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I like taking baths. There, it’s out there and all of the Gizmodo readers have to deal with it. I find them relaxing and even enjoy the occasional bubbles or bath bomb. That’s why I think the Neptuner surround sound system by Neptune is the greatest invention ever. The design prevents you from even realizing…
The Glow Brick is touted as a “cordless nightlight” – a clever way of saying it’s not really a light, but a glow-in-the-dark box instead. Powered by magical glow matter called “phosphorescence”, the Glow Brick charges from a lamp or sunlight and can provide up to three hours of glowy goodness. That’s probably not enough…
We’ve been telling you about all those Sony battery recalls for a long time now, knowing all along that it was costing Sony a bundle…and honestly laughing a bit as we baked pie graphs about the horrifying ordeal. https://gizmodo.com/sony-joins-the-club-of-laptop-companies-recalling-sony-208467 The total is in at a whopping $429 million in Sony’s latest year-end profit forecast. To…
According to a legitimate-looking marketing presentation, here are Cingular’s latest release plans for the Treo 680 and Cingular 8525. Treo 680 November 5th (not firm) $424.99 w/o contract $349 one year $274.99 two year Unlimited data plans take about $100 off the price (rebate). https://gizmodo.com/treo-680-possibly-launching-on-cingular-for-free-207995 Cingular 8525 October 29th (tomorrow??) $559.99 w/o contract $484.99 one…
Are you an “artist” who likes to wear all black, and because of being so spiritual/misunderstood/poor refuses to go to normal store to buy furniture? You might want to check out the Sketch Furniture Project by FRONT. Using motion capture, a computer records your pen strokes and places them real-time within the scene. This motion…
Some companies kinda want to get sued. Amex Digital must be fully lawyer-loaded with the IT-N501 i Talk Nano. It’s a fairly sexy Skype phone that comes in iWhite or iBlack, includes an LCD display, features speakerphone and caller ID, and will still only run you $25. Seems like a bargain until you remember that…
•Dcube Mvision: HD Playback, No Discs •Bullet-proof Dolphin Kicks Flipper in the Nads •Niro Pumps Surround Sound Out of One Speaker •Zoltar The Mechanical Fortune Teller •LGs M4200D Shows 42-inch 3D Images Without Glasses https://gizmodo.com/dcube-mvision-hd-playback-no-discs-210593 Comment of the Day: The Weirdest PS3 Commercial Yet “Im just waiting for Sony to make a public statement saying…
He loves it, he loves it not. David Pogue totally caught us skimming the headline and lead of his B&O piece. He writes in to correct me in saying he totally “didn’t love” the B&O Serene. And the headline belongs to some editor. And editor who also skims. He totally never said that he was…
Here’s a bit of weirdness for you on a Friday afternoon. I was setting up a set of Dell monitor-attached speakers just now, hooking it up to a Dell monitor and a PowerBook. Everything connected fine, but then I discovered that if I turned the volume knob all the way up on the speakers, U2…
This Lego Branded Bosch dish washer runs a special 104 degree cycle for rinsing away the dirt, grime, saliva, mud, bacteria, ebola, cooties, asbestos, lead paint chips, rat poison, peanut butter and jelly, and cigarette tar off of kid toys without melting the plastic. I gotta go wash my hands now. There’s even a special…
We were wondering when the first sexy robot was actually going to be sexy. What with the Karaoke android, the robot monkey, the Chinese beauty robot, and Korea’s Ever-1 android all looking a might less than sexy, our hopes for a Human-Robot mating ritual were at an all time low. No longer! https://gizmodo.com/android-does-karaoke-gets-bored-208515 This “Dion”…
Three legged turtle gets an air-filled, shock-absorbed tire. Giz
We can see how these Remix and Beatz iPod cases can get pretty annoying after a while. But the first couple hours you play with this thing will be pure delight. The two cases—one which lets you drop “funky beatz” and the other lets you “remix”—can be chained together so you and your buddy can…
You’d think the NYT’s practical David Pogue would rip apart a $1275 dollar cellphone from the typically overhyped and under delivered B&O. But he loves it, even going so far as to say this: https://gizmodo.com/serene-bang-olufsens-upside-down-cellphone-210756 …the world craves a phone that conveys, like Apple’s iPod, a feeling of beauty, elegance and instantaneous mastery.This week, a…
•Apple remains on Nasdaq despite delay [MacMinute] •IBM promises cooler chips with capillary-action and water jets [TG Daily] •Brand new substance created from water [New Scientist] •BitTorrent admin jailed for five months [The Inquirer] •Ex-Microsoft man is next space tourist [The Register]
Although marred by the $80 mail-in-rebate, this deal still gets you a 14-inch widescreen laptop with a 1.46GHz Intel M 410 processor for $399.99. The Westinghouse laptop has 802.11b/g wireless, ATI Xpress 200M Graphics card, a 60 GB hard drive and 512MB of DDR2 RAM. Good for a throwaway notebook that you won’t be afraid…
Intel’s quad-core chips are expected to go on a rampage next Wednesday. Codenamed Kentsfield, the brawny chips are single-socket CPUs with four processing cores. The Core 2 Extreme Quad QX6700 (gotta love the name) will be clocked at 2.66GHz with a 1066MHz front side bus. AMD’s response, the 4×4 platform which marries two of its…
Oho! Sony’s finally let fly with what formats the 1080p-capable PlayStation 3 will be able to support. Will it play the bare minimum of MP3s? Will it go above and beyond and play back DivX? Can you watch your iTunes movies on it? Find out after the jump. VIDEO •MPEG-1 •MPEG-2 (PS,TS) •H.264/MEPG-4 AVC •MPEG-4…
A neat little App from T-Mobile helps you decide who belongs in your myFaves, the plan on T-Mobile that allows you to call five people for free. It’s basically just a set of questions like “Who will help you move to Alaska”, and “Who will be at your surprise birthday party”, then narrowing it down…
LG’s Flatron M4200 is a 42-inch LCD with 1080p support and an 8ms response time. Pretty decent specs, which are made even better by its ability to display 3D images without the need to wear goggles. You can kind of see the “Sweet” and “Kiwi” in 3D in the above image, but you’ll probably need…