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	BlackBerry Bold (aka 9000) Officially Official [BlackBerry] They said it would be formally announced on the 12th. They said it would be called the Bold. Photos suggested that it would be the sexiest thing to come out of Canada since Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling... Eye-Fi Announces Explore, Share and Home Models [Eye-Fi] Not so long ago we reviewed the Eye-Fi, a 2GB SD card that adds Wi-Fi to any digital camera. Now the company is expanding their product line with the Eye-Fi Explore ($129), Eye-Fi Share ($99) and the... Bug Bat Swats Flies With Endless Love, Electricity [Bug Bat] The scenario has happened countless times before. A pesky fly interrupts a dinner party. Brad, the club's resident tennis pro and notorious alcoholic, takes to his feet, Prince racket in hand, and... Mo' Slow-Mo: Objects Breaking (or Not) for the Casio EX-F1 [Slow-mo] newVideoPlayer("waterballoon_giz.flv", 384, 512,""); Our friend Robert Woodhead (of slow-mo Mentos-n-Coke fame) has kindly shared another of his Casio Exilim EX-F1 masterpieces, this time water... Rumor: MWg to Launch Windows Mobile 7 Device This Year [Smartphones] One fun rumor bopping around the phone sites is that MWg, the smartphone maker previously known as O2 Asia, will be rolling out a Windows Mobile 7 phone in the fourth quarter of 2008, specifically... Bathe With the Bears Using Sea to Summit's Pocket Shower [Pocket Shower] Usually camping and showering are either/or activities, but for those of you who absolutely have to cart the body wash and loofah into the wild, the Pocket Shower from Sea to Summit could be for you.... Life-Size Robotic Ventriloquist Dummies: The Next Retail Craze? [Robots] Last time I was in a store, I was like, "Why is there no creepy animatronic sea captain here to tell me today's specials?" Apparently that's what the founders of Characters Unlimited thought too,... Could I Have a Match? Try Vibrators and Nintendo Wiimotes [Teledildonics] Remember when it was cool to joke about how the vibrating Wii remote looked, felt and behaved pretty much like a vibrator? No? Well, too bad, because it turns out that the two were more similar than... DIY Duck Hunt Lamp Still Has That Blasted Laughing Dog [DIY Lamp] When I look at the classic Nintendo Zapper I think of my younger days as a screaming, hot-headed 8-bit gamer, but not Fluffypants. No siree. The enterprising DIY lamp artist looked at the orange and... Tiny Surgical Instruments Suck Appendix Out of Your Stomach and Into Your Mouth [Surgery] The vanity-saturated life of a Gizmodo writer means no scars, visible or otherwise, so this breakthrough procedure for appendicitis is a godsend for those among us who still have the vestigial organ.... NYTimes: Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen Video [Smartpens] David Pogue has a quick video review of Livescribe's Pulse Smartpen that does a very good job of illustrating the concept. Worth watching on top of our own review. [Pogue's Livescribe Pulse Smartpen... New iPhone Firmware Beta Has a 3G On/Off Switch: I Wish It Was Automatic [Apple] The iPhone's recently released firmware 2.0 Beta 5 has a 3G on off switch for users. Underneath, there's a warning that 3G browsing will kill your battery faster. While that's more proof of the... Ultra-Shapable E-Ink Becomes Reality This Fall [E-Ink] How many concept products have we shown featuring some form of curved or oddly shaped E-Ink display? A pillion?* Thankfully, the good people at E-Ink have seen fit to make these dreams come true: New... SNL's MacGruber Defuses a Bomb With a Battery, Rubber Band and BTW His Son is Not Gay [TV] Macgruber, Saturday Night Live's Macgyver parody, defuses bomb after bomb while dealing with some family issues. This clip is from last night's episode with guest Shia LaBeuof. Bonus points for... Samsung Fires First Shots in Flat-Panel Price War [Dealzmodo] An alert AVS forum member posted a cryptic note entitled "Samsung first to lower prices!" I wondered if maybe the member wasn't referring to the Dealzmodo-tastic flat-panel price war that HD Guru... Use Lye To Deal With Dead Relatives, Unclog Drains [Soylent Brown] Forget those GPS graves in the jungle we brought you a few weeks ago, because in the future what we're really going to do is pour—yes pour—our loved ones down the drain with the help of... How to Love a LEGO Lunatic [Essay] At a party once, Jesus was asked if he were a leg man or a tit man. The answer is neither. He's a LEGO man. Well, to be honest, he's all three, but rather like faith, hope and charity, the greatest... Zeppelins Return to US, Slightly Less Flammable Now [Airships] A San Francisco start-up called Airship Ventures has raised $8 million to launch its first Zeppelin this fall, for the purposes of tourism and research. The "flightseeing," as they're calling it,... Real-Life Edward Scissorhands Cuts Hair With 10 Scissors At Once [Hairdressers] Sorry, Johnny Depp. You were great in the original Edward Scissorhands, but this real life maestro of the blades from Israel puts your whole emo trip through suburbia to shame. And while hairdresser... Justin Timberlake Presents New MTV Reality Show Called "The Phone" [Cry Me A River] Hey, Justin Timberlake here. Just checking to see if you senoritas are nsync with my plans to bring sexy back to reality television. Next season, MTV's going to rock your body with a new reality... World's First High-Def Train Simulator Makes Train Operating Uber-Realistic [Trains]* Train operators-in-training will no longer have to deal with plain, unrealistic, standard-definition simulations thanks to a new system that uses full HD video. Jointly developed by Fujitsu and video... Microsoft Offers Mega-Discount on WinXP to Low-Cost Laptop Makers [Microsoft] Ultra low-cost PCs such as OLPC's XO laptop could end up bundled with copies of Windows OS after all, if Microsoft's most recent scheme to grab market share works. The company is giving computer... JDome Gives First-Person Gamers 180-Degree Vision, Gives Me Headaches [Jdome] John Nilsson is the man behind the jDome, an invention that will give gamers a massive 180-degree field of vision instead of the usual 15 to 20 degrees they get from their monitors. All you do is put... Rohm Circuit Kills Vampire Power, Pulls No Electricity On Standby [Energy Efficiency] Japanese semiconductor maker Rohm is looking to vanquish vampire power, the energy wasted by tech on stand-by, with its new LSI circuits. The circuits consume no electricity even when in stand-by... Canadian Cops Tase Knife-Wielding 82-Year-Old Patient in his Hospital Bed [Taser] The cops in Canada seem to be getting the hang of the Taser business. Mounties summoned to a British Columbia hospital tased an octogenarian patient after he pulled a knife from his pocket.... US Military Wasted Millions on Fake Hardware, Sparking Cyber-Terrorism Fears [Military Intelligence] The U.S. Military has spent millions of dollars on counterfeit computer components over the years, according to an FBI report. This not only screws over businesses, but it also makes it easier for... iPhone "Currently Unavailable" Online: Brilliant Pre 3G iPhone Strategy? [IPhone] The iPhone is "currently unavailable" at the AppleStore US, following the dry-out in the UK. Does this mean they are waiting for the shipment of the next version? If so, this is a brilliant and rare... Emergency Telecoms Team Forced to Wait in Thailand by Burmese Junta [Burma] Emergency communications kits destined to help the clear-up of the Burmese cyclone have been held up by the Asian country's military junta. A five-man team from NGO Telecoms Sans Frontieres has been... HD Content Confirmed For Amazon Unbox! [Rumor Confirmed] TiVo has officially confirmed that Amazon Unbox will get HD content in the near future, but execs at the company say a few kinks need to be ironed out first. The current version of Unbox can't... 107-Year-Old Bulb States the Case for Leaving Lights On [Livermore Light Bulb] The LA Times has written a sweet little feature about Livermore Fire House's lightbulb that has been burning for 107 years without a break—unless you count the 22 minutes it took to transport... Lextech App Turns Your iPhone into a Surveillance Device [IPhone] A company called Lextech has created an application that lets you control surveillance devices via your iPhone. As well as watching the action on the phone, the app also lets you control the cameras... Gizmondo to Rise From The Dead In Winter 2008, Founder Says [Gizmondo] Not only is Gizmondo coming back, Carl Freer says you can expect to see a new version of the handheld console by the end of the year—this time without the whole defrauding investors and... Is the BlackBerry 9000 <i>Really</i> Going to Be Called BOLD? [Blackberry 9000] And Lo, it came to pass that, after the blessed angel RIM announced the arrival of the BlackBerry 9000, pointing its followers to a May 12 launch, there came a tumultous cacophony of sound from the... AT&T Says Free WiFi for iPhones Will Come... Someday [Free Wifi] All AT&T's flip-flopping between offering free wireless at Starbucks and then taking it away—turns out it was some peon screwing up after all. An spokesperson for the company told the New York... Pleo Gets Thrashed at the Hands of a Battlebot [Robot Wars] At Maker Faire 2008, a group of carnage-loving individuals pitted the 2007 Holiday Toy Darling Pleo against the heavy duty battle bot, Vicious Verdict, in a no holds barred competition. Needless to... Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Come Pre-Ripped For $9,000 [Suckermodo] If you're rich enough to have a dedicated media server from the likes of Crestron, Elan, Escient, Kaleidescape, ReQuest or Apple—a strange one to mix in, I thought—you can go off and buy... Crazy Contraptions From The Biodomotica Secret Underwater Lab [Design] Truth be told, the "Biodomotica Secret Underwater Lab" is not actually secret, or underwater, or even a lab for that matter. The name actually referrers to Italian designer Massimo Marazzo's project... Lightning Review: Olympus TP-7 Cellphone Recording Mike [Review] The Gadget: This olympus microphone plugs into a recorder and your ear, recording whatever you hear. That makes it perfect for recording cellphone interviews, which traditional telephone voice... Moshi Zefyr: A Macbook Heatsink On Your Lap [Cooling Pads] Moshi's Zefyr is a portable cooling pad for the MacBook that provides a near silent fan, powered by USB, and offers a temperature drop of roughly 6 degrees Fahrenheit. The Zefyr is designed to place... When Wii Tennis Turns into Wii Penis (NSFW) [NSFWii] newVideoPlayer("wiipenis_play.flv", 494, 390,""); This is a post, for the ladies. But fellas, read it closely, because life is not all about NSFW topless Wii playing. Sometimes, you have to give them... Plasma-Powered Hovercraft Patent [Patents] The patent shown is for an aircraft to be powered off the ground using a plasma technology. Subrata Roy, a University of Florida aerospace engineer, proposes the existing technique of passing a...

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