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Nokia is indeed releasing two N95 variants, probably in response to the happy anti-Apple smartphone league’s joyous American reception of the pricey but powerful handset. Both of the new phones are flawed, but not for technical reasons. The N95i is the beautiful black model you saw on the FCC website, has a 2.8 inch screen…
LG’s new smartphone should be out in Europe by the end of the year, and we’re expecting to get a look at it next week at IFA. Find out what else this touchscreen beauty has got, and see some pretty ladies handling it, all after the jump. Runs on Windows Mobile 6.0 12.8 mm thich…
Ladies, are you self-conscious about your breasts? Do you think they need to be bigger to get you attention from guys—or at least from guys like Adam Frucci? Well, you could have expensive and gross really awesome breast implant surgery, or you could just grab some F Cup tea from Japan. These sure-to-be-effective tea bags…
I’m already a huge fan of DVD-projector combos, so Epson’s new LCD-projector MovieMates make me titter like a school girl. The first thing Epson did was solve its size problem with the MovieMate 50. The new one is 63% slimmer than its predecessor—with a built-in handle!—yet still costs $799. But the inevitable shift to high-def…
Every Transformer should be ashamed right now. Darth Vader has rolled onto their turf and made them all look weak in comparison. Optimus Prime certainly can’t turn himself into a man made planet, and the only thing Unicron can do is eat his way through the universe at 4 mph. We never believed the Millenium…
This 1965 concept sketch depicts a hypothetical New Tomorrowland in Disneyland. The drawing is featured in the book Designing Disney’s Theme Parks by Karal Ann Marling.
The guys over at Nokia blog supposedly received an itinerary for the virtual Nokia Go Play event. The itinerary mentions the Nokia N81, Nokia N95 8GB, music store, NGage and some more suspect mentions, like “Pjotro dance footage” and “event bloopers.” Joke or not, we’ll find out in a few hours when the event hits…
We like devices such as the M3 Perfect for loading DS Roms and homebrew projects, but you can’t really save data from actual DS games you might own. GameTech’s upcoming USB dongle lets you upload game save files to your computer and use them as your please. Insert your DS cart into the dongle, the…
Watching TV on a cell phone is about as fun as taking a drill to your eye — and that’s something concept designer Seokwon Hong hopes to alleviate with the Brix. The Brix is a modular concept for a cell phone that would allow you to create a bigger and bigger screen depending on how…
It’s DSLR season, with Canon and Nikon loosing their latest and now Olympus is following up with their E-3. We saw this camera first hand at PMA, unnamed, but obviously a replacement for the 4-year old E-1. Four years! Hey, that’s pretty nifty, Olympus — wait til your camera is actually out of date before…
We all remember sitting awkwardly in a circle, playing spin the bottle and getting our first kiss with a braces-wearing uggo in a group of giggling school children. Well, now you can relive those wonderful days with Toys4Me’s Electronic Spin the Bottle — a game that takes all the difficulty out of both spinning and…
Mark your calendars, because what Jesus told you before is true: Apple is planning a Special Event for the Wednesday following Labor Day weekend—that’s September 5 at 10am Pacific. You can bet we’ll be there to pick up whatever drops, but judging from the picture, I’m gonna put my money on iPods. Maybe even fat…
Today’s lineup highlights the futility of most news embargoes. I can count perhaps 10 items that leaked before the official US announcements. I can’t tell you what they are—ironically, I’d be breaking now meaningless non-disclosure agreements. And while I’d like to say that all these came from master sleuths or connected Deep Throats, most leaks…
Lighting designers’ minds must be turning toward boozing it up lately (joining those of your humble narrators), because this is the second time in as many days we’ve noticed special lighting devices that somehow illuminate containers full of alcoholic beverages. This clever idea involves a battery-operated LED, nestled within a cork that takes its place…
The recent Xbox 360 warranty extension to three years has really done a number on the repair queue. Everyone must be sending in their broken Xboxes, since the turnaround time has increased from two weeks to as much as six. Anecdotally, it so happens that three people I know sent in their 360s around this…
If you thought that Eight HD DVD + Toshiba Player deal this morning was good, check out this Blu-ray + PS3 deal Amazon’s also got going. It’s the same idea: get a 60GB or 80GB PS3, pick three Blu-ray movies from the list of 105, and get the movies for free. You can then mail…
It looks like the Nokia press conference tomorrow is going to be more like Phone-a-Palooza. According to Gearfuse and their “official” press images, Nokia will be launching at the very least five models tomorrow inlcuding: the N81 (Gaming Phone), N95-8GB edition (Music Phone), 5700, 5610 and the 5310 (XpressMusic). Not much else is really known…
Pinstack has shots of Blackberry’s flagship 8820 with GPS/WiFi, in the wild. Unseen before is the UI for hooking up said 802.11 to networks. Good porn shots for Blackberry nerds anxious for the full QWERTY and wireless. Still no camera, though. [Pinstack] https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-capable-blackberry-8820-becomes-official-279496
IBM is being sued after one of its servers was damaged in transit. T.R. Systems, who was shipping the beast to its customer the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and who had to shell out for a replacement, claims that the computer giant did not package the $1.4 million behemoth correctly. Want to hear how…
All the votes are in for our Laptop Confidential II contest, and the winner is the video above, entitled “The Gizmodo Informant,” a brutal look at the torture of an innocent detective whose clueless captor can’t figure out that “mocodomzig” is Gizmodo.com spelled backwards. The winner, calling his group “Hidden Agenda,” takes the $2000 laptop…