In the past, diagnosing a baby's fever involved holding the child close while creating a maternal bond. Now, you can tell from across the room! With fashion!!

Babyglow is a diagnostic onesie, constructed of heat-activated-pigment-laced cotton. Soon available in colors (pneumonia) pink, (no breathing) blue and (you'd better not really be sick because it's going to interrupt Survivor) green, just remember: If the onesie turns white, something ain't right.

Babyglows will be available this October in the UK for about $30 a pack. [Daily Mail via Gizmodiva]

T-Mobile has finally confirmed what the FCC (and its own computers) already told us: the BlackBerry-Bold-inspired HTC Snap, a 3G, Windows Mobile 6.1 QWERTY+trackball followup to the original Dash, is arriving on T-Mobile as a successor to the original Dash.

Since we've played with the Snap (and liked it—warning, April Fools link), and the handset is rumored to be unusually cheap, the two items of interest here are pricing and date of availability. Despite this, T-Mobile neglected to include either of these things in their release, so we'll have to wait, or take the previously leaked July 1st date as fact. [BGR]

T-Mobile Dash 3G Helps Customers Stay Connected to Work and Life

Bellevue, Wash. – June 17, 2009 – T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of its newest 3G-enabled smartphone, the T-Mobile® Dash 3GTM, offering a balance of personal and professional connections in a sleek design with faster data delivery and Web browsing via T-Mobile's high-speed 3G network and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g).

The T-Mobile Dash 3G, designed by HTC and powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile® 6.1, is available in a glossy-black finish with red accents, features a full-QWERTY keyboard, easy-to-use trackball and vibrant display. This latest version of the T-Mobile Dash delivers easy ways to stay connected and organized with voice calling, messaging, support for personal and business e-mail, GPS for location-based services, and synchronization with Microsoft Outlook®. Whether staying organized while traveling or simply staying connected with friends and family, the T-Mobile Dash 3G provides access to the life tools customers need in a small, sleek package.

"As millions of families prepare to hit the road this summer, T-Mobile is offering our first 3G-enabled Windows Mobile smartphone to help customers stay connected, organized and traveling in the right direction," said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. "We're excited to offer the power and style of the T-Mobile Dash 3G with high-speed Internet access thanks to T-Mobile's rapidly expanding 3G network."

"HTC is designing products like the T-Mobile Dash 3G to appeal to the ever-growing number of customers who are using the empowering features of smartphones to benefit their busy lives," said Jason Mackenzie, vice president, HTC America. "HTC is pleased to continue its long history of working closely with T-Mobile as we today introduce the next generation of the popular T-Mobile Dash."

According to new research by Yankee Group, 41 percent of consumers are likely to choose a smartphone as their next mobile device.* As consumer demand for feature-rich phones increases, T-Mobile is responding with an expanding lineup of 3G-capable smartphones including the new T-Mobile Dash 3G.

T-Mobile continues to expand its high-speed 3G network in 2009 to cover approximately 200 million people across the United States by the end of the year. At the end of 2008, T-Mobile USA's 3G network was available to more than 100 million people in more than 130 U.S. cities.

How much e-waste is the switch to digital creating? Just how do you make your own wind turbine? Will consumer electronics ever become obsolete? How might smart power outlets save lives? Your burning questions answered!

Old TVs left out in the cold after the switch to digital might make for an awful e-waste mess. But they don't have to. We talk about how to upgrade greenly.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "Gee, it'd be awesome to make my own verticle axis wind turbine!"? Turns out, there are some great step-by-step instructions for you to follow to make your own renewable energy source.

Gadgets are, let's face it, awesome. But it's also tough to keep them under control, and keep ourselves under control every time a new device hits the market. There are ways we can take the burden off the environment, and even make gadget consumption a thing of the past.

We've heard of smart grids, smart meters, even smart buildings and smart power strips. But what about smart outlets? Turns out they can save not only energy, but lives!

TreeHugger's EcoModo column appears every week on Gizmodo.

Some things seen can never be unseen. That's why we're sticking one man's NES controller—which he engraved into his flesh—after the jump.

Body Modification Ezine member Metal_Games either really loves the NES or really hates himself. Because he went through an hour of barbaric scarification (in which a trained professional sliced away chunks of his skin) to make his leg Konami code compatible. From his account:

The stencil went on, and we were ready to go. Starting with the lines, the pain wasn't half as bad as I'd expected. In fact, it was a breeze for the most part. It took Jeffrey, the artist, about 20 minutes to cut all the lines. A couple of deep breaths, and we went straight on to removing the skin...

I'll just add that removing skin before stopping the bleeding before cleaning the wound before living with the decision for the rest of his life was probably the hard part.

Read his full account of the experience at: {bmezine via GameDaily via GoNintendo]

After showing off its wares at CES this year, LG has finally announced that its first 3D LCD, the 47-inch 47LH50—will be up for purchase next month. Well, in Korea at least.

The new TV is based on the 47LH50—even sharing its model number—and is functionally identical, aside from the fact that it'll occasionally require you to don polarized 3D glasses. That model number is significant, and bodes well: the old 47LH50 made it to the US, so it's fair to say that this one will, too. No price info yet, but the old one nudged $2,000. [LG via Akihabara News]

It's one of those things we take for granted: official laptop battery life claims have an extremely tenuous relationship with reality. Not surprisingly, everyone's using the same tricks to conjure their silly estimates—and they don't plan on stopping.

AMD, as part of a some kind of PR campaign, is saying the culprit is a battery testing suite called MobileMark 2007:

the parameters for this test include having the screen at just 20 percent brightness, Wi-Fi turned off and no music, video, games or Web pages running. More or less, the test turns a computer into a dimly lit clock, then sees how long it can run.

That is exactly the kind of test you'd have to run to hit manufacturers' 50-100%-inflated figures, and the perceived ubiquity of the test gives it an air of authority—or at least respectability—within the industry. Using anything more honest would put a manufacturer at a competitive disadvantage.

This is where the story lapses into accusations subterfuge: AMD says these tests don't just benefit laptop manufacturers in general—they're unfairly biased towards Intel, whose chips are optimized for these less-than-realistic scenarios. It's easy to see how this would be upsetting, but it's not clear what AMD can really do. They're proposing a system by which manufacturers show two battery ratings—one the shows a theoretical, low-use maximum, and one that reflects heavy use. (To their credit, Sony already does something like that). Intel tacitly admits the practice, but is predictably standoffish, about it, while AMD doesn't inspire much confidence:

By 2010 or 2011, something might show up from a consortium that could be used. It takes two to three years."

Well, thanks for trying, I guess! [NYT]

The Koenigsegg Quant, an impressive Batmobile-styled solar sportscar, could soon be going into production.

When we first saw it earlier this year, we feared it could be just another prototype which never made in into production. But now an insider at the Swedish car manufacturer has told a newspaper they are set to start making them, albeit in limited numbers.

Koenigsegg, who are in talks to buy Saab from GM, say the car has 512hp and can speed from 0-62 in 5.2 seconds. It features a thin solar coating on the bodywork to top up power and can be charged (in a more conventional way) within 20 minutes. There is no word on price but suffice to say you won't be able to afford one. [RegHardware]

Someone at CNET has a theeeoooorrry! You see, Snow Leopard, Apple's "under-the-hood" update to Mac OS X, actually has plenty of over-the-hood enhancements, most of which are suspiciously finger-friendly. I think you can guess where this is going.

The thesis flags more or less every cosmetic and UI change in Snow Leopard as a move towards touch (and by extension, tablet) friendliness: the new Expose removes the keyboard and mouse from the equation, and empowers the big-buttoned dock; Stacks are now much more useful, negating the need to dive into Finder for many tasks; Quicktime controls (and editing) are poke-able; the tech behind the new (and oddly touted) Asian character input support could be extended to more drawing capabilities; and Safari 4's new Cover Flow integration is more useful as a touch interface than a traditional one.

I'll add a few more to that: Finder's new preview functions reduce clicks, and Snow Leopard's general speediness and space-savings would suit the presumably scaled-back hardware of a tablet.

It's miles from conclusive, and CNET's certainty and enthusiasm are easy to mock, but I like this. Jesus sees Apple's tablet as a bigger, more powerful iPod Touch, running some variant of iPhone OS—an solid theory, since you could argue that iPhone OS is Apple's touch version of OS X—but I've previously fingered OS X as the device's software, based on Apple patents that describe Snow Leopard-esque interface modifications to accommodate finger input. On top of that, OS X is already a decent touch OS—Cover Flow is everywhere, and the dock is, well, big.

And at minimum this story gives us one more website to commiserate with when Apple finally announces their plans to never, ever make a tablet. Thanks! [CNET]

Not even a day has passed since its release, and yet here we are, already dishing out iffy techniques for enabling unauthorized tethering and MMSing with iPhone OS 3.0. Here are two of them:

But first! Some words from our lawyers my conscience: These are, no matter how you cut it, not sanctioned. That means they could screw with your phone's brains, and more likely, with your delicate relationship with AT&T. If you're not particularly intrepid when it comes to technology, your warranty and, uhh, contract law, you should probably just wait it out.

Our first method comes from Giz reader Aaron Krill, who has posted a comprehensive guide to enabling both tethering and MMS specifically on AT&T. It's not the simplest procedure, but it's approachable, and doesn't require jailbreaking like before. The gist:

• Enable IPCC updates on iTunes 8.2
• Update IPCC files
• Spoof AT&T's website into thinking you have an other phone

If MMS doesn't really matter to you (be honest!) you can try this simpler, tethering-only method that allegedly works on all carriers (though it was tested on the UK's O2 network—written by Richard Lai and spotlighted by Engadget. The shorter gist:

• Visit a website on your iPhone and download a new carrier profile
• TETHER!

Let us know how it works in the comments!

It looks like the incredibly cool new Blackberry Messenger app will be making its way to all devices running OS 5.0.

Up until now the new BBM had only been seen on the BlackBerry Onyx, but BGR has been playing around with OS 5.0 on a Curve 8900, and says it came packing all the great new features. New to the app are GPS location integration and proximity sensor so you know when you are near friends, avatar support, home screen contacts and threaded SMS.

But best of all, given the slick new interface, you won't feel like you are sending a message from 2004 every time you open it. [BGR via CrackBerry]