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The closer we get to the iPhone’s launch (June 11th? June 20th? June 37th?), the more everybody gets excited over the smallest scraps of information pertaining to the Phone of Phones. Today’s hot-and-heaviness surrounds the quasi-announcement that Quanta, would-be maker of the OLPC, is also the would-be maker of the iPhone. Initial reports simply focused…
Designed by Yong Jieyu, the Phonograph CD Player has the looks of an old-school record player, but plays CDs instead. It’s essentially a gutted CD player with a laser pointer that doubles as a tone arm. I’m a pretty big vinyl fan, and while something like this wouldn’t get me to ditch my records, it’d…
Fill and chill this unique ice tray, and soon you’ll be hand-chillin’ your hooch with a tasty trio of some of the world’s greatest guitars, including what looks like a Fender Jazz Bass, a Gibson Les Paul and what’s that? A Martin D-28? Be still my heart. A mere $9 gets you a heaping helping…
You want an electric car, but dropping $100,000 on a Tesla Roadster isn’t exactly in your budget? Well, perhaps it’s time to adjust your expectations. A guy named Greg Coleman spent $800 and ended up with a fully-functioning electric Yugo. Sure, it’s got 5 horsepower and has a top speed of around 35MPH, but for…
Matt over at Crunchgear got firsthand testimonial from a Fry’s employee that the iPhone will be for sale in their stores on the 11th of June…. I repeat, the source is a store clerk, the source is a store clerk! Someone call CNBC so they can do a special report!* That conflicts with CNBC’s Cingular…
You think your HDTV is impressive? Your HDTV sucks. Sorry, I don’t mean to be a jerk, but it’s no longer cutting edge. 1920×1080? Please. Japanese broadcaster NHK has come up with what they call Super Hi-Vision, and it puts HD to shame with an insane resolution of 7680×4320. Yeah, that’s the equivalent of 16…
Don’t just roll your eyes when your girlfriend says its time to update your crappy bachelor furniture. (After all, two overturned crates that read “Property of US Mail” topped by half of the bathroom door you once ripped out in a moment of drunken frustration haven’t been considered avant garde since Andy Warhol’s days.) The…
Built by MIT’s Guy Hoffman, AUR is a desk lamp that can track your movement so it’s always shining a spotlight where you need it. The lamp, which is dubbed a lighting assistant, was created to explore the relationship between humans and robots. I personally think it’s cool and would love to replace my flashlight…
Travel season has arrived, my friends, and those of you lucky enough to head overseas might be wondering how to power all those electronic geegaws you can’t do without. Coming to the rescue is this universal AC travel adapter, letting you connect a variety of plugs to one side, and then by turning its knob…
This porcupine-looking box is call Slurpr, and it’s bristling with electronic gear inside, namely six Wi-Fi interfaces bundled together to make one blasting fast super-broadband connection with nine Ethernet ports for all to enjoy. You may have noticed multiple Wi-Fi networks showing up when you boot up your laptop, right? Why not use all of…
Sony’s latest DVDirect external burner now supports the company’s high-def line of camcorders. The VRD-MC5 (big brother to the VRD-MC3 and VRD-VC30) is the first unit capable of burning DVDs from any of Sony’s AVCHD cameras. Like previous burners, it’ll also come with a memory card slot (it reads all the usual suspects like SD,…
Intel may remain the big gorilla, but AMD is making a lot of friends. After Dell said it would offer chips with AMD, Toshiba decided to follow suit, with plans for 20% of its US and European models to sport the alterno-chip. The AMD models, the first of which are due towards the end of…
We’re still scratching our heads trying to figure out if these guys are brilliant or crazy. They claim to have created a microwave weapon that can shoot a heat ray 200 feet away. Of course, any hope of future offspring or a cancer-free existence is off the table for these jackasses. Who knew it was…
Are the switchboard girls listening in on your calls? Get the Wireless Telephone! This story ran in the February 20, 1910 Washington Post (Washington, D.C.). The story has a number of typos and grammatical errors so I took some liberties with the transcript, but you can read it unedited above. The part about calling your…
The image above is from an insert in the Walt Disney Treasures – Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond DVD set. The image was used in Disneyland as the poster for the Space Station X-1 attraction. Space Station X-1 invited Disneyland guests to circle the earth from fifty miles up for a satellite view of…
Sony’s getting into the HD Radio game, and its first radio is the XDR-S3HD tabletop. It’ll go for $200 in July, will have a remote, alarm clock, sleep timer, and a cable to jack in music from your “digital music player.” And in case you missed it, that stunning cherry wood finish. Is this some…
The March 3, 1949 Austin Statesman (Austin, Texas) ran the picture above, declaring that the people of Nice, France believe robots will be kings in the year 2000. SALUTE TO THE FUTURE – The people of Nice, France, are preparing for their annual carnival, one of the top features of the season on the French…
Briar Dudley of the Seattle Times interviewed Glenn Lurie, AT&T President of National Distribution, about the Jesus Phone. The meat of the piece kinda sorta confirms that there are more unannounced iPhone apps, which we kinda sorta heard about during the Q2 earnings call. The Apps, specifically from Google, are presented in the context of…
After six months in the making, the blog-friendly Z5fd that we told you about is finally here. A sweet little number in the tradition of Sony’s Cyber-shot T1, sleek with a sliding front and bright 2.5-inch LCD, it’s not really expensive, either: the 6-megapixel, 3X optical zoom camera costs $219, has plenty of features, and…
Pogue’s video tells us how to read our email on Dumb Phones. (You like that? That’s my name for every handset not a Treo, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry.) https://gizmodo.com/pogue-on-email-for-dumb-phones-263962 He checks out GMail and Yahoo’s apps, but faults them for being unavailable on many of the locked-down phones that carriers sell us. He much prefers…