Author: Kat Hannaford

Many an argument has been settled by comparing the number of Google search results, and while the initial victory is satisfying I never would’ve thought we’d see a Wii game inspired by it. More »

Masters of Apple accessories, Griffin’s A-Frame iPad stand holds your new precious in both upright and landscape formats while charging, and doesn’t let the dock block the speakers, thanks to cleverly-placed grooves. More »

Only ten of these Privé phones have been created—but if they sell more than one I’ll definitely be eating my felt brim at lunch. Each phone’s coated in 22ct gold, and has 76 diamonds studded around the LCD. More »

Let’s get a rather important fact out of the way first: it’s just a concept. Little boys reading this should cross it off their list to Father Christmas now, before their hopes rise even higher. More »

It makes sense for Disney to be planning a sequel to Tron: Legacy (which is itself a sequel) based on web popularity alone—but it’s reassuring they’re placing enough trust in the film’s success that they’ve already hired screenwriters. More »

Grizzled rocker? There’s an app for that. Specifically Joey Kramer‘s Hit Hard iPhone app, who may be better known as the drummer from Aerosmith—or, he who isn’t Steven Tyler. More »

This is what Super Smash Bros. Brawl looks like at a super-widescreen resolution, when using Dolphin, a Wii emulator on a PC. It’s so wide, you can barely make it out when shrunk down to fit Gizmodo’s image constraints. More »

It’s taken several months, but finally the US has caught up with the rest of the world and can now pick up Toshiba’s Camileo S20, H30 and X100 pocket camcorders with prices starting at $180. More »

Rubbing Vaseline on scratched CDs to make them readable again is a new one to me, but Instructables has a DIY project up claiming it works perfectly. Mind you, they also say peanut butter works a charm too. More »

Because of my dependence on tea, I make sure I’m always within earshot of the kettle whistling—but if you’re not, this smartly-designed kettle which tweets via Wi-Fi will alert you when it’s boiling. More »

On sale later this month after first tantalizing us at MWC in February, LG has confirmed the Mini GD880 will support HTML5 in its “Phantom Browser,” the first time it’s been reeled out by the South Koreans. More »

Turns out even His Holiness, with Buddha on his side, can’t protect himself against Chinese hackers, with 11 months of his personal emails being monitored according to new security reports. More »

Erected to highlight an English river’s pollution, this 14m-tall metal flower has dozens of LEDs which glow brighter the more the wind around it increases. More »

Western Digital has updated its two-year-old Velociraptor range of hard drives with the SATA 3.0 drives, coming in 450 and 600GB capacities. They’re the fastest-writing hard drives around, transferring up to 6GBs a second. More »

Shame you’d have to fork out $39.99 for the iBookend to give the iPad purpose (if it were a real product, obviously). [Dominic Wilcox] More »

Accessorize summer’s dreamy palette of nudes and pastels with a pair of circuit board heels from little-known designer Steve Rodrig. While kitten heels are the height du jour this season, Rodrig’s jade pumps redefine modernism. [XactStudios via Make via UberGizmo] More »

Strap the wrist charger ’round the skinniest part of your arm, and juice up your console, or other miniUSB-supporting device. The 1,500mAh Li-Ion battery won’t power you to level 47 but will get through a couple hours’ usage. More »

The PS3 Slim wasn’t much lighter than the previous model, but that hasn’t stopped crafty Japanese manufacturer Hori from cobbling together a portable PS3 Slim with a 720p LCD screen. More »