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Just a quick update on the PS3. It’s been confirmed that the PlayStation 3 will not ship with an HDMI cable. After Sony’s been talking up how they will be “true HD”, and how HDMI will kick component’s ass, they now decide they can’t spring the $5 for an HDMI cable? Great. Confirmed: PS3 shipping…
The doPi iPod adapter let’s you belt out Gloria Gaynor’s most famous track anywhere you have an iPod. The doPi system lets you download songs from their servers in MP4 format to load onto your iPod, which then plays back the files with the lyrics appearing on the screen during the song. You know, Karaoke…
A T-Mobile insider sent us this release calendar of upcoming T-Mobile phones. We’ve already covered most of these phones already—the T629 and T519 for example. The interesting one is the BlackBerry 8705g, which will be available September 18. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-getting-two-slim-samsungs-t629-and-t519-192245 The 8705g is the Hearing Aid Compatible (HAC) version of the 8700g. It’s quad band, has…
Our petrol-sniffing cousins over at Jalopnik really love their Transformers news—and to be honest, so do we. Here’s a roundup of what the latest leaks and news from the set of Michael Bay’s 21st century classic are. Optimus Prime’s Full Body Shot, With Scary Bumblebee Pic Jazz Will Be Played By a Pontiac Solstice Who…
The GN Netcom 9350 DECT Headset uses DECT, which operates at 1.9GHz, to provide range and quality not found on Bluetooth or other 2.4GHz headsets. Because it’s on 1.9GHz, it doesn’t interfere with your headsets, your WiFi, or your various other wireless devices clogging up that frequency. The 9350 looks like a regular headset, but…
Taking the single serve Pod coffee idea to the next logical step, the Flavia Fusion drinks station lets you make fruity drinks instantly. The gadget uses “flavor filter packs” which gets brewed at the push of a button into one single-serve tasty drink. The Flavia itself costs $100, and can make coffee as well as…
You can put as much faith in this rumor as all the usual Apple rumors, but Mac Rumors says there’s been talk of a re-vamped iMac line coming at the Apple event on September 12. The new gear this time: an 23-inch iMac with Core 2 Duo. Supposedly, the 17 and 20-inch iMacs are also…
Here’s a new flashlight from surefire, makers of flashlights for cops, Navy SEALs and other guys that need to kick ass in dark places. The LED lightsource can go from a low intensity to high, the brighter mode giving the palm sized flashlight 50-lumens. That’s more than double the oomph of a twin D-cell battery.…
This week at iLounge: Everyone owns a pair of earbud-style headphones. Have you ever wondered why professional musicians pay up to $900 for custom-fit, in-canal earpieces? We take a look through the labs at Ultimate Ears to show you how $550-900 canalphones are made. Hit the jump for all of the iPod goodies. Like to…
The SanDisk Sansa c200 joins the other players in the up-and-coming Sansa brand. The c200 has a 1.4-inch LCD, 2GB of internal storage, and a microSD slot that takes up to 2GB of memory, bringing its total capacity to 4GB. There’s also Microsoft PlaysForSure support, along with the obligatory MP3 support, and a 15 hour…
At what’s surely the largest “mobile” DMB TV yet, the Samsung R7 comes in at a whopping 10-inches of real estate. Terrestrial DMB, or T-DMB, is a system they have in Korea for watching TV on mobile devices like cellphones and laptops. The R7 has a 16:9 aspect ratio, controls on the right, and is…
Personally I’ve always been a shower guy, but this Starfish Bath Sensor may make me switch it up once in a while, if I could get past the “soaking in my own filth” aspect. The Starfish has a water sensor so you can let your bath water go while you’re getting your bubbles, music, and…
Just a heads up, our SanDisk Indestructible Giveaway was supposed to end today, but I decided to be a kind fellar and extend the deadline until Tuesday to give you folks all of Labor Day weekend to destroy some shizzle. If you have no clue what we are talking about, listen up. SanDisk has supplied…
Sony has launched the NV-U81T and NV-U80 navigation units. Both of which comes loaded up with Sony’s Position Plus—I’ll show them a position plus…—technology for more accurate positioning and routing even when the signal is weak. The unit itself has a 4.3-inch touchscreen display with voice commands and Bluetooth for hands-free calling via a cellphone.…
Hey Zen fanboys out there, I know there has to be a least a couple of you. Here is a dock just for you! No girls iPods allowed! This is the TravelDock Z500. Pardon the crappy image, but it is a scan from the COMEX Convention brochure. It will support the 30GB and 60GB Zen…
Quick update: Garmin woke up this morning and officially unveiled the Nuvi 660 GPS. We love our Garmins and this would be the perfect one, with its widescreen, slim form, traffic receiver, and ability to read street names, useful for when the turns come up thick and fast. Nothing to add to what we’ve covered…
Samsung unveiled this tiny camera at IFA. It is small as hell, looks pretty hot and includes a six-megapixel sensor that will create some very sexy voyeur shots. It has a 3-inch LCD screen, video recording—in widescreen (!!)—and even includes an MP3 recorder and player. Hopefully it will include some kind of image stabilization, small…
It is time for the first ever Dealzmodo Labor Day special. Don’t let that bitch of a tropical storm, Ernesto, get you down. Just pick up an indoor grill like this one from Sanyo and commence the grilling. This is marked down 50-percent to $35. Even better, when the warm weather fades away and the…
A family in Leicestershire almost got a face full of battery as their Dell Latitude C600 shot batteries across the room in a dramatic, but luckily not deadly, display. The notebook, a Dell Latitude C600, was left alone in the family home to load a game. When the Allens came in to see how it…
This one goes out to all my IT homies. A Gizmodo reader just sent this screen shot in of task manager running on a server he built for work. It runs 4 processors, that have 2 cores each, with each of those cores hyperthreaded. So…That shows up in Windows as 16 procs. I’ll stand back…