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Maybe you don’t like Apple. Maybe you liked Apple, but then we wouldn’t shut up about them so now you hate them. Maybe you are just reading this post because you could use any sense of identity, and hating Apple might fill a hole in your heart. We’re not judging. To turn off the Apple…
With just a day to go before the WWDC and nineteen before the Second Coming, the thick fog of Apple-OCD is smothering the land. So I’m surprised it took this long for an Apple-juice-addled obsessive to compile a list of (fairly minor) UI changes made in the iPhone between its January debut and the even-slicker-than-usual…
In case you’ve been considering an HD DVD player, Best Buy and Circuit City are both offering two free HD DVDs with the purchase of an Xbox 360 HD DVD drive (up $59.95 in value, which is decent). And if you consider Jackson’s King Kong a real movie, you are scoring three free HD DVDs…
Remember that NYC 5th Ave Apple with the mysterious shrouded secret? https://gizmodo.com/omg-theres-a-curtain-at-an-apple-store-266525 A tipster was hanging out at the NYC Apple Store at 2:30am (don’t ask) and managed to find out for us. His full story, and the picture, after the jump. Thanks to my cat like reflexes, I was able to snap a picture…
What at first glance looks like a dolphin fetishist’s DoCoMo cellphone is in fact a covert lighter, perfect for keeping your dirty habit under wraps (except you know, the packs of fags lying around, the smell, etc.). If you drop the three bucks and change on one of these (available in a rainbow of five…
Yesterday, in the CNN Money/Business 2.0 poll “Who Matters Most”, Fake Steve Jobs was ranking higher than the real Steve Jobs. But that’s not saying much: the rest of the results are ridiculously skewed toward “impossible.” Mel Karmazin, chairman of Sirius Satellite Radio, has like a bajillion positive votes (because everybody loves that guy!) proving…
A reliable tipster has filled us in on a juicy secret. The biggest update? High speed EV-DO. And a new unbelievable form factor. If you thought the first Pearl was small, then know that the Pearl 2 will be even smaller, shaving nearly 8mm in depth and 30% of its weight to be competing with…
Our Sprint source gave us a great tip on the upcoming Treo 800w that’s coming Q4 2007. (That’s not a picture of it on the left.) Lots and lots of improvements for Sprint users over what they can get right now with the 700wx, including EV-DO REV A., Windows Mobile 6, a 320×320 display (now…
When you need to keep just a little bit of Coke cool kool, thank the Powers That Be for the $95 Koolatron. Shaped like a giant can of Coca-Cola so you never forget what’s inside, the Koolatron can hold eight cans or two 2-liter bottles of your favorite beverage of choice. Plus, the Koolatron can…
DivX is apparently working on a new hardware box called the GejBox as part of their hardware platform initiative. How is this different from boxes like the Helios X3000 or the Ziova CS505 that also stream DivX over the network? https://gizmodo.com/helios-x3000-upscaling-network-dvd-divx-player-hands-on-225787 It’s because GejBox also has DivX Stage 6 (their high quality DivX version of…
Remember the $130 Meizu M6 SE PMP we told you about, sporting 8GB of video in a 7mm shell? Good. Meizu just announced more details the unit. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-m6-mini-player-se-7mm-thin-and-coming-in-august-263224 The M6 SE will handle MPEG4, MPEG2, WMV9, H263/264, RM(VB) videos running at 720×480 while pushing 30 frames a second—all of which can be spewed to TV…
For those with the infamous “ants in their pants”, we bring you the BriteObjects Webble. It’s essentially a balance board that doesn’t require balance, instead serving more as entertainment for your feet while couped up at a desk all day. “Ultra smooth casters” run on a patent-pending suspension for an “ultra” smooth experience. And an…
At last, worthless gold has fallen from its role as the worldwide economic standard. And in its place a champion has risen—a champion with real world use and functional value—beer. My only regret is that Travis couldn’t be here to see this day. Stay strong, Mark. Stay strong. https://gizmodo.com/travis-leaves-gizmodo-world-weeps-264708 video by nick mcglynn
Chalk this up as rumor for the moment, but a legitimate-sounding tipster from Sprint may have just let us in on two interesting pieces of information. 1. The Palm Ganfolf is real, though they called it the “Gandolfini”. They confirmed the $200 pricepoint, saying it was aimed at teenagers who text messaged frequently (nothing was…
This Palm smartphone is looking realer by the second. Here’s a spyshot that just surfaced over at Palm Infocenter. The device clearly shows a Palm logo and prototype serial number along with Vodafone branding. It also has the home and back navigational buttons found on all Windows Mobile smartphone devices. The Vodafone mark indicates this…
The new MacBook Pros based upon the Santa Rosa chipset have been benchmarked. The results? The new MacBook Pro consistently edged out the old quad-core PowerMac G5 w/Geforce 7300 GT video card, winning in 4 out of 5 tests. https://gizmodo.com/new-apple-macbook-pros-with-led-backlit-display-265939 Still, it’s fair to call the new laptops about even with the quad cores of…
The Good-Time Mix Machine is what happens when artists get hold of carnival equipment. I connected a gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured them into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride was in motion, paint sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath.…
Don’t you just want to break out a giant pair of graham crackers and a fatty Hershey bar to slap this flame-kissedtongued MacBook in between? Photo: MacBook after a fire [Wandering Stan via TUAW]
While it’s not packing the force feedback boom of Ben Heck’s recently unveiled AudioFX Pro 5+1 gaming headset, Turtle Beach’s latest 5.1 surround sound USB headset (also gamer-oriented), the Ear Force AK-R8, will sock your skull with dual sub-woofers and eight speakers. Eight, for real surround sound. https://gizmodo.com/benjamin-heckendorns-edimensional-product-is-a-5-1-head-266201 Besides sporting a removable boom mic, it…
The 12th Wonder of the iPhone will be YouTube. YouTube has been going crazy converting all their video to the H.264 codec. The iPhone supports H.264, as do iPods. That’s why our theory has been, since Steve Jobs announced YouTube support for AppleTV at the D conference, that iPhones will get it as well. Another…