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According to an email received by the folks at Gearlog, Samsung has promised to “at least talk” about what would be the world’s first 1.3-inch hard drive at CES in January. They also noted that the drive will be targeted at “mobile consumer devices,” a move that would seemingly be in conflict with their NAND…
Nothing will make you look like more of an oaf than having horrible breath and being wasted. If you somehow aren’t sure if either of those are the case after washing down a garlic-and-blue-cheese sandwich with a tall glass of straight bourbon, you should get the Etiquette Checker. Simply breathe into it to get a…
Did your stupid, stupid coworkers piss you off back on talk like a Pirate day? You know, that fake holiday that lets people who think they’re funny, but actually not, annoy the crap out of you by elongating the R’s in every word? Today, The Day of the Ninja, is your chance to get back…
Plastic clamshell openers like the OpenX have been around for a while, but despite all that development and marketing, they still lose out in pure usefulness to box cutters or even a pair of scissors. The Plastic Surgeon, on the other hand, looks like it has all the functionality of a box cutter but without…
Now here’s how you rock dual monitors. This dual monitor setup from Korea is totally adaptable, able to be twisted and turned into any number of configurations. That’s a dual 15-incher setup, but there’s also a 17-inch model due shortly as well. Oh man, do I ever want one of those. Let’s bring these Stateside,…
BGR has an update to the Windows Mobile 6.1 details we showed you earlier in the week, showing off some more improvements that make us excited for WinMo again. Besides the Vista-esque home screen that you saw last time, there’s a new font, zooming, and copy/paste in IE, process list and CPU usage in the…
So there you are, a kid who just lost his entire house in the recent Southern California wildfires. What would be at the top of your wishlist? A new house? Returning to a sense of normalcy? All your old possessions that are now irretrievably torched? Sorry, no can do. How’s about we just give you…
When the Comcast TiVo DVR software rollout finally makes its way to your area, you’re going to have to pay a slight premium in order to avoid Motorola/Scientific Atlanta’s crappy UI. TiVo’s CEO says Comcast will be charging $2.95 extra a month in order to get TiVo onto your boxes, which should be a relatively…
Following up on their optimization of GCal and GDocs for the iPhone, Google’s gone and made their entire Google portal Apple phone friendly. There’s now a tab bar at the top of the page that lets you switch quickly between Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Docs and the rest of the mobile-capable apps. All you have to…
While everyone else is readying their 4G network, good ole T-Mobile is still prepping its 3G network, which is expected in early 2008. Though it feels like it’s coming at a snail’s pace, the carrier has made its second baby step with release of the Nokia 6263. Like the Samsung t639 before it, the 6263…
After lighting up the Today Show last week, today Wilson’s burning up the pages of the Grey Lady with a rundown of hot holiday gifts loaded up with GPS. There’s navigation gear for hikers like Bushnell’s waterproof ONIX 400 (complete with XM radio), Garmin’s Forerunner 305 for power-joggers, the usual car-mounted suspects like Garmin’s Nuvi…
According to Phone Scoop, residents of Chicago, Baltimore and DC will be able to get online via Sprint’s XOHM WiMax initiative some time in the next few days. It’s going to be a soft launch, with not too much promotion, with an official wide launch in the second quarter of 2008. Chicago and Baltimore are…
Yes, I know, going up to a girl in a bar and introducing yourself is hard. What if she shuts you down?! Your fragile ego will be shattered! But really, it’s not so bad. And I’m pretty sure the alternative that Ice Brkr is proposing is much worse. The new service, which is clearly destined…
Michael Bay, acclaimed director of smash hits Pearl Harbor and The Island, has never had love for HD DVD, (though it seemed like he got reasonable). Now he says HD DVD is all a giant conspiracy being bankrolled by $100 million checks from Microsoft to slowly kill both HD formats: “Microsoft [officials] want both formats…
What do Gizmodo readers like more than a sex hotline? A nerd sex hotline. Although it’s not a true nerd’s fantasy (“I get so hot sitting quietly and watching you play Xbox. Oh yeeeeeah.”), it’s quite close. Only the audio in this is NSFW, so feel free to enjoy the fake nerd hotline at work…
Just as we suspected, the CDMA/GSM hybrid Motorola Z6c arrived on Verizon Wireless for $180 after a $50 rebate and service contract. The slider for jet-setters was joined by a scarlet-hued LG 8350, which can be picked up for $80 after a $50 rebate and service contract. [Verizon Wireless] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-rizr-z6c-has-dual-band-gsm-and-cdma-327556/
Olive Media teamed up with designer Karim Rashid (the guy with the glasses who’s in those Dirt Devil commercials) to release a series of OPUS Nº5 music players with four different psychedelic graphic designs. According to Rashid, the inspiration for his designs came from music itself (we’re guessing music from the ’70s), “Omni-directional like sound,…
Deep moment, cue montage of oceans, mountains and highway full of hybrids or something. “What if every biillboard you drove by every day was actually a powerplant?” And then think that maybe, just for a moment, the world could be better. Then snap back to reality. You are at work where your potential is limited…
[UPDATE: it’s not the real McCoy. Check the rumor smashing here.] The ultimate gadget this side of an Imperial Star Destroyer has been revealed! Or that’s what some people claim: this is the “new” NCC-1701. Yes, the Enterprise, the one, only and original Jimmy’s warpster that will be one of the main characters in the…
You know how when you buy a hard drive, the space you get is always less than the space it says on the box? Well, that’s due to the difference between counting space using the binary method, which says that a megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes, and the decimal method, which calls a megabyte 1,000,000 bytes.…