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PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year [The Slow Lane]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
The PS3's still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It's launching next year in Japan only. And the launch content seems pretty anemic u

Upside-Down XBox 360, Sofas Kill Fat Children [Gaming]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat --but if

The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees [No More Flintstones Vitamins]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC's latest vote, it can't provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC's 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 milli

Xbox 360 Fall Update Full Details (DivX! XviD!) [Divx On Xbox 360]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
Update: Apparently there's actually something good in this update! Too bad they didn't actually include it in the press release, but the Xbox 360 will support DivX and XviD! Hurray! Here's what we got from the Xbox team: **15. What types of AVI

Hack a Neuros to Play Nice With TiVo: $3500 and Simulaneous Mobile Recording Will Be Your Reward [Home Entertainment]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
This isn't the first time someone has offered a bounty to hack the Linux-based Neuros OSD, but if successful, this hack could have some very interesting implications. The goal is to get the Neuros to piggyback on the TiVos recording schedule and make

Tag Heuer's Cellphone is a Watch Phone? [Gadgets]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
The announcement earlier this week that Tag Heuer was designing a luxury cellphone didn't inspire shock as much as a raised eyebrow, but Biggs the watch fetishist over at Crunchgear dug through his old archives and found this rendering. Dated January

The Best iPhone Book Ever Is Now Shipping [Shameless Whoring]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
If you're planning on buying or gifting an iPhone or an iPod Touch this Christmas, might we suggest the book How to Do Everything With Your iPhone to go along with? It's got lots of tips, tricks, and will even teach you how to jailbreak and SIM unloc

$250 Flat Fee Producers Offer Writers Guild for Internet Distribution Is Way Lame, Still Screws Writers [Scrooged]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
The Writers Guild strike languishes on: Heroes ends for the year next week. In a bid to end our suffering, the producers' trade group has made a "groundbreaking" offer to the Writers Guild, grandiosely titled the "New Economic Partnership." The deal'

Pepsi and Amazon Giving Away 1 Billion MP3s [One BILLION]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
The Great Pepsi MP3 Giveaway returns, but this time with...Amazon? Yup. Starting Superbowl Sunday (Feb. 3), Pepsi's stuffing 5 billion bottles of Coke soda with download codes, but you need five of 'em to get a free song. That's right, there will be

DIY Can Cooler Upgrade For Even Frostier Brew [Hacks]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
The CoolIT USB beverage chiller is certainly one of the more common gadgets of this type on the market, but it does have one major flaw. The fact that the bottom of the can is the only area that comes in contact with the cooling element can result in

Exclusive: Learning the Secret Sauce That Goes Into an OLED High Def TV [Our OLED Odyssey]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("oledfac3_gawker.flv", 475, 286);UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course, the US Department of Defense. No one's written abo

How to Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Headsets [Clips]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("bluetoothhack.flv", 475, 376);Our experience with Bluetooth headsets tells us that you first have to place it into discoverable mode before any other device can connect to it, but this video claims otherwise. The man in the vid expl

Japanese Aquarium Bathroom Makes You Feel Like a Mermaid While You Go #2 [Luxury Pooping]

Friday, 30 November 2007 8:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("aquatoilet.flv", 475, 376);You think your bathroom is awesome? It's not. Check out this Japanese bathroom that's built into an aquarium, featuring a peeping tom of a turtle and a bunch of fish with no dignity. It's a ladies' room, so

Nvidia to Launch GeForce 9 in February? [Gaming]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
According to DigiTimes sources, Nvidia is planning on rolling out GeForce 9 this February. They also noted that the first chip in the family will be the 65nm D9E --complete with support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1. As with all rumors, this

Universal Display's OLED Lab Is an Organic Light-Emitting Disneyland [Our OLED Odyssey]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("oledfac3_gawker.flv", 475, 286);Yesterday, Benny and I visited Universal Display Corporation's headquarters in Princeton, NJ to see exactly how super slim, extra bendy OLEDs are made. We gowned up, donned stylish hairnets and observed

Why Would You Marry a Robot? [Question Of The Day]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
It's Friday, and that means one thing: sex. Or shower. I can't remember what, but the always-fab Regina Lynn's Wired Sex Drive column is out, and while commenting on David Levy's new book Love + Sex With Robots she gives us 10 reasons why she would c

Amazon Kindle Gutted, Splayed, Violated [Gadgets]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
Readers who enjoy the <a href= "http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/our-kindle-verdict/amazon-kindle-real+life-review-verdict-lightweight-long-lasting-and-easy-to-grip-in-bed-325939.php"> Amazon Kindle e-Book reader's concept for letting you consume lit

Porsche Kinderbob, for Only the Most Chic Kids [Winter Sports]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
It's not hard to find items with the Porsche logo on them lately--heck, we're thinking that soon you'll even be able to find Porsche dildos. If you'd like to have just one thing with a Porsche logo on it in your household, this little bobsled for you

The Top 5 iPhone Ad Parody Videos [Funnies]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("itouchadfight.flv", 475, 376); Those man on the street iPhone commercials have inspired a lot of parodies, partially because they're so easy to replicate. SNL did a couple of amusing ones of their own, but YouTube is full of amateur p

AT&T iPhone Data Plan For the Deaf Coming Soon [IPhone]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
Following up on the news that AT&T killed the data-only iPhone plan, an AT&T rep has told us that there was actually no such plan (it was an error on the store's part), but that such a plan will be available in the near future. This means that the he

TiVo-Compatible SDV Tuner May Enable Video on Demand [Gadgets]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
Remember the USB connector device we pointed at a couple days ago that could bring two-way cable communication? It be this Motorola USB SDV tuning resolver. Dave Zatz explains that this tuner, which will plug into the back of your TiVo in order to en

Dealzmodo: Refurbed 30GB Creative Zen Vision: M for $100, 8GB Zen Micro for $70 [Dealzmodo]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
They're refurbs, which makes the deal less shiny than the crapload of cheap Zune 30s, but they come with decent warranties so don't let it put you off. The 30GB Creative Zen Vision:M is $100, which ain't too shabby dealwise. But the real steal here i

Creative Confirms that its Zen is Coming with 32GB Flash Memory [Bigger Zen]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
Last week we showed that Creative was upping the memory of its Zen to 32GB -- well, now it's official. According to the British version of Crave, the powers that be are still being cagey about the launch, but they did say this:Don't expect it anytime

What YouTubeHD Might Look Like [Clips]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
We know that a higher definition version of YouTube is on its way. But just how hi def will YouTube go to keep video streaming instantly and a bit of bandwidth coin left in Google's pockets? Above is an example of a precompressed 960x540 video (not e

NEC Phone Translates Spoken Voice Into Touristy Demands [Cellphones]

Friday, 30 November 2007 4:47 P GMT-06
A newly developed phone from NEC will take the spoken words of Japanese tourists and turn them into an English translation on the fly. The translator's 50,000 word vocab is geared towards the typical tourist pleas: "Can I have a subway route map?" "H

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