Archive for 2006

Gizmodo Editor Brian Lam claims to have the inside track on impending announcement of Apple’s mystery mobile phone.
The post simply reads:
“Gizmodo Knows: iPhone Will Be Announced On Monday… – I guarantee it. It isn’t what I expected at all. And I’ve already said too much.”
Brian and

Whether or not you believe all of the incidents that have occurred due to a faulty wrist strap on Nintendo’s Wii controller, Nintendo certainly doesn’t want to take any chances and today issued a recall, and started offering free replacement wrist straps.

This confirms our earlier report that Nintendo had…

If you’ve been intrigued by the excellent image quality of LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) rear projection TVs, but don’t care for the depth of these screens when compared to LCD and plasma sets, you’re in luck.

Up until now, most LCOS rear projection sets have been around 19- or…

In celebration of the release of the new Xbox Live Arcade title, Assault Heroes, Sierra is giving away 100,000 Microsoft Gamer Points to a single lucky winner.

The best part of the contest – all you need to do is fill out this form to be entered to win. With…

The mobiBLU series of mp3 players is getting a new little sibling, the CUBISTO. The 1-inch cube player will come in 512MB, 1GB and 2GB flash memory versions.

The players feature a built-in FM tuner, FM recording capabilities as well as SRS WOW HD and TruBass sound enhancement. The new…

The folks over at Home Theater Blog got their grubby little mitts on a Toshiba’s second generation HD DVD player, the HD-XA2 and we’re pleased to hear that the horrifically slow load times of the first generation HD-A1 and HD-XA1 appear to be a thing of the past.

The new…

Now that we know that the Nintendo Wii “sensor bar” doesn’t actually sense anything, rather just provides an infrared point of reference for the Wii-mote, it seems like it would only be a matter of time before we’d see a cordless variant.

For those of you who don’t want to…

A while back, we reported on the availability of Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio Express, which allows you to roll your own homebrew games for the Xbox 360 and the Xbox Live Arcade.

Starting on January 2, 2007, you’ll be able to participate in Dream Build Play, a competition offering a…

Some guy with a cell phone camera recorded this incident at a recent press conference showing off Honda’s Asimo humanoid robot. If you fast-forward the video clip to about 0:59 seconds, you can witness the pratfall:

Watch in horror as the brave little robot attempts to climb the stairs and…

The About Time rolling clock from Dutch design firm Buro Vormkrijgers presents time in a truly graceful fashion.

The modern black clock gently rolls itself around your desktop, telling the time through a sentence emblazoned along the edge of the clock. Rather than worrying about precise times, the clock reveals…