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Chances are I'm a little biased here (being a born and bred NYer), but this is my favorite iPhone ad to date (even if it's not official). It shows NYers throughout the city talking about Apple's...

Your cameraphone is about to shed some weight thanks to the folks at Tessera. They've created a minuscule camera that's half the size of the cameras used in today's mobiles. Dubbed the OptiML WLC,...

Stanford's entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge, the competition for self-driving vehicles, is this tricked-out VW Passat. Stanford's team is worth watching as their robo-Toureg from the last challenge...

Since we're all such gadget freaks here, we're guessing that you use just a bit more electricity than the average Joe. So take a look at what wireless provider Orange is coming out with, a...

I've been working on a feature for next week involving hair. I don't want to spoil anything, but it involves a lot of time spent naked, or at least topless. There's some bottomless action going on in...

Engadget HD has the story on why CableCARD 2.0—the standard that everyone's waiting for to provide bi-directional high- def cable support like video on demand—isn't here yet. Turns out...

Emo fanboy-ism can turn abruptly the other direction on occasion. Apple found that out this week as some declared this Monday's WWDC Keynote the worst ever, and that it signified the beginning of...

Japanese toymaker Take-G Toys make a set of spectacular wooden robots figures that beat the pants off the lousy wooden Russian dolls we got as kids. Each one contains some robots, some flying...

You have to have a certain special kind of fetish to enjoy watching German ladies in bikinis destroy gadgets with a scowl on their face, but if anyone fits the bill, we're sure they're in our...

Take your (old) job and shove it at Gizmodo Jobs: CSS/XHTML Coder - Tubatomic Studio, Chattanooga, TN (Downtown) TECH GADGET BLOGGER - Confidential, USA Associate Editor / Writer - Confidential,...

For those of you born in a swamp, this Firefly Lamp will give you the "at home" feeling you can only get when you're knee-deep in marsh water. Each lamp gives you five fireflies, which may or may not...

If it weren't for the sponsors, we'd be running around brainless, waiting for the Zombie horde to catch and eat our tender, atrophied flesh. Thanks Amazon Unbox, AT&T, Audi, Cazadores Tequila, Canon,...

This VGA Box sits between your console and your TV/Monitor in order to convert component video into VGA. This is useful for say, the Wii and PS3 that only have component but not VGA outputs, and will...

Popular Photography's Michael McNamara got his hands over the much-awaited Sigma SD14. It has been three years in the making but was the wait worth it for wondersensor Foveon X3 fans? Not really. The...

Like wearing beanies? Now you can buy a pair with a set of cans built in. Tooks' new beanies come with a hidden compartment for your headphones. The hats only work with Tooks' own headphones, so...

US and Australian scientists tested out a new experimental jet engine over the Aussie outback this week, and it broke Mach 10. That's 10 times the speed of sound, or 6,835mph, to the laymen out...

Leopard's October release date seems like as far as an eternity and a day to the OS X Geeks. But they can get their preorders in right now on Amazon. The smarter move: Put 128 dollars in a bank...

Not a huge update like 1.8 was, 1.81 will just fix a few bugs people have found since the end of May. You'll get an RGB Full setting fix as well as some various other items too inconsequential to...

Having trouble with the ladies? Your personality isn't to blame, I'm sure, as the fairer sex loves it when you describe funny LOL CATS images and talk about how Ubuntu Linux would take over if people...

Somehow, I can't stop watching this video. Warp 9 Craziness. – Ad Dugdale Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty [YouTube via Popbitch]

We've got two IPEVO Skype phones up for grabs that you, yes you, can win. They make it easy for you to keep in touch with someone overseas thanks to the fact that there are two phones. Send them one...

TrustedReviews (with that name, you know you must trust them) just tested one of those mythical Solid State Drives that everybody announces but nobody actually seems to get. This 32GB Samsung SSD has...

Gold Man promises to turn your ordinary toilet into a urinal. When it's time to pee, just place the Gold Man on the toilet, and there you have it, a big porthole for your piss that supposedly keeps...

Lutron just rolled out its Skylark EcoDim light switch, helping you save 10% of the energy used on lighting, and the best news is that you won't even notice the difference. This dimmer is...

FoneGear has shrunk its Mini Blu Bluetooth headset, making it even smaller and lighter, and now it's called the Mini Blu II that'll be shipping in September. No question about it, this is one of the...

After yesterday's slew of phones, watches, etc, here are a few more gewgaws from the Sony Ericsson stable. First up is the MDS-65 music stand, which turns all of SE's current cellphone models into a...

For some reason, when I read "FBI Tries to Fight Zombie Hordes" this morning I really got excited. The idea oe idea of an FBI squad hunting smelly, vicious and utterly stupid brain-dead slobs has a certain...

Proving they haven't forgotten about all you clamshell lovers out there, Sony Ericsson just unveiled the newly minted Z320 and Z250. The Sony Z320 gets extra points for its nice finish, simple design...

Like most great ideas, the concept behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. But the hardware behind it all wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to...

Okay, okay, we've given you plenty of stories about the latest movie-downloadin' Archos Wi-Fi portable media players, but finally we snagged some official press photos of the Archos 605 Wi-Fi...

Following up on the soft Transformers plushies from the other day, these Autobot and Decepticon pillows bring the movie straight to your couch. They're shaped like the actual Autobot/Decepticon badge...

newVideoPlayer("noise_gawker.flv", 475, 376);NY Times badass David Pogue took a look at noise-canceling headphones, looking for a pair that can match the quality of Bose's QuietComfort 3's without...

It's confirmed: the Queen loves the Web. Her Majesty has just awarded the Order of Merit to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the WWW. That's the most exclusive club in Britain, chaps. It's limited...

Here's a deeper look at the Walkman phone line's latest high end model, the W960, most notable for its generous and 8GB of storage, Wi-Fi, 3.2 MP cam, and a 320x240 pixel touchscreen that can be used...

Yes, they did it again. Danish pals, clown number and technology re-packers Bang & Olufsen want to sell you another Samsung LCD panel in a nice box: the BeoVision 7. Nothing wrong with that. Their...

Curious Windows users wondering whether the grass is greener, or fed up IE/Firefox users looking for an out? Either way, another cold glass of ice water, indeed. – Jason Chen Press Release...

We told you about the Archos 605 Wi-Fi portable media player in a bunch of Frenchie news leaks and video, but here's the real and official word on the Archos 105, 405, 605 and 705, plus the all-new...

Why go through the work of tilting your head back and looking up to see the stars when you can get a cellphone strap that'll show you a tiny version of the cosmos? Bam, here's the Homestar...

Archos is one of those companies that is known better for its technology than its army of rabid fans. It had a hard-drive-based music player before the iPod, and it had one of the first, if not the...

Archos has also jumped into the personal-video-recorder-streaming-box-Internet-TV-thing-a-mathon bandwagon. Their TV Plus works on its own, connected to the Internet using Wi-Fi or Ethernet, as well...

Feel like doing it yourself? Fleshbot points us to a tutorial on how to build yourself a "realistic" sex doll out of spare parts you have lying around. We're not sure how many of us have mannequin...