Gold Motorola RAZR V3i

The editors at Mobileburn got their bloggy little mitts on a Dolce & Gabbana Gold Moto RAZR V3i. They've a whole pornographic gallery of them molesting it, the dirty perverts. The phone is like the non-bling V3i, meaning it's like an old RAZR, with a 1.2 megapixel camera.

BenLo, Gizmodo's new intern, proved his worth by digging up this link to Motorola's online store, where the Gold Moto can be bought for $600 dollars. For that price, the phone comes with a D&G charm (oh goody.) But what's this? It's also unlocked, so you can use it with any carrier. Also, it's delivered to your doorstep by a pair of virgins.– Brian Lam

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Xbox 360 HD DVD

Digitimes of Taiwan seems pretty darn sure that the Xbox 360 HD DVD is going to be released for $200. They also seem pretty sure it's going to be available by Christmas, but that's something everyone pretty much figured already.
External drives have more flexibility than built-in models, the companies pointed out, while adding that despite BD having a much larger storage capacity than HD-DVD, pre-installation of BD drives may decrease the market competitiveness of PS3 units.

We're not sure where their sources are from, but they could be from Taiwanese manufacturing companies that are contracted to actually build the HD DVD unit. Either that, or Digitimes is just making stuff up. – Jason Chen

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Aigo F029 Watch All-in-One Media Player

This is the F029 watch from Aigo. It is a little different from the average MP3 playing watch out there because it has a full color OLED screen. It plays MP3 and WMA and it can even play MPEG-4 video on the 160x128 pixel screen. Included will be 512MB or 1GB of memory and, oh yeah, it can tell time. But that is the least important feature. – Travis Hudson

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Homemade Solar Cell

With The Man jacking up energy prices, it's probably not a bad idea to start investigating the benefits of solar power. (No, nobody cares about energy derived from the wind, Netherlands, thank you very much.) The solar panel in question is made from cuprous oxide rather than the usual silicon. Science Toys has the step-by-step instructions on how you can turn a trip to the local hardware store into a fun afternoon building a device capable of delivering a whopping 12.5 microwatts of power. Isn't learning fun?

Admittedly, this is more of a proof-of-concept than anything else since you probably won't even be able to power light bulbs or anything, but soon enough we'll be able to build bigger cells with bigger solar panels until we make a cell so large it will destroy us all. (Or something to that effect.) – Nicholas Deleon

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Earphones and Earrings in One

The quest for de-uglification of earphones continues, and here's a pair cleverly disguised as earrings. From EarMecca of Korea, the EP Series Earphones might even appeal to persnickety types. The earrings are available in 10 different designs, are crafted in either gold or silver, and are adjustable even for those ears that hang low and wobble to and fro.

If they sound nearly as good as they look, these designers might be onto something. But then, these graphics we found don't show what happens to all those wires leading to the music player. Now if they could design these with Bluetooth in each ear ... well, we may have to wait a few years for that. Available now in Korea; no word if they will be available in the United States or at what price. – Charlie White

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Comfort Sphere for Captive Audiences

The Comfort Sphere was designed by Volkswagen for trade shows, but might be a great idea to enhance the work and concentration required of writers, think-tankers, and hey, maybe even a blogger or two.

Winner of a RedDot Design Award for 2006, it's a self-contained audio and video womb which invites you into it innocently enough, and then once you're sitting down, it wraps around you and practically forces you to stare at only the highest-end audio and visual entertainment. Certainly not for the claustrophobic.

Looks like a perfect environment in which to brainwash somebody. It was designed for trade shows, and we say, good. If they're going to brainwash us anyway, they might as well make us comfortable and show us some decent-quality video while they're at it. – Charlie White

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Logitech Wireless DJ

I had some cozy time in a hotel bedroom with a preproduction Logitech Wireless DJ. This music streaming system uses Extended Data Rate Bluetooth to let your PC, the fancy remote and the receiver talk. Yes, Bluetooth, even if the spec sheet doesn't admit it. That's because this system is practically dummy proof, and aimed at those who don't really care about the tech behind the music. You do, though, don't you? Jump for more pictures of the remote and more details of this pretty little setup.


The DJ's USB dongle communicates with the remote and the receiver (300 foot range, by Logi's measure.) Software on the PC called Streampoint, launches iTunes, or WMP in the background and pushes the music to the player. The cool thing is that you can use your iTunes and WMP playlists, and DRM'd content, too. Over at CNet, John Falcone likes it, referring to it as the "Poor Man's Sonos." But doesn't like the remote's scroll wheel. I didn't like the fact that the bluetooth receiver and remote can't be used with a laptop's built-in Bluetooth module. The system supports MP3, WMA, AAC, and Internet Radio. I can't remember if the remote can control multiple modules, but I think it can. Hits the streets in September, and costs a surprisingly high $249.– Brian Lam





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Nokia N73 3.2-Megapixel Cameraphone

Nokia's N73's main feature is of course, the 3.2-megapixel camera. The camera has a Carl Zeiss auto-focus lens, which makes taking pictures a snap. The shutter works the same way as standard digital cameras, with the "auto-focus" part activating when you press the button halfway, and capturing the picture when you press it down all the way.

The other features are similarly impressive: The Nokia S60 3rd Edition OS, 3G UMTS on 2100MHz band in Europe, EDGE compatibility in the US, miniSD slot, QVGA screen, second VGA camera on the front for video conferencing over 3G networks, stereo speakers and great reception. There's three different color schemes this cellphone is available in: gray/plum, white/red, and white/mocha.

As of now, it's not available in the US, but can be purchased unlocked for use on US GSM providers. – Jason Chen

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LogiNoki, The Nokia 6610 + Logitech G5 Hybrid

This Frankenstein of a mod is the LogiNoki, a Nokia 6610 LCD stuffed inside a Logitech G5 mouse. Why anyone would want to create such a thing is beyond me, but then again, I voted Kodos. Apparently the projecte was inspired by years of trying to figure out how to put a fan inside of a mouse. (Not everyone can discover the cure to polio, you know.) Check out the creator's thrilling step-by-step of the project; it'll surely kill at least a few minutes. – Nicholas Deleon

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Electrolux Cyber fridge

Here's the next generation of that goofy idea of combining computers and refrigerators, the Electrolux Cyber fridge, whose next-gen innovation is its LCD screen mounted atop the box instead of on the door. Smart thinkin', Electrolux, because now that crowd of people reading email, buying and ordering food and reading Gizmodo in the kitchen won't have their concentration interrupted when you open the door to do something that normal people do in that room: get something out of the refrigerator.

But wait, isn't that a touchscreen up there? Apparently only the taller members of the household will be allowed to use this PC. Anyway, when are these appliance companies going to give up on this lame idea? People who have enough money to buy such a high-end refrigerator are probably smart enough to know what they have in the refrigerator and what they need to add to it or not. Give it up, dopes, nobody's that stupid. – Charlie White

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Mind Controlled Wheelchair

This prototype mind-controlled wheelchair developed from the University of Electro-Communications in Japan lets you feel like half Professor X and half Stephen Hawking—except with the theoretical physics skills of the former and the telekinetic skills of the latter. A little different from the Brain-Computer Typing machine we saw a while back, this thing works by mapping brain waves when you think about moving left, right, forward or back, and then assigns that to a wheelchair command of actually moving left, right, forward or back.

The result of this is that you can move the wheelchair solely with the power of your mind. This device doesn't give you MIND BULLETS (apologies to Tenacious D) but it does allow people who can't use other wheelchairs get around easier. – Jason Chen

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Side by Backside of PS3, Xbox360, PS2

A hands on of a Playstation 3!

Actually, its a PS3 photo prop made of wood, and unlike Pinocchio, no matter how hard the fanboys at Radar cry, its not going to turn into a real one. They fondled, and found that the 1:1 scale replica is all curvy, rotund, and fairly obese next to all the other consoles that passed on dessert. Must be from eating too many Memory Sticks.– Brian Lam

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A Tungsten Needle

The picture you're looking at on the left is the tip of a tungsten needle, which happens to be the sharpest object ever made by man. How sharp is it? Well, you see those red and black orbs? Those are ATOMS! And the tip of the needle? One single atom.

Postdoc Moh'd Reqeq at the University of Alberta and the National Institute of Nanotechnology made this through a process that involves electric fields and crazy chemical reactions. We hear Reqeq's inspiration for this came from the combination of a fellow postdoc accidentally eating his lunch and watching too many episodes of HBO's Oz. Let's see of James forgets whose lunch is his once he gets a tungsten shiv in his side. – Jason Chen

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Remote Control Humans

Mad scientists in the UK figured out how to steer humans via remote with so much accuracy, they could steer test subjects through a botanical maze, blindfolded.

How did they do it? The scientists from Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, and University College London electrically stimulated the subjects' semicircular canals. That subtly forced the participants to change paths to maintain balance. The researches see the technology being incorporated into physical therapy, and virtual reality. We can't wait for all the new pranks, and the house-broken zombie hordes.– Mark Wilson

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Multimedia Keyboard: Zune Dock

Our tip box this morning taunted us with tantalizing shots of the Razer Pro|Type Multimedia Keyboard that allegedly docks with the Microsoft Zune media player. Sketchy information so far tells us the keyboard will be released in November of this year, and there will also be models of this well-appointed input device that are compatible with the iPod.

Calling it "the world's most intelligent keyboard," Razer claims it will have 32kB of memory onboard, plenty of programmable hot keys, line-out for audio peripherals and a couple of USB ports as well. Pricing wasn't announced yet. Hey, get me one of these, pronto! – Charlie White

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Samsung SCH-B470 Has Picture-in-Picture

For those of us in the United States who someday hope to enjoy digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) on our cellphones here (currently it's only available in South Korea), we can only drool over the Samsung SCH-B470, a DMB phone that also lets you watch two shows at once with its picture-in-picture (PIP) goodness.

It's also pretty cool the way that screen rotates and flips back into the clamshell when you're not using it, and it also has an MP3 player and 2-megapixel camera onboard. Someday the United States will have such technological marvels. – Charlie White

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Bamboo Speaker

The bamboo portable speaker, Bird-Electron EZ-TAKEGTF2. This speaker is made from bamboo called the Japanese SuSu bamboo, it is a special type of bamboo which is smoked and aged for close to 100 years. The speakers utilize the resonance of bamboo.


No power source needed. The bamboo speakers can be plug into any audio device through its stereo-mini plug. This bamboo speaker is available at Japanese Gadget Exporter AudioCubes for $199.

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Ferguson Hill FH007 transparent speaker system

I've seen some very stylish PC speaker systems of late, but I think the Ferguson Hill FH007 is just about ahead of the pack.

They're not the cheapest or the smallest (the main speakers are 43cm tall and the whole set-up might extend beyond most desks), but they should boost the level of cool in your office.

If it's not obvious from the picture, these speakers are transparent, which (ironically, giving what I've just said) is supposed to give an illusion of space. What you get for your money is a pair of horn speakers, two bass speakers and the small square amplifier. Connection to your PC or portable music player is via the stereo phono jacks and a minijack.

Only 100 will be available when they go on sale next month, so if you're looking to add some style to your office, get saving up the £600 now.

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Hair gel fixes scratched CDs

Do you have problems with scratched CDs or DVDs? This tip from Ben at om3ga might help you out. He has tried different methods of removing the scratches,


and found out that one of the best ways of removing scratches is to use hair gel.

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Spotbit FREE e-magazine under threat

Spotbit has recently launched their own free e-magazine about the latest technology gadgets and products earlier this month. Now they are facing another warrant from Zinio, a commercial e-magazine company (profiting from selling magazines online as distributor). Zinio claims that Spotbit uses material from their publications but has no evidence on which content has actually infringed their copyright.


Thus, Spotbit claims to be using material found on the internet from public domains and official sites for their magazine. The dispute goes on, and while we are hoping to get some free magazines released in the internet, Zinio on the other hand is making sure that there are no free magazines circulated. For those of you who have no idea what Spotbit is all about, grab a free copy at http://www.spotbit.com and be the judge.

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World’s Most Photorealistic Vector Art

Look at this!! Thought it was a photograph but actually is not, it’s a Vector drawings using gradient mesh and it is 100% fully drawn using Adobe Illustrator. It’s amazing. More pics…








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3D Swimming Pool

Decorating your swimming pool? Take a look at this; this is the 3D swimming pool. They tiled sea creatures with shadow which making the creatures into a 3d look. It’s a hard work and it’s amazing. I wish to have one of this at home, where’s my little mermaid. More pics…





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Aigo F529 1GB Omnisphere digital audio system

No, it's not a trendy air freshener, it's a digital music player. More specifically, it's the Aigo F529 1GB Omnisphere digital audio system.

The F529 is an integrated MP3player/amplifier/speaker system. It's got 1GB of built-in flash memory, which should be good for around 250 MP3 files or 500 WMA files, transferred onto the player via USB. If that's not enough, you can expand via MMC/SD card. There's also 360 degree "omni-directional sound" - so stick it in the centre of the room and enjoy the same quality, wherever you are through the the speakers, which also feature 5-watt output Dynamic Bass Compensation for richer bass.

The system also lights up with different mood colours via a high illumination LED featuring 4096 colours, which can be set to mimic your music. Working from the mains, there are no clunky buttons interfering with the magnificent design - just sleek, elegant curves creating a sensual feel to the device - guaranteed to light up any home or office environment. The F529 also features an auxilliary input also featured on the device if you want to use it as a speaker system.

It's available now, priced around £70.

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Peugeot 908 RC released

Pegeuot has released its new 908 RC concept, powered by a monstrous V12 that generates 700hp and 885 ft-lb torque. This model will be on show at the Paris Auto Show this coming September. Not much detail has been released yet. More pics on Peugeot 908…








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Thanko released BINOCA01 with Video Recording

Binocular with camera and video recording, Thanko released BINOCA01 with a 2-megapixel CCD sensor, powered by two AA batteries and picture taking in various resolutions like VGA 640 x 480, SXGA 1280×1024, UXGA 1600×1200 and QXGA 2048×1536. Video is recordable in AVI format in CIF res at 30 fps and in VGA res at 15 fps. You can also use it as a webcam too.

But unfortunately it does not have a LCD screen or slot for memory card and you’ll be using the internal memory of 32 MB only. Transferring files via USB host and measures 116 x 67 x 37 mm weighs 215 grams. It is available for 146,800 Yen ($145) in Japan.

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3inc VGA LCD from Samsung

Samsung announced their world’s first 3-inch 640 x 480 LCD display for digital cameras. It features 260,000 colors, 350:1 contrast ratio, and 300 cd/m2 brightness. Digital camera makers use an interface known as ITU-R601, an international standard for cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs that operates at 30Hz which is incompatible with LCDs that normally run at 60Hz.

Samsung’s new LCD operates on 30Hz which allows VGA images to be transferred from a digital camera without having to create another interface.

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Remove Run Command from Start Menu

Run on the Start menu can be a real nuisance for those who share their PCs with others. Tinkering causes so many computer problems, and there’s no quicker way to foul up a PC than mess with System Files or the Registry, all of which can be accessed through tools and utilities that launch from the Run command, so hide it!

It’s really easy using this simple tip from Propellerhead, just right click on the Start button and select Properties then the Task Bar tab and click the Customize button, followed by the Advanced tab.

Scroll down the ‘Start Menu Items’ list to Run Command and uncheck the box, click OK, then OK to exit the dialogue boxes and it’s done. Don’t forget, there’s more tips than you can shake a stick at over at PCTopTips

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New Ultracapacitor Batteries Recharge in Seconds

One of the downsides to all of the toys we apparently cannot live without out these days is the need to keep charging the darn things. Most gadgets nowadays are powered by Lithium Ion rechargeables, which take between 1 and 5 hours to top up, so a big round of applause to researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who have come up with ‘nanotube’ batteries, which can be charged in just a few seconds.

In fact the batteries are really capacitors, or ‘ultracapacitors’, which store an electrical charge, as opposed to batteries, which generate electricity through chemical reactions, but the end result is the same a little box full of enough volts and amps to power our widgets. As well as super-fast charging the new power packs are reputed to have a 10 year life (Li-Ion packs deteriorate from the day they’re made and generally don’t last much beyond 5 years) and if the scientists have got their sums right they should have a storage capacity around 25 times greater than li-ion batteries of the same size.

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Real Swing Golf - indoor fairway fun

I've seen some very stylish PC speaker systems of late, but I think the Ferguson Hill FH007 is just about ahead of the pack.

They're not the cheapest or the smallest (the main speakers are 43cm tall and the whole set-up might extend beyond most desks), but they should boost the level of cool in your office.

If it's not obvious from the picture, these speakers are transparent, which (ironically, giving what I've just said) is supposed to give an illusion of space. What you get for your money is a pair of horn speakers, two bass speakers and the small square amplifier. Connection to your PC or portable music player is via the stereo phono jacks and a minijack.

Only 100 will be available when they go on sale next month, so if you're looking to add some style to your office, get saving up the £600 now.

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CinePlayer PDP100: the thin DVD player you can wallmount

Can't decide on the sort of art to hang in your living room? Ever considered putting your DVD player on your wall?

Most DVD players are bulky, unattractive boxes that you try your best to disguise underneath your TV (unless you're really into metal boxes), but the CinePlayer PDP100 from NuTech is just 18mm thick, and works just as well vertically as it does horizontally.

Features are a bit thin on the ground - but hey, what does it matter when your home electronics double up as modern art?

What? OK, well it does play MPEG4 and DivX - as well as ordinary DVDs of course. And it should come with a price tag of sub-£100, so it won't break the bank even if you really ought to be holding out for a new high-def DVD player.

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Blog Feeds Vulnerable to Embedded Malware

SPI Dynamics Security Engineers participating at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas have engaged in a presentation in which they highlighted the vulnerabilities
associated with RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds or Atom formats. According to
Caleb Sima, chief technology officer and Robert Auger, security engineer at SPI Dynamics Inc., malicious JavaScript content could be embedded in the RSS feeds in order to find its way to the data feeds subscribers.

Malicious JavaScript code disguised within the text of a data feed could be transferred via the RSS of Atom formats and executed by the subscribers through a limited technique as of now dubbed feed injection. Sima discussed the presently limited spreading of the feed injections techniques, but warned that proof-of-concept for these variants of cross-site scripting attacks is going to increase its area and become a major threat. Sima ultimately stated that this issue will start at the publisher level, and that the responsibility for providing secure RSS feeds fall on the shoulders of the data feeds providers.

Robert Auger mentioned Bloglinesa web-based reader, RSS Reader, RSS Owl, Feed Demon, and Sharp Reader, out of the software readers, as sharing one form or another of this vulnerability, emphasizing that the list was incomplete, comprising only the already confirmed vulnerable readers. He also advised that a temporary workaround security solution is to disable scripts, applets and plug-ins from launching concomitantly within feeds. "Wherever you get data from you can't assume that data is good," he stated.

Sima warned that rendering the JavaScript inoperable is not a solution as RSS and Atom feeds are stored by blog readers as HTML files on the subscribers local HDD, bypassing the Web browser's security settings. He also stated that a viable security solution is the re-encoding of all JavaScipt content, a process that renders it harmless.

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Vista Opened to Malicious Code Injections

On the proverbial ten yard line for Microsoft’s latest operating system, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, security expert Joanna Rutkowska from the
Singapore-based firm COSEINC, has demonstrated a method to bypass the
protective mechanisms in Vista and perform a malware code injection. Rutkowska proved possible the hacking of Windows Vista 64-bit edition’s kernel via a virtualization tool. Once Vista’s panoply circumvented, the researcher successfully installed the Blue Pill rootkit.

Rutkowska’s demonstration revolved around bypassing the operating system’s integrity-checking process responsible for managing the loading process of unassigned code into Vista’s kernel. "The fact that this mechanism was bypassed does not mean that Vista is completely insecure. It's just not as secure as advertised," she commented, "It's very difficult to implement a 100% efficient kernel protection in any general-purpose operating system." The Blue Pill rootkit is a personal creation of the security researcher build on the basis of Advanced Micro Devices' Secure Virtual Machine, Pacifica.

Rutkowska’s Blue Pill was especially designed for Vista, but the researcher demonstrated how the malware could be revamped via polymorphic features in order to become adaptable to additional platforms where it can perform backdoor functions. Rutkowska also claims that the Blue Pill’s stealth characteristics make it virtually invisible to software-based detection, although hardware-based identification may prove to be a viable solution.

Microsoft representatives confirmed Vista’s kernel vulnerability and promised to address the issue. In Vista’s defense, Microsoft's director of the Windows client group, Austin Wilson stated that Rutkowska's code-signing bypass techniques are functional only if the operating system is running in administrator mode. "If you're running as a standard user, this wouldn't work," he noted. "But we're still looking at blocking this type of attack."

"Windows Vista has many layers of defense, including the firewall, running as a standard user, Internet Explorer Protected Mode, /NX support, and ASLR, which help prevent arbitrary code from running with administrative privileges," a Microsoft representative noted.

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The Self-Destruct Button USB Hub

Considering the huge number of USB hubs available on the market, it's pretty clear that the only way a new device of this type can enjoy some level of success is to have a very interesting design, since its basic function is shared by so many devices. And the device you're about to see really fits the profile, since it sports a very cool design, especially for the SF buffs.


Thus, the Self Destruction Button USB, presented by GeekStuff4You and developed by ZariganiWorks, looks, as you can plainly see from the picture, like a self-destruct system from a SF movie, although its only real function is to host the 4 USB ports that can be found in its lower side.


This very special USB hub measures 100 x 67 x 80 mm (quite small, which makes the quality of the details even more amazing), weighs 215 grams, and could be a very nice addition to your collection of weird/cool SF-inspired devices.

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