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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 d ocks. 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 over clocked from 2.93GHz to 5GHz. The...

ption>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...

This is the Easy Glider, a mean (13mph, tops) machine that has just won this year's ispo BrandNew Awards. A 360-watt electric motor with a couple of wheels attached, the chariot can take you...

The Samsung Intergalactic Empire keeps presenting hot models left and right. And some LCD televisions too, like this 1080p 70-inch model they introduced today in Korea, the first commercial Full HD...

These R2-D2 speakers aren't shipping until December, but you don't have to be Yoda to work out that they'll sell out like gâteaux chauds once the galaxies and their girlfriends get to know about...

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...