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Your next phone could have a camera with 4x digital zoom, 2.2″ color display, an innovative, etched keypad made from a single piece of metal. Your next phone could be free when you activate it with AT&T. The Motorola RAZR V3 Black… your next phone.
Oh, Canada. You already tax MP3 players and blank CDs. Now you want to tax downloads themselves? The Copyright Board of Canada has given the thumbs-up to a tax of at least 2.1 cents for individual tracks and 1.5 cents per track for whole album purchases from online stores. Even subscription services will have taxes…
Losing your remote is a daily occurrence, but with this orbit remote from Chloe Fung, you’ll have to lose your arm to misplace this. The remote, worn as a bracelet, has the buttons placed around the edge so you can rotate it to find what you want to do. Interesting design, yes, but ultimately pretty…
Best Buy has an Xbox 360 HD DVD deal coming up next week that lets you get the HD DVD addon as well as a free Heroes Season 1 HD DVD box set for just $179. The ad says the Heroes pack is a $99.99 value, but you can pick it up online for just…
And now for a Friday musical interlude, we bring you Van Halen caught on its comeback tour, except there was one big problem and it involved gadgets. What happens when you play back a prerecorded synthesizer track at 48K instead of the intended 44.1K? The whole track plays back a little bit faster and at…
Just when we thought we’d seen the most horrible and immoral cigarette extinguisher in the world, one of our best and brightest commenters points out yet another example, built in a similar vein but reaching even lower depths of depravity. Honestly, a butthole ashtray (or is it an asstray)? At least it could have been…
Despite record sales and boosted revenues compared with last quarter, thanks to the debt-loaded ATI acquisition and the bloody price war with Intel, AMD’s finishing Q3 $396 million in the red. [Ars]
We’re jealous. The guys at the Brit division of Crave got their greasy paws on that gorgeous Sagem Porsche P’9521 cellphone we showed you the other day. Making us feel even worse is the fact that they liked it a lot, writing in their dignified-sounding British way, “It’s not just a piece of rubbish with…
Keeping our PS3 controller charged is such a pain that we always have to plug it in whenever we’re watching Blu-ray movies. Pelican’s Charge and Store eliminates lazy charging syndrome by providing both a charger and a stand, so you can keep your gaming area organized at the same time. The retail price is $29,…
Apple’s just posted an OS X Leopard walk-through video that’s in the same vein as those iPhone and iPod Touch walk-through videos you’ve seen before. A guy narrates and describes new features while he shows them to you on the monitor—except in this case, he’s less robotic (iPhone guy) or goofy (iPod touch guy). In…
Toshiba insiders report that Microsoft’s developing a new Xbox 360 with a “new” HD DVD drive (unclear if it’s on-board) and a larger hard drive, possibly for any IPTV or DVR efforts coming soon. Also, there’s been features thrown around that are unlikely to make it into the final product, such as dual HDTV tuners…
Attach this magnetic sextet of colorful 1.5-inch shot glasses to their included stainless steel tray, and the conical vessels stay put even if you hold the tray upside down. At first we thought there was some magical way to hold the contained liquid in place while the glasses were held upside down, too, but what…
Developed by both Steelcase, a furniture manufacturer, and James Levine from the Mayo clinic, this treadmill desk allows you to game, work or just look at salacious pictures on the internet and “work out” at the same time. The functions should be pretty obvious from the picture. As silly as it sounds, if we could…
Ever since Sony introduced us to the LF-V30 LocationFree Base Station last summer, we were wondering if this place-shifting Slingbox precursor could deliver the goods. Now our buddies at Maximum PC have taken the VAIO-branded video streamer for a test drive, calling the image quality from its new HD-source-handling component inputs “excellent” even though it’s…
What’s better than a deal on an Xbox 360 HD DVD player? Winning one for free! You can win both an Xbox 360 and an Xbox 360 HD DVD player addon by entering in our giveaway. Just click on over to the contest page and see details for entering. https://gizmodo.com/contest-win-a-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-311104
A German art student has developed a way to create tattoos for the blind, by implanting surgical steel, titanium, or medical plastic balls just under the skin in formations that spell out words in Braille. Not just for loved ones, designer Klara Jirkova says the implants could be placed in the fleshy part of your…
If you’re going to put a 2008 calendar on your wall, might as well spend $257,000 on one made of solid gold, right? An opportunistic Tokyo jeweler hops on the soak-the-rich bandwagon for the second year in a row with this 26.3-inch-tall calendar that consists of 13.23 pounds of 24k gold. How ostentatious can you…
Most people think that all boobs are cushions, but these Funwari Milk-chan, or Fluffy Milk, are real boob cushions. Like the real thing, they come in all different shapes and sizes. Unlike the real thing, however, they’re furry. There are five different boobs to choose from, each with its own character: Funwari Milk-chan, in the…
The third and final chapter of our untitled 1991 Pacific Bell concept video introduces us to the public videophones of the future, similar to those we saw in AT&T’s Connections video from 1993. See also:Pacific Bell Concept Video (Part 1, 1991)Pacific Bell Concept Video (Part 2, 1991)Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (Part 4, 1993)Connections:…
Marantz rolled out another one of its higher-end 1080p DLP projectors for home theater today, wrapping up this VP-15S1 in the same package as last year’s model but significantly enhancing the specs. The contrast ratio is punched up, from 6500:1 in the old model to 10,000:1 on this one, and it’s significantly brighter, up to…