According to CrunchGear's John Biggs, the second-ever Android cellphone doesn't come from Motorola, Nokia or Sony Ericsson. The Zzzphone is a full-QWERTY keyboard Chinese slider which apparently runs the Android operating system, and has a web site designed in 1994.
It not only runs Android, but it also seems to have mutant powers. This thing can do absolutely everything:
Welcome to zzzPhone; the world's first unlocked quad-band mobile featuring the Google Android Operating System. It not only works everywhere in the world, but also can be built and personalized per your custom requirements with GPS, Wi-Fi, your choice of seven colors for cases, and 15 other optional buy-ons. This powerful smart phone, with up to 32GB of memory, also happens to be the world's first phone with snap on modular accessories such as full QWERTY keyboard, mini boom box, projector, ect.; making it the most versatile and adaptable phone on the planet.
Enhanced features include: The world's first phone with snap-on projector, the option to add a full QWERTY keyboard, upgrades to 4 stereo speakers, an extended battery that lasts up to 2 weeks, and MORE!!!
"MORE!!!"? More than all that? John says that he has bought one himself, which they said is coming in 10 business days. For how mucho dinero, you ask? With all those things and possibilities, it sure must be $400? $500? No. It's just $119. And for a few dollars more, you can even buy it in a different color. Cheaper than the G1 and the iPhone. You can even buy a gold and diamonds version for $225,000. Or just wait for John to get his base model and wait to see it it's just made of cardboard or blows on his ear.
Friday, November 28, 2008
ZzzPhone Is Second Google Android Cellphone Ever
Friday, July 11, 2008
17 Cool Speakers Designs that Look Better than They Sound
Home audio speakers are designed to sound great, but many designers take it to the next level and create something so sexy that people can’t help but stare. They know what they do, because in these days a product that looks good has better chances to be sold. These creative speaker designs that you’re gonna see in this post combine both style.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Polymorph Robot Mimics 'Human Joints And Muscles'
Using polymorph plastic, some curtain rods, electric screwdrivers, motors, and a whole lot of mad-scientist creativity, an Xrobots hobbyist created this organic-looking robot base. By using wooden sockets and curtain rings as hip joints, the designer is clearly going for a human-like creature of doom here. Knee joints are kept moving with four moto
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Diggers do you want a girlfriend? Read this and learn how
Diggers have no fear The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The Internet is the real world as this geek learned how to master it, By the end of the year, he had six girlfriends simultaneously, all maintained through a complicated system of instant messenger, e-mail messages and heavily orchestrated dates.
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Why Canada Sucks For Gadget Lovers
Canada was always kind to me, providing cheap higher education, affordable healthcare and a government that didn't totally suck. I loved living there, and haven't ruled out moving back. Yet beneath its placid exterior, there is a deep, dark secret threatening the life and liberty of its people: It absolutely blows to be a gadget nerd in Canada
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Gizmodo's Ultimate Water Gun Battlemodo Royale
There are few things more enjoyable on a hot summer's day than an epic water gun battle with some friends. In the end, everybody wins, because everybody gets soaked and cools down. But you don't want to be caught with a crappy gun; then you'll just be the guy that everyone else gangs up on. We don't want that to happen to you; we're here to help.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Sharp’s 108” LCD TV on sale for $185,000
Sharp recently announced that it will begin selling its 108” LCD TV in the U.S. in September and if you are planning on buying Sharp’s 108” TV you may want to hold off on that next Ferrari...
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Nokia buys Symbian!
Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.
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65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year
Exclusive video of the Lego Cathedrals, eight massive Lego storage buildings with 65.6-foot high ceilings, a 65.6-square-mile shelf space, and dozens of giant robots going up and down retrieving boxes full of bricks. "I felt like I entered the Matrix. Below the thunderous noise of the flying machines, I heard myself shouting: 'It's a cathedral'".
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Meet the Man Who Could Destroy Photogragraphy
Julius von Bismarck's 'Image Fulgurator' projects stealth images into the photographs of strangers, while keeping those images invisible to human eyes. Depending on whom you ask, it's either a clever hack or an obnoxious intrusion. Naturally, we had to find out more.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Sweet 1:5 scale A-10 Warthog remote control model
Here's the 1:5 scale A-10 Warthog remote control model in some video action at Top Gun 2008, in Lakeland, FL.—the biggest remote controlled airplane competition in the world. And to match it, a real A-10 appeared in the scene, taking off from a parallel runway. We interviewed Mike Selby, one of the model creators, and got all the technical details
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Biggest RC Airplane Competition in the World (VIDEO+PICS)
Top Gun 2008, the 20th anniversary edition of the biggest RC model competition in the world, starts tomorrow. Five days of pure nerdgasm watching the most stunning, biggest and best remote control aircraft in the planet. The ultimate toys this side of a real fighter jet.
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World’s First Energy Efficient OLED Lamp
"It’s an exciting time for OLED technology as it finally begins to integrate into the home and designers start to realize its potential for efficient and inexpensive lighting solutions in a variety of stunning new applications. Resembling a tiny tree blossoming with lucent leaves, Ingo Maurer’s Early Future lamp is the world’s first OLED lamp."
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HOWTO: Build A Spy GPS Tracking System
"The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. The Tracker responds to text message commands, detects motion, and sends you its exact position, ready for Google Maps or your mapping software."
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Greener Gadgets Design Competition winners
In case you don't know, the Greener Gadgets Conference is a gathering in New York focused on cleaner, renewable, recyclable, or generally forward-thinking technology and design. They awarded first place to a DIY project which allows you to easily view how much energy an appliance is using.
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Nokia turns people into traffic sensors
100 UC Berkeley students took place in a test of a new technology that, among other things, will enable phones to "proactively say, I see you have a meeting that's coming up in an hour, the route you usually take is congested. You probably need to leave 15 minutes early." [Video Included]
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Gigantic Mech Animals are Seriously Stylish
Les Machines de l'ile de Nantes are gigantic mechanical animal vehicles currently on display in the French city of Nantes. While they just look like giant models, these things are fully functioning vehicles that people can ride in.
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Surprise! Garmin's GPS Phone Is Awesome
They very obviously copied the iPhone UI and are going to get the pants sued off of them, but full GPS and 3.5G? I don't know, seems pretty damn good.
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How to Discover Secret Gadgets Through the FCC
The FCC website is chock full of unannounced gear going through early approval processes, ripe for the plucking. Finding these gadgets is a simple process, but for many, knowing where to begin is a difficult task. Gizmodo decided to throw together this how-to guide so you can find your own treasure chest of undiscovered gadgets.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Some cool gadgets for the gangster look
Take a look at some cool gadgets such as a laptop lowrider, universal firearm remote, and the bling ringer. Also forms excellent gifts.
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007 Gadgets
A really cool site listing and explaining many of James Bonds famous gadgets-with pictures!
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Windows Gadgets - CAN THEY GET ANY UGLIER!!?
The Wow started NEVER with these things. This link takes you to the "Top Rated". The highest rating is 3 of 5 stars, none of them even deserve that much. One of my 'favorites' is "Gold and Silver", which as expected "Displays the current price of precious metals gold and silver expressed in US Dollars (USD) updated every 10 minutes". One word: WOW.
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Education 2.0: The Essential Student Gear Guide from the cool kids at Wired
Ah, college. The unabashed freedom, the midterm exams, the epic parties … the crippling poverty. But don't worry. Just because you're shipping off to sleep-away school, it doesn't mean you have to give up your gadget addiction. It just means you have to pick and choose your tech more carefully than you did when you were raiding Mom's purse for a
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The REAL Camera Behind Cloverfield
For those who've seen the unique monster movie Cloverfield, you know that the story is supposed to be shot by the aptly-named character "Hud" from a cheapo handheld consumer camera. Convincing the audience of that point was one of the movie's most successful angles.
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Current Blu-ray Players Won't Correctly Play Future Discs
Regarding current Blu-ray player owners, Blu-ray developers stated, "They knew what they were getting into." Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES said that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Alltel Feature Turns Voicemail to Text
Cellphone service provider Alltel unveiled a new feature that uses voice-recognition software to allow wireless phone customers to read their voicemail messages as text messages instead of dialing in and listening to them. Fees for the service start at $4.99 for 20 voicemail conversions a month and go up to $19.99 monthly for 100 conversions.
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The Greener Gadgets Conference!
On February 1, 2008 industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and product designers will gather in New York Cty to discuss the growing need to green the consumer electronics industry.
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NEC has their own 2880x900 curved gaming display
We feel sorry for poor NEC. While everyone at CES is busy buzzing about Alienware's gorgeous curved DLP display (including us), NEC is quietly showing off its CRVD-42DWX+ display that's more or less identical: a 2880x900 (double WXGA+) panel with a contrast ratio of 10000:1.
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Mitsubishi's Laser TV Looks Stunning
Mitsubishi put together quite a spectacle to introduce its Laser TV last night at the Moon Nightclub at The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, unveiling a 65-inch rear-projection set that uses a unique laser backlight. The result is some of the most vivid color we've ever seen on any TV
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Innovative Designs and Devices
This article presents innovative, futuristic gadgets, devices, designs and concepts. Unless explicitly specified, none of these cut-edge design concepts is currently being manufactured. None of them is available for end-users which is why neither the price nor links to the stores are mentioned.
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Video: Casio EX-F1 shoots in Super Slo-Mo
Ever wished you could reproduce those super-slow-motion shots taken by the pros? Now you can. Casio's new EX-F1 can record full motion video at 1200fps. That's enough frames to catch water droplets fall in unbelievably detailed flight.
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Casio's EXILIM Pro: Still Pics at 60 FPS, Video at 1,200 FPS
Casio's new EXILIM Pro EX-F1 is a new shooter than can take up to 60 full-resolution still photos in one second, ensuring that at least one comes out well. We saw this as a prototype, but the real deal is even better than we anticipated.
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Jalopnik Guide To Cell Phone Usage Laws
Jalopnik's got an extensive guide to the ins and outs of talking while driving. From the basics (which stated you can and cannot do it), to legalese on earpiece and city rules are explained on full
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Meet the Disintegrator: 24 barrels of rubber band minigun!
The 24-barrel, tripod-mountable monster you see above, lovingly known as the Disintegrator, was rather amazingly hand-carved and assembled by Anthony Smith of the UK, who spent four months on the ambitious build. Unlike your dinky little six-shooter, this model boasts a 288-band capacity and 40-round-per-second firing capability.
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