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More big news from Samsung as the world’s third largest cellphone maker announces its plans to supply UK Vodaphone with high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) mobile phones using Qualcomm’s modem chips. These phones will let you use multimedia services, including video sharing and Web surfing, at higher speeds with lower pricing. They will also be…
Yeah, it’s Tuesday and Gizmodo is finally back in the saddle again. The eggnog hangover is cured, the latke oil is almost hot, and it’s time to get back to the nitty-gritty—voting for the Best Gizmo of the Year. Today is the first in a series of elimination rounds to determine the Best of Gizmodo…
The dashboard in the new Mercedes S-Class is featuring a beautiful LCD screen with a ton of features. First off, and most importantly, it will display necessary gauges, but with a flip of a switch a night vision mode is activated that will still display speedometer information along with night vision view of what’s ahead…
We have some juicy details emerging about the Lenovo’s recent foray into the PocketPC Smartphone market. This is the ET980 phone that will be available around March of 2006. The phone will run on Windows Mobile 5.0, have a 312MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, miniSD expansion and even sport a 4-megapixel camera. Appears to only…
Listen up, you video-game-playing hooligans: DARPA and the U.S. military are at it again, trying to impress us, the video game playing community, with badass mech jobbers like this. This is the Berkeley lower-extremity exoskeleton (Bleex). The Bleex 1 has been in the works for a while and it seems they have begun work on…
This week at Treehugger: Solar-power baby steps: take one room of your house off the grid. Discover the Giatex, a stretching bike that folds neatly or grows along with your kid; and speaking of bikes, the Nakano Air Hub is a gadget that allows bicycle tires to self-inflate. Finally, the Desktop Windmill is a cool…
Japan’s Toray Fishing Corp. and Matsushita Electrical Industrial Corp. have developed a gadget for nighttime anglers. The system uses an ultraviolet LED to irradiate the fishing line. The line itself is coated with pigment that’s ten times brighter than ordinary fluorescent paint and will glow for quite a while after casting. The product comes with…
Samsung just keeps coming out with great-looking cell phones. Take the SCH V7400, for instance. This EVDO phone—which means that it can surf the web really fast—is only 17.6mm (.65 inches) thick, and yet has plenty of features. Of course, there s a built-in camera, weighing in at 1.6 megapixels. The 2.2-inch LCD can display…
This is the ABT iJet two-way RF transmitter remote for the iPod. There are a slew of remote controls out for the iPod, but this one really takes the cake for one primary reason. It has a display that operates via two-way and will display songs, artists and playlists. Additionally it allows for all other…
Believe it or not, MobiBlu does have other products than just the DAH-1500i tiny cube MP3 player that fanboys salivate over. This here is the DHH-200, a mini hard drive based MP3 player that is available in 6GB and 8GB models. It has a pretty big color screen along with all of the other features…
Griffin technology is going to beat its iTrip line of iPod accessories like a dead horse, but hell, the company is making tons of bank from it, so why not? This is the latest and possibly greatest of the iTrips. It is an Apple universal (who’da thunk the day we would use the term “Apple…
The Hummer just isn t an obnoxiously big car driven by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, no, it s a highly-capable combat machine when properly outfitted. Since the next generation of Hummers is still being worked on, the US Air Force has commissioned companies in California to outfit consumer-grade Hummers for military exercises. These limo-style Hummers will…
If Santa was exceedingly nice this year and brought you a flat-screen TV and/or a new iPod, Denon may have a little something else for you. The S-301, big brother to the S-101, improves upon its less powerful sibling in many respects. Yes, you can interact with the new virtual iPod interface once an iPod…
You know what I am not looking forward to seeing? The exponential growth of white earbuds around town, post-holiday season. Luckily, there are still some other MP3 players on the market that can put up a fight with Apple. And the IMP3 has done a roundup that pits various Chinese and Korean MP3 players in…
All you Treo-heads will be pleased to know that the 700w, Palm’s tricked-out Windows-based smart phone, will go on sale January 5. It will run $499 with a 2-year contract, $549 for a 1-year and $619 as a stand-alone device. Expensive, but not as high-priced as some had been guesstimating. reo 700W Launch/Info/Reviews… [Howardforums (via…
A Missouri woman was rushed to a hospital after she swallowed her cell phone. The swallowing was completely intentional, she gulped down the mobile phone after a fight with her boyfriend where he was demanding the phone from her and she refused to give it. So to settle everything she decided to swallow it. I…
If I had to guess the back-story to this BenQ FP93V 19-inch LCD monitor with a special stand that fits the Mac Mini, it would go like this: Some engineer who designs stands for LCD monitors happened to put a Mac Mini down near his monitor and thinks, “what a great gimmick for marketing an…
Remember when everyone wanted their watch to be the central hub for information? No? That s too bad because Telson is showing off its TWC 1150 camera/watch/phone device. Yes, it s a wristwatch that also houses a camera phone built-in. Just think of the possibilities! What time is it? Wham look at your wrist. I…
‘Twas the night before Christmas and I thought no one was going to build a Gizmodo-House. But of course you were all hard at work constructing ginger-powered robots, Mongolian frosted yurts and the geodesic ginger-dome pictured above. The entries are spectacular—as you’ll see in the photo-swirl after the jump—and you better have saved a piece…
Looking to get your hi-def, next-gen, hyphenated format on early this year? No worries, mate, looks like a nice new Blu-ray burner is on its way from Pioneer in January. The Pioneer BDR-101A is capable of burning Blu-ray 25GB discs at 72Mbps. Totally fast. The drive will also be able to read and play back…