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Holux GR-239, A Smoking Hot GPS

Holux makes some cool GPS units, and the GR-239 is no exception. Sure it’s another SiRF Star III receiver, but it hosts some convenient features like plugging into your car’s cigarette lighter power port, and transmitting information via Bluetooth or a wired USB connection. At $120 the convenience doesn’t come cheap, but think of all…

Woman Wants to Buy $100,000 in iPhones, Can’t

Click to view For anyone who hasn’t heard this story, we highly recommend it. A woman buys the front spot in line to purchase $100,000 in iPhones to sell on eBay. The catch? She has no clue about the one per customer limit (at this AT&T store). Still, our favorite moment is when the boy…

iPhone Availability Shifting, Apple Promotes Their Lines

While it hasn’t been tough for those who didn’t wait in line to pick up an iPhone, Apple has updated their site with new availability instructions for their (fleeting?) stock. 1. Check iPhone availability after 9:00pm the night before you would like to buy an iPhone. iPhones arrive most days and availability is updated nightly.…

An Inspirational Quest at the Transformers BotCon 2007

Here it is, folks: BotCon 2007. I laughed, I cried. I sang “The Touch” with Stan Bush. And I almost got kicked out. But the fulcrum of my joy was derived not from the colossal Optimus Prime statue or the latest transforming Nerf weapons. It was derived from the fans I encountered. Some of what…

Carl Metens Wine Thermometer

The $40 Carl Metens Wine Thermometer clips on a bottle to gauge temperature within a minute, without the need for batteries or external power. A heat-sensitive band (reminiscent of stick-on fever thermometers) measures the level of chill while the satin steel wrap lists the optimal drinking temperatures for popular varietals. Given that most of us…

STITCH Glasses

STITCH glasses by designer Seungyoub Oh take your favorite moments of eating cookies at Grandma’s and combine them with the coolest moments from now-banned cigarette advertising. Yes, dear readers, glasses have fused with doilies. Featuring customizable removable side panels, you can personalize your bling without fumbling around, dropping your expensive lenses. And while we’d never…

Planetary Lamps Get You High

By Japanese manufacturer TakaraTomy, these $27 floating lamps resemble our own two favorite members of the Solar System, the Earth and its moon. Simple in design, the lamps are simply mylar balloons (like you’d see at a birthday party) with an LED at the bottom to make it glow. We’d love to see buy more…

Only 30% of Gamers Know Their Consoles Play Movies

In a recent study by The Diffusion Group, analysts discovered some alarming facts about gamers and just how often they use—or know they can use—the multimedia capabilities of their consoles. Here are the numbers: – 80% of console owners can playback DVD or Blu-ray discs. – 30% even know about those features – 13% use…

Semiconductor.com discovered that the iPhone’s CPU is the same as used in the HTC Titan yesterday, but the geeks dug up more detail. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/videos-of-the-iphones-guts-both-academic-and-destructi-273996

Videos of the iPhone’s Guts, Both Academic and Destructive

The first video includes an iPhone and a Hammer, and speaks for itself. The Second video shows the iPhone for more academic reasons.Not too surprisingly, the phone has components you’ve seen in other handsets. Namely: It has the same processor on the HTC Titan, Same sound quality and storage RAM as the iPod Nano. Balda…

Breaking: Several AT&T Stores Forced Customers to Buy Accessories With iPhone

Click to viewFollowing up on the launch difference between AT&T and Apple stores, we’ve got three separate accounts of people reporting that AT&T is forcing them to buy accessories along with their iPhone at three different AT&T stores. This was definitely not the case at Apple stores, and for AT&T to decide this on their…

Aha! The Trick to Typing On an iPhone

Minutes after the first time I typed on an iPhone, I realized a trick that bumped accuracy to almost 99%. Instead of hunting and pecking, I’ve been sliding into place, letting the popups tell me what letter I’m on before releasing the key and triggering the keystroke. It’s been good training. I’m still not typing…

Top Five iPhone Apps of the Moment

Here are the top five most useful iPhone apps we’ve come across so far. • iPhone AIM Chat: No iChat? Use Web-based iChat. AIM only. • The Gas finder app and OneTrip shopping list: Save money and time • Digg: An interface to browse digg. Great until Digg makes an iPhone-friendly version of their site.…

Whoa, Samsung’s LN-70F91BD Next Gen LED Backlit LCD Leaked (At 70-Inches!)

This is not just another LCD. Samsung’s 81-Series LCD is the best LCD I’ve ever seen, thanks to its LED backlight. I’ve stared into the inky blacks of its display and it trumps most plasmas on darkness. Here’s the long awaited successor, the 91-series, found on Samsung’s Korea website at 70 inches diagonal. The display…

LG Prada vs iPhone Comparisons Imminent, Stupid

Get ready for an onslaught of LG Prada vs iPhone comparisons. They’re both touch screens, but the only way an LG Prada phone can beat an iPhone is if the iPhone is a papercraft model. I’m not going to honor it by doing a side by side. My comparison last month, based off of previous…

The iPhone Superfans, A Tribute

There are Apple fanboys—they run around with mommy and daddy’s credit card, wear earbuds, occasionally write for Gizmodo and will defend touchscreen typing to the death minor injury. Then there are the superfans—these Great Beings will go months without food or water, living off of the occasional sprays of Jobsonian phlegm that’s carefully rationed between…

iPhone Launch, AT&T Vs. Apple Store

One of our readers, Frank Beacham, wrote in this morning after experiencing the iPhone launch first-hand in lines at both AT&T and the Apple. We thought his piece was well-written and quite telling about the difference in customer service between the two companies, so we posted it after the jump. Last night, at the last…

iPhone Shopping Trip Quite Different Today

Are you pondering a purchase of an iPhone, but all that Day Zero gnashing of teeth and marathon line waiting is holding you back? Well, the experience today, one day later, is quite different. We departed Gizmodo’s Midwest Test Facility today at 1:15 p.m., heading to the Apple Store at our local mall for an…

Having Trouble Activating Your iPhone?

If you are, you’re probably familiar with the image above. You’ve probably seen it about 100 times while pawing hungrily at your $650 paperweight while waiting for that activation email from iTunes/AT&T. It’s not your fault, it’s AT&T/T-Mobile/Sprint/Verizon’s. Join the club. Post your grief in the comments and we’ll all have a pity party.

All of Our iPhone Launch Galleries, Chronologically

Hit the jump for our complete collection of iPhone launch galleries. Because we love you—even if you are lazy. Whew, thank goodness for the digital revolution.