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We here at Gizmodo know the pain of not having an inch of counter space available for the preparation of a libation of consequence at, say, 5am just before heading out the door to our life-guarding job at the nunnery. Therefore we encourage you and yours to consider purchasing this portable bar which folds and…
“Flight Over Sahara” is MotioGames first web-based webcam game that allows you to fly around the desert by moving around in a little window and making shooting noises with your mouth… or other orifice. Cool little bit of programming. Since our iSight is out of the country right now, we couldn’t play this game and…
Christopher over at Playlist Mag has devised a method of booting those fancy new Intel Macs from an iPod. Power PC-based macs could be booted off Firewire compatible iPods with no problem, but apparently Intel-based macs would tell you it isn’t a valid target. Christopher’s solution involves cloning a working startup volume onto the iPod,…
The Disney Mobile phone service, which is finally launching this summer, is already expanding into foreign markets. Partnered with O2 PLC, the Walt Disney service will provide their distinct method of Disney-ification to the UK as well. https://gizmodo.com/ctia-disney-announces-disney-mobile-phone-service-165324 This is well and good, except the handsets will not have Walt Disney characters on it and…
Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-169993 News PDA Only Devices Dying A Slow Death Maxfield G-Flash Metal MP3 Player X10n: Watch, Control X10 Devices From a Web Browser Dino Sofa Nokia N93, N73, N72 Support Flickr Transforming Bicycle Cart Pertelian X0240 Reviewed (Verdict: Pretty Nifty if You Need It) Portable Ghost Radar Sanyo Capujo LCD TVs…
According to market intelligence firm IDC, sales of PDA devices without phone capabilities are down 9 straight quarters in a row. Obviously, with smartphones having more and more PDA functionality due to faster chips and better software, people don’t feel the need to carry around both a cellphone and a PDA. Another firm, ABI, says…
The G-Flash Metal MP3 player from the German company Maxfield may just be the thing you need to keep you company on your long walks down to the parole office. Weighing in at 45 grams with 1 and 2 gigabyte models, the Metal can play back WMA as well as MP3 files. Playtime lasts upwards…
Sit in your fortified bunker (your home office) and watch your huge domain (your two bed, one bath townhouse) like The Architect (the old creepy guy) from The Matrix (down the street). With X10n, you can control and view all your X10 cameras without having to set up and maintain an expensive home network. When…
Does sitting on a sofa that looks like a dinosaur vertebrae and pretending it’s a trophy from your hunting trip appeal to you? The Dino Sofa from Central Unit Design fulfills your most primitive decorative urges. Introduced at the Milan Salone Satellite, it’s durable enough for indoor and outdoor sitting, due to its Waterlily and…
Just in time for E3, Nokia signs a deal with Flickr to enable the former’s new cellphones to immediately upload pictures to Flickr — computadora no es necessito! Flickr co-founder and general manager Stewart Butterfield says, “Nokia and Flickr are making it easy for consumers to connect and share their photos and life experiences without…
If you’re tight for space on the subway and don’t mind looking like a doofus on the street, Lutz’s bicycle-cart saves you from owning a bike and a luggage roller. Bicycle by day, cart by later that day, the Carry-Bike is useful in both modes. The next time some BART (that’s the mass transit system…
This is an external USB LCD device that hooks up to a USB port and can display a slew of information. This could be especially useful if you happen to be a computer gamer or movie-watcher and need to keep track of some information without exiting full screen modes. There are a ton of different…
It doesn’t matter if ghosts are real or not, where there is speculation, there are products and potential to make money. It works really quite simply considering how complex of an issue ghost detection is. If there is a ghost in the area, the button lights up, easy as pie. This device is available for…
Wtf mate? TV’s with hard drives already integrated? This is genius. The Sanyo Capujo TVs include 160GB hard drives that can record broadcasts in Mpeg2 format. Unfortunately the TVs are only “HD Ready” rather than full blown HD. There are two models available in 32-inch and 27-inch sizes. Also included are HDMI and USB ports.…
Got $2,700 and the desire to make everyone around you feel inferior? Pick up the 24k gold Nokia 8800. It still has the same specs including a camera, 64MB of memory, EDGE, Bluetooth, FM Tuner, MP3 player, etc. If money ain’t a thang and every time you come around you want to go blang blang,…
Motorola is cashing in on the Razr phenomenon with another thin phone, the one being the Capri. The Capri is going to be a slider that should be similar size as the Slvr. Other sketchy details include quad band support, a camera and TransFlash memory expansion. Kent over at the CNET Alpha blog is speculating…
Nintendo announced today that the official name of their upcoming console that we’ve all been calling the Revolution is going to be Wii. We’re not sure we can learn to like it, but Nintendo being Nintendo they have a wonderfully thought-out explanation behind the name change: Introducing… Wii. As in “we.” While the code-name “Revolution”…
How to describe a plastic red apple that unfolds into a portable speaker with an iPod stand in it? There’s only one word we know that will suffice: Craptastic! $16.00 from Brando, our favorite Hong Kong purveyor of strange and frequently useless but always cheap gadgets. Portable Speaker (Apple) [usb.brando.com.hk, via The Raw Feed]
Hit Me on My Pager, Now and Forever By Brendan I. Koerner Among my myriad faults as a writer, one of the biggies is my tendency to make sweeping statements that, upon further reflection, probably deserved a few qualifiers. I was about to make the same mistake with this week’s column; thank the Lord that…
Seagate’s launching a new series of hard drives called the Barracuda 7200.10, and the first release from it has just been officially announced: a whopping 750 GB hard drive that’ll be hitting stores in May for $590. PC World took it for a spin recently and says “it leads the 7200-rpm pack in overall performance”.…