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DeepFish Browser for WinMo: Good Thing Finally Comes in Small Package?

Here’s a sneak peek at DeepFish, a web browser for Windows Mobile that gives you an easy way to look at entire pages and then zoom in to individual sections. Information is sketchy thus far, but this looks like a positive step toward solving the inherent difficulties of browsing the web on a 3-inch screen.…

Top 10 Posts of 2006

Inspired by Lifehacker’s Zeitgeist, I took a trip down Google Analytics lane to compute Gizmodo’s top 10 most popular stories of 2006. https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-lifehacker-zeitgeist-223209 10. USB Powered BBQ—WTF? Note to George Foreman: There is a huge and untapped market for in-office grilling solutions. At least judging from the popularity of this mod, which uses 30 USB…

Digital Light Sculpture Studio: 3D Designs With LEDs

We’re still mesmerized by that magic orb we showed you yesterday with its spinning LEDs that created all kinds of designs using persistence of vision. That’s just an experiment, while the Digital Light Sculpture Studio is fo’ reals. Its 32 LEDs let you create 3D sculptures and animations, and the thing only costs $19.95. https://gizmodo.com/magic-orb-spinning-leds-are-more-than-just-blinkinligh-223551…

Mix-O-Matic for Charity: It’s the Thought That Counts

Mix it up with Mix-O-Matic, a charity project of the Warner Music Group where every music mix you create and send to the company’s website results in a donation to Habitat for Humanity in your name. You download the small, easy-to-use Mix-O-Matic application, and put together your own “Jingle Bell Rock” mix. It’s tons-o-fun. But…

Wii Internet Channel Goes Live

We knew it was coming. As of this morning, all you lucky Wii owners will be able to connect to the Internet using your Wii’s Opera-based browser. The final version of the browser will be available in March and you’ll have till June to download it, otherwise you’ll have to pony up 500 points for…

Oki Electric to Boost Your Handheld’s Audio

Just when we thought Samsung was the only one miniaturizing handhelds, Oki Electric is stepping up to the plate with a tiny chip that incorporates a digital audio converter, a speaker amp, and 3D surround functionality. The chip is intended to improve sound quality in handhelds like cell phones and GPS navigators. Definitely a welcome…

Japanese Digitally-Counted Breast Bounce Contest: NSFW and Proof Why We Need the Venice Project

Chen and Om like the Venice Project video service’s concept: Use a P2P system to support bigger, faster, higher quality downloads. Here’s proof why we need this, like, yesterday. This video of a breast bouncing contest, where two well-endowed, bikini clad women face off to see who’s got more bounce. The contestants warm up with…

Venice Project Hands On: This Is Going To Kill YouTube

The guys who brought you KaZaA and Skype are at it again, and their upcoming Venice Project Peer to Peer streaming will show YouTube how video is really done. Just like KaZaA was a disruptive force in music sharing, and Skype was a disruptive force for phone calls, the Venice Project will kill current online…

Japanese Shameful Confessions Microphone

Did you get caught taking sneak peeks at your Christmas presents? Or putting a mirror under a school girls’ skirt on your commute to work? If so, it’s time to make a confession! Just bust out the Mosaic Show— a digital voice changing mic with a clear panel attached to censor our your eyes—and tell…

Venturi Eclectic: Solar and Wind Powered Electric Car

Venturi, makers of beautiful electric vehicles like the Fetish and the Astrolab are coming out with an electric car that we can afford at $30k, and that will actually be for sale as soon as June 2007. It can be powered by either its photovoltaics, or the wind through a “force wheel”. Too bad it…

Best HD Discs of the Year

With the HD Disc war hitting the 6 month mark, it’s good to know where we stand on high quality content. Here’s a list of top and bottom discs, as rated by High Def Digest. Their criteria includes A/V quality, extras, and replayability. Here are their picks, alphabetically. •Batman Begins (HD-DVD) •The Bourne Supremacy (HD-DVD)…

Shuttle’s Flaming New Rig Ain’t For N00bs

I’ve seen some fugly PC cases before, but this one definitely wins the dork award. Not that I could buy it anyways cause according to Shuttle, their new XPC 1337 caters toward “elite gamers” only. “XPC 1337 systems offer the absolute best technologies available. This all comes together to make one unique system with performance…

RicaVision’s Sideshow Bob Vista Remote Is the Best

Here it comes, an avalanche of Microsoft Vista remotes. And this is the nicest so far. Check out the little VGA screen that’ll load up with Gadgets (Vista’s version of Mac OS X’s widgets) or give you a better view of any photos, videos, or music you’re trying to control in the new Media Center…

QuickPlayer Brings Streaming Audio to Your Crackberry

Blackberrys aren’t known for their media-playing capabilities (hence all the excitement over the Pearl), but a small company by the name of QuickPlay Media is trying to change that with a new subscription-based service that lets you stream audio on your Blackberry. Users can choose from over 100 audiocasts, including sites like ABC News and…

Toshiba Cans SED Debut for CES

I’m tempted to start calling SED TVs the year’s top vaporware. First they left us hanging at CEDIA and then just as things started to look promising, comes news (via a dear John letter sent to the press) that says there won’t be any SED panels for us to fawn over at next year’s CES.…

Toshiba Drape Analog Clock Phone Fools The Japanese

Perhaps on his journey to Japan, Lam can figure out what inspires Japanese engineers to develop stuff like this Toshiba Drape. On the outside, it looks like a standard bronze cellphone—weird enough as it is—but when you open it up you’ve got a grandfather-like analog clock. Gee, an analog clock. Just the thing we needed…

Holiday Gift Guide: You Edition

So now that you’ve finished buying Aunt Edna and Uncle Marty their Holiday Chia Pets, it’s time to pick out a gift for yourself. Maybe a new cellphone? A flat-panel TV? Find all that and more inside our Holiday Gift Guide. Holiday Gift Guide 2006 [Gizmodo]

Philips Releasing Multiple Vista Remotes, Most Are Ugly

Remember the ugly Vista remote that we thought was swapped out in favor of a better looking one? Turns out it’s still getting produced, albeit by Philips. https://gizmodo.com/windows-vista-media-center-remote-control-208210 The Vista Media Center remote from Philips comes in a basic version, an IR learning backlit version, and an advanced IR learning backlit version. Luckily for them,…

Baby Accidentally Takes Joyride Through Airport X-Ray Machine

Another Apple Phone Rumor: Now Slightly More Plausible, But Not Really

Although this supposed Apple Phone leak still calls the phone the “iPhone”, the rest of the details seem to be a bit more valid compared to all the fakes people try to pass off these days. First, there’s the dual-screen touch-screen system reminiscent of the Apple Patents describing a dual-screen device. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-patent-granted-218300 There’s a touch-sensitive…