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Sure, you can throw down some bucks on the Magenta RAZR for yer old lady, but for a few bucks less, you can make a statement with one of Mobile Chaos’s M-Couture cellphone cases. Products include the Sparkle Packs with silver or pink studs, Zoo Packs with faux fur animal prints, aptly-named Studded Packs with…
Siemens, makers of GSM switching hardware and, in conjunction with BenQ, GSM phones, is saying that CDMA is on its way out in North America. Ummmm… Right. According to the peeps over at Siemens, more carriers are looking to migrate to the standard GSM networks instead of using CDMA. With market share of CDMA declining…
We’ve told you about the upcoming Motorola Q smartphone, but now comes word that it’s been approved for Verizon by the FCC. Initially being released only for the CDMA network, it includes a 1.3-megapixel camera, QVGA display, Windows Mobile for Smartphones Operating System version 5.0, and a memory expansion slot for miniSD cards, as well…
I can’t tell if Gigabyte’s Barbie handset is meant for little girls or grown women. I mean, it’s pink and seems to have a poodle etched into the back cover (along with a good-sized speaker to play music from the built-in MP3 player), but it’s got some pretty high-end features like a megapixel camera (can’t…
LG Telecom in Korea yesterday dried off the canU 502S waterproof cellphone. Developed in part with Casio (cheap keyboards anyone?), the phone is the first truly waterproof cellphone to come out in Korea. LG Telecom spokesman Kang Shin-koo is pretty confident about the phone’s ruggedness. Check what he had to say about the canU 502S:…
There has been plenty of interest in flat panel TVs with built-in DVRs, but nothing much to show for it—until now. Get ready for 26″, 32″ and 40″ LCD TVs from Humax, all with non-TiVo DVR software (unlike the model they showed us at last year’s CES). The company will be using Seagate’s LD25 Series…
Wanna be the next Doogie Howser on the block? Start saving for this “pocket” electrocardiogram (EKG) called the Radar Sark. Silly product names aside, this thing is particularly useful at saving your life. It can check your heart to make sure it’s performing correctly and to see if any abnormalities are present. Extremely useful in…
RIM must be breathing a tiny sigh of relief because NTP, the company suing RIM for patent violations, is taking a small break to start chewing out Microsoft as well. A software firm called Visto is actually seeking a permanent injunction against the Redmond-based giant, but only because NTP took an equity stake in it…
After bringing you news of the Roomba animal covers, it is with great trepidation that I announce the Furry Flash drive series from Imation. Yes, that’s right, a USB 2.0 flash drive in the shape of three different animals (choose from a hippo, a dog and a crocodile). Open the mouth of your furry friend…
Listen up, TRON, I know you are looking for a new LCD display visor that matches your bionic jumpsuit all cute-like, and this may be it. This is the i-Visor (no relation to anything iApple related) by Daeyang E & C out of Korea. What’s so special about these? Well, they are the WORLD’s FIRST…
Ah, the blimp. Such a strange way to travel. And whether you think of Goodyear, Fuji, Metlife or a sandwich shop, these airships have become a part of our culture that we seem to take for granted. But now it looks like the Defense Department wants to put the blimp to a worthy use (other…
One Night in Paris sold out at your local video store? Don’t fret. Another great Paris Hilton-branded gift is her limited edition watch series, found only at Abazias.com. With three flavors to choose from, the “Cotton Candy,” “Canary” and “Pink Is Love” watches all boast 1026 diamonds and a four-leaf clover design and go from…
With a name like the Cooler Master Stacker 830, you might expect this PC enclosure to open beers and mix daiquiris as well as look good and cool off your computer. Alas, what it really does well is look good and provide you with some pretty powerful functionality. Built from aluminum with a tool-free chassis…
Sounds a little too good to be true, but Kotaku is reporting on an Xbox 360 stock list that got leaked by a Best Buy employee. Kotaku is reporting that these will be on the shelves by Christmas, but this little forum monkey heard the date of December 18 bouncing around. We can’t confirm or…
This is one hell of a PDA smartphone making its way from Asia. First off, this thing just looks straight-up sexy. It features a 3.7-inch screen that supports 65,000 colors. It’s powered by an Intel PXA270 processor at 416Mhz, has 128MB of flash memory and 64MB of SDRAM and runs Windows Mobile 5.0. It features…
Nagasaki is going all high-tech Sony-style on your ass by actually using Sony’s FeliCa technology in mobile phones. Here is a quick refresher: FeliCa is a Sony’s contactless IC card technology that is being adapted into various mobile phones. It allows for wireless high speed processing of a slew of information including cash, tickets, credit…
This gadget gives parents full control over their kids’ gaming. It’s a lockbox that turns any kind of device that plugs into a TV into a fully-functioning coin-op machine. Just imagine having to do chores to earn tokens to play games—oh, the humanity! This device even locks up the port where the component cables are…
The Xbox 360 Inventory Locator is up and running. Or do as reader Markus says and call Target Guest Services: If you call guest services sometime after midnight but before 8 AM (why before 8? Because that’s when the stores open) go through the VRU to inquire about the availability of an item and they…
Samsung has proven itself more than capable of getting cellphones to market in the past, and now the Korean company has announced that by the end of this year it will have released 164 different mobile phones. Obviously, the Samsung elves have been busy. 53 of those phones were Korea-only, of course, but that still…
What do kids love to do the most? Oh yeah, get lost and give their parents a heart attack. I know I did, and I’m sure a lot of you Gizmodoians loved to do it as little tikes. mTrack is releasing what it calls the UK’s most accurate child location device. KidsOK uses GPS to…