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Latest Wild Christmas Light Show is a Symphony of Synchronization

These animated Christmas light shows get more sophisticated every year. Case in point: this one in Valencia, California (about a 30-minute drive north of L.A.) where you can listen to its music loop broadcast over an FM frequency while you sit in your car out front. This is true artistry. Spectacular. [YouTube]

Student Catches Principal Fighting With Student on Cellphone Camera, School Responds By Banning Cellphones

Way to go, Caddo School Board. You’ve won yourself the Gizmodo luddite of the week award. See, when a student films the principal of your Huntington High School fighting another student, the correct response isn’t to ban cellphones, it’s to make sure principals don’t fight with students. It was only after the student showed the…

Lady Wasteland is a Dystopia on the Verge

Tonight is the fifth episode of the kickass postapocalyptic Web TV show Lady Wasteland, which will pick up right after our heroine (the titular Lady Wasteland) gun-fu’d her way out of a robbery, rescued a guy and his kid, got shot by a mysterious someone, had her blood drunk by zombies, then narrowly escaped. Plus,…

Microsoft’s Patent Prevents You From Skipping Ads With DRM

Fantastic. Not only are people trying to stop you from skipping ads on your DVR, Microsoft’s patent will stop you from skipping ads on video you watch on your computer. The technique uses DRM to prevent any sort of playback until you watched the appropriate number of ads, and would essentially allow content providers like…

Ravers Crushed By E.T.-Controlled Vampire Mammoth

A bunch of innocent teens are raving in the forest when . . . they’re trampled by a giant woolly mammoth, re-animated after thousands of years in ice by an alien implant that tells it to KILL KILL. Summer Glau, whose powers of acting have been used more wisely in Firefly and upcoming Sarah Connor…

Loreo 3D Lens in a Cap, for That ‘You Are There’ Experience

Someday, 3D images could actually catch on, and if that ever happens you’ll be ready with this Loreo 3D Lens in a Cap that lets you snag stereoscopic images with your digital SLR. Inside this Viewmaster-like contraption are a couple of focusing lenses that gather images from two slightly different angles. Therein lies the 3D…

Windows on Mac Benchmarked: Boot Camp vs. Parallels vs. Fusion

The three methods for running Windows on a Mac (Boot Camp, Parallels and Fusion) have been around for a while, but Mactech’s numbers seem to be the first we’ve seen on how the three stack up on Leopard. The results weren’t that surprising. Boot Camp won out for overall speed, where Parallels won for virtualization…

ChiliPad Regulates Bed Temperature, You Supply the Hotness

If you’re jittery about an electric blanket frying your brain, here’s the ChiliPad from T2 International to keep you warm all night long, using technology normally seen in cooling systems for overclocked PCs. Water flows through soft coils in this mattress pad, either heating your bed up to 105° in the winter or keeping you…

Nokia N-Gage First Access Gaming Platform Delayed Until 2008

Nokia’s “First Access” service that would let N81 owners play the 2nd Generation N-Gage games has been delayed until 2008, citing issues that they discovered via their 1000 global testers. We actually tested this new N-Gage platform earlier this year, and found it kind of to be like an Xbox Live Lite for mobiles. It…

A Robot’s Vision of Antarctica’s Undersea Kingdom

This looks like a rocket entering a wormhole, but it’s actually a robot camera designed to function on the ocean floor under the Anatarctic ice. The Submersible Capable of under Ice Navigation and Imaging (SCINI) can fit through a hole in the ice as small as 15 cm. Similar cameras could one day probe a…

Microsoft Year-End Report Card: B-

Well, Redmond, it’s been a funny year, hasn’t it? Even if you ignore those Apple commercials, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Vista was probably one of the main reasons people switched to the Mac OS, or to third-party Linux-based systems. We’ll get to the big V—and that other mighty stain Windows Mobile—in a…

NSFW: iPhone’s Most Sexually Instructive Application

Skip this post if you’re at work, but we’ve found a webapp for the iPhone that actually shows a man how to properly “stimulate” a woman. It’s called RubMyClit, and it’s a webapp (that means everyone can see it in Safari, not just people who hacked their phones) that grades you on how well you…

DirectTV-Enabled Media Centers Still Coming, Says Microsoft Job Listing

Chris Lanier, Media Center fan, has just found a couple job postings by Microsoft that point to an long-delayed introduction of DirecTV support in their Media Centers. The job postings point to Pay-Per-View access, HD in H.264, two-way communications to and from the satellite, and integration with both US and European satellite systems. The one…

We Don’t Need Your Stupid A.I. to Have a Good Singularity

Catherine Valente, author of adventure tale The Cities of Coin and Spice, says the singularity isn’t about artificial intelligence or nanobots. Instead, that scifi moment at which everything “now” becomes “the future” is personal, too: Valente compares the big Singularity to personal singularities like living as a divorced person when you thought you’d be married…

Sponsors Thanks

If we had to give our sponsors a year-end report card, we’d give them an A+. Thanks Adobe, Amazon Anywhere, Ask.com, Atari, AT&T, Audi, Bank of America, Blu-Ray Disc Association, Canon, Casio, Ford Focus, HP, Helio, IBM, Lead Tools, Mio, MS eHome, The New York Times, Nikon, Nokia, OQO, Patron, Ricoh, Ruby Tip, SanDisk, Sharp,…

Taste Test: Starbucks Coffee in Tassimo Single-Serve Pods

If you have a Tassimo single-serve coffee brewer and can’t get enough of Starbucks coffee, now those little TDisc pods are available with four different varieties of Starbucks brew. Tassimo has teamed up with Starbucks to offer Breakfast Blend, House Blend, Caffé Verona and Africa Kitamu coffees in pod form. We went to our local…

How Would We Kill Aliens Without Faster Than Light Travel?

What if warp drive, hyperspace and wormholes turn out to be fantasies? We’ll still need to kill aliens from other solar systems. What will we do? Take the poll after the jump! Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled web browser.

328-Foot RAM Wing 100 Yacht Zips Along at 100 Knots

Is this RAM Wing 100 yacht by Levi Designs a catamaran or a monohull? It’s both, starting out in front is a catamaran and ending up as a monohull in the stern. The most remarkable aspect of this design concept is its tremendous speed, 100 knots with a range of 2000 nautical miles. That’s not…

io9 Asks A Ninja About Beowulf and Global Warming

The Ninja from AskANinja.com slipped steathily into the shadowy corners of Los Angeles for a live show, and io9 pinned him down for a few questions. Check out the Q&A that cost us an arm and a leg (literally), and find out about the Ninja’s secret movie plans, after the jump. In a fight between…

Just a reminder, Gamestop’s Wii Raincheck program is happening today. Who among you is crazy enough to stand in line in the middle of winter to spend $250 on a piece of paper? https://gizmodo.com/gamestop-wii-rainchecks-how-to-claim-yours-335127