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Just in case you were too busy watching basketball to read Gizmodo, here’s what you missed: • We never would have guessed the cheap Flip camcorder was so popular! • One lucky gamer enjoyed his ultra limited edition signed Xbox 360. • Sony’s Alpha A900 DSLR got a launch date. • This mini drummer robot…
Taking a page out of the Hulu playbook, but awesomer, the South Park guys are streaming every single South Park episode in full at their official site, South Park Studios. What they get right: Streams are fast and vid quality is solid; every episode, from first to most recent is available (with one exception); and…
A uniform maker in Japan has developed a lightweight polyethylene fiber t-shirt that helps keep people protected from knife attacks. The machine-washable material has a molecular weight similar to the aramid fiber found in body armor, so its probably safe to assume it’s not going to tear easily if you’re doing dangerous yet knife-free activities…
Today, Fujitsu introduced its MHZ2 BJ drives (heh, heh…BJ), the first 2.5″ 7200rpm hard drives to reach the 320GB capacity. They’ll be available at the end of June, for an as-yet unannounced price, and will support the SATA 3Gbps interface. So now when go trick out your laptop, you’re gonna have a full-on headache trying…
If our computers are ever going to hit speeds that’ll allow us to do things like simulate the big bang, create artificial intelligence or create giant, building-sized robots to fight for our amusement, we need to move beyond wires. After all, their physical makeup is going to hit a wall at some point, so rather…
$99 is the magic pricepoint for an ultra-cheap digital cameras. Here’s a deal that just edges past it, at $89.99. Unfortunately, the only “pro” CNET lists for the Kodak V1003 in its review is that comes in a rainbow of colors, so you’re getting what you pay for (maybe good for your kiddies?). But! It’s…
Apparently drug runners are relying on an amazing bit of DIY gadgetry to smuggle cocaine into the US in increasing numbers: home-built submarines. Knocked together in the Colombian jungle, and costing up to a million bucks, they are actually semi-submersibles, since full diving is just a bit too sophisticated. Nevertheless, they can do up to…
In the words of the Conchords, a team of Canadian students just wanted to do something special for the lay-deez of the world. And so they came up with the Ladybag concept. It’s a smart bag that uses RFID technology to ensure that you leave the house with those three staples you need in the…
One of the ugliest named cool new technologies is the “femtocell,” a desktop-friendly cell tower that connects to your broadband network to add cell service where it otherwise might be crappy. Today Motorola and Airvana announced that they are partnering to build CDMA femtocells that provide standard 1xRTT and high-speed EV-DO connectivity. It’s not clear…
If you are a hard core combat flight simulator pilot with a spare $15,560, this completely-restored 1957 Mk. 5 ejection seat is a must. Manufactured by legendary Martin-Baker, who started work on ejection seats in 1934, this model can withstand 40 G deceleration loads and includes a canopy breaker for planes like the Grumman 9F-8T…
Photoshop Elements’ return to the Mac is complete today. Adobe officially ships the $90 program—$70 if you’re upgrading from a previous Elements—running on Mac OS 10.4.8 and 10.5. [Adobe] https://gizmodo.com/adobe-brings-back-photoshop-elements-for-mac-344688
Douglas Coupland has been drafted in to fill Stephen Fry’s shoes on his tech column Dork Talk, while the British polymath recovers from a broken arm. The Canadian author and artist has tackled the subject of gadgets and obsolescence, taking as his starting-point the fact that the box of techno-baubles he received from The Guardian…
T-Mobile confirmed last Friday’s rumor, that it was (finally!) bringing the BlackBerry 8820 to its lineup. AT&T has had the handset since late last year. In case you, too, are confused about the whole BB lineup, this one has GPS and Wi-Fi, but no camera. (T-Mo already carries the Curve, which has Wi-Fi and a…
Sharp’s new air purifiers prove that humble household electrical gadgets can actually look quite stylish. These have triple filtration technology, including true HEPA filters to trap the majority of airborne nasties in your home, and their filters only need changing every five years. They can also push a room’s relative humidity to 50%, and have…
Parisian trunkmaker Pinel & Pinel’s iPod case is the kind of iPod case I’d like to get my hands on—if I hadn’t dropped my iPod before Christmas, that is. Made from leather-covered wood, its built-in speakers are Altec-Lansing, and it’s got a couple of pockets so you don’t lose your accessores (I know my USB…
I’m on the beach on semi-vacation now, here in the south of Spain, and we have BBC One via satellite. This means one thing on Sunday nights: Top Gear. Chances are that you probably have watched Top Gear clips on YouTube, like the one above, in which Jeremy Clarkson replaces clay pigeons and shotguns with…
Fisher and Paykel have had a re-think of the humble kitchen range. Their new Izona Cooksurface looks more like a ceramic electric hob than a gas one, and dumps the four-burner pattern that nearly every other range uses. Though this gives you fewer cooking stations, it at least means you won’t set your sleeves on…
Remember Johnny Lee’s how-to last year, on how to make a whiteboard out of a Wiimote? Kofi Merritt, a computer resource specialist, challenged the members of the LEGO Club at the Clara Byrd Baker Elementary School to follow the Carnegie-Mellon Ph.D student’s video instructions and make themselves an interactive whiteboard, saving their school around $800…
Hot on the heels of the T-Mobile Blackberry news, AT&T are also offering the candy bar, wi-fi Blackberry 8120. It’ll cost $199, and requires a two-year contract at $39.99 per month for voice plus $30/$40 unlimited personal or business data plans. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-blackberry-8820-8120-launch-gets-scheduled-370651
Yes, you will have seen slimmer UMPCs, but probably not one quite so feature-packed as the new Miu Hybrid Dual PC. The Dual bit comes from its dual-boot options of XP plus WinCE 5.0 or linux Qplus. It earns its Hybrid label by being a cellphone, navigation device, PMP, electronic dictionary, internet phone, voice recorder,…