Tech News

How To: Save a Wet Cellphone

I seem to be obsessed with wet gadgets lately. Today, Cory at Boing Boing writes about the stickers inside of phones that turn red when dunked, alerting the Verizon goons to your jack-assery. That reminds me of this tip on how to save a cellphone once its drenched in Champagne and rubbed vigorously while still…

Tech News Brian Lam

Download Free Old Time Horror Radio Shows in MP3

If you are still looking for the perfect background music for your Halloween party tonight, or just looking for some music to creep out the trick-or-treaters This may have the perfect solution. The Monster Club has a huge library of oldie horror radio shows available for download in MP3 format. Forget those Halloween noise CDs—just…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Virgin Gives Birth to One-Eyed Monster

The verdict is still out on Virgin Mobile’s new Cyclops phone (the red and white is too Santa Claus for us), but the one-eyed monster will have a few, albeit modest, features. In addition to its 1-megapixel cam, it’ll have a new feature called TXT Tones ($1.50/each), which lets you pair incoming text messages with…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Tricked Out Scion Features First Portable HD Radio

We haven’t seen that many tricked out Scions before, but this one here is essentially a living room on wheels. In addition to the usual car tech like a Bluetooth hands-free calling kit and GPS navigation, it has the first ever portable HD Radio receiver (shown far right), the HD Jump. (HD Radio ups the…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Dealzmodo: 37-inch Refurb’d Vizio HDTV, $677 Shipped

Geeks.com has this off-brand Vizio L37HDTV-R 37-inch HDTV for $675 with $2 shipping. It is a widescreen HDTV in 16:9 with a native resolution of 1366 x 768 and an 8 ms response time. It has a pretty mediocre brightness level of 500 cd/m2 and 600:1 contrast ratio. It does have a plethora of inputs…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Stripy Speakers Rotate, Glow

The Stripy Speakers are most easily described as twisty, glowing speakers. They consist of two, 4.5 watt speakers housed in a polished aluminum housing. Also included is a another aluminum housing that contains the glowing button. The button will glow different colors depending on what is being controlled—for example, blue for bass control, green for…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sanyo Eneloopy, the Dog-Gone Battery Tester

Here’s Eneloopy, a little doggie into which you insert one of Sanyo’s Eneloop rechargeable batteries, and when you press the button on his chest, his nose lights up if there’s still any charge left. Sanyo introduced its Eneloop batteries about a year ago, with their chief attribute being they arrive to you fully charged. Unlike…

Gadgets Charlie White

Halloween Costume Greatest Hits: Headless Marie Antoinette Roams the Streets

There’s a Halloween costume/tech/food contest going on at Makezine.com, and by far the scariest and most dramatic entry is this headless Marie Antoinette costume. That’s just the beginning, though, because there are all kinds of gross foods and disgusting creepy crawlies on that site today. There’s even a cockroach cake! After the jump, see more…

Gadgets Charlie White

Microsoft Packaging for Vista and Office 2007 Revealed

Microsoft, planning to lure you into using Windows Vista and Office 2007 for the rest of your life, today reveals the packaging for the upcoming products, going with a rounded design reminiscent of a 1950s toaster. Let’s let the Microsoftians damn us with their faint prose: Designed to be user-friendly, the new packaging is a…

Tech News Charlie White

Limited Edition Zunes Coming To Fancy West Coast Clothing Stores

Pictures of special, limited edition Microsoft Zunes have surfaced and the good news is that if you like overpriced West Coast fashion, you’re in for a treat. Apparently, Microsoft struck a deal with West Coast-based boutique clothing stores Union, UNDFTD and Stüssy that provides them with tricked out Zunes that’ll be sold at (online) auction…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Slingplayer For Mac OS X Officially Released: Start Your Slingin’

After months of empty promises and false starts, Sling Media has finally publicly released a Mac OS X version of its SlingPlayer software. Now, users of Apple’s candy-coated operating system can enjoy running Slingbox, slinging, if you will, their media from point A to point B. https://gizmodo.com/slingbox-review-round-up-110876 The SlingPlayer software appears to be a Universal…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Best of Gizmodo

&bullMaxian D900 PMP is All That, Bag’o’Chips •E-TEN X500 is the World’s Thinnest Pocket PC Phone •Enhanced MOTOSLVR L7e Sports EDGE Class 10, Push Technology •Samsung Intros MX10 Mini PC •allTunes MP3 Knob https://gizmodo.com/maxian-d900-pmp-is-all-that-bagochips-211169 Comment of the Day: Candy Cannon https://gizmodo.com/how-to-make-a-candy-cannon-211180 “I usually don’t answer the doorbell during Halloween. It hurts them more to be…

Tech News Charlie White

How to Make a Candy Cannon

Do you dread Halloween each year? Do you recoil just thinking about how boogar-faced kids from around the neighborhood trample your flowers in an attempt to deprive—no, rob—you of your precious candy? Teach those little bastards a lesson with the candy cannon. In five moderately simple steps, you can go from gingerly depositing Tootsie Rolls…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Sears Black Friday Ad Leaked

Psst. Looking to see the gadgety side of Sears on Black Friday? Look no further, as the Sears’ Black Friday ads have been leaked online. We see some fairly decent deals here, like the 42-inch Toshiba 42HP66 Widescreen Plasma for $1,199, the 42-inch Magnavox LCD for $1,359.99, some DVDs for $5.99, and some Kodak EasyShare…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ghost Mouse

Just in time for Halloween—2007, that is—this Ghost Mouse from Pat Says Now is shaped like a mouse and has two ghosty buttons for you to click on. It’s also got a scroll wheel, but face it, you’re not buying this mouse for the features. But really, what kind of person would buy this mouse?…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft Was/Still Planning On Rewarding Zune Sharing?

Remember the rumor that the Zune will pay you for sharing a song that someone ends up buying? Well, that rumor was squashed by Cesar, the pants wearing blogger last week. Not so fast, says a reader who uncovered a whitepaper from Microsoft detailing their possible foray into “off-line economies for digital media.” https://gizmodo.com/rumor-zune-to-pay-you-for-sharing-songs-209767 In…

Tech News Jason Chen

Other Bits & Bytes

•New Windows attack can kill firewall [InfoWorld] •MySpace Gets Tough on Copyrighted Music [Beta News] •MTV acquires video game developer Harmonix [TG Daily] •Finland convicts 22 in file sharing case [The Register] •Nanotube Computing Breakthrough [Technology Review]

Tech News Gizloco

Sidekick 3 LRG Limited Edition Unboxing

An SF Gizmodo reader sends in this unboxing of his Sidekick 3 to us with some additional news. Apparently, they’ve only made 1000 of these SK3s total—500 green and 500 black. The SF store on Powell and Market only had 10 of the LRGs and 10 of the Diane von Furstenbergs. What’s also interesting is…

Tech News Jason Chen

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

A bit of investigative reporting on why the PS3 needs 380 watts of power to fire up. PS3 Twice as Power-Hungry as XBox 360 [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/ps3-twice-as-power-hungry-as-xbox-360-211005

Tech News Brian Lam

Charlie White, A-List Blogger, Gets Interviewed

Our lovely Charlie White, the internet blogebrity that he is, took time to do an interview with Associated Content. In it, he talks about eating frog legs, waking up at six in the morning, how Giz is like broadcast news, and where the blogosphere is heading in the future. In many ways Charlie White described…

Tech News Jason Chen

How To: Save a Wet Cellphone

Download Free Old Time Horror Radio Shows in MP3

Virgin Gives Birth to One-Eyed Monster

Tricked Out Scion Features First Portable HD Radio

Dealzmodo: 37-inch Refurb’d Vizio HDTV, $677 Shipped

Stripy Speakers Rotate, Glow

Sanyo Eneloopy, the Dog-Gone Battery Tester

Halloween Costume Greatest Hits: Headless Marie Antoinette Roams the Streets

Microsoft Packaging for Vista and Office 2007 Revealed

Limited Edition Zunes Coming To Fancy West Coast Clothing Stores

Slingplayer For Mac OS X Officially Released: Start Your Slingin’

Best of Gizmodo

How to Make a Candy Cannon

Sears Black Friday Ad Leaked

Ghost Mouse

Microsoft Was/Still Planning On Rewarding Zune Sharing?

Other Bits & Bytes

Sidekick 3 LRG Limited Edition Unboxing

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

Charlie White, A-List Blogger, Gets Interviewed

Andy Weir Apologizes After ‘Star Trek’ Comment Backlash

Scientists Discover Hidden Behavior in Water That Helps Explain Why Ice Floats

The ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale Paved the Way for a Wildly Sci-Fi Season 3

A $1 Samsung Galaxy Smartphone Lands at Mint Mobile With Unlimited Data at 50% Off in a Clearance Push

Your Wimpy Workouts Aren’t Cutting It, Scientists Say

Anker Prime Power Bank Drops to an All-Time Low (200W, 20,100mAh, 3-Port) as Amazon Clears Out Remaining Spring Sale Stock

Students Are Now Renting Smart Glasses to Cheat on Exams

Roborock F25 GT Cordless Vacuum and Mop Hits Its Lowest Price in Spring Sale, 20,000Pa Cleaning Power Without the Premium Price Tag

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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

Let us help find what you are looking for...