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Click to viewOne of our loyal Gizmodian visitors sent us three pictures of what he says is an exploded Nokia 2115i cellphone. Reader Jonathan said that last night his phone’s battery ran out of power so he plugged it into its charger as he usually does. Check the gallery below to see the result, and…
The black US version of Nokia’s N95 has hit the FCC, featuring 8GB of storage in addition to the new exterior. There’s no mention of a 3G HSDPA connection, which it was rumored to have. We think there will in fact be a 3G connection on here, as there are links that point to Nokia.com/music…
The iPhone makes pretty decent use of its gravity sensor with Safari, but that’s something of a kid’s trick compared to the WND DUO Atom, which flips between two SIM cards as you flip it from top to bottom (or is it bottom to top?), making it easy to maintain two separate accounts. Like one…
This infrared controlled mechanical insect will make all your other houseflies jealous with its awesome relative size, but its clumsy flight path certainly isn’t going to win any aerobatic awards. It flies six minutes on a charge, and its construction looks a whole lot like the Pico-Z helicopters we’ve tested here a couple of times.…
Click to viewHere’s a video of another version of the 1873 monocycle replica done by the same man, Roberto Terradillo from Burgos, Spain. He says that making sharp turns is quite difficult, as you control it using your body weight, leaning to one side or the other. Still, I would like to have one. The…
After recovering from a major crash this weekend Skype is now pointing fingers, saying that “the disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.” Their official statement sounds like the BBC…
Two hundred bones will get you a lot of printer these days. Epson’s Stylus Photo RX680 printer/scanner/copier is a Gutenberg wet dream with text and copy speeds up to 40 ppm, two separate paper trays that can hold a total of 270 sheets of paper, draft photo printing in 11 seconds and an auto-duplexer for…
Click to view Watch this video that College Humor made of Internet Commentards holding a business meeting. Gives you, the thoughtful Gizmodo commenter sophisticate, a finer appreciation for the Banhammer, doesn’t it?
A Russian weapons company is hot on the trail of the ultimate super-soaker: a portable water cannon that has enough force to lift you off your feet. Special Materials Ltd, a St Petersburg company, is researching the idea of a “non-lethal weapon based on electro-hydrodynamical effect,” which is basically a short, sharp electric shock hidden…
Canon’s two latest additions to its low-frills high-performance A-Series keep up the good reputation. The A720 IS is a 8-megapixel shooter with 6x optical zoom lens and optical image stabilizing that will cost a remarkably low $250. The A650 IS takes the spotlight, however, with 12.1 megapixel resolution, 6x optical zoom lens and a twisty…
Lucky and Flo, two black Labradors, have been given outstanding service awards for their part in a five-month campaign that has crippled DVD piracy. The two hounds are responsible for the seizure of over $6 million worth of illegal DVDs in Malaysia, as well as the arrest of 26 people, despite the fact that a…
Canon rolled out its SX100 ultra-zoom camera today, bringing a decent low-priced camera to the ultra-zoom market segment. How ultra is it? It’s got some pretty good 10x optical zoom glass on the front, and it’s also delivering lots of value in the image processor department, loading up Canon’s best Digic III imaging chip that’s…
Misumi claim that this is the smallest camera ever, which will ensure it’s place on every pervert’s Amazon wish-list. The company have been making spy-cameras for years, but have excelled themselves with the Snake Camera, measuring only 4.4mm in diameter and 15mm in length. It can record 320×240 pixel QVGA video in color and includes…
Another Slider from Samsung, this time the rather ungainly-looking i570, which looks very similar to the i620 from earlier this year. Specs are pretty identical, too, although there is one big difference: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-i620-smartphone-is-a-more-traditional-slider-264871 The i570 runs on Simbian 9.1 OS rather than Windows mobile. And while it’s got smaller dimensions than the i620,, it’s around…
This concept chair, designed by Pinju Chen, has an absolutely massive speaker buried deep inside it. Switch it on, and I guess you feel like the bass is buried deep inside you. I can’t decide what I think it most resembles: A tongue? One of those chairs you stick a baby in and bounce it…
The official name of Samsung’s new slider is the SCH-W300, but it’s been dubbed the UFO phone — and rightly so, given its ghostly gray fizzog. An HSDPA cell with 7.2Mbps download speed, which means an MP3 file in 4.4 seconds, a video file in 44 seconds. Snappy stuff, almost as snappy as its UFO…
Click to viewDo you think the iPhone is $100 too expensive? Well, you can get refurbished 4GB and 8GB iPhones for $100 less than their original price-tag at the Apple Store. [AppleStore — Thanks Jody]
This is what you get when a bunch of students – some of them high schoolers —four of them from MIT—get together and make their own version of the Segway. It may look like one of those golf caddies on wheels but it works and it’s cheap: check the video comparing the original Segway with…
Click to view Did you know what is inside some batteries? About $40-worth of savings, it seems. Cut open an A23 battery (cost: 94 ) and you’ll find eight 1.5-volt button batteries, each of whose RRP is around $4.99. [KipKay via Spluch]
The Dell XPS 410 desktops are now available with dual CableCARD tuners, $236 each. [MSMVPS] https://gizmodo.com/dell-home-media-suite-up-close-there-are-worse-ways-to-227617