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Seattle's Filthy, Prostitute-Ridden Automated Public Toilets Now Available on eBay

After spending $5 million of the city's tax dollars on high-tech, self-cleaning public toilets and then watching them quickly devolve into disgusting havens for just about every urban deviance imaginable, the city of Seattle is trying to cut their losses by vending all five of them on eBay where they can be yours for $89,000 each, discarded crack pipes not included. More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By John Mahoney
18,852 views, 107 comments

Latest by GadgetPlay: @aseriesoftubes: "My local grocery store acts like they're getting paid to give away plastic bags." They kind of are. That twenty cents a bag is a new tax on groceries, pure and simple. @gravitation: "why couldn't they have used the five more »

culture

Power Tool Drag Racing is Our Kind of Non-Sport

Take a potentially lethal power tool (such as a saw), screw with it a bit and then place it on a track against other similarly sharp, high-speed devices. That's the philosophy behind the Seattle Power Tool Race & Derby. And like any sport we like, it involves no sweat but a touch of danger. Last weekend as their third annual race—that's a shot of the festivities above. Read on for the video: More »

11:45 AM on Tue Jul 1 2008
By Mark Wilson
6,273 views, 32 comments

Latest by n/a: This will be one of those "this picture makes no sense at all" Captions. I mean out of context the pic on its own really makes no sense. more »

bill gates retirement party

Bill Gates Bids Farewell to his Colleagues with a Lump in his Throat

Despite my best efforts to distract the world's media from Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft yesterday, the software genius-turned philanthropist held his own. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an audio file of the great man's two-minute speech to his employees in Redmond. His voice cracks when he mentions Steve Ballmer, and all the "incredible people" at the company he founded, and you can hear the pride in his voice when he talks about how they changed the world. "You've made it so much fun for me, there won't be a day in my life that I'm not thinking about Microsoft and the great things it's doing. Thank you for making it the center of my life and so much fun." Oh, that's set me off again. [Seattlepi via CNET]

11:00 AM on Sat Jun 28 2008
By AddyDugdale
5,328 views, 23 comments

Latest by WilCon: @kaneshadow: Nope we just don't care. more »

medical tech

Pill Camera Not So Hard for Patients to Swallow

As the miniaturisation of cameras continues apace, more and more innovative products are thrown up, such as this pill camera. Basically a lens on a piece of string (isn't that something that Hell's Angels like to do involving string, bacon and laydeez, and goes by the name of Wolfbagging?), the technology costs just $300—far less than a $5,000 endoscope. Developed at the University of Washington, the only person who has tried it out so far is research associate professor Eric Siebel. More »

8:17 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008
By AddyDugdale
4,289 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: Does the Pill need headlights? more »

transformers

Dude Legally Renames Himself Megatron

This is Seattle man Jason Megatron Burrows. He used to be known as Jason Michael Burrows, but on July 2, Jason went to the courthouse and stood before the judge, who "ordered and decreed" he change his name to honor his childhood hero, Megatron, thus joining Gizmodo's other friend Optimus Prime in the pantheon of crazy-ass Transformer fans. More »

4:20 AM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By AddyDugdale
16,954 views, 12 comments

zune

Seattle Residents: Go See The Zune in Person Tonight at 6:30

Cesar from Zune Insider gets a Microsoft-sanctioned field trip to Souped Up Cafe tonight to show off the Zune to the nose-breathing masses. If you're in the Seattle area and want to feel what the Zune is like before it's on store shelves November 14, head down there to 7900 E Green Lake Dr N, tonight by 6:30 PM. More »

8:15 PM on Wed Oct 4 2006
By Jason Chen
61 views, 15 comments