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As the only network without 3G (yet), T-Mobile’s new $99 unlimited plan, launching Thursday, just has voice and text. The fourth and last major provider jumping in makes the new price war official—it might start at $99, but unless they’ve got some cartel action going, it’s going to get bloody ugly, and fast, as they…
Who wants to win a Toshiba x205 laptop? Everybody? Great! Here’s how you enter. It’s an easy one this time. Just send an email to [email protected] with the subject “Toshiba laptop contest”. We’re going to pick a winner at random, so all of you have an equal chance to snatch yourself a lappy. Standard Gawker…
Click to viewMaybe not the Pentagon, but definitely your whole neighborhood. I wanna rage through mine like Arnold in T2, with the Vulcan mini gun on one arm and the Hulk Abomination Blaster on the other—the big missile on it launches w/ enough force to knock a small, wobbly child on their back. My backup…
Universal smartly wants its movies to be on the HD format that still exists, so it’s switching to Blu-ray. If you would like to further delve into their rationale, here’s their statement: https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-kills-hd-dvd-official-357957 “While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and…
We already pointed it out when we first looked at its interior, but now it’s confirmed: KITT’s iPhone-inspired dashboard also includes the slim Apple Wireless Keyboard. Why a keyboard when you have all that touchscreen and voice recognition goodness? We don’t know. Probably to use Command + Alt + Esc to force quit LeatherPants.app in…
Dell’s newest UltraSharp is a 13-port behemoth that just so happens to have a display. The 1920×1200 resolution monitor with 6ms response time and 3000:1 dynamic contrast ratio includes the DisplayPort you love, along with HDMI and DVI. And the picture below shows we’re just getting started. https://gizmodo.com/dells-new-30-inch-3008wfp-lcd-loaded-with-displayport-321924 VGA, composite, S-video, and component round out…
It’s something we’ve noticed ourselves over the years, but Joel over at Boing Boing Gadgets just did a roundup of some of the most atrocious motherboard and video card box art in existence. Face it, if you were an artist hired to design a box cover for a motherboard, what would you draw? A truck…
Consumerist found this amazing list of retailer cost for Monster Cable, where many of the cables went for nearly double what they cost. Monster responded with an answer that was thoughtful from their point of view. Many times, in “jewelery, clothing, and furniture, the markup is even greater.” Fine, I don’t know anything about retail.…
In a stealth move after announcing their new Xsan 2 software, Apple has killed their Xserve RAID as if it were a vulgar HD DVD player. After years of promoting their solution as the best in its class for pro environments, Apple’s Xserve RAID page has been eliminated completely and now redirects to a new…
This e-paper bathroom scale idea from Duck Image Studio seems like a fantastic idea at first. It’s e-ink, so it’s thin, which means you can embed it into bath mats or floor tiles or maybe even into your shower. Imagine being able to see how much you weigh every time you bathed, or brushed your…
Click to viewHD DVD is dead. Officially. That may mean a whole bunch for the early-adopter tech geek crowd that’s been wading in the kiddie pool of technological bickering and backhandedness for years, but what does it mean for the average consumer with only a cursory interest in high-def DVDs? Here’s our cheat sheet Q&A…
Seeing ponies where Toshiba sees death, LG isn’t letting go of HD DVD just yet. They’re going to keep popping out dual format HD DVD/Blu-ray players (launching new ones even), scraping up the remaining dregs of HD DVD and easing HD DVD adopters’ transition into this brave new Blu world. It might seem like they…
Refurbished iPhones almost never show up on Apple’s Special Deals page, but here it is. Quizzically, $599 is listed as the original price, but it’s yours for $349. Act fast, they probably don’t have too many. [Apple Store]
Only a few people remember this, but DVD Jon cracked Apple’s Fairplay DRM way back in late 2006 and offered it up for companies to purchase the tech and integrate it into their own media files. Now DVD Jon has started his own company called doubleTwist that lets people rip protected iTunes music in order…
Greg Zanis’ Dream Car is a solar-powered pyramid on four wheels that he built at home with the help of his two sons. Deceptively fragile, this little one-seater weighs in at 8,000 pounds, but its 80 batteries powering four electric engines really make it shift. Find out how fast, and watch the video of it…
AT&T’s responding to Verizon’s Unlimited calling and data contracts with a $99 all you can eat voice plan that can be combo’d up with any data plan. The data plans are a step in the non-evil direction for AT&T: $35 bucks for unlimited connectivity and messaging. An AT&T spokesperson tells us that includes 3G. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-offering-unlimited-voice-text-and-data-plans-a-357694…
Time to focus, lots of dirty dishes to clean. Oooh look, a bubble! Wow, I can blow more bubbles? Yay! Bubble bubble bubble, bubble bubble bubble. I’m tired of blowing bubbles, let’s do Jumping Jacks! Yay! Jumping Jacks stink, let’s eat candy ’til we puke! Yay! So sick, so many dirty dishes, the best $5…
This week at TreeHugger: We put hands on the Hymini, the portable power bank universal adapter cum wind and solar generator, in a new hi-definition video. Gmail is a great way to stay in touch without actually having to talk to anyone, but what’re the green implications that come with never deleting another email? The…
This Gravity Lamp by a Virginia Tech student won second place at the Greener Gadgets Design Competition this week. The idea is quite simple in theory: a mass moves slowly down a column, which generates electricity by when the potential to kinetic energy conversion of the mass falling spins a rotor. To “reset” the lamp,…
Click to viewWhat do you do with a 25-meter-high acrylic glass cylinder, 238,000 gallons of sea water, 2,600 fish from 56 different species, and two divers? The Aquadom, the largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, that’s what. In its core there’s an elevator that travels through a cylinder of glass. As you will see in…
