Gizmo’s and Gadgets

Even the jewelers at Tiffany’s would be impressed by the mix of precious stones and metals thrown into this PS2 controller neck pendant. The ridiculously geeky piece is constructed from 18k white gold, with 68.34ct of black diamonds lining the controller’s surface.

We were not so sure you could get 68.34ct of diamonds all in one place without owning a bank, but apparently we were wrong. Still, we are guessing the price is a little over the usual you would pay for a standard Playstation controller. Unfortunately, we do not know what the price paid was, but we are sure the rapper, Just Blaze, saved up for weeks to be able to afford the Playstation inspired bling. Now, if a neck pendant fashioned like a diamond clad PS2 controller does not earn him some serious rapper credibility, there is something wrong with the world. There you have it; crime doesn’t pay, rapping does. Perhaps we should start a Gizmodo rapper clan, all we would need is a rival clan to aim our witty slurs at…who could that be?

Via  [ BGR ]

The people from gizmodo created a neat looking image of the operating systems and their evolution :

Other than the teenage, female demographic, I’m not quite sure who would want a gold-plated cellphone, or go through the trouble of sticking a bunch of little plastic squares all over it. The idea is that one could customize their phone on a whim, but it seems like doing so would be tedious. It’s a good idea in theory, I guess. But so were MySpace’s customizable pages. And we all know how that turned out.

VIA [ Yanko Design ]

The $200 LG VX8800 Venus from Verizon Wireless may be the Voyager’s little sister, but it’s closest in form and function to the ill-fated Chocolate. Unlike the Voyager, which has a QWERTY keyboards and aspirations to be an e-mail and messaging hub, the Venus is a “music phone” with a cool camera feature. Though slightly bulkier than even the current slimmed-down Chocolate, it’s one of LG’s best looking phones to date, though it’s hard to pinpoint exactly who would be happiest toting around one of these shiny little girly-named bricks.

Read the rest of the review here : [ GIZMODO ]

PS3 firmware version 2.01 has been unleashed upon the masses. There are no true updates beyond more stable PS2 game emulation, but consider the issues people were having with 2.0 fixed: The PSP is supposed to boot the PS3 remotely much more smoothly now (it worked for us before, connecting was slow). And PS3 stability is also said to be improved on the XMB. We hope that the PS3 stability branches means that some of the new in-game crashes have been resolved, because while we like themes as much as the next guy, we’d prefer to, you know, be able to play games.

Via [I4U]