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LG’s BL40 Black Label phone captured in the wild — alongside a kid sibling
The more we see of LG’s latest Black Label handset — the mysterious BL40 — the more we want to touch it, play with it, talk on it, and put it (or, at least try to put it) in our pockets. Shots of the bizarre-yet-beautiful phone have appeared over on a German forum where we’re [...]
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Sony WEGA Concept 51K All-in-One Stereo [Giz 79]
This table top stereo by famed Frog founder, Hartmut Esslinger, has a turntable, tape player and tuner. It was huge—speakers were separate—but gorgeous. From 1976.
Gizmodo ‘79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age [...]
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Roadmap for Intel’s First Nehalem-Based Mobile Chips Leaked [Intel]
Details for Intel’s new quad- and dual-core i7 and i5 chips have leaked in the form of a roadmap, so we’ve got some excellent specifics, including release dates and prices.
The new quad-core “Clarksfield” chips are the most expensive and powerful, and will be able to scale up clock speed with a feature called “Turbo Boost” [...]
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iPhone server rack an exercise in network storage indulgence
Here’s one way to get yourself noticed. Japanese developer FreeBit, in looking for a way to show off its Serversman iPhone app, has debuted a prototype ultra-small server rack. Perfect for when you happen to have up to five iPhones / iPod touches lying around and nothing better to do but turn them into overpriced [...]
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Google Voice for Android: Better, But Not Perfect [Google Voice]
Google’s native app versions of Google Voice for Android and BlackBerry is an example of what we want to see on ALL phones, including the iPhone and the Pre. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
The major issue we have is the fact that text messages aren’t “intercepted” by the Google Voice app in order to [...]
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Nikon D300s DSLR in the Flesh, Apparently [Rumor]
Looks a real live D300s to me. The Nikon leaks are speeding up, so I’m thinking we’ll see this get official in August. You know, if it’s real. More shots here: [Nikon Rumors]
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When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men [Gizmodo 79]
Anyone who knows tech knows certain names—Gates, Jobs, Woz, Kamen, Stringer—but before they became legends, they were busy doing, well, some curious stuff. Here’s a glance at their lives circa 1979:
Steve Jobs
Now: Just returning to daily work at Apple after a prolonged health scare, he’s still one of the most powerful—and recognizable—names in the [...]
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The Blank Generation: 1979 as Audio Cassette Enabler [Personal Audio]
Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated the music scene.
A $185 TSC-300 I bought from J&R, my Walkman was also a stereo recorder. (Note the spiffy name—even [...]
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Cablox Cable Organizer for the Obsessively Neat Geek [Organization]
These little 4×4-inch Cablox pads are sticky on one side and loaded with tiny little nodules on the other, so you can wind your cables through and line them up just the way you like them.
They actually seem pretty useful if, like me, you have a really nasty tendency to kick loose cables by accident [...]
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Rumor: Acer Will Launch Their Android Phone in September [Acer]
Acer said they’d churn out one Android phone by the end of the year; that was all the way back in April, and they’ve since taken their relationship with Google’s OS to the next level. (But not too far!) It’d be far from crazy, then, for the company to hit a September release date, as [...]
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Wood computer workstation takes up space, looks great, does little else
Dear Diary 1.0 is a computer workstation / desk made entirely of wood. Designed by Marlies Romberg, a recent grad of the Utrecht School of Arts, this bad boy features a laser-cut keyboard, a display, mouse, and a porcelain and silicone USB thumb drive with a signet (one of those wax seals they always put [...]
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ASUS dabbles in HDTV arena with 1080p TV Monitor T1 series
It’s not that ASUS hasn’t dipped its toes in HDTV waters before (by the way, whatever happened to that altogether enticing Eee TV?), but we dare say that the TV Monitor T1 is a fresh, if not unsurprising new direction for the company. Arriving in 22- (22T1E), 24- (24T1E) and 27-inch (27T1E) sizes, this trio [...]
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Samsung Barges Into Flip Territory With HMX-U10 1080p Pocket Camcorder [Camcorders]
Samsung has finally joined the illustrious, bulging ranks of Flip-imitating manufacturers, announcing the HMX-U10, a 1080p-recording, 10-megapixel-shooting compact camcorder set to land in September.
It’s a form-factor that doesn’t leave much room for creativity, but Samsung’s managed to put together a distinctive product with the HMX-U10. The slightly swept design allows for more comfortable gripping than [...]
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Sony Squirts Out Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo at 32GB [Sony]
The Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo HX (yet another example of idiotic and indecipherable Sony product naming) now goes up to 32GB, offering 15MB/sec writes and 20MB/sec reads. [Electronista]
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Skyfire Browser for BlackBerry Update Adds Keyboard Shortcuts [Blackberry Apps]
The Javascript performance of BlackBerry’s browser is atrocious, so thank Jebus for Skyfire—it’s hit beta just updated for BlackBerry, with keyboard shortcuts, contextual zooming, and bugfixes. They’re still having overcapacity problems, so skip for mission critical browsing. [Crackberry]
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New LG Chocolate Shown on Video, Crazy-Long Design Confirmed [Lg]
Well, there goes the rest of LG’s annoyingly gradual tease campaign: the next generation LG Chocolate BL40, with a 4-inch, 800×344 (21:9!), multitouch screen has been revealed in full in a leaked promotional video.
On top of the display, we can see a few more of the rumored specs confirmed: LG’s in-house Active [...]
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LG’s next-gen Chocolate BL40 teased on video, looks good enough to eat
We can’t verify the authenticity of the video, but it seems a little far-fetched to believe that even LG diehards out there would’ve been able to toil away making a very legit-looking promo piece for the company’s recently-teased new Chocolate in such a short period of time — so we’re tentatively going [...]
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Ferrari-Crashing Gizmondo Head Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison [Crime]
Stefan Eriksson, head of Gizmondo (the failed handheld gaming company who couldn’t even plagiarize our name correctly), was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for robbery, attempted blackmail and making illegal threats (which threats are legal?).
Eriksson, whose story reaches Mark Sanford levels of ridiculous, is famous for crashing a rare Ferrari, escaping at least one [...]
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LG X13 netbook spotted in FCC photo shoot
Sure, its phone lineup has more or less gone the way of the KIRF, but LG’s other endeavors are decidedly more interesting, and this new X13 netbook (more than likely the X130 when it launches) that’s popped up in the FCC is no exception. Compared with the X120, the body here appears to have a [...]
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Engadget’s recession antidote: win a LG enV3 for Verizon Wireless
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
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