Adam Frucci, Author at Gizmodo

Wii Fishing Rod Attachment is Less Than Useful

Something about the Wii has really lit a fire of creativity in cheap Chinese game accessory manufacturers. They just love releasing add-ons for the controller that makes it feel like the object you’re supposedly using in the game, such as this nifty sword-and-shield setup. But this… this is too much. I mean, will this really…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 7 '07

M16 Spider Might be Worse Than a Tarantula

You’ve already seen the spiders made out of scissors confiscated at the airport, but let’s face it: scissors aren’t very dangerous most of the time. That is to say, they weren’t created with the sole intention of doing some killing. Not so with this M16 spider. This one will definitely not make it onto any…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 7 '07

Sony Ericsson K660 Candybar Allows Landscape Web Surfing

Sony Ericsson just announced its new K660 web-optimized candybar. Sporting HSDPA connectivity, it lets you surf the web using the 2-inch screen horizontally and has custom web shortcut buttons. It also comes loaded with Google Maps for Mobile, although you’ll be typing in your location manually as there’s no GPS on board. It also has…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

Dell Teases Us with One A2010 PC, Forgetting We Have Pictures of It Already

Dell’s gone and posted a teaser site for its upcoming One all-in-one PC, complete with cryptic trailer only showing parts of the machine. The suspense is killing me! Or at least it would be if we hadn’t discovered all sorts of pictures of the thing on the FCC website a couple weeks ago. https://gizmodo.com/dell-xps-one-a2010-leaked-by-the-fcc-reveals-optional-314362 Dell’s…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

Japanese Manga Phones Offer the Cheap Customization That I Want

These new Softbank phones headed to Japan are styled out with designs from the manga Gacchaman. In addition to the outer shells being painted, the icons and wallpapers also sport the theme. I don’t understand why we don’t have more painted phones here in the States. It seems like a pretty cheap way to make…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

The Hose-Powered Magnetic CD Turbine with Sawblade Carves a Pumpkin

I recently showed you a relatively bananas hose-powered CD spindle turbine with a sawblade, but you complained that the video was all build-up with no release, as he never turned the thing on. Well, here you go: here’s a video of him using it to carve a pumpkin. For future reference, using a hose-powered CD…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

Ultimate 1,700+ Piece OCD Video Game Collection Up for Grabs on eBay

Sweet merciful crap. A seriously obsessive gentleman spent 30 years of his life collecting video game consoles and games, and now he’s selling his entire 1,768-piece collection on eBay in one shot, presumably at the command of either the courts or a lady. Just the system list is insane, not to mention the games. Check…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

Tesla Coils Playing the Mario Bros Theme are Unsurprisingly Awesome

I’m as surprised as you are that this is the second video-game-themed Tesla coil post I’m doing in as many days, but this is too cool to pass up. These two Tesla coils are playing the original Mario Bros theme song – and there are no speakers involved. https://gizmodo.com/awesome-red-alert-tesla-coil-makes-quick-work-of-allied-318822 Twin Solid State Musical Tesla coils…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 6 '07

Harnessing Entire Galaxies for Energy? Maybe in a Few Thousand Millennia.

Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, has a pretty mindblowing article in the latest issue of Cosmos on how super-advanced civilizations across the universe might be able to harness the power of stars and galaxies and survive indefinitely. Using the basic laws of physics as a guide, he posits…

Space & Spaceflight Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Google Uses Adorable Children to Push Android and OHA

Google is going after our hearts as well as our minds with their Android interface and Open Handset Alliance. Just take a look at this adorable video they just released, featuring kids talking about what they want in a cellphone. I actually agree with a lot of it; I’d love my phone to make me…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Google’s Android Team Introduces the gPhone

Here’s an official video from the Google camp featuring the Android team opining about the whole “gPhone” idea, the Open Handset Alliance, and what they hope to accomplish by taking cell phones into the open source world. It’s a good intro to what the whole thing is about, and as a bonus it has shots…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

EMI Selling WAVs of Radiohead’s Back Catalog for a Mere $167

Radiohead made waves with their latest album, selling it in digital form for whatever price you wanted to pay for it. Now EMI, their old label, is looking to hop on that bandwagon of goodwill by offering a set of all of the band’s past studio albums and one live album in a number of…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Awesome Red Alert Tesla Coil Makes Quick Work of Allied Soldiers

Command and Conquer: Red Alert was the first PC strategy game that I really got into, and it’s still one of my all-time favorites. That’s why I can’t help but fall in love with this homemade Tesla coil setup made as an homage to the classic game. The picture above isn’t Photoshopped at all; it’s…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Slick Kloss DeLighTable Touch-Surface Coffee Table

The DeLighTable by Kloss is a slick, 25-mm-thick coffee table that has a touch surface built in. It reacts to finger touches and glasses being rested on it, creating streams of light as you run your fingers across it, as you can see in the above video. It doesn’t house a computer or anything, so…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Zune Tattoo Guy Legally Changing His Name to ‘Microsoft Zune,’ is Clearly Insane

Zune Tattoo guy, the Lothario who’s made small, small waves in the blogosphere for getting Zune tattoos on both arms, has a real name: Steven Smith. The issue is, no one cares, and they all just call him Zune Tattoo Guy. Well, he wants to make it easier for us to make fun of him,…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 5 '07

Steampunk Virtuoso Creating Masterpieces in His Modern Victorian Workshop

I showed you an incredible steampunk laptop this morning — perhaps the coolest steampunk gadget I’ve seen — now take a look at how it was made and the man behind it. This WSJ video profile shows us exactly how Datamancer makes his steampunk contraptions. It also goes into a bit of the background behind…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 2 '07

USB Lighter Ditches Fluid, Gains Flash Memory

This rechargeable USB lighter concept is really great, and if it ever gets made you can say goodbye to disposable and refillable lighters forever. Rather than creating a flame with lighter fluid, it uses resistance coils to create heat, just like the cigarette lighters in cars. It uses USB to recharge the small battery that…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 2 '07

Ask.com’s Search Predictions are Comedy Gold

The folks over at Crave discovered that Ask.com’s new search algorithm gives you some pretty questionable suggestions when you type in the beginning of questions. To answer your question, getting preggers in a hot tub all depends on how virile you are. Consider that a challenge. Another challenge: find the most ludicrous suggestion it gives…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 2 '07

Beer, Guns Combined to Predictably Awesome Effect at Tokyo’s Hollow Point Bar

Tucked away in a basement in Roppongi (easily the sleaziest neighborhood I went to in Tokyo, as it’s the one that caters to foreigners) lies Hollow Point, a bar with a twist. Sure, you can get drinks and bar food here, but down at the end of the narrow space is a shooting gallery. You…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Nov 2 '07

Steampunk Laptop Reminds Us Why Steampunk is Cool

Yeah, yeah, yeah, steampunk stuff is tired. Just add some bronze, a few gears, and we’ll automatically post about it, right? Well, I’ll tell you what. You take a laptop, add some bronze and gears to it, and make something as incredible as Doc Datamancer’s Steampunk Laptop. I’m guessing you couldn’t do it, because this…

Tech News Adam Frucci Nov 2 '07

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Wii Fishing Rod Attachment is Less Than Useful

M16 Spider Might be Worse Than a Tarantula

Sony Ericsson K660 Candybar Allows Landscape Web Surfing

Dell Teases Us with One A2010 PC, Forgetting We Have Pictures of It Already

Japanese Manga Phones Offer the Cheap Customization That I Want

The Hose-Powered Magnetic CD Turbine with Sawblade Carves a Pumpkin

Ultimate 1,700+ Piece OCD Video Game Collection Up for Grabs on eBay

Tesla Coils Playing the Mario Bros Theme are Unsurprisingly Awesome

Harnessing Entire Galaxies for Energy? Maybe in a Few Thousand Millennia.

Google Uses Adorable Children to Push Android and OHA

Google’s Android Team Introduces the gPhone

EMI Selling WAVs of Radiohead’s Back Catalog for a Mere $167

Awesome Red Alert Tesla Coil Makes Quick Work of Allied Soldiers

Slick Kloss DeLighTable Touch-Surface Coffee Table

Zune Tattoo Guy Legally Changing His Name to ‘Microsoft Zune,’ is Clearly Insane

Steampunk Virtuoso Creating Masterpieces in His Modern Victorian Workshop

USB Lighter Ditches Fluid, Gains Flash Memory

Ask.com’s Search Predictions are Comedy Gold

Beer, Guns Combined to Predictably Awesome Effect at Tokyo’s Hollow Point Bar

Steampunk Laptop Reminds Us Why Steampunk is Cool

Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You’re One of the Baddies

Hopeful Thought of the Day: Robots Can’t Do Human Conflict

‘Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’ Almost Led to an Insomniac Venom Game

‘Gen V’ Won’t Return for a Third Semester

The ‘Anti-Grammarly’ Helps People Hide Their Participation in the AI Slop Era

Should We Finally Ditch Artificial Sweeteners for Good?

Brendan Fraser’s Return to ‘The Mummy’ Is Arriving Earlier Than Expected

Hyundai’s New IONIQ V Looks Kind of Like a Cybertruck for Normal People

Astrobotic’s Detonation Engine Fires 4,000 Pounds of Thrust in Wild Test

‘Final Fantasy XIV’ Wants You to Chill

Anker’s UV Printer Can Handle Almost Anything… If You Know What You’re Doing

HP’s EliteBoard Keyboard-Computer Proves We Can Stick a PC in Anything

Sleep-Tracking Earbuds Didn’t Fix Me, but They Did Open My Eyes

I’ve Tested a Lot of Bad Smart Glasses and These Are the Worst Yet

Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Flow Is the Ultimate Robot Mop—If You Don’t Have Corners or Walls

Alienware’s $350 QD-OLED Gaming Monitor Nixes Everything for a Pretty Screen

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real