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My grandfather left me a post-WWII map scale wheel that you used to use, before the advent of MapQuest, to figure out distances between two places. This watch does that gizmo one better by embedding the scale wheel right into the crown. The rest of the watch is pretty standard: GMT hand for a second…
Ignoring for a moment that the photo perhaps illicits compassion for my Parkinsons-addled hands, it gets the point across. Not only is the Nintendo Micro dead sexy, but it will come in many different skins. Or, “flavors,” if you’re the type who licks her hardware. https://gizmodo.com/e3-game-boy-micro-hands-on-104045
My first story for Slate is online, so go read it and make the stats go crazy they’ll keep giving me work. The topic is one you have heard almost nothing about: the launches of the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Nintendo Revolution. As the pups snuggled on screen—I think I even detected some light…
Samsung’s answer to the RAZR is loose. The SCH-V740 is a 14.5mm super thin cellie. Not much else coming through on it, just some basics: .3 mega-pixel camera, Bluetooth, web browser, and MP3 player. Samsung SCH-V740 vs. Motorola RAZR ; 14.5mm War [TelecomsKorea]
In the middle of EA’s fantastic booth (think massive, 360 degree video screen; I’ve got a pic I’ll put up later) they’re showing playable Xbox 360 versions of Need for Speed: Most Wanted. That’s not important—the controller itself is. It’s a bit smaller than it appears in most pictures (although this guy had the large,…
Creative’s Zen booth babes were running rampant, decked out in stark white, with specially designed Zen belts. I, for one, enjoy the idea of being able to choose a Zen micro color at your whim, with your five favorites at your fingertips. Also of some interest: The Creative rep told me that we should be…
Your candle burned out long before… your legend ever did. I guess we missed this one a while ago, but Kodak is discontinuing Kodachrome Super 8, which was a cartridge film format so popular with home movie buffs and budding cinematographers. In fact, they announced the change on the 40th anniversary of the format, which…
Friendly reader and avid Gizmodo fan Eric won one of the first Super Mario Kart DS competitions. The prize? A Mario Kart RC Microsizers kit, complete with a radio controlled Mario kart, and your quintessential powerups. I love the plastic banana peels. (He was playing as Donkey Kong, natch.) Check the picture of an excited…
Back when I read Neuromancer once a month, I always loved the idea of Case’s unmarked cyberdeck. Well, now you too can have a super keyboard even if you can’t have Molly’s leather jeans or Case’s jittery nerve damage. The site is a bit overwrought and I figure a razor and a Logitech keyboard will…
The Lumaray flashlight looks like it can hail passing starcraft and be used as a weapon on the planet MomsNotHome. The engagement system looks pretty cool—you slide back the rim around the head and it separates from the body. Runs on three C batteries and has an inner lumed coating that recharges with use and…
They’ve got the Batmobile from Batman Begins in the lobby of the West Hall. It is quite tanky.
Brian and I interviewed Zelda producer/director Eiji Aonuma (well, I asked one question) and were just finishing up the interview when we saw this pinkish Game Boy Micro on a lanyard around his neck. Aonuma was kind enough to let us snap a couple of pictures, and even play Minish Cap for a second. It…
We’ve got about 15 minutes before the doors open, and the power is half disabled. The media room (home of the tough love Expo employees) is completely power dead, with internet connections and air conditioning off. 60,000 gamers in a crowded mass, and we don’t have air conditioning—the funk will raise like a plague. God…
This just in—a hot anonymous tip, so take it with a grain of salt. It’s been discussed, in detail, that Sirius is having trouble with their home receivers due to their elliptically orbiting satellites. XM, however, has a set of geosynchronous sats. Therefore, Sirius needs a new satellite bad but that stuff costs money THEREFORE…
These have been around for a bit but they’re very cool. It’s essentially a single pick-up transparent acrylic guitar with a built-in speaker designed so the wee ones can shred away to Rock the Cradle of Love and hit the plodding notes of Enter Sandman even before they are aware that evil exists in the…
The 7710, the bastard cousin on the too-cool-for-school 7700, is circulating and it seems that it has quite a bit of power but ends up being too much of everything. Designed as a PDA-alike phone, the 7710 has a touch screen, runs Series 90 and is really heavy. One of the real sticking points with…
It seems the years of prayer and fasting have paid off. Folks are actually dumping movies onto proprietary Sony media and hoping that we’ll buy into it. Universal is entering the fray by offering Dodgeball and Van Helsing, among others, on the PSP’s UMD format. The real test, as we mentioned before, is if Blu-Ray…
ABC News is reporting that Toyota will start making hybrid Camrys in 2006. Hopefully these cars won’t BSOD on the highway and will push hybrids more into the mainstream. There have been a number of hydrogen cell bits coming out here an there, as well, including a few systems for hydrogen capsule delivery. Are hybrid…
We received a few emails from folks looking for head-to-head specs of both consoles. Rather than writing something, we decided to go eat some cereal and instead post something that someone else has written. Now this person is BritishAmerican, which means that he’sshe’s smart, and heshe has done something we in the journalism biz like…
We’re too dumb to figure out what specifically is going on here, but apparently the Interwebs are very excited about Macrovision’s patents designed to prevent file sharing. This smacks to me of marketing hype (“Naw, Frank, your content will be safe, man. We’ve got PATENTS!”) but it’s an interesting question to bring up: how will…