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Earlier this year, Katie Boehret, known as Walt Mossberg’s sidekick, started penning the WSJ’s Mossberg Solution columns solo. Is Katherine “Katie” Boehret, who began as an reporting assistant and source of color-commentary in Mossberg’s columns, being groomed to take over the most powerful job in Gadget Journalism? Katie Boehret, at first glance, seemed like an…
Adtron’s latest solid state disk, the 160GB A25FB and I25FB, are IDE and SATA disks that are entirely made up of flash memory. ReadyDrive, the feature Windows Vista has to optimize read/writes for flash hard disks, hasn’t been talked about much. That’s because other than a handful of Korean manufacturers, there hasn’t been many flash…
The folks at the University of Washington are working for a good cause. They’re looking for a way of compressing video so that deaf people could sign using their video-capable cell phones. The catch is, because video is still kinda choppy on most networks, the software they’re working on needs to rely on special skin…
You’ve gotta love the FCC. Well, not really, but they’re certainly the biggest source of leaked phone info out there. Today we have the upcoming HTC Gene. Not much info on this one, but it’s a GSM quad-band phone with Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera, an SD slot, and Windows Mobile. Does it have a touchscreen?…
Dell is back with some dandy of coupons on laptops and desktops. You can receive 25-percent off the Dimension E521 desktop priced over $999. Use coupon code CHDC3259C?2720 at checkout for this one. You can also save 20 percent on Inspiron laptops also priced higher then $999. You can select from the E1405 Dual Core,…
Our friends at Lifehacker just pointed out a great use for that common household item, the coffee filter: Use it to soften up your flash photography. Hold the coffee filter in front of that flash to make its light less specular, giving a soft glow to your close-ups. Just be careful not to hold it…
To: Art Lebedev From: Jason You had us all at hello when you announced your Optimus keyboard two (or was it three) years ago, but it’s getting ridiculous. It’s hard to call your keyboard anything but vapor when you’re announcing that you’re downgrading the keyboard to multiple models that you can upgrade later by buying…
This biosphere from Discovery can supposedly teach kids important things about nature and the environment and all of that crap, but isn’t it more important that this biosphere allows children to play god with an assortment of insects living inside the biosphere. Making it rain, controlling the temperature and humidity, poking and prodding with tweezers…
A week ago, Dell launched its customer-centered “Dell 2.0” push with its Diggish customer suggestion site, IdeaStorm, where users can post ideas and thoughts on how to improve Dell products. Other users vote on the ideas so that the most popular ones hit the front page, ensuring that a set of eyeballs at Dell scopes…
Check out these umbrellas with lightsaber handles and fully-lit shafts, stealing Star Wars juju with reckless abandon. Pick out your choice of red, blue, or black canopies, and light up the night with that red, white or blue lightsaber look. Walk in a bad neighborhood with one of these lit-up umbrellas along with some white…
The latest cast of the breakthrough hit, Dancing with the Stars, was recently announced and we are sad to see that our favorite dancing robot, Honda’s ASIMO, did not make the cut. One of the included "stars" is Heather Mills McCartney. She has a prosthetic leg after losing her real one from an accident. So…
Most of us like to flaunt our techno-gear, letting it sit right out there in the open for all to see and covet. But if you’re looking for more subtle approach than covering your speakers with cheesy paintings, Acoustic Research Home Decor gives you the HD510, a home theater speaker system that can be camouflaged…
In the far-off land of Qatar camel racing is all of the rage, but unlike similar horse racing in the states, the camel owners will do anything they can to lighten the load, including using children as young as 5 as jockeys. More than a decade later somebody decided that using children as jockeys just…
An analyst at Merrill Lynch prophesized that by the year 2011, 30% of US households will have a Wii. With census projections for the year 2010 putting the number of US households at 78 million, that equals nearly 23.5 million units sold in the next four years. Holy macaroni. Is this completely nuts? Well, at…
I’ve always liked being able to see my speakers, but if the Mrs. is nagging you about your set up, Masquerades wall-mountable speakers replace your satellite’s front grilles with works of art so no one will know you’ve got a 5.1 set up going. You can choose from various different paintings or send them an…
Know somebody who’s been very, very naughty? Make that bad girl walk around in a pair of these Punitive Shoes for a day or two, certain to elicit laughs or wood, depending on your point of view. Yours for the price of a middling pair of Manolo Blahniks. Product Page [Punitive Shoes]
What kind of a Casual Friday would it be without the coolest cat in the land (the Fonzie, not me) giving away a Shuffle to a lucky Gizmodo reader? There is a bit of a catch. You have to take a couple minutes out of your long and busy day to fill out a survey.…
Continuing their non-stop campaign to ruin everything that is good in the world, the RIAA has now set open WiFi hotspots in their sights. They want to make anyone who runs an access point responsible for any activity that passes through it. That means that if you download a pirated song at a Starbucks, the…
Ikea knows that most people get their daily jollies out of smashing their products. Just kidding, Ikea, your desks are the bee’s knees. The clock is wrapped in a rubber skin to protect it during all of the domestic abuse. It also includes the unique feature of an integrated mic for recording your own wake-up…
Last time we tuned into the SED soap opera, Canon was buying Toshiba’s stake in the joint SED venture cause Nano-Proprietary, a company that licensed its display tech to Canon, was crying foul over the fact that Canon shared their secret sauce with Toshiba. Well, a judge has now ruled in favor of Nano, saying…