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High-Tech Neon Blue Ant Farm

One childhood toy that one would expect to never receive the high-tech treatment is the ant-farm. But with a little help from NASA, AntWorks was born. This ant farm has ditched the traditional sand for crazy neon blue goo that serves as both food and housing for the ants. It is a non-toxic gel, so…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Samsung’s Ultra Edition Cellphone Line Expands by Two: the 11.8 Clamshell and 13.5 Slider

Samsung plans to release three more Ultra Edition cellphones by the end of the year, the first pictures of which have just hit the Internet. Pictures of the Ultra Edition 11.8—the clamshell Z620—and the slider Ultra Edition 13.5—model number unknown—were smuggled out of an exciting slideshow and are now available for your viewing pleasure. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-unveils-ultra-edition-cellphones-182294…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Retro eMARK Black Diamond Groove Vinyl CD-Rs

It’s fun to reminisce about the olden days. You know, the days when stealing music consisted of somehow cramming a vinyl record down your pants without the hipster doofus at the record store noticing you. Nowadays stealing music has become far too easy. Now you can relive those olden music-stealing days a bit easier with…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

FrogPad iFrog Bluetooth Keyboard: One-Handed Typists Rejoice

All right all you one-handed typists, tear yourself away from all that porn for a minute and take a look at this: here’s the FrogPad iFrog Bluetooth keyboard, targeted for use on the road with UMPCs and smart phones. Designed to be used with one hand, the iFrog has a so-called patented ergonomic layout, putting…

Tech News Charlie White

SoniColumn: Even Your Stubby Fingers Can Make Music

The SoniColumn is art we can really appreciate. The installation piece is an electronic stalk covered in LEDs and touch sensors. When someone drags their fingers across the surface, it triggers chime-like sound effects. But what’s really cool is that the column can recall the sequence of notes when a hand crank is spun, turning…

Tech News Brian Lam

Little Intern Benny

Today isn’t just the first day of WWDC Raw. It’s Benny’s first day as Gizmodo Janitorial Intern. He lives across Giz HQ, and qualified himself for the job by helping me hoist a giant TV into my livingroom during his interview. You may know Benny from his other works like…oh, right. He doesn’t have any…

Tech News Brian Lam

Sharp XV-Z21000 1080p DLP Projector: Big Rez, Not Cheap

Yes, that looks like an alphabet soup, but suffice to say that this XV-Z21000 is one sharp projector from Sharp. That highly desirable 1080p number is the holy grail here, representing the pinnacle of our current HDTV spec. Sharp is also quoting some other big numbers, such as a contrast ratio of 12000:1. We’ll believe…

Tech News Charlie White

MXL.006 USB/Cardioid Condenser Mic Looks Like it Means Business

The MXL.006 USB is a pretty fancy-looking microphone, but it keeps things simple by plugging into the USB port of a Mac or PC. Usually if you want to use a cardioid condenser microphone, you’ll need to hook it up to all sorts of sophisticated electronics, preamps and such, but nothing doing with this baby.…

Tech News Charlie White

Apple’s WWDC Today: Blogging Live (Is This Thing On?)

Dear Giz readers, It’s 1AM in SF, the night before the Keynote. And I just can’t sleep. My palms and pajamas are sweaty, my mouth is dry, and all these vicodins aren’t making me even remotely tired. I just can’t wait til Stevie J. comes out of his house-sized iPod, and graces us, the common…

Tech News Brian Lam

BlackBerry 8100 Poses For Pictures, Looking Skinny and Hot

Dave over at Mobility Today got his hands on some pics of the upcoming BlackBerry 8100 that’s headed for Cingular. Things look good for the 8100, as BlackBerry is expanding into more consumer-focused items like video and photos, expanding on their business-focused push email and communications features. More pics after the jump. Blackberry 8100 photos…

Tech News Jason Chen

Franklin Wireless USB EV-DO Card

The Franklin USB EV-DO card is perfect for readers with laptops that don’t have a PCMCIA or ExpressCard slot, or those with tablets, PDAs, and UMPCs. This goes directly into the USB slot, unlike the Novatel, which had a separate cable but looks bit bulky in comparison. Franklin’s solution seems a bit more compact. https://gizmodo.com/novatel-usb-evdo-adapter-166223…

Tech News Jason Chen

Shiny Apple Blackbook Rumor: Merely a Coated Black Macbook?

A few minutes ago, we’d received a tip and photos of a black Macbook that also happened to be shiny. Another reader writes in with his theory: the prototype is just a regular old matte-finished Macbook covered with the Invisible Shield coating (picture above). We’ll find out what the skinny is tomorrow. More pictures after…

Tech News Brian Lam

Apple Rumors: OS X Leopard’s Six Best Spots

It’s the day before Apple’s WWDC, and we’re dreaming of what goodies Stevie J. will reveal at the keynote. Last week, O’Grady got his O’Hands all O’ver what looks like details of the next revision of OS X, AKA Leopard. Giz took a look at the long-ish post, and sorted out what we thought were…

Tech News Brian Lam

Taiwanese TiVo Ads

Damn it, my publicist said nobody outside Taiwan was going to see this, and now it’s all over the internet! She’s sooooo fired. In any case, in the first ad, I’m explaining that even if you have to work, you won’t miss out on your favorite TV series. It’s America’s NUMBAH ONE! recording device with…

Tech News Jason Chen

Another PowerBook Mel Gibsons

Another horror story of a PowerBook meltdown comes to you from a guy who woke up to an apartment full of smoke and a laptop on fire. https://gizmodo.com/apple-powerbooks-eksploderer-too-191968 Just a warning to everyone: we woke up this morning at 6am because the apartment was filled with smoke and our laptop was on fire. It wasn’t…

Tech News Jason Chen

How To Load Custom Backgrounds On Your Sidekick 3

Some enterprising Sidekick owner has done, what was until now, the impossible. He’s found out a way to load custom backgrounds onto his sidekick. Not only that, with his theme-hack you can load in custom icons, sounds, and splash screens. Now, we’re off to load up our SK3 with pictures sounds of Paris taken from…

Tech News Jason Chen

Is This A New Glossy Black MacBook?

A reader writes in to tell us about this black MacBook he saw somewhere—we can’t say where he saw it since it would get him in some deep doo doo—and says it may be a new revision of the black MacBook series. The standard MB right now is matted and non-reflective, as you can see…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Vega Revealed: A UMPC-Like Device That Runs Windows XP

That mystery Korean UMPC we showed you a few weeks back has just been de-mystified. It’s called the Vega, and runs the full-blown Windows XP Operating System on it. Best yet, it costs about 700,000 Won ($700). https://gizmodo.com/new-umpc-from-korea-189188 The UMPC-like device has an AMD Geode LX800 CPU, Windows XP Home (bleh), 256MB of RAM, a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Time Warner Cable Apologizes, Says They Will Support TiVo Series 3

Remember when Time Warner Cable in the Raleigh area said they wouldn’t support TiVo Series3 units with CableCARDs? Well, it looks like they’ve gone back on that decision and told one of their subscribers that they will in fact support Series 3 and any other CableCARD capable devices. https://gizmodo.com/time-warner-cable-not-supporting-tivo-series3-units-wit-190088 …once the tivo series 3 device…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Week In Comments

Motorola Q: A Deal at $75, on Amazon.com Just a quick heads up – if you’re using this phone for business, forget it. It’s not nearly as robust as the Palm Treo. This phone has gotten passed around my company more times than (insert your own sister joke here). No one seems to like it.…

Tech News Jason Chen

High-Tech Neon Blue Ant Farm

Samsung’s Ultra Edition Cellphone Line Expands by Two: the 11.8 Clamshell and 13.5 Slider

Retro eMARK Black Diamond Groove Vinyl CD-Rs

FrogPad iFrog Bluetooth Keyboard: One-Handed Typists Rejoice

SoniColumn: Even Your Stubby Fingers Can Make Music

Little Intern Benny

Sharp XV-Z21000 1080p DLP Projector: Big Rez, Not Cheap

MXL.006 USB/Cardioid Condenser Mic Looks Like it Means Business

Apple’s WWDC Today: Blogging Live (Is This Thing On?)

BlackBerry 8100 Poses For Pictures, Looking Skinny and Hot

Franklin Wireless USB EV-DO Card

Shiny Apple Blackbook Rumor: Merely a Coated Black Macbook?

Apple Rumors: OS X Leopard’s Six Best Spots

Taiwanese TiVo Ads

Another PowerBook Mel Gibsons

How To Load Custom Backgrounds On Your Sidekick 3

Is This A New Glossy Black MacBook?

The Vega Revealed: A UMPC-Like Device That Runs Windows XP

Time Warner Cable Apologizes, Says They Will Support TiVo Series 3

The Week In Comments

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