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We have some big news coming out of the hard drive manufacturing world today. Seagate will be acquiring Maxtor in a $1.9 billion merger. This sounds like it will be very good for the consumer because Maxtor is well-known for its horrible quality but good prices, while Seagate is known for offering pretty good quality…
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I don t know if maybe it’s just a slow news week, or maybe these really are becoming popular again, but we sure have seen a ton of these head-mounted displays in the past few days. This is the latest, the CyberMan GVD510-3D. The image on this simulates watching a 40-inch screen from 6 feet…
As part of our continuing efforts to whore ourselves out, we’ve found a new way to make Gizmodo accessible on your mobile device (well, Palm, Blackberry, or Pocket PC anyway). This new service downloads the latest Gizmodo content whenever you sync, so you can read it on the go, whether you’ve got a wireless signal…
Don’t get me wrong—having a cell phone that can do everything and even wash the dog is cool and all, but this is just going too far. The Photo Violation Technologies Corporation have began pushing out this new parking meter. It will take a picture of your car, including the license plate, and then come…
The Xbox 360 may seem like a revolutionary console good for all ages (primarily teenagers and adults), but the way Best Buy is making us work to get one makes me feel like I’m in elementary school eating paste again. Here’s the lowdown for the next push of consoles slated for tomorrow, December 22: The…
Toys in Babeland are featuring a solar-powered vibrating bullet, the only bullet you should be more than happy to have planted inside of you. This could be great for those public exhibitionists, but for the more shy people: I think people might catch on to you thrusting your pelvis at the sun while cords are…
Here it is, last one. You the people did us a good deed by nominating and voting for the best product for 2005 in each respected category, now it is up to you to pick the best product overall. There are also two choices being offered from the Portable Media category because the vote was…
This is Mario Kart Arcade GP. It is a two player, two-cabinet game that offers fun for all ages. I have needed to get in my fill of good, fun Mario Kart racing and now I can without having to buy that abomination of a Nintendo DS. There are six worlds filled with different racecourses,…
Only in Japan folks, only in Japan. Here’s three interesting PC cubic consoles from Fast Corporation. You’d think they were for kids, but for some reason, I doubt it. The MOE-TR1S56-C33 is a Celeron D330, the MOE-TR1S56-P24 is Pentium 4 2.4A GHz and the MOE-TR1S56-P30 is a Pentium 4 3E GHz. All come with Windows…
Foreign mobile market powerhouse NTT must have gotten a little bored with the cellphone market and has decided to develop this ball-like device. It sits on your desk, looks really awkward, and has the ability to emit an aroma based upon what website you are looking at. Yeah, it could be badass for any food-related…
Nokia’s “It’s Your Life in There” Campaign: Jill By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch A blond with an upturned nose and childbearing hips sits atop her bed, discussing her cellphone-centric breakup ritual. Upon ending it with some fellow, she exorcises the relationship demons by deleting the man’s information from her handset—his photos, his e-mails, and,…
Thanks for all your kind votes for the best product of 2005. Stay tuned for a final face-off vote between all the winners, where hopefully the Apple fanboys will get squelched by a lesser evil. In the meantime, head on over to the Gift Guide for last-minute shopping suggestions.
This week at Lifehacker: Take your data home for the holidays. While you’re there, crack the neighbors’ wifi. Spraypaint the guts of that old computer into Christmas tree decorations. Build a photo lamp from a Mag-Lite. Bend web pages to your will with our favorite Greasemonkey scripts. https://lifehacker.com/hack-attack-take-your-data-home-for-the-holidays-143983 HTTP, FTP, VNC, oh my! Lifehacker’s got…
Never in a million years would I have thought the Bluetooth headset market would develop into a bandwagon full of strange-looking ear modules, but I was proven wrong with the release of the Earlight. This looks a hell of a lot like a Bluetooth headset, but it does nothing wireless. All it can do is…
Are you super-paranoid about RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and how it allegedly melts holes in your brain and compromises your security? Then this wallet is for you. Dustin Kirk got a bit paranoid about today’s growing use of RFID in everything from credit cards (like Chase’s new Blink card) to driver’s licenses and alien UFOs,…
Uh-oh. Looks like you won’t be getting cold, hard cash back from Cingular when you buy a $99 Moto RAZR. Reader Michael Schwan recently activated two new lines with Cingular and decided to go with the $99 RAZR deal for phones. A few weeks later an envelope came in the mail from Cingular but there…
The latest pre-MacWorld rumor (along with the one about smaller iBooks) is that Apple is planning a 1GB iPod nano. The idea is to make this player a bit more affordable. The downside for Apple—and, again, this is all speculation—is that it would eat into sales of the shuffle. Wait, people are still buying the…
Know what I like about the g-Smart Windows Mobile Smartphone? It has an FM tuner (old school) and a TV (future-iffic!) built-in. The jet black design packs 802.11b WiFi, a QVGA 65k color screen, 2.1MP camera with video recording, and a miniSD slot for additional storage. It can also do push e-mail like a Blackberry.…
There are two ways to deal with the rash of iPod thefts plaguing the country. The first is to switch out your shiny white iPod headphones for a set of earbuds that look like they attach to some $5 portable CD player. The second is to get a set of these all-white Brighton over-the-ear noise-canceling…