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Gizmodo Intern Tortured for the Cause

Here’s proof of Gizmodo intern Benny Goldman’s dedication to his work: the gals at Gizmodo’s beloved sister site Jezebel took him for a special back, sack and crack waxing, and here you can see the obvious pain he was put through just to get that clean, hairless look. The Jezebel babes are working on a…

IMobile Flying C1000 Watch is Phone, Audio and Video Player, Chunky

Finally something to go up against the multi-talentedM500 GSM-MP3-MP4 watch: the IMOBILE Flying C1000. Touchscreen, Bluetooth, GSM phone, 60MB built-in memory, there are a couple more shots after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/m500-gsm-mp3-mp4-cellphone-watch-in-action-276214 It’s also got a USB port, a stylus and, from what I can decipher from the original page, screen res is 176 x 220…

Pirate App For iPhone Honors Talk Like a Dumbass Day

Pirates are stupid. Ninjas are where it’s at. But if you somehow have the misguided notion that pirates are cool, there’s this iPhone pirate app that lets you take a picture of someone and make them into a pirate. See how stupid that guy looks? Making him a pirate just makes him look stupider. If…

iPhone Faux-GPS Hack Works and is Awesome

Click to viewWhoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, it’s actually using peer-collected GPS data linked to cellular tower, which Navizon describes as peer to peer location detection. Either way &mdash it actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required),…

ReplayTV Personal HD Rolled Out, Has iPod and iPhone Support

As we predicted on Monday, ReplayTV rolled out its Personal HD today, a USB tuner dongle that we’ve confirmed is a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950 modified especially for ReplayTV. It’s the software that makes this product unique, giving you the ability to convert those videos you record on your PC to formats that will play back…

Crooks Caught Red-Handed Stealing $20K Worth of Gadgets, Laptops and More

Next time you decide to rip off a bunch of Macs, camcorders and laptops, you might want to take a good look around for the unblinking eye of a video camera, because you could end up pilloried in public the next day. Check out this brazen burglary in progress, and then step back and think…

Amazon may have jumped the gun with it, but AT&T’s Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerry 8820 is on sale from tomorrow, costing $299.99 for a two-year contract with rebate. https://gizmodo.com/first-wifi-blackberry-8820-on-sale-now-297904

New Army Combat Shirt is Flame-Resistant, Has 8-Bit Camouflage

Just debuted, here is Mrs. Commandersson wearing the new high-tech Army Combat Shirt, made with an anti-microbial fabric that is flame-resistant and improves “breathability.” Designed to be worn under the Interceptor Body Armor, it comes in a NES-Zelda-Map-Style 8-bit camouflage pattern for that practical yet elegant Stargate look. It also includes anti-abrassion elbow pads, cargo…

iSlide is a Segway/Skateboard Combo Concept

We all know that Segways are far from cool, but skateboards generally do meet the requirements for things that we’d be seen on in public. What happens if you combine the two? You get the iSlide concept, a weird-looking skateboard loaded up with fuel cells and the balancing mechanism of a Segway. You’ll need at…

Canon Rolls Out REALiS SX7 and X700 Projectors, Touts Psychedelic Color Accuracy

Canon just rolled out two new projectors in its REALiS multimedia line, and both of these specialty units are aimed at artists and suits. Designed to be super bright and capable of displaying exceptionally accurate colors, the top of the line is the SX7 pictured above, aimed at pro photogs and graphics and printing mavens.…

Sony Releases Colorful Vaio FZs Designed by Maya Hayuk

Sony’s latest Vaio is a limited edition FZ designed by New York artist Maya Vayuk. There are a couple of designs to choose from: the flower power-esque Grow; and the trippier Never Stop. Each laptop has co-ordinating wallpaper, a limited-edition etching, and a certificate of authenticity signed by Maya herself. The Blu-ray recorder laptop will…

How to Make a 25mm Bolt Action Sniper Rifle out of PVC Piping

How-to website Instructables is running Launch It, a contest for people to send in their homemade inventions. And here’s one of the entries, a 25mm pneumatic cannon. Boasting a two-and-a-half-foot barrel that is one inch in diameter, the rifle has custom bolt-action mechanism, a modded sprinkler valve as the primary firing valve, and a $40…

First Hands-On With the RCA Jet Stream MP3 Player with Kleer Wireless Headphones

We just got our fingerprints all over the strangely enticing RCA Jet Stream: a sporty, rubber edged MP3 player with a pair of wireless headphones that sound surprisingly pristine. The Jet Stream player itself is much like the RCA Jet now on sale: it’s got 1GB memory, a tiny color screen capable of video as…

Commenter Retirement Party Video Makes Me Yearn For Hotter Giz Comments

College Humor impressed us with their first Commenter Business Meeting video, but they’ve really outdone themselves this time: LOLcats, incredibly offensive commenters, and, yes, hot girls making out. We have two of those things regularly appearing in our comments now, but I’d really like to see us have all three. Let’s make it happen, team.…

Humans Further Exploit Squirrels With Challenging Obstacle Course

You may have winced at that squirrel catapult we showed you a couple of months ago, but here’s a Rube Goldbergesque contraption that squirrels willingly navigate. Look at those little guys running the obstacle course, willing to do just about anything for their next meal. One of the ambitious rodents ran the course 20 times…

AH-64D Apache Rechargeable Micro RC Helicopter is Licensed by Boeing

Looks like one more of those tiny styrofoam helicopters has taken to the air, and just like the others, this one pretty much goes up, down, and bangs into walls. This AH-64D Apache Rechargeable Micro RC Helicopter is supposedly so realistic it’s officially licensed by Boeing (that Apache name was the part that was licensed,…

Intel Skulltrail PC Gaming Platform (Kind of) Has SLI, Runs on Zombie’s Blood

Intel is showing their new dual-socket PC platform, running their upcoming 45-nanometer Quad-Cores, X38 chipset and dual-x16 PCI Express Graphics. The board —specially created by Intel and NVIDIA for the show— used two GeForce cards in SLI. However, the big news is that either Intel or its partners could included NVIDIA’s nForce MCP technology in…

Apple confirms old iPod games don’t work with either the fat nano or iPod classic since they’ve been “reformatted,” so you’ve gotta pony up again if you wanna play again. [iLounge]

Jobs pretty much says that Apple will hunt down iPhone unlockers in a game of “cat and mouse.” This is Not Good. [Computerworld]

New iPod nano Has the Cheapest Build Cost, Highest Profit Margin Yet

The prolific pull-apart analysts at iSuppli have finished their strip down/sourcing assessment of the latest iPod nano, estimating that the 4GB model packs $58.85 worth of hardware, while the 8GB one costs Apple $82.85 in partage. The rub is that they’ve shaved off 13 bucks in hardware costs from the previous generation despite adding video…