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

Oh. What's this? A drool-worthy smartphone that doesn't come from Cupertino? The next Helio perhaps? Just some fan dream? I don't know. I just want one. Drop us a line if you know anything about this...

Apple may have just brought their first touchscreen phone to the market, but here is the original rendition of an Apple phone from 1983. Designed by Hartmut Esslinger—the same mind behind the...

It's been 25 years since Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan was released, and to commemorate the occasion here's a Star Trek USS Enterprise model that's gotten itself a fancy new paint job. Designed by Art...

By Brazilian designer Rafael Morgan, the Light Drop is a lamp you operate like a faucet, controlling the intensity of light with the knob. The striking silicon bulb is lit by an LED to ensure you...

A British teenager who bought a Sony PlayStation 2 on eBay for £95 ($194) got more than he bargained for when he opened the package. Instead of a shiny, happy gaming console, there was a whole heap...

'Bathing Beauties' is an initiative to revitalize the 10 mile stretch of Lincolnshire coastline, UK, from Mablethorpe to Anderby Creek. We know that you don't really care so much about the...

Wouldn't the packaging for a big-screen TV be the perfect size for a TV stand? Yes, and a clever designer decided to do just that. We knew there were some tricky designers working on various...

In order to promote safe sex among India's prostitutes, Hindustan Latex Ltd has developed "paan-flavored" condoms—making a man's...cigar...resemble the tasty Indian treat of betel nuts and...

Apparently, the amazing code wizards at the iPhone Dev Wiki have been able to partially unlock the iPhone using a new application called iASign. It won't fully unlock the iPhone for use with other...

The BigDog, from Boston Dynamics, a company specialising in human simulation is just weird. A robotic pack mule that runs on petrol, travels at up to 3.3 mph over all sorts of terrain, and can carry...

Count them. 275 Tranformers from the 80s. 101 Autobots, 81 Decepticons, 92 licensed products, some never removed from box, some mint-in-box, all ready for the mother of all battles. Sold for...

The Beverage Buddy is a rather useful little remote-controlled buggy for those of us whose inner sofa monster can be conjured up at regular intervals. It brings a couple of cans - or bottles - in its...

A researcher is claiming that he has created a Mac OS X worm which was able to infect 1,500 systems in his controlled network. The worm, unfortunately named Rape.osx, uses a vulnerability that will...

We at the Giz are fond of both hands and bionic things - so this iLIMB, from Scottish firm Touch Bionics, is so far up our street it's parked in our car port. A prosthetic hand with five...

When it comes to piloting RC helicopters, Alan Szabo Jr is King, an earthbound Stringfellow Hawke. Here he is putting a whirlybird with a Trex 600 motor through its paces. Observe. Learn, And then go...

As they said they would, Pioneer has made their lower res, 1365 by 768 and 1024 by 768 res, 16,000:1 contrast ratio, Project Kuro Plasmas available for sale before July was up. The 1080p models, with...

galleryPost('locationfreetvlfv30', 4, 'LF V30 LocationFree TV');It won't stream HD, but Sony's newest LocationFree TV (and Slingbox competitor) will take HD video sources by component cables, down...

The previously import-only Vaio TZ was just announced for US shores. That's good news, because its predecessor, the Sony Vaio TX, was one of my favorites subnotes ever. Like the TX, I love the TZ's...

newVideoPlayer("harrypotterspells_gawker.flv", 475, 376);We don't put much faith in magic around here, but with Harry Potter mania sweeping the nation we aren't surprised to see that some techies are...

Unsatisfied with the selection on Xbox 360's Marketplace for movies? CinemaNow, the PC movie download and rental store, has updated their Media Manager software to allow rented or purchased movies to...

If there is one complaint I have about every boomerang competition I go to, it's that there simply aren't enough hot dogs. Apparently boomerang enthusiast Paul Sprague and I don't frequent the same...

Remote Buddy now works with the iPhone, turning it into a super-powered Mac remote. [TUAW]

The Hurdle Light's simple design allows for the lamp to function either as an illuminating bar or a more traditional lamp. A built-in sensor lets the Hurdle know when it's acting as one or the other,...

galleryPost('tivocheapo', 4, 'Tivo Series 3 Lite?'); Remember our unconfirmed Tivo Series 3 Lite pics from last week? Maybe they're real, maybe they're not, but someone in the Tivo Community forums...

Ryan Block interviews CEO of Steorn to find out why the magic machine didn't work. [Engadget]

Who better to teach your kids than the Dark Lord of the Sith? This Star Wars Darth Vader Laptop is geared toward young, malleable minds (and, secretly, the rest of us) and employs a lightsaber-shaped...

The Shanling MC-30 Music Center is proof that not all iPod docks have to look the same. It comes packed with not only iPod support, but a Hi-Fi CD player, an AM/FM tuner, and a tube power amplifier....

Apparently you all really want an iPhone. Who knew? Thanks for all the hundreds and hundreds of entries that you sent in and we had to sort through. Really. Thanks for that. Now, onto the...

We saw this Wi-Fi equipped BlackBerry make its way through the labyrinthine corridors of the FCC a few weeks ago, but now RIM's making it official. The BlackBerry 8820 is coming, and it's going to...

Although not officially announced at E3, Saitek's latest Cyborg Rumble gamepad for the PC takes the best of the Xbox 360 controller and enhances it with some FPS-friendly features. First off, there's...

Sony is writing off the leaked Sixaxis we showed you as a "bad artist rendering." [Kotaku]

We've had our hands on these super-green Linux-and-Via powered babies for a little while, but now it's your turn. Even though the beta program is expected to run until September, Zonbu is confident...

We have a well-documented steampunk fetish here at Gizmodo, which is why we totally popped some tents when we saw these amazing steampunk robots by sculptor and animator Stephane Halleux. They're...

You know that feeling of "that's it?" you had when you heard about Sony upgrading the PS3 from 60GB to 80GB and charging $599 for it? Sony's David Reeves had the exact same feeling. And he had the...

Here's a seemingly stupid idea: a basket on a handle that is meant to hold a Wiimote. (Complete with mechanical triggers for A and B buttons.) But the extension cleanly increases the Wiimote's...

The HTC Kaiser, unboxed here, is supposedly heading to AT&T soon under the 8925 model. This 8925 will replace the current 8525, which has been the go-to Windows Mobile phone since it was released...

One-upping just about everyone else in the Wiimote storage game, Thanko's unit charges and holds two Wiimotes simultaneously. Not only that, there's nunchuck storage in the back, and Wii game disc...

We don't snowboard all that often (since that would require leaving the house), but these UVEX super goggles seem to be the kind of thing we'd use on our trips down the slopes. The UVEX Univision has...

Join the Gurus of Cool on Coolness Roundup this week as the topic of discussion shifts to taking your computing kit on the road. What do you need to get some work done from a cheap motel room? Is it...

You know how your iCal icon in the dock always shows July 17 until you actually start up the app? Did you know why? It's because July 17 is the date that iCal premiered at MacWorld 2002, which...