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As promised, here is a video of the iRiver Clix demonstrating how the actual "clix" works along with an interface tour. Pardon the partial blurriness—my camera was set to "amateur pornography" mode and I forgot to turn it off. –Travis Hudson iRiver Clix Unboxed, Groped [Gizmodo] 2nd Generation iRiver Clix Now Available [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/iriver-clix-unboxed-groped-255322 https://gizmodo.com/2nd-generation-iriver-clix-now-available-251830
There are plenty of multi-tool pens around, but none as beautiful as this hand-turned creation by John Russell. He chooses from 50 varieties of wood to craft these one-of-a-kind writing instruments. The type of wood you get is random, but one thing’s for sure, you’ll have a Phillips screwdriver, regular screwdriver, tweezers, X-acto knife, and…
If you remember back to our Xbox 360 DVD drive comparison, you’ll remember that the order of quietness in the units went Toshiba-Samsung loudest (the launch drives), Hitachi-LG in the middle, and BenQ LiteOn-Philips quietest (all Xboxes manufactured after November ’06). So which do you think the Xbox 360 Elite would have? If you guessed…
Move over Dean Kamen. You might have the money you’ve made from the dozens upon dozens of Segways you’ve sold, but your budget can’t compete with DARPA’s, and they’re in the bionic arm field too. https://gizmodo.com/dean-kamen-cyborg-arm-243278 DARPA already has their first prototype done, and they say they’re on track to “provide, by 2009, a mechanical…
Mobile freaks know that Nokia is a funny company, at the same time the biggest brand in handsets worldwide, and a niche player in the American cellphone market. This week, I sat down with Bill Plummer, Nokia’s North America VP of sales and channel management for Multimedia to discuss matters Nokia faces in the immediate…
Enjoy taxidermy? Yeah, me too. This project is the sick, sick work of Instructables member canida and company. It is a real mouse, gutted and fitted with parts from one of those small laptop mice. PETA members may want to look away, or go jump off a bridge, but I’m sure the mouse died from…
Has Ferrari no sense of decency? Now the esteemed Italian carmaker-cum-gadget ho has agreed to festoon its logo on yet another geegaw, this time the Sony Ericsson K800i cellphone. If you recall, the K800i has been available for over a year, and has a 3.2-megapixel autofocus camera and Dual Mode GSM/GPRS/UMTS connectivity. There’s no word…
Philips isn’t exactly the first brand that comes to mind when you think of laptops, but their upcoming X200 Ultra Portable actually looks pretty nice. It’s got some pretty standard specs, such as a 1.73GHz Core Duo U2500 processor, a 100GB HDD, and 1GB of RAM, but what really makes it stand out is its…
One by one they walked into the Irish pub, stepped to the table, placed down the quarters and prepared for a life lesson. “No spinning,” I shouted, but they all obliged. These weren’t amateurs; they knew what they were doing. I knew it was going to be a long night, especially with Verizon at the…
Click to view When the Elite showed up earlier today, I decided to cut to the chase and test the only thing that matters on it: the HDMI output. It’s not a new console. Almost everything about the Xbox 360 in white stands true for the Elite: It theoretically doesn’t run cooler, or quieter, or…
CableCARD 1.0 has yet to catch on, yet CableCARD 2.0 is already breathing down its neck promising features not found in the current version. CableCARDs were supposed to make our lives easier by letting us swap our bulky cable box for a tiny card we could install in our TVs, but things didn’t work out…
So the Woot-Off is still going on. For a quick update, there has not been a BOC yet, and there hasn’t been anything overly exciting. My inner psychic seems to think that the BoC will be coming later today. No way they would save it for the weekend—exploitation of the cubicle warriors at its finest.…
Sony just raised the bar with its 8.1-megapixel compact point and shoot CyberShot DSC-S800 camera, offering a 6x optical zoom that retracts into the camera body just like those 3x optical zooms do. To do that, Sony has abandoned Carl Zeiss optics for a lens of its own making, accompanying that with anti-blur tech will…
Dear Charlie, Louis, Wilson, Adam and co. Handover time. Friday too, that REALLY makes me happy. As do Singing Nuns, yellow flip-flops and fluffy alarm clocks. https://gizmodo.com/fluffy-alarm-clocks-awaken-your-tackiest-impulses-255808 Here’s Solid Alliance’s latest offering: an animatronic seafood USB hub. Oh, sorry, my mistake. It’s a plate of live octopus tentacles that one lucky Giz reader got to…
Last night, as esteemed members of the TV industry and press went to preview the Adult Swim season ahead, they got a treat. Instead of watching the new content in some stuffy theater by projector, they got to take home limited edition Adult Swim Zunes preloaded with shows. And they even got to jump in…
We already knew that we were going to be forking out about $1500 for the Optimus uber-keyboard, but now they’ve got a finalized number. $1564 (Shakespeare’s birthday). Fantastic. In other news, their updated development schedule has the plastic tooling done by July 10, OLED tooling done by July 16 (they have a new manufacturer), and…
You’ve gotta love DIY hacks that don’t even pretend to be trying to create something that’s actually useful, but are more attempts to prove that the maker can create something completely ridiculous. Take this door that can be unlocked with a Wiimote, for example. Is this very secure? No, not really. Is it convenient? Nope.…
Just to clear up any notion you might have that all gamers are like us pasty-faced doughboys, GamerHelp rounded up a choice group of gaming gals to prove that members of the fairer sex are also capable of pushing buttons on a controller and going into an all-night gamer trance, too. Follow the almost safe-for-work…
What would you do if this plate was set in front of you? What would you do? Here’s a fresh dish of octopus tentacles, still alive, served to Cyrus Farivar at a restaurant in South Korea. “They calm down after a little while, but then when you go after them again, they start up again,”…
GPS receivers may have gotten smaller over the past few years, but Blue Sky Positioning takes top prize for being the first to integrate one on to a SIM card. What’s so cool about that? Well, this means that in the future pretty much every GSM phone will come with built-in GPS, a nice feature…
