Hasta La Gadget!

We do hate to play into wily PR folks’ attention-grabbing campaigns, but when they’re quite so nutty, we can’t help but admire them. UK network Three is trying to promote its hotspots (we think) by having dudes wearing full-body underwear running around with “Human Hotspot” signs and what looks like part of the Engadget logo throughout London. We don’t get it, but we do love it.

Thomas: “I can look up your WEP.”
Vlad: “Please note, dressing up as a Trojan won’t protect you from actual trojans.”
Nilay: “Touch my junk and I’ll have you arrested.”
Darren: “I’m probably working… even if the tube drivers aren’t.”
Richard Lai: “My SSID is quite well hidden, if I may say so.”
Carlos: “I’m hot… or not?”
Tim: “I knew that Fantastic Four movie was a bad career move. Time for a new agent.”
Ross: “Ask about where I keep my SIM card.”
Myriam: “Spot the hotness.”
Sam: “The Blue Man Group member that never was.”
Josh T.: “Due to his drug habit and carousing, the Invisible Man had been forced into a number of demeaning jobs.”

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It’s not the Kindle lending feature that Amazon has in the works, but the company has just rolled out another fairly big Kindle feature for those feeling a bit generous this holiday season. That comes in the form of a new “give as a gift” option now present on Amazon.com, which will let you send an e-book to anyone with an email address, who can then read it on the Kindle-friendly device of their choice (or an actual Kindle, of course). As Amazon is all too happy to point out, it’s the first major bookseller to offer such a service, but we’ve got to guess it won’t be the last.

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Verizon’s first sliding QWERTY world phone appears to be ready for an official announcement.

Originally posted at Android Atlas

I made some off-handed comment yesterday about the shopping season coming earlier and earlier every year. That sentiment is particularly true for one family in St. Petersburg, Florida that has already begun camping out in front of their local Best Buy.

The family started camping out at 10 AM on Wednesday morning, a full nine days ahead of Black Friday, becoming, seemingly, the first people in the country to line up for Best Buy Black Friday Deals.

The family’s tenacity has already paid off. The manager of that particular Best Buy presented them with a “First Family of Black Friday” award, including new iPads for the family.

“We’re here really early this year because we’ve always been second, third and fourth and down the line,” family member Lorie Davenport told a local news station. “We’re tired of not being first and we figured we’ve put in six years, we want to be first.”

There are 10 family members taking turns in line. The Davenports have camped out for six straight years.

We’ve always had a soft spot for Altec Lansing’s wide array of speaker docks — these guys have been embedded in that space for an awfully long time, and the quality has always seemed up to snuff in our eyes. Er, ears. For whatever reason, it looks as if Altec is trying to replicate that success in the earbud market — a market that’s been growing increasingly crowded over the past couple of years as the portable media player and smartphone sectors have exploded. These days, a set of third-party headphones are nearly a requirement to fully enjoy whatever media player you’ve ended up with, and thus, hordes of companies have flocked to cater to the demand. The Ultra MZX606 earbuds ($99.95) popped onto the scene just two months ago, and now we’ve had a solid weekend to push the latest Underoath, Happy Body Slow Brain, Kanye West and Otis Redding jams through here. Hop on past the break for our impressions.

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