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Art Lebedev’s Teleport 2.0 is a great gadget: Simple, focused, functional. It’s a USB dongle that records calls to your PC, plus all of the other relevant info: Who called, when, caller ID, and phone support, among other features. The design’s perfect, too—clean and intuitive. And let’s face it, your hard drive is a much…
The freshly posted firmware update 1.02 for the D300 solves a bug that slapped vertical bands across pics shot at exposure times over eight seconds. Weird problem, fixed now. [For Windows For Mac via
Old cellphones and other gadgets are currently seen as an environmental hazard, with landfills filling up with toxic tech that’s not doing the planet any favors. But if a group of British scientists have their way, new cellphones could simply be tossed on the ground when you’re done with them, as they’d just decompose and…
Alexander Begak is a test pilot and the chief designer of Evolution, a flying pod that can travel on land, slide through water and snow, and fly thanks to a gliding parachute that acts as a soft, highly portable wing. The one or two-seater vehicle made of Kevlar and titanium was presented at the crazy…
A new fishing game for cellphone users based in western Japan is mixing the virtual with the actual, as competitors who hook a fish get the chance to have the same kind of fish delivered to their door by a local seafood wholesaler. Ippon Zuri, which means pole-and-line fishing, is available to DoCoMo subscribers in…
Mossberg is introducing the Lenovo X300 to the mainstream in a preview this week. Giz readers will recognize that everything here was already seen in a wide-open leak on January 18th. Best new thing from his write-up is the cool photo of the x300 on a manila envelope, same as in those now famous ads.…
Did you dudes see that Apple TV 2.0 Review I did? Go check it out! I stayed up until 2 a.m. writing it up, so I’m pretty tired now. I think you’ll enjoy it. Or at the very least, not hate it. Yay! https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-2-0-review-355843
Bluetooth headsets are two-a-penny nowadays, but Plantronics’ new Explorer 370BT is like the ugly one that ran away from home and joined the Army. Designed so it’s rough’n’tough enough to meet military standards, the 370BT is rubber-coated and resistant against water, dust and impacts. Sure, it won’t actually save you if you take a bullet…
When my wife first called “top,” I was traumatized to find that she wasn’t referring to the bunk. Since then I’ve given up on two-tiered sleeping arrangements, but the Space Shuttle Bunk Bed may lead to some bedroom reassessment. A simulated NASA cockpit complete with two chairs, $2595.00 is a small price to pay for…
Plugging right in to that eerie “they’re watching me” feeling you’re supposed to get from normal portrait paintings, Opto-Isolator is an artwork that takes the sensation into the scary, robotic 21st Century. Its realistic-looking eyeball actually responds to an onlooker’s gaze with a bunch of human-like movements, including coy side-glances and blinks. If the gallery…
Rarely do we lust so intensely over kitchen gadgets, but when they involve taking meat on a stick and coating it in grain-product deliciousness, all of our values are thrown out the window. Similar to a waffle iron, the stainless steel “Crepe on a Stick or Waffle Dog Maker” by KegWorks offers precise temperature control…
Hitachi has just announced a fancy-pants new air conditioner that not only keeps you chilled, but it actually moisturizes your skin as well. Finally, your skin can be silky smooth without requiring expensive and emasculating lotions! It condenses moisture in the air with a Peltier device and applies high voltage to the water to produce…
The Giz, as you know, is a big fat fan of modding (and, it goes without saying, big fat modders) but this moddable MicroSD card reader from ADTEC in Japan is definitely one for the girly girls. Plain, cheap and plastic in the before pic, hit the jump to see the tasteful “after” picture. Any…
Like an adjustable electric anti-vampire, Thanko’s new universal charger has jaws that let it clamp onto, and juice-up, almost any battery from your gadget shelf. Drawing power from USB, like all the best Thanko stuff, it’s even got lights that indicate when it’s charging and when the batteries are full. Another pic and how it…
AOL, the company you haven’t patronized since 1996, has announced that it’s launching an “Open Mobile Platform” to help developers get mobile programs across multiple platforms. Despite the name, it’s not a full mobile OS like Android, rather a protocol for building and distributing applications across multiple mobile OSes. Think of it like Android’s API,…
Citibank is claiming that we’ll see a 3G iPhone in the US within 6 months. They argue that: 1. Apple’s iPhone inventory is low 2. Europe wants a 3G iPhone But at the same time, many are pointing out that a 3G iPhone may never come to the US, and instead AT&T would offer iPhone…
Buddy Beacon, the friend-finding service so beloved by Helio users, is to widen its circle of friends, as of today. As well as being available on multiple carriers (which means that you and your mates don’t need to share the same mobile provider) version 2.0 includes applications for Facebook and iPhone, which will allow users…
While controlling a deadly robot sounds enticing to anyone, the military wants to make sure that they are achieving maximum kill. And adding a HARV (Head-Aimed Remote Viewer) to these robots is massively effective. Essentially a robot version of your own neck and head sitting on a robot, the system provides a “look around” first…
LG has produced two 3G handsets, the KM560 and the KP330, that support all three WCDMA bands and GSM bands, too. The cellphones are compatible in 220 countries, meaning that global roaming just got that bit easier. Both the KM560 and KP330 will be available in the second half of 2008 in selected countries, before…
Click to viewEver since our Apple TV 1.0 review decided that Apple’s thrust into the living room wasn’t pantsworthy, we’ve been waiting for them to step up and make a revision that was. Apple TV 2.0 is their answer. (Let’s stop calling it Take 2, please!) It’s everything Apple TV should have been when it…
