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In what seems to be another example of postmodern paleo-futurist design (repurposing past visions and versions of the future) we have promotional postcards for the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie WALL-E. Apparently these were given out at Comic-Con 2007. (via The Disney Blog) You can view the teaser trailer for WALL-E here. See also: Disney Calls Future…
The Blackberry Pearl 2, featuring 8 different colors, should be hitting AT&T exclusively in the first or second week of September. [Boy Genius Report]
A 99-cent store in Westchester, CA will sell 4GB iPhones for $0.99 to the first 9 people in line on August 9th. Cheapskates and hobos with access to eBay should line up now. [Mac Daily News]
Michelle Madigan, Dateline NBC’s DefCon mole, armed with hidden camera, was trying to sneak in as a programmer and tape hackers admitting to illegal activity. Instead, DefCon’s NBC mole uncovered the plot. DefCon staff lured her to a large hall telling her that the Spot the Fed contest was in session and that she could…
Click to view Wondering what the new PSP Slim looks like when fondled side-by-side with its big brother? Prepare to be blown away by the lack of any real aesthetic differences! But hey, it’s what inside that counts, right? And outside, on the TV, which actually looks pretty neat. [Gaygamer, via Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/looking-good%5Cokay/psp-slim-hands+on-comparison-285819.php
Hey, trivia fans. Here’s your chance to win a super comfortable Gamepod home entertainment gaming chair that hooks up to your iPod, MP3 player, CD player or even your home entertainment system. There are speakers in the headrest so you can relax and “feel” the music, all the while putting your feet up on the…
Swedish gadget blog Fosfor got their hands on the svelte O2 Cocoon phone, and were gracious enough to produce an unboxing gallery. Not only is the phone simple and elegant, but so is its packaging. We’re big fans of this newcomer, from its clean lines to the incorporation of a hidden LED display. Hopefully this…
Signalmap is a neat webapp that lets you punch in your zip code and your cellphone provider and see how the reception is where you live. Not only can you use it to gauge where the best place is to make your call, you can compare the four big providers so you can see which…
Readers keep sending their photos to the No-Prize iPhone Fake Transparency Picture Reader Contest. The weekend is here, so why not use the opportunity to create your own and send them? Maybe one of you cooking on the grill? Or in a bikini showing your belly button —specially if you are Gizmodo’s only female editor?…
Hey, friends! I have some questions for you. Do you like gadgets? Do you like Gizmodo? Are you young and impressionable and looking for a break into tech writing? Awesome! We are looking for you. The Giz Morning team (Wilson Rothman, Frucci, Charlie, Jesus, Addy, and Mark Wilson) are looking for a set of hands…
What’s everyone doing, gear-wise this weekend? Me, I’m fiddling around with the iPhone since I need to be writing my iPhone book all weekend. Maybe some Shadowrun on Xbox 360 thrown in, but mostly an entire weekend of work, work, work. How about you? Get any cool toys in the past week? Don’t know how…
In the realm of horrible Simpsons knockoff toys, this Homer Simpson Robosapien has to be one of the worst ever. Shall we count the things wrong with it? First, it’s not even the real Homer’s voice. Second, well, it’s a piece of crap. Watch the video to see Shiny Shiny struggle to get the thing…
Not only is the iPhone getting its third-party cherry popped, the Helio Ocean is now running third-party apps now as well. The first proof of concept app is Opera Mini, the smallish browser from Opera that lets even lousy phones browse like a star. To get it to work on your Ocean (even though the…
That’s what is reported to be a 40D, the successor to Canon’s 30D prosumer flagship. The highlights of improvement appear to be a live view LCD, boosting the MP rating from 8.2 to 12 or 13, and Small RAW image format. Sounds fanciful, especially as we’ve heard all sorts of other numbers out there for…
Monster Cable’s HDMI Cable for Life program guarantees that the cable will meet or exceed all HDMI performance requirements for life or they’ll swap them. (And estimates that cables bought next month will be good for 3-5 years, until 4K and true 60 frame per second progressive signals become prevalent.) If only someone had made…
Unlike this CEO desk, which just looks like it’s made out of LEGO but actually isn’t, this LEGO desk consists only of 35,000 pieces of LEGO bricks. Some details: https://gizmodo.com/lego-table-playful-yet-powerful-239402 * Approximately 35,000 LEGO bricks were used. This includes almost all the pieces from 32 Blue Tubs (#3033), almost 300 (!) small baseplates (8×16 studs),…
Click to viewGoogle Code is hosting the first third-party native application ever for the iPhone. A real full-fledged iPhone application with a graphic user interface and its own icon in the iPhone home screen. Yes, this is not a Web 2.0 app but the real thing, as you can see in the picture and in…
Dell is totally latching on to what is sure to be the wave of the future with their new project: a tablet. Yep, the Wang ComputersDell Latitude XT tablet looks to really grab the exploding tablet market by the horns, featuring the sorts of specs that’ll make tablets as popular as UMPCs, if not more…
Straight from the mouth of Jim Meyer, Sirius’ President of Operations and Sales, comes this quasi-announcement of the Sirius Stiletto 2 and Sportster SP5: We are preparing for the launch of some new after-market products, including a new wearable product, Stiletto 2, and a new Sportster SP5. Stay tuned for more details on these exciting…
Hard to believe, but Reuters claims that one day of blackouts at a couple of Samsung factories will cost them around $54 million and could cause shortages in memory. BTW, Samsung makes nano and iPhone memory. [Reuters]
