Winning Brainball Requires Years of Destroying Your Mind with Booze

This is Jeff. He's losing to me at Brainball, which is on display at Wired's NextFest. It's sort of like soccer if numbing your mind could score a goal. I asked the creator, why not reward the player who can think the hardest? He responded,...

1:20 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008, by Mark Wilson, 0 views, 37 comments
http://gizmodo.com/5055302/winning-brainball-requires-years-of-destroying-your-mind-with-booze

Chicago Gizmodo Reader Meetup: Saturday, September 27th

Wired's Nextfest opens to the public in Chicago's Millennium Park on September 27th. So we figured it was the perfect time to throw a get-together for the Midwestern contingent of our readership. Those guys in Tahoe and New York have had their...

4:39 PM on Wed Sep 24 2008, by Mark Wilson, 0 views, 83 comments
http://gizmodo.com/5052479/chicago-gizmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-september-27th

MIT Cyclists Set Record for Pedal-Powered Supercomputing

A team of 10 cyclists from MIT have set a new world record in the field of Human Powered Computation (HPC) by drawing 1.2 kilowatts of electricity and powering a a SiCortex SC648 supercomputer over the course of a 20 minute nonstop ride. If you...

5:30 PM on Mon Dec 17 2007, by Sean Fallon, 0 views, 21 comments
http://gizmodo.com/334958/mit-cyclists-set-record-for-pedal+powered-supercomputing

Killacycle Electric Bike Breaks World Record For Quarter Mile in 8 Seconds, 168MPH

That dude who drove his electric motorcycle into a minivan while showing off for reporters at Wired Nextfest got out of the hospital and put some 300 extra Li Ion cells on his bike. Then he broke the electric vehicle world record in the...

2:23 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007, by Brian Lam, 0 views, 16 comments
http://gizmodo.com/323802/killacycle-electric-bike-breaks-world-record-for-quarter-mile-in-8-seconds-168mph

Jeff Han's Media Wall Available Now

We bumped into Jeff Han back at Nextfest and absolutely loved the guy, as well as his slightly-buggy-at-the-time Perceptive Pixel multitouch system. That very device, renamed the Media Wall, is now available for purchase. Sure, we are a little...

11:14 PM on Sun Oct 7 2007, by Haroon Malik, 0 views, 6 comments
http://gizmodo.com/308035/jeff-hans-media-wall-available-now

D3O Armor Protects Shovel to Head

When our own Brian Lam beat up a blonde at Nextfest to test D3O soft body armor, we were...well, a little weirded out, but also impressed and a bit proud. But Brian, being the upstanding citizen that he is, refused to see the woman hit in the head.

10:06 AM on Thu Oct 4 2007, by Mark Wilson, 0 views, 47 comments
http://gizmodo.com/307001/d3o-armor-protects-shovel-to-head

EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: We revisit Potenco's ingenious pull-cord generator, get some hands-on experience with it and get up close and personal with its human power generation goodness. Unipixel has developed a new design for a handheld display...

12:00 PM on Tue Sep 18 2007, by Jason Chen, 0 views
http://gizmodo.com/301078/ecomodo-+-the-best-of-treehugger

Sans Digital NAS with iTunes Support

At first glance the Sans Digital's MN2L NAS looks pretty standard. It has two SATA drive bays, USB2, Ethernet, and even FTP access. But what sets this NAS apart is the built in iTunes support. It can take your music files and dupe iTunes into...

6:15 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007, by blongo3, 0 views, 4 comments
http://gizmodo.com/300130/sans-digital-nas-with-itunes-support

Video of a Blonde Being Smashed by a Shovel (While, Thankfully, Wearing D3O Body Armor)

Here's a video of an attractive blonde woman being hit by a shovel wielded by another blonde. I swear, this is not merely lesbionic, but gadgety, too. She's wearing a knee brace reinforced with that D3O body armor gel/foam/flubber that gives her a...

6:15 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007, by Brian Lam, 0 views, 36 comments
http://gizmodo.com/300134/video-of-a-blonde-being-smashed-by-a-shovel-while-thankfully-wearing-d3o-body-armor

Me Being Run Over by a Mars Rover Prototype

5:43 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007, by Brian Lam, 0 views, 15 comments
http://gizmodo.com/300155/me-being-run-over-by-a-mars-rover-prototype