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Toys

9 Classic Analogue Games Defiled By Digital

8:20AM Sean Fallon | So, I’m doing the Mindflex game review, and I start thinking about the evolution of classic board games. Personally, I like the fact that many of them got a 21st-century makeover. These 10 games may have purists thinking otherwise. More »
Software

The iPhone-to-Android Switch: What You Need To Know

7:40AM Matt Buchanan | You’ve had it. Maybe with your mobile phone service provider. Maybe with Apple’s crushing, dictatorial grip strangling the App Store. Whatever the reason, you’re going to Android: Land of freedom and the great Google. Here’s what you need to know. More »
Design

Ask The Artist: How Windows 7’s Home Screen Evolved

6:00AM Dan Nosowitz | Chuck Anderson, creator of Windows 7’s laid-back, cerulean-cool default wallpaper and login screen, showed me the evolution of his work — including Easter eggs, avoiding Mac tropes and why flaming skulls didn’t make the final design. More »
Software

Giz Explains: Android, And How It Will Take Over The World

2:00AM John Herrman | This week we met Motorola’s Droid, the first handset with Android 2.0. To an outsider, it just looks like another Google smartphone, but 2.0 is more than that: it’s proof that Android is finally going to take over the world. More »
Gadgets

Your Views Inside The Workings Of Our Gadgets

10:00AM Adam Frucci | For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to show us how your gadgets really work. We all know there’s something fishy that makes everything run, and it turns out that thing involves Chuck Norris and animals making shadow puppets. More »
Vehicles

Tokyo Motorshow Wrap Up

11:06AM Damian Francis | The Tokyo Motor Show is still kicking on. It will be open to the public until November 4, but the media is well and truly done with it. Now that all the manufacturers have played their hands, and the shit (in some cases) has had time to settle after hitting the fan, it seemed like a good time to sit back and take stock on what eventuated from the 41st Tokyo Motor Show. More »
Software

Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps: October ‘09 Edition

8:00AM John Herrman | Each month, the best new iPhone apps — and some older ones — are considered for admission into Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps Directory. Who will join? Who will live? Who will die? More »
Random Stuff

I Ate The Windows 7 Burger

2:00AM Jason Chen | Today I ate two things: whale steak and the Windows 7 burger. Only one of these meals made me want to vomit. More »
GPS

Google Navigator For Android Review: Far From Perfect

11:16AM Wilson Rothman | As you know, Google’s freebie turn-by-turn navigation app for Android 2.0 surfaced this week. After driving around our patented testing track for a few days, I can tell you what’s great—and what’s surprisingly bad—about it. More »