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W-O-W. Antec went through a lot of trouble to give us the P180 SPCR Advanced Super Midi Tower Case (and to name it, too). With dual chambers that isolate power supply and CPU into separate cooling zones with up to five, count ’em, FIVE, configurable fans and three-layer, sound-deadening panels that should make it whisper…
Found on a Chinese website, the Samsung SCH F319 is an ode to the iPod. A shiny, white mobile phone, it’s got a jog dial to let you browse your music and playlists, a built-in stereo speaker and 200 MB of memory. A slide-out keypad makes a nice addition to the design, but other than…
Brett Singleton, a student at a Utah technology college is converting a ’32 Ford from a not-so-enviro-friendly lead-fueled engine over to a primarily electric hybrid engine. The engine Singleton is designing is different from other hybrid engines because it is primarily going to run on the electric motor rather than a gas engine. Singleton is…
We here at Gizmodo love to think outside the box. Now while everyone else is busy covering the midnight releases in the secret Mojave Desert or L.A., we have decided to bring you coverage of the Xbox 360 release in Manhattan Kansas. Yes, Kansas. These are just good ole farm boys wanting their modern games…
So you’ve got two comparatively similar aspects to any new devices—odd and different. This falls under different. Six design students over in the UK took notice to how people were playing their PSPs. Some leaned against a wall, others forward in a chair. The students then designed statue-like furniture out of the poses that are…
Actually this product is lacking tech entirely, but it is still a really innovative idea that I’m pretty angry that I didn t think of. These are four-way rubber bands. Basically it is just like two rubber bands that are attached perpendicularly to each other to properly secure things like board games, books, papers and…
Got heartburn from the stuffing your mom made and don’t feel like hoofing it to the mall the day after Thanksgiving with the rest of the shopping schleps? Looks like this is your lucky year. Now, instead of Black Friday, the day traditional retailers monitor store traffic and sales for the holiday sales season, it’s…
Here’s yet more co-branding in the satellite radio/digital audio space with a new beta test of the XM satellite radio and Napster service. Basically, if you’re listening to XM Radio Online and hear a song you really like, you can immediately link to Napster to buy and download that said song, if Napster has it…
Today we welcome yet another strange looking mobile phone. The only details available right now are that this is a camcorder phone that manages to slide, fold and even swivel. If the transformers ever needed to rock a cell phone, they would use this. It is debuting in South Korea and we can hope it…
The Panasonic prosolid II is a mobile phone made expressly for NTT’s FOMA 3G service. Weighing just 99 grams and measuring 106 49 16.7mm, it’s actually being touted as the thinnest and lightest out there (for this particular service, of course). Includes a 2.2-inch TFT screen on the inside of the clamshell phone and has…
Dang, last week went by in a blur. I remember checking out the Games Festa in Osaka, where I saw underage gaming and rotten parenting. Meanwhile, Brian Crecente got his 360 before any of the Gawker crew. What did he discover? Paris Hilton may dig the Xbox, but the media’s backlash has already started. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/osaka-games-festa/games-festa-japanese-game-ratings-a-joke-136980.php…
Korean company GIGA Telecom has plans to release a T-DMB car navigation device with BWS and TPEG services available called The Tube. What do all these acronyms mean? Basically, BWS is “Broadcast Website Service” which allows you to view the web on the go, while TPEG stands for “Transport Protocol Expert Group” and is designed…
Chris Lambert has put together a nice little widget to help you kids who are still trying to find a way to get an Xbox 360. This works in conjunction with Google Maps and will display all of the surrounding Best Buys and approximately how many Xbox 360s they have. Unfortunately this is only for…
Nokia has announced that their highly anticipated N90 is available through Ritz Camera. Ritz is selling the phone for 400 bones with an activation plan through T-Mobile, or a straight up $700 without any kind of plan. Nokia has been giving us Gizmodo blue balls with this phone for around seven months and we are…
If you’re like me, you’ll go everywhere with your Nalgene water bottle. The thing is perfect for jogging, biking, smuggling liquor and much much more. Now with the Press-Bot, you can use your Nalgene bottle to make coffee on the go. It works like a portable french press that attaches to the bottle to create…
The CF700 (from the profoundly-named small computer makers “Minipc” in Japan) proudly states that it is smaller than a Mac Mini, and can also double up as some kind of totally awesome tennis ball heating device. Whilst I’m not a fan of the comparing game, I still fail to see how any of these so-called…
Intel decided to really go all out with Fender on this one. They took the ever-so-popular Telecaster and made it do the digital dance. It looks like the sleek and slender tele at first, but flip it over and you’ll reveal a touchscreen with Wi-Fi capabilities. The goal here is silly, but promising. Fender imagines…
The Ever Evolving Product By Jim Phillips A previous frog Design Mind article discussed the design complexity of technology systems, and how more sophisticated systems aren t always great for consumers. But not every additional layer of intricacy is a net negative for end users. That’s especially true when designers create systems that enable products…
There is nothing more we here at Gizmodo love than small-form-factor Korean MP3 players. I think the rest of the world agrees with our joy towards the release of the FL400 MP3 player. This supports MP3, WMA, ASF and OCG music files. It uses a lithium polymer battery that offers a mediocre 8.5 hours of…
Gizmodo is giving away a 30GB iPod video player to the person who builds the best shrine devoted to it. We first posed the challenge last week, and since then plenty of readers sent in Photoshop fantasies like the Meccapple Store (you can see it, and then declare your fatwa on Gizmodo, after the jump).…