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French President Implies Google Books Will Strip Their Heritage

While French President Sarkozy didn’t namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France’s own book digitization plan. Speaking at an event yesterday about France’s plans to place the nation’s books online, he said: “We won’t let ourselves…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Aiptek’s Plastic Portable DVD Projector Lets Your Kids Watch Hannah Montana In Style

Who knew Fisher Price would ever move into the home cinema industry? Ok, so it’s not a product from the kiddywink toys manufacturer, with this portable Aiptek DVD projector available now at Firebox. With an integrated DVD player (remember when they were all the rage?) it’s very much styled at those who’d want to slip…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Mars Spirit Rover Suffers Another Setback With Second Wheel Thought Broken

NASA’s Spirit Rover just isn’t having much luck, between sand storms and broken wheels, with a second wheel presumed broken and the threat of an icy-cold winter freezing the Spirit “to death” if it doesn’t move on soon. https://gizmodo.com/spirit-mars-rover-may-be-dead-too-now-5084238 Stuck in a soft patch of sand since April, its whole right side sounds damaged, thanks…

Space & Spaceflight Kat Hannaford

Cubic Timer Counts Down With the Roll of the Die

This cubic timer is pretty cute, but given its fun design quirk (it counts down from whatever number is on top), it’s limited to only four different lengths of time. This is why timers don’t usually look like dice. It’s pretty simple: Just flip the cube so the length of time you want counted down…

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz

Great Fast Food Glasses Of Yesteryear

Return Of The Jedigallery glasses via X-Entertainment. I love that somebody felt C-3PO’s deification among the Ewoks deserved immortalizing on a soda glass. The battle between Luke and Darth Vader from ROTJ, immortalized in a Burger King glass, via Star Wars Thai Fan Club. Commercial for the original Star Wars glasses from Burger King, via…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Nic Cage Is One Wigged-Out Wizard, In The First Sorcerer’s Apprentice Trailer

Nic Cage channels his best Midlife-crisis Saruman, in the first ever trailer from Jerry Bruckheimer’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Watch Cage spit Street Fighter Ryu balls, flip expensive cars and generally act insane. The film comes out July 16th, 2010. [via Apple]

Movies Meredith Woerner

USB Wristband Charger Comes, Obviously, From Brando

Brando, master of USB stocking stuffers (both literally and figuratively, probably) introduces another one that’s a little useful and a lot dorky: The USB wristband gadget charger. It is, I guarantee you, exactly what you think it is. https://gizmodo.com/meeting-brando-hong-kongs-usb-willy-wonka-5136739 It charges via USB and can power most any mainstream gadget, from handheld gaming systems to…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Five Possible Futures of Computer Memory

New Scientist has a feature on five conceptual successors to flash memory. These are all technologies currently under development that could fit terabytes of information on a single tiny chip—and some of them aren’t too far off. The five here considered are MRAM (using two thin layers of magnetic material), FeRAM (which creates polarization through…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Iron Samurai Watch for the Budget Conscious and Style Averse

The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from “Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over,” is available from Chinavision for a questionable $15. It also comes with one of the weirdest/funniest product descriptions I’ve ever seen. The watch, a form of which we’ve previously seen as a concept, hides red LEDs inside…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Extremely Creepy Old Man Invents Fully Automatic Crossbow

Okay the combination of this guy and this weapon scares the crap out of me. It’s as if the scary neighbor from Home Alone was crossbow-obsessed and got himself a Lego Mindstorms kit. This huge, motorized crossbow is fully automatic, meaning it automatically loads, cocks, and fires. It doesn’t appear to have a huge range,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s batch of things that didn’t make the cut we’ve got a bit of NSFW humor, Time’s list of gadgets of the year, an angry celebrity suing an Internet person, Dell profiting through Twitter, and more. Time Names Droid as Gadget of the Year, iPhone Last Seen Crying in Corner Time made their list…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Thanks to This Video, I Finally Understand the Internet

If you didn’t know that the Internet is a man with strange thumbs who is completely controlled by 50 Cent then you must watch this video and enlighten yourself. Actually, watch this even if you knew that. It’s rather funny. Oh wait. It’s a balloon, too? A man-shaped balloon with strange thumbs who is owned…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Giz Friend Jaimal Yogis’ Book Being Made Into a Movie

Gizmodo friend Jaimal Yogis’ book, Salt Water Buddha, is being made into a film in 2010. Jaimal wrote a piece for us over the summer discussing his experience on a surfboard designed by ex-Apple designer Thomas Meyerhoffer. [SaltwaterBuddha] https://gizmodo.com/riding-a-surfboard-made-by-an-old-apple-designer-5348044

Tech News Brian Lam

How to Build a #2 Crossbow

Supplies: Pen – 1 Pencil – 4 Rubber Band – 7 Tape – 1 Wooden Skew (ammo) 1+ The #2 Crossbow is a larger variant of the other bows found in this book. With a structurally solid design and double elastic power, it is equipped to fire large realistic skew arrows. It sports a pen-housing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Lumino Project: Next-Generation Lego Crossed With Microsoft Surface

Lumino may look like generic building blocks, but it actually marks a new phase in the life of Microsoft Surface: The recognition of the third dimension. The UI implications are pretty staggering. We’ve seen the Surface identify and react to physical objects before (you might remember the 2008 election coverage’s Obama and McCain bobbleheads), but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

YouTube’s VEVO, an Internet Imitation of MTV, Launches Tonight

YouTube and Universal have teamed up to create VEVO, a site which will host music videos with the blessings of various recording companies. The site is launching tonight and so far the details sound pretty great. Mashable is reporting on the launch event and this is what they’ve learned so far: On stage, Google CEO…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

It Took The New York Times 49 Years to Believe Isaac Newton

It may have taken me ages to hear about this story, but it took The New York Times 49 years to issue a correction to an editorial dismissing space travel. I guess they’d finally opened up their high school textbooks. Somehow I suddenly feel better about the frequent typos or errors I make. [Kottke via…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The 2010 Bubble Wrap Calendar Has an Irresistible Model Every Month

Oh yeah, month after month of squeezable balloons. No need to change models, the bubble wrap calendar is just as irresistible as last year. [Perpetual Kid] https://gizmodo.com/bubblewrap-calendar-lets-you-pop-your-life-away-one-da-5022830

Tech News Sean Fallon

Motorola Droid Has Been Rooted

Diligent Android-tamperers have done it again—the Droid has been rooted. There aren’t many practical benefits quite yet, but it’s a first step to all kinds of custom Droid goodness that’s hopefully coming soon. [AllDroid] https://gizmodo.com/android-hacking-for-the-masses-5341915

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Cute Blonde in Cute Video Singing Cute Song Convinces Me to Buy Cute Kindle

Jeff Bezos, you trickster. Here I was, resisting the urge to buy one of your Kindles, and then you throw at me Annie Little and her cute “Fly Me Away.” I want my life to move in stop motion.

Commerce Jesus Diaz

French President Implies Google Books Will Strip Their Heritage

Aiptek’s Plastic Portable DVD Projector Lets Your Kids Watch Hannah Montana In Style

Mars Spirit Rover Suffers Another Setback With Second Wheel Thought Broken

Cubic Timer Counts Down With the Roll of the Die

Great Fast Food Glasses Of Yesteryear

Nic Cage Is One Wigged-Out Wizard, In The First Sorcerer’s Apprentice Trailer

USB Wristband Charger Comes, Obviously, From Brando

Five Possible Futures of Computer Memory

Iron Samurai Watch for the Budget Conscious and Style Averse

Extremely Creepy Old Man Invents Fully Automatic Crossbow

Remainders – The Good, Bad and Ugly Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Thanks to This Video, I Finally Understand the Internet

Giz Friend Jaimal Yogis’ Book Being Made Into a Movie

How to Build a #2 Crossbow

Lumino Project: Next-Generation Lego Crossed With Microsoft Surface

YouTube’s VEVO, an Internet Imitation of MTV, Launches Tonight

It Took The New York Times 49 Years to Believe Isaac Newton

The 2010 Bubble Wrap Calendar Has an Irresistible Model Every Month

Motorola Droid Has Been Rooted

Cute Blonde in Cute Video Singing Cute Song Convinces Me to Buy Cute Kindle

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