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Bloggies Voting: Three Days Left to Boost Gizmodo Into the Firmament

Might we remind you once again that we’re all giddy with this awards thing, hoping to score maybe one or two? With your help, we can take home some hardware! The Weblog Awards voting is open all week, closing on Friday, so please don’t forget your Gizmodian pals when you cast your ballot (one per…

Tech News Charlie White

SanDisk Jumps on the Media Center Bandwagon with USBTV

SanDisk is trying to simplify the connection between your computer and TV with the USBTV. Basically, it is a small dongle-like device that has a line-out and a USB flash drive. It works by loading up the flash drive with whatever media from your PC and plugging it into the dongle that is connected to…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker Set – Frog Family

If googly-eyed penguin speakers just aren’t quite creepy enough for you, how about the Frog Family PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker set. Suggested by commenter wolfrider (thanks!) who says “go big or go home”, every piece of this set, the keyboard, the mouse and the speakers are green frogs with wiggly eyes. Fun for kids sure, but bordering…

Tech News Dana Bushman

PS3 Greymarket Watch: The Death of the Greymarket

Well, it’s official. Scalpers are dumping PS3s back into stores, and the ones who can’t just want to get rid of them. If you search Craigslist you’ll find PS3s at discounted prices. https://gizmodo.com/ps3-greymarket-watch-scalpers-dumping-ps3s-back-to-sto-224557 Because nobody wants these things, sellers like this one are offering it for less than the actual price. If you count tax,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Everything You Wanted to Know About Vista’s SideShow

One of Vista’s features that has caught our attention is SideShow. Think of SideShow as Vista’s sidekick. With the help of these mini apps that MS calls “gadgets,” SideShow can let you perform small tasks like read e-mail, check on weather, look through photos, or flip through your list of contacts regardless of whether your…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Vista on Intel Mac With Parallels: Not Quite There

After seeing how the Mac Pro ran Microsoft Vista better than OS X, we wondered how well the best of both worlds worked. Namely, using Parallels to run Vista alongside OS X. So we installed Vista using Parallels on our 15-inch, 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-vista-faster-on-a-mac-pro-than-apples-own-os-232402 The good news is it did…

Tech News Jason Chen

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: The one and only George Clooney has signed on to promote the new electric Smart Car in Italy this summer. Take a peek at Moppels, flexible, LED-illuminated desk lamps from Germany that run for more than 100 hours on three AAA batteries. Speaking of LEDs: the world’s smallest LED, the PicoLED,…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Next-Gen Media Giveaway Day 2: Second Chance to Win the LG BH100 Hybrid Player

It’s day two of our Next-Gen Media Giveaway where we are giving away a LG BH100 Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD DVD Player. Each day this week we will present a piece of trivia about the player. A correct answer will reward you with one entry to the contest—so you can be entered up to five times. Here…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Outdoor Video Ads Go High-Def in NY

If you thought all those ads in Times Square were annoying before, brace yourself cause you’re about to see more of them. The Discovery Channel (with the help of its advertising agency) is embarking on NY’s first ever HD advertising campaign by installing HDTV kiosks throughout NY in an effort to brand the station’s name…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Apple Airport Extreme Shipping Today: Free 802.11n Updater, More Details

In case you didn’t notice, there’s a little $2 bonus included with the new, non-conehead, draft 802.11n, 5x faster, 2x ranged, Airport Extreme. The highly controversial update that cost 499 pennies at first, then 199 pennies, then falsely zero pennies, then back to 199 pennies, is free if you buy the whole Setup. That’s a…

Tech News Brian Lam

AppleTV Interface Video Walk-thru

Getting all excited in your pantalones about the AppleTV, but can’t wait the few weeks for it to be released? Feed that need by watching this video walk-thru of the AppleTV interface. It sure does look purty. Don’t forget to check out all of our other AppleTV coverage here. –Travis Hudson Apple TV Interface Tour…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Motiwake Alarm Clock, Your Wake-Up Cheerleader

The Motiwake alarm clock helps you start your day with upbeat expressions that might do more good on a bumper sticker attached to a Mary Kay-pink Cadillac. But bleating out one of 240 platitudes to you in the cock-a-doodle-dark hours of the morning might be just what you want and need from a $59 alarm…

Gadgets Charlie White

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Sprint’s Rev 3 EV-DO, Gizmodo’s Internet IV during CES, is getting another upgrade. Firstly, those express cards we told yas about are now official under the Novatel EX720 moniker. Even better, the speeds are getting all jacked up, hitting 600 kbps to 1.4 mbps for downloads and 350-500 mbps kbps for uploads. That means you’ll…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Electric SUV to Rival Tesla Roadster in Speed, Range

That Tesla Roadster electric vehicle that can do zero-to-60 in four seconds may not be able to hold the crown for coolest and fastest production electric vehicle for long, especially when this crossover SUV comes into town. Our greasemonkey guru blog-brothers at Jalopnik tell us this Lotus-designed firebreather packs 644 horses, a top speed of…

Gadgets Charlie White

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Polaroid is not dead yet. Apparently it was only sleeping, but now its research labs have smelled the coffee and spun off Zink, a company whose first product will be a stand-alone printer that’s about the size of a deck of cards. This one-button printer is designed to easily connect to a camera phone, and…

Gadgets Charlie White

Human Slingshot: Natural Selection at Work or Just Plain Fun?

That’s one brave gal strapped into that human slingshot. This can’t be safe. But then, if it were completely safe, it wouldn’t be as much fun. Okay, it’s unanimous: We all want to do this, today. To paraphrase, nay, twist the words of Benjamin Franklin, those who sacrifice fun for safety deserve neither fun nor…

Gadgets Charlie White

SmartShopper Grocery List Assistant: Talk Listy to Me

Speech recognition continues to make strides, and here’s another example, the SmartShopper Grocery List Assistant. Press its record button and simply tell it what you’d like to have on your shopping list, and it understands what you said, placing that item in alphabetically-ordered list for you. When you want to go shopping, just print out…

Gadgets Charlie White

Second Wii Modchip Coming This Weekend

When it rains, it pours. Earlier this week we reported that the Wiinja Wii modchip would be released on February 1st, and now the CycloWiz Wii modchip claims to beat the Wiinja to the punch. They say they’ll be shipping this weekend, which is both after the February 1st release date of the Wiinja and…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Rocket Fishing Rod: If You’re Too Lazy to Fish Properly

Fishing is supposed to be relaxing, dammit. Sure, sitting on a boat in the sun drinking beer with your buddies is relaxing, but what about the whole casting motion? You call that relaxing?! I need to actually move my arm and exert some energy, which I am not a fan of. What I need is…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Delphi’s Promiscuous Sound System Docks Most of Your XM Receivers

When it comes to showing its love, Delphi’s new Premium Sound System doesn’t hold back. The promiscuous player has the ability to work with a variety of XM receivers, as opposed to just docking one. So in other words, you can slide in your Roady XT, SkyFi 3, Inno, and so forth. The verdict is…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Bloggies Voting: Three Days Left to Boost Gizmodo Into the Firmament

SanDisk Jumps on the Media Center Bandwagon with USBTV

Keyboard/Mouse/Speaker Set – Frog Family

PS3 Greymarket Watch: The Death of the Greymarket

Everything You Wanted to Know About Vista’s SideShow

Vista on Intel Mac With Parallels: Not Quite There

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Next-Gen Media Giveaway Day 2: Second Chance to Win the LG BH100 Hybrid Player

Outdoor Video Ads Go High-Def in NY

Apple Airport Extreme Shipping Today: Free 802.11n Updater, More Details

AppleTV Interface Video Walk-thru

Motiwake Alarm Clock, Your Wake-Up Cheerleader

Sprint Gives Rev A EV-DO a Shot in the Arm

Electric SUV to Rival Tesla Roadster in Speed, Range

Zink Pocket Printer: iPhone Companion?

Human Slingshot: Natural Selection at Work or Just Plain Fun?

SmartShopper Grocery List Assistant: Talk Listy to Me

Second Wii Modchip Coming This Weekend

Rocket Fishing Rod: If You’re Too Lazy to Fish Properly

Delphi’s Promiscuous Sound System Docks Most of Your XM Receivers

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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