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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…
Own a PSP? Any PSP? It doesn’t even have to be new. All you have to do is HAVE one and you can get 6 months of free T-Mobile HotSpot access for your PSP so you can connect to the net and play games with your buddies. We don’t think you can transfer this PSP…
Where else besides national television and your creepy uncle can you get stuff for answering questions? Here, that’s where. Just click through and answer the survey, then email [email protected] and tell them what the last question asked. The lucky winner will get a $250 Amazon Gift Card, which is enough for a Nintendo Wii if…
Look at this Pantech C180 that Boy Genius Report just uncovered, branded AT&T and looking a whole lot like a smaller and thinner Helio Ocean. Unlike the Ocean, this Pantech slider runs Windows Mobile 6 Standard, but just like the Ocean, it has that appealing dual-sliding arrangement, where a horizontal slide reveals a QWERTY keyboard…
The 22-inch widescreen version of the 3D monitors I couldn’t use are now available for $999. [Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/ces-2007-iz3d-updates-to-a-22-inch-widescreen-3d-monit-226101
Ceci n’est pas un pinball machine. Actually, it is, but it manages to be all sorts of things as well. It’s an art installation that’s currently on show in Barcelona, as well as an interactive game for kids, And, best of all, it uses a widescreen HD telly as one of the displays. Called King…
There’s not much we can say about these nudie shots of Darth Vader and Optimus Prime other than words of relief that our childhood attractions are finally vindicated. Despite being the heroes of both Generation X and Y, these two really know how to get down and dirty. This is NSFW, btw, in case you…
Here’s some leaked photos of Dell’s higher-end gaming laptop. The M1730 XPS laptops not only come in four colors—”Karmosin Red”, Sapphire Blue, Bone White and Smoke Grey—but feature a gigantic shell, Core 2 Duo processors, NVidia GeForce Go 8700M GT graphics cards, Blu-ray drives, and 4GB worth of ram inside. These are all optional packages,…
Now the US space program has really jumped the shark. The Space Shuttle Discovery will carry into space Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, a prop used in Star Wars. The entire journey of this movie prop will be accompanied with crazy fanfare—from prop shop to space and back—all in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the 1977…
The Sony Ericsson gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, said that a PlayStation-branded gaming phone would be coming by Christmas. He also added that it might not be this Christmas, which probably pissed whoever he was talking to off to no end. Sony Ericsson, who’ve already branded their W-line of phones the Walkman line, the K-line of…
The new TomTom One 3rd Edition has been announced in Europe. It comes with Map Share, like the latest Go series. Map Share allows you to make five different kinds of map corrections on the fly, as you find changes from the original cartography like blocked streets or new points of interest. It also has…
Joel Johnson, the editor of Gizmodo originally responsible for injecting this blog with humor, launched a gadget blog today over at BoingBoing. Recent converts to Giz will remember his rant about gadgets and gadget coverage a few months ago, but in case you weren’t sure about how BB’s gadget blog will be different from Giz,…
The 1966 book Automobiles of the Future features these images of General Motor’s Runabout concept car. Besides having three wheels it also features a built-in shopping cart that slides out of the trunk: Two views of the GM three-wheeled Runabout. This car of tomorrow is fitted with two shopping carts that make up the car’s…
JB over at Crunchgear has the exclusive on the “upcoming” Google Phone, supposedly set to launch in Q1 2008. His source is someone inside HTC, the company that Google’s working with to pick one of 20 models to finalize their design. On the software side, they’re going to build a special version of Google Maps…
Here’s another video of us goofing around with Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma TV. First, you’re treated to an awkward behind-the-scenes look of me trying to cram the thing in my pants unsuccessfully, then you can witness Wilson and I battling in Wii Tennis on the monster. And for the record, I let Wilson win because he’s…
Another day, another helmet. But this one is awesome. It wasn’t stolen from a Giant Panda, neither would it look better on your butt. No, this is a bike lid that looks like our favorite robot. Available in Japan, there’s a price on Gundam’s head and another image after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/bamboo-helmet-from-roof-is-for-eco-petrol-heads-293020 The MS-06S Zaku…
Adam from Lifehacker found these binocular plushes while he was trying to find a replacement for his normal pair (they got crushed when his wife found him looking at the old lady across the street). Creepy! [Finetoy via Uneasy Silence]
Yes, this post is about the iPhone but don’t worry, it’s not about yet another unlocking so put down those stones slowly. This morning’s false alarm by a Israeli newspaper only had one nugget of truth: The hackers were able to enable Hebrew support, but not on the interface, just on Safari and Mail. You…
The HD DVD camp is pretty much just giving their stuff away with the newest deal on Amazon for eight HD DVDs with the purchase of any Toshiba player. If you buy either the HD-A2, HD-A20 or HD-XA2 player and add three HD DVDs to your shopping cart (from a list of 55), you’ll be…
Details of Bug Labs and their open source gadget hardware just hit their public website. The BUGbase is the foundation of every project you’d piece together, includes an ARM1136JF-S-based processor running Linux, 128MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, USB Ethernet and a small LCD with buttons. https://gizmodo.com/first-look-at-the-bug-labs-open-source-hardware-289589 (And, thoughtfully, a tripod mount which I’m sure can be…