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Samsung’s 3-way speaker dock has a Bluetooth connection that detects when your cellphone gets a call, and turns down the volume. Neat trick.
This Coby Keychain LCD is about 50% off at Amazon. It holds “62 photos” in undisclosed amounts of memory, but with a 1.5-inch screen, you’re not talking more than postage-stamp-sized shots anyhow. Anyone ever try one of these? [Amazon]
Japanese paper Yomiuri is reporting that Panasonic will unveil a 150-inch plasma to show the world who has the biggest flatscreen manufacturing capability. That above is the photo of the now second-place 103-inch plasma as big as a queen-sized bed. (Sharp has the current title of biggest at 108-inches). If your mcmansion isn’t big enough…
Fake Steve confirmed that his “talks with Apple” about shutdown were fake, in a roundabout way, but slightly more direct for those not quick enough to get it the first time. [Fake Steve]
My brother is the musician in the family. I’m not even that good at Guitar Hero. But here’s an instrument my speed: The Suzuki Q Chord. There’s a keypad for chord control, a 4 touchpanel for strumming, and a electric whammy bar for pitch bends. It comes preloaded with 10 rhythm tracks, and 100 MIDI…
We don’t ask for much here at Gizmodo, but what we really, really want is a jetpack that costs $200. Sure, we have brought you the deal with jetpacks before, but we want something that lasts longer than two minutes, (so do our girlfriends). Also, we would not mind a Jetsons-type transportation mode that costs…
Whenever we need to unplug something when one of our hands is busy holding a croissant, we have two solutions: use our feet to hold the power strip or put down the croissant. Yoo-Kyung Shin has another idea, however, and designed a Raise Me Up powerstrip that you can de-plug with just one hand. All…
Marco the Virtual Magician, who you may recognize from his iPhone stunts back in July, has a little Christmas greeting for you courtesy of his photonic textile shirt. Good job Marco! [YouTube]
Just when businessmen and women were getting used to BlackBerry’s SureType split-key keyboards, RIM has to go and patent yet another method of inputting text. As you can see in the drawing, this guy’s horribly misshapen thumbs are hammering away on angular keys, which actually seems pretty brilliant to us. Remember Microsoft and their ergonomic…
Christmas is our favorite time of year because we’re easily dazed by bright, gaudy lights—hello, Vegas—but sometimes we yearn for pupil-constricting illumination with some class. And what’s classier than a 3-D laser Christmas tree? The one my mom decorated with condoms and liquor bottles two years ago, but that’s about it. [via technabob]
Oh how I love Top Gear. Why is there no show this good being produced in the States? In today’s example of why this is one of the sweetest shows on TV in any country, we see a race between a souped-up remote-control electric car and a regular old remote-control car. The results are, well,…
Sometime in early December, I spent a week in Hawaii. I bought that painting by local artist Doug Young, which caught my eye and credit card before I could think about the price. It was meant to be all about the fruit, but the Mac icons reminded me of what’s good about OS X: The…
Happy holidays, ladies and dudes. Thank you for reading. Because if it wasn’t for you, we’d all be working at Best Buy. I’m hanging out in this ’70s-styled Tahoe cabin with Lisa, my brother Jon and Ruby the Dog. And I sang a song for you while Jon played the ukelele. The rest of the…
Didn’t get a calendar, cellphone, computer or any kind of portable electronic device at all for Christmahanukwanzaakkah? Or ever? Do you constantly forget what month it is? No sweat, just burn a calendar directly into your fingernails with a laser. It kinda smells during the whole burning carbon-attached-to-your-body process (surprise), but at least you don’t…
I’ve always been resistant, as an editor, to the idea of a Xmas gift guide. That’s because they’re a bit cliche; but today, I realized the very practical reason why I don’t like them. You have to be crazy to try to shop for a gadget addict by using one of these lists. I just…
For the October, 1980 issue of The Futurist Ted Peters, associate professor of systematic theology at the Pacific Lutheran Seminary (Berkeley, CA), wrote a piece titled, “The Future of Religion in a Post-Industrial Society.” An excerpt appears below. Western society is so pre-occupied with the consumption of goods and services that even religion may become…
Either this Shiny red and yellow 12-inch Iron Man action figure looks so much like a big nicely wrapped man-shaped chocolate, or we’re just very very hungry. Nevertheless, He looks just as faithful to the movie version (left) as we could hope, and will drive Jesus wild when he unwraps him under his tree next…
I know “All Giz Wants” are supposed to be fantasies involving shiny objects, but this really is my fantasy: I’d like high-def disc players that don’t flash “unreadable” error messages, receivers that can pull music from a network without headaches—in general, home electronics that aren’t shacked by Ethernet plugs, firmware-update discs, slow boot times and…
Even after being slapped in the face with a suit by a Connecticut attorney general, Best Buy is still having an internal bestbuy.com website that offers higher prices than the actual bestbuy.com. The only thing Best Buy promised to do is place a notice on the website to indicate that these are in-store prices, which…
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