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

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 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 adn. 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...

OK, dudes, I need some help here. I've had a sweet set of Yamaha 2.1 computer speakers for about eight years now. They've served me well, they sound good at a high volume, they're small and simple,...

Normally we skip over these bullshit gold-plated gadgets, but this 18-karat gold-plated iPod shuffle's picture was so pretty we couldn't resist. We would've been even more impressed if it were solid...

The Text-O-Possum is a Bluetooth laser-projected keyboard that's been...modded...into the back leg of an opossum. You know what they say: one man's trash is another artist's response to the lack of...

OLED market projected to reach $2.9 billion by 2012 and $5.9 billion by 2014. [prnewswire]

Look out everybody, it's the Bulletmouse! Now available for $24.95, this chrome-plated, scroll wheel-equipped slug is guaranteed not to go all Elvis on you and put a bullet into your screen. It's so...

It's a Woot-Off! Get in there and grab some deals while the getting is good. [Woot]

Live it up, pervs. That's a mousepad. And it has boobies. And you can touch them all you want.ou want. But remember, owning such a mousepad dates you back to the '90s, and this chick looks like she's from...

Designer Can-Hong Huang takes a page out of Sony's dildo-shaped music player playbook, coming up with this multimedia player that also takes on a phallic shape. This design concept is not only a...

What's the next logical step in the YouTube user-generated content video craze? Well, even if you didn't read the headline, you probably guessed it: the ability to edit video on your phone then...

Tivoli is offering a limited edition version of their Model One from Scandanavian glass artist Per B. Sundber. Surrounded in hand-crafted crystal, only 30 models will be sold at $4,200 a pop (about...

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 Motoron 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,...

Yesterday, webroke the story on how to use a pre-paid AT&T SIM card with your iPhone -- no contract, corporate account or virtual operator SIM card necessary. Now here's the graphic tutorial. [Hack...

Japanese company FOMA have shown off a prototype of a couple of wireless safety helmets 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...