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What better way to portray your so-called laptop-replacing smartphone than to make fake videos and images detailing how laptops are attacking people who use it? Take this ad, showing a new college student being bitten by an unnamed laptop as she’s making a movie with her parents with the Nokia N95. Then there are the…
The Dell XPS M1330 13-inch laptop is now being shipped out. [Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/dell-rolls-out-inspirons-and-a-slim-trim-xps-notebook-i-272286
Today, the United States and the European Union have decided to share a common standard for their next-generation geo-positioning systems, the EU’s Galileo Open Service and the US’s GPS IIIA. Called MBOC, it will allow companies to develop one type of receiver compatible with both networks. Will this affect your life today? In a word:…
A good caddy is hard to find, but a good GPS watch that has a map of your favorite golf course and keeps track of your score can be yours for $215 (in Korea). Not only useful for golfers to keep track of the relative distance between you and the ball you just shanked into…
There are some Vista patches in unofficial form, leaked on the web, according to a few sites. CRN is calling it Vista 0.5, since a true SP is rumored to be over a year away. The update is supposed to help with driver compatibility, and increase file system performance, among other things. In my opinion,…
Rumors are flying about the Xbox 360 core being discontinued, but Microsoft keeps denying and claiming the Core is still in their stable of consoles. [Wired]
Since my first post about the General Dynamic Astronautics Time Capsule of 1963, we’ve learned that it was likely crushed when the building was torn down sometime in 1997. As noted in the comments, 201 copies were produced and distributed to major universities, which is where I happened upon the copy I now have in…
Geek’s who eat geek food, like that super-pizza from last week, and who are too busy at their terminals to shower, could likely make use of this USB aroma oil heater. Green comes with peppermint oil, and red comes with rose. At $7, only a little more costly than a can of lysol. https://gizmodo.com/japans-pizza-hut-double-roll-is-ultimate-geek-food-646-283014 [USBGeek…
Those Jersey residents really love their crane game. First there was the iPhone Crane Game where you had to throw down $5 per try, and now there’s the Wii crane game, where you can get the chance to pick yourself up one Nintendo console for $2. We’re not sure how many Wiis have been won…
This design for a retractable doorknob provides extra security for your door by recessing into the doorframe when you leave the house, thereby preventing thieves from picking your lock (there are none). But if you want to get in, you use (we’re assuming) the little slot below the knob to extend the knob out so…
Fans of Karaoke probably already own Griffin’s iKaraoke attachment for the iPhone, but their iKaraoke TunePrompter takes singing by yourself to the next level. You can now take song lyrics and create your own Karaoke videos with them and display it on the iPod Video or the iPhone, allowing you to both watch lousy home-made…
Seeing as we sit at our desk for 23 hours in a day, we’re definitely the target market for the AimBLADE. It’s a desk-mounted arm support system that gives our elbows both support and freedom of movement. It’s difficult to get your chair to just the right height to support your arm with the armrest…
AT&T’s Videoshare, their strange one-way video messaging service, is now working in a bunch of urban markets if you’ve got phones that’ll work with it. I took it for a test spin this morning, and yes, it does work as advertised. See it in all its blurry glory in the above video. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-at-ts-video-share-283074
We haven’t done a commenting tip in a while, so if you’re new to commenting here’s how you make bold, italics and underline in comments. Just use the html. <b>bold</b>. Replace that with “i” for italics and “u” for underline. Bonus: The Dark Knight teaser trailer from Comic-Con. Features the Joker! Now he’s one bold…
Dogs and cats everywhere rejoice! No longer will you be relegated to sit and bake in the backseat of the car. Instead, the Komfort Pets Carrier automatically will cool you off once your crate breaks 72 degrees. Conversely, if it goes below 65 degrees, on goes the heat to keep you from turning into a…
This week on Coolness Roundup, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher talk about when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em—offering advice about when you should buy new gadgets and when you might want to fix up those you already have. Get these tips, along with the Rapid-Fire Roundup of Cool…
The Wii has got to have some sort of record for the most gimmicky and superfluous accessories of any console. For every type of game, there seems to be a hunk of white plastic meant to hold the Wiimote to make it more “realistic.” Today’s entry is the Wii Airplane Controller Stand from PEGA. It…
Apple TV can now be “user configured” with up to 2 terabytes of external storage via a hack waking up its USB 2.0 port. Really. We posted simplified instructions last Saturday at 3:38 a.m. . You were probably drunk by then. We were too. Celebrating. [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/apple-tv-hack-allows-external-usb-storage-283532
One of Intel’s latest ad’s shows six athletic black dudes bowing down before a dorky white guy in khaki pants. Lousy, barely subliminal racist advertising or just plain lousy advertising? You be the judge. [Copyranter]
If you’ve been waiting to update your Palm Treo 750 to Windows Mobile 6 becuase you didn’t want the possible instability of a third-party ROM, you’re in luck. The official AT&T WM6 ROM has been leaked, and you can download it now. And since this is the “official” ROM, it probably means the “real” official…