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From our experiences using our Nintendo DS on the subway, we know there are times when it’s okay for strangers to see what you’re playing, like when you are about to thrash other people in the car at Mario Kart DS, and when you’d rather they couldn’t peek, like when you’re excising tumors from someone’s…
Scouring the intarweb every minute of every day as we do here at Gizmodo HQ, we see more stupid things on a daily basis than most of you will ever see in your lifetimes. Some of these things we love so much we have no choice but to gush over them, like USB heating gloves…
First off, keep dreaming. This phone cost a whopping $1,640. Well, if you can afford an Aston Martin, then you could probably afford this phone. It has bundled AM screensavers and wallpapers that go along with the Vantage V8 engine revving ringtone. For the nitty gritty, it is a tri-band GSM/GPRS device with EDGE, 1-megapixel…
Many of our friends have chihuahuas and we love them anyway despite this major character flaw; we’ve even been known to regularly kill their work productivity by sending them links to abominations like stores that stock only chihuahua clothes. Having said all of that, now perhaps you’ll understand how disturbed we are by our attraction…
The Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) market has been getting overcrowded lately, and one me-too company called Xero was rumored to have raised $300 million to start a business offering the free ad-supported mobile service. What raises red flags here? First, that $300 million figure is unbelievably high for a company that’s not really doing…
The Flashbag is a USB flash drive that will inflate as it fills up with data. Similar to how I inflate when filled up with donuts and beer. Now you may be asking why a gadget like this would be useful. Well, it really isn’t, but it is definitely cool and an innovative USB flash…
This week at Lifehacker: Set up your personal wikipedia. Help that feeble brain of yours and develop digital photographic memory. Remedy your memory-sucking Firefox installation. Make Mom a rotating digital photo frame that refreshes with your current Flickr photos. Finally, rig up a portable USB charger with a 9-volt battery. https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707 You gave up Britannica…
The XM2go Helix that made it debut at CES will finally see the light of day according to Samsung. It will officially launch at a Samsung event on April 25 at the Time Warner Center. The Helix features—gasp!—an actually satellite antenna for true satellite radio on the go. Preorders pages are suggesting a $400 price…
According to insiders, Microsoft has code-named its next version of Windows, calling it Fiji. So that’s right, Fiji is the next version after Vista, and we’re also hearing that after Fiji will be Vienna. Of course, by the time these products reach the real world marketplace, if ever, they will probably have some other vaguely…
The Switch Back handset by Virgin Mobile and Kyocera Wireless bundles features that are known and loved by tech-loving youth, such as dedicated text messaging keys, a camera, AIM, Email and Web browsing. It’s a clamshell that opens lengthwise to expose the QWERTY keyboard and a 128×160 widescreen display. Of course, there will be full…
If you’re looking for an iPod dock/speaker system, preferably one that looks like a bandaid and has a silly name, the Pod Cowboy iBass is available in white and black (with matching remote) and will set you back ¥9,000 in Japan or $99 from AudioCubes. Pod Cowboy iBass [Digital Cowboy, via Tech Know] l CowBoy…
We’ll have one of these here at the office soon, so we can do a hands-on, but they’re basically mini audiobook players that are ready to go out of the box. You pull a little tab to activate the battery and you’ve got a few hours of listening time. Once you’re done, you’re supposed to…
Here’s big news for a DirecTV/TiVo users, where it appears that reports of TiVo’s death on that DirecTV satellite service were greatly exaggerated. The two companies announced a three-year extension to the agreement that let DirecTV subscribers receive the TiVo service. The companies also agreed not to shoot each other in the foot over patent…
SendStation is “giving out” 1,000 of its little PocketDock thingies until the 16th. This is a little dongle that converts your iPods docking port into a FireWire port. It’s for folks who have old iPod accessories. I’m not amazed by this, but it’s kind of a one-off little thing and it only costs $7 for…
Now this is a laptop we can love. The LifeBook P1510 is Fujitsu’s latest foray into the convertible laptop market. While there is no internal optical drive—kind of a big deal for some—there’s an 8.9″ screen. It runs a Pentium M773 at 1.30GHz and and weighs just under three pounds. No word on battery life…
Nikon is taking the “slim and sexy” category of its digital cameras quite literally by having controversial überwaif supermodel Kate Moss star in a new commercial for Nikon’s stylish Coolpix S6 digital camera. Since the target market for superslim cameras like the S6 are typically “club kids” who likely care more about how easily a…
The designer of this phone, Matt Sinclair, sent us this image of his latest creation, the Twig Discovery. Big buttons, rubber grips, and built-in GPS still doesn’t make up for the fact that it sounds kind of dirty, but let’s ignore that for now. Essentially, this phone is a “real” GPS phone with special GPS…
As part of Sony’s barrage of computer announcements, the champion of the Blu-ray format could hardly resist rolling out its Blu-ray-packing desktop, the VAIO RC. The configuration includes a Pentium D dual core processor and RAID 0 serial ATA hard disks, giving it the quick throughput necessary to play back HD camcorder content or burn…
Sony announced its Type L all-in-one desktops which will be released first in Japan, a product line designed to be equally at home as a PC or multimedia player. There are two models, one with a 19-inch 1680×1050 LCD and another with a smaller 15.4-inch 1200×800 LCD. Either gives you a choice of the 1.66GHz…
In a fawning, rambling article that takes forever to get to the point, Apple Insider passes along vague rumors that we may see at least two MacBooks festooned in colors other than the revered iMac White. Adding to rumors from earlier this year that had Apple thinking about making a black version of these latest…