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According to reports floating around the intertubes, a young man was walking at night in Kunitachi, a suburb of western Tokyo, when when muggers attacked him for his iPhone, which turned out to be a cigarette case. Besides the fact that the alleged mugging took place in a country where iPhones aren’t yet remotely for…
Good gawd, how much memory can they cram onto a tiny microSD card the size of a baby’s fingernail? Way more than the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, because SanDisk just announced 6GB and 8GB microSDHC cards touted to give you the same amount of storage as the…
For today’s match in our iPod Bracket Battle, the Sonic Impact T24 ($179.99) faces off against the Eton Sound 100 iPod ($199). And let me tell you, these docks hate each other, Montagues and Capulets-style. https://gizmodo.com/ipod-docks-the-sweet-16ish-bracket-265489 Who will win the battle? Design/Functionality Sonic Impact The T24’s design is stereotypical, so we’ll save you clichéd descriptions…
Try as we might to refrain from posting shots of Transformers co-star Megan Fox again, it was just too much. I mean, part of her little ass canyon is showing in one of these. Plus, we have the blessing of those generous souls at FHM, fine purveyors of pics featuring the female form. Transformers? To…
The PhotoViolationMeter on trial in cities including Niagara Falls and Vancouver will call you on your cellphone before your time runs out. Developed by Photo Violation Technologies, the fancy parking meter will not only give you a ring, but will also allow for you to buy meter time wirelessly after it gets your credit card…
A woman who was sued by the RIAA for file sharing and had the charges dismissed with prejudice isn’t done with the courtroom yet. She’s decided to file a lawsuit against the RIAA for malicious prosecution. Tanya Andersen, a disabled single mother, describes how she provided evidence of who really was using the Kazaa username…
Okay germaphobes, here’s the mouse for you. The Belkin Washable Mouse has a different approach to the scroll wheel, where it’s changed into a “scroll pad” that requires just a touch to let you scroll vertically or horizontally. That makes it completely waterproof, so you can wash all those boogers off in the sink, and…
JVC rolled out the TH-L1 entertainment surround system designed to plug into gaming consoles, and it’s iPod friendly, too. But gaming is not all it does. Even though it costs $299.95, this 5.1 setup still has two HDMI inputs and rocks out 40 watts per channel for the two front speakers, 100 watts for the…
Apple continues to crank out the instructional videos, with this latest episode showing you how to use the iPhone’s touchscreen keyboard. Notice the way the guy flies through the typing at the end of the piece. Soon, everybody will be iPhone typing. Those cats will be fast as lightning. In fact, it might be a…
If you were too lazy to actually read the four iPhone reviews that came out last night, we’ve done the hard part and stuck the most salient tidbits into a chart, hoping to see both agreement and dissent among the elders: David Pogue of the New York Times, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal,…
Speculation runs rampant about what’s going to happen on Friday when the coveted iPhones are released in malls and stores across the land. No, Jesus is not going to descend from the clouds to personally bestow iPhones into the hands of the multitudes. But we are hearing some chatter about what might happen. Leakers of…
Brand identity crises seem to be all the rage these days—Sprint’s joining the party by all but dropping the Nextel name and adopting the all-too-easy slogan of “Sprint Ahead.” The focus of the new marketing campaign, which starts July 1, will be on its data services and network speed. Chalk it up to what you…
Just as some traditionally open companies close the door to third-party developers, the traditionally closed Nintendo will open WiiWare in early 2008. Obviously inspired by the success of Microsoft’s Xbox Live mini-games, the new channel will allow small companies “to get their original games into the marketplace to see if we can find the next…
If spending $18,000 in a B9 replica did not compute for you, you may want to point your ionic directional probes to eBay and bid for the custom-built bot from 1965’s Lost in Space. It’s full size, lights up and has built-in radio CD. And looks good in the gallery after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/b9-a-robot-reborn-165577 Now,…
Check out the Floater by Balmuda Design, a stand for your MacBook Pro that lets you close up that laptop, holding it up on vertical display for all to see. Connect your keyboard, screen and mouse for the perfect desktop replacement. Carved out of a solid block of aluminum, it matches the MacBook Pro and…
While Apacer hasn’t given up trying to make iPod competitors, its time is better spent creating frilly stuff, as evidenced by this pretty little Mega Steno USB card reader. Whether you dig its frilly etchings on its case is a matter of taste, but at least someone is trying to make these prosaic devices a…
There’s nothing like a bit of LA weirdness for a sunny summer morning. LA-based artist Jed Berk is the brains behind Blubber Bots, rather dreamy autonomous helium blimps that float around the place looking beautiful—rather like me, in fact. And just like us hoo-mans, all they really care about is “food” (represented by LED lights)…
Want an iPhone? Too busy being lazy/filthy rich/nonchalant/a sex slave? If you have money to burn, then you could get one of these nice young men to loiter sadly outside your local Apple Store, your greenbacks in his mucky paw. The going rate seems to be around $250 in Manhattan (although one New Yorker is…
Andrew Green, he of the FloatingCat blog, has been in the kitchen baking like you wouldn’t believe. And here it is, an entire gallery featuring his Transformer cake. It’s the flat-faced cab, too, old school style. And there’s even a video, with soundtrack. Based on the 1984 version of Optimus Prime, it cost Andrew and…
An eco-friendly hot tub, the Dutch Tub looks like something out of a soft-porn Euro flick from the ’70s. Which is A Good Thing. Apart from its looks, the $6,000 tub has rather a special USP: As well as being totally transportable (throw it on the top of the SUV, don’t forget the fuel, find…
