The Palm Pre Plus is eye-catching in its minimalism. Unlike most of the cookie-cutter handsets on the market today, it is wavy and glossy, with almost no visible controls. The gadget feels delightfully solid in the hand. At just under 5 ounces the Pre Plus is very light, but it doesn’t feel fragile or inexpensive. The … Read More

When we discussed the iPad and whether it was worth giving in to the peer pressure and pre-ordering it, a commenter decided to remind us of his reason for resisting: No flash. And yes, it can make things look sad. More

As part of a graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, students built miniature cities out of common household objects—including this power strip . They’re just missing mini-people. [ Spoon Tamago via Crib Candy via Boing Boing ] More

How many e-book readers do you think are out there right now for you to choose from? If you did a little digging, I bet you’d find 50 or so. Maybe 10 really worth checking out. But right now is a bit of a weird period in e-reader history. The Kindle cemented e-readers in the … Read More

We’ve seen blow-hard electronic music makers in the past (one particular didgeridoo hack comes to mind) but still, when one makes us take note we feel like we just have to pass it along. Onyx Ashanti is an American living in Berlin and a one-man band to boot. His instrument of choice is a Yamaha … Read More

Several star commenter have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator’s time wondering about such issues as “why does gizmodo love/hate/get paid by company XYZ?” may result in zero warnings and then a ban. And whatever happens to your comment … Read More

Typically we don’t write a great deal of cell phone news about the FCC as their actions are behind the scenes and rarely affect our day to day lives in any significant manner. However the big guys over at the FCC have taken an interest in testing the validity of the promises made by mobile … Read More

Newly released Palm Pre Plus is an updated version to the original release of the Pre. With a improved keyboard, and more memory the Pre Plus will deliver a better overall mobile experience to its user. The CDMA smartphone features Palm’s proprietary mobile operating system called webOS. The finger touch display has great sensitivity, and … Read More

March 23-25 are a tremendous few days in the wireless world. The International CTIA WIRELESS show is a premier wireless event that represents a $1 trillion dollar global marketplace. Some of the industries involves are wireless and converged communications, wireless broadband, mobile web computing and data industries. Over the three day event those present undergo … Read More

Some more dismal cell phone new today as Google’s online-only sales model for the Nexus One is not living up to the expectations originally set by Goldman Sachs. The Nexus One was estimated to be on pace to sell 3.5 million units in FY2010 and after their atrocious sales in the first month of only … Read More

Back in January 2009, as Vodafone was preparing to close a

Err…you may be disappointed though. Particularly if you were on the look-out for some manbits. More

Even though Microsoft’s big MIX event is still days away, the Windows Phone 7 Series development platform is already pretty well defined. It’s also clear that Microsoft wants to keep things tidy for developers by requiring all WP7 phones to meet a certain base-level spec . Now, thanks to a post from Microsoft’s Shawn Hargreaves, … Read More

Kwedit , the innovative and suddenly controversial payments platform for virtual goods, is releasing some early data. The service lets users promise to pay later in lieu of a direct credit card payment when they want virtual currency for social games like Farmville. It’s not a legally binding promise, but users have an incentive to … Read More

What do you do when you first fire up your browser? Most probably, you log into various sites that require a username and password – Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and the like. For me, personally, it’s quite a chore, as I need to log into over 10 different services before I start doing anything. Now, Mozilla … Read More