so swoony, and his more…
Click to viewSteve Ballmer finally gets to join his buddy Bill Gates in the “food target club” after a visit to the Hungarian University of Economy. A guy (grad student? just some dude?) stood up, yelled “Give back the money of the taxpayers” in an accent Ballmer probably couldn’t understand, and started throwing eggs at…
For some reason, Samsung SDI and German company Bundesdruckerei think that their new passport with a 700µm (tiny) polycarbonate data page, which contains an active matrix bendable 300µm (really tiny) OLED display—capable of displaying video or text regarding the passport holder—is the next thing in border security. The only problem is that they forgot that…
While we’re pleased to see Intel Atom processors making their way into mobile PCs, we’re just as excited to see the upcoming Atom-based creations of the PC-building community. Now Trainquil PC is selling ready-to-run motherboards with a bundled 1.6GHz Atom processor and supporting up to 2GB of memory. They promise benchmarks of 3-4x those of…
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard that iPhone case manufacturers have gotten an early peek at the 3G iPhone, but this rendering on XSKN’s site for the EXO mask iPhone 3G is obviously a bit more detailed than the rough sketches from a couple weeks ago. It lines up with them though, as well…
JVC’s new GZ-MS100 is totally YouTube. How YouTube? It has a freakin’ YouTube sticker on the side. Also, it allows one-button YouTube uploads to challenge the Flip Video. https://gizmodo.com/flip-video-ultra-better-than-the-original-but-still-f-298998 Essentially a high-end SD card video recorder, the $350 GZ-MS100 records MPEG-2 and features a 35x optical zoom, 2.7-inch LCD screen, about 2 hours of stock…
So, you missed out on Gizmodo’s stellar weekend coverage because you got lost in a mysterious wardrobe, and ended up in a thinly veiled religious war with talking animals. No biggie. Here’s the crème de la crème. • A replica of the supersonic helicopter from Airwolf was for sale, and still smelled like Jan-Michael Vincent.…
Last week, courtesy of NBC, people with a Windows Media Center DVR setup got a rude reminder that broadcasters can flip a switch (called a broadcast flag) to tell DVRs not to record a show. Here’s the thing: Honoring the flag is actually optional for software and hardware makers, after courts smacked down the FCC…
Last week Boeing fired their high-energy chemical laser aboard a C-130 Hercules aircraft for the first time ever, which is the first step in the final sprint to achieve a fully functional laser-based anti-missile system next year. By year’s end the Advanced Tactical Laser will be firing at ground targets. According to Boeing, the ATL…
In December, Jesús brought you news of the first stylus designed particularly for the iPhone, or iPod touch: but time has passed, and here’s a new one from Brightonnet with an extra trick. It’s designed to bend at the neck, facilitating touch-and-drag functions for those with iPhones and chunky fingertips, or who just prefer carrying…
This is coming from the boards, but it’s not too far out there: Starting June 2, AT&T will offer insurance on any phone for $5 a month. These kinds of plans can be sorta scammy and pointless, but the deductible for replacement is only $50. So while it doesn’t make sense for an el cheapo…
AMD is attempting the impossible—to make PC gaming hardware comprehensible to the masses. With their new AMD GAME! badge, they condense requirements like an AMD Athlon X2 5600+ and ATI Radeon HD 3650 to an AMD GAME! logo meant to assure potential PC gamers, “this computer will play your games all right, but not as…
A new patent application by Canon reveals that the company is interested in fuel cell technology for their cameras—or at least feel that they’ve developed an idea that no one else should use. Wired aptly compares the technology to inkjet printer cartridges, actually using multiple fuel cells to provide varying levels of current depending on…
According to the New York Times, multiple label executives have confirmed that Apple is looking to expand its iTunes ringtone collection by June—far more than they have in the past. Their interests include both downloadable song snippets and ringback tones (new ringers). But apparently, the labels feel that these ringtones should cost more over a…
