The two weeks we were in NY setting up went by in a blur. Mostly because we were having fun, but also because we weren't sleeping very much and we were not exactly living a healthy lifestyle. I wasn't watching the website that much (the rest of the gang was) but I was sitting next to that 103-inch Panasonic and trying to get work done through the blaring of Beatles Rock Band. The lesson learned: Don't expect to get work done while you're playing xbox and hanging out with cool people. Who would have thought?

There were so many obstacles that Chris hurdled one after another. Our electrician, Fil, saved our butts by making sure our demanding gadgets got clean power. And so many times on our opening night's private preview, did people almost get electrocuted. More on that, here. But here's a video of the party, which is fresh from the editing oven!

I hid the most valuable devices during our party because I was concerned about security. The LEDs for the display cases turned out to be too dim, so we had to install more spot lighting for each case after soldering like 50 sets of lights. Our rent-a-cop was too asleep on the job to do anything but drink free cola and eat pancakes. I asked him several times to WATCH THE DEVICES ON THE WALL and he failed like a lv.1 goon in metal gear solid when I snuck up behind him and pretended to grab a gadget. Then the AC broke. Speaking of salvation, the dealer of the artist who made the iPhone cross came by and saw, to my horror, that the bartenders were resting tubs of beer on the display case. There was no damage, except in his mind, but it was just another thing in a string of problems that Chris had to deal with. And this was before we opened.

We spent the next few days sorting out details like these. When I say details, I mean little annoying things that retail store managers probably have their lives filled with. It wasn't all bad, but it was, to this moment, a blur of disconnected moments of frustration and distraction that was outweighed, every time, by the awesomeness of having Gizmodo readers and gadgets together in REAL LIFE.

Although time folded into memory (I have no idea what that means either) and the hours started to feel all the same, the Lego wall slowly began to fill up. Visitors built everything from faces, to names to goatse. Also, you people really love building spaceships. Here are a few of our faves...

We're still really bummed we didn't get to Taser someone in the gallery (it was dangerously close to happening). But I did get to fire a live taser. It sparkled a lot.

I won't lie: part of me wants to throw gallery so I can get friends inside and play Xbox with them on the big TV. (One highlight was giving Just Blaze a tour after hours, and watching him go to town on SF4 (he brought game pads!) the Arc Attack drum machine and Beatles Rockband. But I just wish all of you could have been there to visit. Instead, I've got two videos for you to watch, both very different, that do a good job of explaining the feeling of being at Gallery since I'm having a hard time describing what I think is one of the fun geek events to happen, ever.

The first clip is by me. And when I say me, I mean me as a guy losing his mind with no sleep, with equal portions of stress and giddiness interrupting proper brain function. I edited out a bunch of profanity but it's hard in iMovie 09, so I left a ton in. It's how Gizmodo Gallery exists in my mind. Minus the irrational and strangely never ending desire for pancakes. (Music produced by Just Blaze)

The second movie is by a young man and reader of the site, Woodrow Allen Jang. He's a film student at NYU and we have surprising overlapping interests in samurai movies/directors. Woody spend a lot of time with us at the Gallery, from setup to close, always with camera in hand. You'll see construction of the furniture all the way up to the closing ceremony, where we ate an entire 5 foot long pancake, rolled up into a little planet of syrup and buttermilk. Thanks Woody!

Lastly, I'd like to reiterate my point that Gallery would be impossible without help from the many generous individuals and companies who love great tech as much as we do.

• Thank you to Martin Strzałka, Michael Lotero and Jimmy McCoy. These three guys were by far the most amazing Gallery Set Up, Open Hours and Clean Up staff ever. For 2 weeks these guys devoted their life to the Gallery and without just one of them we would have been screwed. We can't thank you three enough…

• Thank you to Adam Lam and Chris Jacob for basically taking care of anything and everything. Without you two it would have been impossible to get anything accomplished.

• Thank you to Collin, Danny and Sean from Upcycle Design. Because of their amazing handmade furniture and last minute designing they are solely responsibly for making the Gallery look and feel like a professional event.

• Thank you to Alyssa Miller for working and taking care of us simply because she knew we really needed the help.

• Thank you to Safil our electrician who basically made sure all of our energy hogging gadgets actually had power.

• Thank you to Julia at Gawker for going above and beyond when it came to helping. You worked way more than you had to and we can't thank you enough.

• Thank you to Joe, Patrick and John of ArcAttack for rocking the Giz Gallery all day everyday with your insane singing tesla coils.

• Thank you o2 Creative Solutions for your updated SKETCH3D and the Ghostly Discovery iPhone app exhibit, which were both special made for the Gallery.

• Thank you to Rachel, Anil and Jason Bentley from KCRW for providing the perfect soundtrack and live performance for the Gallery.

• Thank you to Chris De Maria and Jeff Samuels from Panasonic who worked their magic once again and somehow graced us with their 103" TV.

• Thank you to Karl, Jaed and Lars from Pioneer DJ for setting us up with the newest equipment.

• Thank you to Christian from Pioneer for supplying the Gallery with enough stereo equipment to make the neighbors hate us.

• Thank you to Lara from JVC for all the headphones, Everio Camera and vintage VCR.

• Thank you to Julie and Lego for helping us transform a wall into a crazy Lego building paradise.

• Thank you to the Zune team for allowing us to have a demo unit of their newest player the Zune HD.

• Thank you to James and Gwen from Seize sur Vingt for moving out early and allowing us to transform the Groupe space into the Gizmodo Gallery.

• Thank you to Wes from Jalopnik for suggesting the Groupe space and curating the Brammo Enertia.

• Thank you to Nick Denton and everyone else at Gawker that made the Gizmodo Gallery possible.

• Thank you to Jesús Diaz for his gorgeous artwork

• Thank you to the Giz NY staff for helping us even though they weren't on the clock, especially Matt and John for their crazy hours of devotion.

• Thank you to Joanna Stern for dealing with all the press / media attention surrounding the Gallery.

• Thank you to Adrian Covert for coming out to NY just to cover the Gallery for Giz.

• Thank you to Phil Torrone for once again bringing and operating his laser etcher.

• Thank you to Keita at Sony for loaning us historic Walkmans from the Tokyo Archives.

• Thank you to Ryan Block from gdgt and Ben Heck for sending and entrusting us with the Atari VCSp.

• Thank you to Jonathan Viner for donating prints of his beautiful Harem collection.

• Thank you to RJ Selfridge and Cheftsack for supplying the Gallery with unlimited tasty pancakes.

• Thank you to JJ Abrams and Bad Robot for loaning us the Hot Rod Enterprise and Star Trek Props.

• Thank you to Adam Savage for loaning his beloved personal items as a guest Gallery curator.

• Thank you to Ken Lim and his Guardian Robot for coming out to NY and coding non-stop.

• Thank you to Dan from Arkeg for bringing his Arcade Kegerator and also lending a hand when we needed it.

• Thank you to Frog Design and Hartmut Esslinger for the Apple prototypes and Esslinger's original designs.
• Thank you to Paul from Barcade for loaning us some vintage arcade games.

• Thank you to Nick Elleonoff for helping out and failing at build Ikea chairs.

• Thank you to Alpay Kasal for just walking in during set up and pitching his interactive mirror.

• Thank you to Lara from TASER for giving us their products and coming out to NY to do a live TASER demo.

• Thank you to Chris Kooluris and Cheeto for the World's Largest Cheetos.

• Thank you to Rosa and Michelle Palisi of Chocolates by Michelle for making us some special Chocolate Apple Tablets.

• Thank you to Lisa for watching the dogs at home

• Thank you to all the people who donated their priceless items that we showcased as Gallery Items. From NYU students, middle america gadget lovers, Gizmine.com, south american sex dog doll creators, handmade iPhone case makers and everything in-between, we thank you. These people are:
- Brad Mays and the AT&T archives for lending us the rare Bell Labs picture phones.
- Katie from Dell and Alienware for our exclusive showing if the new Area-51 ALX.
- Jimi from Pablo's Brithday for loaning Ekart Hahn's 3.1 art piece.
- Oscar from NYU's ITP for his Art Bot.
- Derek Fitzer for his Atomic Disruptor Raygun.
- Tiffany Cook from Microsfot for getting us a Xbox Beatles console and getting us hooked up with MS Tags.
- Jacqueline from Belkin for all of the amazing Belkin Surge Protectors.
- Chris B. for sharing his Blickensderfer typewriter and first Polaroid camera again.
- Brammo for sending us their Enertia electric motorcycle.
- Scott Jarvie for his Clutch Light.
- Ray Crockett from Coke for the Coke Video Vender machine.
- Patola, Antjes, Katja, Nathalie, Hine, Kimberly, Janice, Barry and everyone else who sent us their handmade iPhone cases from around the world.
- Filipe at Pet Smiling for the Doggie Lover Doll.
- Draganfly for the Draganflyer X8.
- Gizmine.com for all the wonderful Japanese toys.
- Xiaoyang from NYU's ITP for his Irregular Incurve.
- Jeff Schmidt for his Laser Synth Guitar.
- Bre and Zach for their MakerBot.
- Konstantin Leonenko for his handmade Tiny Drills.
- Thomas Gerhardt from NYU's ITP for his Mud Tub.
- James Dunn and the New York Times for their Times Reader Tablets.
- David Laitur for his Pip Pen.
- Tony DeRose and his family for their Potato Gatling Gun.
- Greg from Sony for the XEL-1 and a BluRay player.
- Greg Smith for his Robot Rock Headphones.
- Johnny Lighthands for his Thriller Headphones.
- Alexander from the Long Now Foundation for the Rosetta Disk.
- Alexander Reeder from NYU's ITP for his S Ring.
- Celina Alvarado from NYU's ITP for her hug meeter Try Me.
- Becky Stern for her TV-B-Gone Hoodie.
- Dream Arcades for the Vision 120.
- Tracie Snitker for getting us Beatles Rock Band.
- Wicked Lasers for the crazy high powered Spyder Laser Pointer.
- Volcano for the coup de grâce of Vaporizers.

And finally, thank you to all the readers and everyone else who showed up and experienced this year's Gizmodo Gallery.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

All the furniture was made from single sheets of maple plywood, and was designed so that no materials went to waste. There are tables, stands, desks, display cases and a few other custom pieces, so come by and take a look at them. Here's the rough, approximate pricing list.

Cubes: $75 a piece



Display Cases: 40 to 60 depending on size



Gizmodo Desks: $225

Lego Bins: $225 with Legos



Greeting Desk: $225



Netbook display: $125

If there's something you see and want to make an offer, feel free. Just shoot an email over to gallery@gizmodo.com with the subject line "Gallery Furniture".

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Counting up the 629 large, 1074 medium and 4730 mini pancakes that we made on the ChefStack machine, the final number comes to 6433. Good lord, that's alotta pancakes.

Thanks again for those of you who came out to Giz Gallery '09. And for those of you who didn't, may god have mercy on your soul.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Sadly, the whole "we're gonna actually tase someone" thing fell through due to a ridiculous amount of red tape and scheduling conflicts, but a rep from taser will be out showing the X3 in action (long distance probes!)

But we've had some good times at Giz Gallery. We got the 103-inch TV settled, we took a moment to consider the usefulness of the DoggieLoverDoll (not one dog had the balls to fuck the thing—literally), we ate some pancakes (among other things), and we basically never want to listen to the Beatles ever again. So come by before 6p today and say your farewells. It's been a fun week.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

The Smartphone Battlemodo station has phones from Apple, Palm, Blackberry, HTC, and Nokia—representing all the major platforms—for you to compare and contrast and see for yourself which handset reigns supreme.

At 9p, KCRW's Music Director and host of "Morning Comes Eclectic" Jason Bentley will be spinning a live DJ set on the brand new Pioneer CDJ-2000 CD Turntables. It should be awesome. We'll be clearing out the gallery at 8p and letting people back in on a first come, first serve basis (around 100 people).

Livestream has created an, uh, livestream for us that aggregates six 3G cards and two WiFi cards to get a 1-2mbit stream going. We'll use it to transmit the show tonight at 9pm EST and the rest of Gizmodo Gallery.

And of course, we'll have plenty of other awesome shit, like live ArcAttack performances all day, Beatles Rockband on the 103-inch plasma, pancakes from the ChefStack (!!!), and some sweet action on the 3D Etch-a-Sketch. So stop by, there's not much time left to say you got to control a computer with mud.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009 Details
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

The Gallery is open now through this Sunday, September 27th

Hours of Operation:
9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Our big item will be an exclusive public hands-on opportunity with the PSPGo system, so you can decide once and for all if it's up to snuff. There will also be Beatles Rockband, Street Fighter IV and DJ Hero on the 103-inch TV. And Chris Jacob will be around somewhere annoying people with the laser synth-guitar. So for the love of God, please stop by. It will be fun.

We'll also have the ArcAttack performance streaming live in HD during the reader meetup, thanks to the video streaming system provided by LiveStream, which uses 6 3G cards and 2 WiFi cards in aggregate to transmit a camcorder's firewire video signal at a fairly high bitrate. This stream looks good:

Gizmodo Gallery 2009 Details
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

The Gallery is open now through this Sunday, September 27th

Hours of Operation:
9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

One of a kind Thriller themed headphones.

Amazing geek gadget and console themed iPhone cases!

Classic arcade games! Some with beer kegs inside!

Near electrocution!

Magic Mirrors!

We have Beatles Rock Band going, the new Halo game—on a 103-inch Panasonic plasma TV.

Live musical Tesla lightning coils!

Palm, Apple, RIM, HTC and more: The greatest smartphones of our time, together in a live Battlemodo of your own devising.

MakerBot: The only open source 3D printer to play Daft Punk tunes.

The ChefStack machine spits out 200 pancakes per hour, all you do is add batter and press Start.

Apple created this console for Bandai in 1996—42,000 units sold, and the product was killed. Come marvel at Apple's biggest failure.

Feeling inspired? Why not make some magic on our Lego wall? We have 30,000 bricks at your disposal, and plenty of space left for your brick mastery.

Try your hand at shredding on the Prism Laser Synth-Guitar. It bleeps and bloops with the best noisemakers out there.

3D Etch-a-Sketch: All those linear childhood imaginations come to life, now in three dimensions.

The Jackoon Artbot spits roams around its canvas, dropping paint spots as it sees fit—ultimately acting like a robotic Jackson Pollock.

Pioneer's freshly unveiled CDJ-2000, the latest and greatest in CD Turntables. DJs, come give it a hands-on for yourselves.

There's a lot more on display than what you can see here, so try to make a trip down. If you really can't, take a look at some more fun stuff in the NY Times tour of Gizmodo Gallery.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009 Details
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

The Gallery is open now through this Sunday, September 27th

Hours of Operation:
9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

We gather around the group in a circle, about 8 or 10 feet away from the Tesla coils as the band performs. This is not some "don't want to dance in front of the stage" kind of teenage awkwardness—if you stand too close when the band plays, you might actually get electrocuted.

When the lights go down, a loud buzz generates, followed by streaks of lighting into the air. Then the music begins, followed by the sound of drums that are precise as can be. What follows is an overload of light and sound that is pure amazing, a melange of familiar melodies from our favorite video games (Mario and Zelda themes), TV shows (Airwolf) and pop songs ("Sexyback").

Once the band stops playing, we still can't roam freely. First, they must discharge the coils, ridding them of any stray lightning bolts that might be trapped inside.

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Consisting of a pair of Tesla coils—plus a pair of LED-equipped robotic drums and an Open Labs sound console—the ArcAttack experience is largely automated, suggestive of a future era when a musical performance isn't about the people playing the instruments, but rather the technology involved.

ArcAttack hails from Austin, Texas and certainly don't fit the mold of what most consider a band should be. But that's a good thing.

John Di Prima is the man behind the boards, responsible for the execution of the live show. He controls the coils and drums, plus mixing in a few new sounds during the set. He's also responsible for most of the songwriting and drum programming.

Patrick Brown, aka Parsec, is the master of ceremonies, decked out in steampunk-esque attire consisting of a Faraday Suit with a string of lights that react with the Tesla coils, plus the requisite lightning-proof goggles. He's the link between the crowd and the show. He found the Di Prima brothers at an Austin Burning Man event and jokes that he's managed to not get kicked out yet.

Joe Di Prima designs, builds and maintains everything for the group, serving as the technician when the show is on the road. When they're composing and recording, he plays guitar. With a background in electronics repair, Joe eventually linked up with the engineering department at the University of Texas, where he first learned about the magic of Tesla coils.

I took a few minutes to interview ArcAttack—what makes them who they are—besides the Tesla coils, of course...

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Gizmodo: What does your setup consist of?

Joe: It would be two DRSSTC (Dual Resident Solid State Tesla Coil) units which are MIDI controlled. There's a fiber optic cable running to some digital logic boards that are in the Tesla coils.

John: The Open Labs MiKO MIDI console hosts the PC Software (Fruity Loops) that we use to actually sequence the music.

The MiKO is just a Windows machine with a bunch of nice MIDI interfaces, cased in metal—which is nice because we have a lot of EMF emitted from the coils. I actually used to run it off my laptop, but it would crash all the time.

Patrick: The drum machine has a solenoid for every drum, and they're MIDI controlled also...from the MiKO.

Gizmodo: How did you get the idea to create a musical show using Tesla coils? Had it been done before this?

Joe: When we did it originally, it was the first time it had been done in this manner. There are a few ways that you can audio modulate a Tesla coil—this way is known as PRM modulation. Now there are a few dozen people that picked up on it, but nobody does it to the scale that we do. It's still fairly new, and surprisingly still fairly unknown.

When I first saw a solid state Tesla coil in operation, I understood how it worked. After a few minutes of playing with it, I got the idea that, many years later, I put into practice.

Gizmodo: Who are some of your musical and tech influences?

John: Well obviously Nikola Tesla. For music, we all have pretty different tastes. But the cool thing with our project is that we can do anything from Pantera to the Chicken Dance and people would dig it. I listen to electronic rock, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk...if I could do a show with Daft Punk, you could shoot me afterward.

Joe: I didn't know what music was until three years ago. For tech influences, hard to say, but Faraday, all my mentors at all the repair shops, my dad (who was a biomedical engineer) and Steve Ward, the father of the DRSSTC, who I met at the University of Texas.

Gizmodo: What are some of the weirdest/favorite/disastrous shows you've played?

John: Joe had to tackle a cop once.

Joe: Yeah the cops had come shut down this rave we were playing at, and the Tesla coils were still running. He was coming over to shut our stuff off, not knowing exactly what it was, and he was walking straight into the Tesla coils. So I grabbed him and pushed him back. Amazingly he did not Tase me. He was actually kinda grateful. Funniest part is, after they kicked everyone out, they walked around and asked if we could turn the stuff back on.

Patrick: My favorite show so far was when we played DragonCon in Atlanta a few weeks ago. We did the Mad Scientist Ball. We had our big Tesla coils and a Faraday cage, and revealed our new stage show, which assisted people in transforming themselves into true joy...by being bathed in the Tesla coil rays.

During our stage performance, there were about 15 people that we put into the cage, and this one guy named Dr. Satan had big metal wings that he put onto his back. We get him up there, but the cage is kinda small, and he has metal sticking out all over his body. So we tell him "don't move." Soon the entire crowd started chanting along. That was pretty cool. [And obviously Dr. Satan lived through it.]

John: We were in the Netherlands for two weeks, and we played a heavy metal fest where they put us in front of this church that was lit all demonic looking. On our stage, there were these big glass viewing areas where you could see the deceased founders of the town. I think that's pretty much the most epic thing ever. Heavy metal music through lightning over visible graves.

Q: What is the one gadget you can't live without?

Joe: My iPhone.

Patrick: My Dell laptop.

John: The Open Labs MiKO console. If it was human, I'd marry it.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Some of the other features of the 3rd Generation Prius that we love are the (available) steering wheel-mounted Bluetooth hands-free phone-calling controls, and the Intelligent Parking Assist (also available), which helps you park with customized touch-screen instructions, audio cues, and diagrams. And that's not it—it literally steers the car for you once the IPA receives your data. Awesomeness.

It's basically a car with all of your favorite handheld apps in it. Check it out while you can—Giz Gallery closes Sunday!

And don't forget your 3-D glasses and your red sippy cup (filled with a non-alcoholic beverage, of course) like the dudes in the gallery below.

Hector and Karen are 17. They met in high school when they were 15, in guitar class.

True love happens at Giz Gallery.

P.S. yes, that's an OMG ponies signature underneath their names. Typical.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. Special thanks to Toyota Prius for sponsoring the whole thing and making it possible

What with the absurd number of devices connected to the network, our internet situation is a little precarious, so please forgive the inconsistent quality. It's not this blurry in real life. Thanks, Justin.tv!

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

The X8 is the latest and greatest to come from DraganFlyer, who improved upon the X6 by giving the UAV 8 rotors and a lightweight, carbon fiber design. Plus, this is the first time the actual device has ever been seen.

The Mud Tub computer is also at the gallery, and in a nutshell, you can push a pile of mud around, and a projected ball of light will react according to what direction and how hard you push the mud. Trust me, it's much cooler and less gross than it seems.

And let's not forget that ArcAttack will be performing with their singing Tesla coils at 1p, 4p and 7p today (and everyday), with a couple of impromptu performances scattered here and there. You really can't miss that (literally).

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event.And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

James Del, who works in Gawker's sales department, says he's up for the task. So at 2:30p today, we'll be tasing him in the gallery. If you have any interest in seeing someone take 50,000 volts to the stomach, you'll want to be there. We're pretty excited. Two. Thirty. Pee. Em. BE THERE.

UPDATE: So, The Man just cracked down on us and said we might not be allowed to taser anyone at all—not even our own kin. So we're trying to work this out. Turns out The Man is OK with us tasing James as long as he/she/it is here. But apparently that wont be til tomorrow. :-(

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

The gang and I had pulled two all-nighters setting up. The later it got, the less patient we were with each other. There was plenty of shouting. The pancake machine and coke machine fought each other for amperage. Minutes were melting away as fast as our resolve was in the hot, improperly ventilated room.

Then the party started. Upcycle was 99% done with setup, but some pieces were all not together yet. We were missing some signs on devices, so they appeared mysteriously, without context and without description of how precious some of them were. It was kind of cool, since I'd took the most valuable off platform, since our security ropes were not yet installed. At that point, Nick Denton, owner of Gizmodo, told some guests to feel free to touch some. I groaned a little groan, but thought nothing left on display wasn't attached or replaceable.

Then we dropped a scoop: An internal leaked video from Microsoft, detailing how their unseen and unreleased tablet will work. As the video played on the 103-Inch Panasonic, the post hit the site. I introduced the crowd to Chris Mascari, Director and unsung hero of gallery, introduced Arc Attack. As their song of lighting and geek tunes played, I recalled an earlier incident that could have knocked the power out on the block. Their 240 volt came from a freshly run line, directly to the power box off the street, hacked together by reader Phil. The issue with running it straight from there, however, is if the transformer box shorts, the block could go black. Good thing, then, the Arkeg game/beer machine was using a garbage can full of ice water to cool its drinks right next to the live, black cables as thick as a baby's wrist. We mopped up, drink in hand, and with no hands left to use to cross our fingers.

By now, so many people had shown up, and having a private list and door man wasn't a bad idea; the hum of the tesla coils generated more than electricity: they generated interest from strangers off the street. Even without the added traffic, my friends were here. Sonia Zjawinski, Nick Bilton, Jenna Wortham, Sam Grobart and David Carr of the NYTimes made it. Arik Hesseldahl From Biz Week. Brooke Hammerling from Brew PR. Mary Pilon from the WSJ. Nick Douglas formerly of VW fame. Bre from Make. Dennis Crowley from Foursquare. Richard Rushfield from Gawker, formerly the LA Times. Richard Blakeley, king of TV B Gone and things that make you look fat. Lockhart Steele, my original managing editor at Gawker Media and real estate and culinary media mogul. Noah Robischon, from Fast Company and my second managing editor at Gawker. Sons of Ventura, CA, Brendan Gahan (from Mekanism) and his friend Ian Campbell, son of surfboard making legends at the Campbell Brothers. Elizabeth Spiers! John Mahoney from Giz/PopSci and Seth Porges from Pop Mech. John Biggs from TechCrunch/Crunchgear. Sarah from College Humor (Adam Frucci's sweetheart)! For starters!

A man from a company asked to put up a poster next to the gadget he lent to the Gallery for display. I said no, because you don't hang ads up next to art in museums and this was a museum in my mind (however small). He was a little miffed, maybe, but I think he got it by the end of our talk. By being selective here, and only showing the best, everything about the Gallery becomes more powerful.

The heat was building, and it became apparent that the gadgets and the people were clearly winning the war against conditioned air. The coke machine was spitting out one drink every 5 seconds, each bottle an oasis of sugar and carbonated coldness. (David Carr of the Times wrote a terrific blog post about the night, wishing the AC would have been as functional as the rest of the gadgets.)

Arc Attack played its encore, and I was seeing it from the streets, on the outside. Our photographer, Nicky Digital, was ushered in by my boss, Nick Denton, for a closer look. That didn't go over so well. Joe from Arc Attack, who is master of the coils, shut them down and in a stern voice, lectured Nicky for almost killing himself by walking too close to the coils. "No one comes inside while the tesla coils are on!"

As the last people streamed out the door, I though of how much Gizmodo Gallery is a charity. Not only for the groups we are raising funds for. But for all the help we received in making Gallery happen. Readers Mike and Martin were astoundingly capable with running cable and setting up hardware. And Chris Mascari, Director of the Gallery, went beyond what he needed to to make things happen, bringing in his family, Alyssa and Danny and friends to build furniture, wire LEDs in displays and bring us pizza when we were hungry. And Panasonic, Pioneer, HP, Toyota, Coke, O2, Lego and all the other companies that went out of their way to help us make this happen. It's all very humbling. But I'm just glad I didn't get electrocuted.





Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.

The Prism was constructed by hollowing out an electric guitar, then dropping in a signal processor on a circuit board that controls the show. 4 lasers act as the strings, and they produce noise when you break their plane. The neck of the guitar has been refashioned into a pitch bender which uses an IR rangefinder at the bottom of the neck. Kind of sounds like R2D2. Kind of.

We let our intern Chris Jacob go apeshit on this thing for a couple of minutes and see just how annoying it could get. It was all fun and games until Joanna tore out his spleen with her bare hands in a fit of rage.

Gizmodo Gallery 2009
Groupe
267 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012

Gallery Dates:
September 23rd-27th

Times:

9/22 Tuesday
Media Day by appointment only. For info please contact gallery@gizmodo.com.

9/23 Wednesday
12-8

9/24 Thursday
12-8

9/25 Friday
12-8

9/26 Saturday
11-8
9-? - Live Musical Performance

9/27 Sunday
11-6

Read more about our Giz Gallery 09 here, follow @gizgallery on Twitter and see what else we'll be playing with at the event. And special thanks to Toyota's Prius — without their sponsorship, there would be no Gizmodo Gallery.