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Take your music with you while you’re doing your underwater basketweaving with the H2O Audio Waterproof Headphones, completely water resistant down to a depth of 10 feet. Coupled with a waterproof iPod housing from H2O Audio, you can take your tunes down to Davy Jones Locker without worrying about ruining anything. They’re probably not suitable…
With all the super-slimline handsets hitting the market lately, the Fujitsu F702id looks positively corpulent, but it does have quite an unusual-looking color, doesn’t it? Besides this gold version you see here, it’s also available in the obligatory pink. Fujitsu has added a couple of unusual features as well, such as two cameras—a 1.28-megapixel primary…
Looks like the suits at Apple have been hard at work getting more and more content providers (what a terrible, Newspeak-sounding phrase that is) to embrace the iTunes Music Store. Deals were just announced with Fox and the NBA to bring their high quality programming to a computer near you. Fox will make available for…
Hey, let’s don’t actually expend any energy riding bikes—we could just replace our front wheels with a RevoPower and never have to pedal our bicycles again. Well, not quite. This little 1.1HP, 23cc, two-stroke internal combustion engine-that-could revs up to 7500RPM and its maker says it can reach speeds of 20 mph on a flat…
JVC continues its run away from video tape and onto hard drives with its Everio GZ-M505 camcorder, a higher-end consumer model with three CCDs and 30GB hard disk. That amount of space will give you 7 hours of its highest quality video, or 10 hours of what the company calls “DVD camcorder quality.” JVC touts…
Today at E3, Toshiba unveils the Qosmio G35-AV650, the first notebook with an HD DVD player inside. It’s also loaded with a 17-inch 1920×1200 display, a 2GHz Intel Core Duo processor, two 100GB hard drives in a RAID configuration and a gig of DDR2 memory. It’s not skimping in the graphics department, either, with an…
The BitTorrent peer-to-peer system as for warez, right? Not according to Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, which signed a deal to start using BitTorrent this summer to distribute movies and television shows. According to BitTorrent officials, the Warner moviemakers are fascinated with the filesharing technology. The company plans to release movies on BitTorrent the same day…
Just because it’s E3 week and our brains are filled with visions of Wii controllers doesn’t mean we should forget about our mothers! Yes, our dear, dear mum, the same woman who took our video game privileges away as a kid, now expects a gift from us every year. Right. And because we can’t think…
Retro NES emulation gamers may want to make their play time more authentic with these USB NES Controllers. With USB versions of the standard NES controller, the Joystick, the PowerPad, the Four Score, and even the Power Glove, twenty and thirty-something hipsters will attempt to relive their childhood in all its 8-bit glory. This USB-ification…
Can’t get enough of World Cup memorabilia? Then get a load of these St. George’s iPod Nano skin and matching headphones. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-headset-in-world-cup-team-colors-171903 Prove your dedication to the Queen and England by sporting these, then watch your mates go green with envy. Either that, or steal them from you. Damn hooligans. Product Site St. George’s iPod…
Our Gizmodo and Kotaku soldiers in LA have been busy busy! After chomping down at the Japanese Corporate Overlord sponsored press party, Joel wiped his hands on his pants well enough (sorta) to provide us with a Liveblog of the Sony Playstation Press conference. Hearing that the two PS3 models were lauching at $499 and…
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A new cellphone service in Turkey, Hungary, and the UK allows callers to determine whether they’re speaking to loves them. First the user calls the system, then conferences in the unsuspecting party and starts a normal conversation. The love analysis system calculates the “Love Level” and notifies you whether that person loves you or not.…
This strange little box allows you to run two component and one DVI source to your 23″ Apple Cinema display. That’s right—that’s all this $298.95 box does. Plus it has an iPod scroll wheel on the front. Essentially, you can use your big, sexy, expensive display to play XBox 360 or watch up to 1080i…
“It conjures the experience and scenario of hitting mosquitoes in our daily lives.” WTF? Apparently this traps mosquitos and then those hands slap together. We repeat: WTF? Seriously. All it takes to be an artsy-fartsy designer now is a CAD/CAM program and some Red Bull. This is design vaporware and perhaps, just perhaps, something got…
What a better way to make yourself stand out in the crowd by attaching a large, gaudy-looking toy to your cellphone. This was the idea behind Frank Sykes latest invention, the Phonie. Sykes sister glued a stuffed animal to her cellphone to distinguish it from her children’s phones—because you know, only adults carry stuffed animals…
Talk about floppy! These new “blue-violet laser” disks is actually made of a very thin film and hold about 9.4 GB on each side. The really draw is that they’ve figured out a way to put 100 of these in a cartridge for almost a terabyte of storage. The disks are recordable and there are…
The Apple rumor sites are humming with news that Apple may have started production of its MacBook, the Intel-based consumer laptop replacing the now long-in-the-tooth iBook, some going so far as to speculate that Apple will officially announce its launch tomorrow in a news conference. AppleInsider, usually considered one of the more reliable Apple rumor…
It’s a home charger! It’s a car charger! It’s a home charger! It’s a car charger! Silly gadget fan, it’s both! The Griffin Powerduo has two adapters—one for your car, boat, or hovercraft and another for the “plug” in your “wall.” Pop in a USB cable, hook up your ‘Pod (that’s what the kids are…
Aside from the obvious (PS3, Wiiiiii!, XBox), what else would you all like to see from us at E3? We have quite a few folks on the ground and if you’re in town for the show, IM us or email us at tips @ gizmodo.com and you can buy us a candy bar. Or vice…