Adam Frucci, Author at Gizmodo

Rockterscale Lets You Know When Your Party Gets Violent

If you’ve got a huge, insane contraption designed to monitor how hard a party is rocking, your party is not rocking. Sorry to defeat the purpose of your contraption, but come on. The Rockterscale measures how hard a party is rocking via four different signals. One, if someone wearing the Hat of Rock and is…

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CBS Looking to Turn TV.com Into a Hulu Competitor

CBS has been paying attention to the success of NBC and Fox’s Hulu, and they want in on the fun/money. They could just add their content to Hulu, but that would be too easy. Instead, CBS is looking to redesign TV.com into a Hulu-like streaming site, all while keeping the community that’s grown there in…

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138 Scenes You Won’t See in Terminator Salvation

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, we have a boatload of highly unlikely scenes from the upcoming Terminator Salvation. I’m pretty sure even McG won’t screw up the franchise this badly. We got a ton of great entries this week, including like 30 ET jokes (sorry, I didn’t include many of them). Overall, top rate work,…

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Refurbished iPhones Available for $150

Hey, cheapskates! Refurbished iPhones are available now from Apple for $150/$250, if that $50 has been a dealbreaker for you. You’ll still need a two-year contract, of course. [AT&T via CNet]

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Guitar with Two iPods Attached is Much More Likely to Be Stolen After Your Gig

Playing guitar is a cool thing to do. Sticking a couple of iPod touches on it to make an "iTouch Guitar"? Well, the coolness of that is a bit more questionable. This guy affixed two iPods to the front of his guitar; one runs Itouch Midi’s Matrix app and the other is running my beloved…

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Custom Marriage Proposals on the Nintendo DS Prove Your Love, Nerdiness

Were you inspired by the one-of-a-kind hacked Chrono Trigger proposal? Do you now want to rip that guy’s idea off and do a DS proposal of your own? New software can make it happen. https://kotaku.com/the-chrono-trigger-marriage-proposal-hacks-5069088 Multiple:Option’s middleware for the DS lets you create a custom puzzle game that ends with a marriage proposal. Simply give…

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Last Minute Gadget Gift Deals

Time is running out! You need to buy presents or people will decide that they no longer like you! Your entire life hangs in the balance! Check out these deals to prevent disaster! Newegg 15% off purchase (up to $50 off) if you pay with PayPal (Note that you can get only one cash back…

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Top Gear Crew Puts the Tesla Roadster Through Its Paces

If there’s a more entertaining show about cars in the world than the BBC’s Top Gear, I’ve never seen it. Which is why we’re psyched to see them take on the Tesla Electric Roadster. The gang finds that, while the Tesla is amazingly fast out of the gate and cheap to operate (once you drop…

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Gmail Gets a Built-in PDF Reader, Lets You Avoid Acrobat Reader

I’ve always found PDFs to be supremely annoying thanks to Acrobat Reader’s slow, crashy behavior. Now, Gmail is allowing users to skip the Reader altogether. Now, when you click “View” on an attached PDF, you’ll get to view it inside your browser with no mess. All the pages show up thumbnailed on the right, and…

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Six-Legged Robot Chair Makes a Statement in the Office

These days, you’ve gotta do everything you can to stand out at the office so you don’t get laid off. Like tromp around in a terrifying, six-legged robo-chair. The Hexabot is a DIY robot chair that lets you walk around like some sort of half-rate comic book villain, and it’s awesome. Unfortunately, turning or maneuvering…

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Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Performing Runway Tests

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo, the ship that will deliver SpaceShipTwo into orbit, just started performing runway tests. We’re one step closer to personal space travel, folks. https://gizmodo.com/beautiful-video-of-virgin-galactics-whiteknighttwo-5030033 Yeah, it’s just slowly trucking down the runway, but it’s the first time we’ve actually seen this thing in any sort of action. The next step? The first flight,…

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Shock Safe Delivers a Jolt to Would-Be Thieves

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that no one wants your old baseball cards enough to warrant securing them in a safe that delivers electric shocks to people. The shock safe does just that, administering a jolt to anyone who dares tamper with it. It uses a four-digit code to keep…

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Millennium Falcon Sled is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to the Real Thing

You may never fly the Millennium Falcon with a Wookie by your side, but at least you can fly down a hill on a rough approximation of the famous ship. That’s still pretty good. The Millennium Falcon sled is essentially a souped-up saucer sled, allowing you to fly down an icy slope, spinning around wildly…

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Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber Sold for $240,000, Doesn’t Work

Some dumbass spent $240,000 on Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber from the first two Star Wars movies. Didn’t that guy realize that there’s no such thing as a lightsaber and that it doesn’t work?? https://gizmodo.com/buy-lukes-original-lightsaber-for-185-000-gizmo-anima-5098989 Other props sold at the auction include the head of C-3PO for $120,000 and Marlon Brando’s costume from Superman for $72,000. But…

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Rumor: Sony’s New Walkman to Feature OLED Touchscreen and Wi-Fi

Sony has plans to unveil its first touchscreen Walkman at CES, coming in both 16GB and 32GB varieties, and the early word has it looking pretty slick: OLED touchscreen, anyone? Yes, the rumor has it that the new Walkman will feature a 3-inch OLED touchscreen. It sounds like a direct competitor to the iPod Touch,…

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International Watchmen Trailer Has New Footage of Dr. Manhattan Blowin’ Stuff Up

Here’s the new Watchmen international trailer, featuring a decent amount of new footage, including Dr. Manhattan turning a tank back into the parts from whence it came. Man, I can’t wait for this movie. [io9} https://gizmodo.com/new-watchmen-trailer-dragonball-stills-dollhouse-fina-5107799

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Hackers Help Loggers Smuggle 1.7 Million Cubic Meters of Wood Out of Brazil

Hackers in Brazil have managed to break into the computerized system that tracks quotas for logging companies, allowing for the illegal logging and smuggling of nearly 1.7 million cubic meters of wood. The haven’t gotten away with it, however, as Brazil has been trying to crack down on illegal logging. Now there are 107 companies…

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Virtual GT Racing System Now 50% Off, Available for Only $9,800

Guys, I found a great deal for people looking for a last-minute Christmas present! The Virtual GT Racing Simulator, which usually retails for $19,700, is on sale for a mere $9,800! How can you resist? The Virtual GT Racing Simulator has a 500W speaker system, a 4-corner independent suspension, a MasterCraft racing seat, a force-feedback…

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‘Funny Band’ Combines Keyboards, Drums and Guitar Into One Unusable Controller

Sick of all those fake instruments cluttering up your living room? Try Korean-made Funny Band, which takes a guitar and shoves drums on the back and a keyboard on the front for some insane reason. Yeah, I’m not quire sure how you’re supposed to use this Rock Band ripoff, but it sure is ambitious. Oh,…

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Create The Scenes You Want to See in Terminator Salvation Using Photoshop

With the new Terminator Salvation trailer out, as well as with Mark’s first set visit reports, it got me wondering: what kind of implausible scenes would you like to see in the movie? https://gizmodo.com/terminator-salvation-set-visit-it-just-might-not-suck-5107101 For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want to see you imagine some scenes that will almost definitely not be found in…

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Rockterscale Lets You Know When Your Party Gets Violent

CBS Looking to Turn TV.com Into a Hulu Competitor

138 Scenes You Won’t See in Terminator Salvation

Refurbished iPhones Available for $150

Guitar with Two iPods Attached is Much More Likely to Be Stolen After Your Gig

Custom Marriage Proposals on the Nintendo DS Prove Your Love, Nerdiness

Last Minute Gadget Gift Deals

Top Gear Crew Puts the Tesla Roadster Through Its Paces

Gmail Gets a Built-in PDF Reader, Lets You Avoid Acrobat Reader

Six-Legged Robot Chair Makes a Statement in the Office

Virgin Galactic’s WhiteKnightTwo Performing Runway Tests

Shock Safe Delivers a Jolt to Would-Be Thieves

Millennium Falcon Sled is as Close as You’ll Ever Get to the Real Thing

Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber Sold for $240,000, Doesn’t Work

Rumor: Sony’s New Walkman to Feature OLED Touchscreen and Wi-Fi

International Watchmen Trailer Has New Footage of Dr. Manhattan Blowin’ Stuff Up

Hackers Help Loggers Smuggle 1.7 Million Cubic Meters of Wood Out of Brazil

Virtual GT Racing System Now 50% Off, Available for Only $9,800

‘Funny Band’ Combines Keyboards, Drums and Guitar Into One Unusable Controller

Create The Scenes You Want to See in Terminator Salvation Using Photoshop

Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

Artemis 2 Day 2: Follow the Mission With Our Live Updates 🔴

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

China Is Trying to Grow New Forests in This Notorious Mega-Desert. It’s Working

RAM Prices Are Threatening the Viability of the Raspberry Pi and Single-Board Computing

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

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