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Our iPhone hands-on is massive, but our verdict is short: Wait a little while.

newVideoPlayer("AdobeAD_gawker.flv", 475, 376); See Adobe's interactive wall, featured in the New York Times and in fact on Giz, fewer than 24 hours ago. See nerds trying to get exercise they...

Robots have long been a mainstay on high-end factory floors, but now they're getting a lot more social and interacting with humans in the workplace. These Mitsubishi robots, named Wakamaru, are being...

newVideoPlayer("MOV00617_gawker.flv", 475, 376);The Brians over at Kotaku got their horribly blistered feet all over the Wii Fit Balance Board and came out with the impression that yes, this is for...

Crecente got some hands on time with the Darth Vader PSP, and he says it's definitely lighter, possibly firmer, and has a new UMD tray. The buttons and D-Pad were also tweaked and improved, which is...

newVideoPlayer("3halosku_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Remember that tepid reaction to the limited edition Halo 3 Xbox 360 announcement at Microsoft's press conference on Tuesday? We had an interview with...

Olympus's mega rig is becoming the worst kept DSLR secret in the industry. First the easily answered riddle we saw a few weeks ago, now this leaked power point document pored over by CNet,...

Device Nine Six in Los Angeles is doing laser etchings on iPhones, although we bet it zaps your warranty on first burn. Here's a vid: Behold the glory of what we can only assume is the...

newVideoPlayer("WiiZapper_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Ashcraft and Crecente from Kotaku got a hands-on demonstration with the Wii Zapper. The video shows how you put the thing together—a combination...

Even more news in the saga of the continuing discontinuing saga of the 60GB PlayStation 3. We first said it was discontinued, then not discontinued, but now Sony's Kaz Hirai is confirming that...

It would seem that a certain black-and-silver phone has attracted a bit of a following in the design department. The Japan-only Sophia Nani, launching next week, sports a massive 4.3" touchscreen TFT...

If you're looking for an incredibly simple way to control iTunes at home from your iPhone, look no further than Signal. Once you're running iTunes and Signal, all you have to do is connect to your...

The Kotaku boys got through a series of Miyamoto interviews, where they ask Shiggy about future revisions of the Wii, shortages, the next-gen of the DS, and (heaven forbid) retirement plans. [Kotaku]

Some Denon and iTunes fanboy set up this fantastic rendering of a concept box that Denon should put to production. AVSForum's wizards understand it is fake because receiver is spelled wrong, but that...

Forget the visible light spectrum, any camera can hack that. The Fujifilm IS Pro is the most recent camera in Fujifilm's pro lineup that can shoot in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrums as well....

BlueSky Design Group's Dosh wallet takes advantage of flexible and semi-flexible polymers so that it's not only tough and bendable, but waterproof to boot. You've got the usual space for credit cards...

When David Reeves, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Pres said that the 60GB PS3 was history after this batch of stock goes dry, he was eithers either wrong, or accidentally spilling the beans. Sony is...

The DreamBee is a 3-chip 1080p LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) projector that is capable of a whopping 15,000:1 contrast ratio. That's a massive jump over most HD projectors, which hover around the...

Monster's iCarPlay tape adapter is total Apple Store iPhone retail bait. Why was it irresistible on checkout? Besides, my old one was highly susceptible to iPhone's self-inflicted GSM buzz: the...

newVideoPlayer("car_finder_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Don't you hate it when you go to the megamall for a little shopping excursion only to be unable to locate your car in the multi-acre parking lot?...

In my local gym, MP3 players practically outnumber people. As useful as music is for motivation during a tough workout, nothing can kill your mood faster than a poorly chosen song. Thankfully, Yamaha...

Dell's been hotrodding its quad-core desktops, overclocking the hell out of Intel's Core 2 Extreme processors and stuffing in a couple of monster NVIDIA graphics cards just for fun. But suddenly, it...

Last night, in Manhattan's luxurious and conveniently located Roosevelt Hotel, Ziff-Davis Media held a warm-up party for its not-entirely-necessary September trade show DigitalLife. But the show's...

Instead of stuffing your lifeless body in a boring old box, why not get buried in a giant guitar? 160-year-old Vic Fearn and Company, based in the United Kingdom, has created an art gallery dubbed...

If you're out on the road and you forget what your honey looks like, this Mustek TravelFoto Desktop Digital Photo Display/Alarm Clock will pictorially remind you, and wake you up the next morning,...

newVideoPlayer("mouth_brush_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Toothbrushes, they just need updating. Right? Well, according to yet another delusional contestant on American Inventor, a better solution would be...

Did you like the Transformers movie? If you weren't a total nerd wet blanket then you saw it for what it was: a fun as hell summer blockbuster. If you also have a whole boatload of money sitting...

Veni, vidi and now vinci: if you dare, you can now use a detailed step-by-step graphic tutorial to install your own ringtones in the iPhone. Unfortunately, it's just not a program to transfer...

Hey, you the Giz-steady crew. Don't worry, you don't have to show what you do, or make a break, make a move—instead, let us show you what you might have missed earlier. From Wii Party Stations...

If your musical tastes speak to your personality, this is one way to quickly let everyone know what is going on inside your twisted mind. Instructables user rauz has detailed a method for...

This Lomography Ringflash attaches to the outside of your lens, and its four lighting elements each deliver a different color to your subject. You can use it as a single color ring flash, too, but...

This Ain Supplio pencil lead from Pentel uses nanotechnology to release allegedly mind-expanding aromas, letting you smell your way to smartness while you scribble your meandering prose on a piece of...

The two biggest rivals aiming to distribute laptops to the third-world shorties—Intel, develper of the Classmate PC, and One Laptop Per Child led by Nick Negroponte—have shaken hands and...

How important is your broadband access? If you were, say, heading out to the high seas for a few months, how much would you pay for a 2Mbps connection in the middle of the ocean? A few hundred bucks,...

OK, wait a minute. I get the point of this Mirror Webcam: you want to be able to see yourself while you videochat or whatever. But don't you usually see yourself on the screen anyways? I guess this...

"You've been a very bad boy! Go to your room! Here's a new toy that will tell you when you're finished being punished. I hope this teaches you a lesson about talking back to your elders. Wipe that...

Hey guys: Even though most tech companies are based far far away from our lovely Metropolis Gotham City, they all seem to want to come here for meetings, events and general displays of grandeur....

By sacrificing a single USB port, you can have your very own 7-inch-tall, dancing robot to tirelessly bust a move for your pleasure. After detecting whatever tune you have playing, USB Dancing Robot...

Despite our verdict of "wait," a survey by the market research firm Interpret says 90 percent of iPhone owners are "extremely" or "very" satisfied with it, which the firm's chief strategy officer...

NTT DoCoMo is about to make even speedy 3.1Mbps EV-DO (Rev. A) look like a horse and buggy, experimenting with a Super 3G wireless network system that could blast data through the air at speeds of...

Nobel prize-winning scientist Alan Heeger and his buddies have figured out a way to print more-efficient plastic solar cells, boosting their efficiency to 6.5%, a world record for these photovoltaic...