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Leg Monitor Turns Your Restless Legs Into Jittery Music

At first, you might think that a device that monitors your jumpy restless legs would be designed to cure you of restless legs syndrome. You would be wrong. No, this device is meant to help spur your creativity by creating music that goes along with the natural rhythms of your uncontrollable legs. It works by…

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Car Key For Teens Renders Cellphones Useless While Driving

As we all know, driving while using a cellphone makes for some dangerous driving. Now, a new key fob will allow parents to jam their kids’ cellphone while they’re behind the wheel. The idea is that teenagers are both bad drivers and stupid, so they are the most likely group to text while driving over…

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Explosive Mallet Party is Confusing and Dangerous

When you attach a bunch of explosives to a huge mallet and slam it on the ground, what do you expect to happen? If you said lots of ridiculous explosions, you would be correct. Dangerous Explosive Mallets – Watch more Free VideosYep, it’s about what you expected, eh? I try to deliver when I promise…

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Gadget Deals of the Day

Hey guys, I’ve got some sweet deals here. I’ll give em to ya if you let me have Obama’s senate seat. OK, OK, fine. I’ll just give you the deals for free. Computer Software • Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac (2 for 1) for $79.99 (going for $160 – valid until 12/31). https://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-buy-parallels-get-parallels-free-5106532 Gaming •…

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Lasers, Cameras and Mirrors Turn You Into a Pool Shark

Do you suck at pool? Well, this fancy system involving lasers and cameras shows you exactly where each ball on the table will go depending on where you’re pointing the cue. The whole thing is a little slapdash due to the budget limitations of the students who made it, but it’s even more impressive when…

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Virgin Mobile Lets You Send Texts to Nobody, Charges For Confirmation

Virgin Mobile has a new service that allows its customers to send text messages into space, with a “formal confirmation” costing $15. Yes, sending text messages to nobody in particular, allowing them to travel out in some random direction and end up in space, is the hot new thing. You know, because aliens will know…

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First Full-Length Terminator Salvation Trailer Leaks Out of Japan

Click to viewOh boy! Here’s the first full length trailer for Terminator: Salvation, apparently leaked from Japan. It’s loaded up with all sorts of scary new robots built for the destruction of humanity. There’s lots of new footage in here, including footage of the gigantic mech, the bikebots and the harvesters that we’ve seen concept…

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34 Ways to Bring Santa Into the 21st Century

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to upgrade Santa Claus using technology. We have some absolutely amazing entries here, albeit maybe a few too many Iron Man Santas. There’s really great stuff all around here, including quite a few entries that would probably scar any toddlers who saw them for life, which I…

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NES Controller Security System Only Admits Nerds

This homemade security system doesn’t waste time with keys. Instead, it allows admittance only to those who know the proper code as entered on an NES controller. Yes, knowing the Konami code just got useful again. The Arduino-based homebrew security system ejects a CD tray when you enter the proper sequence, which either unlocks or…

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FYI: Blending a Charged iPhone Causes Explosions

On Saturday at the Gizmodo Gallery, we blended a fully-functioning iPhone with a Blendtec, sacrificing it to the gods of copy and paste. What we learned was that if you blend an iPhone with its battery inside, it explodes. Whoops! Yeah, so we probably should have taken the battery out, but we wanted to show…

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US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling

We all know who the real threats to our American way of life are: Canadians. That’s why unmanned drone aircraft are set to start patrolling the US/Canadian border. The drone, which will fly from the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, will begin its patrols in January. Ostensibly, it’s on the lookout for…

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Monster Offers White Version of Beats Headphones, Charges $700 For No Discernable Reason

If there’s a company out there that engages in price gouging more blatantly than Monster, I’ve never heard of them. Today’s offense: charging $700 for a pair of $350 headphones painted white. The headphones in question are the Dr. Dre Beats headphones, a nice pair of over-the-ear cans with noise cancellation and a cellphone mic…

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Crazy, Ugly Mystery Phone Pops Up, Begs to Be Identified

This mystery phone has appeared on the internet with absolutely no info about it available. We don’t know what it is, but we do know that’s it’s ugly as sin. The accepted educated guess about this thing is that it’s the upcoming Palm Roteo, based on the keyboard looking like the keyboard on the Centro…

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iPhone Coffee Table is a One Way Ticket to Lonelytown

I know you like your iPhone. That’s great. But really, if you build a coffee table that looks like an iPhone, complete with icon coasters, you’ve gone too far. We’ve seen iPhone coasters before, and those were bad enough, but this take things to a whole new level. Also: it’s made completely out of cardboard,…

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Free Laser Etching, Tonight Only at the Gizmodo Gallery

Need yet another excuse to get over to the Gizmodo Gallery? Well, Phil Torrone from Make is here with his laser etching setup, and he’s been pumping out awesome free etches all day long. https://gizmodo.com/at-gizmodo-gallery-free-diy-laser-etching-5098617 Phil is only here tonight, so if you want to get your computer or phone etched, come down now. He…

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It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets

Hurricanes, as we’ve seen, can wreak serious havoc when they strike populated areas. We’ve never had control over them before, but one researcher thinks they could be broken up with F-4 fighter jets. In theory, sending in a pair of the jets to do loops around the eye of the hurricane while it’s still out…

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Upgrade Santa for the 21st Century

For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want to spruce our old friend Santa up with technology. His sleigh only runs on what I assume is 8 horsepower, after all. Let’s give him an upgrade. Your task is to upgrade Santa Claus with technology. Come up with your best images and email them to me at…

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New Bravia Ad in Production to Feature Kaka, Gigantic Zoetrope

A new Sony Bravia ad from the creators of the Balls, Paint and Play-Doh ads is currently in production in Northern Italy, and we have some shots of the shoot. It looks just as crazy and awesome as its predecessors. I’m not sure what the ad is going to end up being, but I do…

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Pole Dancing Robots Ruin Both Robots and Strippers Simultaneously

Pole dancing robots. Yes, they exist, and yes, I have video of them. No, they are not sexy. They are the polar opposite of sexy. The robots are part of the MuTate London exhibition. Beyond that, I have no idea what in the hell is the deal with these things. I mean, I know that…

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Annoy-a-tron 2.0 Lets You to Slowly Drive Your Co-Workers Insane Just for Fun

You may remember the original Annoy-a-tron, a tiny device designed to annoy the crap out of friends and enemies alike. Well, now there’s the new Annoy-a-tron 2.0, taking the obnoxiousness to new heights. https://gizmodo.com/annoy-a-tron-lose-friends-for-cheap-232824 The Annoy-a-tron is a tiny device that plays annoying sounds at random intervals, perfect for hiding in your targets office. While…

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Leg Monitor Turns Your Restless Legs Into Jittery Music

Car Key For Teens Renders Cellphones Useless While Driving

Explosive Mallet Party is Confusing and Dangerous

Gadget Deals of the Day

Lasers, Cameras and Mirrors Turn You Into a Pool Shark

Virgin Mobile Lets You Send Texts to Nobody, Charges For Confirmation

First Full-Length Terminator Salvation Trailer Leaks Out of Japan

34 Ways to Bring Santa Into the 21st Century

NES Controller Security System Only Admits Nerds

FYI: Blending a Charged iPhone Causes Explosions

US to Deploy Drone Aircraft Along Canadian Border to Prevent Bacon Smuggling

Monster Offers White Version of Beats Headphones, Charges $700 For No Discernable Reason

Crazy, Ugly Mystery Phone Pops Up, Begs to Be Identified

iPhone Coffee Table is a One Way Ticket to Lonelytown

Free Laser Etching, Tonight Only at the Gizmodo Gallery

It Could be Possible to Stop Hurricanes with Supersonic Jets

Upgrade Santa for the 21st Century

New Bravia Ad in Production to Feature Kaka, Gigantic Zoetrope

Pole Dancing Robots Ruin Both Robots and Strippers Simultaneously

Annoy-a-tron 2.0 Lets You to Slowly Drive Your Co-Workers Insane Just for Fun

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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