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Bravia Ad Shoot Overwhelms NYC With Play Doh Bunnies

Sony’s Bravia ads are generally pretty entertaining affairs, what with the grand scale they usually inhabit. It looks like they’re working on a new one, if the Technicolor Play Doh bunnies that have been invading NYC are any indication. It’s not all that clear what exactly these bunnies will be doing in the ad, but…

DXG-572V Camcorder is Incredibly Cheap, Shoots Video of Babes

Who knew a camcorder could be so cheap, but here it is, the DXG-572V that records MPEG-4 video at “near DVD-quality” for $149. It looks to be about the same kind of recording mechanism that you’ll get on most still cameras these days, laying down 640×480 video at 30 frames per second onto an SD…

iStraw Smacks Down All Kinds of Flora and Fauna in the Water

If you don’t mind looking like you’re smoking on some kind of high-tech water pipe, the iStraw can filter all kinds of creepy-crawlies out of whatever that is you’re drinking. This little magic wand can keep away even the tiniest microbes, including that dreaded cryptosporidium bug. Its maker says it “reduces up to 99.99999% of…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: You might have been following the recent debate about surfing a black web; in spite of all the recent press, mysteries and myths still abound. We explore five of the most common. The Toshiba Portégé R500 hitting stores this month boasts a battery that lasts eight hours, but that trick isn’t…

Monday’s Best Stories

Here are yesterday’s best stories in case you missed them, all with alternate headlines to get you lost: • Justine Gets Giganourmous iPhone AT&T Bill: Exclusive Interview and Video. • Woman Blends Real Diamond Engagement Ring. • Two Brothers Get Rudimentary Videoconferencing in the iPhone. • Jason Tries First iPhone-Native Game, Falls Asleep. https://gizmodo.com/the-madness-begins-with-a-300-page-at-t-bill-for-iphone-288887 •…

Rail passengers in the UK are to get free wi-fi access on the London to Scotland route from next year. [Silicon]

The Wii just got another update, but it just fixes some lock-up bugs and doesn’t add any new features. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/heres-a-feature-we-missed-in-our-wii-firmware-update-3-287896

Makayama Pocket Wi-Fi Radar Software Now Available for Pocket PC

Now Makayama Pocket Wi-Fi Radar software is available for the Pocket PC platform, showing you exactly where those free Wi-Fi networks are. Formerly available just for Windows XP, this $14.95 software download shows you an animated radar screen that not only indicates exactly where the hotspots are, but it automates your connection to that network…

Piece of Wood Watch, Gives Us…Time

The Piece of Wood Watch by Angular Momentum looks to be the handiwork of Robinson Crusoe. But unless Crusoe had an abundance of sterling silver and diamonds, we doubt he crafted this watch. Self-winding based upon user movement and water resistant, the Piece of Wood Watch might not be rummaged from a pile of rotting…

Numark’s iDJ2 Lets You Mix Tracks from the Same iPod

Numark’s iDJ2, a mixing table that allows you to mix up tracks from the same iPod is to be launched next month. We touched on the prototype earlier this year, which got a thumbs-up-with-reservations from DJ Scott Paradis, but this is the final version. Key features, and price, below. https://gizmodo.com/in-love-with-the-dj-idj2-ipod-mixer-and-vci-100-midi-i-230506 Large backlit, display with revolutionary…

Surgically Implanted Bra is Like an External Bra, but With More Horrible Surgery Involved

Great news, ladies! There’s a new option for invasive, elective surgery that’s meant to help your boobs look exactly how you think men want them to look: the surgically implanted bra. It’s just as delightful as it sounds! What we’ve done is build a silicon bra, insert it into the body and attach it to…

Dream Lover 2000 Keeps That Dawg on a Shocking Leash

This “male management and boyfriend training unit” is an add-on to that CB-3000 male chastity belt that attaches to a submissive male’s member, keeping it, and him, out of harm’s way or out of anybody else’s pants. This Dream Lover 2000 add-on takes it a step further, letting the poor sap’s mistress remotely administer shocks,…

Super Nintendo Violated with a Vista Install

What’s a good way to make a Super Nintendo decidedly less fun? Modify it to run Windows Vista, of course. While this beautiful machine used to be able to play classic games like Chrono Trigger and Super Mario World, the barebones PC crammed inside it now can probably barely run ZSNES. What a tragedy. [Akihabara…

Only You, and Autonomous Pill Bug Robots, Can Prevent Forest Fires

Scientists in Germany are hard at work on an autonomous, pill-bug-like robot to be used to fight forest fires. It’s got legs like the little insect, and if the going gets too hot, it can retract them into its body. They’ll then be protected by the ceramic casing, which can withstand heat of up to…

VPapers Self-Sticking Rolling Papers Take the Lick Out Of Smoking

Stop licking that blunt, getting your spit all over it and everything, and start using these self-stick VPapers from Sustainable Trading Limited. Apparently creating and patenting these self-sticking rolling papers was not quite as simple as you might think. These guys did extensive market research, probably involving smoking lots and lots of, uh, vegetable material,…

Shinco PVR Television, Apple TV Minus Wireless Plus TV

We know what you’re thinking, “didn’t Mark mean DVR television?” Nope. This Shinco 32″ LCD accepts USB drives along with a 2.5″ bay enclosure. The drive is meant to then be taken with you to watch your shows on the road. While we have no specifics on encoding bitrates, we do know that the Shinco…

No 65nm Falcons Lurking Inside of New HDMI Xbox 360s

While our hopes were never high, we wished nonetheless that the new HDMI Xbox 360 Premiums would also come packed with the elusive cooler 65nm process chipset (“Falcon”) we’ve been drooling into our pillows over at night. Our slobbery dreams have been shattered by “wonderkins,” a NeoGAF member who busted open his shiny new HDMI…

Tooth Grinding Remote, Researchers Hate to See You Smile

At last, we have an excuse other than stress to crack our molars and spend thousands on dental repair. Researchers at Osaka University have developed a remote sensitive to tooth grinding. Surprisingly, it’s fairly low-tech in nature. IR sensors are placed over patients’ temples because the temples are an area that moves only with the…

Google and Apple Both Failing to Satisfy

The American Customer Satisfaction Index has just released its second quarter update, and things aren’t looking so good for high performers like Google and Apple. In the Web Portal category Google has slipped three points from last year, while Yahoo has gained three points. The result: Yahoo has overtaken Google in the top spot, with…

Fujitsu Ships LifeBook T2010, Lighter Than Ever

Fujitsu just began shipping the LifeBook T2010, one of the lightest widescreen convertible laptop tablets yet, weighing just 3.52 pounds. It’s put together in that same kooky form factor as its brandmate, the P1610 with the screen that swivels around every which way so you can use it as either a stylus-driven tablet or a…