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Microsoft’s i’m Initiative Gives to Charity When You Chat

You know those annoying forward your luddite friends send you that claim that Bill Gates will give you money if you forward it to 10 friends? And how you always lose a bit of respect for the person sending it to you, as since like 1998 everyone knew they were BS? Well, don’t judge me…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Tanita BC-545 Scale: Learn More About That Flab Than You Really Want to Know

Tanita scales are so cool. But this Tanita Innerscan BC-545 measures a whole lot more than your weight, so much so that the company calls it a Segmental Body Composition Monitor. It can give you readings of how much fat is in each arm, each leg, and of course, that potentially ample repository of adipose…

Gadgets Charlie White

Uniden Kicks Out Their First Portable GPS Units

They’re better known for their cordless phones, but today Uniden is branching out into GPS navigation with their first portable GPS units, the GPS352 and GPS402. Both units are rebranded and come with 240×320 touch-screen displays and pre-loaded maps of the U.S. and Canada. They offer turn-by-turn voice instructions and can be taken out of…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

DIY: Refill Your Own Laptop Batteries

Everyone knows that after a substantial amount of use, laptop batteries are destined for failure, but hold your horses before clicking the “Buy” link on a new $100-plus laptop battery. Jay picked up some OEM lithium-ion batteries and decided to replace it himself. In the end Jay only ended up saving $50 or $60 bucks…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Forever Flashlight: Pull Cord, It Lights Up, Charges Your Cellphone, Too

LED flashlights are coming on the market in a flurry lately, but here’s one with a difference: If you want to see it do its thing, pull its string. It has a pull cord like a Chatty Cathy, but instead of saying innocuous things it charges up the battery that powers its 5-LED flashlight. What…

Gadgets Charlie White

Nabaztag Gets Upgraded, Still Only Semi-Cool

That Wi-Fi eating rabbit, Nabaztag, is at it again with some upgrades. Some of the highly touted upgrades includes a speaker and microphone (in the form of a belly buttong, how cute) for two-way communication. The Nabaztag can also play podcasts and web radio. Anybody actually own one of these? Are they worth it, or…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

RFID Embedded Shoes Stop the Thieves

The European shoe manufacturer, Reno, is doing something different to stop the increasing amount of shoplifting going on at its stores. Rather than installing more cameras, or using those ink-exploding things, Reno will be embedding RFID tags in all of their shoes. The RFID tags will be able to track when a cheap-o decides to…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Dealzmodo: $50 Off Slingbox Pro

Amazon.com is offering $50 of instant savings on the Slingbox Pro. The video-slinging device normally carries a $250 price tag, but you can get it with free shipping for $200 over at the ‘Zon. Product Page

Commerce Travis Hudson

Sometimes I Wonder What 15 Would Be Like

Thanks Akimbo, Audi, Don Julio, EA Mobile, Fox Soccer Channel, Igo, Intel, Old Spice, Parrot, Playstation, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint, VW and Verizon for making up our beautiful, luxurious and glorious tetradecagon of life. Don’t you want to make it a pentadecagon, or more? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/advertising-with-gizmodo-219501.php

Tech News Travis Hudson

Yummy Kitchen Connect is Web 2.0 for the Kitchen

Microsoft and the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) are in the middle of the Next-Gen PC Design Competition, and one of the entries is Yummy Kitchen Connect, a design concept for a wall-mounted touchscreen PC that keeps track of food you have in the house using a barcode scanner on the bottom that’s connected…

Tech News Charlie White

How Silly We Were: 1997’s Bestest Computer Really Stunk

Dudes, it’s Friday; Calmo. Why not bite your thumb at the boss and waste two more minutes on the Giz by watching this well produced clip of 1997’s Best Damn computer. Specs include a 2GB hard drive, 32MB of RAM and a 12X CD-ROM drive. How silly we were to think that that was ever…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Meizu M8 Pricing Revealed: Most Affordable iPhone Clone Yet

When it comes to affordable iPhone clones, Meizu seems to be leading the pack now that they’ve unveiled the pricing for their M8 cell phone. The 4GB model with built-in camera will go for $310 while the 8GB version will go for $400. The entry-level model (with no camera) will go for only $195 at…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

RIAA Boycott: “Hey Music Bloggers, Enough with the Free Publicity Already!”

The way I see it, music blogs are a 21st century update to FM radio just as much as satellite radio or podcasts. How so? Well, when I was a kid, I listened to the radio to discover new bands and songs and hear the DJs tell me about them. To me, DJs were tastemakers,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Buffalo Mouse With D-Pad: H-Scrolling FTW

Good ol’ Buffalo, coming up with wacky designs for everyday items. Today we look at the BOMU-JK/M, a standard 800 dpi mouse that adds a D-Pad where you’d normally find a scroll wheel. Obviously, this is an addition that people who have to deal with h-scroll rape will appreciate the most, but it also just…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

BBC Bringing Crumpets, Three New Channels With Ads to YouTube

Apparently, YouTube’s been quite busy behind the scenes, despite being shunned by Viacom. The NYT reports that they’ve managed to line up over 1,000 partnerships with content providers at a pace of 200 a quarter, most of them smaller, independent outlets. https://gizmodo.com/viacom-jilted-youtube-for-joost-google-crying-itself-t-238028 The big fish in the growing pond though is the BBC, which YouTube…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Sony Ericsson’s Next Cell Phone to Double as a Remote Control?

Couch potatoes will be able to do more than just channel surf with their remote if this patent comes to fruition. It’s Sony Ericsson‘s blueprint for a cell phone/universal remote combo. The mobile will have a touch-screen display and come with pre-programmed interfaces for various components. To add extra functionality, you’d simply download additional interfaces.…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Modeo Mobile TV Service: Hands On, One Day In

Last night, I went to the launch party for Modeo’s Mobile TV NYC beta service and walked away with a fully functional HTC smartphone loaded up with its live Mobile TV service. (No, that’s not my hand in the picture.) The timing is certainly conspicuous but the execs say it’s only validation of their business…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

Finding the secret keys to the kingdom has become an international sport, and now we’re hearing that the mighty product activation for Microsoft Windows Vista has already been compromised. Using a brute force technique of checking 20,000 possibilities an hour, it might take a few days to find a valid product key, but it works.…

Tech News Charlie White

HDR Photography Explained: Learn the Secrets of the Masters

You’ve probably seen a few of those seemingly-impossible high dynamic range (HDR) photos. They reveal magnificent details by combining a series of differently-exposed pictures of exactly the same subject, using image editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop CS2 to bring out the highlights, midtones and shadows. Get in on this specialized style of photography with…

Tech News Charlie White

Adidas Opens First Store with Virtual Shopping Mirrors

Too lazy to try on a new pair of shoes? The Adidas Shop in Paris, France is the first store to roll out virtual shopping mirrors. In a nutshell, these mirrors let you select the shoes you want to “try on” and thanks to the cameras inside the mirrors, they merge the image of your…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Microsoft’s i’m Initiative Gives to Charity When You Chat

Tanita BC-545 Scale: Learn More About That Flab Than You Really Want to Know

Uniden Kicks Out Their First Portable GPS Units

DIY: Refill Your Own Laptop Batteries

Forever Flashlight: Pull Cord, It Lights Up, Charges Your Cellphone, Too

Nabaztag Gets Upgraded, Still Only Semi-Cool

RFID Embedded Shoes Stop the Thieves

Dealzmodo: $50 Off Slingbox Pro

Sometimes I Wonder What 15 Would Be Like

Yummy Kitchen Connect is Web 2.0 for the Kitchen

How Silly We Were: 1997’s Bestest Computer Really Stunk

Meizu M8 Pricing Revealed: Most Affordable iPhone Clone Yet

RIAA Boycott: “Hey Music Bloggers, Enough with the Free Publicity Already!”

Buffalo Mouse With D-Pad: H-Scrolling FTW

BBC Bringing Crumpets, Three New Channels With Ads to YouTube

Sony Ericsson’s Next Cell Phone to Double as a Remote Control?

Modeo Mobile TV Service: Hands On, One Day In

Microsoft Vista Hacked, Brute Force Keygen Opens Pandora’s Box

HDR Photography Explained: Learn the Secrets of the Masters

Adidas Opens First Store with Virtual Shopping Mirrors

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