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Gizmodo Skypecast Time

Click here for directions, and enter in 142468 to join our Skypecast with T-Mobile execs Sam Bell and Jeff Folino.

Tech News Johnb Jun 30 '06

Gizmodo Skypecast Reminder : T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3

Reminder: Ok. Big change today. We’re lucky enough to get two T-Mobile execs, Sam Bell, senior marketing manager, and Jeff Folino, senior manager of product development for the Sidekick, who are willing to tell us all about the SK3. The Skypecast will be at 4:30pm EDT today and the link is here. Sorry for the…

Tech News Johnb Jun 30 '06

Gizmodo Skypecast: T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3

Ok. Big change today. We’re lucky enough to get two T-Mobile execs, Sam Bell, senior marketing manager, and Jeff Folino, senior manager of product development for the Sidekick, who are willing to tell us all about the SK3. The Skypecast will be at 4:30pm EDT today and the link is here. Sorry for the late…

Tech News Johnb Jun 30 '06

Samsung BD-P1000 Unboxing

I haven’t gotten a chance to try this puppy out with real BRDs yet, but this is Samsung’s first Blu-Ray player and it has all the fit and finish of a fine Saab or maybe a Volvo. We’re not talking Ferrari, here, but you wouldn’t kick it out of bed for eating crackers. It’s pretty…

Gadgets Johnb Jun 30 '06

Sidekick 3 Unboxing

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Zapruder-esque footage of someone opening a Sidekick 3 and mumbling to themselves. Great stuff.

Tech News Johnb Jun 30 '06

Gizmodo SkypeCast: Aaron Keogh of Matrixstream

The Matrixstream set-top platform streams 1080P H.264 video over IP. We’ll talk to Aaron Keogh to figure out how they heck they’re doing it. Click here at 1pm EDT tomorrow, June 30 to listen in and ask some hard-hitting questions (e.g. “What’s a TV?” and “Where can I buy new shorts?”).

Tech News Johnb Jun 29 '06

If You’ve Sponsored Websites and You’ve Had Enough

Have you sponsored Gizmodo? If you doubt that Gizmodo was made for love, give Gizmodo one more chance. Slingbox, Best Buy, Sony Blu-Ray, Nokia, Palm, Sprint, Microsoft, HP, Nike, Netgear, Kensington Books, Dice, Mobizzo, Hersheys, BMW, Evian, Mini The sponsors sing BeeGees songs under her skies. https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027

Tech News Johnb Jun 29 '06

SensaTronics EM 1

We saw this yesterday at the suck-tacular C3 Expo here in New York and were pretty impressed. I’m sure the IT geeks out there already know all about this thing, but the EM 1 is an environmental sensor with its own Ethernet interface. You plug it into your network and it sense humidity and temperature…

Gadgets Johnb Jun 29 '06

Edgewing Pain Preventers

The Edgewing is a little hunk of plastic that sticks to your desk and offers a bit of wrist support for heavy mousing. While it is niether amazing or super cool, it actually works. I slapped one to my desk today and it’s quite comfortable. You can buy one or two or get them with…

Gadgets Johnb Jun 29 '06

Pacific Rim Nano Case Giveaway

Sorry that we didn’t post any six-letter passwords yesterday. Nicholas and I were running around and couldn’t get any out. We’ll be posting four today , so keep your wits about you. A reminder: This is first-come-first-served, so be ready to be very disappointed. Once you find a code, visit to confirm it works. Special…

Tech News Johnb Jun 29 '06

Gizmodo SkypeCast: Aaron Keogh of Matrixstream

The Matrixstream set-top platform streams 1080P H.264 video over IP. We’ll talk to Aaron Keogh to figure out how they heck they’re doing it. Click here at 1pm EDT tomorrow, June 30 to listen in and ask some hard-hitting questions (e.g. “What’s a TV?” and “Where can I buy new shorts?”).

Tech News Johnb Jun 29 '06

DIY Outdoor Home Theater

Why fritter away those warm summer months inside when you can set up a full home theater on your lawn? This About.com article discusses everything you need to create your own Bedrock Drive-in right in the comfort of your West Nile Virus Mosquito infested yard. You’ll need a few sheets, a projector, a DVD player,…

Tech News Johnb Jun 27 '06

Sonaplayer Blackberry Video Player in the Wild

Business dorks rejoice! Owners of the 8700 and 7130 can now download Sonaplayer, a video player for RIM’s ubiquitous devices. Thrill as you install beta software! Rejoice as you download video! Wonder at the majesty of it all as you reboot your Blackberry! Cry as you realize you can’t rip your own video yet! So…

Tech News Johnb Jun 27 '06

Pacific Rim Magnesium Nano Case Giveaway

Happy Pre-Fourth of July Weekend! In honor potentially blowing a limb off, we’re offering something that will protect your iPod nano from a direct blast of an M80. The Pacific Rim Magnesium Nano Case will keep your Nano crack and stratch-free for years to come. How can you win one, you ask? Well, we’ll be…

Tech News Johnb Jun 27 '06

The Migraine Zapper in the Wild

Wow. That’s a big Migraine Zapper AKA TMS. This is actually an early model, used only in studies, but I suspect that everything—migraines, the common cold, VD—would go away if you zapped yourself with something like that over and over again. https://gizmodo.com/anti-migraine-machine-just-a-little-push-and-youll-be-182866

Gadgets Johnb Jun 26 '06

SkypeCast Time

It is time (at 2PM EDT), my lambs, to click here to rock out with M-Audio and the Wi-Fi Alliance and their hit new song Polly Wanna WiMax. If you don’t have a mic (or don’t want to talk) and want to ask a question, send a Skype message to any one of us (except…

Tech News Johnb Jun 23 '06

Rail Guns Over Pyongyang

The Navy is working on a 5,000 projectile-per-minute railgun designed to shoot explosive hell on a target up to 300 nautical miles away. While this definitely doesn’t make for good vacation video footage, it does put 100% of North Korea at risk, provided we ever decided to send them a bit o’ honey from the…

Gadgets Johnb Jun 23 '06

This Week’s SkypeCast – M-Audio and the Wi-Fi Alliance

Just a reminder about this Friday’s double-length hour-long Skypecast. We’ve got M-Audio and the Wi-Fi Alliance. Here’s the link to click at 2pm EST—Gizmodo Skypecast. And if you can’t make it on Friday, you can catch the Podcast on iTunes a little later.

Tech News Johnb Jun 23 '06

Anti-Migraine Machine: Just a Little Push and You’ll Be Smiling

Holy wow. You may not know this, but your faithful narrator, me, has migraines that would put a cow under. Every few weeks I get a real scorcher and have to lie down and wait for the pain fairy to cough me back out of her horrible, pressure fitted bowels. That said, there is some…

Gadgets Johnb Jun 23 '06

Sponsors Are the Color of My True Love’s Hair

In the morning, when we sponsor: Nokia, Dice, Mobizzo, Sony, Linux, Palm, Sprint, Nike, Slingbox, Hersheys, Kensington, Microsoft Windows Server, BMW, Gelaskins, Mini, Honda Fit, Evian, Accenture, Netgear Sponsors are the color of my true love’s eyes, in the morning when we sponsor https://gizmodo.com/preview/advertising-with-gizmodo-8027

Tech News Johnb Jun 22 '06

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Gizmodo Skypecast Time

Gizmodo Skypecast Reminder : T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3

Gizmodo Skypecast: T-Mobile Execs Bare All on the SK3

Samsung BD-P1000 Unboxing

Sidekick 3 Unboxing

Gizmodo SkypeCast: Aaron Keogh of Matrixstream

If You’ve Sponsored Websites and You’ve Had Enough

SensaTronics EM 1

Edgewing Pain Preventers

Pacific Rim Nano Case Giveaway

Gizmodo SkypeCast: Aaron Keogh of Matrixstream

DIY Outdoor Home Theater

Sonaplayer Blackberry Video Player in the Wild

Pacific Rim Magnesium Nano Case Giveaway

The Migraine Zapper in the Wild

SkypeCast Time

Rail Guns Over Pyongyang

This Week’s SkypeCast – M-Audio and the Wi-Fi Alliance

Anti-Migraine Machine: Just a Little Push and You’ll Be Smiling

Sponsors Are the Color of My True Love’s Hair

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