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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 cell phone models into a...

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

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...

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

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, WiFi, 3.2 MP cam, and a 320 x 240 pixel touch screen that can be...

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...

In addition to the US Walkman phones that Sony Ericsson dropped today, there were also a couple goodies for our friends overseas. The K530 is a 3G cameraphone that works in tandem with the HGE-100...

Those cool froggies at Le Journal du Geek got their le hands over le Archos 405 and le Archos 605. They look sweet and quite small for their features, but from here the interface looks like the usual...

Hiptop3 did some digging around on whois databases and discovered three new domains registered by T-Mobile. They are, in random order, sidekicklx.com, sidekickle.com, and sidekickslide.com....

Archos has just announced their Generation 5, their new line of multimedia players. We will get a hands-on later today, but the 605 Wi-Fi has been posted on their site. Although it looks very similar...

Set to be revealed at SEK in Korea, the iRiver M10 and D5 both have a glossy black look found in other players like the iRiver Clix 2 (but not in the MPlayer). The M10 will be a navigation-centric...

This deal between DirectTV, EchoStar (DISH's parent), and Clearwire (a WiMAX service provider) seems to be the first big solid WiMAX push in the US, if everything goes to plan. In the agreement two...

These cardboard box chairs are priced entirely wrong for the market that's going to buy it. Each soft, sittable box costs $465, which means your entire dorm floor will have to pitch in just to buy...

It's official: LOL___ are this year's All Your Base. Enjoy it while it lasts, this crap will be driving you insane any day now, if it doesn't already. –Adam Frucci LOL BOTS [Unnngh]

Note to gadget designers: Wrap your next product in leather, write something in a fake language on it, call it steampunk, and nerds will pay twice as much for it. We're in the middle of some sort of...

Sony Ericsson's partnering up with Gracenote to provide an even better TrackID-like service called Mobile Music 2.0. Available on the Sony Ericsson W910 and K850 (both shipping Q4 2007), Mobile Music...

We got a quick hands-on with Sony Ericsson's latest Cyber-shot camera phone, and it's a sweet 5-megapixel camera shoehorned inside a great-looking little cellphone. It's the K850 and it has a...

Sony Ericsson first revealed its MBW-150 Bluetooth watch this morning, with Sony insides and design by watchmaker Fossil. It lets you control your Bluetooth-compatible cellphone or music player from...

Today's bracket battle is between the Kensington SX3000R ($169.99) and the Altec Lansing iM600 ($149.99). Two docks. Two grudges. Two legit to quit. So who will win the battle? The iM600. Oops....

Yes, unless this is one incredible Photoshop job, someone is already toting an iPhone around and his name is not Walter Mossberg. We know little about this except that the shot was snapped aboard the...

This week at Uncrate: We straighten our drives with the Callaway FT-i Driver, learn to kick ass at thumb wrestling with The Way of the Thumb, and rock out to Boxer by The National. We also find our...

By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch What first seems to be a field of rectangular tombstones turns out to be a field of Zunes, tiered upwards like stadium seats. One of the players flickers to life,...

If we're going to look inside our ears, we prefer something like the Ear Scope GXL. Unlike this Thanko USB Ear Scope, there's a pick on the end of it so you can scrape out earwax. This Thanko one? It...

Those of you who downloaded the the Windows Safari 3.0 beta earlier this week should head on over to the download site and grab the new 3.0.1. Or even easier, just use the auto-updater included with...

Incapable of making a fist, an open palm or a peace sign? Try this electronic Rock Paper Scissors gadget. For $8.89, you get two so you play RPS with a buddy with minimal (and we mean minimal)...

Projectors are great and all, but how annoying is it when someone comes in the room, walks behind you, and puts a shadow of their oblivious head across the screen? Making the image travel that far...

Last Monday, Brian and I had a chance to run down to Monster HQ in Brisbane, CA to run some tests for the HDMI Cable Battlemodo. This time, we brought along a bag full of awesomely priced cables,...

Chances are you won't be seeing this kind of action from your friend's overclocked system, but the crew at Universal ABIT showed off a Core 2 Extreme X6800 CPU overclocked from 2.93GHz to 5GHz. The...

Remember the Sony Ericsson MBW-100 Bluetooth watch? That classy one-trick pony has just been updated with the Sony Ericsson MBW-150, "The Music Edition." In addition to syncing with your cellphone...

This Parrot Party wireless speaker system pumps out a veritable wall of sound for such a tiny unit, even though the 21-ounce system is just nine inches long. It quickly pairs up to any A2DP Bluetooth...

The guys at Oregon Scientific are known for their funky clocks, and now they're kicking things up a notch with their new Crystal Weather Station, the first clock that can display the forecast in 3D....

I have fond memories of Glastonbury 1997. Or was it 1998? Not surprisingly, I can't remember much, apart from the mud. Oh, hold on, it's all coming back to me now... Ah yes, Beck's rhinestone Nudie...

Lance Bass's trip into space cost him around $20 million, but the European space agency EADS is offering people—and rich ones at that—the chance of a quick one-and-a-half hour blast into...