Adam Frucci, Author at Gizmodo

Gizmodo’s Anti-RIAA Manifesto

In case you missed it, last Friday we declared the month of March Boycott the RIAA Month. We’ve gotten sick and tired of always seeing the RIAA pulling deplorable moves and decided it was time for us to do something about it. We’re kicking the month off with this, our manifesto. We want to be…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 27 '07

Slightest Touch: The Fastest Way to a Woman’s Heart is Through Her Ankles

If you really want to get your girlfriend/wife hot and bothered, you should know that the fastest way to stimulate her most sensitive of areas is to go straight for her… ankles? Really? I guess I know less about women than I thought. The Slightest Touch is a “foreplay gadget” that consists of a couple…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 27 '07

Motorola Bringing Back the StarTAC

Motorola’s StarTAC was pretty revolutionary when it first came out, one of the first phone models to comfortably fit in one’s pocket and look good doing it. Even by today’s standards the 10 year-old-phone is still pretty damned small, and Moto has decided to revive the long-neglected brand with the new StarTAC III. Unlike the…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 27 '07

Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons

Who needs robots when you can control actual animals? Robots, they’re pretty conspicuous, but no one ever suspects the pigeon of foul play. Chinese scientists claim to have figured out a way to control the flight of pigeons remotely, telling them where to go via micro electrodes implanted in their brains. The scientists claim they…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 27 '07

Intel Develops 128-core Terascale Superchip

Last week Intel announced that it had developed a Terascale Superchip — a supercomputer with 128 cores that’s a bit bigger than a postage stamp. It can perform at a teraflop, or a trillion operations per second, which should be enough power to run Half-Life 3 at 60 fps and full resolution. What’s truly amazing…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 26 '07

Mayo Clinic Bringing Medical Knowledge to Your Cellphone

When it comes to weird stuff happening with your body, knowing that you merely sat on your leg too long and it fell asleep is a great way to keep yourself from getting panicked about needing amputation. With that in mind, the Mayo Clinic is releasing some cell phone software that will provide first aid…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 26 '07

Minibot Performs Surgery From the Inside Out

Boy, this sounds pleasant. Researchers in Japan have developed a Minibot that enters your body via an incision. It’s then controlled from the outside while it performs surgery on you. It has forceps to take tissue samples, can deliver medicine, and take pictures. Most previous mini robots designed for your insides could only take pictures;…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 26 '07

Zune Marketplace Songs Play Nice with PlaysForSure Devices?

Remember when Microsoft decided to create a new form of DRM for the Zune marketplace, making songs bought using their PlaysForSure system incompatible with their new player and songs bought through their new store incompatible with all other players? That was hilarious! Well, it turns out that the wall set up between the two DRM…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 26 '07

Driving Cinema Brings the Drive-In With You

Designboom, an international design competition, has just announced the winners of their latest competition, and this Drivin’ driving cinema, which received the first place price in the “500 places” category (whatever that means), really captured our attention. Designer Tim Thornton proposes sticking a projector in the front of a Fiat, turning it into a mobile…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 26 '07

Shutdown Day: Alternate Laptop Uses

In order to promote their upcoming Shutdown Day, those crazy kids put together this video of alternative uses for your laptop. I wouldn’t recommend doing any of these things to a computer you plan to use again, but that sledding thing looks like a pretty fun way to use a dead lappie –Adam Frucci Thanks…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 23 '07

Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March

Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 23 '07

FCC Leakwatch: HTC Gene

You’ve gotta love the FCC. Well, not really, but they’re certainly the biggest source of leaked phone info out there. Today we have the upcoming HTC Gene. Not much info on this one, but it’s a GSM quad-band phone with Bluetooth, a 2-megapixel camera, an SD slot, and Windows Mobile. Does it have a touchscreen?…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 23 '07

Analyst Projects Wiis in 30% of US Households by 2011

An analyst at Merrill Lynch prophesized that by the year 2011, 30% of US households will have a Wii. With census projections for the year 2010 putting the number of US households at 78 million, that equals nearly 23.5 million units sold in the next four years. Holy macaroni. Is this completely nuts? Well, at…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 23 '07

RIAA Wants to Kill Open WiFi, Puppies, Babies

Continuing their non-stop campaign to ruin everything that is good in the world, the RIAA has now set open WiFi hotspots in their sights. They want to make anyone who runs an access point responsible for any activity that passes through it. That means that if you download a pirated song at a Starbucks, the…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 23 '07

Switch to Sprint, Support Planned Parenthood, and Skip on the Fee

If you’re looking to ditch your current cell carrier in favor of Sprint and are also a fan of reproductive rights, Planned Parenthood has a great deal for you. Planned Parenthood Wireless is a new choice for your cell phone service. By signing up for this service, you will help preserve reproductive rights, and ensure…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 22 '07

Frank Buchwald Lamps: Pricing and Ordering Info

Remember these totally awesome lamps that I told you about a couple weeks ago? We’ve got a price list and ordering info from the artist, and, well… you’d better sit down. https://gizmodo.com/coolest-lamps-ever-235028 The lamps are all limited edition, hand made pieces of art. The cheapest one is $3,900 and the most expensive is a whopping…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 22 '07

Heaven’s Landing: The Neighborhood With Its Own Air Strip

“Heaven’s Landing” is a gated community in Georgia created by former NASCAR racer Mike Ciochetti. What makes it different from other gated communities is the fact that all of the houses have planes parked in their driveways. That’s because Heaven’s Landing is based around a 5,000 foot private airstrip. Yes, those of you out there…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 22 '07

I’ll Take the Airbus for $300 Million if You Throw Rustproofing In For Free

Rich guys buy sports cars. Really rich guys buy private jets. Guys that want to live even more extravagantly? They buy entire airliners for personal use. An Arab oil magnate is spending $300 million on an Airbus A380, with another $100 million earmarked for the interior. What does that kind of scratch buy you? Peep…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 21 '07

Homeless Genius Bar Worker Doesn’t Think Your Broken iPod is a Life Crisis

Andy Bussell works as a Genius at an Apple Store in California by day. By night, he is homeless. It’s not that Apple doesn’t pay livable wages – no, Andy is homeless by choice. He decided to start sleeping in his truck once he realized he was wasting all his money on rent and had…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 21 '07

Japan Loves It Some Wacky Cellphone Charms

Wired and Gizmodo’s Lisa Katayama gathered up some of the strangest and most fun cellphone charms from Japan all in one place, proving once and for all that nothing defines the land of the rising sun better than a tiny, cigarette-smoking baby wearing a cowboy hat. Here are some of our favorites. Check the full…

Tech News Adam Frucci Feb 21 '07

Adam Frucci

Gizmodo’s Anti-RIAA Manifesto

Slightest Touch: The Fastest Way to a Woman’s Heart is Through Her Ankles

Motorola Bringing Back the StarTAC

Chinese Scientists Learn to Control Pigeons

Intel Develops 128-core Terascale Superchip

Mayo Clinic Bringing Medical Knowledge to Your Cellphone

Minibot Performs Surgery From the Inside Out

Zune Marketplace Songs Play Nice with PlaysForSure Devices?

Driving Cinema Brings the Drive-In With You

Shutdown Day: Alternate Laptop Uses

Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Boycott the RIAA in March

FCC Leakwatch: HTC Gene

Analyst Projects Wiis in 30% of US Households by 2011

RIAA Wants to Kill Open WiFi, Puppies, Babies

Switch to Sprint, Support Planned Parenthood, and Skip on the Fee

Frank Buchwald Lamps: Pricing and Ordering Info

Heaven’s Landing: The Neighborhood With Its Own Air Strip

I’ll Take the Airbus for $300 Million if You Throw Rustproofing In For Free

Homeless Genius Bar Worker Doesn’t Think Your Broken iPod is a Life Crisis

Japan Loves It Some Wacky Cellphone Charms

Spotify Reveals Its Most Streamed Music of the Last 20 Years

Feds Arrest Soldier Who Allegedly Made $400,000 on Maduro Kidnapping Polymarket Bet

The First-Ever Lego ‘Shrek’ Set Uses Its One Minifigure Perfectly

Microsoft Office 2024 Lifetime License for Mac and PC Drops 64%, Skip Subscriptions and Own Office Suite Forever

‘Fullmetal Alchemist’ Is the Greatest Anime of All Time

Gamers Sue Nintendo to Get a Cut of Trump’s Tariff Refunds

Meta Is Racing to Move Faster and Break More Things

Your Late Night Snacking Isn’t Doing Your Gut Any Favors, Study Finds

I Am Officially 0.1% More Excited About the Future of ChatGPT

Physicist Bends Light With Gravity to Make New Mobile Sensing Device

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