I would like to introduce everyone to my new friend, Tanga. What is Tanga? Here I'll let them explain:
Tanga is the cool place to come to find incredible deals on all sorts of cool, geeky stuff. Every night at 7:00 PST (10:00 EST) we will launch one incredible deal to the eagerly awaiting public
Anyway, today's Tanga is the Philips Shoqbox PSS120. This is a portable MP3 player with integrated speakers. Not only that—it includes an FM tuner and an auxiliary input for other portable media players. This model includes 512MB of internal memory and carries an MSRP of $170, but most places sell it for $100 plus. So this is quite a deal on a portable media player/speaker set.
Props to our compadres over at the Consumerist for finding Tanga. Hopefully their daily deals will continue to be as good as this. – Travis Hudson
Just launched from T-Mobile, these tattooed MOTORAZRs let everyone know that even though they've been around the block a few times, they can still break a pool cue over someone's head with the best of them. Designed by Ami James, the tattoo artist on Miami Ink, the dark grey "Dragon" and the pink "Cherry Blossom" still have the old RAZR V3's VGA camera, but work with T-Mobile's myFaves, which you can read more about here.
T-Mobile still doesn't have the MOTOKRZR, so if you want a RAZR, you're pretty much stuck with these. No word on whether these tattoos can be removed once they get married and have kids. – Jason Chen
Hopefully you didn't get too excited about our recent post about Enviga, the Coca-Cola Company green tea that apparently claims to burn more calories than it contains. Our Consumerist pals are the ones with the whole truth, and they found that the research behind this claim is bogus. Studying the fine print, they discovered the study only had 32 people participating, and all were of normal weight. Plus, the results showed no difference in fat burning between the ones who drank this swill and those who drank up a placebo version of it.
Come to think of it, Coke never did "officially" mention anything about weight loss with this drink, however, when you see the words "the calorie burner" directly above the brand name Enviga, one might be led to believe this could slim you down a bit. Or was that just wishful thinking on our part? But you called it, readers: 62.5% of you said "I call bullshit" in our Gizmodo Enviga poll. – Charlie White
Among the saving graces of hyper-expensive factory-installed GPS systems are niceties such as steering wheel-mounted controls. LG adds that convenience with its LAN-SD460, a combination GPS navigation system and portable media player which also has DMB to receive those digital broadcasts in Japan. All of that video content shows up on its larger-than-average 4.1 inch screen. That steering wheel control lets you adjust the volume, channel, and zoom, keeping your hands where they belong. Just don't be watching that digital TV while you're driving.
Although this particular device may not show up in the States, we're hoping the idea of including a steering wheel-mounted control device with these portable GPS and PMP units will become a commonplace feature. We're big fans of most GPS devices, but have noticed that sometimes they can be distracting to the point of being dangerous. Well, especially when you're using four of them at the same time. – Charlie White
Yeah, this lock has a fingerprint-reading scanner tucked underneath, but we're not sold on the idea that it'd deter a burglar from breaking into someone's apartment. Nevertheless, the $249 lock can register up to 50 different digits and can be used on pretty much any door. It also comes with two back up keys. We'll stick to our tazer glove instead. – Louis Ramirez
Sony also said that they may have to revise their annual earnings outlook for this year because of the battery non-sense and also to compensate for a price cut for the PS3 in Japan. Damn, Sony. Looks like it may be a tough year. – Travis Hudson
The only thing that gives away this retro Bluetooth handset from ThinkGeek is its tiny blue LED on the mouthpiece, peering out when connected, and letting you know that this is not your grandfather's telephone. And, oh yeah, there's no curly connecting cord, either. Sync it up with your cellphone and you're off and running, up to 30 feet away using Bluetooth 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. Kinda reminds us of that retro Skype phone.
Impress people with your quaint, old-fashioned allure, and hope at the same time they think it's charming when you talk to yourself on an old-fashioned telephone handset that's apparently not connected to anything. Yes, they'll really like you for that. I would. It's 40 bucks. – Charlie White
E-mailing our Luddite family members has never been as easy as it should be, especially when grandma still insists the Internet is a series of tubes. Enter the HP Presto. This sucker instantly prints incoming e-mails so grandma-ma can focus on drinking her prune juice instead of having to remember her screenname and password. The printer debuts next month for $150 bucks (service is $10/month or $100/year). Kinda pricey if you ask us. Sorry, grandma. We don't love you that much. – Louis Ramirez
Say you've got a swingin' bachelor pad complete with copious amount of liquor and West African art hanging on the walls. What you need now are these LED-laden pillows to light up the bedroom, giving it that certain je ne sais quoi. Certain to impress dumb blondes, these pillows can either be battery-operated or you can plug them into an electrical outlet. Best not to put your head on it if your hair's wet. It's $499 per pillow.
Ok, these pillows are pretty awesome, but not $500 awesome. – Nicholas Deleon
While we've enjoyed our HondaJet which we use to link our transcontinental Gizmodo team together (I'm lying), we've grown tired of that and are now ready for our PiperJet, a single-engine, six-passenger aircraft that can fly at 414mph at 35,000 feet with a cruising range of 1496 miles. It's just perfect for our six-man crew, capable of carrying a fully-fueled payload of 800 pounds, and here it is in its Gizmodo livery, ready for some high-altitude, but not necessarily high-brow, blogging.
Only problem is, we'll have to wait until 2010 for delivery, but the price is right, especially for a full-fledged jet: $2.2 million. If GizTraffic keeps booming the way it is now, that 2010 timeframe ought to be just about right. After all, we're number one, aren't we? More pics of the jet after the jump. – Charlie White
Even though their competition has yet to debut, Microsoft has gone on the record and admitted to working on a successor to the 360. No specific details were given, but when asked about a follow up to the 360 in a video interview with online gaming site Kikizo, Chris Lewis, the head of Xbox Europe, went on the record saying, "you can't sit back on your laurels in this business--the consumer won't let you, the developers certainly won't let us. So that's happening right now." Personally, we're just waiting for Halo 3 to come out, but if you've got some advice/pointers for the MS folks, feel free to share. – Louis Ramirez
The water salesmen have reached a new low with Bling H2O, arriving into the greedy paws of supersuckers in a 750ml bottle coated with Swarovski crystals and costing upwards of £30 ($56). If that doesn't make your blood boil, consider that the horse-faced Paris Hilton was seen pouring a drink of this shit for her little doggie. Grrr.
We're reminded that things like this happened just before the fall of the Roman Empire. Could the past be prologue? – Charlie White
An "extremely well-informed exec" tells Trusted Reviews that the 6G iPod will be released in December, and it will be capable of 480p resolution. The source confirmed that it will be a touchscreen model with virtual click wheel control, but made no mention of whether wireless connectivity would be part of the package. Added the source, "This is why Jobs isn't afraid of the Zune."
We've seen the iPod touchscreen patent documentation, and we've entertained countless rumors and even reliable tips about the upcoming device; what we need to see now is a real picture of it. One thing's for sure, if this widescreen iPod is released in the next two months, the Microsoft Zune with its old-fashioned 4x3 screen and crippled WiFi will be slam-dunked. – Charlie White
Apple is sure going to be pissed when they find out Motorola is invading their turf in Cellphone Rumorville, U.S.A. These mockups of the E9 candybar phone have surfaced. Along with the mockup comes some mighty impressive specs. This phone will have a 2.4-inch display, 3.2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth 1.2 and even Wi-Fi connectivity. No word on anything about this phone from Motorola, but we'll keep you posted as the rumblings come in. – Travis Hudson
A UK company has figured out a way to keep online supermarkets as competitive as possible with mySupermarket, a website that lets you pick out items and then compare the prices for that shopping cart full of food between the four major online supermarket chains in the UK. A running total shows you the price of the goods as you choose them, directly comparing the four supermarket prices. Once you've finished shopping, pick the lowest-priced store, and with a single click mySupermarket will send your order to that supermarket's website for online checkout.
What a great idea! Now, if we could just get even one online supermarket that doesn't take a one-way trip down the road to financial ruin here in the US, someday we could get started on something like this. Maybe online supermarkets are unsuccessful in the US because of the distances involved. Or maybe it's their super-slim profit margins. – Charlie White
We've shown some love for Tumi backpacks in the past, so it's no surprise we'd fall head over heels for their new limited edition backpack which charges your gadgets via its built-in solar panel. Designed by famed Brit sculptor Anish Kapoor, the bag has a removable solar panel, padded laptop sleeve, and a water-repellent exterior. It'll set you back $695 bucks, but the full proceeds go to Doctors Without Borders. Click on for some foxy backpack pics. – Louis Ramirez
One of those America-hating, hippie organizations going by the name of SWAMP (Studies of Work Atmosphere and Mass Production) created a robot called Coke Is It that is programmed to kill itself. Good message to send to the kids out there, SWAMP. The robot is programmed to find puddles of Coca-Cola (you know, the big, faceless corporation that's sucking all the mako out of the planet) on the floor then suck it up using an electric pump. Then, the robots sprays itself with the Coke and the acidic nature of the Earth-killing soft drink eats away at the robot's "skin." After the skin is sufficiently worn away, Coke finds its way into the robot's circuitry, leading to its "death." Very subtle metaphor, fellas, as the video demonstrates.
Now excuse me while I drive my big SUV down the block in order to purchase ozone-depleting cans of aerosol spray and non-biodegradable styrofoam cups. – Nicholas Deleon
We showed you one way to how hack an ATM a couple of weeks ago (we noticed that video is no longer available for some reason), but here's a guy who had an even better way. Somehow, he got his hands on a secret code that tricked an ATM into handing him free money. The override code made the machine think it was full of five dollar bills when it was actually full of twenties. The guy used an untraceable pre-paid debit card and for every $250 he withdrew, he was actually getting his hands on $1000.
A footnote to the story: this ATM was handing out four times the amount people requested for nine days before one honest woman fessed up, admitting she had received more money than she should have. What would you do? – Charlie White(Thanks, Jaan!)
The chances of this being a final production Wii are pretty slim, but this video shows that even the forthcoming console is susceptible to the ol' system freeze. Hopefully they'll get that fixed cause the alarm-like noise in the background is definitely annoying. – Louis Ramirez
IE7 finally ships in its finished form today, and the guys at Laptop Magazine say that it improves on Firefox in some key areas. Among its new features are tabbed browsing just like Firefox, an integrated RSS reader and plug-in support. Sound familiar?
Overall, the interface is far leaner and more polished than IE6 and even more convenient than the beloved Firefox 1.X releases... In the grand battle between Firefox and IE, we think that IE has a bit of an edge in this release, although the Firefox 2 betas we have seen will catch it up a bit. Many of the things we like about Firefox have been implemented in IE7 and have been polished to be more streamlined and useful.
Microsoft says IE 7 is a lot more secure than its predecessor, so that might improve one of the most glaring problems with Internet Explorer 6. But better than Firefox? We're going to have to try this for ourselves. Either grab it for yourself when it's offered up for download soon, or it will be pushed upon you via Windows Update sometime in early November if you have Service Pack 2 installed. – Charlie White
LG already has the "cellphones with stupid names" market corned with the Chocolate, but now it hopes that the Shine will do just as well, if not better. Part of the company's "Black Label" series of pseudo fancy cellphones, the Shine packs a 2-megapixel camera and 1GB of onboard storage space; presumably, you'll be able to add to the storage with the use of memory cards. As the picture so plainly shows, the body is of the shiny metal variety, giving a sort of brushed metal effect that Apple loves to tack onto its applications nowadays. The Shine is also able to set user-recorded video and set it as the wallpaper. Nifty.
If the Chocolate can make it stateside, I don't see why we won't see Shine sometime in the future. LG, just let it ship with a certain buttery beat as a ringtone (think "Shinin'" from Lumines), and this will be a hit. – Nicholas Deleon
Now you can be like Lt. Uhura and stick that Bluetooth headset in your ear with this Asono Freebit-H1, giving you nine hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby. Its Norwegian makers at Asono have somehow shoehorned all those electronics into its tiny form factor, making it quite a bit smaller than the one Uhura wore. It'll be available for 84 Euros ($105) in Europe first.
We're liking the way this one looks, with its promise of unobtrusive comfort. Hopefully it'll be available stateside before too long. Closeup pics the headset and a Scandinavian babe wearing it, after the jump. – Charlie White
Love it or loathe it, cricket is in the nation’s blood. It might be the TV equivalent of watching the World Crocheting Championships for some but the sound of a solid ‘thwack’ of bat on ball is enough for many grown men to desert their wives in the summer for the TV. Well, that and the athletics, the rugby, the rowing, the show-jumping, the Grand Prix and snail racing....
Now you can play cricket on the TV too, thanks to Plug ‘n’ Play Cricket. You get a sensor-loaded plastic bat and ball. The bat allows you to hit oncoming bowls on the box while the ball actually has to be bowled – although not let go – and the system detects just how much force and spin you have generated. And all for just £40 here.
SLAM! That would be the sound of your wife leaving you.-Martin Lynch
Where do I start? There’s not a lot of devices left that don’t have a clock stuffed into them somewhere – blender alarm clock anyone? But do you really want to wear a clock disguised as a T-Shirt like some public service idiot?
Meet the T-shirt with a digital panel that displays the time for everyone to see. It is powered by a detachable battery pack and users are advised to unplug the pack before washing. It might sound obvious but hey, people are involved so anything can happen.
It even has a stopwatch so that you can accurately record just how many seconds it takes for some joker to walk up an ask: “Hey mate, have you got the time?” Hilarious. I reckon, less than 20 seconds before the the first joker emerges and less than five minutes before you’re kicking the crap out of one. Yours for £30.–Martin Lynch
I covered some early clips of this new Sony Bravia TV ad last week, the successor to the Balls campaign. Now you can see what all the fuss is about.
Above is the full ad. Without a doubt it looks great and Glasgow has never looked more colourful. How much paint? About 70,000 litres delivered in trucks by the tonne. After all, painting tower blocks, council flats and playgrounds using explosives and fireworks is a messy business.
I think all local authority painting should be carried out with such abandon.
We've covered the bounceback ABS backup drives before, but they've got a new version and a new spokesman. The ABS Plus drives range in size from 40GB to 160GB, and work on both PC and Mac. Whenever you plug in a BounceBack Professional-enabled drive, it automatically initiates an entire backup of your machine, ensuring you've got all your data safely tucked away even if your machine is misplaced, damaged or confiscated.
These drives have revolutionized the way I backup data, and transport it. This is the hottest computer tech item I've discovered in the past three years, a long period in computer terms."
Take it from their spokesman Pete Townshend, who's had one or two problems with his data over the years. – Jason Chen
We love us some HDTV, so when Pinnacle gave us a first-hand look at their new PCTV HD Pro Stick we were all over it. A smidgen thicker than your average thumb drive, the Pro Stick delivers free over-the-air HD programming straight to your PC via a USB connection. It comes with a portable antenna so you can use it with your laptop when you're on the road and it also comes with an A/V adapter that'll let you hook up a cable/satellite set-top box straight to the Pro Stick. If the thought of being able to watch over-the-air HDTV from your laptop gets your juices flowing like it does ours, click on and ogle at our first-hand pics. – Louis Ramirez
The Ainol V100 isn't just an MP3 and video player with a gorgeous 2.5-inch QVGA screen, it emulates old school NES and Sega games as well. Inside its brushed metal body, there's a ADI Blackfin processor running at 400MHz which plays back NES ROMS, SNES ROMS and Sega Megadrive ROMS along with MP3s, WMAs, FLAC and AVIs. Of course getting those ROMS through backdoor channels isn't too hard, but they're of questionable legality.
We're not sure how SNES games will be played with only four buttons, but thems the breaks. There's also only 512MB of space on the drive, which makes us suspect things are kind of tight over at Ainol.
In conclusion, we know all want Ainol, but we can't have Ainol—it's only available in China. – Jason Chen
Bowing to RIAA pressure, Creative's released a new firmware update that removes FM recording functionality from already-released Zen Vision:M players. If users are retarded obedient enough to update, the firmware will also add Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Turkish language support as well as adding a few more rating options to your player.
If you've already updated to 1.50.02 without realizing this kills your FM recording, you may be able to revert to an earlier firmware (we haven't tested it). Personally, we hate to see technology stifled by outdated business models and greedy record execs, but what do we know—we're just consumers. – Jason Chen
Paranoid about everything? The Sharp SH903i might be your dream phone. It has facial recognition software, linked through its 3MP camera, so you can lock up your phone's keypad and data with your handsome mug. In addition, the SH903i has a user activated privacy filter so that no one can see your screen from the sides. And if you're scared of the West Nile Virus, it even has an ultrasonic mosquito repelling system built in.
We'd call it perfect for neurotics, save two things...(jump)– Ben Longo
It's not just a phone headset. We think its kind of like a super hearing gadget that can work as a walkie talkie or give you super sound hearing. They're for people who want to hear better in all situations... while looking like a huge dork with a Bluetooth headset on their ear. Two models, PSS-SoundMate and PSS-SoundFlavors offer specialized Bluetooth functionality—not just for calling—for your hearing-holes. And PSS headsets are incredibly tiny.
With four useful modes for changing the way it amps up sound. First...
After NEC's selling off of Packard Bell to eMachines co-founder and Chinese entrepreneur Lap Shun Hui, the count of Chinese-owned PC manufacturers is now officially at two (the other is Lenovo). Then again, it's not like anybody has purchased a Packard Bell desktop since 1994, but this move may signal a re-entry into the market, possibly on the low, low, eMachine-low-end of desktop sales by a once dominant force.
Next up, Michaer Derr changes his name and sells his company, putting this lame joke out of commission for good. – Jason Chen
We've seen a few car-oriented Sony PSP peripherals, but none as versatile as this one. Game Tex Japan offers this £10 suction-mounted holder with a flexible arm that lets you position your PSP precisely where you want it, turning a full 360 degrees for those odd-angled situations.
This goose-necked holder might come in handy as you adapt your PSP for GPS duty, or as you see in the picture above, you can clean your fish while you watch a flick on the PSP in your kitchen. Be sure to put a plastic bag around that player to keep those flying fish guts where they belong and away from your precious PSP. – Charlie White
Apple just called Giz Editor Noah Robischon to apologize about a few video iPods—less than 1%— that shipped with the Windows virus RavMonE.exe. The virus snuck onto iPods made after September 12th, via a Windows assembly line machine. The bug won't cause any damage to macs and iPods, but it will reduce the security of Windows machines that the dirty pod passes the clap virus onto.
Wait...September 12th? Is this some sort of 9-11 sequel? Bombs in iPods? Before we know it, DHS will be screaming to get these motherf**#ing pods off our motherF&*$king planes. Apple's official line is...
Why would Samsung make a mouse that's just 8mm thick? Because they can, and even though this one's so thin, there's still room for a thread-like retractable cable inside. Its blue LED gives it a mildly ominous look, and atop that backlight is a scroll wheel that moves from left to right instead of up and down, for some reason we can't discern. Plus, it has five buttons that you can program to your every whim.
This is probably more engineering exercise than practical product, but it looks cool and will certainly fit perfectly in an overcrowded overnight bag. – Charlie White
Stick up this LumiPad refrigerator magnet, and its motion sensor will trigger your written message to start wildly flashing in your co-inhabitants' faces when they walk by.
It uses your choice of three included colored pens with special glowing ink, and when you turn on the LumiPad your missives light up like a neon sign. Available in a desktop model for around £30 and this refrigerator magnet for £20, they both use four AAA batteries, and even when they wear out, the text is still slightly visible.
This looks like a fun way to communicate, and would have been especially handy back in the days before cellphones took over the world. – Charlie White
Yeah, I know there are some Vista enthusiasts out there dying to see a picture of this beauty. But here she is—the official Microsoft-licensed remote control for Windows Vista. It looks like a pretty average remote control, except for the big ass blocky black buttons around the middle. It does have a unique form factor with squared corners that is supposedly easier to hold and uh, sit on a table. – Travis Hudson
Toshiba's palm-sized DLP projector packs a 800x600 pixel punch, and unlike other experimental mini-projectors of its ilk, this one's fo' reals. Accentuating its portability, the company made it so that it will run on batteries for a couple of hours, and it even pumps audio through an onboard speaker for a completely self-contained guerrilla theater. Two hours? Hey, that's just long enough to watch a movie on its included 23-inch foldout screen.
Our pal Peter Pachal at Sci-Fi Tech laid his eyes on this £400 baby, and calls its brightness and color "decent," even when viewed on a bright tradeshow floor. Sounds perfect for the next time you get stuck in an elevator—plug in your iPod and screen a few episodes of Six Feet Under while you wait to be rescued. – Charlie White
Thanks to SlingMedia, University of California Bears football fans were able to watch their beloved Bears in a bit of a different manner this past weekend. Roughly 3,000 fans showed up to the Cal stadium to watch the Bears play Washington State, but the game wasn't in California, it was in Washington. The game was being shown on the Cal jumbotron with the help of a SlingBox streaming the content. It's pretty awesome to see a device as little as a SlingBox have such a big application and affect so many people. – Travis Hudson
Firefox, the browser that hath taken back the Web, is inching closer to another release milestone, version 2.0. Release candidate 3, or RC3 for the nerds in the house, might well be the last release candidate before version 2.0 officially goes live. What are some of the features you can expect to enjoy (or hate) once you upgrade? I think a jump is in order.
We're barely seeing 1080p content and yet the guys over at Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) have already made plans for a 47-inch Quad high-definition display. Quad HD would dwarf today's 1080p (1,920x1,080) sets with a 3,840x2,160 resolution (1440p). CMO's 47-inch LCD panel, which is said to be slated for the second quarter of 2007, would carry a 1,500:1 contrast ratio, dual-link DVI, and HDMI 1.3. And of course the all too sexy 1440p resolution. As for us, we'll stick with our 1080p set for now, thanks. (Even if it's still at the store and not in our living room). – Louis Ramirez
Yeah, this lock has a fingerprint-reading scanner tucked underneath, but we're not sold on the idea that it'd deter a burglar from breaking into someone's apartment. Nevertheless, the $249 lock can register up to 50 different digits and can be used on pretty much any door. It also comes with two back up keys. We'll stick to our 
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E-mailing our Luddite family members has never been as easy as it should be, especially when grandma still insists the Internet is a series of tubes. Enter the HP Presto. This sucker instantly prints incoming e-mails so grandma-ma can focus on drinking her prune juice instead of having to remember her screenname and password. The printer debuts next month for $150 bucks (service is $10/month or $100/year). Kinda pricey if you ask us. Sorry, grandma. We don't love you that much. 
Even though their competition has yet to debut, Microsoft has gone on the record and admitted to working on a successor to the 360. No specific details were given, but when asked about a follow up to the 360 in a video interview with online gaming site 
Love it or loathe it, cricket is in the nation’s blood. It might be the TV equivalent of watching the World Crocheting Championships for some but the sound of a solid ‘thwack’ of bat on ball is enough for many grown men to desert their wives in the summer for the TV. Well, that and the athletics, the rugby, the rowing, the show-jumping, the Grand Prix and snail racing.... 
Where do I start? There’s not a lot of devices left that don’t have a clock stuffed into them somewhere – 
Editor and Contributor | Martin Lynch
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