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The problem with many of the more promising [read: cool] GPS systems is that they are released in Europe only, but the LG LN790 takes exception to the trend. Sporting a 4.3" touchscreen and Bluetooth...

Otto Bock Healthcare may sound like a boring medical company, but they have just announced an update to their C-Leg, a microprocessor-controlled hydraulic limb, complete with wireless remote...

Today at Christie's Auction House in Manhattan, LG unveiled a new line of premium LCD TVs, the LBX series. The line will also be referred to as "Opus," with absolutely no intentional reference to the...

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Thinkpad, and the first model was the the IBM 2521, a pen operated tablet that shipped on July 19th 1992. Reg Hardware, who researched this history, says it had a...

Microsoft posted earnings for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year: Up 7%, based on Office products, and a fair PC market.net profit was $3.04 billion, or 31 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal...

$100 million will buy you a ride on the Russian Space Federation's Soyuz TMA Spacecraft in 2008/2009. [SpaceAdventures]

OtterBox is known for their rugged cases, and this forthcoming iPhone case looks like it's going to continue their tradition. It's got "complete" protection, which means not only are all the sides...

By analyzing all 5x10^20 (500 billion billion) possible checkers moves, computers can now beat or tie a human at checkers every single game. How'd they analyze so much data? By starting in 1989 and...

"Your uncle Invented the Camera Phone!?" is what I said before a friend introduced me to Philippe Kahn. Back in 1997, Kahn hacked together a camera phone to easily send photos of his newborn...

This week, the center of the cell-phone world is the Tokyo International Exhibition Center, where the Wireless Japan 2007 Expo is taking place. Akihabara News was on the scene to catch some new...

Wired has a really awesome gallery of tiny, tiny computers. You can't help but love a full computer crammed into something the size of a box of matches, can you? Sure, some of these aren't really at...

newVideoPlayer("flypen_final_gawker.flv", 475, 376); OK, so maybe it's a friendly battle, but a test of mad skillz nonetheless, one that went down at San Francisco's Shine nightclub not long ago....

We're not sure why you'd want a universal remote that actually has to flip open to use, but we're not going to tell you people how to live your lives. In the chance that you do, GE's $18.99 Flip...

Want your iPhone in a color other than silver? Apple can't help, but Colorware's got you covered. You saw what a good job they did on on Xbox 360, so there's no reason to think their quality will be...

Instead of running USB over USB and getting only a few feet of range, Superbooster Wall Plate lets you run USB over Ethernet and up to 150 feet of range. What does this mean to you? It means you can...

We're perfectly happy with the brushed aluminum backs of our iPhones, but some people are disconcerted by the difference between the back's black bottom and aluminum top. Now the Cellular Nationwide...

The pole-mounted speakers from Hi-Fi Center in Italy look loud and probably sound loud. It's a two-way bass reflex loudspeaker that looks like a speaker gun, and includes carbon fiber enclosures and...

Twitter fever's all but subsided at GizHQ, but if you're still Twittering away, here's the iPhone client for the faux-mini-blog app. [Thincloud]

Sarcastic Gamer, the Ron Livingston-esque voiceover guy that brought us the Microsoft Surface Parody, is at it again. This time he's taking the piss out of The Wii's Wii Fit fitness game. We really...

It sounds crazy, so soon after launch, but the iPhone nano could be coming out before Xmas. Kasper at Apple Insider claims: • "The second iteration of the handset is presumed to marry iPod...

If you're wearing one of those colorful wristbands anyway, might as well store some data on it, and this USB Flash Drive Wrist Band from Brando is more than happy to help you pack 512MB on board. No,...

We've been eyeballing the Sony Ericsson P1 smartphone for a while now, but the reviews are finally in. The verdict? It's pretty good. Besides being smaller than its P990 predecessor, it has the...

[UPDATED: Confirmed at $69.] Applecare is supposed to be available for the iPhone this month, and the price may be $80. Joel Johnson, walker-of-Gizmodo-halls-of-lore, noticed this statement in...

newVideoPlayer("fulltank_dogfight_gawker.flv", 475, 376);This latest edition to Zune Arts, Microsoft's repository for community-made Zune videos, looks as good as anything from either Microsoft or...

Apple's had a few smash hit releases lately, so we're watching its patent applications more closely than a brownnoser's lips to his boss's ass. Here's another patent app, this one showing an iPod...

Instead of having to remember to water your plants every day, how about installing a gadget that allows them to call you when they need water? Botanicalls does just that, with a soil-moisture sensor...

I rarely use exclamation points in my headlines, but this deal seems too sweet not to. I'm talking about a LG Super Blu hybrid disc player that can play back HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs for $1200, plus...

newVideoPlayer("iPhoneDock_gawker.flv", 475, 376); At Sony's holiday line show last night, we got to check out one of Sony's new pair o' docks for iPod, the clock/radio ICF-C1iP in black. Of course,...

Some may call this latest iPod/iPhone patent from Apple "dynamics lyrics display for portable media devices," but we call this Karaoke City. The patent details a scheme to activate "karaoke style...

We just got the chance to play around with AMD's newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There's a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks to John...

Attention foot fetishists and carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers: Here's a new take on alternative pointing devices. Slide your foot into the FootTime Foot Mouse's slipper attachment and then you're...

Motorola's revenues were down 19% from a year earlier, reporting a second quarter loss of $28 million. You'd think making the same phone 19 times wotimes would guarantee big money, but we guess not! As we...

Either this site is overcharging by a crapload or the previous pricing was totally off, but the Meizu MiniOne is up to $988 for the 16GB model, compared to $450, which was listed before. What could...

Now that the Windows Home Server platform has been released to manufacturing, a lot of cool concepts are becoming sweet realities. We just scored some juicy details on Velocity Micro's design,...

You've gotta love natural selection caught on video. Intelligent people know that it isn't a good idea to smash a can of WD-40, even if they're curious about what would happen if they did. Luckily,...

The BigBelly is a public trash can that's solar powered, allowing it to compact people's garbage and store four to six times as much as a regular can. In addition, it keeps less trash from spilling...

The Pitch As watered-down, possibly Slavic electro kicks in on the soundtrack, a woman covered in multi-hued body paint dances in a black, gravity-free void. Cut to swirls of rainbow vapor, then back...

This week at Uncrate: We go from daytime protection to nighttime cool with Smith Interlock Sunglasses, spice up our summer vacations with Top Secret Tourism, and ride our bikes indoors thanks to the...

From the sublime story of a teenage boy opening up what he thought was a PlayStation 2 he'd bought on eBay to find $90,000 in cash to the ridiculousness that is ciggie-flavored condoms, the Giz has...

If you like tinkering with the inner working of gadgets as well as the Nintendo DS Lite, have I got a sweet project for you. Instructables has instructions on how to make a homemade RumblePak for the...