Mark Wilson

Hahahaha! Blockbuster Renting Movies on SD Cards! Hahahahaha! From Kiosks!

Oh, I hope whatever exec came up with this idea scores a huge bonus. Blockbuster is piloting a new program that will load a DRM’d movie rentals onto an SD card from a kiosk. The future! So say you’re at the airport. You want to rent, I dunno, some movie that wasn’t good enough to…

The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is part of a consortium of researchers working to apply the science of regenerative medicine to battlefield injuries. For example, two projects are to engineer a human ear and a finger in the laboratory, with the ultimate goal of being able to engineer an entire limb. Here, scientists…

Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless N Networking Adaptor Arrives for $100

This may be the millionth unofficial launch of the new 360 Wireless N Adapter, but Newegg has the device listed for $100 and on sale…NOW! And it doesn’t look like they’re frantically pulling it. [Newegg via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-wireless-n-adapter-resurfaces-for-a-little-les-5398596

Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches

Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative. A light, 2.5lb exoskeleton, the Freedom Leg moves all of your body weight from your injured foot to the prosthesis frame and your upper leg,…

Apple Shipping Beefier Core i5 and i7 iMacs

We were impressed by the new Core 2 Duo iMac, but advised that you might want to hold off for the Core i5/i7 versions to ship. AppleInsider is reporting that, well, they’re shipping from Shanghai as we speak. [AppleInsider] https://gizmodo.com/apple-imac-review-27-inches-and-less-chin-5388567

Introducing Our Guest Editor: Aimee Mullins

Before she was a year old, Aimee Mullins had both legs amputated below the knee. Her family doctor said she’d never learn to walk. At the age of 19, she set world records in the 100-meter dash and long jump. That was Aimee Mullins the athlete, running on early prototypes of now-commonplace carbon fiber legs.…

Handmade Portable Gamecube Sports Dangerous Buzz Saw Disc Drive

Imagine if you’d spent the last 90 hours of TV watching doing something more productive. Could you have built this lovable-but-treacherous portable Gamecube? (Probably not, so don’t quit your current “hobby.”) Loading stock discs from a wickedly exposed spinning disc drive on the back of the device, this “Gamecube” is ironically constructed from almost everything…

Bacon Lamp

I doubt that words can do justice to the unbridled fulfillment a man receives when standing next to a bacon lamp birthed from his own brilliance. Flickr user kmkelley617’s bacon lamp is real and it’s (mostly) edible. The shade is made out of 99% handwoven bacon which was then baked as a mold in the…

Haglöfs Laptop Drybags Have a Design Almost as Awesome as Their Name

Maybe I’m just a sucker for umlauts and radioactive thresholds of orange, but these 15 and 17-inch Haglöfs Laptop Drybags have me sold on both their padding and Ziplock-style watertight compartment. They run about $30. [Haglöfs via Stilsucht via OhGizmo!]

Sam’s Club Black Friday Ad Leaked, Looks Heartbreakingly Lame

We haven’t seen a full ad scan on Sam’s Club’s Black Friday sale yet, but this potentially leaked list making the rounds now isn’t much to write home about. Below are only the parts of the list that we could even merit pasting. The bold items look like the best deals. Acer Aspire One 10.1″…

20 iPods Cluster Into One, Big, Interactive Display

The neatest thing about this demo isn’t that 20 iPod touches have combined to make a giant touch display; the neatest thing is that the technology can scale: Both the proof-of-concept video and the above illustration are by Japanese design house PROTOTYPE. Their giant hive display can begin a chain reaction when someone touches one…

Art Lebedev Takes Wall Sockets 3D

Your typical wall socket just sits there defeated by life, making no decent effort to prevent the inevitable pwning by a 10-socket surge protector. Art Lebedev’s Rozetkus socket, however, transforms from 2D to 3D. When you need room for just one appliance, the Rozetkus wall socket sits flat against the wall. But when you want…

Microsoft Confirms Improved Xbox 360 Warranty Seal

In an email exchange earlier today, Microsoft indirectly admitted that Xbox 360s are receiving an updated tamper-resistant warranty sticker. From the company: https://gizmodo.com/new-xbox-360-warranty-stickers-better-guarantee-chastit-5397788 “We continually work on the security of our devices, including updates to the tamper seal. Beyond that, we have no further comment.” They also added that Steve Ballmer has always been a…

20 Terrifyingly Toxic Fast Food Photos

You may be excellent photographers, but some of you have atrocious (OK, delicious) taste in food. Here are winners of this week’s Shooting Challenge: Fast Food. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-fast-food-5395262 First Place 8 Bigmacs. Two SB-800 speedlights and on-camera flash (nikon CLS kicks ass) Nikon D80 I think at 1/125 f/5.6. Fast enough to shoot hand-held before it…

Shooting Challenge: Fast Food Gallery

It’s a “No Disrespect” from BBNT in Melbourne. Camera used was a Canon 50D, with a 17-35 f/2.8L lens. Photo was taken at 35mm, f/2.8 @ 1/250s and ISO 100 -Tharaka Pathirage LG Voyager cell phone 2.0mp. we call it the “McGangBang”. step1: purchase a Mcdouble cheese burger from mcdonalds. step2: purchase a mcchicken sandwich…

Brainwave Sofa Turns Your Brilliance Into Butt Cushions

After capturing just 3 seconds of brain activity through EEG, designers Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen can carve a snapshot of your thoughts into a block of foam. While the idea itself is entirely unique, the process of constructing the couch sounds almost automated. After hooking someone into an EEG, software converts the brainwave readings…

Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth the Inconvenience

Ignore the site’s lame hip hop and its general theme of trying too hard, because these nu pop watches by designer Pascal Mouawad and musician Jermaine Dupri are pretty snazzy in their own right. $145. [nupop via Whollysblog via bookofjoe]

Watch Japan’s Far Less Esoteric Avatar Trailer

Were you still a bit confused regarding the story of Avatar? Do you NEED to know every major plot point of a film before walking in to the theater? Fair enough. Check out this new (English) trailer debuting in Japan. https://gizmodo.com/the-first-avatar-trailer-is-big-blue-hyperreal-bliss-5341719 But does anyone else find it a tad too absurd that technology in the…

Xbox 360 Wireless N Adapter Resurfaces for a Little Less

Gamestop never released that new Xbox 360 wireless n dongle on 11/3 for $100. Meanwhile, Costco just listed the product for $88 with a November 10th ship date…right before pulling the page. Tracking this thing has become unnecessarily difficult. [Engadget]

What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt)

All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. Really, they’re men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $18. [Threadless via FashionablyGeek]