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iPod May Shuffle You From Rolling Stone to Roadkill, Australian Ad Says

A new ad in Australia highlights the dangers of crossing the road with your MP3 player rumbling your inner ear canal at full volume. And of course, it shows the iPod in a new twist of Apple’s original silhouettes campaign, now using the headphones cable as a way to draw the place in which a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Iron Man Says, “Talk To The Glowy Hand”

Morning spoilers is dedicated to destroying suspense. But we also give the occasional inkling about whether upcoming movies or TV shows will suck. Does Robert Downey Jr. look studly as Tony Stark in Iron Man? Will the Napoleon Dynamite-esque humor of vagina dentata movie Teeth thrill or annoy you? Find out below. But also, we…

io9 Charliejane

Eliza Gauger’s Very Best Monsters

When io9 launched last week (happy one week anniversary, everybody!) many remarked about how gorgeous our logo is. Now you can meet the woman behind that logo. She’s Eliza Gauger: artist, comic book creator, blogger, videogame geek, and monster-lover. We’ve got an exclusive interview with the three-headed lady herself, plus a gallery of her dreamy…

io9 Annalee Newitz

How to Convert a ThighMaster into the Ultimate Pleasure Machine (NSFW)

Click to viewSome genius has created the Ultimate Pleasure and Sex Training Machine using a vibrator and a ThighMaster, that weird legs exercise spring-based contraption that invaded the ’80s like a plague of Galaga space aliens with a Spanish Fly overdose. The how-to seems quite simple, but the best thing, other than the looks (which…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Images of the iPod Frozen Popsicles Don’t Excite Our Tongues But Tickle Our Ears

Click to viewRemember that Unilever promotion that is giving away 10,000 iPod shuffles frozen inside $1 fruit popsicles? Well, we just got the pictures of how it actually looks inside: https://gizmodo.com/ice-cream-company-gives-away-10-000-frozen-ipods-inside-333129 A reader of our friends at Brazilian creativity blog Brainstorm9 got his prize and sent them the photos of the fake popsicle/package, designed to…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ThinkGeek Clearance Sale, Everything Must Go, Step Right Up

ThinkGeek, one of our favorite purveyors of silly gadgets and almost- or totally-useless (but oh that’s kinda cool ok can’t resist) stuff, is having a clearance sale of 50 products with up to 50% discounts, from the 15″ Gigantor Digital Photo Frame to the R2-D2 trash can. Our top 5 discounts (read, what I’m going…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Disposable Clothes Just Around Corner (1961)

The October 12, 1961 Evening Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) ran a story titled, “Disposable Clothes Seen Just Around The Corner.” Excerpts appear below. A research laboratory cuts its big laundry bill way down by sending dirty smocks, coveralls, etc., to the garbage pail. A housewife convinces her husband that her new party dress is a good…

Tech News Matt Novak

Erotic Wall of Undulating Subwoofers

The North hall of CES is like a different planet. Car culture dominates geek culture here, but you still find weird things like this mini wall of 7-inch Kicker solo-baric L7 subs. They were outputting a low roar that felt like a massage or subtle brush against my skin when I leaned in close. I…

Tech News Brian Lam

Microsoft’s Brainwashing Children’s Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?

Click to view“Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?” is a children’s book dedicated to “Helping Your Child Understand the Stay-At-Home Server.” At first we snarked at this over-the-top marketing propaganda. But then it made us crap our pants with laughter.

Tech News Noah Robischon

Cheat Sheet: Today at CES

Here’s what you missed today at CES while some Democracy thing happened in New Hampshire: •Bill Gates told us how it feels to be the villain and the underdog, as well as what keeps him awake at night in the continuation of our multi-part interview. •We hear that CES may be leaving Las Vegas. •Mitsubishi…

Tech News Noah Robischon

FCC Chairman Kicking Cable and Wireless Ass in 2008

Click to viewThe initials F-C-C don’t usually engender excitement, but at least according to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, it’s ground zero for most of the broadcasting, wireless and high-bandwidth landline innovations we’ll see in the next couple years. Martin spilled on everything from the 700MHz auction to a rumored DirecTV/Dish network merger. (Seriously.) They covered…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Overheard at CES: Overcaffeinated Edition

Fat White Guy: I shouldn’t even give you coffee. Handsome Gizmodo Writer: Who? Me? FWG: Yes you, you guys wrote a story on the cookie lady but not the fat white guy serving coffee! https://gizmodo.com/ces-cookie-lady-says-press-people-are-an-unusually-poli-342373 Heard while: waiting for a latte. Congratulations, Fat White Guy, you’re internet famous.

Gadgets Benny Goldman

Super Cute iriver Wing UMPC Is Also Super Tiny

Scale is everything: We knew iriver’s Wing touchscreen UMPC was seriously compact, but didn’t know just how small it was. It’s still a complete prototypeâ€”you’re looking at dumb plastic, and the top half even sorta fell off the hingeâ€”but we convinced them to pull it out of the glass case so we could do a…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Reviewed.com’s CES Rap Sums Up This Week Nicely, I Think

Honestly, at this point, after so little sleep, I can’t tell whether or not this is a brilliant, hilarious take on CES or the worst thing I’ve ever seen. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, as even if I wasn’t delirious with exhaustion I’d think a guy trying to rap with a mouthful…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Guitar Hero Guitar CES Craptacular

Guitar Hero is wicked popular so it is not surprising that numerous companies here at CES are piling on the guitar controller bandwagon. It is also not surprising that many of these controllers blow goats. In case you were unsure, hit the gallery and lay your eyes on the “Shredmaster” and the “Shredmaster Jr.” In…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Buck Rogers In The Disco Century

Buck certainly knows how to strut his stuff and get down with it. We’ve already seen the phenomenon that is the disco-dancing Buckettes on skates, but what about Buck himself showing folks the intergalactic funky chicken? It’s great how the DJ just sort of gets the gist of what Buck is explaining to him through…

io9 Kevin Kelly

Hands-On With The Shaft

The Gadget: The Shaft, an arcade-style Virtual Console controller for playing Wii. The Experience: The Shaft felt good. The black version had a more rubberized texture, while the white Shaft we tried out was silky smooth. We found both to our liking, and the multi-assignable turbo button is perfect for when you want some quick…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

When Adventure Becomes . . . Repetitive

A new mashup of movie trailers proves that Star Wars, Narnia, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Golden Compass are basically all the same movie with different trappings. But more importantly, it proves that Star Wars is much closer to fantasy than science fiction. Just look how comfortably Yoda fits in with Gandalf and…

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Hands-On Proposal: Euricase Multimedia Ring Box

The Gadget: Euricase Multimedia Ring Box, adds a 2-inch LCD and 60 minutes of video to otherwise meaningless jewelry boxes. https://gizmodo.com/gold-wedding-ring-box-has-2-inch-lcd-plays-video-306689 The Catch: Sarah Meyers! https://gizmodo.com/sf-iphone-line-does-the-wave-bonus-sarah-meyers-takes-273868 The Verdict… I sleep on the couch for the three months following CES. Don’t worry honey, you know I’d never propose to an internet celebrity with such a tacky,…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Hands-on With iPhone Zoom, Wide-Angle Camera Lenses (Verdict: Essential Gear for Hipster Perverts)

The Pitch: An attachable lens for the iPhone and various other cellphone cameras (the likes of which we’ve seen before) that adds either 8x optical zoom or wide-angle. Evidence after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/telescopic-lens-for-camera-phones-sees-things-man-was-n-222708 The Verdict: The wide-angle lens adds a few more degrees on the shot, but the zoom lens really does give a decent…

Tech News Jason Chen

iPod May Shuffle You From Rolling Stone to Roadkill, Australian Ad Says

Iron Man Says, “Talk To The Glowy Hand”

Eliza Gauger’s Very Best Monsters

How to Convert a ThighMaster into the Ultimate Pleasure Machine (NSFW)

Images of the iPod Frozen Popsicles Don’t Excite Our Tongues But Tickle Our Ears

ThinkGeek Clearance Sale, Everything Must Go, Step Right Up

Disposable Clothes Just Around Corner (1961)

Erotic Wall of Undulating Subwoofers

Microsoft’s Brainwashing Children’s Book: Mommy, Where Do Servers Come From?

Cheat Sheet: Today at CES

FCC Chairman Kicking Cable and Wireless Ass in 2008

Overheard at CES: Overcaffeinated Edition

Super Cute iriver Wing UMPC Is Also Super Tiny

Reviewed.com’s CES Rap Sums Up This Week Nicely, I Think

Guitar Hero Guitar CES Craptacular

Buck Rogers In The Disco Century

Hands-On With The Shaft

When Adventure Becomes . . . Repetitive

Hands-On Proposal: Euricase Multimedia Ring Box

Hands-on With iPhone Zoom, Wide-Angle Camera Lenses (Verdict: Essential Gear for Hipster Perverts)

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