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Remote-Control Housefly Thinks It’s a Helicopter

This infrared controlled mechanical insect will make all your other houseflies jealous with its awesome relative size, but its clumsy flight path certainly isn’t going to win any aerobatic awards. It flies six minutes on a charge, and its construction looks a whole lot like the Pico-Z helicopters we’ve tested here a couple of times.…

Video of 1870s Monocycle In Action

Click to viewHere’s a video of another version of the 1873 monocycle replica done by the same man, Roberto Terradillo from Burgos, Spain. He says that making sharp turns is quite difficult, as you control it using your body weight, leaning to one side or the other. Still, I would like to have one. The…

Skype Blames Microsoft Windows Update for Network Crash

After recovering from a major crash this weekend Skype is now pointing fingers, saying that “the disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.” Their official statement sounds like the BBC…

Epson Rolls Out Powerhouse $200 Stylus Photo RX680 All-In-One and Two Others

Two hundred bones will get you a lot of printer these days. Epson’s Stylus Photo RX680 printer/scanner/copier is a Gutenberg wet dream with text and copy speeds up to 40 ppm, two separate paper trays that can hold a total of 270 sheets of paper, draft photo printing in 11 seconds and an auto-duplexer for…

Gizmodo Commentards Before the Iron Banhammer Dropped

Click to view Watch this video that College Humor made of Internet Commentards holding a business meeting. Gives you, the thoughtful Gizmodo commenter sophisticate, a finer appreciation for the Banhammer, doesn’t it?

Russians on Trail of a Summer Feel-Good Weapon

A Russian weapons company is hot on the trail of the ultimate super-soaker: a portable water cannon that has enough force to lift you off your feet. Special Materials Ltd, a St Petersburg company, is researching the idea of a “non-lethal weapon based on electro-hydrodynamical effect,” which is basically a short, sharp electric shock hidden…

Canon Unveils PowerShot A720 IS and 12-megapixel A650 IS

Canon’s two latest additions to its low-frills high-performance A-Series keep up the good reputation. The A720 IS is a 8-megapixel shooter with 6x optical zoom lens and optical image stabilizing that will cost a remarkably low $250. The A650 IS takes the spotlight, however, with 12.1 megapixel resolution, 6x optical zoom lens and a twisty…

Malaysian Authorities Award Medals to Pirate DVD Sniffer Dogs

Lucky and Flo, two black Labradors, have been given outstanding service awards for their part in a five-month campaign that has crippled DVD piracy. The two hounds are responsible for the seizure of over $6 million worth of illegal DVDs in Malaysia, as well as the arrest of 26 people, despite the fact that a…

Canon Reveals New SX Line of Low-Cost Ultra-Zoom Cameras

Canon rolled out its SX100 ultra-zoom camera today, bringing a decent low-priced camera to the ultra-zoom market segment. How ultra is it? It’s got some pretty good 10x optical zoom glass on the front, and it’s also delivering lots of value in the image processor department, loading up Canon’s best Digic III imaging chip that’s…

World’s Smallest Camera, a Perverts Dream

Misumi claim that this is the smallest camera ever, which will ensure it’s place on every pervert’s Amazon wish-list. The company have been making spy-cameras for years, but have excelled themselves with the Snake Camera, measuring only 4.4mm in diameter and 15mm in length. It can record 320×240 pixel QVGA video in color and includes…

Samsung i570 – You Say Boxy, I Say Short and Squat

Another Slider from Samsung, this time the rather ungainly-looking i570, which looks very similar to the i620 from earlier this year. Specs are pretty identical, too, although there is one big difference: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-i620-smartphone-is-a-more-traditional-slider-264871 The i570 runs on Simbian 9.1 OS rather than Windows mobile. And while it’s got smaller dimensions than the i620,, it’s around…

Speaker Chair Looks Like Furry Egg Plant

This concept chair, designed by Pinju Chen, has an absolutely massive speaker buried deep inside it. Switch it on, and I guess you feel like the bass is buried deep inside you. I can’t decide what I think it most resembles: A tongue? One of those chairs you stick a baby in and bounce it…

Samsung’s UFO Phone Stands for Unimaginable, Fast Speed and Oh, 7.2 Mbps

The official name of Samsung’s new slider is the SCH-W300, but it’s been dubbed the UFO phone — and rightly so, given its ghostly gray fizzog. An HSDPA cell with 7.2Mbps download speed, which means an MP3 file in 4.4 seconds, a video file in 44 seconds. Snappy stuff, almost as snappy as its UFO…

iPhone $100 Cheaper at the Apple Refurb Store

Click to viewDo you think the iPhone is $100 too expensive? Well, you can get refurbished 4GB and 8GB iPhones for $100 less than their original price-tag at the Apple Store. [AppleStore — Thanks Jody]

DIY Segway Looks Like Modded Golf Caddy

This is what you get when a bunch of students – some of them high schoolers —four of them from MIT—get together and make their own version of the Segway. It may look like one of those golf caddies on wheels but it works and it’s cheap: check the video comparing the original Segway with…

The 12V Battery Hack that Saves You $40

Click to view Did you know what is inside some batteries? About $40-worth of savings, it seems. Cut open an A23 battery (cost: 94 ) and you’ll find eight 1.5-volt button batteries, each of whose RRP is around $4.99. [KipKay via Spluch]

The Dell XPS 410 desktops are now available with dual CableCARD tuners, $236 each. [MSMVPS] https://gizmodo.com/dell-home-media-suite-up-close-there-are-worse-ways-to-227617

Canon Releases PowerShot G9

Canon released a new camera today that will sit at the top of the G-series range. The PowerShot G9 is aimed at those who don’t want the bulk of an SLR, but do need some of the advanced controls that they offer. The camera has a resolution of 12.1 megapixels, a 6x optical zoom and…

Two New ELPH Cameras from Canon, SD950 and SD870

Canon released two new compact ELPH cameras today; the 12.1 mega-pixel PowerShot SD950, and the 8.0 mega-pixel PowerShot SD870. The SD950 is the top-of-the-line, titanium-bodied, 3.7x optical zoom model, which should retail for $449.99. The SD870 is a more affordable version with a smaller 8.0 mega-pixel resolution, which should retail at $399.99. Both have optical…

Canon EOS 40D Fires 6.5 Frames Per Second at 10.1MP

Just as Amazon did/didn’t announce yesterday, Canon has also released the ultra-fast, 6.5 frames-per-second—on 75 JPEG/17 RAW bursts—10.1 megapixel model, the Canon EOS 40D. With new, faster autofocus and its latest CMOS sensor, the 40D also adds live framing using its full 3-inch LCD screen, something which previously was only available on the EOS-1D Mk…