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GEAR4’s BlackBox Bluetooth speaker system is both good looking and functional, having a mini LED display and two 24W speakers on board. It’s a black gloss finish, touchscreen controls, a USB-upgradable firmware, and fits right in on the bus, blasting out your Rock Jamz Vol. 3 from your A2DP compatible player for everyone to enjoy.…
Someone discovered yet another way to get ringtones onto your iPhone for free. This time it involves a command line editor, some changing of metadata, and your regular songs will be come ringtones immediately. [Xanga via TUAW]
We first heard of the HTC Juno when the rumor was that it was going to AT&T. Now Boy Genius says it’s going to T-Mobile, complete with the two-letters-per-key Suretype keyboard. Other guesses are that it will have HTC’s (now fairly standard) TouchFlo home screen that was debuted on the HTC Touch. Whether something like…
Now that the iPhone free software unlock is available, you may be wondering how to use it. The answer: It’s complicated. We did it here with two iPhones, it works flawlessly but the unlock process is not for consumers. Fortunately, develogoddess Erica Sadun is coming to the rescue soon with a one-click graphic application that…
This here is the world’s first Ferrari 360 Modena converted to a gullwing stretch limo. It’s 23 feet long, but with 400HP, goes zero to 60mph in about 6 seconds. These mods, and the extra 6 Recaro seats, cost £200k. Sounds like a deal to me. We’ve got one more photo of the gullwing in…
Sony showed off this crazy omnidirectional speaker in Japan yesterday, and due to Google’s always-amazing machine translation, I don’t really get how it works. Why don’t I just let the translation do the talking? Perhaps you can figure out what the hell it means. Check it after the jump. When it fits in classification of…
Click to viewA false hacker going by the alias of haRRo has tried to trick everyone by posing as the “sole developer” of a graphical tool to unlock the iPhone. The GUI application is really the work of Erica Sadun, Weblog/TUAW’s writer and one of the brilliant programmers who has been developing iPhone applications since…
The long-lobbied-for XM/Sirius merger is starting to pick up some optimistic vibes from Wall Street and analysts, who are beginning to think it might just happen. In fact, one analyst group, Cowen & Co., not only says that the odds are the “best ever,” they’re wagering on FCC approval before Dec. 4, possibly as early…
I’ve said it before, and now I’ll say it again: Flying cars are a moronic, dangerous idea, and flying cars will never become widespread consumer products like normal cars. People can’t drive safely on pavement, so they won’t be able to handle planes shaped like cars. I’m sorry to piss on your campfire, but it’s…
If you are wondering why we’re engaged in a totally ridiculous Ultimate Hand-Dryer Battlemodo, it’s because you asked for it. When we aired our interview with Dyson and the Airblade, some of you guys pounced on Dyson, “embarrased for having claimed to have invented the horizontal hand dryer only to discover the Japanese have had…
So, yesterday will go down as the day that AT&T gave up its sole rights to the JesusPhone. It will also go down as the day Thanko brought out a useful product, the day that Woz announced he was selling his Nissan 350Z, and the day the Zune went blue. • Finally, the iPhone free…
After spending an ungodly amount of money to kill Jack and mutate the Cingular brand into the “new AT&T,” they’ve decided that Cingular’s orange palette offered a “younger, edgier and more contemporary style—all attributes closely associated with wireless.” But clearly not AT&T. So, they’re rebranding. Again. Look for Death Stars set against the new “primary…
PS3 fans will be happy with Logitech’s new headset and keyboard. The Cordless Vantage headset and MediaBoard keyboard both have Bluetooth technology, and will be out Stateside in time for the Holidays. Prices and more info, plus a purdy picture of the piano-black keyboard, are after the jump. The Cordless Vantage features native PS3 support,…
Microsoft’s new Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 has a secret: it packs 1GB of flash memory for secret files (porn), you wife’s pictures (porn) and even the occasional Excel spreadsheet (cataloging your porn). Running off 2.4ghz or Bluetooth, the mouse is adjustable with the flick of a switch. And while the idea of storage in a…
Renaming Apple’s sixth generation of iPod the “iPod classic” cemented the device into our cultural history. Beyond mere music or video device, Apple acknowledged that their once humble MP3 player had grown to cultural icon— just like Coca Cola. But is the new iPod classic really an improvement? Or are we just a bunch of…
Hitachi has announced a 103-inch plasma. As we’ve heard, there’s only one place to get screens this big: Panasonic, mother of the original giant. Is Panny in full swing selling them to companies like Samsung and now Hitach’? And if Panny is selling, maybe, maybe, it means that they’re ready to update their own 1080p.…
Nuclear weapons are so last century—these days everyone has them, and international treaties make them virtually impossible to use anyway. That’s why Russia has been working on a new type of apocalypse-bringing device, the Vacuum Bomb. It creates a huge and destructive shockwave, but doesn’t have any of those pesky fallout side effects. That means…
Following the leaky loo of the ROKR U9 is the ROKR W5, which is a quad-band GSM clamshell that has EDGE, Bluetooth, miniUSB, 20MB internal memory, a microSD slot, and a sad little 1.3-megapixel camera. It actually kind of seems like weak sauce, Mount Doom-inspired paint job aside. More details when we crib them, naturally.…
We’ve seen enough legit-looking pictures to know the Palm 500v was real, but now we really know that it’s real because Palm has confirmed the product. Coming in “glacier white” and “charcoal black” as we reported earlier, the new WM6 Palm will abandon touchscreen in favor of a Blackberry-style setup along with full QWERTY. https://gizmodo.com/more-treo-500-leaked-pics-confirm-two-colors-298714…
A new Motorola clamshell, the Rokr U9 has had pics and specs leaked online. And what do we think? Well, smoked mirror effects and ergo-pebble-cum-designer sex toy do not a zexy phone make. See for yourselves in the gallery, then ogle at the specs below. 1.4 128 160 px 65K Color OLED display Measures 90 48.6 16.4…