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Thanks to a little birdie (actually, a fine reader) we may have the first real pictures of the K800, Sony Ericsson s successor to the K750i. One of the main features looks to be a 3.2-megapixel camera. A web browser, RSS reader and Memory Stick Micro-based storage are also included in the high-end cellphone. Details…
A large majority of people polled in a JupiterResearch study group let out an uninterested sign when questioned whether better high-definition programming affects service provider selection. In fact, 94 percent of the group polled said high-definition programming wouldn’t be a deciding factor at all — which, isn’t as bad as the 97 percent of people…
And so it begins: retail games that require even more cash to “unlock” options. EA’s PSP version of Fight Night Round 3 is set to be the harbinger of what might be much more to come: in order to do online play, you’ll need to fork over an extra $2. A pittance, you say? Maybe.…
Got this odd little move of a unique mouse that uses yaw and pitch instead of motion to move the cursor on the screen. Might be a little weird at first, but I do see the value. Any tech company that uses U2 in their video has to be on to something, right? We couldn’t…
Thousands of BlackBerry handheld device addicts are daring to breathe a little easier today, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first final patent rejection against holder NTP. NTP has long said that Research in Motion (RIM) violated patent guidelines with their BlackBerry push-email technology, which executives around the world use to…
If you were one who bought an HDTV back when they first hit the streets, it appears your TV will be almost useless with the new HD DVD and/or Blu-ray players. The AACS copy-protection rules were released this week and those older HDTVs will be unable to display full resolution because their video connections have…
Let’s welcome Peter Payne to the Gizmodo fold. Peter is a gaijin living the good life in Japan, where he runs J-List and lives in a liquor shop with his Japanese wife. J-List is an online shop that aims to bring the world closer together through shared Japanese pop culture. Nintendo continues to relive its…
We’ve opened up Campfire Chat Room again. If you’d like to pop in for a spell this evening, we’ll be dropping Gizmodo comments invites into the channel, making all comers eligible for one of our increasingly-less-exclusive commenter accounts. But we figure if you like us enough to come talk to nerds like us, you’d probably…
(2/22/06) It’s George Washington’s birthday and we cannot tell a lie: TVs were not meant for bathtubs, refrigerators or coffee tables. Today we saw one built into a whirlpool and another wireless and Internet-connected model cobbled into the door of a refrigerator. HP has even built a screen into a coffee table that may just…
Now don’t base any purchasing decisions on this screen cap—Windows Vista is still in beta, after all—but as much as we welcome the new feature in Vista that points out which programs are slowing down one’s computer, we kinda sorta wish the programs in question weren’t the ones that make it run. Here’s to the…
The BT Zenith phone is for all of the people that want the coolness of a cell phone without the messy contract or hassle. It looks like a traditional clamshell cellphone and even has similar features. It answers calls with a flip-open, has caller ID on the outer LCD, can store contacts and even supports…
If you’re one who can’t be without TV or connectivity to the net even for a second, Samsung has its Smart Zipel refrigerator for you that wears a 10.4-inch wireless LCD screen on its chest like a badge of honor. The 4×3 flat panel display lets you connect to anything remotely multimediaish such as video…
Valleywag’s got an exclusive (though unverified) tip that Verisign—the super-registrar of internet domain names—might be out to sell its mobile phone business, which includes those perpetrators against good taste and sonic quality, Jamba. It seems the $273 million that Verisign paid to purchase Jamba (a.k.a. Jamster, purveyors of the criminal Crazy Frog ringtones) isn’t paying…
After posting the story of the bad Samaritan in Hawaii who kept a digital camera found in a park, returning burned CDs of the pictures within instead of the camera itself to its rightful owner, we received 29 comments, almost unanimously condemning such acts of thievery. Some people. https://gizmodo.com/bad-samaritan-keeps-camera-155737 Now it’s time to restore your…
HP celebrated its 40th anniversary of selling overpriced printer ink by revealing Misto, a concept from its labs that combines a coffee table with a touch-screen PC. The giant screen, of undetermined resolution, would be used by a group, which would gather around and play board games, look at maps, or arrange pictures for viewing.…
I’m calling bullshit on this—nobody outside of the cellphone fanboys is aware there is actually something called Series 60—but the idea is certainly plausible and don’t we all just LOVE Apple rumors? iTunes on Nokia Series 6.0!! [GTAScraper] Update: Yup, it’s a fan mock-up. Thanks, Jason.
The World Time Clock by Charlotte Van Der Waals is a deceptively simple idea that accomplishes its task with style and grace. There’s an unnumbered clock face on the side of this 12-sided cylinder, and you simply roll the clock over until the time zone you’re looking for is on top. The names of two…
The United States Department of Defense is working on Stiletto, a ship using what it calls M Hull technology, composed of M-shaped arches that let ships travel at a blistering 50 knots without making waves. There’s an element of stealth at work here, too, where now ships can sneak up on each other, terminating each…
It’s not every day that you see an ultra-slim phone with a built-in DMB receiver, and it’s even rarer to find one with “Artificial Intelligence” which, I believe, translates poorly out of Korean. Apparently “AI” means that the phone can vibrate along with MP3 music. Damn. And here we are trying neural networks and Turing…
Samsung, the company that tries to introduce a new product each and every minute of the day, now brings you the CX719TD 17 touchscreen LCD display. But don’t actually touch it, you must use a stylus instead of your finger. That stylus stays charged up for three hours before it needs to be replenished. Samsung…