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For those of you without kids, please read this post for some good poop jokes. Good. Now that we’ve gotten them out of the way, let’s talk about this bassinet, shall we? https://gizmodo.com/leaked-sketch-of-samsungs-wonder-phone-171843 As we all recall, our wee ones were sequestered in very cool, very stainless-steeley bassinets at the hospital. They’re usually clear with…
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, if you’ve worn out the flowers-and-candy thing, start thinking gadgets for mom: clocks, beautiful things, even if they’re not exactly new, such as this hourglass desk clock. Designed by David Dear, it shows the hours on the bottom and minutes up top, runs on one AA battery, and…
Here’s a great way to teach kids about the art of mixing up flavors with drugs, the Tylenol Flavor Creator, which turns the popular Children’s Tylenol pain reliever into a kiddie cocktail. Give them a choice of strawberry, green apple, bubblegum or chocolate, and they can mix up these little sugar-free flavor packets with the…
Designer Andre Minoli has created the hand-cranked Motorola PVOT phone, aimed at developing countries. It gives up a minute of talk time for every 25 turns of the crank, giving new meaning to the term “crank calls.” All that cranking charges up a AA battery inside, powering a 125×125 dot matrix LCD controlled by a…
Following the 25GB Blu-ray blank discs that are now shipping, Sony announced it will ship dual-layer 50GB Blu-ray blanks in June. The bad news is that the 50GB discs will cost $48 for the recordable 50GB BD-R, and $60 for the rewritable BD-RE. That’s more than twice as much as the retail price of Sony’s…
Mobile TV: (Don’t) Believe the Hype (?) By Brian L. Clark This week I received an invitation from Parks Associates to attend the Mobile Video Summit 2006. Since Gizmodo has informed me it’s not in the budget to send yours truly to Seoul, Korea, I’ll just have to comment without actually seeing what the mobile…
It won’t be long until the World Cup is finally here, and now you can wear iTech’s World Cup edition of its Bluetooth Clip headset supporting your favorite team—that is, as long as your favorite team is either England, Germany, Holland, Brazil or Italy. The Clip headset has adjustable volume and mute, and gives you…
Now you can kneel before the TV gods, controlling them with these magic beads, where each one corresponds to a different channel. Remobeads is a design concept for a remote control that resembles a rosary. The beads are lit from within, making them easy to see in that dark TV temple of yours, and each…
The E-V Sunny bicycle has photovoltaic panels built into its wheels, powering a 500-watt motor on the front hub. Perched atop the rear wheel are its 17 amp/hour batteries, which are charged by solar energy. Its Canadian developers say the motor can propel this bike at speeds of up to 19 mph without even peddling.…
Reader Magnus from Iceland took us up on our E61 in the wild challenge. Here we see the E61 just hanging out with its buddies and some hangers-on like an SD card. Posers! https://gizmodo.com/nokia-shipping-e61-171277
If you’ve got a DeLorean and a few extra hundred bucks lying around, get your bad self over to eBay and bid on this gorgeous flux capacitor. The seller/builder used real glass tubes, accurate to the one that appeared in Back to the Future and long out of production (i.e. rare), and the gold bases…
The nonstop diaspora of the TV networks to the Web continues with CBS to be the next shoe to drop, opening up its own streaming media service it calls Innertube. In addition to showing episodes from CBS primetime programs, the ad-supported service will also stream content from CBS kin such as CBS Paramount Network Television,…
We here at Gizmodo love our rumor and conjecture. We thrive on falsehoods and shoddy reporting. But, this is a bit much. Here is an image of Samsung’s l33t uber phone with touchscreen. What’s that you say? This is a sketch? What does that matter, hippie! This thing is going to be hot! It has…
Subscribers of Cox Cable—you know who you are—may have recieved a questionnaire asking if they’d purchase a Cox-branded TiVo device. The questions alluded to the fact that Cox may be dumping their current DVRs and coming out with their own special TiVo boxes—HD-ready, hopefully. Let’s listen in, shall we? As you may or may not…
We tried these cases for previous versions of the iPod and they worked acceptably well. While we can’t confirm that you can dive to the bottom of the deep blue sea using this thing, you can swim a bit and rock out some hawt toons. This case will cost $79.99. Product Page [H20Audio via EGMMac…
There’s not a lot of detail on this, but AOL will be launching some sort of VOIP service linked with AIM. The service will offer a unique, free phone number where your friends and relations can leave messages. We doubt very much that this is a unique phone number and that instead they’ve created a…
Case modders have now started doing their magic on the Xbox 360, and here’s one guy who put the Microsoft gaming machine’s innards into a clear plastic box, lit it up with neon and improved its ventilation, too. The best part is, the guy says it runs a lot better since he has freed the…
Want some navigation with your music, video and photo playback? The Viliv N70 PMP is happy to oblige—just don’t be watching movies while you’re driving. It’s even got a wireless remote for backseat drivers. Running on Windows CE, this nice-looking SiRF Star3 GPS-equipped minimalist design has a 7-inch 480×234 screen, can accommodate CF or SD…
Disney characters are showing up on MPIO FY700 digital music players, where the kid-oriented products are available in five versions festooned with Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse. And hey, looky here, there’s even a Disney logo on the front of the package. The player is really nothing special, it has an OLED display, and…
The world was a-flutter a few weeks back about Amazon’s music service and now we have some proof that it will be available very soon. In short, Amazon is creating a music store and branded MP3 players aka iPod-killer (*snort*). This is all very potential and unconfirmed, but let’s give our source the benefit of…