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We've already covered most of the best items from the Philips Holidays In June show, but we did a little digging and found at least two items that are not at the show. In addition to the Black and...

Aiming to one-up (or rather, eight-up) DirecTV's promise of 100 HD channels by year's end, Comcast is boasting that it will have over 800 HD channels by the end of 2008. If, that is, you consider an...

Did you know that the iPhone doesn't have a mechanical keyboard? While you might have known it in your head, maybe you didn't know it in your heart. Today, the Times takes to heart what it really...

The Projection Design Action! 25 is supposedly the world's smallest 1080p projector, at "3.7 inches high, 9.2 inches deep and 10.8 inches wide". Not bad for a full HD DLP rig. But the size,...

The folks at iHome went retro with their new iPod stereo. The iH10 is essentially their take on the Table Radio with a built-in iPod dock, AM/FM tuners, and a line-in jack on the backside. Inside the...

Taking us all back to the first time Fred Savage was a star, this Wii Power Glove takes an already nerdy thing (the Wii) and makes it even nerdier. The modder went and stuck a Wii on a powerglove,...

Hey. You. We're giving away a Free-1 Sharing Pack from IPEVO. It's a set of two USB Skype phones from Ipevo so you can keep in touch with your family (especially your father, since it's almost...

Our T-Mobile informant's just tipped us off to the updated release date for T-Mobile's HotSpot @Home service. T-Mobile plans to roll out the service for all retail, online, VAR, Telesales, and Retail...

Philips has some fantastic new magnetic LED lights coming out at the end of this year that are perfect for the closet. Why the closet? Because they're magnetic, they're cordless, and they turn off by...

What's more embarrassing for Charlie Murphy than having "Unity" indented on his forehead? How about Ctrl Alt Delete? It's too bad Rick James wasn't a geek, or else that story would have went down...

Good news to Sansa fans. Your favorite MP3 player line will support DivX video sometime in the near future, thanks to Sansa's new licensing deal with DivX. Being able to natively support DivX...

Hi, Brian here. I just found 3 non-gadget things I like enough to toss your way. •First off, Joel Johnson, Giz Graduate, has a great post over at Dethroner asking whether or not safe firework...

The folks in the UK have already had the Gibbs Aquada boat-car for a while, but us Bond-aspirers in the US will have our chance in the first half of 2009. The best news is we won't have to have Her...

Misogynistic headline aside, this USB purse design from Russian designer Dima Domissarov is probably the female equivalent of all the weird food-shaped USB sticks we saw in April. Instead of burgers,...

You can add Flickr to the list of major websites that China has taken the ban-stick to. At first Yahoo thought it was just a technical glitch, but later found out that the images were actually being...

Seiko Epson and Philips are working on projectors smaller than anything we've ever seen. The new reference design will use Seiko Epson's High Temperature Poly-Silicon TFT panel and Philips' Ujoy...

Our own Charlie White got a chance to fiddle around with that fancy UV Sonicare Flexcare toothbrush we showed yohowed you this morning, and he came away impressed. galleryPost('philipstoothbrush', 5,...

newVideoPlayer("robofinger_2_gawker.flv", 520, 410); Here's the X-Finger in action, an amazing artificial finger that can replace a real finger without any kind of electronics. As the video shows,...

Philips has just changed its Norelco razors into an almost unrecognizable form factor, and here's the flagship, a razor called Arcitec that will be released later this year. It's completely...

Philips gave us a chance to get our paws on its latest universal remote control, the SRU8010. This baby packs lots of features into its rather conventional form factor, with a 2-inch LCD display that...

Nothing is worse than having a hot cup of coffee turn into a chilly mug of awful without you realizing it, only to take a shocking sip an hour after you've gotten to work and need another caffeine...

Not content with just making steampunk monitors, steampunk guitars and steampunk turntables, the offices of Three Rings Design decide to make their entire workplace steampunk. Located in SoMa, San...

I'm not quite sure who the Spartan DX is aimed at, apart from a rich man determined to find out which one of his four farmhands is guilty of schtupping his daughter in the hay loft. And research...

Hey folks, there's a slightly new comment feature available on Giz and most Gawker sites now. When you make a comment, there should be some notification windows on the right- hand side that tells...

TokyoFlash, everyone's favorite super-nerd watch designers, have a new offering: the BPM Watch. What makes it unique is the sweet BPM counter that can detect how many beats per minute the music...

Barely beating out the previous Dealzmodo, this Buy.com deal for a Series 3 TiVo goes for $396 if you use Google Checkout, versus Amazon's $420. Of course, both deals require a $200 rebate, which...

The Ars ladies and gents are zero fluff geeks. Which is why I'm recommending you take a look at Eric Bangeman's review of the new 1920 x 1200 17-inch Macbook Pro. Mainly, they say the battery life...

Hi, Doggert De Niro here, Gizmodo's resident Method canine, and the latest of Gizmodo's resident pet testers*, with the latest pet-friendly product, the dog fat counter. You may remember my...

This week, San Francisco is entering another one of those "heatwaves" as the newspaper calls them. That's 75 degrees, for those of you uninitiated to the reality of Bay Area micro climates. Which...

Update: Looks like my brain completely shut down when I read the Consumerist post the first time. Apparently, the rumor is this: you can save $100 on Apple hardware (not the iPhone) when you order...

We love our Sonicare toothbrushes. But how could you improve on a design that's prevented any cavities since we started using it? By adding a UV sanitizer. Peter Pachal at Sci Fi has the...

French Xbox 360 owners who've sent in their defective or broken Xboxes to Microsoft to fix are finding that the return console have a little extra "wooooosh" in them. Yeah, Microsoft's adding extra...

While we wait for Sony Ericsson's rumored PSP phone to arrive, the folks at Gionee have created the Gionee S20 slider, a cellphone that comes with an NES emulator. Not that we advocate this kinda...

A new Digg policy here, out of respect for the Digg community. -No big yellow Digg badges for articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos. It's not fair when...

The Cobra Kai challenge you! Are you a company who thinks their iPod dock is tough enough to compete in our iPod Dock Bracket? Are you a dirty-playing company who will stop at nothing to win, Cobra...

At a press breakfast today in NYC, Sony Electronics US President Stan Glasgow admitted that Sony's attempts to unseat Apple in the once Walkman-dominated personal audio category are pretty close to...

Samsung LCDs are known for their typically high contrast ratios, and their new Bordeauxs follow in that tradition, packing a 17,000:1 contrast ratio, which is several notches higher than your...

In a move that could send ISPs tumbling down a slippery slope toward serving big media companies before consumers, AT&T has decided to start targeting pirated content being moved across its network....

Don't be fooled by its thoroughly '80s body (if this was a clutch bag, it would have been in Melanie Griffith's paws as she trundled over to Manhattan on the Staten Island ferry in Working...

It's hard to get excited about projector screens, but dnp's new Supernova Infinity is making us weak in the knees. It's the first front-projection screen that keeps a sharp image at all times,...