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Hey, my friends Joel J. from BBoing and Steve “I look like a Conchord” Leckart from Cool Tools are blogging and doing trial-by-fire test runs of gadgets in the wild. Joel is in Bear Mountain, NY, and Steve is pretending to be somewhere but actually in his office. (I hope he is setting up a…
Leigh over at Kotaku did some digging around about the rumored Xbox 360 Wiimote, questioning all the parties involved (Microsoft, Rare, Gyration) and discovered some interesting facts. The most important one is that Gyration isn’t working on it, but Motus probably is—they already have a precursor to it called the “Darwin”. https://gizmodo.com/more-xbox-360-wiimote-details-code-name-newton-377855 Motus says their…
When Acer acquired Glofiish maker E-10 last month, it became obvious that it would only be a matter of time before they leveraged their purchase to develop a phone of their own. Today, Acer President Gianfranco Lanci made their plans clear by announcing that they were, in fact, releasing a WM6 smarphone by the end…
I get tired of music quick, and I’m not much of an archiver, so I don’t need a lot of hard drive space or a high capacity MP3 player to store my music. However, there are plenty of folks out there that have taken to collecting digital music with the same voracity as people once…
GigaOm is reporting that Comcast has created its own wireless division and is bringing the pieces together to jump into the wireless biz to offer quadruple play bundle competition (TV, landline, internet, wireless) against Verizon and AT&T. Speculation is that they could buddy up with a WiMax deal, or flat-out buy Sprint (more likely) or…
No surprise, this quarter was Apple’s best March quarter ever. Here are the bits that matter—2.29 million Macs shipped, 51 percent more than same time last year, so Mac sales are booming. iPod sales are actually pretty flat from last year, up a meager one percent—are we at the saturation point? And 1.7 million iPhones,…
GTA IV, supposedly the biggest thing in the history of modern electronic entertainment, has been leaked on the internet. If you’re one of the lucky ones with a modded 360 and a copy of the game, disconnect from Live before you play it. Rockstar is watching out for people who go online with these before…
If you are the proud owner of a Helio Ocean, Fin or Mysto, you have the honor of being the first to enjoy push Gmail on your cellphone. Using the “ultimate inbox” feature, simply set up your Gmail account and press Menu > Send/Receive. Then you will be prompted to enable new mail notification. It’s…
The popularity of the hideous Dalek Sec Hybrid Mask last year proved once again that Dr. Who fans are a loyal bunch. Soon, these fans will be able to strike fear/laughter in the hearts of their enemies once again by donning this dapper Dalek voice changing helmet. Naturally, you will be able to run around…
I need this. It’s a microwave with a built-in toaster, combining two of the three appliances I actually use into a single smorgasbord of food-warming convenience, perfect for my munchkin-sized counter. The other is a George Forman-esque grill—all other electric kitchenwares are frivolous and silly. In fact, if LG could somehow convert the top of…
These Electrical Engineering students at Texas A&M love Guitar Hero so much that they made a "robot," which is actually just some levers and switches and a circuit board set up on top of a Guitar Hero guitar, and a system that analyzes the video signal to determine when and where to hit the notes.…
The problem with Chinese made cars in the year 2008 is that they’re complete shit. It’s true. Maybe in a few years they’ll catch up to the Koreans, the Japanese, the Americans and the Germans, but for now they’ll have to be satisfied with unlocking their cars with their watches. Who wouldn’t? I’d definitely enjoy…
Katie B. over at the WSJ did a roundup of camera tech. I liked this section on Sony’s Happy Face Retouch that automatically turns frowns into smiles. Sort of: It took already captured images of my friends’ faces and turned their frowns or ambivalent looks into smiles, but didn’t adjust the subjects’ eyes. Though this…
Spring is the primetime for new cameras, hence the cheap cam battlemodo, an entry-level DSLR battlemodo, not to mention loads of rumors and breakthroughs. It’s a lot to keep up with, and you may not even know what’s going on with the camera in your pocket. If that’s the case, don’t worry, here’s a quick…
Samsung has four new monitors with the same amber-hued “Touch of Color” screens as their Series 6 and 7 TVs seen at CES. The T190 ($259), T220($359), T240($499), and T260($599) are 19, 22, 24, and 26 inches respectively, and feature a 20000:1 contrast ratio, which looked good to us despite the controversy that always surrounds…
Ok, we know bad things can happen when the general public use tasers, but cops tasing a guy and setting him on fire? No… really? Apparently the 31-year-old in question was causing a disturbance in an apartment in Hamilton, Ontario, recently, and three police officers attended. Whatever happened after that, the police ended up firing…
Samsung unloaded a whopping 27 plasma and LCD TVs on us at CES, but didn’t get around to saying how much they cost. We just got the prices on all of them, from the $430 18.9″ Series 4 LCD to the $5000 mammoth 63″ Series 6 plasma. The whole list, after the jump. [Samsung] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-quick-guide-to-samsungs-ces-goodies-341263…
Pen spy cameras usually work wirelessly in conjunction with a base, beaming images surreptitiously onto a recording device or a monitor so you can enjoy them from afar. This YOTO pen, however, has the storage built in, meaning you’ll have to wait until later to watch those 15FPS 352×288 videos or look at those 640×480…
Yesterday, I asked you guys to send in pictures of examples of wasteful shipping habits from online retailers that you’ve bought things from. You came through in spades. When you see just one example of Dell sending a flash drive in a box big enough for a laptop you think it’s an amusing fluke or…
We were too poor to play with RC cars when we were kids, but it seems like it was worth the wait in order for these Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses to be invented. Strap the glasses on your face and you’ll be able to see through the actual head of the RC driver. Better…
