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DaysAgo Counts the Days For You

DaysAgo is a little digital date counter that attaches to anything with its magnetic or suction backing, and tells you how long it’s been since, well, whatever. Put it on those leftovers so you’ll know how long they’ve been sitting in the refrigerator, or slap it on a plant pot to let you know when…

Gadgets Charlie White

Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Blues harmonica players, or harpists as we like to be called, play the blues for a number of reasons, but one of them is that our diatonic instruments are so limited. When the band changes keys, we have to go rummaging around for another harmonica. Not any more with the Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica made by…

Gadgets Charlie White

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•Hitachi Rotary: Enough to Abandon Blades? •TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear •Oceanic SCUBA Mask with Integrated Head-Up Display •Verizon Launches Motorola KRZR •Dyson’s CR01 Contrarotating Double-Drum Washing Machine https://gizmodo.com/hitachi-rotary-enough-to-abandon-blades-203896

Tech News Charlie White

T-Mobile’s myFaves Screenshots

According to some T-Mobile leak on the Pinstack forums, their upcoming myFaves plan that allows you to make unlimited calls to five numbers for free, is going to launch sometime very early next week. They’ve also got the screenshots of how myFaves is going to look on a phone’s UI—in this case, the BlackBerry Pearl.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Anyone Want to See The Zune’s Sack?

The Microsoft Zune is going to ship with a micro-suede-like pouch, something the Apple iPod also shipped with circa 3G. And like the Zune itself, this pouch comes in three colors: white, black, and grey, and brown. And here it is, your moment of Zen. Accessories In the Box [Zune Insider]

Tech News Jason Chen

Other Bits and Bytes

•HP’s top lawyer falls on her sword [The Inquirer] •Comcast video download store to be in WMV HD [HD Beat] •Intel ships 40 million 65 nm processors [TG Daily} •New York City may ban ‘hazardous’ trans fats [New Scientist] •Retailers stocking limited amounts of HD DVD and Blu-ray titles [HD Beat]

Tech News Jason Chen

Universal Sonic Toothbrush Turns Any Toothbrush Sonic

As much as we love our Sonicare toothbrushes, we know that $100 may be a bit much for some people to spend on a toothbrush (it’s totally worth it though). For those folks, there’s the Universal Sonic Toothbrush that turns any old toothbrush into an automatic vibrating one. https://gizmodo.com/gear-raves-sonicare-elite-7750-195564 All you have to do is…

Gadgets Jason Chen

USB Humidifier Makes You and Your Computer Humid

Putting aside whether it’s a good idea or not to make the immediate area around your computer humid, this USB humidifier helps make offices and homes with dry air a little less dry. It fits 40-150ml of tap water and starts misting when plugged into your USB port. There’s an automatic shutoff valve after 2…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Rumor: Panasonic and Sony Releasing Hybrid HD DVD/Blu-ray Players Next Year

An anonymous source heard from someone high-up in the company—we can’t say who—that Panasonic/Matsushita is going to produce a dual HD DVD/Blu-ray player next year. This will be a hardware hybrid, and not a disc hybrid, as we posted about yesterday. https://gizmodo.com/hd-dvd-blu-ray-hybrid-technology-makes-consumers-lives-203744 These sources say that Panasonic is doing this to protect itself, as the…

Tech News Jason Chen

TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear

If you’re not a fan of carving your name, phone number, and address on the back of your RAZR like your mom did to your elementary school lunchbox, then TrackItBack may be the sticker for you. TrackItBack is basically a set of stickers for your camera, cellphone or MP3 player labelled with a confidential ID…

Gadgets Jason Chen

HP Buys Voodoo PC: WTF

Like when Alienware was abducted by Dell, we’re dumbstuck by this buy. Voodoo PC, my personal favorite maker of exotic gaming rigs, just got snatched up by HP. Rahul and Ravi, you were rich before, but man, are we going to have to start reading about you in Forbes? And sweet baby Jesus, what kinds…

Tech News Brian Lam

Sony Ericsson Deposits Four Other Cellphones: Z558, W830, W958c, Z550a

These four cellphones from Sony Ericsson are mid to high-range handsets, targeted towards people who want a little bit more functionality and are willing to pay for it. If you’re not one of these people, please head here. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericssons-three-snapshot-camera-phones-k510-z530-203997 All gone? Good. The Z558 is a clamshell has handwriting recognition, a 1.3-megapixel camera, 4x digital…

Tech News Jason Chen

HD DVD Giveaway – Tomorrow’s The Last Day

Friday’s the last day To enter in the contest For HD Player https://gizmodo.com/high-def-haiku-win-a-toshiba-hd-a1-hd-dvd-player-201356

Tech News Jason Chen

Gizmodo: While You Were Passed Out

I saw you sleeping at your keyboard last night. It was pretty pathetic, drool coming out of the corner of your mouth, eye buggers building up… Wait that’s getting off topic! There was some sweet info you might have missed; such as the World Exclusive about the Virgin Galactic Cabin, 3 Zune stories:1 2 &…

Tech News Ben Longo

Next Fest 2006: Automatic Door

Not the kind you’re used to. This door has many slats with infrared sensors on their tips. When you walk up to it, the slats slide out of the way, conforming to your body. We’ve written about this, but here’s a video of it in action.–Brian Lam

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Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We drool over Audi’s new mid-engine R8 sports car, keep the launch codes safe with the Zero Halliburton DJ Case, and start saving for the $7,000 Nuvo robot. Plus, we rock it R2-style with some Custom Star Wars T-Shirts, discover the ultimate mashup album – Night Ripper by Girl Talk, and…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony Ericsson’s Three Snapshot Camera Phones: K510, Z530, K310

Three relatively entry-level phones were announced today by Sony Ericsson, the K510, K310 and Z530. The K phones are in the candybar form-factor, and the Z phone is in the clamshell form-factor. First, the K510, which has a 1.3-megapixel camera, tri-band GSM, 4x digital zoom, 28 MB internal memory, and an optional “true” camera flash…

Tech News Jason Chen

Download Zune’s Preloaded MP3s Now From Idolator: Sorry, No Sir Mix-A-Lot

Wish you could trade in your now-generic iPod instead of a Zune? Well you can’t yet, so stop your whining. What you can do, if you must play your little pretend games, is dress up like a sexy nurse and download most of the preloaded songs on Zune over at Idolator. Music X-perts at Idolator…

Tech News Brian Lam

SpeakerCraft’s In-Wall Keypad Controls Six iPods

Designed for the multimedia home, this MODE wall-interface can control up to six different iPods, hookedup to AM/FM presets, the MODE Jukebox music server, and even XM radio. And if you’re too lazy to get up to walk to the wall, there’s an infrared receiver so you can remotely control the control to your music.…

Tech News Jason Chen

1-Minute Update: Lenovo Battery Recall Affects 500k Laptops

We’re so bored of this. Another week, another set of battery recalls. Following an incident where a man’s ThinkPad exploded in an airport, Lenovo is sucking it up and calling back 500K potentially bomb-bastic lithium cells to meet their maker. Fuck it, I’m not sending shit back. The odds on my balls catching fire from…

Tech News Brian Lam

DaysAgo Counts the Days For You

Hohner Six-Sided Harmonica Plays the Blues Six Ways to Sunday

Best of Gizmodo

T-Mobile’s myFaves Screenshots

Anyone Want to See The Zune’s Sack?

Other Bits and Bytes

Universal Sonic Toothbrush Turns Any Toothbrush Sonic

USB Humidifier Makes You and Your Computer Humid

Rumor: Panasonic and Sony Releasing Hybrid HD DVD/Blu-ray Players Next Year

TrackItBack Helps You Recover Lost Gear

HP Buys Voodoo PC: WTF

Sony Ericsson Deposits Four Other Cellphones: Z558, W830, W958c, Z550a

HD DVD Giveaway – Tomorrow’s The Last Day

Gizmodo: While You Were Passed Out

Next Fest 2006: Automatic Door

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

Sony Ericsson’s Three Snapshot Camera Phones: K510, Z530, K310

Download Zune’s Preloaded MP3s Now From Idolator: Sorry, No Sir Mix-A-Lot

SpeakerCraft’s In-Wall Keypad Controls Six iPods

1-Minute Update: Lenovo Battery Recall Affects 500k Laptops

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