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Customizable Cellphone Concept for the MySpace Generation

Other than the teenage, female demographic, I’m not quite sure who would want a gold-plated cellphone, or go through the trouble of sticking a bunch of little plastic squares all over it. The idea is that one could customize their phone on a whim, but it seems like doing so would be tedious. It’s a…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 22 '07

Hype Sheet: Buy This Computer or You’re the Worst Parent Ever

The Pitch Time for a little holiday nostalgia this week, as Hype Sheet goes digging through the crates for this 1983 Texas Instruments gem—a textbook example of preying on parental fears. A blond, bowl-cutted moppet sits on daddy’s lap, toying with an educational program on the family’s snazzy TI-99/4A. “A Texas Instruments home computer can…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner Nov 22 '07

Kooky Christmas Decorations Act Like a Transforming Sponge

Place some bare framework festooned with folded paper into the included petri dish, add water, and a few hours later you have these elaborate Christmas decorations bursting forth as if by magic. It reminds us of compressing a straw wrapper, then adding a few drops of water—and voilà! It turns into a squirming worm. Looks…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 22 '07

Top 100 Things Gizmodo is Thankful For

What do you have to be thankful for? When Thanksgiving comes around every year, it makes us start thinking about all that is good in the gadget world. The Gizmodo team got together this morning and started blurting out stuff, all the (mostly) gadget-related things that we’re glad to have around. The result is this…

Tech News Charlie White Nov 22 '07

Steam Trek Geekily Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

Have you heard of Steam Trek: The Moving Picture? It’s the result of 14 people showing their unnatural love of both steampunk and Star Trek by making an silent movie set in 1899 about boldly going where no man has gone before. There’s an engineer named Sootie, coal instead of dilithium crystals and a redshirt…

Tech News Benny Goldman Nov 22 '07

Nail Cushion Saves Thumbs From Hammers

Too many times have my Karate Kid “one-strike-per-nail” experiments gone wrong. This simple device holds your nail in the middle of a piece of plastic with a cross slice that holds a nail but lets the head pass through when you’re finished pounding. Brilliant, but the people too busy to hammer carefully don’t have time…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 22 '07

PC World’s Newbie Guide To Buying Flat Panel TVs

With the Black Friday deals just hours away, PC World gives neophytes a guide to buying a flat-screen TV. [PC World]

Tech News Hook Nov 22 '07

DIY LED Menorah Kit

As a follow-up to my post on the LED Christmas tree lights, here’s a link to a DIY menorah for all you chosen people. The microchip serves as candle holder, and lights up the LEDs in the right order. [Make] https://gizmodo.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-led-christmas-lights-323951

Gadgets Brian Lam Nov 22 '07

Inflatable Bikini Life Jacket Harnesses The Life-Saving Power of Boobs

The “Bay Watch” bikini life jacket concept is brilliant on three levels: It can help save lives, it is much more attractive to wear than traditional life jackets and your likelihood of being saved by a male lifeguard in the area probably increases ten-fold when you are wearing it. Plus, it looks as though there…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 22 '07

Samsung Develops Film-Free Flat-Panel LCD X-Ray Machine

Analog X-ray machines could be a thing of the past, thanks to Samsung’s new film-free version. Measuring 45 x 46 cm, the Flat-Panel X-Ray Detector, or FPXD, boasts a 3072 x 3072 resolution, or 9.4 Megapixels. The Korean firm claims it will replace existing X-ray machines faster than digital cameras replaced film ones. Here’s how…

Gadgets AddyDugdale Nov 22 '07

Evergreen Headphones Double as Earwarmers

Those of you whose families disowned them years ago may find comfort on this, the bleakest of days, in Evergreen’s 18-buck toasty headphone-earwarmer combo. Then again, you may not. [Impress Japan]

Gadgets AddyDugdale Nov 22 '07

Black Friday Deals From Circuit City, CompUSA, Best Buy, and OfficeMax Live Now

If you want to avoid the mobs and beat some suckers to the punch, the sites for Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA and OfficeMax have already flung open the Black Friday floodgates, with most of their deals ripe for the picking. https://gizmodo.com/black-friday-are-you-risking-your-life-for-deals-325408 Not all of their previously listed Black Friday bargains are available online right…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Nov 22 '07

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD’s Portable Video Copy Locked Down Like Die Hard

Both Fox’s Live Free or Die Hard and Warner’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix come with digital copies of the flicks for your computer and portable media device. PC World’s reporting that Order’s DRM will be very similar to Die Hard‘s except that it transfers to “your PC hard drive first and…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 21 '07

Stationoli Desk Set: A Wheel O’ Office Gadgets

This translucent plastic wheel packs all of your office necessities into one fun looking desktop design. These ‘necessities’ include: a stapler, pencil sharpener, staple remover, sticky note and paperclip holder, calculator, and a digital alarm clock. There is even a magnet on the back of each of the parts so you can attach them in…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Nov 21 '07

New Firmware for Canon EOS 40D Fixes Adobe Problems

The new firmware for Canon’s EOS 40D—version 1.0.5—fixes file format compatibility sniggles with Adobe software like Photoshop and Lightroom, some language issues and sets photo review to resume where it left off before shutting down. [Canon via Crave] https://gizmodo.com/canon-eos-40d-fires-6-5-frames-per-second-at-10-1mp-291133

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 21 '07

Homemade Cocaine-Smuggling Sub: Party Time on Das Boot

When it comes to the millions of dollars involved in smuggling drugs, even coked out dealers can tackle a big, complicated project. Recently, Colombian marines seized a homemade fiberglass submarine big enough to hold 4 crew members and 12 metric tons of cocaine —making it one of the largest such crafts found. Since the sub…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 21 '07

Zune 80 to be Widely Available in 7-10 Days

Cesar at Zune Insider says a full batch of Zune 80s are ready to ship and will be in most stores within the next week (give or take a couple of days). Apparently, Microsoft anticipated a greater demand for flash Zunes, leading to the Zune 80 shortage. Be afraid, iPod cassic. Be very afraid. [Zune…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 21 '07

Afternoon News: Alltel’s Pearl 8130, $6 Billion Ink Over-Charge and Broken Zune Song Tags

• The American Consumer Institute estimates that consumers overpay for printer ink by $6 billion a year, since there is no competition in the market of printer ink. [Cameratown via Gadget Lab] • Alltel will be releasing its version of the BlackBerry Pearl 8130 just in time for the holidays, with a price of $149…

Tech News Christopher Mascari Nov 21 '07

EB Games/GameStop Black Friday Ads Revealed

The black friday ads for EB Games/GameStop have hit and they’re offering Virtua Tennis 3 on the PS3 and Naruto: Ninja Council 3 on the DS for $20 apiece, and World of Warcraft for $10. The rest of the deals are pretty unspectacular, but thats EB for ya. Oh yeah, select movie titles on Sony’s…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 21 '07

High-Tech Bubbles Trap Heat In Olympic Swimming Pool

China is rushing to finish the 7,000 square foot “Water Cube” in time to host swimming events in the 2008 Olympics. This giant building’s outer cladding, which will keep the pool warm, is based on research by physicists into “how soap bubbles might be arranged in infinite array,” says architecture firm Arup. The bubbles themselves…

io9 Charliejane Nov 21 '07

Customizable Cellphone Concept for the MySpace Generation

Hype Sheet: Buy This Computer or You’re the Worst Parent Ever

Kooky Christmas Decorations Act Like a Transforming Sponge

Top 100 Things Gizmodo is Thankful For

Steam Trek Geekily Goes Where No Man Has Gone Before

Nail Cushion Saves Thumbs From Hammers

PC World’s Newbie Guide To Buying Flat Panel TVs

DIY LED Menorah Kit

Inflatable Bikini Life Jacket Harnesses The Life-Saving Power of Boobs

Samsung Develops Film-Free Flat-Panel LCD X-Ray Machine

Evergreen Headphones Double as Earwarmers

Black Friday Deals From Circuit City, CompUSA, Best Buy, and OfficeMax Live Now

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD’s Portable Video Copy Locked Down Like Die Hard

Stationoli Desk Set: A Wheel O’ Office Gadgets

New Firmware for Canon EOS 40D Fixes Adobe Problems

Homemade Cocaine-Smuggling Sub: Party Time on Das Boot

Zune 80 to be Widely Available in 7-10 Days

Afternoon News: Alltel’s Pearl 8130, $6 Billion Ink Over-Charge and Broken Zune Song Tags

EB Games/GameStop Black Friday Ads Revealed

High-Tech Bubbles Trap Heat In Olympic Swimming Pool

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