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Hammer Storage’s 2TB Network Drives Are Big Like a Large Object

This Hammer (don’t…) Storage myshare NAS seems to be one of the few home and small business units to offer up to 2TB of storage. The unit itself takes 2 hard disks to form anywhere between 320GB and 2TB of storage, with an extra USB expansion port in the back for printers or even more…

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USB Warming Kneepads

Unless you’re an old man or on your knees all day, these Warmmi USB Heating Knee pads will only be used once every few months when your lazy ass decides to get out of the house and play some basketball with the guys. Sure, stuff like the USB Warming Mouse, USB Warming Blanket, and the…

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Xbox 360 Black Elite Gallery

Spanish-language gaming website Consolas has a bunch of pics of the black, or negra, Xbox 360 Elite. And if these pics are real—which they definitely look like—we have to hand it to Microsoft for being consistent. Not only did they make the console black, they made the controller, battery packs, play and charge kit, and…

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Lightsaber Universal Remote

This Lightsaber universal remote is just the thing to have when the Star Wars episodic TV show heads our way in 2009. Featuring five buttons—volume and channel up/down and a gigantic power switch—this 20cm-long remote will make you feel like you’re Alec Guinness or Liam Neeson slumming for cash. And when the show turns out…

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Wii Babies: 22-Month Old Baby Kicking Ass at Wii Tennis

If that Wii Baby with his Joker-like laugh impressed you, take a look at this 22-month-old baby rocking the pants off Wii tennis. He doesn’t just swing the Wiimote randomly and hope he gets lucky, he’s actually timing his strokes correctly! We’re not sure when we started gaming first—we think it was between the ages…

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Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

The equivalent of the 1992 US Men’s Olympic basketball team has just gotten together to develop a competitor to GooTube. That’s right, NBC, Fox, AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! have united Captain Planet style and formed a web video site not made up of crappy clips people don’t want to watch. Broken by CNBC—with snide…

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Dealzmodo: Woot-Off!

Remember when Woot-Offs were rare occurrences, happening about twice a year, causing productivity at various IT companies to plummet for the day because everyone was refreshing for the great deals? Yeah, that’s a thing of the past, since it’s been only about a month and a half since the last one—which incidentally had some bargains…

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Xbox 360 Elite to Have Data Transfer Cable

One of the questions you may have had about the black Elite version of the Xbox 360 we saw yesterday was how in the hell were you going to get your game saves and downloaded content onto the new 120GB hard drive? Would you have to use memory card and copy stuff 64/512MB at a…

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Zune 1.3 Firmware Update Late: What Are They Working On?

Remember that 1.3 Zune Update we told you would come mid-March? The one that’s going to fix the skipping problems with DRMed tracks and improved general performance? Yeah, it’s late. https://gizmodo.com/zune-firmware-1-3-update-coming-fixes-skipping-decide-240499 Here’s a list of what we think they were working on: •Improved Vista Compatibility. Update on the Update – From the Release Manager [Zune…

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Tetris is the Future of Cellphone Gaming

Stick with us here. Imagine being able to play a multiplayer game with your buddy no matter what provider he’s on. No having to get in Wi-Fi range or hook up some janky cable to his phone, you two can just fire up a game and play. This is exactly what EA’s done with their…

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MacBattle: Hot or Not For Computer Nerds

Remember Hot or Not? The site that put up pictures of two people and had you rate them on a scale of 1 to 10? This is like that, but instead of people, you’re comparing two Mac setups. So it’s not exactly like Hot or Not, but it sure is nerdy. You can see the…

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Ear Force D2 Headset Lets You Nintendogs in Semi-Private

Ever spend five minutes yelling, “SIT! SIT! SIT!” at your DS only to have the other people on the subway get up and move away like you were a psycho? Check out this Ear Force D2 from Turtle Beach. This Nintendo DS headset includes both headphones and a mic, which means you can both hear…

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iShirt From Urban Tool Makes You Look Like…

The iShirt from Urban Tool isn’t a joke shirt like the previous iShirt, it’s an actual shirt with a pocket designed to hold an iPod. Oh, how we’ve wished our shirt had pockets. Oh, wait a minute… https://gizmodo.com/ishirt-makes-us-ihappy-155598 The Urban Tool shirt also comes with even goofier-looking loops to thread your iPod headphones through, and…

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Titanic DNA Watch Made From Actual Titanic Parts

Romain Jerome’s Titanic DNA Watch doesn’t just name itself after the movie—which we still refuse to see—it’s made out of actual steel from the ship. Along with that, the watch face is painted black out of coal recovered from the wreck, and parts of it are made from platinum and other metals they could salvage.…

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Cancel T-Mobile Service w/o the Fees

Keeping in line with our previous tips about cancelling Verizon, Sprint, and Cingular, here’s the way to get out of T-Mobile without ponying up $200 per line. Yes, it’s the same old SMS price-increase scheme, which worked with various success on other providers. https://gizmodo.com/weasel-out-of-your-verizon-contract-for-free-241184 This time, Boy Genius confirms that he cancelled two of his…

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Palm Treo 750 Runs Windows Mobile 6 Pretty Well

Cingular users who picked up a Palm Treo 750 will be glad to know that the phone runs Windows Mobile 6 with very little trouble. Ciccone over at Mobility Today got his hands on an engineering sample from HTC and made this video of the phone using WM6 instead of WM5. So what’s notable? Well,…

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Shocking Alarm Clock

We’ve featured a bunch of alarm clocks over the years, but this one seems to be one that’ll either wake you up fast or you’ll smash it against the wall on the second day. On the surface it looks like a regular old school alarm clock, but when you reach over to shut it off…

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World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Despite having a two-week battery life, it seems our razors always seem to run out of juice just when we need to run somewhere. With Sanyo’s “world’s fastest recharging shaver,” which gives you a week of shaving in only nine minutes (or one minute if you’re just going for that single shave), you’ll also be…

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Proximity Sensing Watercooler Knows When You’re Thirsty

Phileo has just developed a watercooler with “human sensor functionality,” which can automatically turn on when it detects that someone’s within a 3-meter radius. We’re not sure what needs to be turned on in a watercooler other than the heating and cooling—which needs to be on all the time—so we’re a bit confused at the…

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Ricavision Vista Remote with Sideshow

If you’re not familiar with Sideshow, it’s one of Windows Vista’s features that lets you display gadgets and view photos and music on devices connected to the PC. In this case, the RICAVISION remote, which we looked at before uses Bluetooth to pipe Sideshow information from your Vista Media Center onto the display itself. It…

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Hammer Storage’s 2TB Network Drives Are Big Like a Large Object

USB Warming Kneepads

Xbox 360 Black Elite Gallery

Lightsaber Universal Remote

Wii Babies: 22-Month Old Baby Kicking Ass at Wii Tennis

Everyone and Their Mother Teams Up to Form GooTube Competitor

Dealzmodo: Woot-Off!

Xbox 360 Elite to Have Data Transfer Cable

Zune 1.3 Firmware Update Late: What Are They Working On?

Tetris is the Future of Cellphone Gaming

MacBattle: Hot or Not For Computer Nerds

Ear Force D2 Headset Lets You Nintendogs in Semi-Private

iShirt From Urban Tool Makes You Look Like…

Titanic DNA Watch Made From Actual Titanic Parts

Cancel T-Mobile Service w/o the Fees

Palm Treo 750 Runs Windows Mobile 6 Pretty Well

Shocking Alarm Clock

World’s Fastest Recharging Shaver Means You’ll Never be Late Again

Proximity Sensing Watercooler Knows When You’re Thirsty

Ricavision Vista Remote with Sideshow

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