January
• Holy Crap: Did Bill Gates Just Say Windows Sucks? [The first time in history Gates admitted (indirectly) on camera that Vista was not great. And we got it.]
• How To Discover Secret Gadgets Through the FCC [It's not that we can't crawl the FCC, its that we don't want to.]
• Best LEGO Sets in History [The best in the year of the brick]
• LEGO Brick Timeline: 50 Years of Building Frenzy and Curiosities [Another addiction for JD]
• 10 Examples of the iPhone Making People Crazy
• The Truth About the Format War and HD DVD's Demise [Secret: HD DVD was the more thoughful format.]
• The Best of CES 2008 [For all that noise, there wasn't much.]
• 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future [The past is now]
• Complete Uncut Gizmodo Bill Gates Interview [Our exclusive Bill Gates video interview, in its complete form.]
• Ten Reasons We're Doomed: CES Edition [CES is a victim of its own success and greatness, and I've still never met a single person who enjoys the show.]
February
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• The Analog Cellphone Timeline [Jesús Diaz timelines and Trinitron are some of my favorite things.]
• Stop! Why It Still Isn't Safe to Buy Blu-ray [Probably no longer true, but still great for its day!]
10 Feasible Concepts We Wish You Could Actually Buy [This is when we learned how good Sean was at lists.]
• The Biggest Star Wars Collection in the Galaxy [The man's Star Wars addiction in its early stages]
• Nokia's Touch UI Hands-On: Officially Way Behind Apple [At MWC in Barcelona, with Jesús]
• Gizmodo Super Bowl XLII Tech Commercial Awards
March
• Technosexual: One Man's Tale of Robot Love
• Sony XEL-1 OLED TV Review (Verdict: Small on Size, Large on Beauty) [Wish we did more reviews like this. Totally unattainable, but totally lust worthy.]
• Comcast n' BitTorrent BFF: What's Good, What Sucks
• Dash Express GPS Full Drive Review: Total Traffic Terminator [Given the company's financial troubles, I wish we hadn't recommended it without some reservations.]
• Whole Blu World: The Format War's Bloody Aftermath
• Apple TV vs. Vudu vs. Xbox 360: Video Download Battlemodo [Ah the infinite format war, reviewed in battle.]
• Sony Trinitron Timeline Shows Why It Will Live Forever In Our Hearts
• Axiotron ModBook Review (Verdict: A Touchscreen MacBook Done Right) [I still can't figure out if a Mac tablet makes sense.]
April
• Casio Exilim EX-F1 Slow-Mo Super Cam Full Review (Verdict: Totally Unique, Shockingly Powerful) [One of the most revolutionary cameras of the year.]
• Giz Explains: Plasma TV Basics [Matt starts hitting his stride with Giz Explains here.]
• Giz Explains: Digital Camera Image Sensors
• The Ultimate Cheap Camera Battlemodo
• Ten Things You Need to Know About the Optimus Maximus Keyboard Hardware [Never loved this keyboard, but I respect it as art.]
• Will Your ISP F You In the A? Bandwidth Hogs Beware [Matt has a potty mouth that is as sharp as it is filthy.]
May
• How to Love a LEGO Lunatic [Addy!]
• Giz Explains: OLED, the Future of TV
• Subnotebook vs. UMPC vs. Netbook: WTF Is the Difference? [I still can't tell the difference and have to ask Mark every time.]
• 10 Awesome Grills You Can Buy For The Ultimate Memorial Day BBQ
• MacHEADS: The Movie Interview
• Giz Explains: An Easy Primer on GPS
• First Netflix Streaming Box Review, $100 and Unlimited Downloads! [The first of many Netflix enabled devices. If only they'd get grade-A releases, they'd be the only service I'd ever want.]
• Wii Fit Review By a Formerly Fit Geek [Before Wii Fit.]
• Gadgets That Are Guaranteed Date Disasters
• Giz Explains LCD TV Basics
• Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here (But Not from Apple)
June
• Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But Should) [Part of the Bill Gates Retirement Party, which was astoundingly fun to work on.]
• Bill Gates' Made Men: The Wild 'n' Crazy Ventures of the Microsoft Millionaires
• Giz Explains: How the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Will Save the World
• Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote's Untold Past, Present and Future
• iPhone Clone Battlemodo: Which One Is the iPhoniest?
• Why I Still Use Windows Despite the Peer Pressure [I like Adam's essay, especially the end where he chalks it up to being lazy.]
• A Night With Bill Gates' New Big Hairy Vision [Bill Gates thinks I'm dumb.]
• Samsung Instinct Review: Best Sprint or Samsung Phone Ever
• 3G iPhone Hands On [It's ok.]
• State of The Infinite Format War: Get Ready for Five Long Years of Set-Top Battle Royale [I think we were the first to recognize that a two format war is nothing compared to the format war between download services.]
• Giz Explains: Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard Parallel Processing and GPU Computing [Apple is crazy smart for not improving their OS with BS, but trying to fine tune the back end.]
• How To Launch an Apple Product in 5 Easy Steps [Sad but true, and effective.]
• The Ultimate Cheap Camcorder Battlemodo
• How I Sold My iPhone in 24 Hours For More Than I Paid
• Exclusive Video: How Lego Builds the Minifigs [Part of Jesús's exclusive visit to Lego HQ]
• Exclusive: Inside the Lego Factory
• 65-foot-high Lego Cathedrals Store 19 Billion Pieces a Year
• Lego Secret Vault Contains All Sets In History
July
• The True Story of the Hurricane Katrina Lightning-Laser Memorial and the Peg-Leg Biologist [This post didn't do well for whatever reason.]
• Giz Explains: An Illustrated Guide to Every Stupid Cable You Need
• Verizon FiOS: How They're Futurizing TV Faster Than AT&T and Big Cable
• Steve Jobs Says He Doesn't Have Cancer (And Why It's Not Your Business Anyway) [I'm fine speculating on the man's health, but not because of its effect on share holder wealth. Sorry, that's greedy. Sell the stock if you have a problem.]
• Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market [It's still true.]
• The Dark Knight Review: Even Gadgets Can't Stop The Joker's Madness [Best gadget movie of 2008]
• iPhone 3G Review
• iPhone 2.0 Software Review: Forget 3G, It's Code That Counts [Absolutely true; the iPhone 3G would be nothing without the new firmware.]
• Fantasy Gadget: The Ultimate Next Generation Connected TiVo Box
• What Doesn't Break a Toughbook Makes It Stronger: How They Test the Hell Out of Them [From Japan]
• Gizmodo's Ultimate Water Gun Battlemodo Royale [Reminded me a bit of the Top Gun volleyball scene when the dudes got out the white t shirts and slow motion camera, except ours was even more erotic.]
August
• How it Feels to Fly a Jetpack [Mark drove to an airshow a few hours away and RODE A JETPACK! Of course we had to do this first person.]
• MS Paint Gadget Fantasies are as Twisted as They are Unlikely
• Giz Explains: Batteries, Tech's Choke Point
• AT&T's Internal Plans To Fix Their Network [I hear the exec quoted here got a bit of heat because I headlined "fixed", which implies broken. Anyone who calls my house on my ATT line will know why I said that.]
• Cranky Windows Guy: Apple's iPhone Bugs Stopped Me From Switching to a Mac [Adam knows how to kick up a shit storm, any day of the week.]
• Motorola Insider Blame Game: Engineers Shoved Designers Aside [Brendan K., one of my favorite writers of this generation.]
• Giz Explains: The Magic Behind Touchscreens
• When Good Firmware Goes Bad... And Why You Should Wait To Update
• Secret Origin of the OLPC: Genius, Hubris and the Birth of the Netbook [This epic tale of the OLPC's development was not successfully received by readers (probably for lack of a news peg) but it was fun to work on and over 10k words, I believe.]
• OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild
• OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop
September
• 150-Inch TV In Action: It'll Melt Brains and Empty Wallets [Giz exclusive, a day of play on a 150-inch plasma.]
• Why Android Will Soon Kick Ass [Half of us were for Android, and this is the piece we came up with in response to Jesús's rant against it.]
• How Criterion Hones Its Restoration Magic for HD [Did you know people complain about high def film grain as compression noise?]
• How Many Google Phone Engineers Does It Take to Tell the Time? [Here's the Jesús rant against Android's UI.]
• What Does LASIK Really Feel Like? [I almost have 20/10 vision now!]
• Review: EFiX Dongle Perfectly Transforms PC to Mac
• Giz Explains: Why HD Video Downloads Aren't Very High Def [Spoiler: compression.]
• 7 Years of iPod: What You Paid and What You Got [Tech evolving and trickling down, in time line form]
• 90 Gadget Cross Promotions That Would Seriously Damage Some Brands [One of Adam's best photochop contests]
• Why I Hate Netbooks [Mark vs. Mark]
• Why I Love Netbooks
• Is Steve Jobs Preparing His Farewell [Jesús has pre-cog powers!]
October
• Smartphone Is a Dumb Word: We Need a New Name [I should start using the word com. Pretty nerdy, but it makes sense.]
• Why It's Safer Than Ever To Buy First-Generation Hardware [I stand by this!]
• Giz Explains: Why Windows 7 Will Smash Vista
• T-Mobile G1 Google Android Phone Review [Spoiler: Important but meh.]
• Why Zen Software Design Does Not Come From Japan [Lisa K.]
• Windows 7 Walkthrough, Boot Video and Impressions [Wilson gives us the first major presentation of the next Windows]
• My Favorite Childhood Sci-Fi Author Fries My Brain
• Giz Explains: How to Choose an HDTV Like a Pro
• The Truth About the Apple Tax [Matt broke down the actual extra cost involved with Apple gear vs comparable PC gear running Windows. ]
• MacBook and MacBook Pro Dual Review
• Internet TV Remote: Quick Links to Free Streaming Shows
• Zero-Cost Gadget Upgrades For the Next Great Depression
November
• This is My Farewell Transmission From Mars [Part of an amazing guest edit by the Phoenix Mars Lander, via Veronica McGregor, from NASA, where we have the Phoenix Lander blogging in first person. As it dies!]
• How To Calibrate Your New HDTV (and Not Lose Your Mind)
• How to Buy an HDTV Today (or Any Day)
• A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture [Jesús wrote this as a follow up to the Why It's Safer to Buy 1st Gen post, saying just because you can upgrade/fix by firmware, doesn't mean its right that companies come out with shitty stuff out of the gate.]
• A Complete Guide to Playing Video Files On Your PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii
• BlackBerry Storm Review (Verdict: Not Quite a Perfect Storm)
• Mobile Browser Battlemodo: Which Phones Deliver The Real Web
• 10 Things You Should Know About The New Xbox Experience
• 30 Mars Phoenix Discoveries NASA Will Never Show the World
• What it Feels Like to Drive a Tesla Roadster [It's fast, but not faster than some gas vehicles I love.]
• The Wii Fit Review: Six Months Later [After Wii Fit!]
• Review: The World's Thinnest LCD HDTVs [Drool.]
• How To: Max Out Apple TV's Potential With Boxee [I like Boxee, but would prefer to run it lag free with HD content on a Mac mini,]
• Happy Birthday Saturn V, Still The Biggest Rocket of All
• The 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have [Adam made us proud on this list. First draft was a little too easy but the final list was challenging to all.]
• Giz Explains: What's So Awesome About 64-Bit?
• Why You Should Buy a Refurbished Laptop
• 25 Features You Definitely Won't See in Windows 7 [Photochop!]
• Prof. Dealzmodo: Why You Should Stop Buying Your Computers Fully Loaded and Why You Should Buy a Refurbished Laptop [Sean breaking out of lists!]
December
• The Definitive Coast-to-Coast 3G Data Test [Who else is going to run around 8 cities testing 3G data rates for you from all three major 3G carriers?]
• 120 Feet of Video Art: Final Exams at NYU's Big Screens Class [A wall of motion art, as homework. That's an assignment I could have fun with.]
• Silver-Painted Plastic Gadgets Must Die
• Dealzmodo Hacks: 8 Ways To Get More Miles Out Of Your Old PC
• What Beautiful Future Gadgets Will Be Made Of [Ceramic, wood, more metal, and plastic. But not painted plastic.]
• Why Kids Deserve Crappy Gadgets This Holiday
• Dealzmodo Hack: Make Your Old USB Stick Into a Digital Multitool
• Gizmodo Gallery, our little museum presentation of the best gadgets we could find, small and big.
• Choose Your Own Apple Adventure
See how the features progressed towards being bigger and better towards the end of 2008? I feel like a proud papa. And next year is going to be even better. Happy New Years everyone, thanks for reading our features.