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Using SimplifyMedia will allow you to add 30 of your friends’ iTunes music libraries to your own and access them no matter where they are physically located. Right now the beta software is a free download and only works on PCs and Macs. If you do decide to give SimplifyMedia a whirl, be warned—the software…
Thanks for all your entries in the Made in Eureka contests! Both the iPhone invention contest and the TiVo trivia contest had a lot of entries, and we’re going to sort through them all and announce a winner next Tuesday. While you’re waiting, we may suggest watching last Tuesday’s Eureka season premiere again.
This Incase Protective cover is the first piece of iPhone retail-bait I couldn’t resist in the Apple store. The good: It’s the sleekest of all cases in stock there, so it won’t make your iPhone look like a Tonka truck; it’s rubberized, available in black, red, and grey; and has a neat topographical pattern all…
We just got a hands on with Nyko’s Wii Party Station and we can safely say that it’s crazy. Crazy awesome. It’s got pretty much everything you want to have when you’re having a Wii house party, and it’s designed cheaply enough ($24.99) for every Wii-owning family to use as an accessory to enhance their…
Check out this transforming cellphone concept found over at Parkoz Hardware. It turns into a little bi-pedal bot, complete with twin miniguns. Definitely reminiscent of scenes from Michael Bay’s Tranformers, with a little bit of Batteries Not Included, Short Circuit, and Robocop (ED-209, anyone?) Koreans get the coolest cellphones, so it figures their concepts are…
This week at Uncrate: We take to the skies Maverick-style with Air Combat USA, hit the court in some Roger Federer Gear, and head to the theater in some Transformers T-Shirts. We keep track of our favorite MLB teams on the Liveboard, mount our new LCD on the Loop Media Center, and finish some household…
If you thought the plastic-looking Nintendo Wii Mario Kart wheel was a little too classy, Billet Mechanical has the wheel for you. First, it’s not even a wheel. It’s a Knight Rider-like half steering wheel that has grips on the two ends for gripping. It’s not like you’re doing hand over hand on regular wheels…
$100 off any Helio device and a 1GB Micro SD Memory card, as long as you pay monthly via Visa. [Helio]
Informal poll time. I’ve been getting a few reader complaints about iPhone earpieces being too quiet. Before jumping to conclusions, I figured I’d ask around. Since complaining is a duty of the dissatified, please do me a favor and vote if you’re happy, too. (I personally have had no problems with earpiece volume.) Gawker Media…
HD DVD players are supposedly outselling Blu-ray 3:1 in Europe this year. They neglected to tally PS3s, conveniently. [Reuters]
Just like with the MotoRIZR Z6, Motorola is taking an old phone and placing the ROKR moniker on it, essentially turning it into a badged music phone. This time they’re taking the Moto PEBL U9 and making it a Moto ROKR U9. It’s got RAZR2-like music controls, mini USB headphones (no 3.5mm jack), and the…
Sometimes ideas of the paleo-future not only elicit a chuckle for their scientific improbability but, in the case of “Polar Oil Wells,” political improbability. Baby penguins watching their habitat melting wouldn’t be a very popular image today. This Closer Than We Think! strip ran in the January 17, 1960 edition of the Chicago Tribune. Valuable…
Do you play so many videogames that you feel weird walking around without being able to see yourself from a third-person perspective? If so, you need to uninstall World of Warcraft and reacquaint yourself with the sun and your peers. If that seems like too difficult a prospect to handle, you can always just get…
You know the reports of people saying their iPhones don’t charge up all the way? Turns out that’s actually a UI bug and not a bug with the iPhone’s battery. The bug, demoed in the image above and confirmed by Apple, is the battery icon in the standby screen when your iPhone is plugged in.…
Strap on the Darth Vader Back Buddy, and you’ll have the most feared fallen Jedi mofo toting around your stuff. $20, and guaranteed to be 100% wheeze-free. [Entertainment Earth via Neatorama]
Ranging from E3 announcements to next-generation Samsung Blu-ray players, Tuesday’s news was anything but boring. In order to help you catch up with anything you may have missed, here’s a list: • Gateway Introduces Colorful, HDTV-Friendly M-Series and T-Series Entertainment Laptops • EyeClops Magnifies Anything 200x, Sends Images to TV Screen • Zune Patent for…
Following successful trials, British policemen are to be issued with head cameras while they are on the beat. The 3 million ($6.1 million) scheme, which led to an increase in the number of convictions of offenders when it was tried out in the southwestern town of Plymouth, is to be rolled out throughout the country.…
Logitech desktop speakers for $15 after shipping. [Mwave.com]
We love the show American Inventor here at the Giz. Not because it pumps out inventions we’d actually want, but because it highlights how insane inventors are. Take a look at this horny grandpa who uses his crazy laugh and saucy ways to get his fancy lawnmower past the committee of “experts” on the show.…
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