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We’re trying to understand why someone would buy this diamond-spangled solid gold iPod shuffle, which wins the prize for gaudiest second-rate music player. This one even outdoes that 18-karat solid gold iPod shuffle we pointed out to you last month, with this one tipping the more-money-than-brains pricetag scale of $20,000 compared with that solid gold…
These Powerpoint presentation slides unearthed by Rumor Reporter shine new light onto a possible suit on Nintendo by Immersion. Immersion, if you don’t remember, is the same company that recently won their suit with Sony for millions of dollars (and settled with Microsoft earlier) regarding vibration in controllers. These new Immersion documents outline their somewhat…
Some scientists at Bath University in the UK have come up with an interesting albeit only marginally useful new way of making friends via Facebook. Rather than having to go through the process of, you know, meeting people and talking to them, it instead basically gathers the info of people who’ve been in the same…
Sony’s XBR4, the 10-bit, , 24-frame compatible, 120Hz follow up to the XBR3, was announced a few weeks ago, but Gary Merson has the first review. He says its the best HD LCD so far, with some caveats. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-new-xbr5-xbr4-and-w-series-lcd-hdtvs-266680 The standard mode, “vivid” doesn’t seem to do deinterlacing of 1080i signals correctly. (Movie and other…
This week on Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher celebrate the big 1-0-0 by talking about the wonders behind Apple Keynote presentation software, the Netflix and Blockbuster price war, the size of AT&T phone bills and a remarkable prediction they made on show #1 two years ago. [Free Podcast on…
We first saw the In2Games Fusion last year before the Wii launch, but they’re back again for the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany. This time, besides demoing the “Freedom” line (name changed from Fusion), In2Games is announcing that these are going to be available for the PS2 and the PC. https://gizmodo.com/in2games-fusion-suck-it-wii-209251 The peripherals work with…
Sony’s making it look like it’s fishing for buyers of remote controls, rolling out three different form factors of its latest universal remotes on the same day. There’s the RM-PZ1FD, that earthy colored wide remote for those who like to keep the control on the arm of a chair or use it like a laptop;…
Moving just slightly up from their iTube iPod dock, Fatman’s just birthed this Mothership tube amp. The £5000 ($9897) amp has 200 watts per channel, vacuum tube preamps, and other crazy stuff that most of us will never need. Oh, and they recommend that you don’t use the 128kbps music you download from iTunes as…
While guns may be being attached to robots, precision shots are still left to well-trained human sharpshooters. Check this oldie-but-still-goodie out: cops were trying to keep a guy was sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of the road from shooting himself. He wasn’t responding to their demands, so they called in a sharpshooter…
Every time I feel ready to declare Blu-ray a winner by technical knock-out, HD DVD fights back—hard. Today Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation announced that it would be releasing movies exclusively on HD DVD, starting with Blades of Glory, Transformers and Shrek the Third. This is a pretty sizable deal, which includes movies from Paramount…
Seriously, if you ever thought those around you doubted your supremacy in the nerdiverse, buying something called a “quiver” for your keyboard and mouse will settle the matter once and for all. It’s no +2 Quiver of Plenty, but the $70 Dust-Off Keyboard Quiver, coming this October, may feel like one. It provides ample space…
We’re feeling big rumblings out of Japan about the upcoming flagship Nikon DSLR, and the latest scuttlebutt has it called the Nikon D3. Its spec list sounds like one-upmanship of Canon’s big-time flagship, the EOS-1D Mark III, but instead of 45-point autofocus of that Canon monster (which has had its problems), Nikon will go that…
Dear Panasonic. First of all, I’d like to say how fine that Real Pro Ultra massage chair looks, if a little scary. It reminds me of that robot thing in Aliens – you know, the one that Ripley straps herself into right at the end. I’m sort of waiting for the model (about whom, more…
The 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice features themes and products similar to that of Accenture’s Vision and AT&T’s Connections, both produced in 1993. This clip from Flowers by Alice introduces us to the main characters as well as two emerging technologies. The skyway’s backed up but the bullet train is moving right…
IMPORTANT: If you are looking how to install apps on your iPhone or iPod touch, these instructions are no longer valid. Follow this link for new instructions. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-install-unofficial-apps-on-your-iphone-3g-or-ip-5166029 If you wanted to install third-party native software in your iPhone but you didn’t had the necessary technical knowledge or courage, the newly updated iPhone Installer.app will…
Out here on the toothbrush beat, you run into all sorts of fear-mongering products such as the VIOlight Toothbrush Sanitizer. Now you can take that germophobia out on the road with the VIOlight Travel Toothbrush Sanitizer, a smaller version of that near-miraculous home version that probably does no good but might make you feel better…
No longer are you forced to break open a PS2 to solder a modchip in or swap off the top for the disc switching method to play “homebrew” games on Sony’s previous-gen console. The Vast memory card modchip, coming in two weeks, is a plug-and-play only device that lets you bypass the PlayStation 2’s security…
Augmentix’s rugged notebook has the distinction of being one of the fastest in the market, say the writers at Electronista. This model has a 14-inch screen, Core 2 Duo processors up to 2.4GHz, EVDO/HSDPA and 802.11n. It is essentially a Dell Latititude D630 built up to mil spec [Augmentix via the excellent Electronista]
So you were out over the weekend playing Frisbee in the park. It is not that we mind, but you could have spared a minute for us. We feel like we just do not know you anymore. In an effort to reignite the flame, we are going to tell you what you missed, because we…
News comes in from Microsoft Belgium that the oft made fun of Xbox 360 Core is going to be finally discontinued and replaced with an Xbox 360 Arcade. It’s essentially the same console—same white DVD face and same lack of hard drive—but adds a wireless controller and a 256MB memory card. Oh, and five Xbox…