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Not everyone can afford a RAZR, so here’s a Nokia phone for the rest of us. The 6061 costs only $40 with a 2-year agreement with Cingular and runs on the Series 40 interface. It’s dual-band, has a color TFT display, an MP3 player and a built-in speakerphone. It may not be gold or magenta,…
Listen up, folks. We need your help. Wouldn t that feel terrific, contributing to such a worthy cause? We want to hear what kind of gadgets were you favorite for 2005. After we get a good number of entries, we will fire up the ol’ poll machine and let all of you sexy people vote…
South Korea’s three main mobile communications service providers—SK Telecom, KTF and LG Telecom—have agreed to make life easier for their customers. Instead of always having different standards for their respective mobile phones’ sync, charge ports, data cables and earphones, it’s been decided to go with just one standard. Most cellphone manufacturers have different ports to…
If you couldn’t grab one of the first Xbox 360 consoles, the good news is that 300,000 of them are arriving this week. Best Buy will have them on December 18. And GameStop already has the second wave in stock — only problem is that they are only selling bundles. The Titanium Bundle will run…
If waxing isn’t for you and you haven’t convinced the lady in your life to take a razor to your back just yet (or maybe that’s why you don’t HAVE a lady in your life), the good people at Razorba have created a gadget that’s available for just $30 and is shaped to allow you…
We’ve gotten in enough trouble over the past few months with sex chair posts, so this isn t one. I promise! This is actually a stargazer chair that can turn a full 360 degrees automatically, tilt backwards and can hold your choice of binoculars. Last time I checked, doesn’t stargazing require a telescope? Multiple colors…
Looking for a modern training bike for your child who can’t pedal? This may be the right kind of thing for you. It’s not exactly a bike because you don’t pedal it, so it’s dubbed a car. It uses centrifugal force to make it go frward at the maximum rate of 8 feet a second.…
Listen up, you Gizmodo dorks. You may hold Casio near and dear to your hearts in the form of a calculator stored in a pocket protector, but Casio is punching you dweebs in the face—then taking a picture of it—with its line of EX digital cameras. This is the EX-Z500 reviewed by the crew over…
Looks like we’re one step closer to Blu-ray. For the first time, TKD has announced that it’s shipping mass-produced samples of Blu-ray, bare-type, cartridge-less discs. In BED-R (write-once type ) and BED-RE (rewritable type), these discs come with 25GB on a Single-Layer and 50GB on a Dual-Layer, with a recording speed of 2x. They will…
There is a reason that most speakers aren’t portable. The next time I have to listen to someone’s horrible R&B tunes at the park I will probably choke someone out. But this gadget fulfills the need for people to annoy everyone else. These fold up almost completely flat for storage in an included plastic bag…
Watch company Citizen announced the development of an e-paper-like technology for use as a clock. “Yawn”, I hear you say — but wait, Citizen’s e-paper is really BIG. Measuring 4.2 feet x 1.7 feet, Citizen’s giant, bendable timepiece can reportedly run for a whole year on two regular button batteries. That’s all very well, but…
Oh, those whacky art students! Now they’ve gone and created Motor Karaoke, a racing game based on your voice. Two players put on special motorcycle helmets outfitted with microphones, and begin to scream. The louder the scream, the faster you go around the track. First player to complete five laps wins the game. The sounds…
Depressed about greenhouse gases? Check out NTT DoCoMo’s Eco-Friendly phone, the FOMA N701i ECO. The Foma N701iECO uses mainly Kenaf fiber in the body material instead of ABS resin. Kenaf is a biodegradable, environmentally-friendly crop that has been researched by the United States Department of Agriculture for over 50 years. Weighing in at 115 grams,…
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve used my fair share of digital cameras in the past, but honestly, who the hell would ever need a 39-megapixel camera—except, of course, for VERY VERY detailed porn. This P45 camera by Phase One is capable of capturing at 35fps and a write speed of 20MB/s. Yeah, 20MB/s sounds good…
More convergence news, this time featuring computer manufacturer Acer. The company has recently launched its first 8-megapixel digital camera, with a sleek look and affordable $352 pricetag. The CR-8530 shoots up to 3264×2448 pixels and includes a 64MB SD card, 2.5-inch LCD display, 3x optical zoom lens, optical viewfinder and a built-in flash with different…
This week at Treehugger: Get RSS newsfeeds on your toilet paper with the RSStroom! A hand-cranked LED spotlight that frees you from batteries, and ultra-thin, flexible kit solar panels to put on the roof of hybrid cars. Okay, okay. The RSStroom is not really a green product. In fact, it probably doesn’t even really exist,…
BenQ, maker of fine crap from Asia, released two new MP3 players yesterday. The Joybee P205 and P330 players are shiny little sticks of gum that come in either 256MB or 512MB styles. The P205 (shown above) features drag-n-drop file transfer, lyrics synchronization (for displaying lyrics), and a 65k color OLED screen. The P330 comes…
Listen up, dorks—you have some stiff competition for our epic contest to win a Tokyo Flash watch. Check out Eric, who had the cojones to have his high school senior photo taken with an Apple shirt and a Newton. Keep those entries rolling into gizmodobox at gmail.com with the subject reading “I WAS A DORK.”…
So you just got yourself a hot new Bluetooth headset from your friend who robbed the local T-Mobile store the other day, but your phone is still a Nokia 3300 taco supreme? No sweat. Wavesystec knows how you feel about having a shitty cellphone, and have developed a Bluetooth adapter designed for use with old…
Apple is going to take advantage of the iPod phenomenon by releasing more iPod products? No! Never! I won’t believe it, but I guess it is true. Apple Insider is reporting that some super-top-secret sources say an iPod boombox is in the works for 2006. The big rumor is that the iBoom (as I cleverly…