Le Whif Coffee Inhaler: First Hit's Free $3

The makers of the Chocolate Inhaler have done themselves one better. The Le Whif Coffee Inhaler, a lipstick-sized tube that contains a "breathable coffee powder," gives you a nice caffeine fix without all that drinking and swallowing messiness. How nice? More »

Titanic 3D Release Confirmed By James Cameron For 100th Anniversary

I've always maintained Titanic was James Cameron's career acme, and it seems even he can't face doing another 3D movie from scratch, after spending 15 years and over $200m making Avatar. More »

The First Xbox Live Windows Phone Game Looks Awesome (Achievement Unlocked!)

Harvest shows what Xbox Live gaming will be like on Windows Phone 7, and it's pretty damn impressive. Achievements, explosions, and glorious gamerpoints. Leaving your house officially no longer means stalling your gamerscore. [MIX] More »

Windows Phone 7 Apps: First Video

So this is how apps are going to look on Windows Phone 7: visually captivating, great animations, 3D transformations. It's a very distinctive look and feel from iPhone apps, and may be just what Microsoft needs to establish themselves.
#windowsphone7

Windows Phone 7 Apps: Everything You Need To Know

Windows Phone 7 Series: It's a thing! And it looks pretty great, so far. Last month's announcement, though, left a lot of questions. Questions which will be answered here, in Gizmodo's live coverage of Microsoft MIX 2010 keynote. Constantly updating.

Dell Files Lawsuit Against Five Tech Companies For Alleged Price-Fixing

News just in—X tech company sues Y tech company! Except it's not that simple. Dell's actually filed a lawsuit against five manufacturers—Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar, for supposed price-fixing of LCD monitors. More »

Windows Phone Marketplace Partners: Pandora, Foursquare, EA Mobile, AP, and More

It's not clear yet when Microsoft's newly announced Windows Phone Marketplace is going to launch, but when it does they'll have a bevy of partners already on board, ranging from the AP to Foursquare to Pandora. And they look good! More »
#movies

Hubble 3D Review: A Gift From NASA to Us

Hubble 3D is a pretty simple movie. It's also one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in my life. More »

Apple Hires Expert On "Wearable Technologies"

Say what? Apple better not be working out how to strap a laptop to someone's back, because that's already been done—10 years ago. But their recent hiring of someone well-versed in wearable computing does spell something interesting. More »
#powermat

First Hands-On: Powermat Portable 2X Induction Charger

Powermat already makes a portable, tri-fold version of their induction charger. But it's only a bit portable, as you have to plug the thing in. Their latest Powermat is loaded with a lithium ion battery so you can charge anywhere.

Joby GorillaBike Looks Seriously Unsafe

I like those GorillaPod bendy tripods as much as the next guy, but this seems like a pretty bad idea. [Photography Bay via Gadget Lab]

Battery Life Could Increase By Four Times With Lithium-Sulphur Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries are already close to the 20-hour life promised back in 2007 for laptops, but Lithium-sulphur batteries being worked on at Stanford University may improve battery life by 300 per cent. More »

A Homophone, By AT&T

Supposedly spotted in an AT&T store, and presented without comment. [Reddit via The Daily What via Richard Blakeley]
#allgizwants

It's Time For One Data Plan to Rule All Our Gadgets

If you buy a 3G iPad, you'll be able to purchase data, month by month, from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything?

Overclock Your Palm Pre to a Fiery 800MHz

The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB or RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know. More »

Lenovo L2461x Wide: Full HD Multitouch Monitor, Hands Not Included

Lenovo's rolled out three new monitors, but only one of them really grabs our attention: the L2461x Wide, a 23.6-inch (1920x1080) display with capacitive multitouch goodness. Don't believe the marketing, though: you'll need to provide your own disembodied hands. More »

TomTom iPhone App Version 1.3 Adds HD Traffic Updates and Day/Night Mode

TomTom listened to our concerns in the navigation app battlemodo, and has not only been dropping the price steadily since, but has just released update 1.3 for its iPhone app—which comes with live traffic updates aplenty.

Add a DSLR to Your Nintendo DS

Nobody is going to share the murky photos from the DSi's integrated camera, so why not hack a classic DS to become a controller for a dSLR? More »
#usbhubs

16-Port USB Hub Has Classy Aluminum-Like Fascia

It's no 80-porter, but ThinkGeek's 16-port USB hub is definitely one of the classiest I've seen. At $160 though, you'd be paying a tenner a port. Are those extra USB slippers really worth it? [ThinkGeek via The Awesomer via CrunchGear]
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The Pirate Bay's Founder Likens P2P To Coke

At SXSW, The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin "want to marry me." [TechRadar]

Very Chilled Chinese Man Destroys HP Laptop

What do you do when a laptop breaks down three months after purchase? Get it repaired? Sell it? Or do as this Chinese man did, and destroy it silently at a HP store, with not a single swear-word passing your lips? More »

Developers: Nintendo DS2 To Be Revealed At E3 With Accelerometer and Higher-Res Screens

GDC is over for another year, but the omission of any solid Nintendo news—particularly in the shape of a new handheld console—was not enough for RPAD.tv, who spent the whole show digging for DS2 information from developers. More »

AT&T's Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services

You don't need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what's most interesting is the free online syncing for both contacts and media. More »
#imagecache

Breakaway: High-Schooler-Designed Robots Play Gauntlet Soccer

This picture shows entrants in this year's FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Breakaway match. Teams of ambitious high school kids build robots to compete in what's basically the American Gladiator version of soccer. It's pretty amazing. More »
Yesterday - March 14, 2010

Kotaku Reviews Final Fantasty XIII: Not Perfect, but "Fresh, New, and Highly Enjoyable"

Our game-loving sister site Kotaku reviewed the newest of that king of all RPG series, Final Fantasy, and found it, if not a blockbuster, worthwhile, and "a step in the right direction." Read the whole review here. [Kotaku]
#accessories

The Spiderpodium Gadget Stand Is Unnecessarily Freaking Me Out

The Spiderpodium is pretty self-explanatory: It's a gadget-stand/tripod (well, an octo-pod, technically) shaped like an arthropod. Lacking much to explain, I'm going to tell you the origins of my arachnophobia. Everyone take a seat. It's about to get real.
#ipad

The Diamond iPad

Listen up, rich people: If you ordered an iPad, cancel it. This is the one you need, covered with 11.43 carats of diamonds, graded G/H in color, VS2/SI1 in clarity, and 100/100 in stupidity. I can imagine Steve Jobs reaction: More »

"Springfield of Tomorrow" is Revealed on The Simpsons

Tonight, The Simpsons opened with a tongue-in-cheek look at the "Springfield of Tomorrow," seen through the eyes of a '60s era educational film. Gone are buses and subway rides, and in are plutonium-powered cars—with robot claws! Video inside. [Gawker.TV]

AT&T Confounds Expectations by Not Ruining SXSW

Way to go, AT&T! It was nerve-wracking after last year's troubles, but reports are coming in that the oft-maligned network is holding up to the stress of SXSW better than expected.

Stormtroopers, Swordfighters, and MC Frontalot - io9's Timebender In Pictures

It was like the dreams of a million geeks compressed into a highly-explosive substance and launched at high speed into the heart of Austin. It was io9's Timebender party at South by Southwest. Here is photographic evidence. [io9]

Rhapsody iPhone App Allows Downloading Songs, for Listening Offline

Rhapsody just released a little teaser video for the next version of its iPhone app (to be followed closely by its new Android app) that marks a major change for the service: You can now download songs instead of streaming. More »

iPhone-Loving Microsoft Employees Endure Unspeakable Hardship

The WSJ has a discussion today of the phenomenon of the iPhone-using Microsoft employee. Apparently that time Ballmer fake-stomped an iPhone is emblematic of some (barely) real anti-iPhone sentiment in Redmond.

Ridiculously Fast iPhone Typist Shames Soft Keyboard Haters

This iPhone typist/possible woodpecker earns today's Holy Shit YouTube Moment of the Day Award. I'm positive I couldn't beat him on my Droid—hell, he'd put up a good fight against me on my laptop.
#astronomy

Total Solar Eclipses, 2001-2025

Want to know where you can get a glimpse of the ultra-rare total solar eclipse? This map shows exactly when and where every eclipse in the next fifteen years will be visible—and why you should move to Memphis. More »

Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds!

Today's March 14th, which everyone knows is the day high school math club members further cement their alienation by celebrating their love of math, or circles, or whatever. But today's Sunday, so let's everyone celebrate nerddom in the comments! [Wiki]

The iPad's (Pre-) Opening Day Sales: 120,000

So, the iPad is finally available for pre-order, and it turns out the half of the Giz staff that bought one aren't alone: CNN estimates Apple received about 120,000 iPad pre-orders on that first day alone. More »

"Boombox" Finally Gets the SNL Digital Short Treatment

Well, folks, it finally happened: The Strokes' Julian Casablancas made a cameo on SNL tonight with Andy Samberg for a digital short/music video of the Lonely Island hit, "Boombox." It was simultaneously awesome and hilarious, naturally. Video inside. More »
Saturday - March 13, 2010

Two Surprise PlayStation Move Maneuvers

We've been trying to notice every little thing about the PlayStation Move this week. Each detail is telling. Here are two surprise Move maneuvers I witnessed during demos of Move this past week at Game Developers Conference. [Kotaku]
#blockquote

On Google Buzz's Awkward Launch

Social media researcher and general internet guru Danah Boyd gave the keynote address at SXSWi earlier today, focusing on matters of privacy. On paper, Google Buzz was a perfect social network. So why did it freak everyone out so much?
#mechanics

Celsius X VI II's Mysterious Mechanical Cellphone Gets Slightly Less Mysterious

Last month, I risked life and limb to tell you about Celsius X-VI-II, a shadowy French company who was building a $300,000 mechanical cellphone. The first pictures of the phone have surfaced, though they don't exactly answer our questions. More »
#digitalcameras

FujiFilm Finepix Z700 Point-and-Shoot Is the First To Offer Pet Detection

At least in the parts of the internet I frequent, pet pictures have been enjoying an unusual popularity as of late. FujiFilm's Finepix Z700 has technology that snaps a photo when your furry friend smiles. Talk about capturing the zeitgeist. More »
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