http://www.gadgetcom.com Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We came across this lip reading prototype during our exploration of the CeBIT 2010 halls, and while we're a bit tardy in bringing it to your attention, there's a certain timeless quality to strapping your face with wired sensors that transcends conventional restrictions of timeliness. That's our st... http://www.gadgetcom.com/lip-reading-mobiles-are-wunderbar-still-at-the-prototype-stage-video/ Vodafone has today announced that it will be the exclusive UK carrier of that aluminum-clad successor to the Hero: the HTC Legend. Advance registration pages for it and its family mate, the Desire, have gone live today and indicate an April launch date -- something we'd already expected thanks to ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/htc-legend-will-be-exclusive-to-vodafone-in-uk-coming-in-april-together-with-desire/ Is your Palm Pre feeling a bit down? In the dumps? Not as snappy as it used to? Maybe what you need is a megahertz boost! This custom kernel, demonstrated in a video below, comes courtesy of two hackers called unixpsycho and caj2008. One quick install will make your dull ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/overclocked-palm-pre-is-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/ Not much here in the way of verifiable detail but we're hearing that a CDMAified Nexus One is en route to Verizon (or Google's warehouses, anyway) from HTC's factories. The Economic Daily News (EDN) adds that Verizon will begin to "market" Google's superphone this month or in April at the ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/nexus-one-shipments-headed-to-verizon-vodafone-soon/ Now, these may have been around for ages, we can't really be sure because, truth be told, it's pretty rare for us to troll the aisles of Kohl's makeup section looking for KIRFs. Regardless, a helpful, hawk-eyed reader snapped this shot of an eyeshadow palette -- called eyemobile -- that's ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/keepin-it-real-fake-iphone-hits-discount-retailers-as-an-eyeshadow-palette/ Even if your handset of choice won't be eligible for upgrade to Windows Phone 7, there's no reason you can't enjoy the look and feel of Microsoft's latest and greatest with a well-executed skin, right? Looks like Jaxbot's Windows Phone 7 Series Theme is available in passable beta form -- ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/jaxbots-windows-phone-7-series-theme-now-available-in-beta-video/ How do you know you've reached status as an internationally-recognized icon? When someone decides to make a Lego representation of you, that's when -- so our hats go off to you, BlackBerry Tour, for this distinguished accomplishment. Well-traveled Lego artist Nathan Sawaya was recently tapped to tu... http://www.gadgetcom.com/lego-borne-blackberry-tour-probably-still-lacks-wifi/ Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom's lackluster offering hangs back in the land of complacency. Thankfully for us all, the outfit has just pushed out the v... http://www.gadgetcom.com/tomtom-iphone-app-hits-13-gains-real-time-traffic-and-google-local-search/ We're still no closer to finding out whether this is the next iteration of the Bold, Storm or some other BlackBerry line, but the unofficially coined BlackBerry Slider continues to pique our interest. Here in the third round of spy shots, we're seeing the elusive RIM-branded device from a few ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/blackberry-slider-undergoes-further-undercover-inspection-side-shots-emerge/ If you don't have a need for a physical keyboard -- or you're just not willing to wait long enough for the Vivaz Pro to come to market -- then you might want to take a gander at Sony Ericsson's plain-Jane Vivaz now that it's available from Vodafone in the ... http://www.gadgetcom.com/sony-ericsson-vivaz-available-on-vodafone-satio-looks-on-with-envy/