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June 2008



Nikon D700 DSLR Official: D3's Big Sensor In a Smaller Body for $2999 [Nikon D700]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
It's real. The mid-range DSLR you've been waiting for: Nikon's D700 DSLR packs the D3's supernaturally low-noise 12.1-megapixel full-frame image sensor into a smaller, lighter body, for only $2999. The only thing you really sacrifice is a smidge of

Tiwi Blackbox for the Car Tattles When Your Kids Speed [What Privacy?]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
<img src="http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/bilde.jpg" height="378" width="340"align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2"/>I love driving fast, but when I have kids, I'm going to put them in the slowest, safest car imaginable, wrap pillo

Mac mini Rack Lets It Hang Anywhere, Adds Front USB 2.0 Ports [Mac Mini]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
The Mac mini looks good because the front is completely minimal. Unfortunately, that makes the front completely useless, and a pain in the ass if you have it set up where you need spelunking gear to get to the USB ports. Enter the unfortunately named

Video Ringtones For iPhone Revolutionize Answering Your Phone [Iphone Ringtones]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
What's more awesome and annoying than regular music ringtones? Video ringtones. iFoneTec have developed VideosTone, which lets you play back a standard formatted-for-iPhone video whenever someone calls. You can pick different ones for different peopl

Chinese DIY Helicopter is the Culmination of 10 Years of Ingenuity, Possible Mental Illness [DIY Flight]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
newVideoPlayer("/diyheli.flv", 506, 414,""); A DIYer from the Guangdong Province in eastern China has finally perfected his sub-$3000 home-built helicopter, taking it for a demonstration flight in what appears to his back yard. A tinkerer since he dr

Hey Commenters, Can We Have A Talk ? [Comments]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
For all you commenters, this post is intended for you. We at Gizmodo want to go over a few things. Off topic comments, a new comment specific email address, and reasons we ban are on the agenda. So if you're a frequent commenter or just starting out,

Gizmodo's iPhone Application Contest Reminder [Contests]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
Developers, developers, developers! Our iPhone Application Contest is still going on and we're just waiting for your juicy submission. Did you mkae something that will revolutionize the (fill in your industry) industry? Send it on in! See here for de

PS3 BlackBerry Skin: Pretend You've Got a BlackBerry Bold [BlackBerry]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
We're not the only ones who've noticed the resemblance between the BlackBerry Bold's new UI and Sony icons and the PS3's XMB. So if you want a taste of that on your BlackBerry Curve or 8800 without upgrading, you can just grab this pretty solid PS3 s

Official Nikon D700 Photos Leaked? [Digital Cameras]

Monday, 30 June 2008 10:47 P GMT-06
Nikon Rumors offers this photo and more as official pics of the D700, with no text explanation. Look real to you? Either way, the rumors are true of a midrange cam with a D3 sensor are worth getting excited over. [Nikon Rumors] Original Ent

Sprint Airave Femtocell Launching Nationwide July 15 [Unconfirmed]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
It's been a while since we've heard about Sprint's Airave femtocell—basically a little box connects to your router and sends your calls over the internet so you have cell service even where you don't—but it looks like it's finally set to launch natio

Verizon and Sprint Both Getting Blessed With HTC Touch Pro and Diamond [Rumor]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
If you're craving HTC's Diamond or Touch Pro (aka Raphael) it looks you're going be satisfied no matter what carrier you're on. Phone Arena says the CDMA flavors of both will hit Sprint AND Verizon, so there's no need to bounce to another carrier to

Mac Pro Overclocking Tool By ZDNet Boosts Cheapo Model to Whoa Mama Model [Overclocking]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
ZDNet's come up with a software-based app to overclock processors on the Intel 5000 and 5400 chipsets, which (as of right now) is the Mac Pro and Xserve. Apparently ZDNet Clock is so good, the cheapest 2.8GHz Mac Pro outperforms the 3.2MHz Mac Pro, s

Sony Patent Hints at PlayStation Phone, Possible Mystery Device? [Patents]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
The prospect of a PSP phone looks even more likely now that we've seen Sony's patent for a touchscreen handheld. The patent describes a device with "digital tactile pixels" that respond to touch and give feedback via vibration. This patent was submit

Panasonic TH-50PZ850U Reviewed: Beats Pioneer Kuro in Color and Detail, But Not Black Level [Plasma]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
Gary at HD Guru probably puts TVs through the most insane, obsessive test gauntlet of anyone. He just stacked one of Panasonic's latest, the TH-50PZ850U, against a Pioneer Kuro, once and future King of Plasmas. Basically, while Kuro is blacker (court

Verizon's LG Dare Full Review (Verdict: Best iClone Yet) [Cellphones]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
"Dare to be different," the saying goes, but the LG Dare is really Verizon Wireless's attempt to fit in, to offer a phone that's more like the AT&T LG Vu and Sprint Samsung Instinct, not to mention Apple's similarly priced iPhone 3G. The truth is, th

Nintendo Famicom Business Card Holders Combine Your Idealistic Childhood With Your Sellout Adulthood [Famicom]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
What better way to bring your childhood into the present with these Nintendo Famicom business card holders. Your $8.80 will get you one random cartridge or controller, which may or may not be a that really horrible knockoff one made by that one lousy

Kilmatec's AirWater Machine Can Extract 5 Gallons of Water From the Air in 24 Hours [Magic Water Cooler]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
According to Kilmatec, their Base 1 AirWater Machine can extract up to 20 liters (around 5 gallons) of water from the air in a 24 hour period. Unlike a common dehumidifier, it also makes that water suitable for drinking by running it through a carbon

TiVoRemote App Updated with Slick GUI and Handy Features [Tivoremote]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
TiVoremote, the iPhone / iPod touch Telnet TiVo Remote app, was finally updated a few weeks ago with an ooey gooey GUI, and some really useful new features. Now at version 0.23, the app can now detect TiVos on your home network, allowing for easy sel

The T3 Makes a Guy Wearing a Bike Helmet on a Scooter Scary as Hell [Crowd Control]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
For the most part, I wouldn't consider a police officer or military personnel riding down the road on a scooter as intimidating. However, if that scooter happens to be Lamperd Less Lethal's new T3 Mobile Defender, there is definitely something to be

Netflix Keeping Profiles! The Internet Works! [NetFlix]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
Thanks to the uppityness of internet users, Netflix is keeping their profile scheme. Brian will be able to keep his Blaxploitation movies separate from his girlfriend's "morbid documentaries," which should keep both of them happy enough to not kill e

Netgear's WGR614L $69 Open Source Router [Routers]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
Netgear's new WGR614L is an open source 802.11g router, able to run lots of firmwares already built by the community. So do many other routers. The sell here is that they've beefed up the usual specs beyond what's necessary for the usual packet direc

Chronotopic Anamorphosis: a Fancy Name for a Trippy Video Effect [Video]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
This crazy video is the test of some new video software that had a clip "digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by

OS X Leopard 10.5.4 Update Is Here [Leopard]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
It's been only a month since the 10.5.3 update hit, but 10.5.4 is here now to fix a handful of issues you might have. It's a "stability, compatibility and security" update, which also improves camera RAW image support, VPN connectivity, AirPort relia

Guy Makes a Comic to Try to Justify Acting Like a Jackass at the Apple Store [Bad Customers]

Monday, 30 June 2008 6:47 P GMT-06
Jim Dougan wanted to install an Airport Card in his wife's MacBook. He realized that a normal screwdriver wouldn't open the case to allow him to do so. A Google search would have shown him that he required a Torx Wrench #8. He did not make a Google s

Thousands Of Cow-nosed Stingrays Migrate To New Seas

Monday, 30 June 2008 5:16 P GMT-06
The great ocean migration... thousands of majestic stingrays swim to new seas By Marcus Dunk Like autumn leaves floating in a sunlit pond, this vast expanse of magnificent stingrays animates the bright blue seas of the Gulf of Mexico. Taken off the