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New Five Star Notebook Packs Speakers and MP3 Player Pocket for Back to School

I used to have a Five Star First Gear notebook, way back in first grade, along with every other kid. It was pretty awesome, though the guys at Five Star decided they needed to throw in some speakers and an MP3 player pocket into their latest, Five Star with Sound, in order to appeal to…

Help Google Deliver Email In a Gmail Video

When you send an email through Gmail, hundreds of Google engineers leap from their chairs to help deliver the message. It’s like P2P, but with bikes. They are doing a video all about it, and you can contribute to it if you hurry: Google is asking you to add to their video, where people take…

ActFace Concept Cell Has Looks, 3 Touchscreens

This is the ActFace Japanese cell phone concept from au by KDDI. It laughs in the face of the iPhone and its single touchscreen – with not one, not two, but three, and no visible traditional buttons. There’s a video of the two front screens showing some impressive animation after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/au-phones-media-skin-machina-hexagon-139091 Although it…

Is it a Boat? Is it a Plane? No, it’s the Hydroptre

A 60-footer that goes by the name of Hydropt re is hoping to travel at over 50 knots (58mph) and become the world’s fastest racing ship. Using “wings”, the French-built craft glides over the waves, instead of ploughing through them like a traditional sailing vessel. Even the captain, Alain Th bault, who has crossed the…

Panasonic Car Beats World Speed Record on AA Batteries

An electric car with painted flames, 192 AA batteries and a pilot looking like the Atomic Ant. That’s what Panasonic used to beat the Guinness world speed record on an electric car running on standard batteries. Keep reading for details and a video of the car whizzing by. The car raced on a 65.8mph average,…

Jet-Man Is So Cool It Hurts

Yves Rossy is an absolute lunatic, but we love him for it. He has been involved in human jet-powered flight since 2001, back in April he survived a potentially life threatening incident when his jet wings encountered problems mid flight. Since then he has been working on repairing and improving the system, he has been…

Storm Trooper Stripper (OK, Prostitute)

I see your schwartz is as big as mine. [kontraband]

Google Couture

If you live in Turkey not only do you have the best kebabs in the World, but you also have the finest geek boutique to have graced our watery planet. Even though the owner of the store has the intricate Google logo down to the correct spelling and colour, we are still confident in calling…

Sens Time By Touch Clock For The Blind Is Sexy And Round

Swatch develops some awesome concepts and this is no exception. Designed by Arnaud Lapierre, it is a high fashion clock for the blind called Sens Time by Touch. Though there are many solutions for time keeping for the visually impaired, this concept goes a long way to push for style and functionality. https://gizmodo.com/swatch-concept-air-tube-design-has-us-pumped-230699 The clock…

2010 Olympics, Now WIth Hyrdrogen Buses

The 2010 Olympics in Vancouver will need a lot of transportation, so the B.C. government is assembling the largest collection of hydrogen fuel-cell buses on the planet. Twenty hydrogen buses will be in Whistler for coastal transport during the Olympic Games. Each bus costs about $2.1 million, or four times the price of the diesel…

The Futurama Trailer

It’s shaky, the audio is bad and a few heads block the screen now and again. But it’s the Futuruama trailer from ComiCon, celebrating its return to television. Enjoy. [crunchgear]

AIGO USB Drives, for Couples

Love comes in many forms: roses, chocolates, consensual anal relations, and now, USB drives. The AIGO his and hers flash drives will not only prevent USB mixups, but they’ll further reinforce necessary gender roles in a relationship. For instance, a woman is supposed to be prissy and like hearts. That’s her job. A man is…

Save Rare Films by Donating to Have Them Uploaded to the Internet Archive

Uploading movies to the internet doesn’t always have to cause “injury that cannot be compensated or measured in money.” By donating to the Academic Film Archive of North America’s “Save a Film” initiative, you’ll be spotting them tax-deductible support for the uploading of a rare film from their over 6000-title 16mm film archive for free-as-in-beer…

Inflating Caterpillar Booty Dress Pumps Itself Into a Chair

The Self-Sustainable Chair is a polyethylene garment, filled with air automatically through shoe pumps. (Translation: your butt fills with air and you can plop down anywhere.) But if our inherent laziness is tempered through the requirement more work to be lazy, is there any point at all? ‘Nihilist Chair’ might be a better, though more…

Next-Gen iMacs and More Coming Tuesday, New iPod Mid-September

[Updated: The source is rotten. Googling the tipster’s email shows him to be a fraud. This story is being 100% retracted.- BLam] Someone close to the Infinite Loop Mothership just sent us a tip on what to expect at the Apple event this Tuesday: according to him/her/it, Steve Jobs will announce newly-designed iMacs —as expected…

California has deemed e-voting safe after implementing new security measures. [pcworld]

Lenovo’s $199 PC Package Is A Step In The Right Direction

Lenovo are set to release a $199 PC package to tap into the expansive, rural Chinese market. For the extremely reasonable price, Lenovo intends on supplying the PC along with a mouse, keyboard and an unconfirmed OS. To keep costs to a minimum, television sets shall serve as displays for the PC. Dell had previously…

iPhone Patent Dibs Begin (Pitifully)

In the wake of consumer action lawsuits, there is another group of citizens looking for a piece of the iPhone: patent trolls. Just take US Patent 6,784,873 by SP Technologies—it’s a patent for entering information on a touch screen. If it sounds like an all-encompassing, overly-broad patent, that’s probably because it is…an obvious point when…

Pity the Poor Silicon Valley “Working Class” Millionaires

It’s tough to be a millionaire in Silicon Valley nowadays, slavishly breaking your back in the “Silicon Valley salt mines.” As one such “salt miner,” Hal Steger, puts it in a NYT story detailing their worked-to-the-bone lives, “a few million doesn’t go as far as it used to. Maybe in the ’70s, a few million…

Hackers Extract Main Key to iPhone Unlocking, Freedom Closer than Ever

Click to viewAfter uncovering its communications core’s secrets, today hackers have reached a big milestone towards freeing the iPhone from the AT&T network: they extracted the full content of the radio memory. In other words: now they have the plans for the fucking Death Star —”the main key to achieve true unlock.” Want to help…