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Beginning on Monday November 12th, Sprint will allow users to alter their contracts without getting locked for another two years. The new kinder-gentler Sprint also plans to implement a new prorated early termination fee (ETF) policy sometime in early 2008. So if you plan on jumping ship early (I wouldn’t blame you) or making some…
Following in the footsteps of our own master Photoshopper and his Apple Tablet concept, we want you, our readers, to give it a shot as well. Submit your Photoshopped concepts for a possible Apple Tablet and what you think/want it to look like. https://gizmodo.com/apple-macbook-touch-concept-and-thoughts-on-the-newton-303927 Will it have a keyboard hidden underneath? Will it look like…
EA’s generously donated one of their biggest (and oldest) properties, SimCity, to the OLPC project to give away free with every laptop. With SimCity, the children of the world can learn to manage funds while at the same time keeping a bunch of whiny advisers at bay. If EA would donate their other property, The…
Switching resolution on the PS3 isn’t too complicated, but if you’re trying to do it from memory on a TV that’s blank because you’ve got the wrong settings it’s nigh impossible. With the XCM E-SETER, you can quickly push one of the labeled buttons and switch quickly and instantly to the desired setting, bypassing all…
Rock star, home movie star and all around awesome guy Tommy Lee was at the SVM-1000 launch event last night, and he wanted to make sure I deliver this very important message to you. If I let him talk for any longer, I’m sure he would’ve told you to vote for Gizmodo for the 2007…
Click to view If you have been on the fence about picking up an HTC Touch or an iPhone, you owe it to yourself to check out this 25 minute comparison from the guys at WM Experts. If your attention span is limited to 15 minutes and under, I can tell you that the verdict…
Unlike the official Nintendo Wii lightgun accessory that has the trigger up in the front hand—which is more awkward than Frankenstein dancing—the dreamGEAR Wii GameBlaster has only one trigger, and it’s in the back. Also unlike the official gun, it takes in both the Wiimote and the Nunchuk controller and connects the two without visible…
24 is coming backmay or may not be coming back due to the strike, but there’s a teaser freshly available on Xbox Live to whet your palate for yet another highly improbable, explosion-filled day, whenever it’s coming. To give you an idea of what the show’s like in the Far East, here are a couple…
Pandora, the music station that takes one artist or song you like and feeds you—with pretty decent accuracy—other artists and songs you might like, has just gotten a content deal with AT&T. If you’ve got a Samsung SYNC, a717, a737, Moto V3xx, RAZR 2, LG trax, LG Cu400 or CU405, you can stream up to…
This design for a product companion won a silver award at the Samsung Young Design awards by being both slick and useful, something we don’t see quite enough of in theoretical design renderings these days. By placing any food item on the top, the hiREC will display information by either weighing it or scanning its…
The Pitch Bollywood tropes can be hard for non-Indians to process, and the song-and-dance routine in this Acer spot is no exception. It starts off as a West Side Story clone, with finger-snapping toughs—er, “toughs”—bobbing their heads. But why are they in a prison? And what is matinee idol Hrithik Roshan doing there, teasing two…
Unlike the universal chargers we’ve used to power our cellphones and MP3 players, this 10C Crew Charge provides juice to battery packs workers use when they’re doing manly work. The Crew Charge has four sockets and universal tips so you can power battery packs from DeWalt, Bosch, Panasonic, Hitachi and more, plus even charging laptops…
Blackfriday.info has both Kmart and Target’s Black Friday ads up, showing off girls’ sweaters ($7.49) and eight piece luggage sets ($49 – great deal!), but what you really care about are electronics. Well, over at the ‘mart, they’ve got a Polaroid A801 8-megapixel camera for $79, as well as the Wii for standard price, Guitar…
Click to viewThe war between Blu-ray and HD DVD takes center stage, but now we’re starting to see rumbles within the vast Blu-ray coalition. How long did you think a truce between longtime rivals Sony and Panasonic could last, anyhow? To be sure, everyone is being perfectly civil to one another, but while Panasonic, Samsung…
This is DJ Roonie G demonstrating Pioneer’s new SVM-1000 mixer at the launch event last night, which brought out big names in electronic music like BT and Tommy Lee. The SVM-1000 adds a new layer to traditional DJing by letting the artist mix both audio and video on as many as four channels. Hit the…
Skype’s finally released their 2.0 beta for Linux which includes Video—something the early adopter Linux crowd have been picketing the Skype offices for for years. [Skype]
Pharos, whose GPS units we’ve actually tested in smartphone form, has just released two entry level models for the price of $199 and $299. The Pharos Drive GPS 250, which is $299, has a SiRFStarIII GPS receiver, touchscreen display, and automatic night view switching when it detects that the sun’s gone. The cheaper Drive GPS…
The U.S. Army is already using fully armed robots in Iraq, and now it’s rolled out the Black Knight Unmanned Combat Vehicle. It’s pretty much a giant tank with robotic capabilities, armed with a 30mm gun and a machine gun. Soldiers can steer and control it just like a radio-controlled car, complete with a video…
There’s no better way to give people the message that “I’m socially awkward and like to have an umbrella handy if there’s a chance of rain” like having one of these Stripping Weathergirl Weather Stations on your desk. See, if it’s hot out she takes her clothes off. Holy mackerel, She takes her clothes off,…
Knight Rider as a TV show may be dated, but as a lifestyle? Still going strong. So for the Michael Knights in training out there, we strongly recommend picking up the $60 KITT R/C car. While it won’t leap through the air or create smoke screens at will, the tiny Trans Am does feature KITT’s…