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Justin.tv And Giz at Nextfest

Watch justin live video and chat on Justin.tvWe’re down at Wired’s NextFest with Justin.tv, checking out the robots and cool stuff from the future. Check out the video to see what we’re seeing. Update: Video’s done, but we’ll have more pics and news from NextFest soon.

WineM RFID Wine Rack at NextFest

ThingM’s WineM is one part intelligent wine rack, one part light show. This concept, currently on display at NextFest, works by taking bottles of wine tagged with RFID stickers and placing them onto the rack. Now if you’re having Lamb Shank for dinner and want a decent Shiraz, just input into the computer that you…

The Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Shirt

Finally joined the Xbox 360 red ring club? Make it official with this Red Ring of Death T-Shirt from Split Reason. Besides the 2001 reference and the HAL-esque design of the lights, you’ll also make a bold fashion statement when wearing this—one that says, “Hey, I’m not too proud to admit I play Xbox, but…

Husqvarna Robotic Lawn Mower Makes Chores Easier

Lawn mowing, the bane of teenage boys’ existence everywhere, just got a whole lot easier. Husqvarna’s Auto Mower is the robot lawnmower we all dreamed about while pushing that POS John Deere around as kids, and now it’s here. Although, with the price hitting the thousands of dollars mark, it’s probably cheaper to just buy…

Google Putting $30 Million Into X PRIZE Robotics Moon Race

Google and X PRIZE are teaming up to offer $30 million in cash rewards to companies and organizations that can land a robotic rover on the Moon and do a bunch of mission objectives. Their first prize is $25M, second prize is $5M, there’s an extra $5M in bonus stuff to the losers. The challenge…

Cablevision Offers TiVo To Mexico City, But Not To Me

Fulfilling a promise they made last November, TiVo and Cablevision are rolling out the first-ever Spanish-language TiVo, for cable customers in Mexico City. Mexico city? Who does a news release based on Mexico City? If this doesn’t demonstrate the bizarre relationship TiVo has with cable companies, I don’t know what would. The TiVos will have…

5-Wheeled Bike Let You Do Stunts, Look Like a Tool

If our mothers taught us anything, it was that more is always better—especially when it comes to number of wheels in our transportation devices. This Street Surfer, which neither surfs nor belongs on the actual streets, is a bike in the back but a party up front. What do the four wheels allow you to…

iPod Touch Reviewed (Verdict: Just Like the iPhone, But Slightly Better For Music)

The iPod touch, Apple’s gimped iPhone that’s just for music, sounds fantastic for people who want all of the iPhone’s music and video features and none of its calling ones. PC Mag got their hands on one a bit early and found that it’s just as good as the iPhone in terms of, well, everything,…

Power Failure Light Keeps Things Bright During a Power Outage

This clever little device will keep you from stubbing your toe while going for a flashlight next time the power goes out. Fitting between a lightbulb and your lamp, the Power Failure Light sits dormant and juices up while the power is flowing. When you get an outage, the built-in LED lights automatically turn on,…

Halo 3 Diorama is 12 Feet Tall, 1200 Square Feet, Covered In Explosiony Goodness

Now that the Halo 3 press train has a gut full of coal, one of the big guns they’re whipping out in preparation for the game’s launch is this gigantic diorama, featuring humans and aliens battling it out on the field of sand, cardboard and little rocks. Not only does it show little soldiers taking…

Wacom Scraps Graphire for Bamboo

Wacom has replaced its old consumer model, Graphire, with a new two-model line called Bamboo and Bamboo Fun. First off, neither one of the new models can recognize that your pen is tilting, change functions depending on what application you’re running, or use other non-Bamboo specific drawing pens. But they both have added four programmable…

Rumor Smashed: Blue Zune Not Blue Zune

False alarm. The Blue Zune we showed you in the Target ad isn’t actually a Blue Zune, it’s a Black Zune that just looks blue thanks to the crappy image. The black one does actually look slightly blue when you look at it (the doubleshot is blue), so we can see where the confusion comes…

Male Chastity Belt Preferable to Eunuchizing

We’re not sure what to say about this stainless steel male chastity belt other than the fact that we want zero part of that. There’s a hole in the front for your junk to go, as well as a hole in the back for the stinkier junk to drop out, and the whole thing is…

Watch The Thrilling Conclusion of the Dyson/Mitsubishi Hand-Dryer Battlemodo

Click to viewIt was a hard-fought battle between two worthy adversaries, but in the end, there could be only one. Was it the ninja’s pick, the Mitsubishi Jet Towel? Or was it the choice of soccer hooligans everywhere, Dyson’s upstart Airblade? Watch as NYC intern Benny and I let a group of people with wet…

Samsung’s Bang & Olufsen Phone Coming in 17 Days

Samsung and Bang & Olufssen have just thrown up a teaser site for their Serenata phone, which comes at us in just 17 days. What the phone has internally or even what it looks like is still a mystery on the site, but putting two and two together from earlier leaks you get a phone…

Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and others pitch Universal Flash Storage, “a unified removable memory card that can be shared among various mobile, portable and other CE devices without the need for any adaptors.” Yeah, just like SD, CF, Memory Stick and xD before it. [CNNMoney.com]

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We stay classy (and drunk) with the Wine Flight Set, decorate our cubicles with some General Mills Kubrick Figurines, and keep our lawns trimmed with the Husqvarna Automower. We also hit the links office-style with My Mini Golf Course, surf the asphalt on the WAVE Street Surfboard, and impress our poker…

Virgin America Bringing In-Air Wi-Fi to Its Flights in 2008

Man, Virgin America is really making all other airlines look horrible. First they started flying with awesome high-tech Linux computers on every seat, seat-to-seat chat, games (Doom!), movies, music and food ordering, not to mention sexy mood lighting, and now they just announced something even cooler: air-to-ground broadband. https://gizmodo.com/virgin-americas-in-flight-ethernet-usb-110v-power-and-285052 Yep, starting next year, Virgin America…

Diamond Synchotron Will Use Super X-Rays To Find Out What the Bible Really Said

England’s Diamond synchotron, a device that covers five football “pitches” and is capable of generating an X-Ray light source that’s 10 billion times brighter than the sun, will be used to examine precious antique documents that cannot otherwise be handled. When the beams are fired into a book or a scroll, they bounce off of…

Hype Sheet: HP Hollas Back, Girl

The Pitch Gwen Stefani wants you to know that she just oozes creativity from every pore. “People think you can turn creativity on and off, but it’s not like that,” the singer-cum-designer declares while sashaying through a cloud of fluttering photographs. “It just kind of comes out, a mashup of all these things you collect…