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RoFo Headgear Sure Does Make You Look Cool, Drunk

You’re looking at the RoFo INFOGADG Headgear sitting atop the head of a man who’s not afraid to cover his dignity in silver facepaint and post it on the internet. The RoFo Headgear is essentially a silly hat that can hold 5 pints of beer, or whatever other beverage you deem worthy of toting around…

Master Chief Is Really a Lesbian, Marries Samus (NSFW)

Brian already told you the official ending, but here’s the alternative one: Master Chief is a lesbian and she has hot shiny action with Samus on lube-tastic slow-motion. You have to press a secret code to get it, but here’s the proof. Like Adam says: “Suicide girls are like 15% hot 85% scary.” This one…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: The ultimate in cutting edge technology: a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle, converted to run on electric power — wonder what Herbie would think of that? DIE Moto, the diesel-engined super-motorbike, broke the land-speed record for a compression-ignition engine two-wheeler, zipping along at 130 mph. Lastly, when you think “super-efficient appliances,” you think…

Mustek SoccerCam Is Hard Not To Kick

The instant I saw the Mustek SoccerCam, I wished I could press the shell closed and kick the thing across a room. While it is a perfectly functional 2-megapixel camera that costs just $40, I wished it were more, a shock-proof video camera that could record all the dizzying action in play, like the bowling-ball…

LEGO iPhone Already Pre-Bricked Out of the Box

Click to viewLEGO artist Nathan Sawaya stays right on top of the news with his blocky replicas, and following up his Halo 3 Master Chief creation we showed you yesterday is his next LEGO model, an iPhone. Since he calls himself a “brick artist,” could he be reacting to the prospect of the iPhone turning…

Hong Kong Fiber Optic Rates Prove Verizon’s FiOS is a Rip-Off

While Verizon is out aggressively trying to sell the country on their FiOS fiber optic web connection packages, which range from $40 per month for 5Mbps to 30Mbps for $180 (extra for TV and phone service!), Hong Kong residents can now enjoy their own fiber optic connections from Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited… which happen…

Product Spam Makes Tech Shopping Confusing, Painful

Canon sells seven different Digital Elphs, 9 different A-series cameras and 15 different all-in-one printers. Samsung’s US website lists 31 LCD TVs—plus another nine plasmas. Garmin currently promotes 32 different models of in-car portable GPS navigator. I’m sick of writing up 14 products from one company that all sound the same, and I’m sick of…

USB Flash Card MP3 Player Won’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Cheap MP3 players are getting so small you could lose them in your pocket, but here’s one that’s a little easier to handle, the $42 USB Flash Card MP3 Player from Brando that doubles as a mass storage device. It weighs less than an ounce, holds two gigs of your favorite music, and hey, it…

Microsoft Announces Pricing for Office 2008 for Mac

Microsoft announced pricing for Office 2008 for Mac, which has been delayed until, well, January of 2008, naturally. It’ll ship on January 15th. And of course, Microsoft is not making it easy with just one version of Office, announcing pricing for three different iterations. At leasts there’s not nine. First up is the standard version,…

Adobe Photoshop for iPhone Is as Stupid as It Sounds

Not the best use for an iPhone SDK but, for some reason, we find this funny. Beware, installing Adobe Photoshop in your iPhone will void your warranty, aspazzarently. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/no-iphone-sdk-means-no-killer-iphone-apps-267899

War Ends In 18 Months, Possibly with HD DVD Upset Victory Over Blu-ray

Sales of next-gen high-def disc players won’t kick into high gear for another 18 months, says a fresh report from Forrester Research, not until they reach the $200 price point. The study didn’t say whose players, though. What was once an easy call—Blu-ray by Christmas 2007—has gotten murkier, and in the most recent rounds, HD…

Amazon Non-DRM MP3 Store now in Public Beta, Easy to Use

Amazon’s MP3 store is now in public beta, so you can all have a fiddle around with the DRM-free service &mdash like I just did. First observations: https://gizmodo.com/amazons-drm-free-mp3-store-likely-to-launch-mid-septemb-295555 There are two million tunes available, from 180,000 artists, including tracks from EMI and Universal. Over half of the songs are priced at 89 cents, including the…

No iTunes Gift Cards For Your $100 ‘Early iPhone Owners’ Store Credit

We bought iPhones here on Day One, and were delighted to see the offer of a $100 store credit from Apple when the company cut the price of that product by $200. But there was a rude awaking here at the Giz when we ordered up some stuff and included a $25 iTunes gift card…

ParaScope Urban Combat Sight Allows To Aim and Fire Around Corners

The ParaScope Urban Combat Sight is a specialized device that acts like a periscope to allow aiming and firing around obstacles and corners, without having to put your life on the line or firing John McClane-style “Hail Mary” passes. It can be connected to any existing scope, “projecting the target image, with the targeting laser…

We mentioned it last night, but now we’ve heard officially that Toshiba’s $120 gigabeat T400 is on sale in the US, and it won’t have Wi-Fi like its Japanese siblings. Two more unreported details: 16 hours of audio playback or 5 hours of video on a charge, and support for WMA Lossless. https://gizmodo.com/toshibas-t400-player-available-outside-of-asia-outside-303222

Gigashot A100 Series is Small, Full HD Camcorder from Toshiba

Here’s a full-frontal of one of Toshiba’s Gigashot A100 Full HD camcorders. The A100F has a 1.8-inch HDD with capacity of 100GB, while her younger sister, the A40F has, yep, 40GB on hers. But they both give you 1920 1080 resolution in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format. They’re out in Japan mid-November, a month after the less…

Titan Nuclear Missile Base for Sale, ICBMs not Included

If you have $1.5 million spare change you can buy this Titan 1 nuclear missile base on eBay today. Located in central Washington, the 57-acre Larsen Air Force Base Titan ICBM launching complex 1A —complete with 16 underground buildings including three 160-feet missile silos— is ready for your post-Cold-War Jack-Bauer-induced delusional paranoia, War Games reenactments…

Sony Gives its Super-Mini Vaio U Series an Upgrade

Sony’s pocket-sized U series Vaio has been updated, replacing the previous CPU, an Intel Core 2 Solo U2100 at 1.06 GHz with a Core Solo U1400 at 1.2 GHz. What else? Oh yeah, they’ve boosted the HD: That’s now up to 40GB from 30GB, and there’s also a port extender. Unchanged is the screen, still…

Lightweight Sony Vaio G2 Has Drip-Proof Keyboard and SSD

The next-generation Vaio G is out in Japan next month, boasting a Core 2 Duo CPU, SSD and a drip-proof keyboard, which shuts down the system if it detects a spillage, while diverting the water away from the important stuff. You can see how that works in the gallery below, while the gen on the…

Official Launch of Samsung’s ArmaniPhone in Milan

It’s not the first time we’ve seen Samsung’s Armani phone, but its official unveiling happened in Milan yesterday, following Giorgio’s runway show. The credit-card-sized phone is 10.5 mm wide, has haptic feedback and will be on sale in Europe from November. An Armani-Samsung Casa LCD TV is to follow in January. Stats, pricing and more…