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Griffin has introduced the new PowerDock that is capable of charging up to four iPods at once. It’s a perfect charging solution for music loving families, or any dude who has multiple iPods and insists on using them all. Its functionality is limited to charging for now, but it is not hard to imagine the…
I’ve never been to Tokyo, but I hear they have a bit of a problem with crowded subway trains —a fact brought up countless times as I traveled from Gizmodo HQ to the convention center during CES. Needless to say, I heard “It feels like Tokyo in here” more than once. Thankfully, these packed trains…
Pissing away electricity —just about everyone does it. That is why this “Saverclip” concept from designer Lee Young Don could prove useful to anyone looking to save a few bucks on their electricity bill. The clothespin-like device latches onto any power cable and determines energy usage by measuring the electromagnetic fields emitted by specific electronics…
Alright, so even though Microsoft is giving everyone a free Xbox Live Arcade game because they feel bad about the outages—or want to stem a bubbling revolt—a trio of Texan greedmongers sued over it. Result: No more Xbox Live status updates from Major Nelson, whose mouth has now been covered with legal red tape. Guess…
The tricycle house is one Hong Kong designer’s mobile solution to the cramped and expensive housing problem facing his city. It features a door, a window, a writing desk and a fold-out bed contained within a 3 x 4 foot "hut." Despite the cramped living conditions, the idea has a lot of fans. During the…
What do you do when you’ve got a platform (PS3) that’s a fantastic media playback machine but lacks games? You bring games TO IT. StreamMyGame allows you to stream the visuals and sound directly from your PC onto your PS3 at up to 3200×2400 resolution (PS3 only supports 1080p), supporting Windows XP, Vista, and DirectX…
Okay, so DRM is dead dead dead. Hurray, right? Well, Wired says it’s simply being swapped out for digital watermarking, which will lay out breads crumbs for the labels to follow as songs make their way across P2P networks, and the bundle of evidence will allow them to place pressure on ISPs to engage in…
CES is filled with thousands of gadgets and lots of people to talk to. But most of these “new” products are really just moderate updates. So in case you missed the goodies in the wave of CES news, here’s just our favorite stuff after the jump. Yes, lazy people—life takes care of you again! Biggest…
When it comes to these gun-shaped egg molds, other acceptable headlines include: •”Say hello to my little chicken!” •A great source of Omega-357 and Anti-Uzidents. •Gun shaped eggs promote fowl play. •This is your brain. This is your brain shaped like an Uzi. •Shot in the yolk, and you’re to blame. You give breakfast a…
Here’s a call you never expect to get: a customer service followup from Microsoft… ten years after the first call. That’s exactly what happened to a guy who had called the big M way back on January 7, 1998. On the 8th of this month, he got a followup call to make sure everything was…
It looks like a concept—in fact, the only pictures we have of it are fancy 3D renderings doctored up in Photoshop. But according to the press release (after the jump), MediaStreet’s 1GB eMotion solar-powered portable media player is already shipping for $169. That’s a lot for a typical 1-gig audio-video player, but when you consider…
The crazy folks from over at Camcorderinfo.com who made that sweet CES rap and tested out a digital camera in a fishtank last week also happened to interview noted porn star Belladonna about digital video cameras. I don’t know how we managed to miss this one, as we know how familiar many of you are…
Even though people seem to be throwing up fake MacBook Air screenshots (which Valleywag’s debunked), the rumors about the newly named laptop line seem to be swirling higher and higher. The latest talk comes from MacDailyNews, which says that one of their readers tracked down domain registration info for macbookair.org that lists Apple’s own “1…
• In 1950, a guy who cuts a tomato in half and finds its center bears resemblance to the Batman logo laughs and eats it. In 2008, he sells it on eBay. [eBay] • Fake Steve says “There’s something in the air” is really just a joke about Woz’s gas problems. That’s the best guess…
The good news: the promise that Photoshop Elements would come back to Mac (after skipping version 5) has been kept—just in time for Macworld 2008, a $90 version of the Intel-native PSE is up for pre-order. I use Adobe Photoshop CS3 these days, but couldn’t be happier about this. Remember that trick I told you…
PIttsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Don Lindich reports a dirty bit about Warner’s defection to Blu-ray that we had uncovered in our own reporting of the format war at CES, and which we had confirmed through a different source (except for the payouts), though were holding close to our chest while we worked some other angles. Warner…
Seriously? We weren’t going to post anything on this, but lots of sites seem to be picking it up. Do you really think that Steve Jobs would let his keynote be leaked, and on Wikipedia of all places? The keynote that many of his own people don’t even know about? We’ve even heard about employees…
We pretty much loved the Eye-Fi, which adds Wi-Fi to any camera. But today it got better with a downloadable update that makes it more Mac-friendly with direct iPhoto uploadage. [I4U] https://gizmodo.com/eye-fi-adds-wi-fi-to-almost-any-digital-camera-316537
We all love the idea behind Drobo, the four-drive storage robot from Data Robotics that promises auto-mounting on both OS X Macs and Windows PCs. It’s a little pricey at $500, especially since the drives cost extra, but the system just got more powerful: its new shoe fits snugly underneath, providing a gigabit Ethernet network…
We missed this story while we were wandering around the halls of AVN, checking out streaming porn boxes, but apparently Digital Playground is dropping HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray in 2008. Joone, the founder of the video label, says they’re dropping it not just because Warner and other companies switched, but because their Blu-ray…
