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You saw our Frankenreview of the BlackBerry Pearl, but we bet you were dying for some hands-on pics of the device. Maybe, say, a thickness comparison to a Netgear Skype phone and a Sharpie marker? Yes, we know that’s what you wanted. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-blackberry-pearl-8100-200244
Lack craftsmanship, but want a unique and cool USB hub? Sure you do! This is a USB hub monster that will fit your needs. It is basically a USB hub with male to female extension cables wrapped around coat hangers and very sloppily covered in cloth. But it is so damn cool. Hit the jump…
The GrandCentral service gives you a way to ring all your phones (up to six) from a single number. When a caller dials the free number GrandCentral gives you, all your phones ring and it’s up to you to decide which one you want to answer. If you’re at home, pick it up with your…
Suzuki’s Mio, a prototype electric wheelchair with a fuel cell, can run more than 40 km (24 miles) on one charge of methanol. This translates into a longer travel range compared to the previous unit, the “Senior Car”. Other new features: large armrests, a handlebar with ball knobs, a mesh-fabric seat and a large LCD…
Radar interviews John Hodgman, you know, the PC Guy from the Apple ads. And reading it makes me feel just stupid. You know he works for the Daily Show, but did you know he’s a full fledged NY Times Magazine editor and writer, and was a reporter for NPR’s This American Life? Justin Long, the…
Speaking of the Xbox 360, Chartered Semiconductor of Singapore say they’re manufacturing a new Xbox 360 CPU that uses 65nm technology instead of the current 90nm. Early adopters shouldn’t fret, since the new CPU is only for cost-cutting and lowering the overheating problems that earlier models have run into. It’s common practice for console makers…
Microsoft’s finally said what everybody expected them to—their HD DVD player will be $199. No surprise here, but good to get some solid information. MS also said they will sell it for 199.99/ 129.99 in Europe, which isn’t a tremendous price increase for once. There should be around 150 HD DVD movies available to watch…
You remember Leica’s M8, their first rangefinder camera with a CCD inside its gut? The video obsessed editors at Camcorder Info dot com give it a decent look over at Photokina. Their verdict? Seems like a serious piece of kit, with a metal body and 10.3 megapixel eye. The surprises include an automated sensor cleaning…
Our obsession with iPods has taken another giant leap forward with the iPillow iPod. This is a giant, 16-inch stuffed iPod with integrated speakers. So now you can truly lay in bed and showing your iPod just how much you really love it. $18. Product Page [Via Gearlog]
After a long wait, the TiVo Series3 DVR is finally out. Sure, the new model supports recording two coveted HD sources at one time, and still offers most of the features we loved from the Series 2 (though TiVoToGo is gone for now). But, an $800 price tag might be steep for mainstream buyers and…
This is the PMP2516, Thomson’s $172 portable media player. Interested? Don’t be. It has a measly 1GB of onboard memory with no expansion slot for other types of media. One freakin’ gig? What kind of media do you expect me to put on that? A movie and a single album? Yawn. If you really are…
Those of us living in a van down by the river will welcome the 2007 Chrysler Sebring, with its optional cup holder that not only keeps that coffee hot but keeps that brewski cold, too. Not that you would be driving with a brewski. No, no, officer, this is iced tea. Anyway, flip a switch…
This is the fabulously-named BKBU-SKJ109/SV keyboard, from Buffalo Japan. It is your average keyboard loaded up with hot keys and media keys, but it also has a skype handset integrated right into the side of the keyboard. It looks like something straight out of a NASA launch room. It even has an external speaker. This…
This week at Lifehacker: Play games on your iPod for FREE “Even if you’re stuck in pre video iPod obsolescence, you can still play video games like Texas Hold ‘Em, Tetris, and Bejeweled (all on sale at the iTunes Store) on pretty much any iPod with a little bit of virtual elbow grease for free.”…
This super-skinny USB flash card is improbably thin but still lets you stoke it with lots of your stuff. Kinda like that ho you knew in high school. Thin as a credit card and weighing less than half an ounce, you can get it festooned with some of Brando’s tacky designs for $39 or place…
Freak out your friends and avoid lawsuits with these glow-in-the-dark pebbles, appearing to be mild-mannered gray rocks by day but glowing with an eerie green radioactive aura for about six hours each night. Get a bag of 350 for $10. Product Page [Collections, Etc., via OhGizmo]
Google founder Larry Page is getting sick and tired of inefficient power supplies in servers eating up boatloads of his profits, so he’s calling for home computers and servers to have everything running at 12 volts, eliminating the need for those energy-sucking power supplies inside PCs with their various voltages and lame wastefulness. Begged Page…
Geeks.com has this tiny camera for $170 after some instant savings. It retails for $240 and includes $50 of instant savings and a $20-off coupon code (CAMERADEAL) bringing the final price down to $170. It is an average 5-megapixel digital cam with a 3x optical zoom, video capture, flash, rechargeable batteries and 50MB of included…
We told you about how Logitech’s FreePulse Wireless Headphones flew through the FCC approval process with their improved Bluetooth 2.0 specs (3x faster, lower power consumption, simplified multi-link), and now they’re officially out in the open for all to see. https://gizmodo.com/logitech-free-pulse-bluetooth-headphones-pass-fcc-world-202678 We’re just hoping this Bluetooth 2.0 spec performs better than most of the Bluetooth…
T-Mobile has pulled the worst move ever and decided to drop Catherine Zeta-Jones. T-Mobile said she is being dropped in favor of a more “man-on-street approach to marketing.” Oh, another douchebag who can have a catch-phase. Can I hear you now? No, I can’t—so STFU and give me my Catherine Zeta-Jones back. T-Mobile Readies New…