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Laptop hard drives are great, because they are so much easier to shoplift. I mean, you can put a 3.5-inch drive in your pants, but those little 2.5-inch jobs go in a front pocket, or even behind a wallet. Seriously, it’s like digging up dead babies and candying them. Fujitsu would like you to know…
Well gosh, let’s see. I mean, it’s great, but an hour later… Also, quit spamming me, thanks! Just because we have an elf for a mascot doesn’t mean we suddenly got a fetish for all things Aquanet. Front Page [AsianLoad] (Surprisingly safe for work.)
Mom got me these Candela Rechargeable Lamps for Christmas, and despite her typical, sheepish excuses, they are actually sort of cool. I wouldn’t explore an abandoned mine with them or anything, but they serve as occasional, dorky ambiance. These LoungeLight LED Candles, however, are way cooler (sorry Mom). Each way has a built-in LED and…
So who else heard about internet on airplanes and said, “Golly, I can’t wait to not afford that!” A person who calls hirself ‘Alexander,’—the bishonen anime hermaphrodite avatar isn’t giving me much to go on, although who are we to talk?—tried out the Boeing Connexion broadband service on a flight from Frankfurt and varified that…
The New Yorker, which is apparently a magazine and not a sandwich, has an article on the history of cell phone ringtones, the little bits of MIDI and MP3 that accounted for four billion dollars in revenue last year. While the history may not be enlightening—they started crappy, then got better—it serves as a decent…
Sister site Kotaku passes on speculation from an industry analyst that projects Nintendo will be launching a new Game Boy this year to complement its Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance SP lines. From the chatter, it doesn’t sound like a new product line, exactly, but instead another streamlining of the Game Boy Advance platform—hopefully…
Syntax has announced a new Olevia LCD TV, the LT26HVE, which will offer a 1,280 by 780 pixel resolution in a 26-inch screen. So that’s fine and everything, but not that notable, except for the price: just $900 MSRP, which is really pretty affordable, considering the rest of the specs. Syntax claims they’ve been able…
Overclocker’s Workbench, of all people, has some more pictures and light details of the Siemens SF65 cameraphone, the 1.3-megapixel clamshell that is the German manufacturer’s answer to the Sony Ericsson s700i. It’s not likely to hit our shores, sadly, but we may not be missing that much—while the camera functions look potentially good, no expandable…
This new fridge from Sharp can not only keep food cold (crazy!), but also has a space in the middle that keeps food warm—up to 130F degrees. The idea is to keep leftovers toasty for working salarymen who have to stay late at the office. If the whisky proves warmer than their beds, though, the…
For months readers have been asking, “When will Gizmodo get a robot head logo?” I’m pleased to announced that after weeks of toil from our webben technicians, your robot logo desires have finally been met. Along the way, they took the time to add the new Kinja guide, RSS feeds per subcategory (so you can…
Remember the Pretec iDisk Tiny, one of the “world’s smallest” flash drives? Pretec has released this Allego MP3 player which isn’t all that fancy or special by itself, but happens to use the Pretec iDisk Tiny as storage, powered by a AAA battery. Flash memory is getting so inexpensive that this sort of efficiency is…
Kevin Poulsen explains the lax security procedures at T-Mobile that made last week’s Paris Hilton leak possible on WiredNews. Apparently an exploit to their WebLogic application server allowed anyone to extract customer records for at least 18 months after the vulnerability was first announced. T-Mobile has publically started they’ve contacted 400 people whose information might…
Once, deep in sleep, my brain assured me that a nuclear meltdown was imminent in whatever phantom building I was in at the time, when in fact it was my alarm. I did not wake, apparently because nuclear meltdown is commonplace or something. Matthew Ferris and Bruce Black have developed a smoke detector that would…
We know that you would do anything for your iPod. So when you discovered, deep inside, the iPod wanted to be a helicopter, you did not mind. Sure, using these triPod speakers might occasionally send your tiny hard drive crashing to the table below (especially if you throw it into the air, expecting a slowed…
Sensitive Objects technology is a fresh new approach to the touch panel concept—tap the flat surface and the acoustic signature unique to the point you tapped is analyzed. If it’s recognized, the intended action is executed. While that’s not new to touchscreens (surface acoustic analysis has been used for a while in flat-panel touch-screens), it…
These mock-ups of the Xbox 360 are obviously not real (there’s a copyright attributed to them) nor are they practical, but they’e pretty imaginative all the same. Xbox 360 First Pic? [Warp2Search via Botros]
I4U has uncovered this tiny little music player from iRiver called the iRiver H10 Junior, a 2GB flash player with a color screen that’s almost as big as the screen on the already diminutive H10 5GB hard drive player. More details at CeBit, they say, but it’s rumored to have a 60 hour battery life.…
A man who claims to be the same cracker who broke into Paris Hilton’s Sidekick has done it again, this time posting a 3-minute video of rock professional Fred Durst having unprotected sex with a woman. Shocking, I know. Throughout the video, which Gizmodo is not done watching yet, a graphic is labeled as the…
PURE Digital’s newest DAB radio (the kind we can’t use here in the US) is talk radio all the time, even if you want to listen to music. The SONUS-1XT uses a built-in voice interface to give audible labels to all controls, which might not be that useful for most, but will be welcomed by…
What better way to get your kids to brush twice daily than by pumping two minutes of Raffi through their bicuspids? Hasbro’s “Tooth Tunes” just does that. At the push of a button, the brush starts to play back the recording stored in it through a built-in transducer. The sound flows from the front teeth…