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Nissan Rogue Commercial Turns NY into a Giant Labyrinth

Hands up who had one of those wooden Labyrinths round which you had to maneuver a silver marble without dropping it down a hole or biting your tongue off in the process? Knowing just how powerful a marketing tool nostalgia can be, Nissan has used the concept for the commercial for their new Rogue SUV.…

Incredible Dice Stacking Trick is Near-Miraculous

Who knew this kind of dice stacking was even possible? Damn, this guy is good. Are those trick dice? [Break] UPDATE: Impressed by that video? Think it’s a camera trick? On the next page, see another dice stacking video that’s even more amazing. They can’t all be camera tricks! Thanks, Andras and Thomas Fischbach, the…

HP’s Fantasy Portable Gamer Is Actually Real… Vapor

If you ever saw the HP video Roku’s Reward where a kid walks around with a PSP-ish handheld, playing a real-life video game, you might have wondered if HP will ever release the said gaming device. It is real, at least that’s what HP Personal Systems CTO Phil McKinney claimed as he held it aloft.…

Palm-Sized Cellphone Jammer Gives Public Gabbers the Smackdown

This is not the first cellphone jammer on the market and won’t be the last, but this $166 model is small enough to discreetly carry anywhere. It’s powerful enough for personal use, slam-dunking GSM calls within about a 30-foot radius. That might be just the range of earshot in a movie theater, unless there’s yelling…

The Complete iPhone Unlock Star Wars Timeline

Click to viewAs we wait for the release of the new firmware that, according to Apple, “will likely” brick all unlocked iPhones—hits update for the 75,453rd time— here’s the promised Star Wars timeline which narrates the quest for the free software unlock, complete with dates, links and commentary. It all started here, when Frucci asked…

Ericsson’s Tower Tube Give Cell Towers a Touch of Scandanavian Design

Cell towers are ugly. They either look like, well, big ugly antennaes, or they look like big ugly anetnnaes poorly disguised as gigantic metal trees. Whereever they’re set to go up, property values drop and local communities get in an uproar. But everybody likes having five bars of service, so what can you do? Well,…

New Airport Scanner Makes Creating That Traveller Database Easier

A new generation of airport x-ray machines might make your trip through security a bit quicker, at least until they give you a full cavity search. Utilizing four x-ray cameras as opposed to one, the scanner takes a peek inside your luggage from four angles looking for guns, drugs, and bombs. It can also scan…

Electrobike Pi Gives You 3.14 Reasons to Get Rid of Your Car

Hop on the Electrobike Pi, and through the courtesy of your two feet and its 1hp motor, no one will ever be able to blame you for global warming again. Three reasons? It’s efficient, it’s fun, it’s socially responsible and it looks cool. Okay, maybe the cool look is the “.14” reason. It still has…

If you’ve been waiting for a 3G Nokia N95, now’s your chance to drop $700 on one, as they’re officially released as of today. [Crunchgear]

Never-Before-Seen Gateway 30-Inch Extreme HD XHD3000 Monitor Has HQV Processing, Gazillion Inputs

Today at the Gateway One press event, Gateway quietly revealed a potentially more exciting product, the 30-inch ExtremeHD 1600 monitor. It could very well be the only screen you ever need, because it takes everything from a VCR to a high-end gaming PC and upscales it all with HQV Realta technology to display on its…

Solar Tree to Light up Streets outside Viennese Museum

Ross Lovegrove, designer of beautiful, yet useful, things, has teamed up with Artemide and Sharp Solar to produce these solar-powered street lamps that are to light up the Ringstrasse outside Vienna’s Museum for Angewandte Kunste (that’s the Museum for Applied Arts and Contemporary Art.) They’ll be going up on a tree-line boulevard, so expect the…

Gateway One Unboxed (Verdict: So Shiny and Sweet, It Gives Windows a Good Name)

Normally I don’t get this jazzed about desktop PCs, but the Gateway One is special. From the sleek yet substantial design to the quiet, powerful core, it’s a real statement, especially from the cow-pocked South Dakota underdog. Let me take you on a guided tour: Setup is as easy as a laptop. Connect the power…

Palm Centro to Sprint to the Streets in Two Weeks for $99.99

There have been spy shots and leaked official photos, and now Sprint just made it official that the Palm Centro will find itself in someone’s hot little hand on October 14 for a mere $99.99. And looky there, it’s got a surprising color slathered onto it, too. https://gizmodo.com/palm-gandolf-officially-the-centro-smallest-treo-ever-290451 Just in case everyone is completely bored…

Undress Me Mug May Give You Oral Burns

A simpler version of the nudie pens that you turned upside down to reveal what was beneath the cupcake’s black bikini (I always found them in my dad’s suit pockets), the Undress Me mug comes in both guy and gal versions. You can find out how much it costs and check the girl’s version after…

Dress Tent Is the Campest Thing in the Art World

An ongoing art project by Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, the Dress Tent “poses the question of what lies under a woman’s skirt in the 21st Century.” Tent poles? Guy ropes? Seventeen eagle scouts? An entire platoon of infantry? Monged-out festival-goers? Knickers? My lips are sealed. [Robin Lasser via Metro]

Microsoft says they have pocketed $170 million in the first 24 hours of Halo 3 sales, beating Spiderman 3—despite Brian’s spoiler. And yes, Bill Gates is the Prophet of Truth. [BBC]

Specs and Pics of the Samsung i780 Released

First spotted at Gitex in Dubai, Samsung’s i780 is a GPS phone with full QWERTY keyboard and is expected to hit Europe, Sweden first, at the beginning of next year. There is speculation that could be the new Blackjack, but you can judget for yourself by looking at the specs, which are below. HSDPA/WCDMA/GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity…

Hands-On with the EyeClops and some Kooky Controllers

Here’s a vid of some of the weirder stuff from Show Stoppers. We wrote about the Eyeclops earlier this year, but here’s a hands-on of it, as well as a bunch of 20-buck-themed game controllers (Millennium Falcon, Deal Or No Deal, Pirates Of The Caribbean and Pac Man.) Check out that 200x magnification on the…

Gyration M2000 Travel Air-Mouse Offers Greater Precision in Air or Desktop

The new Gyration M2000 Travel Air-Mouse works in the air using their new UltraSense 5-degrees-of-freedom motion sensor technology, which is what their media center remote uses too. It also works over any surface, thanks to its built-in laser surface sensor. It only weighs 3.9 ounces, so don’t worry: you won’t be doing any significant exercise…

Japanese Company Releases USB Pussy but Nobody Knows What It Is

All clues point to the fact that this USB cat from Japan is, in fact, a mouse. Or is it? What do you think this infernal contraption is most likely to be? Vote in the poll below. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in…