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If you like to keep your eyes on the road while you’re driving, the NavStar Voice Navigator can assist you by blurting out turn-by-turn directions with no screen in sight. The 11-oz unit resides in your car’s cigarette lighter outlet, and it hooks up with your cellphone, doubling as a speakerphone for hands-free calling. Looks…
Holy crap. The latest on the lawsuit against OLPC by Nigerian firm Lagos Analysis Corporation (Lancor) is that OLPC has been hit with a temporary injunction, meaning it can’t be distributed or sold in Nigeria “on pain of jail time.” LANCOR also wants $20 million in damages. From a charity. Groklaw insinuates something of a…
However unbearable your work environment is, it could be worse. For instance, this network/systems administrator in a district courthouse somewhere in Louisiana hates his boss so much that he’s apparently stolen her iPod touch right out from under her and now he’s selling it on eBay. “You might think I didn’t really take her iPod…
Although the GameCube didn’t really advance the gaming world in any giant steps on the software side, it did introduce to us the fact that a wireless controller can not suck. The wireless Wavebird controller, which eliminated wires in living rooms everywhere (not really everywhere, since we know how well the GC sold) has now…
It’s thin but its fake. Do I have proof? Not really any more proof than those who thought this was real, but I ask you this: Would Apple put a trackpad and button right where your sweaty manhooks are resting as you type? We’d have passed on this story, but since others were commenting, I…
Remember the 2007 Weblog Awards last January, you know, the real awards where you can only vote once? Gizmodo walked away with two big awards: Best Computers or Technology Weblog, and Best-Designed Weblog. Now it’s time for nominations for the 2008 version of this genuine award, and we invite you to please nominate your friends…
The unspoken conventional wisdom around MacWorld every year is that you can make a good deal of money buying up Apple stock before the keynote and dumping it afterwards, cashing in on hyped up traders high on Jobs’ ass fumes (a.k.a. his bullshit cloud or RDF). The Keynote Index Fund, however, lays out exactly how…
The best way to explain why SSD is a buzz acronym for the solid state drives we want in our notebooks is to show the problems with practically stone-age spinning hard drives inside most computers (and iPod classics). Since they have platters w/ magnetized surfaces that spin fast as they read or write data—think record…
Did you fall in love with the Wacom tablet that Jesus showed off? Are you also not rich enough to afford a $4,000 tablet? I feel your pain. But hey, why drop all that coin on a new one when you can turn your Mac laptop into a tablet in a mere 15 minutes for…
Crucial issued a press release today announcing their forthcoming line of Solid State Drives, but it appears to be the same news we covered in November. [Crucial] https://gizmodo.com/micron-unveils-realssd-solid-state-drives-in-32gb-64gb-327554
There was an rumor over the weekend about Sprint stopping sales of the LG Rumor due to a firmware erasure problem, so we got in contact with Sprint and got some information to set the record straight. No, Sprint hasn’t stopped sales of the Rumor—the reason why you can’t find it in stores is because…
Click to viewGizmodo reader Phil Nolan, a profesional 3D modeler and animator, got inspired by our Nintendo DS 2 mock-up and wish list and sent us his cool version of this dreamed-up third iteration of the Nintendo DS. It looks so yummy inside that I want to get it out for a date: https://gizmodo.com/next-generation-nintendo-ds-mock-up-332353 As…
If you really must have a way to watch those four seasons of Futurama DVDs anywhere you go, this Microvision SHOW handheld projector is the way to go. Not only is it about the size of a first or second-gen iPod, it can shoot out a 848×480 image (DVD quality) that’s anywhere from 12-inches to…
It’s the annual Goats and Gods episode, where the Gurus of Cool present the best and the worst of the past year. Also, Charlie reviews a new HP workstation, Stephen offers 12 must-have plug-ins for WordPress, and the duo offer another Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products they’ve seen during the week. [Free Podcast at…
Sony’s all for loading multimedia functions onto their consoles (portable or otherwise) to add value, so the addition of VoIP via Skype is something we can definitely see them doing. The feature’s listed on Sony’s CES site, along with internet radio and a few other features we already know about, like Remote Play. So it’s…
Oh Moaner Lisa, where were you two nights ago when we really needed you? Popping tops off the finest beers with her hind quarters, she gets off on the whole operation, moaning and gasping while releasing your favorite brewski and its foamy suds from its glassy confines. While yelping out her urgent cries to her…
Gaze into the future with us, foreshadowed by a company called MatrixStream. These wizards teased us with their 1080p HD streaming box 18 months ago, bragging about how it lets you instantly watch 1080p videos over a broadband connection. Fast-forward to today, and now they’re announcing the streaming of a grisly-sounding zombie movie from 2006…
This incredible photo was taken two minutes after midnight in Oslo, Norway. While some cities might set off fireworks from one location to celebrate the ringing in of 2008, the people in Oslo went crazy, setting off fireworks pretty much everywhere. But hey, when you’re a city where spending over $10 on a beer is…
Today we learned that the seductively interactive Dash Express GPS navigator is using the OpenMoko open-source mobility platform that led to the Neo 1973 smartphone. This makes the Dash the first product based on OpenMoko’s GTA0X reference design, with GPS hardware designed to order by OpenMoko and its parent company, FIC. Did we need one…
Multiroom audio has been around for decades, but now high-end snooty audio purveyor THIEL Audio jumps into the game with THIELnet, an audio distribution system it developed with BICOM that has so much IP smartness that it makes us want to pee. So smart, in fact, that even a dummy could set it up. The…
