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William Shatner, Other B-Listers Start Signing Autographs In Personalized Video Form

At a time when the $2 billion per year autograph business runs rampant with counterfeits, it's tough to ensure your memorabilia is authentic. Thanks to LiveAutographs.com, a website that shills personalized video "autographs" from B-listers like Carmen Electra, Stone Cold Steve Austin and the cast of Lost, that problem may soon be obsolete. Trekkie and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington recently praised the service after paying $150 for a message from William Shatner, which took three months to arrive. Joke's on you Mike—I got a video from Shatner in an hour, and it only cost me iMovie and elbow grease. But for the last time Bill, my name isn't "Jackass". [LiveAutographs via TechCrunch, Reuters]

7:00 PM on Sun Aug 17 2008
By Benny Goldman
5,434 views, 25 comments

Latest by Pwnieboy was BOCultist was Epaminondas: @krizoitz: The writer of this article must have more Emmys. @Yifkong: Oh man, I almost blew diet cherry coke zero out more »

gadget or girl

Gadget Or the Girl Reality Show Makes You Choose Between iPod or iPoon

A new show on Playboy TV asks the question that is on all our minds day in and day out: What would you choose, a girl or a gadget? Their Gadget or the Girl reality "program" will force contestants to choose between a weekend vacation with a girl of their choice—as in one of the contestant's providing, we assume, and not just them naming Evangeline Lilly and doing the biggest fist pump in the history of man—or a random high-tech gadget. What kind of gadget? Crave says it's going to vary between things like a 60-inch HDTV to an upright arcade box, but they won't know what it is until they made their decision. So tough! If only I could have Evangeline Lilly as a sounding board for this decision. [CNet]

6:40 PM on Mon Aug 11 2008
By Jason Chen
9,148 views, 90 comments

Latest by NotAppealing: @opedog: Before I read your follow up comment, I was thinking "Aww" I'm gonna go kiss my husband now. more »

millenium falcon

Guest Review: Millennium Falcon Legacy Edition by Heroes Producer Jesse Alexander


The only thing cooler than a review of the new Millennium Falcon toy? A review of the Millennium Falcon toy by geek storyteller Jesse Alexander, who has worked on Giz favorites like Heroes, Alias and Lost. P.S. I think that's an Emmy on his desk. More of Jesse's impressions, below: More »

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2:24 PM on Tue Aug 5 2008
By Brian Lam
8,916 views, 32 comments

Latest by Purple Dave: I'd really have to put this at fourth best Star Wars toy of all time. Top of the list is more »

public service announcement

U.S. Travelers Lose 12,000 Laptops Every Week

All you travelers coming home tomorrow from your wild and crazy Independence Day weekend vacations, don't be one of 12,000 people who lose their laptops at airports every week. That's right, that ain't no typo—12,000 dudes and dudettes somehow manage to misplace their portable computers every seven days. That's 600,000 machines a year, many containing sensitive information that companies need to account for. More »

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9:30 PM on Sat Jul 5 2008
By Elaine Chow
10,810 views, 66 comments

Latest by Skeptical_Geezer: Those of you hurling insults at those who have lost their laptops have obviously never done extensive multi-hop business traveling. more »

reader participation

R2-D2 and C-3PO Easter Egg in LEGO Indiana Jones

Reader LindsayJoy just received her Indiana Jones and the Lost Tomb LEGO set, complete with snakes, the Lost Ark, snakes, Marion, snakes, Indy, snakes (I hate snakes,) and a special piece we didn't notice the first time we saw the first production set photos: a piece with the hieroglyphic engravings of R2-D2 and C-3PO in the Well of Souls, just like in the movie. [Update: actually, not like in the movie. As a reader has pointed out in the comments, it's Leia putting the Death Star plans in R2-D2 as C-3PO watches, like at the beginning of A New Hope.] More »

8:00 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Jesus Diaz
18,244 views, 34 comments

Latest by N/A: Kind of ironic how Lego manufactured imitation India Jones sets, until now when theyre actually making liscensed ones.. more »

satellite phones

Touchscreen Satellite Phone Is as Beautiful as a Normal Cellphone

I could say that Mobile Satellite Ventures' touchscreen offering is nice for a satellite phone. But screw that, this thing just looks nice, period. The L-Series phone is .6 inches thick, slides up to reveal a 0-9 keypad, has Wi-Fi and also works on cellular bands. The strangely familiar interface of the homescreen looks as nice as any smartphone, and has drawn comparisons to the satellite phone used in LOST. Unfortunately, Desmond won't be tracking Penny down with this thing anytime soon, because MSV won't drop the phone until 2010, satellite service will only cover North America and it doesn't have a quick launch icon for the wonderful works of Mr. Charles Dickens. Seems like a waste to me, brotha. [Gearlog] More »

8:30 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Adrian Covert
11,650 views, 20 comments

Latest by N/A: iPhone people, iPhone... Its that simple. It cracks me up how unsuccessful companies are at trying to rip more »

concepts

Armari eXtreme Concept Prototype is Liquid Nitrogen Cooled PC Beast

Armari's eXtreme Concept Prototype (XCP) super computer is made of some 100 uniquely designed parts, is either cooled by liquid nitrogen, liquid flurocarbon immersion or thermoelectric cooling and phase change, depending on the model's configuration and has the ability to run 24/7 without needing to shutdown. The XCP will happily function through a temperature range of -110°C to 90°C and being built on Intel's Skulltrail platform, the XCP happily packs quite some power under its Lost in Space-esque hood.
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11:59 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Haroon Malik
11,734 views, 34 comments

Latest by quasimotto: plugged my mouse into one and got freezer-burn.. the REAL money will be in the LN refills... more »

format war

HD DVD's Animatronic Secret Weapon Not Enough to Defeat Blu-ray

As if 1080p video, full-resolution audio, net connectivity and multi-tuner signal decoding wasn't enough, Toshiba's HD DVD team had even cooked up a system of embedded animatronic control before the format was put out of its misery. In this video left over from CES 2008, this little mechanical jazz band playing the Duke Ellington classic "Take the A Train" is controlled by, that's right, an HD DVD disc. Here's how:
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5:40 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Benny Goldman
6,443 views, 16 comments

Latest by BigViper: pay no attention to the man behind the curtain more »

lost and found

Sleuthy NYC Couple Use Deckard Technique to Find Aussie Lost-Camera Owner

It was like a real-life scene from Blade Runner, well, except for the pleasure-model skin jobs, the handguns that sound like laser blasters and the whole Harrison Ford thing. An NYC couple stumbles upon a digital camera left in a cab on New Year's Eve, and decide to turn all sleuthy. More »

10:13 AM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Wilson Rothman
18,973 views, 39 comments

Latest by N/A: If people cared about photo privacy, we wouldn't have Flickr. When I was a kid I found an Instamatic camera under more »

toys

Lucas Whores Out Indy into Tater of the Lost Ark and We Love It

Move over Optimash Prime and Darth Tater, because here comes Indiana Jones in Mr. Potato Head form factor: the Tater of the Lost Ark, complete with whip, fedora, leather jacket, gold idol and Harrison Fords' Very Own Cheeky Smirk™. It will be announced next month, at the Toy Fair 2008 in New York. [Star Wars Blog]

8:00 AM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Jesus Diaz
23,314 views, 16 comments

Latest by N/A: Saw it at Toy Fair, MUST HAVE! more »

you're lost

NavStar Voice Navigator Has No Screen, May Need One

If you like to keep your eyes on the road while you're driving, the NavStar Voice Navigator can assist you by blurting out turn-by-turn directions with no screen in sight. The 11-oz unit resides in your car's cigarette lighter outlet, and it hooks up with your cellphone, doubling as a speakerphone for hands-free calling. Looks nice, but this could really suck. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Charlie White
1,434 views, 6 comments

Latest by N/A: This device/service could be a godsend to visually impaired persons who use a guide dog. They must do their own more »

lost?

A Holiday GPS Navigator Gadget Round Up for the Ages

After lighting up the Today Show last week, today Wilson's burning up the pages of the Grey Lady with a rundown of hot holiday gifts loaded up with GPS. There's navigation gear for hikers like Bushnell's waterproof ONIX 400 (complete with XM radio), Garmin's Forerunner 305 for power-joggers, the usual car-mounted suspects like Garmin's Nuvi line and the hotly anticipated Dash GPS w/ a built-in cellular modem. The point is, no matter where you going or what you're doing, there's a navigator with GPS for it. Check out Wilson's piece to see just which gadget goes where and for how much in a single convenient article, no GPS necessary. [NYT]

1:15 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Matt Buchanan
2,486 views, 4 comments

Latest by luckypictures: The DASH II hardware and software are a dream. Are they at CES? They should be, it's an more »

awww

Microchip Renuites Dog With Owner After 7 Years: The System Works

If there was ever a case for embedding your dog with a microchip, this is it. In 2001 Lyn O'Byrne's dog Rhia was stolen from the vets office where she worked as a nurse. Amazingly enough, last week she received a call from a lost animals line informing her that a dog was found with her contact info stored in a microchip embedded in its neck. Dog and owner were reunited, hugs and kisses all around, technology rules, and all is right with the world. [Wimbeldon Guardian via Spluch]

7:37 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Sean Fallon
6,972 views, 35 comments

Latest by N/A: @VakeroRokero: That was a crazy game of poker! more »

appetite lost

Bra, It's What's for Dinner

The My Chopsticks Bra is yet another triumph of Japanese German novelty underwear company (aptly named) Triumph International. In accordance with the Japanese dining table theme, the right cup is reserved for rice while the left is for miso soup. Neither food is real, of course, lest hungry perverts descend from all directions, induce chest blisters and kill everyone's appetite.

A pair of collapsible chopsticks fit somewhere in between it all, almost making this bra the quintessential, patriarchal gadget of Jane Bond. But next time, we'd like to see KFC get involved for the kind of heart-stopping double entendre you can only get in America. [mainichidailynews via tokyotimes]

10:17 AM on Wed Nov 7 2007
By Mark Wilson
17,348 views, 19 comments

Latest by brikeh: Appetite lost? This makes me really hungry. Motorboat. more »

lost cause

Find One, Find All - I'm on Your KeyFobz, Making a Noize

If, like me, you lose your keys and wallet on an almost daily basis, then you just might be desperate enough for gadgets like this. The Find One, Find All is a little radio receiver that you attach to your commonly lost items. You can then use another one— yes, you have to buy two—to track it down. There are six keys, and additional units can be programmed to different numbers. Lost your keys? Press 1. Lost your wallet? Press 2. More »

5:44 AM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By msparkes
2,524 views, 6 comments

Latest by Worf: @yogibimbi: Actually, it's a fairly neat idea. Each keyfob is actually a sender and a receiver. So as long as more »

lost? watch a movie

LG LN790 Portable Navigator

The problem with many of the more promising [read: cool] GPS systems is that they are released in Europe only, but the LG LN790 takes exception to the trend. Sporting a 4.3" touchscreen and Bluetooth pairing, the LN790 has all the North American maps preloaded, streaming live traffic data from 50 US cities. An SD slot supports music, video and photos (ohhh, photos!), meaning that when Mom and Dad find their way, Timmy and Tammy can watch the porn Dad forgot was loaded in the back seat.

Look for it this September at a somewhat steep $699.

10:18 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007
By Mark Wilson
2,371 views, 1 comment

Latest by JAV: Does it have bike path routs like Tom Tom?I commute by bicycle and do most of my transportation needs thus. more »

retrobot

Custom-built B9 Robot Ready to Destroy Earth While DJing

If spending $18,000 in a B9 replica did not compute for you, you may want to point your ionic directional probes to eBay and bid for the custom-built bot from 1965's Lost in Space. It's full size, lights up and has built-in radio CD. And looks good in the gallery after the jump. More »

9:17 AM on Wed Jun 27 2007
By Addy Dugdale
1,868 views, 7 comments

Latest by Promethh: Yeah... it barely resembles the original in way of the neon glass or head, but the body was fairly well more »

lost glory

$5 Million Cray Y-MP Supercomputer Is Now Baby Furniture

Silicon Valley couple Pam and Paul Costa apparently have high hopes for their son Edison. They've decorated the little tyke's nursery in a Thomas Edison theme, and the centerpiece is an actual Cray Y-MP supercomputer they've pressed into service as a seating area. Apparently these horseshoe-shaped behemoths, which were $5 million mofo supercomputers back in 1988, can now be picked up at yard sales. More »

9:55 AM on Mon Jun 4 2007
By Charlie White
22,426 views, 32 comments

Latest by ubercaff: Damnit, the .MAC link doesnt work. I am an avid Sunnyvale Garage Saler, and have never seen an old Cray more »

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