Dan Nosowitz, Author at Gizmodo

Amazing SNES Case Mod Repurposes Super Mario World Cartridge as DVD Drive

Two enterprising modders tore down an Acer Aspire One netbook and crammed it into an SNES to create one of the most droolworthy mods we’ve ever seen. The highlight? A Super Mario World cartridge refashioned as a slot-loading optical drive. Modders quangDX and DuPPs managed all kinds of sweet tricks with this European SNES; the…

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Verizon’s BlackBerry Tour Site Is Now Live, Launch Presumably Imminent

The BlackBerry Tour, which we’ve called “The BlackBerry You’ve Been Waiting For,” is apparently near launch—Verizon’s popped a teaser site online (admittedly with no new info), so our July estimate is certainly feasible. [Verizon via CrackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-sprint-users-this-is-the-blackberry-youve-5164796

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Samsung YP-R1 PMP Plays Your Torrented Episodes of 30 Rock

We’re loving Samsung’s new line of PMPs, and as lifelong haters of forced video conversion, we’re especially glad that Samsung’s been throwing us torrent-using pirates a bone with great codec support and a 2.7-inch touchscreen in its new YP-R1 PMP. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-p3-media-player-review-here-comes-a-nano-beate-5200754 We don’t know too much about the 2.7-inch touchscreened YP-R1, as it’s merely leaked…

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Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side

A legitimate artistic movement known as Open Source Embroidery has sprung up to explore the relationship between, no joke, software engineering and needlework. It’s pretty awesome. The crux of the largely British movement is that both needlework and software creation are an amalgamation of tons of tiny little pieces of work that all come together…

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Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else

Well, they may not have gone quite that far, but an independent study conducted by Forrester Research found that iPhone owners are better educated, younger, more affluent, and even more productive than their non-iPhone-using counterparts. The straight demographics are hard to argue with—on average, iPhone users do tend to be slightly younger, wealthier, and better…

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The Comfort Wipe: Because Basic Bodily Functions Are So Archaic

It looks like Lisa Simpson’s worst nightmare has come true. Now all of America can say, “I wash myself with a rag on a stick.” We especially feel awful for the actors in this infomercial. That poor fat guy has to implicitly say that wiping himself is a struggle without a candy-colored plastic stick, and…

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Please God Let Twitter Explode and Go Away Forever

There’ve been some reports about an upcoming “Twitpocalypse” in which Twitter would finally crash and burn due to the limitations of a 32-bit signed integer. Allegedly, Twitter will collapse once the number of tweets passes 2,147,483,647. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the Twitter revolution is going to die out as soon as I’d like—there are…

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AT&T’s iPhone 3GS Pre-Orders Already Sold Out

AT&T is telling customers that any iPhone 3GS pre-orders placed after today, June 13th, will not be available at the June 19th launch, instead shipping out between one and two weeks later. In addition, those lining up for a 3GS should note that it’ll be available at 8:00AM, not 7:00, as had been previously thought.…

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Slick-Looking iPod Dock Packs Slot-Loading CD Player, Radio, and OLED Display

As far as AM/FM/CD/iPod/AUX combinations go, this artfully-misspelled Sonora Eklipse is pretty good-looking, with its 7.5-watt output, shiny black finish and glowy lights. But is it really worth its whopping $550 pricetag? It’s got an auxiliary jack for other audio inputs, a nice little OLED screen to display the time and track information, and of…

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MSI’s Skinny 15.6-Inch X-Slim X600 Laptop Specs Revealed

We’re not really sure about the market for a svelte-yet-comparatively-large-screened laptop like MSI’s 15.6-inch X-Slim X600, but now we’ve got the full spec list so you can decide for yourself. https://gizmodo.com/msis-x-slim-x340-x600-are-two-more-sub-1000-macbook-a-5158557 The sub-inch-thick laptop will be packing one of two variations: One’s got a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Solo proc, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB…

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OS X Runs (Poorly, We Admit) on Sony Vaio P

Well, looks like it is possible to run OS X on Sony’s teeny Vaio P netbook, but it’s no perfect Dell Mini 9 hackintosh. It looks like a difficult and imperfect crack, yet it still somehow runs better than Vista. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-running-on-a-sony-vaio-p-5159248 Posters on the Insanely Mac forums managed to get OS X onto the Vaio…

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Rumor: Microsoft to Release New, Project Natal-Centric Xbox Hardware Next Fall

1Up ran a story yesterday that Microsoft is planning to release an updated Xbox console this fall that will focus on Project Natal’s motion-sensing technology. We’re not sure we believe it. The rumor states that Microsoft will be debuting a totally new console that will include native Project Natal support, full backwards compatibility with Xbox…

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Yggdrasil Electric Pole Is as Pretty as Its Name Is Awkward

This crazy-looking electric pole isn’t just a concept design; it’s been approved by the Swedish government and will be placed on either side of an entry highway to Stockholm. That’s not to imply it isn’t crazy-looking, though. Designed by No Picnic, the consonant-heavy name Yggdrasil is actually the name of the “world tree” in Norse…

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Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th

Hey, Grandma, ready for the transition to the digiterized picture-box? We certainly hope so: Today, June 12th, we’ll all be moving over to digital television and discarding the rabbit ears forever. Well, the few of us who need to, anyway. It’s been a long road, paved with delays, misunderstandings, and altercations with the rare Hawaiian…

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Survivornerd: How to Start a Fire With Your Cellphone

It’s a tough call for a nerd lost in the wilderness: Use your cellphone battery to start a fire and survive the night, or play another game of Brickbreaker? At least with this guide you’ll have the option of survival. A bit of steel wool held to a battery’s contacts will create a short and…

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Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

In what probably seemed like a two-birds-with-one-stone situation (before the arrest, we mean), a 9-member British gang used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon, then collected the royalties—an estimated $300,000 total. The gang, made up of six men and three women, included one DJ who created the music. They…

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Ruggedized Casio Exilim Rotating Flip Phone Packs 5.1MP Camera

Casio’s Exilim phone (vaguely NSFW ad here) looks to cram in just about every feature you can get on a Verizon dumbphone, with a few higher-end bonuses: It’s military-grade ruggedized and features an impressive 5.1MP camera. https://gizmodo.com/casios-exilim-phone-ads-make-me-want-to-buy-an-exilim-p-5206657 Exilim is Casio’s digital camera line, so when they’ve branded a phone with the name, you know the…

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New Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Could Last 3 Times Longer Than Lithium-Ion

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have designed a lithium-sulfur battery that, thanks to nanotechnology, is capable of 3 times the power of lithium-ion batteries with equal volume while remaining both lighter and cheaper to produce. Long-distance electric cars, anyone? The different atomic structure of the battery and knowledge of nanotechnology are what make this…

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iPhone 3GS Processor and RAM Uncovered: 600MHz and 256MB

T-Mobile Netherlands, the country’s iPhone carrier, posted the processor and RAM on their site that Apple’s been so cagey about confirming, and it’s exactly what we thought: 600MHz CPU (up from 412MHz) and 256MB of RAM, double the previous models. Even though Apple wouldn’t give us the specific numbers, T-Mobile Netherlands has been a pretty…

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BART Tears Down DVD Jon’s Apple-Baiting DoubleTwist Ad

Now we’re not saying BART is in cahoots with Apple. What we are saying is, BART took down a legally-purchased ad for having a “too dark” background, and then rejected the same ad when updated with a white background. Hmm. https://gizmodo.com/downtown-sf-apple-store-gets-pwned-unintentionally-adv-5280893 DVD Jon’s doubleTwist ad was a little jab at Apple—the product itself enables flexibility…

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Amazing SNES Case Mod Repurposes Super Mario World Cartridge as DVD Drive

Verizon’s BlackBerry Tour Site Is Now Live, Launch Presumably Imminent

Samsung YP-R1 PMP Plays Your Torrented Episodes of 30 Rock

Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side

Study Finds iPhone Users Genetically Superior to Everyone Else

The Comfort Wipe: Because Basic Bodily Functions Are So Archaic

Please God Let Twitter Explode and Go Away Forever

AT&T’s iPhone 3GS Pre-Orders Already Sold Out

Slick-Looking iPod Dock Packs Slot-Loading CD Player, Radio, and OLED Display

MSI’s Skinny 15.6-Inch X-Slim X600 Laptop Specs Revealed

OS X Runs (Poorly, We Admit) on Sony Vaio P

Rumor: Microsoft to Release New, Project Natal-Centric Xbox Hardware Next Fall

Yggdrasil Electric Pole Is as Pretty as Its Name Is Awkward

Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th

Survivornerd: How to Start a Fire With Your Cellphone

Fake Band Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music and Collect Royalties

Ruggedized Casio Exilim Rotating Flip Phone Packs 5.1MP Camera

New Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Could Last 3 Times Longer Than Lithium-Ion

iPhone 3GS Processor and RAM Uncovered: 600MHz and 256MB

BART Tears Down DVD Jon’s Apple-Baiting DoubleTwist Ad

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

Apple Requires Device-Level Age Verification in the UK Now. Could the US Be Next?

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

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees