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You Are Not Rich, Sophisticated, or Handsome Enough to Own the Tag Heuer Meridiist Phone

Watchmaker Tag Heuer has put up a teaser video for their forthcoming Meridiist phone, and boy is it a slap in the face to everyday Joe Sixpacks like you and me. The phone isn’t really, as one suit in the video notes, “A very nice… a very nice PIECE OF ART,” but when the big … Continued

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Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Cleared by FCC

The highly-anticipated Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 smartphone has been approved by the FCC and helpfully posted on their website so I can spend my Saturday mornings combing through confusingly bureaucratic PDF files looking for announcements like this. The specific model vetted by the fatcats in Washington probably isn’t the one we’ll be seeing here in … Continued

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Windows XP Gets Another Six Months to Live: Will Not Go Gently Into that Good Night

According to a leaked email from a PC OEM, Microsoft has officially extended the life of its now-beloved Windows XP, moving the date of planned obsolescence from January 31, 2009 all the way to July 31, 2009. In the wake of its very expensive ad campaign promoting (in a roundabout way) Vista, the move is … Continued

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Amazon’s Kindle 2 Suddenly Appears

Boy Genius just unveiled shots of what is very likely the Kindle 2. Notice the follow-up to the snowspeeder-like original Amazon e-book reader is more rounded, more early-iPod in its proportions, but still white with the same basic screen. The cool sparkly LCD status bar seems to be gone, a joystick has replaced the clickwheel, … Continued

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DoCoMo DLP Phone Projects TV, Makes Butt Look Big

The NTT DoCoMo prototype phone shown in the video above has an embedded DLP projector, presumably using an LED light source in order to project a respectable 20- to 25-in. video image on the wall a few feet away. The downside, as you can hear from the dude asking questions (AOL Switched’s Tom Samiljan if … Continued

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G1 Pre-Sale Madness: T-Mobile Triples Production, Sells Them All

According to a T-Mobile spokesperson, pre-sale demand on the Android G1 is so big that they have already sold all their units. She says that this is specially impressive because it happened after they tripled the amount of available G1 cellphones. Of course, this could mean anything without knowing actual shipping numbers, but it seems … Continued

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Linux Netbooks Are Returned 4X More Than Win XP Versions, Says MSI

Netbooks were supposed to be this great inroad for Linux development, but it turns out that the XP side of the netbook business is doing a lot better in the area of customer satisfaction: MSI today told Laptop that, according to internal studies, “The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks … Continued

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Music Based on Pi Keeps Bodies Movin’ Forever

I’m starting to believe in those Apatow movies about nerds suddenly becoming popular without having to shed their nerdiness. According to NoiseAddicts, a dude name Paul Slocum—who I’m picturing looks exactly like Michael Cera of SuperBad/Juno/Nick & Nora fame—hooked a crappy old amp to his little laptop, told the laptop to continuously calculate the digits … Continued

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Sony’s Bendy Organic Screen Means Video Clothes, Animated Cereal Boxes At Last

OLEDs are pretty much awesome, but the coolest application, the bendy one, is still tricky, because flexible plastic is more porous than stiff glass, and OLEDs get really upset when they come in contact with oxygen. Apparently, though, Sony and Germany’s Max Planck Institute have cooked up a flexible and transparent organic display that will … Continued

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Blackberry Bold’s US Debut Delayed Yet Again

Say it ain’t so, Joe AT&T. According to RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis, the communications giant has delayed the release of the Bold on their network due to testing, possibly to safely avoid epic, bug-related fails. AT&T did go on record, only saying the phone is still scheduled to drop this year. But the longer you … Continued

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Osprey Gatling Gun Uses Xbox 360-like Controller

Christian from Defense Tech is at the Modern Day Marine Expo, where instead of having girls in mini-bikinis caressing speedboats and yachts, they have girls in mini-bikinis caressing torpedoes and gatling guns. Like this one on board the Osprey, which uses a controller with the same shape and functionality of an Xbox 360 gamepad. The … Continued

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Samsung MV100 and MZ100 Consume Even Less Energy than the Korean Sex Cyborgs Presenting Them

Looks like Samsung keeps pushing for green computing. These computers are Korea-only for now, but the MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower, running on the Intel G43 chipset, consume only sixty watts in “power saving mode” and one watt in stand-by mode. I only have one question for you: Do you really care about how … Continued

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Do You Prefer Playing Multiplayer Games Locally or Over the Internet?

I’ve been on a big Worms kick lately on my Xbox 360. It’s the perfect game for four semi-sober dudes to play together, as its full of dicking each other over and explosions while being slow paced enough for even those with the most dulled reaction times to still participate. But when I’ve tried it … Continued

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The Week in iPhone Apps: Fresh Fring and Other Diversions

Lots of news to catch up on this week from the App Store. So come have a look, iPhone folks, at what you may have missed on Giz this week, in addition to a few of our picks for new apps of the last seven days as always. We’re excited first and foremost that Fring, … Continued

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VoodooPC Will Survive, But Confirms “Integration” into HP

I just got off the phone with Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC, who confirmed that the rumors of Voodoo’s demise were not just premature but “nonsense,” but said “HP is asking us to integrate into the larger execution engine.” Rahul is comfortable speaking both plainly and in business-ese—what we take this to mean is that … Continued

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More Info on the Asus S101, The MacBook Air that You Can Actually Afford

It’s been a while since an Asus product has rocked our world—we think the last time must have been the Eee—but the Atom-powered SSD-based Asus S101 looks amazing for its price—even better than we thought before. Just 2.2lbs and a tapering .7 inches thin (a bit thicker than the Air), its 10.2″ LED screen runs … Continued

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Car Hood Coffee Tables Brings the Garage Into the Living Room

If you’re looking for a coffee table with a bit more personality than yet another flatpacked piece of furniture from Ikea, take a look at Joel Hester’s awesome handmade coffee tables. They’re all made out of the hoods of vintage American cars, making every table one of a kind and each one coming with what … Continued

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LG BD300 Netflix/Blu-ray Player Available for $350 Preorder

First we thought the Netflix-streaming, Blu-ray-playing LG BD300 would be “under $500.” Then we were happy to hear when that cryptic price was actually $400. But now, LG has dropped the BD300 to a competitive $350. Preorder it now at Circuit City or Amazon. Or don’t. We’re not losing sleep either way. (OK, that’s a … Continued

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LED Sports Fan Sign Proves That You Are the Biggest Fan Ever

Attention, sports fans! Are you looking to show your extreme dedication to your favorite team without submitting your body to the discomfort of painting up and going shirtless to a December game in Green Bay? Are you looking for a sign of your fandom that will never, ever make it through airport security and may … Continued

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The Non-Digital Photo Frame, Because We Have a Planet to Save

Everybody has a digital photo frame these days. Even at 32 inches, they impress no one. So keep your eyes out for the next trend, which we humbly suggest could be non-digital photo frames. Making a brief appearance around the turn of the century, these frames accepted one analog picture but were able to run … Continued