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Gizmodo’s Chen to Appear on Big-Time Talkfest: Cranky Geeks

Don’t miss our very own internationally-famous Jason Chen (pictured above in one of his more private moments) on today’s Cranky Geeks videocast, hosted by often-loved, occasionally-loathed technology pundit John C. Dvorak from PC Magazine. Catch the live stream at 11am Pacific, or you can subscribe to the videocast or podcast version of the show at…

Tech News Charlie White

$200 Origami iPod Shuffle

Big Images is a design printing company that gave out an iPod Shuffles wrapped in two $100 bill origami boxes to all of their employee for Christmas presents. The pictures speak for themselves (click it for larger version). This could also be the most expensive Shuffle carrying case to date. Any chance you folks are…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Magic Orb: Spinning LEDs Are More Than Just Blinkinlights

From the same NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program that brought you the alluring solar bikini, James N Sears brings you his Orb, a tricky experimental device that consists of rapidly rotating LEDs and some clever programming. Your persistence of vision ties it all together, making it look like a solid object. https://gizmodo.com/solar-powered-usb-bikini-222749 Take a look at…

Gadgets Charlie White

Robots Entitled to the Same Rights as Humans in the Future?

The wheels are in motion to give robots the same rights that people currently enjoy. Huh? A recent inquiry by the British government suggests that within the next 20 to 50 years robots will be intelligent enough to warrant many of the same rights and benefits that us mere mortals now have. Robots would be…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

iPhoneyGate: Dlink VOIP Phone Config’d To “LinksysSucks”

Rivalries are entertaining to watch. You’ve got Pepsi and Coke, Paris and Lindsay, and apparently there’s one between networking giants Dlink and Linksys, the latter being infamous for iPhoneyGate. Yahoo Tech’s Chris Null received a reviewable engineering sample of DLink’s revolutionary GSM/VOIP combo cellphone two days after the whole iPhoneyGate scandal went down, and the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Vertu Cobra $310,000 Cellphone: Features Justify The Price?

Work at Goldman Sachs and/or Morgan Stanley and have a couple extra hundred thousand/million dollars to spend? Then feast your eyes on the Vertu Signature Cobra. For a cool $310,000 you can purchase… a cellphone? Sure, the phone is decked out with precious gemstones (one pear-cut diamond, one round white diamond two emerald eyes and…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Microworks Vega: 20.1 Inches of Laptop Gigantism

When only the best and most outrageously-equipped laptop will do, check out the Microworks Vega with a 20.1 inch screen and the latest AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 CPU. Besides its absurdly large screen, you can equip it with just about anything available on notebooks, including a Blu-ray burner, EV-DO, GPS, a TV tuner, a…

Tech News Charlie White

Sapphire’s Godfather Makes Quad Crossfire a Reality

Sapphire scored some major bragging points this morning by demoing a dual-GPU Radeon X1950 Pro board it’s calling, the Godfather. The card runs on a single x16 PCI-Express slot and provides the kind of performance you’d get from running two X1950 cards in Crossfire mode. What’s interesting about the Godfather, however, is that it can…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Samsung HL-S5679W 1080p HDTV Reviewed (Verdict: Big Bang for the Buck)

We took the Samsung HL-S5679W 56″ rear screen projection TV for a spin at Consumer Electronics Net, and we were highly impressed with its stellar performance, especially for its cheap-ass price of $3300. The real innovation is its approach to illumination, using three LEDs instead of a conventional mercury arc bulb. The company calls this…

Gadgets Charlie White

Geforce TV Tuner: Video Everywhere, Still Nothing On

Geforce will release this odd-looking TV tuner in Japan next March, and it’s designed to be plugged into portable DVD players and such, giving you TV everywhere. The Geforce G-WWT-1201B even has 512MB of flash memory, which is enough to record two or three hours of programming. Hey, that’s just about long enough to record…

Tech News Charlie White

Panasonic’s Toughest Toughbooks, Now Faster and Brighter

The most hardened versions of the Panasonic Toughbooks have been updated with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and brighter touchscreens. Since most of these laptops will be used in broad daylight, that extra screen brightness will certainly be welcome. All this durability comes at a price, though: depending on configuration, you’ll spend around…

Tech News Charlie White

Onkyo VR-1000J MPEG-4 Recorder: Video Alchemy for Your PSP

Onkyo wants to make it easy for you to record video from a TV or any other video source onto an SD card with its VR-1000J MPEG-4 Recorder, magically turning it into that MPEG-4 format of the Sony PSP or many mobile phones. No PC required, just plug the video in and out comes the…

Tech News Charlie White

Aliph Jawbone Headset: Gets Sexy Redesign, Super Noise-Cancelling, and Bluetooth

The original Aliph Jawbone headset was flawed. It was beautiful, but wired. The redesigned Aliph Jawbone looks to be everything the original wishes it was. It’s Bluetooth, and uses military noise canceling tech that can drown out the violent screams of traffic, lawnmowers, and anything else NOT your voice by using an array of microphones.…

Tech News Brian Lam

Ridiculous Gadget of the Day: BreathCapture

Not so much a gadget as just a test tube, this BreathCapture is a pendant that holds someone’s breath so you can take it around and smell it any time you want. Yes. That’s right. Someone’s breath. Assuming this loved one has breath you actually want to smell, how long will the thing last? One…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

It’s not often fanboys get to design their favorite company’s next product, but that’s pretty much what Meizu is doing. They’re holding a contest to see who can design their next dap. We’ve seen their players before, and they’ve been pretty impressive, beating even the mighty iPod, so this contest idea is a great way…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

There’s Still Time to Win a Console

Wanna spend the next two weeks of your life playing non-stop video games? Sign up for one of these contests and you just might be able to. Microsoft and Epic Records have teamed up for an Xbox 360 contest where you can score a console and win a chance at playing Tenacious D, while the…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Buffalo’s Silent Mouse Keeps Your Wife From Leaving

Back when we were living in a one bedroom/living room/kitchen dump, our wives would always complain about the keyboard and mouse noise keeping them up at night. Or waking them up in the morning. Or bothering them while they were listening to music. Come to think of it, they probably just wanted a divorce. Nevertheless,…

Tech News Jason Chen

HTC Stereo Converter

If you’ve picked up an HTC Trinity, Artemis, or TyTN/Cingular 8525, you probably noticed that the only headset port is the 11-pin mini USB kind. Pretty gimpy if you want to use your Shure or your V-Moda Vibe headphones to listen to music. Brando’s got the HTC stereo converter shipping December 27, which allows you…

Tech News Jason Chen

USB Device Charging Desk Lamp

In the category of awesome-ness comes this lamp that includes USB ports for charging of USB devices. With a large chunk of portable electronic devices being capable of USB charging, this is the perfect desk lamp. This lamp, the SI561, just recently received FCC pound-me-in-the-ass clearance, so it should be available sometime in 2007 from…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Sizemodo: The Mythical Ultraportable MacBook Pro

If the Ultraportable MacBook Pro does exist—despite the specs that were “leaked” being too ridiculous to actually be true—how big would it be? Well, judging from both the 1280×800 resolution in both the MacBook and the UP MacBook, the screen ratios should be pretty similar. https://gizmodo.com/ultraportable-macbook-specs-leaked-223312 Add in the “less than 1-inch thick” spec, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Gizmodo’s Chen to Appear on Big-Time Talkfest: Cranky Geeks

$200 Origami iPod Shuffle

Magic Orb: Spinning LEDs Are More Than Just Blinkinlights

Robots Entitled to the Same Rights as Humans in the Future?

iPhoneyGate: Dlink VOIP Phone Config’d To “LinksysSucks”

Vertu Cobra $310,000 Cellphone: Features Justify The Price?

Microworks Vega: 20.1 Inches of Laptop Gigantism

Sapphire’s Godfather Makes Quad Crossfire a Reality

Samsung HL-S5679W 1080p HDTV Reviewed (Verdict: Big Bang for the Buck)

Geforce TV Tuner: Video Everywhere, Still Nothing On

Panasonic’s Toughest Toughbooks, Now Faster and Brighter

Onkyo VR-1000J MPEG-4 Recorder: Video Alchemy for Your PSP

Aliph Jawbone Headset: Gets Sexy Redesign, Super Noise-Cancelling, and Bluetooth

Ridiculous Gadget of the Day: BreathCapture

Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player

There’s Still Time to Win a Console

Buffalo’s Silent Mouse Keeps Your Wife From Leaving

HTC Stereo Converter

USB Device Charging Desk Lamp

Sizemodo: The Mythical Ultraportable MacBook Pro

Roku’s 2025 Streaming Stick HD Is 40% Off to Compete With Amazon Fire TV Stick During Spring Sale

Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

Smart Glasses Now Have One of the Vision Pro’s Best Features

Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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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