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Another early build of Windows Vista SP1 has been leaked again, three weeks after the previous leak. We may be seeing an actual SP sooner than we thought. [TCmagazine]
We like to celebrate all things drinking just like the next guy, but we’re kind of scratching our heads over this goofy table lamp that attempts to splash the color of your favorite booze all over your walls. Just insert the neck of that bottle of wine, liquor or whatever else into this rocker-shaped lighting…
Even though these Wolverine ESP players are not exactly sleek, they can do just about anything with video and audio, and now this one’s packed with 250GB of storage. Except for a bit of a color change, it looks just the same as its predecessor that we reviewed last year, with that same 3.6-inch LCD…
I just tested the Apollo IM Version Negative 1, which is touted as an early beta but is actually probably an early alpha. Although it actually loads my buddy list on after the login information’s entered, it only loads a portion of the contacts. But it does manage to send messages. Once you do manage…
Another crazy weekend has just passed us and while you fantasize about escaping work, buying a motorbike, calling it Samantha and traveling the globe like the free soul you are, let the weekend’s best keep you entertained: •We got the first leaked shots of the Palm Centro. •Tom Wood, a 16 year-old-boy, hacked Australia’s brand…
Here’s a wild idea for a design concept: put together a speaker with 12 sides, otherwise known as a dodecahedron, and you’ll get a 360-degree blast of music. These spacey-looking Quasar speakers send their sound all over the place, so no matter where you are in the room, their sweet audio will be spilling out…
Sure, it’s cool to have a “unique” abode that sets you apart from all the cookie-cutter apartment dwellers, but there’s a fine line between interesting and impractical. The Single Hauz goes ahead and takes a flying leap over that line right into crazytown. I mean, I’m sure that living on top of a pole in…
Click to viewYou can read about it all you want, but to be in its presence is another thing altogether. And no, I’m not talking about Frucci. We gave you a sugary lick of its sweetness last Friday on site, but now here are some of the technical details and a nerdier gallery of our…
This Sony LT HD PC/TV makes its mark as a mini home theater with its Blu-ray drive on board as well as a CableCard slot. But that Blu-ray drive not only plays back HD movies on the PC’s 22-inch widescreen, but can also record 50 gigs of sweet HD on a single disk. It has…
When Sprint first announced the WiMax rollout cities, I was kind of pissed. Grand Rapids, Salt Lake City, and Providence all made the cut, but New York and San Francisco were conspicuously absent. Well, apparently Sprint heard my whining, as they’ve just announced that NYC will in fact be among the first cities getting sexy,…
While some people try to decide if an iPhone is really worth the $600, a Russian rich-man without a violin tried to buy a U.S. B-52 Stratofortress bomber a few days ago, at a Moscow air show. https://gizmodo.com/craziest-weirdest-coolest-soviet-airplanes-ever-284244 Escorted by an army of bodyguards, the anonymous man approached the group of U.S. pilots who brought…
Click to viewFollowing yesterday’s letter to TrekStor, purveyors of the dubiously-monikered iBeat Blaxx MP3 player, we received an email from Gil Szmigiel, Vice President of TrekStor, effecting an immediate name-change to something a little less offensive. See the email after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/a-letter-to-trekstor-re-racist-ibeat-blaxx-mp3-player-293515 Dear Gizmodo, TrekStor is shocked by the way our new MP3 player’s…
The battle of the 1080p home theater projectors gets even more rip-roaring today with Sanyo tossing its somewhat clunky looking Sanyo LP-Z2000 projector into the ring, at least in Japan. This 3-LCD $3000-ish monster looks more like an industrial-strength toaster, but still nails the specs with an HDMI 1.3a port, 1200 lumens and a 15,000:1…
How much do we at the Giz love toasters? Yeah, a lot. Arthur Wu’s Toasty design is tasty for these reasons: one—cute switch on top; two—it looks like a tape deck. Oh Noes, however, include: Only one slice toasts at a time, which is pure badness in my book; and, as yet, it’s only a…
Today is the last day of voting for the Laptop Confidential II Contest. If you haven’t seen them yet, take a look at the finalists here, and then follow the MORE link at the end of this post to cast your vote. The winner will receive his or her choice of any laptop with an…
A trio of cameras from Kodak, the Z812 IS Megazoom, the V1233 and the V1253 have shown up on the Let’s Go Digital website, who apparently got it from the Kodak website. More details and pics about the three compacts below. The Z812 IS Megazoom 12 x optical zoom Schneider Dreuznach Variogon lens Optical Image…
The auction for seats on the first Airbus A380’s flight starts today: Singapore Airlines will fly it from their home city to Sydney. All profits will be shared between different non-governmental charity organizations, so not only will you have the opportunity to be first to fly the biggest passenger aircraft of all time, you will…
Beneath the wood exterior lies an old Ericsson phone, modded by a Russian. There’s another pic after the jump. The only thing that surprises me is that its creator didn’t inlay it with bling. [New Launches]
Taiwan-based Acer, the third largest PC company in the world, has acquired US-based Gateway. It will continue to operate with different brands for the time being. [Reuters]
Leopard is getting closer to launch, and apparently the last-minute touches are starting to trickle out from the Mothership. This looks like its new Welcome movie, centered around the Time Machine theme. In Tiger, Mac OS X’s previous version, the central theme was its most touted feature: Spotlight. The movie then showed a beam of…