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Amazon, by way of a product page, leaked the ship date and price of HP’s MediaSmart Home Servers. These Windows Home Server machines (more about them here), will be sold in two models at $599 and $749, with 500GB and 1TB of storage respectively. Each one will have a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron processor along with…
Intel is launching the Core 2 Extreme X7900 mobile processor, which brings speeds of 2.8 GHz and a front-side bus of 800 MHz. [The Inquirer]
Just as we reported before, Sony’s just announced a personal video recorder (PVR) add-on system for the PlayStation 3 in European/PAL territories. Starting early 2008, the dual HDTV DVB-T tuner setup and the PVR will be available in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, and you will have the ability to store shows on…
It’s only been two days since the first PlayStation 2 Memory Card slot modchip was announced, but a separate group has popped up and and claimed that they’ve been working on a similar product for two years. The new chip, as of yet unnamed, works as a 32MB memory card and has a USB port…
Dell’s secrets have gone up in smoke as Engadget picks up a leak on the Dell XPS 420. The line has Core 2 Duo, Extreme or Quad processors, a 3×2-inch LCD display that runs Vista Sideshow , a dedicated Dell Xcelerator video transcoder, SATA II, Gigabit Ethernet, 8 external USB ports, two Firewire ports, and…
Click to viewI just got my hands on the first Moto Q9m, and after a couple of hours, I’m ready to send it right back. Seriously, if you buy this phone, you are dumb. For starters, Windows Mobile 6 is a piece of crap. Case in point: I plug in my freakin’ Hotmail account to…
Take a look at this smart image resizing algorithm introduced at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group: Graphics) convention. Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel, aims to make images just as dynamically resizable as text is on a web page by using a technique he calls “scene carving.” We’re…
If you have trouble remembering when to water your plants, you might be interested in this self-tilting vase design concept that gets horizontal when its plant gets thirsty. Once it’s properly hydrated, this pewter container stands up—albeit at a somewhat tilted angle—held up by the weight of the water within. Simple, yet elegant. [Yanko Design]
If you recently purchased one of those new slim aluminum Apple keyboards, you might have noticed that a couple of the fancy function keys on top (where the F-keys are) didn’t work. Namely, the F3 and F4 keys, which activate the Exposé and the Dashboard functions. Even using OS X’s built-in keyboard shortcut remapping tool…
Luckey and Luckey make some of the sweetest “playgrounds” I’ve ever seen, multi-story contraptions with tons of netting and platforms that jut out, allowing the tykes to climb up and around all over the place. They look like some fancy architecture or a sculpture as much as they look like objects for kids to climb…
So, what was up yesterday? We had RC aircraft executing the perfect take-off, exploding jetliners causing havoc in China, news of a new-gen DeLorean, and USB Mini Coopers. Also up were beer taps, iPhone hacks and sexy LG camera phones with stupid names. Did you miss ’em? No worries, just click on the links right…
[Update: Apple asked us to take down their art, so it looks it may be absolutely real. The horror.] 9 to 5 Mac has a couple follow-up spy shots of the iPod nano resdesign we posted about last weekend. If these are real, then it confirms the fat nanos that have a giant screen on…
If you’ve been following our Laptop Confidential II video contest, you might have already picked out your favorite film noir mini movie created by our talented Gizmodo readers. Entries are now closed, and we’ve narrowed it down to the top nine submissions. Take a look at top nine videos here, and get ready for the…
Either someone from Paramount’s threatened Michael Bay with something horrible, or someone from the HD DVD camp kidnapped his dog, because Bay’s just gone back on his earlier stance at the recent decision to dump Blu-ray. Here’s what his latest post on his forum says: https://gizmodo.com/michael-bay-angry-at-paramounts-dumping-of-blu-ray-291749 Last night at dinner I was having dinner with…
Here’s a clever idea that Samsung submitted to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: a cellphone that holds itself up with a convenient self-contained stand attached to its back. Sure, there are lots of cases that do this sort of thing, but this one folds into the phone in a unique way, using a part…
Apparently, this is what passes for a publicity stunt in the Ukraine. It’s a globe made out of Samsung cellphones, both old and new, being held up by a giant hand and surrounded by… mimes? And it’s all set up in a mall in Kiev? OK then. Looks like a caption contest to me. Readers?…
This terrifying revolver-knife straight from Resident Evil is real and ready to hunt zombies, like all the weird guns in this gallery. My favorites: the three-barrel pirate gun for my Guybrush Threepwood moments, the Thunder for my Lieut. Cobretti moments and the old-style black handgun with ultra-big knife —for when I have to shave, John…
Panasonic just announced a lineup of microdisplay LCD rear-projection TVs that answer two of the main problems with the category: Its light source won’t burn out or lose brightness like some projection bulbs do, and it gets bright quicker, so the picture is visible in about 15 seconds, rather than 60 seconds on other projection…
Keep that schoolmarm from perusing your porn with this USB-powered CD destroyer from Brando. In just five seconds, this hungry beast renders any CD or DVD unreadable, grinding in devastating circular scratches and resulting in a strangely beautiful coaster that reminds us of a Spirograph. https://gizmodo.com/carnival-ride-paints-art-peaks-forever-267452 It even includes a leather case for destroying CDs…
Click to view Here’s a two-part video that will teach you how to easily do a massive smoke hand grenade using sugar, baking soda, organic dye and saltpeter, all common elements that anyone could buy. The first part above shows you how to do the grenade itself, while the second part after the jump show…