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I’m in no hurry to go back to 50’s housewife clothing or attitudes, but it looks like there’s nothing more stylish in the houseware department these days than vintage models. Take the Big Chill Fridge, for instance. Looking more like a chevy than an icebox, this fab fridge comes in eight colors including Pink Lemonade…
Jessica Ogden is a designer. She designs things. One of these things is a 300 couture bag for TomTom navigation devices. Designed for the TomTom GO and TomTom MOBILE 5 models, the bag is a stylish little sack designed not for protection, but for fashion. TomTom also has plans for a competition for design students…
If you’re a professional photographer or just use your camera as if you were, the new Lexar Media Professional CompactFlash Reader takes all your needs into consideration. The reader itself is pretty rugged looking and includes a LED to let you know when transfers are done. The same LED also acts as a card ejector…
This is an earbud device that allows alarms to be set up to 7 hours and 50 minutes in advance. Apparently it is good for all kinds of uses, such as studying and cooking, but really the only practical use would be for naps on the go. How can you go wrong? Look at those…
I know, I know, we’ve already told you about the new Motorola RAZR, but today the company officially announced it as well as two more new 3G cellphones. Along with the RAZR V3x, look for the E1070, a clamshell phone and the E770v, a candybar design. The RAZR V3x weighs less then 130 grams and…
Chris Diclerico got his hands on his iPod video today and has a nice little picture documentary for us to admire and be jealous of. The initial order iPod videos shipped yesterday so expect to start seeing all kind of crazy stuff popping up on this new fangled internet regarding them. Check out the full…
JVC jumps into the Digital Audio Player scrum with its Alneo XA-HD500 player, boasting a 6 gigabyte hard drive and 30 hours of playback. Comes with a dedicated docking system and remote control and includes a backlit LCD, four digital surround sound listening modes and the use of JVC’s proprietary K2 technology (which the company…
Third-party accessory companies have been scrambling to get together a line of accessories that fit in the iPod’s dock connector, thanks to the recent iPod nano and 5G iPods that have done away with the remote jack on top. One of the first out the door is Griffin Technology, which recently launched dock connector versions…
For all I know, this is another scam, ga, but whatevs. Give it a try. A local consumer research company is looking for people 18-34 years old in the San Francisco Bay area, who download & use games on their cell phone(s), people who watch video on their cell phone(s) with Sprint TV or Mobi…
Forget that nasty aluminum stuff, engineers have been testing out a new, trasparent armor that can hopefully stop armor-piercing weapons from getting into the windows of army vehicles. Looks like the Air Force Research Lab’s materials and manufacturing directorate is testing out aluminum oxynitride (ALONtm) as the new replacement “for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies…
Rather timely given the general sense of global chaos, Motorola is dropping a handheld device they claim is up to military specs. The HC700-L is rough and tumble and Jarhead ready, and could certainly come in handy in the event of any of the various disasters that seem to be looming. It rocks an “advanced…
Today’s DAP Headlines: Some new goodies from Panasonic, an English perspective of the iRiver U10, a crazy/ugly 3 LCD DAP from China, and Ultra w/ email on the go. Panasonic isn’t terribly popular in the Mp3 game, but they’re still working at in nonetheless. The fruit of their labors are the thin and sleek SD-V3x0…
So we all know the PS3 will be running on the 3.5Ghz CELL processor, developed jointly by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. This new processor is supposed to bring all kinds of good mojo to the PS3, due to its ability to spread work out over as many as nine cores on a single chip. Most…
File this under “Awesomeness”. Some dude actually took the time to “port” DDR to BASIC for the TI-83/TI-84 calculators. Unlike the original DDR where you must use your feet to dance like a complete jackass, this one lets you use your fingers. By using the directional pad on the calculator, you have to “type” with…
This week at Treehugger: The ‘huggers find out what’s the least you can pay to have a functional Do-It-Yourself solar kit; discover a cool dishmaker that melts dirty dishes into acrylic goo and then re-creates them on demand; meet the high-tech offspring of a solar panel and cloth roll: Textronics. And last but not least,…
We get a few thousand emails per week from scammers wanting to “BUY MANYPHONE WHAT YOU HAVE?” Please note: we at Gizmodo do not sell phones, PCs, laptops, sandwiches, or massages. We do not have any in stock nor do we have anything at all. We are very poor. For extra fun, please read on…
Is your iPod always getting into brawls with you on and off the court? Maybe you need to protect it with an official NBA iPod case from Slappa. Slappa usually makes CD and DVD cases, but they just couldn’t resist busting out an iPod case with one of your favorite NBA teams (yup, all 30…
The Casual Game Revolution By Carlo Longino Mobile games are already big business, with 16 million US cellphone users downloading them in August alone, up from 12 million in January. The vast majority of those are action or sports games, often times repurposed console games or based on movie franchises. But there’s a growing movement…
Finally somebody took a Robosapien and did something useful with it. This is a mod done by Adam Plavinskis. Flame away kids, made that damn cafeteria lady pay for refusing to serve chicken nuggets today! A Flamethrowing Robosapien [OhGizmo!]
Sony has unveiled the new VGN-FJ series of laptop computers. Here are some specs, coming at ya! Pentium M 750 @ 1.86 GHz, 512 Mb of memory, 100 GB hard drive, Intel extreme graphics, integrated webcam, dual-layer DVD burner, WiFi, 14.1″ “XBrite” widescreen display and weighs a lowly 5.1 pounds. Stats like this you could…