Adrian Covert, Author at Gizmodo

Leather Cue Bench is the Classy Way to Store Your Billiards Gear

If I had a pool table in my apartment (which I definitely don’t), I wouldn’t want pool cues, balls and all that other stuff constantly in plain sight. Enter the leather cue bench. This $3400 piece of furniture keeps all your pool accessories tucked away, so that when your not hustling friends and family for…

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Dell is Having a 4-Hour Laptop Sale Starting…NOW

If you’re looking for a Dell laptop, they’re having a 4-hour laptop sale online right now. No idea what they’ll have, but it’s a sale, and we love those. Updated. It looks like Dell is offering three computers here: The 14-inch Inspiron 1420 for $500, the 13.3-inch XPS M1330 for $800 and the 15-inch Inspiron…

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1970s-Era Chinese Typewriter Has 2000 Characters to Choose From and a Max Typing Speed of 20 WPM

Charlie Sorrel over at Gadget Lab found this Chinese typewriter at an art exhibit in Barcelona. It has 2000 characters to choose from, but instead of buttons, you use levers to select those characters. Apparently, by maneuvering the two levers, there’s a grabber that can pick up the character and print it on the page.…

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Rumor: Orange to Sell the LG GD 910 Watch Phone for £1,000

British website Mobile Today is claiming that the LG GD910 Watch Phone will sell on the Orange network across Europe for about £1,000, which is the rough equivalent of $1500 USD. https://gizmodo.com/lg-touchscreen-watch-phone-will-support-3g-speech-reco-5119487 A £1,000 pricetag would seem to make sense, since it this is a boutique item and it was announced last week that Orange…

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‘I Am Richer’ App Pops Up in Android Marketplace for $200

Is it any huge surprise that someone is already charging the maximum Android Marketplace price for a nonsensical, paid app? Or that the name makes reference to the $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app? No. https://gizmodo.com/google-sets-price-cap-for-paid-android-apps-5154661 Network World says ‘I Am Richer‘ is essentially identical to the iPhone app, except it has a blue diamond,…

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Brando USB Internet Sharing Dongle is About Nine Years Too Late

Brando, purveyors of weird and unnecessary gadgets, have added this USB dongle for internet sharing to their arsenal. But seriously, how many people need to share (or steal) their internet via USB? Dubbed the USB 2.0 Data Copy and Internet Connection Sharing Dongle, this is ostensibly for people who dislike dealing with Windows’ internet sharing…

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iPoint 3D Lets You Control a 3D Display Using Only Hand Gestures

The creators of iPoint 3D claim their technology lets you walk up to a 3D display, and without having to wear any special eyewear, interact with the screen just by gesturing in the air. According to Electronista, Fraunhofer plans to show off the technology at next month’s CeBIT show, and say its uses could range…

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Why Does This Apple iBook Have a Microsoft BSOD?

So there’s this commercial on TV right now for some computer maintenance service with technologically-inept people frustrated over their crappy, virus-laden, machines. At one point an iBook even flashes a BSOD…wait, what? Oh, the joys of low budget commercials and oblivious ad men! If El Jobso saw this, he would be furious! Plus, they show…

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Siftables Intelligent Blocks Look Like the Future of Interactive UI Design For Kids

Shown off at the 2009 TED conference (aka Mosquito Madness), these Siftables blocks are location aware, motion sensitive, touch interactive and work with other blocks to take on a variety of functions. Monstermunch posted on the Siftables, which have a 3-axis accelometor that allows for gesture-based controls, and an OLED touchscreen that allows direct user…

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Mac Plus Emulator now Available for Jailbroken iPhones

NOSTALGIA ALERT! There is now an honest-to-goodness Retro MacOS emulator for jailbroken iPhones in the form of Mini vMac, which loads disk images and everything. It’s like getting your first Mac all over again. The OS, developed by Named Fork, is based around that found on the Mac Plus (v3.0, presumably). If you can stomach…

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Obama’s New Blackberry, According to the New Yorker

Either the New Yorker has access to super-classified government intel (Seymour Hersh FTW!), or they just possess a healthy enough imagination to have come up with this approximate sketch of Obama’s new and improved Blackberry. https://gizmodo.com/obama-allowed-to-keep-blackberry-must-use-sectera-edge-5136260 No matter the motive, the final product is great, and comes with a breakdown of the phone’s features, which…

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British Government to Launch Satellites Into Orbit on the Back of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo

Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won’t be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic‘s spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit. https://gizmodo.com/first-virgin-galactic-white-knight-ii-photos-5029950 According to Flight Global, The Government wants to develop a rocket, dubbed “LauncherOne,” to sit on the back of WhiteKnightTwo and when the craft reaches the…

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Sears is Recycling Your Empty Mountain Dew Bottles Into Fine Tailored Suits

OK, the “fine tailored” part may or may not be an exaggeration on my part, but the fact that Sears is recycling plastic bottles into wearable business suits is no tall tale. Starting in Spring 2009, Sears will start selling the suits, dubbed EcoGir, for fashionable males, which are made from 100% recycled plastic bottle…

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Vac-U-Form Mold Making Toy Would Never Fly With Today’s Soccer Moms

Apparently, this kid-oriented Vac-U-Form toy involved creating your own plastic toys using molds and an exposed hot plate. It’s safe to say that in today’s litigious society, this would not have lasted long. So basically, you would heat up the sheet of plastic on the hot metal surface, then flip the frame holding the plastic…

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Girl Refuses to Stop Texting in Class, School Calls Cops, Cops Arrest Girl

In an incident that wasn’t at all excessive (nope), a 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin was arrested for refusing to stop sending text messages during class, where she proceeded to hide the phone in her ASS CRACK. According to the Smoking Gun, the unnamed girl apparently ignored the teacher’s requests to stop using her Samsung phone,…

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Nimbus Reading Lamp Invokes the Spirit of MacGyver

Quick, what can you do with some metal sheeting, LEDs, a mirror, and wire? Make a lamp, of course! Yanko posted this simple, but functional, Nimbus Reading Lamp, created by Donell Huston. Essentially, Huston has the LEDs in the base of the lamp shining up into an angled mirror, which reflects on to the table…

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103-Inch Panasonic TV Morphs Into a Giant, Multitouch Table Hockey Game

Making use of a 103-inch Panasonic Plasma and a multitouch-capable overlay from U-Touch, British software developers UI Centric put together this awesome-looking table hockey demo that puts all other 103-inch, touch-based table games to shame. UI Centric created the game as a demo for the 2009 Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam, which is for…

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Linksys Routers Now Have Built-In Internet Security

Linksys is teaming up with Trend Micro to put the Home Network Defender internet security software into the their routers, helping to block out unsafe sites before they reach any computer on your network. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-linksys-wrt610n-dual-n-band-wireless-5021685 Home Network Defender previously existed as an application for PCs that more or less did the same thing. But now…

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LG GD900 Phone Slides to Reveal a See-Thru Keypad

Boy Genius posted an image of this new LG GD900 Phone previewed at Mobile World Congress that appears to be a slider with a chic-looking transparent keypad. Nice. There aren’t many more details, except that the keypad glows when exposed. But BGR says more details are expected to surface soon. For now, just savor the…

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Paul Frank Counterfeit Cellphone is Magnificently Gaudy and Monkey Shaped

Seriously, how awesome would it be to get a phone call somewhere public and you pull this out? In what might be the greatest handset innovation since, um, ever, the knockoff Paul Frank clamshell phone is modeled after the likeness of its mascot, Julius. This technological marvel has a 1.6-inch screen, microSD slot, FM radio…

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Leather Cue Bench is the Classy Way to Store Your Billiards Gear

Dell is Having a 4-Hour Laptop Sale Starting…NOW

1970s-Era Chinese Typewriter Has 2000 Characters to Choose From and a Max Typing Speed of 20 WPM

Rumor: Orange to Sell the LG GD 910 Watch Phone for £1,000

‘I Am Richer’ App Pops Up in Android Marketplace for $200

Brando USB Internet Sharing Dongle is About Nine Years Too Late

iPoint 3D Lets You Control a 3D Display Using Only Hand Gestures

Why Does This Apple iBook Have a Microsoft BSOD?

Siftables Intelligent Blocks Look Like the Future of Interactive UI Design For Kids

Mac Plus Emulator now Available for Jailbroken iPhones

Obama’s New Blackberry, According to the New Yorker

British Government to Launch Satellites Into Orbit on the Back of Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo

Sears is Recycling Your Empty Mountain Dew Bottles Into Fine Tailored Suits

Vac-U-Form Mold Making Toy Would Never Fly With Today’s Soccer Moms

Girl Refuses to Stop Texting in Class, School Calls Cops, Cops Arrest Girl

Nimbus Reading Lamp Invokes the Spirit of MacGyver

103-Inch Panasonic TV Morphs Into a Giant, Multitouch Table Hockey Game

Linksys Routers Now Have Built-In Internet Security

LG GD900 Phone Slides to Reveal a See-Thru Keypad

Paul Frank Counterfeit Cellphone is Magnificently Gaudy and Monkey Shaped

Getting Stuck Inside a Glitching Robotaxi Is a Whole New Thing to Be Scared of

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NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Blasts Off

Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

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DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

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Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?