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newVideoPlayer("lomomule_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Here's a video of Lockheed Martin's MULE advanced robotic vehicle in action, complete with Joes and baddies shooting at each other while the MULE...

Sprint and Clearwire have just announced an agreement to team up on building a nationwide WiMax network, allowing roaming between the two sets of infrastructures. They hope to have 100 million people...

While it only has three strings and could use something stronger than a spit shine to clean it up, our unabated Dreamcast love completely blinds us to the Dreamcast guitar's flaws. If someone could...

The Sony Bravia DAV-X10 Home Theater marks a new direction for Sony's audio. In clear competition with the single and dual surround sound speaker setups we've been seeing more and more of, the X10...

Nokia just cut the time it takes for a N95 to get a GPS fix from 3 min to 1 min, making navigation and location-based services more viable. [Reuters]

Those chaps at the Phone Arena have put their money on Motorola's i290 phone becoming the first slimline iDEN model for the Sprint network. Although its screen is a bit on the titchy side, the i290...

LED-backlit MacBook Pro supply slimmer than an iPod nano? [Apple Insider]

Those Harvard boys are at it again, this time creating the world's first robotic fly that actually took flight for the first time. This sophisticated machine is made of tiny laser-cut pieces of...

JVC gave up on the virginity of HD3 press releases when they showed their stuff around the block last week, but now the $1,300 JVC HD3 camcorder is officially official. Almost a third lighter than...

This is the EcoJet, EasyJet's green plane of the future. Either EasyJet's CEO Andrew Harrison has been stealing Giantman's serum, or his new plane saves so much energy because it's made for hamsters....

Anyone rabidly into robots and heading to Japan needs to check out RoboSquare. Situated on the second floor of the TNC Broadcast Hall in Fukuoka City, RoboSquare is described as a "Test-Drive Center"...

Companies such as Vonage had better look to their laurels, as new kid on the block Ooma is looking to steal their thunder with a product that offers VOIP calls—but with a twist. From September,...

We broke the story yesterday and now here's the graphic tutorial to call with your iPhone using a pre-paid AT&T SIM card without a contract, a corporate account or even a virtual operator SIM card...

Japanese company FOMA have shown off a prototype of a couple of wireless safety helmet that they have been working on. You can take your pick from either Type A, which has a built-in camera and GPS...

From America's Finest News Source. Onion people, the Giz loves you. [The Onion]

We just got an email from Mark Friesen, Fujitsu's Chief Designer in Japan, saying that yesterday's dubious Helio prototype is really their now-year-old design: "I'm holding both prototypes right now"...

newVideoPlayer("rocketrod_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Dude, I just saw this infommercial for this fishing rod that doesn't actually have a rod. It throws out your line, bait, bobber, and hook...

When the Korea-only Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you've plowed into a tree or car, and saves an 18-second video clip of the collision. (12 seconds before, pulled...

We found it a bit odd that the thumbnails in YouTube's search results are now in a widescreen format. Could YouTube be preparing for a jump to widescreen video?

OLEDs are finding their way onto all sorts of gadgets these days, from ridiculously overpriced keyboards to weird flexible screens that serve little purpose. It appears that watchmaker Fossil will...

Apple is slowly taking over the flash memory market; the iPod and iPhone account for 25% of worldwide NAND Flash production this quarter. [I4U]

We've seen plenty of these wearable computer displays in our time, but the Japan-only DataGlass 3/A Head Mounted Display is reinforced to be dustproof as well as waterproof. The 800x 600 DataGlass...

She ain't much to look at, but the Everex IMPACT GC3502 is a basic box, running a 1.5GHz VIA CPU, 1GB of RAM, 80GB of HDD and a DVD burner, and for $300 includes keyboard, mouse and speakers, but no...

Designed to help previous heart attack victims regain confident mobility, this unnamed prototype heart monitor takes frequent electrocardiogram readings and uploads them to a customized cellphone via...

You ever wanted to play with yourself? A 12-inch version of yourself? Sure, who doesn't? For the low, low price of $425, you can get a custom-made action figure that kinda looks something like you!...

Instead of always having to remember to lock your desktop when you go for a whiz at work, this Security Ring by designer Yang Hai takes care of all of that for you. You put the ring on one of your...

Although the Gomadic charge station, the Chargepod, the Mahogany charge station, or even the DIY charge station are good enough for us males, our wives may have something entirely different in mind....

The iceBar moves the party stereo from the poolside into the pool, securely holding your iPod in a waterproof polycarbonate case. It floats, too, though it has a wrist strap if you're worried about...

That hair feature I've been talking about for a while is finally up. Good times. If you're wondering why there were no pictures of my shaven crotch, well, check on Fleshbot (kidding). I decided to...

The U.S. has commissioned an squadron of General Atomics' MQ-9 Reaper drones like the one above, shown at Creech Air Force Base. The Reaper will do more than surveillance, carrying up to 14...

Want to get great pictures of lightning without sitting outside all night? Check out this DIY lightning activated camera shutter trigger. It works by detecting really fast changes in...

Taking a note from the wearable pillow we ran a couple days ago, comes the glow-in-the-dark halo pillowcase from Apytyk. They're taking the idea of Godliness and pillows one step past looking like a...

The Palm Z Micro Plane is a lightweight flier controlled by infrared remote control. What's really awesome is the plane's bi-wing design and flaming paint job. Then there's the remote's tri-band...

This is still unconfirmed, but intomobile is claiming that the Nokia N93 will get a Transformers edition coming some time in Q3 '07. It'll be essentially the same as the regular N93, but include a...

Sanyo, not the first name you think of when you dream of GPS navigators, just came out with the NVM-4070, equipped with a 4-inch, 16:9 touchscreen, a SiRF Star III receiver, traffic, text-to-speech...

newVideoPlayer("3demail_gawker.flv", 475, 376);There are good ideas, there are bad ideas, and then there's 3D Mailbox. It looks like someone took the cutting-edge graphics of 1997, willfully ignored...

We saw the Neonode N2 a couple of times this past year, even giving it a spot in our top 10 phones of 3GSM. But for such an eagerly awaited phone, we have to wonder why it was launched in Greece...

Xbox 360 hack changes DVD key and game region. [Xbox-Scene]

Leave it to Brando to fill in the hole of USB warming by providing an actual stainless steel camping-like cup to the equation. So not only does this USB cup warmer warm cups, it provides its own cup...

I am a surprisingly hairy man. All that hair needs the right tools to tame, trim and shave. The three devices up to the task? The Mangroomer, the Philips Bodygroom, and the Flowbee have been around...