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Cold Cavern Beer Froster Will Ruin Any Beer You Put in It

This beer freezer is designed to keep your beer chilled to the optimal temperature, which is apparently 24 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s below freezing, so you’ll have a frosted bottle waiting for you at all times if you get one. It all sounds well and good, but if you serve a beer too cold you won’t…

Wow, There’s Actually a Working Optimus Keyboard in Moscow

Hey, remember the Optimus Keyboard? Yeah, it’s still not out, and it’s still kind of a joke, but look! They have a real one in Moscow! No other details, and this is probably some sort of $15,000 one-time mockup and they’re probably no closer to releasing it, but it still looks pretty neat. [Optimus Project]…

Side-On Cutlery Makes It Almost Safe to Eat at Your Aunt’s Grimy House

The germaphobe in us always freaks out a little bit when we see silverware lying on a bare table, either at someone else’s house or a restaurant. (Our own table is a chemical-cleaner-scorched wasteland.) So we hope that eventually all silverware will be like Jens-Martin Skibsted’s designs for Side-On Cutlery, which have built-in stands that…

Apple and O2 to Launch iPhone in UK Mid- to Late-October

We have received confirmation from two 100% proven sources that next Tuesday’s UK-only Apple event will herald the iPhone’s arrival to the United Kingdom. The first European iPhone will most probably arrive in mid- to late-October, not on November 1, as some media outlets have previously reported. Our sources are the same ones from when…

Immobilizer Cameraphone Stun Gun (Also Works as Flashlight)

While the Immobilizer’s cameraphone exterior is not so functional, its 900,000-volt stun gun works just fine. Packaged with holster that is realistic enough to make you look like a douche, the feature that we most appreciate is the 12 LED flashlight, allowing you to closely inspect your victim for ID, cash, credit cards, etc. after…

Full Gallery of iPod Touch in Factory Test Mode

Giz reader David Olivo wrote to tell us that he got his new hot iPod touch 16GB yesterday. And when he says hot, he means hot: “when I went to open the box, I found that it is actually HOT. I opened it, and found a weird screen menu staring at me. My iPod was…

Sponsors Make Sure All Our Food Has Gold Flakes

We enjoy gold much more than the average man. So much so, we season every meal, from hot dogs at the ballpark to steaks at home with gold flakes. Good thing our sponsors have a steady supply of not just gold, but silver, iron, lead and magnesium flakes. Thanks Ask.com, AT&T, Audi, Bank of America,…

Iron Sulfate Dumped Into Sea May Slow Global Warming Or Do Completely the Opposite

In an effort to slow down the effects of global warming, scientists from Germany, Italy, India and Chile are planning to dump 20 tonnes of non-toxic iron sulfate into the sea. The iron particles — which will be spread around a 1,000 square kilometer area — should theoretically create conditions for large amounts of phytoplankton,…

Self-Lubricating Skis Go Fast

Wildfire Snowsports has developed a ski attachment that will auto-wax skis while in use. And while the idea seems gratuitous for the average skier who’s just out to chase some snow bunny tail, the technology could offer a 1-2% speed increase, which is apparently the difference between 1st and 20th place in the Olympics. Or…

How to Claim Your $100 “Early iPhone Owner” Credit

Apple has released the magic three steps it’ll take to snag your $100 in store credit, which can be redeemed either at retail locations or the online store. According to our intern Benny, the process actually is as easy as it sounds: Fill in your phone number and your iPhone’s serial number; you’ll get a…

UBS analysts are predicting 3 million iPhones sold by the end of the year, expecting 2 million sold in Q4. [gigaom]

Proud new owners of iPod classics, particularly the 160GB flavor, are finding their honeymoon interrupted by random crashes and lockups apparently tied to an album art issue. Apple’s in the know and churning out a fix, but in the meantime turning off album artwork and resyncing makes for a temporary bandaid. Any of you guys…

Sony, Sharp, Hitachi Team Up for Green LCDs

Sony is big on making friends in the LCD business. First they open a joint manufacturing plant with Samsung, and now they’ve announced an initiative with Sharp and Hitachi to create an LCD display that can be powered through only half the electricity needed by today’s models. Re-engineering LCD architecture coupled with advanced LED backlighting…

USB Greenhouse May Save the World

Get a leg up for the day Man blocks out the sun to block the harmful potentials of skin cancer (due to the extreme inconveniences of wearing thick SPF 1000 that simply refuses to rub in). Because the USB Greenhouse allows you to grow plants without the reliance on aging nature. Including marigold seeds and…

Paper Trails Not the Golden Ticket to Secure E-Voting

One of the most commonly cited ways to rectify, or at least mollify, the rampant security issues that have plagued e-voting is a solid paper trail to check the results against. Well, one think tank, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, is coming out with study saying it just ain’t so—in fact, they allege in…

Apple’s scouting space for a new flagship store in—wait for it—Brooklyn. Yeah, it was only inevitable. [Racked]

Weird Webcam and USB Hub Lilli and Oscar are Ethical, Expensive

If you want to throw some crazy shapes on your work table, maybe you’d be interested in United Pepper’s Lilli and Oscar, two recyclable peripherals made from sustainable materials such as sand and paperboard. Lilli is a 1.3-megapixel webcam and Oscar a USB hub. Your green credentials will remain intact as, not only are they…

Bedtime Stories Seem Darker with the Darth Vader Bedside Light

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me breathe heavily. Schooooooooooooo. Once upon a time, there was a Jedi Knight called Anakin Skywalker, who went in search of the Dark Side. Schooooooooooooo. If this lamp had been available to light up those long, lonely evenings, and throw patterns on his matching Darth Vader bed linen, Schooooooooooooo,…

Video of World’s Largest RC Airplane, the B29 Dina Might

From Belgium, the B29 Dina Might is the world’s mightiest remote-controlled plane. With a wingspan of almost 30 feet, it weighs 463 pounds and runs off four 160cc engines. Spin those propellers, mate. [Live Leak]

Slim Apple Wireless Keyboard Ships, Still No Sign of the Apple Logo

The Apple Wireless Keyboard is now shipping. Here’s the unboxing of one of the very first, sent by a Giz reader. Looks as razor-sharp as when we had our first grope, but of course, still no sign of the “Apple” on the Command key. All thanks to Steve Jobs and Swedish campgrounds full of sculptural…