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Sprint EX720: The Must-have Card For the Net Addicted

We’ve had our eye on Sprint’s EX720 mobile broadband card for quite some time now and the folks at SlashGear recently got the chance to take it for a test spin. Performance-wise, the card averaged impressive download speeds of 826 kb/s with upload speeds of 103 kb/s. It runs on Macs, but you’ll need BootCamp…

Commodore Launching Gaming PCs – Because The Commodore Name Equals Fast

After brokering a deal last June, Commodore, the previously strong maker of the Commodore64 PC, is going to launch a line of gaming PCs at CeBIT. Seeing as the Commodore brand has been entrenched in the minds of PC users the punchline to a joke about how old their machine is, it’s going to be…

Tokyo Flash Mugen Watch Uses Spirals to Tell Time

It’s been almost a month since our last post about a Tokyo Flash watch, which is way too long. The Mugen has a digital LCD display and tells time in its own, unique way, as Tokyo Flash is known for. Mugen tells the time via a series of spiraling blocks. Around the outer edges are…

German Scientists Invent Mind-Reading Machine

Researchers at Berlin’s Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience have created the ultimate gadget, a device that can read people’s minds. The donut-shaped contraption is basically a souped up MRI that scans the prefrontal cortex region of your brain (which is where decisions are made) and then predicts actions before you make them. So far, the…

Real Picture of the Optimus Keyboard?

Boring but Important Stuff

Drop in a caption, or the dog gets it. Adobe wants to clear up a little misunderstanding. Some people started saying that they will ship their Creative Suite on March 27th. What they actually meant was that they will announce it on the 27th, and release it later in the Spring. So there you have…

Inch Perfect Vibrator Knows Exactly How Deep Your Love Goes

Made with both metric and imperial tick marks, the Inch Perfect vibrator lets you control exactly how deep your loving goes. There are two models, the nine-incher and the six-incher, and costs 14.99 pounds ($28) and 9.99 pounds ($19) respectively. What’s the point of this? Well, perhaps you don’t want to use up too much,…

Rice Omelet Mouse—Need I Say More?

A lot of the mice we feature around these parts could be considered weird, until now. This … thing … pushes the boundary of anything normal. A new dish to me—a rice omelet is simple a rice-filled omelette drenched in ketchup. Turn that concept into a mouse cover and you have yourself one hell of…

Navy Developing … a Vomit Gun

Yes, Invocon Inc., funded by a Navy contract is developing a weapon that can shoot invisible beams through walls and cause people to get dizzy and fall over. The beam can also cause motion-sickness that can induce vomiting. The gun shoots RF energy that excites and interrupts a human’s hearing and equilibrium. This gun isn’t…

Red BlackBerry Pearl Coming to Cingular

The BlackBerry Pearl bandwagon is filling up quicker than a two headed goose during a lunar eclipse (yeah, that made sense), but those few that haven’t switched over may want to hold off if you don’t want to look like every other Pearl maniac. Mr. Bits, our always savvy Cingular tipster, said that the BlackBerry…

Nicholas Deleon Says Goodbye To Gizmodo

Time flies when you’re having fun, or so the cliché goes. When you’re not, my God does it go by slowly. Hence, I, Nicholas Deleon, am leaving Gizmodo. Adios. I started here as an intern in December, 2005. John Biggs, Giz’s editor before Brian Lam hopped aboard, hired me. We’re now friends. I’m “Uncle Nick”…

Today at Giz

Well today we both discovered and smashed an Apple TV games rumor, that was fun. Also, Google is acting like a little school girl, claiming that they are “doing things together” with Apple. Just tell us what’s going on with you two; we’re all mature adults here, aren’t we? And onto the world of hard…

Laura Ocaña Spells iPhone’s Doom, Prefers Prada Boots to LG Prada

Yes, I know what you are asking: who is Laura Ocaña when she’s not at home? To start with, she’s the unofficial Miss Gizmodo Spain and Eternal-Goddess-at-large. But most importantly, she is a normal, non-geeky consumer and one of the few who has spent a few days actually using the LG Prada constantly. I talked…

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: We took a break from watching global warming videos entered in the Convenient Truths contest long enough to find some other good green stuff, like a convenient how-to guide to building a greener PC. We’ve seen several energy management devices, but none that have looked as good as the Behouden wall…

RIAA Boycott Tip: Write a Letter to the Editor

The problem with our fight against the RIAA is that while we know lots about it and you, our attractive readers, know lots about it, regular folks who aren’t as tech-savvy don’t really understand what the big deal is. The biggest goal of our boycott, besides keeping money out of the bank accounts of the…

MedTab—The Doc’s Tablet PC

Emano Tec has developed a tablet PC that weighs less than a pound, has an eight to 12 hour battery life and can withstand a 3-foot drop onto concrete without damage. The MedTab folks believe this is better than a PDA because of the screen size. It allows medical practitioners to view and update electronic…

Apple Updates iTunes to 7.1, Gives Fixing Vista Issues the Old College Try

Apple just released a bug fix for iTunes, now at version 7.1, whose main mission was to resolve a few Vista “compatibility issues.” But not all of those problems have been fixed, according to Apple: “Apple has released a new version of iTunes that addresses a number of compatibility issues with Windows Vista. iTunes 7.1…

Tinchilla Makes your Beverage Extra Frosty in 60 Seconds

Who would have thunk it that we live in a world where canned beverages are preferred to be drank cold? For those with no patience, the Tinchilla can chill a can of cola or beer 240 times faster than the average fridge, or in 60 seconds. It works with the help of a little thermal…

Verizon’s FiOS Tech Vans Going Hybrid

Verizon has announced that they’re retrofitting 13 of their FiOS installer vans with hybrid technology, as no auto manufacturer is making hybrid vans that they can buy. They claim that “we hope to send a message to automotive manufacturers that they should be manufacturing hybrid vehicles in all classes.” Right. Either Verizon really cares about…

Trekkie Recreates Awesome Set of Star Trek: Voyager in a Studio Apartment

You’d never guess by looking at that mild-mannered apartment building pictured above that inside would be a convincing replica of the set of Star Trek: Voyager. But that’s just what Trekkie Tony Alleyne has done to his studio apartment north of London, creating a bachelor pad where he’ll probably never, ever get laid. Not only…