Samsung Upstage Gets Flaming Red Paint Job
Posted by Seamus Byrne at 11:47 PM on June 13, 2007
So it turns out the rumors were true. Samsung's two-faced phone, the music-playing Upstage, got a Ferrari-red paint job this morning.
The phone has a tiny LCD on one side (for making calls) and a bigger screen on its backside to show music info. Other features include Bluetooth 2.0 and access to Sprint's music store. The phone is out today on Sprint.

Despite it's annoying name, the N!ergy tent has good intentions. It comes with three 12V outlets that keep your gadgets juiced while you're roughing it in the great outdoors. You'll need the E! Power Pak (an extra $50) to power the tent, but once you're up and running you can forgo the whole nature thing and listen to your iPod while playing with your DS (and still have room for 1 more gadget). The 8 person tent goes for $279.
So, Lord Steve of Jobsworth carries his
There's now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why does this matter, I don't know. But the thing is that some people believe is real and we are going to say it's fake: it's fake. There. Fake fake fake. Fake.
It is fake - not for obvious reasons, like "Steven P. Jobs" being in focus while the surface onto which it has been stamped is not - but because we actually have the real picture. Which shows that the image above has been retouched - intensely - after the jump.
NVIDIA has just released their new top of the line GeForce 8700M GT, just in time to remind you that no matter how cool your
Megatron, man. What happened to you? Before this Michael Bay movie, you had some balls. You used to turn into a giant gun, or a gun that Starscream could pick up and shoot those goody-two-shoes Autobots with. A giant gun so big that Dirty Harry would have splat like a bug on a 80mph windshield if he had to deal with the recoil. Some kind of crazy f'd up die-cast Decepticon Walther P-38. But no more.
Now look at you.
Because bleeding Halo fanatics out of $130 for the Halo 3 Legendary Edition really only
Thanko's usually known for their heating gadgets, but cooling's just heating in reverse. In the case of this USB ass cooler 2007 edition, Thanko's improved on the 2006 edition by making it black and, uh, we're not sure what else.
Still no clue whether they solved that fart potential blowing up into your face problem though.
This is something we didn't expect. Unlike
To follow up on our previous
HTC's Touch, the touchscreen (TouchFLO) phone from Windows Mobile maker HTC will be launching in Taiwan first, and then making its US debut sometime before the end of the year.
If there's one thing we never thought would be a cellphone strap, it would be lingerie. Well, never count out a horny Japanese businessman, we suppose.
For about $9, you can get your own bra or panties to attach to your cellphone. It's just a gimmick, and it's tiny, so it's probably the only lingerie your wife will permit you to have that doesn't belong to her. Unless, of course, you've been fucking a midget on the side.
If you ditched your watch because you carry a phone around with a built-in clock, but are sick of pulling your phone out every time you want to check the time, you should check out this Haptic Clock. It's a small program for Java phones that tells you the time through a series of vibrations, allowing you to keep your phone in your pocket.
Simply reach in your pocket and hit the 5 key to get it to tell you the time. How does it tell it to you?
It's been a month since our last entry in
Video-philes with a control streak can invest in this HC-300 Home Controller to do all their turnings on and off in glorious high definition. Not only does the $699 HC-300 support 720p, there's a brushed aluminum chassis, Zigbee wireless technology, IR ports, Relays and tons of outputs in the back as well.
What's the point of this? Just to have a richer GUI compared to other home automation solutions thanks to the HD output. Because we all know how inconvenient it is when you meant to wirelessly shut off the TV but turned off the light instead. Boy, that's a problem the average working man can relate to.
Remember those
Hello, I am the Brute Squad and this is my friend Patsy. Looking at the latest product pics, some people are saying that the iPhone is now smaller than it originally was. The fact is that its dimensions have not changed.
See, what happened is that here Patsy was the first hand model for the iPhone money shots. The thing looked so big in his tiny hand that some people thought
I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, "Why can't these be jewel-encrusted?" Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, the Philips-Swarovski Active Crystals collection is due to arrive in the US this August, and we've got the exclusive first look at the lineup.
In an attempt to cover musical source preferences past and present, Philips has created two stereo systems that will sell for $199 when they arrive in early fall.
Hearkening back to the past, the systems play CDs, even the burned kind that hold MP3s and WMAs. Solidly in the present, they are both full-fledged iPod docks. The BTM630 (above) even plays song files from SD or MMC cards. Looking towards the future, both systems can receive stereo Bluetooth signal from handsets including, yesiree, the iPhone (Hey, Philips said it, not us).
Jump for a shot of the modular BTM628 and the press release.
Thought
We wrote about these
Are you a four-year-old boy with $55,000 in disposable income sitting around? Well then, son, have I got the product for you. Just think of it as the biggest toy ever.
It's a life-sized replica of a Camarasaurus, one of the less popular kids at the dinosaur cafeteria table. But hey, that doesn't make this lumbering herbivore any less impressive. Standing 18 feet high and stretching 55 feet long, it'll make your birthday party the social event of the school year. So what are you waiting for? Have dad get your checkbook and become the most popular kid around.
There was a reason ZFS wasn't named-checked as one of Leopard's
Hey guys and um, our 5 female readers. I need a bit of your help.
Business 2.0 remembered just how much they like their tech and gadget news with a big slice of fun, and made Gizmodo the dark horse late addition to their "Who matters now?" poll -- a list of 101 interesting tech personalities that are so absurdly powerful and rich, that its insane we're even on the same list as them.
Charlie did a post about this early in the morning, which was really flattering to me specifically, but honestly, that's not even close to the truth of what is going on here. (Cheese ball writing mode ON.)
You know those scratch cards that are covered with silver latex, letting you try your luck at the lottery, or as we call it here at the Giz, the "stupid tax?" Some crazy Brits covered a whole SUV with the stuff, and somewhere underneath were the winning words. Whoever revealed them took home the truck.
Perhaps as a symbol of unbridled greed, the Chevy Captiva "Scratch Car-d" was parked on top of 16,995 pennies, intended for use as scratching utensils. After 14 hours of frenzied scratching, thousands of panels were revealed, with one big winner. Crazy way to get yourself a car, but it sure beats a dance marathon.
Investing a lot of money in a sweet home theater setup can be well worth it if you're a TV or movie buff with a generous bank account. But hey, why spend all that money to get a huge TV and nice speakers for your living room when you can spend the same amount on some mediocre gear crammed in a pool table?
Samsung is dropping an upgraded version of their T9 music phone, dubbed the T9+, that features some additional wireless sharing features. It's got the Zuney song-sharing functions that the last incarnation had, and it ups the ante by allowing wireless games to be played with anyone else with a T9+ within 30 feet. There are already a few multiplayer games made for it, with more on the way. It's all well and good, although I think you'd be hard pressed to find a situation where you're with a group of people where multiple T9+'s will be present.
It's headed to Korea first, with English software updates coming soon to prep for a North American version.
Now that ATI has finished rolling out their
Eye-Fi's looking to give your digital camera a nice upgrade this Fall when it introduces its first 2GB Wi-Fi SD card. The card will let any SD-friendly camera upload pics wirelessly to photo blogs or to your PC. Pricing will be a bit steep ($100), but it beats buying one of those fugly Wi-Fi cameras.
It's time for the $150 battle in our running
Clear off the back of your desk, because this set of FH007 transparent speakers will reveal the world beyond them for all to see. It's an odd configuration, with two large oval-shaped transparent drivers pounding out the bass, and then two circular speakers taking care of the left and right channels.
Powering everything is a 4x 16-watt cube, letting you plug your PC, iPod or any other audio source directly into the system without needing an amplifier. Take the jump for one more picture of these see-through baubles, and some pricing info, too.
I'm not sure how they did it, but some crafty hacker has managed to cram a Mac Mini inside his Apple SE/30 turning his old-school Mac into a modern day all-in-one. Sure, you'll be running OS X in black and white, but think of how cool it'll look as your DVD slides out from your SE/30's front vents.
Looks like uninterruptible power supply manufacturer Remio has decided to try their luck with their HC series. They got some plastic cubes, make them into dice and fill them with everything they could find, from powered USB ports for charging your gadgets to audio input and output ports. They even included two speakers along with the surge protected plugs for power cords, fax and CATV coaxial connections. Full specs and a diagram showing all its faces after the jump.
Now it makes sense why Apple released Safari for Windows. Steve must love his Windows security jokes so much that he decided Apple should create a browser that exploits them even more.
Currently only six bugs have been found. Four involving Safari crashing & two that allow remote code to be launched. Currently there's no official word on whether or not these can be recreated on its OS X counterpart. So for now we'll call this a sneak attack, or maybe a beta. Yeah, beta sounds better
The obsession with thin and shiny above all other characteristics is apparently moving out of the gadget world and into the less-appropriate realm of furniture design. Take a look at this Isis chair, for example: it's a mere 3cm thick when folded up for some reason.
See, to me, that's not a selling point. I like to have some cushioning to make a chair, you know, comfortable. I'm not going to be hanging this on my wall; it doesn't have to deal with taking up too much space on my desk. So while I'm sure this is a marvel of design, I don't want to get my precious ass anywhere near it.
Need to expand your Internet connection to another part of your apartment? Netgear's new XEPS103 PowerLine Extender can turn any electrical outlet into an instant Internet connection. As a bonus, if you have a Netgear router, it'll replace your router's power adapter and still double as a network extender. Speed-wise you're looking at 85Mbps. The Extender is out now for $80. A full kit (with the XE103 Wall-Plugged Ethernet Adapter) is coming this summer.
If you're looking for a perfect match for your Mac Pro, Apple Cinema display or MacBook Pro, you may have just found it with this Kensington Ci70 wireless desktop set. Somebody with some design chops just got on board at Kensington, because this baby is thin enough to be a runway model, has a slim mouse that docks into the keyboard, and it's made of titanium. Woo, woo.