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PS3 Melee Watch: Again With the Violence

Just when we thought PlayStation Violence was almost at an end, a student at Cal State Fresno shot three other students over an argument about a PlayStation. The model of the PlayStation wasn’t specified, but we’re going to assume that it wasn’t over a PS2 or a PS1. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3-violence-continues-to-everyones-surprise-257846 Long story short, it seems the…

Tech News Jason Chen

Helio Ocean Core Features and Hands-on Impressions

We’ve had the Helio Ocean for a few hours now, so we thought it’d be a good time to go over the core features and answer a few of your questions while we were at it. First off, the core features. The dual sliding works just as well as we saw back at CTIA. The…

Tech News Jason Chen

Brian Lam on Cranky Geeks Today!

Hey folks, our Brian Lam is on Cranky Geeks with John Dvorak today, chatting about hairstyles, gadgets and wearing underwear on their heads. Make sure to tune in at 12:30 PST (that’s in 10 minutes!) to see Brian sweaty from running all the way to downtown San Francisco from his apartment in that getup. Cranky…

Tech News Jason Chen

Helio Handset Number Sharing Step-by-Step

One of the many sweet features that Helio offers is the ability to transfer your phone number to different devices via the account preferences page on the website. This feature not only simplifies setting up a new phone, as you will see in the photos that follow, but it also makes it possible to switch…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Sizemodo: Helio Ocean vs. Everything (including iPhone)

We know you’re itching for more Helio Ocean coverage, so here it is: a live Sizemodo of the Helio Ocean vs. every phone we have. First, we’ll kick it off with a similar type of device: the slide-out QWERTY smartphone. In the middle we have the Helio Ocean, on the left there’s the T-Mobile MDA,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding

Okay, he didn’t specifically talk about the same Folding that the PS3 does, but a similar research application. Moore told Mike Antonucci of The Mercury News: Then if we truly believe that we can in some way marshal the resources of a much larger installed base of Xbox 360 owners, with a processor that’s of…

Tech News Travis Hudson

iPod + Vista = BFF (Finally)

Microsoft published a final compatibility update for Vista iPod users that should eliminate any problems still happening. This patch fixes the problem that caused iPod to get corrupted after trying to eject using Windows Explorer or “Safely Remove Hardware.” Patch [Via Vistablog]

Tech News Travis Hudson

AOpen and Niveus Crash the Intel Launch Party

We hit up Intel’s launch party this afternoon to check out some more next-gen Centrino Duo goodness and much to our surprise we came across a pair of fresh-outta-the-oven small form factor PCs that plan on borrowing features from the new mobile platform. https://gizmodo.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-intels-new-santa-rosa-platf-258885 First up is AOpen’s new Mini PC Duo (MP965), which uses…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD Blu-ray Player Short on Newness, Tall on Price

While Pioneer is wowing us with its eighth-generation plasma displays with their 20,000:1 contrast ratios, its other release trick is its Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD Blu-ray player that’ll be shipping this month but is curiously devoid of new features. In fact, it’s not even going for the latest HDMI 1.3 connection, still sporting that old and…

Tech News Charlie White

Healthy Vending Machines Tells Mom When You Eat Another Twinkie

Horizon OneSource is a program targeted at trimming the fat from today’s youth. This is an advanced system that manages what kids eat at school, but more interesting is their Internet-enabled vending machines. These are run-of-the-mill vending machines designed for schools, but with a twist. Parents can log into a child’s account online and see…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Helio Ocean Manual, the Whole Manual, and Nothing But the Manual

Ocean fanatics are a hungry mob, maybe some would say obsessed. Some of you actually requested shots of the well-illustrated manual. Here’s the whole thing, all 150 pages of it, in case you’re going for that “virtual ownership” experience. Remember to click to the thumbnail view to skip around. Helio Ocean [Gizmodo] Note: By the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Shiny Girls Grope the Blackberry Curve

Our favorite ladies across the pond, Katie and Alex of Shiny Shiny, got their hands all dirty on the BlackBerry Curve recently and filmed it for the world to see. It is definitely interesting to hear their take on the keyboard of this device, because keyboard and durability issues seems to plague a lot of…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Want a Joost Invite?

Well, do it yourself, you lazy bum! GigaOM and NewTeeVee are offering up self-invitations to the new Joost service that is taking the Intertubes by storm! I personally haven’t played around with Joost that much, but from what I have done it is an alright service. Let’s just hope they have added some servers to…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Pioneer 8th Gen Plasmas On The Show Floor

Here at the Pioneer “Project Kuro” Gen 8 plasma launch, the TVs really look good. I wouldn’t expect them to look bad, seeing as everything in the room would be optimized. However, you can see from these pictures that the contrast really is dramatic, and that in low light, the blacks don’t hum with grayness…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Original Gameboy PC

I’m normally a stickler for craftsmanship and would traditionally crap all over this mod for looking pretty assy, but I’ll hold back because it is an entire PC fitted into an original Gameboy. Using the ultra-compact EPIA PX10000G motherboard, this classic gaming device can now tackle quite a bit more than monochrome Tetris. Ethernet, two…

Tech News Travis Hudson

HP Dual-Format HD DVD/Blu-ray Media Center Priced, Now Available

The HP Pavilion m8010y Media Center (better known as the media center that swings both ways) is now available at the HP store. This is one of the first “box PCs” that can be customized to include a Blu-ray drive as well as an HD DVD drive. The bare minimum specs (including the two drives,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

First Unboxing of the Helio Ocean

Gizmodo is among the lucky dozen to get a finished production boxed version of the Helio Ocean. This phone of enormous importance to Helio, Earthlink, and Sky Dayton. It’s got to be the company’s Sidekick, Q and iPhone killer all in one. We’ve already shown you video of Ocean in action, and polled it against…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Lenovo T61 Thinkpad’s Magnesium Rollcage == Wolverine’s Bones

It has come to my attention that the T and the R series Thinkpads, which were leaked by specs last month, have gnarly magnesium roll cages that remind me of Wolverine’s reinforced adamantium skeleton. I’ve always been a Thinkpad fanboy. And while most of the other PC makers are handling this Santa Rosa launch with…

Tech News Brian Lam

Round-Up: Dearly Begizmodo’d

Hi there! I think we all know that today is a fabulous day. Don’t we, parishioners of Gizmodo? We are to give thanks to Santa Rosa, the patron saint of platforms. Let us not forget Saint Reno either (are you sure that is the correct spelling?) without whom all this fabulous Intel nonsense would not…

Tech News Ad Dugdale

Disky Digital Music Players Won’t Let You Do Much of Anything

I think the problem with buying digital music is that it isn’t restricted enough. I’d like to only be able to listen to my music on one device. Don’t let me move them around! No, I don’t deserve it. I’ve been a bad boy, a bad boy indeed! Disky knows what I deserve for being…

Tech News Adam Frucci

PS3 Melee Watch: Again With the Violence

Helio Ocean Core Features and Hands-on Impressions

Brian Lam on Cranky Geeks Today!

Helio Handset Number Sharing Step-by-Step

Sizemodo: Helio Ocean vs. Everything (including iPhone)

Peter Moore Talks Xbox 360 Folding

iPod + Vista = BFF (Finally)

AOpen and Niveus Crash the Intel Launch Party

Pioneer Elite BDP-94HD Blu-ray Player Short on Newness, Tall on Price

Healthy Vending Machines Tells Mom When You Eat Another Twinkie

Helio Ocean Manual, the Whole Manual, and Nothing But the Manual

Shiny Girls Grope the Blackberry Curve

Want a Joost Invite?

Pioneer 8th Gen Plasmas On The Show Floor

Original Gameboy PC

HP Dual-Format HD DVD/Blu-ray Media Center Priced, Now Available

First Unboxing of the Helio Ocean

Lenovo T61 Thinkpad’s Magnesium Rollcage == Wolverine’s Bones

Round-Up: Dearly Begizmodo’d

Disky Digital Music Players Won’t Let You Do Much of Anything

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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