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This official looking shot of the Sidekick 3 is the first clear picture we’ve gotten at the new device. Looking pretty similar to the FCC shots we saw, the picture shows the four navigation buttons on the corners. We can also get a good look at the keyboard, which looks glossy and not too plastic-like.…
Feature Gizmodo Interview: Sky Dayton, CEO of Helio https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-interview-sky-dayton-ceo-of-helio-171127 Rumor and Speculation Nokia N83 Spotted Rumor: DS Lite Hits June 21 for $150? https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n83-spotted-171010 News A Vibrating Mouse For Those Lonely Nights Bitching About XBox Gets You an XBox mTrust USB Drive Management System $12,000 Weather Webcam UMD: I’m Not Dead Yet Gizmondo Head On…
Sky Dayton stopped by the Gizmodo offices today to chat about the launch of Helio, the new MVNO featuring, you know, fancy stuff—unlimited streaming video, MySpace access, the allure of Korean design. We sat down with him for a few minutes to ask our most pressing questions about this new contender to Amp’d, Virgin, and…
Here’s a fine piece of technology sure to get every gal’s attention. It’s an everyday mouse, but with an added vibration feature. Such space age vibration technology means the mouse costs $22, which is actually not too bad if you take into account that the mouse apparently stinks. While in vibrating mode, the mouse simply…
Now don’t you all start MyXBoxSucksSoSendMeaNewOneBill.com, but if you piss and moan enough about all of the XBox 360s that exploded in your face, MS may send you a new one. Now on his fourth XBox 360, Chris Szarek singlehandedly alerted the world that the first shipment of 360s was full of bugs and overheating…
USB drives are handy—but dangerous. Drop one on the subway and the next day all of your naked pictures of you with your dog are on the Interweb, complete with snarky commentary. mSystems doesn’t want that to happen to you. The mTrust allows IT shops to shut down and erase lost drives and maintains an…
While most of us just go outside to tell if its raining, the hardcore need a heavy duty Roundshot Weathercam by Seitz. This beast includes a battery of temperature, wind chill, rain, and air pressure sensors and can take time lapse movies of the weather—for when you just don’t have the time to look out…
Ah, but you are, aren’t you, UMD. You’re fine for the PSP, but we wouldn’t want to put you in anything else, nor would anyone else. It seems a poll by NPD found that 40% of PSP users bought the PSP to view UMD content but haven’t actually purchased any UMD content. So essentially they’re…
The wheels of divine justice are still turning, friends, because Bo Stefan Eriksson—his first name is Bo (!!)—will stand trial for crashing his Enzo—or allowing Deitrich to crash his Enzo—into a n embankment. https://gizmodo.com/gizmondo-exec-loses-slr-mclaren-163510 He is charged with bringing two Enzos and a Mercedes McLaren SLR — altogether worth an estimated $3.8 million — into…
We’re going to be very quiet now. It can’t hear us. It can’t see us, we don’t think. Just move very slowly. Back away. Slowly. Just back away. Product Page [eBay via TechDigest via Bayrider]
I’m calling bullshit on this one, for obvious reasons, but apparently Oprah thinks this works so bully for her. Philip Stein makes these strange, crappy quartz watches with a magical little bugger in there that resists negative ions or electricity or whatever. Kind of like those magnets that cure lumbago and arthritis. There’s a full…
Spring has sprung and summer is right around the corner. Of course, this means the lovely ladies out there are wearing delightfully attractive outfits. What better to sneak peaks at the beach than with a pair of sunglasses that also function as rear view mirrors? Granted, you’ll be deemed a total creep by society, by…
This week at TreeHugger: We dig in to Wired’s latest issue, brimming with advice on how to plug in and stay green. With a pair of these Poweriser stilts, we may never climb behind the wheel again. Even though this fuel cell-powered car won’t get us to the store and back just yet, we still…
Has the RAZR reached the pristine status of having “RAZR Killers” release? Yeah, probably. This is latest attempt at a RAZR killer, the MG810 from LG. It is a half-inch thick clamshell phone that has the usual list of features: 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, MP3 player, etc. The MG810 also has touch-responsive buttons on the…
If you are dumb enough to buy a Powerbook in an alley by a liquor store in New York City then maybe you are meant to be an Apple owner. Zing! Just kidding Jobs, you know me love you long time. The picture above is a fake Powerbook that was purchased for $200. It had…
Garmin has announced its latest GPS navigation product, the StreetPilot 2820. The 2820 features Bluetooth and hands-free calling interface. The wireless Bluetooth feature allows calling from a contact list or the stored phone number directory of locations such as hotels, restaurants and stores, and of course there is hands-free navigation with voice commands. Along with…
Nokia news has just been running rampant as of late and today is no different. Case in point, the Nokia N83 is seen here in all of its blurriness. The N83 is speculated to be a quad-band GSM slider phone with a tricked out 5-megapixel camera. The phone also has a 2.5-inch screen, supports Wi-Fi,…
RIM (Research in Motion), makers of the beloved Blackberry email communication device, is in trouble again. Just a few weeks after RIM settled a patent lawsuit by paying over a half billion dollars to NTP, another beggar extortionist plaintiff comes along, again calling for a RIM shutdown, saying the company has infringed on its technology.…
Polycom cut its teeth on conferencing hardware, and now it’s teamed up with the oh-so-free Skype VoIP service for hands-free full duplex speakerphonage via a USB connection. There are two microphones strategically placed inside the unit, letting multiple people join in on the conversation. Controls on the front let you launch Skype and initiate and…
If 3G cellphones just aren’t fast enough for you, BenQ Mobile is reportedly about to release the first handset that works with Super 3G, otherwise known as HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access). This new standard speeds up downloads by using a clever combination of multiple antennas and cool coding techniques. BenQ’s EF91 is expected…