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The Creative store has some mighty fine deals on the Zen Micro MP3 player. You can pick up a refurbished 5GB unit in black, dark blue or orange for $62 and you can get a 6GB model in black, light blue or silver for $66. You would pay twice that for a comparable refurbished iPod.…
Our Sprint tipster tells us that the Palm Treo 755p (which comes in Maroon) is going to be released next Monday on the 14th. Along with the Palm OS flavored smarpthone, there’s the Motorola W835, Samsung M300 flip phone, Sanyo SCP-3200 flip phone, and the Samsung M510 flip phone. Great news if you’re a Palm…
We’re armchair architects, and that’s why these Topo 3D ceiling tiles from USG caught our enthusiastic attention. By simply hanging these molded panels from their suspension system attached to the ceiling, they give you a special Frank Gehry look that gives any room an undulating cloud-like atmosphere. The panels are available in either 8-inch or…
An article in the April 6, 1976 Daily Review (Hayward, California) ran with the headline, “Students see future without football.” The 21st century will see the demise of football, a cure for cancer and cities under the sea, according to some bright ninth grade students. A special “futurology” class at suburban Milford Junior High School…
Click to viewTen Things You Should Know is a new feature series here at Gizmodo aimed at first-time buyers or people who don’t have (or need) extensive knowledge on a product before making a purchase. To blast things off, we’re starting it up today with Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling…
It’s official: no Zune announcement today. We were all duped. Fool us once [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/zune-announcement-this-monday-258007 Update: there actually was an announcement made, but it wasn’t a public one. See this post for details of what was revealed behind closed doors to developers. https://gizmodo.com/zune-2-details-even-larger-screen-hard-drive-259162
Time sure does fly when you are tarring over your lungs. The Ashtray Clock is a unique twist on a couple of old products. This clock can actually be used as an ashtray, but once the cigarette butts and ashes start to accumulate it may be a bit hard to count down the minutes until…
It may be a bit of an oxymoron, but home theater junkies can be lazy as hell too. Sure, they will dump thousands of dollars into a system, but who wants to actually set it up? That is where this projector steps in. This red rocket has an DVD player built directly into it. It…
It’s been a while since we have seen a solid Rube Goldberg machine, so here is the latest from Instructables member Eswolowski. It is small, yet complex and accomplishes a task of feeding a dog. At first I thought it was a bit overkill to feed the dog, then I realized that is the entire…
Plantronics’ new CS70N hands-free headset boasts the usual suite of Plantronics perks and a noise-cancelling mic for rowdy office environments. It also works with both standard and IP phones. But what (almost) makes it worth the $330 price tag is that with the touch of a button it lifts the phone off of the cradle…
If you think you suck at playing the stock market now, wait until you have to compete with an army of stock-predicting robots. Lehman Brothers is working on a “secret” AI system that they hope will be able to foresee the future of the markets, making the very rich even richer. We aren’t just talking…
Samsung marks the year anniversary of the release of its Q1 UMPC by shipping the Q1 Ultra, a better all-around ultramobile PC with a lower price and enhanced usability. This $799 handheld saves energy with an LED-backlit screen at 1024×600 pixels, and that helps boost the battery life to what Samsung says is 4.5 hours.…
Check out this ponderous video of an unboxing of the little $39 SanDisk Sansa Shaker, an MP3 player for kids that grabs its songs from an SD card. Shaped like a salt shaker, it looks like fun to hold down a button and shake it, making it change its tune. With its built-in speakers, it…
Nokia’s flagship N95 gets a firmware update, numbered 11.0.0.26, that improves speed, imaging, and more: Symbian Freak has the details, including wildly improved photographs, while Mobile Mentalism boils the improvements down to a easy to read list. Improvements include: # Video stabilization improvements # Exposure improved # Video sharpness and noise improved # Improvements in…
We’re not entirely sure if these Dragon Speakers are hip or not. In some settings they might look a bit tacky and others, such as a Chinese restaurant, they might be seen as post-kitsch cool. Either way, they’re not monstrosities; they’re just over 12 inches high and might just fit in with your eclectic décor.…
We’re seeing more infrared cameras lately, but this one has a different marketing angle for these perverted porncams: it’s pitched to photo hunters. You position the Stealth Cam Prowler digital video infrared scouting camera where those animals you’d like see usually hang around, and then you can capture video or 2-megapixel stills of them in…
Helio’s iPhone-trouncing Ocean may be available for purchase as soon as May 21st, which is a mere two weeks away. Over at the Boy Genius Report they claim that a tipster says that everything is lined up for a “general release on May 21st and a limited/internal/partner release 5-8 [days] prior.” Hey, that’s really soon!…
This photo ran in the September 3, 1955 Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) with the caption, “Knight ‘Looks’ Hello – The new Videophone is employed by Governor Knight and his wife at State Fair.” See also: Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (1993) Face-to-Face Telephones on the Way (New York Times, 1968)
This desk lamp, called 8AM by its designers, clamps onto your desk, and it looks like its bulb is magically held up by a wire. There’s a regular braided electric wire leading to the clamp on the desk, but then coming out the other side is an electric wire that looks the same but that’s…
AMD has been pretty quiet, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been thinking of ways to put an end to Intel’s desktop dominance. Details have been leaked on the company’s first four-core CPU, dubbed the Phenom X4. The CPU will come in at speeds ranging from 2.2GHz to 2.6GHz, with HyperTransport speeds of 3.2GHz and…