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LG and Philips LCD Hone Cellphone Screens to 1.3mm

Instead of boring you to tears with pics and specs of every goddamn cellphone that’s ever been released, let’s just take a look at this one reed-thin screen that will tell you a lot about what’s going to be happening with those ubiquitous communicators in the next few months. LG and Philips have somehow created…

Tech News Charlie White

Samsung IP-830w on Sprint: World Phone, Smart Slider, First Look

If you’re a world traveler, you might want to take a look at this Sprint IP-830w “world phone,” a sliding Samsung smartphone with a 320×240 touchscreen, an SD memory card slot, and a 520MHz Intel PXA 272 CPU. Our buddy Dave at Mobility Today took a First Look at it and liked what he saw.…

Gadgets Charlie White

Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light Offers Seven Tendrils, Five Modes

Did somebody take a Power Squid and turn it into a seven-headed hydra of a flashlight? Yep, kinda. It’s the Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light, with seven articulated legs springing out of its casing, each leg with a versatile LED in the end with five lighting modes. You can have a focused white flashlight, a more diffused…

Gadgets Charlie White

Aphrodite Project Techie Hooker Platforms Re-emerge at Digital Life

We’ve heard about the Aphrodite Project before, where hooker platform shoes go high-tech in addition to alot of other arty stuff. The shoes first appeared in a show in New York last May and also surfaced at Siggraph graphics fest last summer. Now, they’ve re-appeared at Digital Life in New York, and pictures from their…

Gadgets Charlie White

Asustek Shows Concept Laptop With Secondary Display

Asustek takes a cue from cellphones, showing off this concept laptop with a secondary display on the outside, letting you give get a quick peek at your e-mail, check your schedule or see what’s playing on the MP3 player without having to open it up. Just think of it: now you can check your e-mail…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch

Sony Ericsson liked Fossil’s idea for a caller ID wristwatch so much that they took the technology and re-designed it as the MBW-100 — adding the ability to control their cellphone’s music player from the buttons on the side (play, pause, next track). The functions worked well during the demo, although we didn’t get to…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Caller ID Wristwatch By Fossil: Gizmodo Hands On

This is not Fossil’s first foray into wrist-tech. There was the Wrist PDA FX2008, an arm-based writing apparatus worthy of Fred Flintstone, and the Abacus SPOT watches that featured an always-on connection to Bill Gate’s weathervane. Luckily, Fossil learned from its mistakes and isn’t repeating them. All of the new watches are analog time pieces,…

Tech News Noah Robischon

Best of Gizmodo

•Smarty Pants: Computing Meets Motion-Sensing Fabric •Pebbles That Glow in the Dark: Radioactive? •Sharp Triple Directional Viewing LCD: Three Screens, No Waiting •Keep Those Drinks Warm or Cool in an ’07 Sebring •USB Flash Card is Wafer-Thin, Holds a Gig https://gizmodo.com/smarty-pants-computing-meets-motion-sensing-fabric-203556 Comment of the Day: Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People’s Pictures https://gizmodo.com/blind-camera-lets-you-take-other-peoples-pictures-203731 “So…

Tech News Charlie White

Other Bits and Bytes

• Microsoft files lawsuit against DRM hackers [InfoWorld] • Startup Claims 10-Layer, Multiformat Next-Gen DVD [Extremetech] • Comcast blocks Google and YouTube on the East Coast [The Inquirer] • First Zero-Gravity Surgery a Success [Slashdot] • Intel proposes new power efficiency focused CPU benchmark [TG Daily]

Tech News Travis Hudson

iTunes 7.0.1 Has Buttloads of Mobile Phone Mentions

Normally, an iTunes update wouldn’t be much news. But this one has lots of mentions of a “mobile phone” that can play video and display pictures. As far as we know, the ROKR and RAZR V3i can’t do that. Here’s a taste of the strings: “4301.022” = ” ^0 was not copied because the video…

Tech News Jason Chen

Verizon Chocolate Gets Firmware Upgrade For Speakerphone Support

Owners of the LG Chocolate should go to Verizon stores and ask for firmware version V04 for your phone to enable speakerphone functionality. Not all Verizon stores have this update now, and not all of them will agree to update your phone. If that’s the case, and you’re feeling brave, you can try and update…

Tech News Jason Chen

Video of Motorola Vending Machine

This lousy video of the Motorola vending machine is blurry because it was taken on a Motorola RAZR. Still, you can see that it looks similar the the Sony one we saw before, and features various RAZRs and SLVRs waiting to drop down into your ham-soaked hands. This one only had PEBLs and SLVRs since…

Tech News Jason Chen

Three Slingbox Versions Officially Announced

The Slingbox Tuner, AV, and Pro have officially been announced as the three successors to the Slingbox Classic. The Tuner and AV versions will be $180, and the Pro will be $250. If you want to know the differences, hit the jump for more info. https://gizmodo.com/new-slingbox-at-best-buy-slingbox-av-203378 The Tuner version has an analog tuner for regular…

Tech News Jason Chen

Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Is Like Sex in Your Ear Canal

The upcoming triple.fi earbuds from Ultimate Ears promise to give the same performance as their top-of-the-line UE-10 Pros, but don’t require custom ear canal fitting. They use a similar triple-driver design, but don’t slip out of your ear when listening and don’t cost $900. No official pricing yet on these, but more info is coming…

Tech News Jason Chen

HD DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Technology Makes Consumer’s Lives Easier

A patent from London’s New Medium Enterprises promises to alleviate headaches caused by trying to decide which next-generation DVD format to support. Their multi-layer hybrid DVDs have Blu-ray on one layer and HD DVD on another, and have lowered the cost of production to just 1.5x the price of regular DVDs. NME also says they…

Tech News Jason Chen

TurboSonic Boom Box Store in Japan

TurboSonic is a dedicated boom box store, specializing in 70’s and 80’s vintage models. Our fav in their stock? The vinyl-playing, bright red, Sharp VZ-V20 you see on the top left. Thanks Roger. TurboSonic [via Viper Fantastic]

Gadgets Brian Lam

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People’s Pictures

This art project by Sascha Pohflepp combines a Sony Ericsson k750i with a black case to let you take other people’s pictures. The design works by recording what time you click the button to “take” a picture, then later on connects to the internet to scope out shots other people took with that same timestamp.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Archos 504 PMP Details Officially Revealed: 160GB Hard Drive For The Win

We’ve been talking up the Archos 504 portable media player since the summertime, but now it looks like Archos is finally ready to start shipping the thing. What’s also nice is that some hard facts have been released by Archos, the most interesting of which is that it has the most storage space of any…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

BenQ-Siemens Oxyon iPod-ish Slider Phone

Not content to let LG and their Chocolate phone hog the title of world’s sexiest phone, BenQ-Siemens has been quietly working on a prototype of a new device to wow the world. The fruit of their efforts? This Oxyon phone with a white, iPod-like finish and a slide out dial pad. Wow indeed. Ignoring potential…

Tech News Jason Chen

Harmony Bionic Ear System

Boston Scientific’s bionic ear gets FDA approval today, perfectly timed to save the hearing of Metallica fans rounding 40+. The piece delivers 120 spectral bands, which is 5-10 times more than the competition. Hmm…120 bands? I bet that makes the world sound as if it were in MIDI. The internal sound processor hooks into the…

Gadgets Brian Lam

LG and Philips LCD Hone Cellphone Screens to 1.3mm

Samsung IP-830w on Sprint: World Phone, Smart Slider, First Look

Gerber Inferno Flexi-Light Offers Seven Tendrils, Five Modes

Aphrodite Project Techie Hooker Platforms Re-emerge at Digital Life

Asustek Shows Concept Laptop With Secondary Display

Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch

Caller ID Wristwatch By Fossil: Gizmodo Hands On

Best of Gizmodo

Other Bits and Bytes

iTunes 7.0.1 Has Buttloads of Mobile Phone Mentions

Verizon Chocolate Gets Firmware Upgrade For Speakerphone Support

Video of Motorola Vending Machine

Three Slingbox Versions Officially Announced

Ultimate Ears Triple.fi 10 Is Like Sex in Your Ear Canal

HD DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Technology Makes Consumer’s Lives Easier

TurboSonic Boom Box Store in Japan

Blind Camera Lets You Take Other People’s Pictures

Archos 504 PMP Details Officially Revealed: 160GB Hard Drive For The Win

BenQ-Siemens Oxyon iPod-ish Slider Phone

Harmony Bionic Ear System

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