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This Fiat 500 plays ball with Microsoft, building in Windows Mobile to give you GPS, USB connectivity and Bluetooth goodness all in the same car. Jointly developed by Fiat, Microsoft and component company Magneti Marelli, the car’s voice-activated system lets you connect any Bluetooth device to its stereo system, giving speakerphone capabilities as well as…
Someone wants to fuck you in the ass for your iPhone. Females only. Ugly assholes need not apply. [Fleshbot (NSFW)]
If the official iPhone Bluetooth headset is $129, what would you expect it to have? More than just auto-pairing via the dock, right? Well, a reader just told us he called up Apple support and asked them whether the headset supports noise cancellation. They said no. Not only that, they recommended that he buy a…
I’m going to E3 next week again to cover the major announcements for Gizmodo and to give Kotaku a hand. There should be some hardware announcements to be had, especially with rumors of Sony cutting PS3 prices by $100. It’ll be good to catch up with the Kotaku guys again, many of whom I’ve seen…
We told you the YouTube on Helio’s 3G was free now, but they’ve gone and added a couple more features to it since Monday. First, Helio users can record videos on their Oceans and upload them to Helio Album. Why’s that cool? Because if you configure your Helio Album correctly, it can push those videos…
Although Sony has yet to confirm anything, the camera world is full of little whispers that a new camera is about to join its Alpha range of digital SLRs, along with a range of full-frame lenses. There is all sorts of speculation about the model number (so we won’t bother going into that) but there…
It’s still not too late to win an iPhone. Here’s a sample entry from reader Brian that made us chuckle. It’s called the DreamStream, and it allows you to choose exactly what dreams you want to have and allow it to be piped into your brain overnight. Live the ultimate life before you have to…
This image is from Isaac Asimov’s book Space Garbage, published in 1989 as part of the Library of the Universe series. The caption to the image appears below. Low orbits are the most littered with space junk. Perhaps one day orbiting “garbage collectors” will be used to clean up these trash-filled orbits.
Since most people don’t like running wires and speakers all around their living room, surround bars are becoming all the rage. A Denon model just started popping up in the UK press, a 150-watt bar with subwoofer, using something called “soundbeams” to project sound around the room, regardless of the floorplan. It’s enough to make…
These Samsung-sponsored dancers take football-stadium card flipping to the next level with this inspired routine. They combine computer-generated choreography, perfect synchronization, custom-designed costumes that can instantly reveal a variety of colors and a level of cooperation that’s probably not even possible in America. Wow. Samsung Dance [Neatorama]
Mega Bloks may not be as cool as LEGOs, but do LEGOs form together and build Dialga and Palkia, the two legendary Pokemon from the two newest Pokemon games? We think not. Not only can you form these creatures and wreak havok on time and space (we forget which is which), there are a few…
Hey trivia fans. If you really want a TiVo Series 3, you should hurry up and answer our trivia questions. We’ve gotten a bunch of entries already, but you still have a better chance of winning this than actually finding something useful to do with your knowledge of inventions. Hit the link below for the…
One of the things on the iPhone wishlist is being able to use it as a universal remote for your Mac and your Apple TV, but this Telekinesis webserver app meets us at least halfway. By installing this app on your Mac and hitting up the webserver, you can load up pages that allow you…
No two BEAM nightlights are alike, thanks to photographer Ernest Goh and designer Daniel Pillai. The case, nearly a meter long, employs 40 LEDs to light a strip of medium format transparency film. Instead of using a reproduced sheet of photos, the BEAM lights up an entirely unique strip individual to your nightlight. So what…
While memory card readers are a dime a dozen, they are only useful for those moments when you’ve forgotten your USB cord. The Thanko Spydisk, a memory card reader in a pen, may not be the most spycentric device in the world, but it will bring another function to tired card readers. Bundling a pen…
Sony’s denying rumors about cutting the PlayStation 3’s price by $100. [Reuters]
Anyone can build a cart propelled by a falling lead weight, but this one, originally designed by a Greek inventor named Hero way back in 60 AD, responds to a series of commands “programmed” into the axle. The string pulled by the weight goes forward and back depending on where it has been wrapped around…
Samsung answered a few of the questions we had about its hybrid Blu-ray/HD DVD player we told you about in early April, which was rumored to be on its way to a July release. Unlike LG’s BH100, the only hybrid player now on the market that we noticed wasn’t able to fully measure up to…
Remember that electrocuted hot dog cooking tip for Independence Day? Well, someone did it and came up with the obligatory YouTube video. Looking at it bulging and sizzling after the jump, it doesn’t look like a good idea. At all. https://gizmodo.com/how-you-should-cook-your-hot-dogs-tonight-with-electri-275017 Edgar and I were inspired by this post. Please don’t try this at home…
Here come the iPhone cases, and the iWood by Miniot is the swankiest one yet, crafted of some fine-looking mahogany. It has a thin sheet of polycarbonate over the iPhone’s screen that will still let you do the touchy-feely thing for which it’s so well loved, but that plastic will still protect the phone at…
