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Verizon’s version of the HTC Touch, the XV6900, will be available online and in B2B channels on April 16, and will hit stores by April 30. [Verizon Wireless] https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-windows-mobile-smartphone-coming-to-verizon-346575
Take a ball, pop some digital cameras in it and you’ve more or less got TosPom. It’s a ball-camera gizmo that automatically snaps a picture of you the instant you catch it. Or, if you’re like me, a picture of you looking on in dismay as your hand misses, and it hits the dirt. You…
If there was ever an invention out there destined to piss off fathers everywhere, it’s this. It’s an outdoor air conditioner. Yeah, you heard that right. Perhaps the most wasteful and idiotic product I’ve ever seen, this thing is designed to make those hot summer days a bit more comfortable. I mean, hey, we all…
Originally when our eyes beheld this Boratesque laptop under garment, we figured it was only good for a quick chuckle and, if we were lucky, maybe a crude tire tracks reference. But when we read more about this amazing piece of cloth, we learned that it was one loving mother’s solution to a child’s broken…
If you are looking for a complete apartment makeover and a cheap private plane, head to eBay now because someone is selling the interior of a passenger airplane. The 19-square-foot “real Boeing aircraft model Airbus aircraft seats” includes everything but the trolley dollies: first class double seats, two fully-equipped airplane toilets, kitchenette, storage lockers, and…
It may be a decent little clip-on MP3 player. There’s no LCD, but it’s priced cheap—$40 for 1GB and $55 for 2GB. It comes in 9 (mouth watering?) colors including strawberry, mocha, carrot, aqua, sweet pink, vanilla, lavender, mint and ice blue. Still, we can’t shake the nagging sensation that the Floral Titi will never…
Yes, this homemade electric motorcycle gets the gas price equivalent of 300 miles per gallon. Yes, its speeds hit 40mph within its modest 15 mile range. And yes, the engine runs silently with zero vibration. But don’t blame the auto companies. They work really hard. And besides, with their limited resources, how can they be…
Nextar’s I4-BC device wraps up a widescreen GPS system and one of those neat reversing cameras in one gizmo. Great: more family rows averted, with no getting lost en route and no backing into the gatepost as you leave. You hook up the camera on your vehicle, and when you start backing up its display…
According to Sophos computer security, there will be one million distinct viruses and malware by the end of 2008. But 25% of that malware has been produced just in the last six months. Luckily, not all the stats published by PC World are that troubling…but it’s not all roses and daffodils either. • Security companies…
This new design looks to replace all that messing around with pins and Scotch tape that happens when you try to stick stuff up on your walls or bulletin board. Modern Hang-ups is a simply an adhesive-backed strip of steel that comes with powerful magnetic “tacks.” You just unroll however much you want, cut it,…
Standing 6.5 feet tall, the Nendo Kazadokei is a clock with a second hand that measures almost 5 feet on its own. It just stands there, quietly moving its arms, waiting patiently to sever any innocent passerby’s head or scoop out an eye from their skull. See it standing up in all its majesty after…
We saw the Beamz Laser Music System in pictures last week, but little we knew then how totally demented, how amazingly asstupid and musically retarded this “synthesizer music system” could be in real life. Watch the video after the jump and marvel at the bozonic “one man rock band,” the loungetard “quiet reverie,” or the…
Jerry Yang has pulled a mix between Neo and Rod Tidwell in the latest round of corporate warfare between Yahoo! and Microsoft, showing them the finger and asking Steve Ballmer to show them more money. His complete jibba jabba after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wants-to-buy-yahoo-for-44-6-billion-351497 Yahoo!’s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr…
On paper, this cutting board concept—with an embedded LCD display and wireless connectivity to display cooking recipes—is a great idea. Unfortunately, being an Iron Chef wannabe myself, it fails the basic kitchen test: the crazy-mess-where’s-the-damn-pepper-proof test. My cutting board is always full of slices and dices of whatever substances are going to suffer the torture…
Remember we laughed at the concept Reppo2 boombox backpack, and its ability to aurally assault those you walk past with your choice of tunes? Well, yes: something similar is now real, courtesy of these Fi-Hi novelty bags with built-in speakers and amp. What’s there to say? Well, we don’t know how powerful the audio system…
LG is following up the love-it or hate-it Chocolate, and the Shine, with its third “Black Label” device: the as-yet unnamed cellphone you can see here. It looks a more serious and slender beast than the first two, and sports a five megapixel camera, tempered glass and a carbon-fiber finish. Other than that we can’t…
Egoman’s latest PMP, the MP810RSTD-43 bears an impressive, 4.3-inch touchscreen, which supports 16.7 million colors, and that just about sets it apart from the other iPod touch clones sitting it out in PMP purgatory. The device will playback WVI and RMVB at 30 fps, is just 7.2mm thick and will happily playback MP3, WMA, ADPCM,…
Asus Eee PCs loaded with Windows XP first popped up in Japan, but now they’ve made their way to a Best Buy near you. Right now, Best Buy is stocking XP Eee PCs in black or white (you gotta go Linux for the full rainbow). The tastiest bit? They’re $399, same as the Linux flavor.…
We’ve seen awesome Tesla coil art many times before, and the latest addition to the catalog is no exception. With Christmas decorations, a vehicle anti-theft device and allied soldiers all getting the Tesla treatment, it was only a matter of time before the humble laptop entered into the realms of electrical greatness. These images are…
We were just about to stuff Nintendo’s Flash Focus vision game into the snake oil file when White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski revealed he actually improved his hitting through daily use of the software. Like many of the White Sox batters last year, Pierzynski stunk, and to come around he played Flash Focus in the…
