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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 badging of articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos. It's not fair when we get the Digg...

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,...

So it turns out the rumors were true. Samsung's two-faced phone, the music-playing Upstage, got a Ferrari-red paint job this morning. The phone has a tiny LCD on one side (for making calls) and a...

So, Lord Steve of Jobsworth carries his Lenovo in leather does he? Cough. I reckon he's more likely to use this, the MacTruck case (not that I am saying that you are clumsy, your Lordship, oh no, I...

There's now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why this matters, I don't know. But the thing is that some...

NVIDIA has just released their new top of the line GeForce 8700M GT, just in time to remind you that no matter how cool your new MacBook Pro or Sony VAIO are, you are not the King of the Hill...

Megatron, man. What happened to you? Before this Michael Bay movie, you had some balls. You used to turn into a giant gun, or a gun that Starscream could pick up and shoot those goody-two-shoes...

Because bleeding Halo fanatics out of $130 for the Halo 3 Legendary Edition really only scratches the surface of their (parents') bank accounts, GameStop is stepping up to collect the remaining lunch...

Thanko's usually known for their heating gadgets, but cooling's just heating in reverse. In the case of this USB ass cooler 2007 edition, Thanko's improved on the 2006 edition by making it black and,...

This is something we didn't expect. Unlike Optimus Prime, these Transformer gadgets and a crazy Hong Kong man, these transformers plushies don't cut you up when you rub your face on them. If the...

To follow up on our previous PSP Slim news, Rumor Reporter has even more details about the upcoming smaller version of Sony's portable console. Their sources say (and this contradicts some of...

newVideoPlayer("oralb_gawker.flv", 475, 376); We got the chance to play with Oral-B's new Triumph electric toothbrush this afternoon. The $149 brush comes with a palm-size wireless display (it uses...

HTC's Touch, the touchscreen (TouchFLO) phone from Windows Mobile maker HTC will be launching in Taiwan first, and then making its US debut sometime before the end of the year. – Jason...

A blog for everyone at SCEA to write on, from execs and down? This is a smart move for Sony. They can respond to rumors and break news here. And we can all comment and link to it. I mean, when is the...

If there's one thing we never thought would be a cellphone strap, it would be lingerie. Well, never count out a horny Japanese businessman, we suppose. For about $9, you can get your own bra or...

If you ditched your watch because you carry a phone around with a built-in clock, but are sick of pulling your phone out every time you want to check the time, you should check out this Haptic Clock....

Video-philes with a control streak can invest in this HC-300 Home Controller to do all their turnings on and off in glorious high definition. Not only does the $699 HC-300 support 720p, there's a...

In an attempt to cover musical source preferences past and present, Philips has created two stereo systems that will sell for $199 when they arrive in early fall. Hearkening back to the past, the...

I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, "Why can't these be jewel-encrusted?" Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not,...

Thought yesterday's WWDC Keynote was the worst keynote ever? Show your disapproval with this Worst. Keynote. Ever. shirt. Hell, just buy one and wear it to every keynote you go to from now...

Beta 2 released today. Go get it, Sling faithful. [via JK on the Run]

It's been a month since our last entry in PlayStation 3 Melee Watch, but this most recent instance involves Katanas. Apparently, some home invasionist came knocking on a door in search of a...

Remember those WildCharge wireless chargers we played with back at CES? They're almost here. You'll be able to get one July 9. Thoughts of hand cancer aside, the way these WildChargers work would...

Hey guys and um, our five female readers. I need a bit of your help. Business 2.0 remembered just how much they like their tech and gadget news with a big slice of fun, and made Gizmodo the dark...

Hello, I am the Brute Squad and this is my friend Patsy. Looking at the latest product pics, some people are saying that the iPhone is now smaller than it originally was. The fact is that its...

We wrote about these LivingColors Lights back on my birthday this year, but Philips actually has availability information on the gorgeous fixtures now. If you're a European, you'll be able to get...

Are you a four-year-old boy with $55,000 in disposable income sitting around? Well then, son, have I got the product for you. Just think of it as the biggest toy ever. It's a life-sized replica of...

There was a reason ZFS wasn't named-checked as one of Leopard's 10 (not so) new features at WWDC 07—despite declarations by Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday Apple denied ZFS's presence...

You know those scratch cards that are covered with silver latex, letting you try your luck at the lottery, or as we call it here at the Giz, the "stupid tax?" Some crazy Brits covered a whole SUV...

Now it makes sense why Apple released Safari for Windows. Steve must love his Windows security jokes so much that he decided Apple should create a browser that exploits them even more. Currently...