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

If you thought the plastic-looking Nintendo Wii Mario Kart wheel was a little too classy, Billet Mechanical has the wheel for you. First, it's not even a wheel. It's a Knight Rider-like half steering...

Got a Visa card? You could get $100 off any Helio device, and a 1GB Micro SD Memory card to boot. [Helio]

Informal poll time. I've been getting a few reader complaints about iPhone earpieces being too quiet. Before jumping to conclusions, I figured I'd ask around. Since complaining is a duty of the...

HD DVD players are supposedly outselling Blu-ray players in Europe, though PS3s were not tallied. [Reuters]

Just like with the MotoRIZR Z6, Motorola is taking an old phone and placing the ROKR moniker on it, essentially turning it into a badged music phone. This time they're taking the Moto PEBL U9 and...

newVideoPlayer("avatarmachine_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Do you play so many videogames that you feel weird walking around without being able to see yourself from a third-person perspective? If so, you...

You know the reports of people saying their iPhones don't charge up all the way? Turns out that's actually a UI bug and not a bug with the iPhone's battery. The bug, demoed in the image above and...

Strap on the Darth Vader Back Buddy, and you'll have the most feared fallen Jedi mofo toting around your stuff. Or, at least, his head will. For 20 bucks, guard your lunchbox with this fearsome Sith...

Ranging from E3 announcements to next-generation Samsung Blu-ray players, Tuesday's news was anything but boring. In order to help you catch up with anything you may have missed, here's a...

Following successful trials, British policemen are to be issued with head cameras while they are on the beat. The £3 million ($6.1 million) scheme, which led to an increase in the number of...

Logitech desktop speakers for $15 after shipping. [Mwave.com]

newVideoPlayer("lawn_mower_gawker.flv", 475, 376);We love the show American Inventor here at the Giz. Not because it pumps out inventions we'd actually want, but because it highlights how insane...

Capcom, the developer behind multiple treasured video game series such as Street Fighter and Resident Evil, is forecasting yet another substantial price cut for Sony's Playstation 3. Said Capcom...

Richard Baguley, chief cellular ninja over at WirelessInfo.com, just published a number that, when called, turns your iPhone into a mobile field testing station. Suddenly, up pops a new menu (as you...

Test your iPhone typing speed. [iPhone Typing Test]

This is the Digital Water Pavilion, designed by a bunch of MIT brainiacs for Expo Zaragoza in Spain next year. Its walls are curtains of water controlled by software which, in turn, controls valves...

You like crafts, don't you? Of course you do. Well, get ready for a fun and educational craft project, my friends. First, get some tampons. Got 'em? OK, now make a flute out of the applicators. Done?...

Is there such a thing as the Nintendo Wii design effect? If so, the PlusMinusZero Toaster may well be a perfect exemplar of Wii-ness. Consider the evidence... • It's small, white and...

newVideoPlayer("rib_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Here's the RipStik Caster Board. Or like my brother the ER traumatologist likes to call it: "BUSINESS!" For $200 you will be able to carve that asphalt...

Indulge yourself in the blinkenlights of the '60s with this Multicolor LED Panel, harkening back to science fiction movies with computers consisting of panels of blinking lights, and maybe even...

newVideoPlayer("custom_ringtone_gawker.flv", 475, 376);This guy claims to have figured out how to make custom ringtones on his iPhone, although he conveniently doesn't give us any hints as to, you...

The more the wind blows, the brighter Firewinder glows. The concept utilizes a corkscrew with light wrapped around the edges of the spiral, which spins when wind strikes it from any direction,...

The Pitch "How many phones does one man need?" the narrator asks as the camera pans across a line of halter-topped lovelies chatting on their mobiles. The women shimmy in hypnotic slo-mo, with the...

According to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime, there's a good chance that Wii shortages could last well into the holiday season and beyond. Yes, we're talking about a full year of...

Hi there, Beatles haters. Please skip on down to the next post, and keep listening to that crappy music that will never measure up to the virtuosity and creativity of the musical entity that defined...

In a rather Zunesque move, Apple may be planning its own version of "the social" for the iPod and iPhone. An Apple patent, recently made public, details a system where Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as...

This Ionic Fridge Freshener looks to be the same size and shape as a garden-variety soda can, but it's festooned with evocative imagery, perhaps in an effort to convince you that it will actually get...

There's something about summer and water that brings out the balls, and here's a case in point: the Waboba Ball, made of some kind of miraculous Lycra fabric that gives it the power to walk on water....

This golf club concept is supposedly just for use on the beach, so you don't need to carry a whole set of clubs around, but I see no reason for it not to be just as practical on the actual links....

The Peltier USB Can Cooler/Heater will make drinks frosty or toasty, and hold onto them as well. You would think this feature would come standard, but sadly very few are actually functional cup...

Integra is now shipping its DTR-5.8 receiver, its first model with HDMI 1.3a processing. Planting itself solidly in the midrange of receivers of this ilk, it's certainly not as full-featured as its...

A 39-year-old dentist from Vancouver had a shocking experience while he was out jogging and listening to his iPod. Lightning struck a tree next to him, and then jumped over to him, throwing him 8...

Dexter is the latest soundboard released by JazzMutant. The board keeps the simple shape of the previously released Lemur, but has a brand new interface that's a pleasure to watch. Unfortunately for...

Here's a free way to control your PC from an iPhone, thanks to Nate True at cre.ations.net. Using TightVNC, software that lets you remotely control your PC desktop (sorry, it's not Mac-friendly yet),...

Following up on the creepy Baby Hands Hands soap, here's the Grope On a Rope, a hand soap with an attached rope for the shower. You can actually buy it for $15, but really, somebody has to tell them...

What's long, white, wiry and fluffy and has a bit of hardware stuck on the end? A tail cam, of course. Available in Japan from Angel Kitty (they are the hot freekz who brought us the French Maid...

Sofmap's Digital Olive is a kitsch, cutesy MP3 player with removable speakers. Available in Japan from July 24 the battery-run music box comes in four shades and will set you back $50. This what...

An eggcup-like device with bionic legs attached to it has been developed by doctors for a man who was chopped in half by a truck in 1995. The accident left Peng Shulin bedridden for over a decade,...

Just in time for the return of Harry Potter, Logitech lands its own magic wand, the MX Air mouse. It responds to the Freespace motion control technology when held aloft, especially when aimed at a...