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Friday, August 21, 2009
Games

Samsung’s Icon Phone Range Has An OS For Everybody (Except OS X)

3:27PM Nick Broughall | Like a shotgun in the face of dumbphone owners everywhere, Samsung has blasted its new Icon range of smartphones onto the Australian market. The highlight? The Android powered Galaxy. More »
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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Gadgets

Samsung’s Holographic Gesture-Based Eye Candy Upstages Product Announcement

1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | At the announcement of their new superfast Jet phone, Samsung used used Project Natal-esque holographic gestures for effect. The Jet seems cool, but we just want to hear more about the holographic gimmickry! More »
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Phones

Samsung’s New ‘Viral’ Video Doesn’t Even Try To Look Real

1:00AM Adam Frucci | Maybe I’m a cynic, but this seems like the laziest stab at making a “viral” video yet. Samsung wants to promote their new Jet phone, so they pretended they pulled a crazy stunt in London. More »
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Vehicles

The Supersonic Concorde Jet: Can We Go Back To 1979?

4:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Many of our Gizmodo ‘79 posts have illustrated just how far we’ve come in the past three decades, but in one important tech example, 1979 kicks 2009’s ass: The Concorde Jet. More »
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Phones

Samsung Jet Actually Rocket Powered: 800MHz Processor, Cube Interface, Webkit Browser

12:12AM Matt Buchanan | The Omnia 2 sounds pretty good, but the Jet sounds slightly more interesting—proprietary OS aside. It’s got an 800MHz processor (obviously they’re not afraid of touting what’s inside like Apple), a surely funky six-sided Cube interface, and a WebKit browser Samsung calls Dolfin which will come to other Samsung phones in the future (okay, that’s what I’m most excited about). No carrier in the US yet, but it’s UTMS, so probably AT&T, if it comes here at all. More »
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Vehicles

Jet-Powered Batmobile is the Flattest Car Ever

3:10AM Jason Chen | This crazy, crazy “Flatmobile” is going to enter the Guinness books as the flattest vehicle ever. How flat is it? Nineteen inches. I think that’s about how flat we’d be if we laid on our backs (depending on what’s on our minds and what we ate for lunch). Not only is this Batmobile-like contraption dangerous, it’s extremely dangerous—creator Perry Watkins shoved a gas turbine jet engine on the butt. It’s also supposedly street legal, but we wouldn’t want to be in it during a rollover. Or when the jet turbine catches fire because the AFTERBURNER FAILED. See that video after the jump. [Flatmobile via Nexus 404] More »
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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Jet-Powered Semi Truck Races Plane

7:50AM Seamus Byrne | This video of the world’s fastest truck racing a plane makes me ponder: Why don’t they put jet engines in more vehicles nowadays? Jet fuel is cheaper than regular unleaded now, right? Might as well just slap the jet engine onto the back of my Civic. –Travis Hudson [Via Techeblog] More »
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Friday, May 4, 2007
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World’s Fastest Toilet is Jet, not Fart, Propelled

11:35PM Seamus Byrne | Well, Flame Grill my Whopper and call it Professor Caractacus Potts! Is there nothing sacred any more? Not even those precious moments when a man wants a little peace in the world so that he can go about his daily business without being disturbed? It seems not, but then the British always were a little strange. This is, apparently, the world’s fastest toilet. Powered by a Boeing Jet engine, the $10,000 vehicle’s top speed is in excess of 70mph, and it farts flames from its tailpipe – rather like, I would imagine, a man forced to eat ten vindaloos one after another. There’s a video, as well another pic of the flaming khazi in action and its inventor, Paul Stender, all after the jump. More »
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