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Musical Shower Knob Tries to Hide Among the Other Faucet Handles

This Musical Shower Knob rocks the tunes while pulling duty as a clever sight gag, but it’s not going to fool anybody unless you have a couple of other faucet handles that look just like it. It’s an FM and AM radio (too bad you can’t slide a flash card in there for some mp3…

Sony PSP God of War Mod Looks Bloodthirstily Fantastic

Really enjoy God of War? Then Gizmodo Buddy Ramon, who created the ultimate DS Lite Zelda mod and the ultimate Legend of Zelda Wii mod, has something for you. It’s the, dare we say it, ultimate PSP God of War Mod (Mod of War). https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-ds-lite-zelda-mod-257536 There are red LEDs, golden chains (the game is Chains…

XM and Sirius Promise Cheaper A La Carte Offerings if Merger Deal is Approved

Picking and choosing your favorite stations on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio might be a delightful result of the merger between the two companies, at least that’s what the companies are saying will happen if their proposed deal goes through the FCC gauntlet. That’s just the beginning, too, because the companies add that their subscriptions…

GameStop (and by extension, EBGames) is selling the rest of their 20GB PS3 stock for $450, which includes 5 free Blu-ray movies per the promotion going on now. This model, like the 60GB, still uses hardware for backward compatibility for PS2 and PS1 games. [GameStop via Ars Technica]

Mountain Hardware Stronghold Camping Tent, Next Best Thing to Home

The Mountain Hardware Stronghold Camping Tent shields you from even the most horrific elements, constructed in a dome shape with some of the strongest geometry known to man. While it’s not that McMansion where you usually hang out, it still has two doors, a roof vent for staring into space late into the night, and…

What You Missed Last Weekend

You thought, “I will check Giz after the weekend, they’ll have some competent writer condense all that cool stuff in a series of handy links.” Well, you were right on one account at least. Jump for what you missed: • Gang kidnaps top world gamer for an account password. • Rumored 6th gen iPod interface…

Town Goes Cell-Phone Free Then Announces Wi-Fi For All

At first, the story looks fairly predictable: The peaceful Canadian town of New Denver (pop. 600) has asked Telus, the region’s wireless carrier, not to build a proposed cell tower. The reason isn’t fear of what’s new and different; the town would like to promote itself as a destination for people who want to get…

Psychedelic New Zune Commercial Airs This Saturday

Here’s a new commercial for the Microsoft Zune that’s just been completed. Directed by Ryan Dunn for Vitamin Pictures, our insiders tell us it’ll air this Saturday. The graphics were created in Adobe Illustrator (and a bit of Photoshop, too) and then animated using Maya 3D, Sketch Toon (a plugin for Maya) and Adobe After…

Helios H2000 Player Turns DVD Video to Pseudo-HD on the Cheap

The price of upscaling video free-falls even more with the Helios H2000 upscaling DVD player. Sure, this one can only crank your video up to 1080i, but its $99 price makes that quite an attractive option. It can also handle XviD, the efficient video format that’s one of our favorites, and also popular among those…

Rock Band Pricing Revealed?

Just after we had a first look at the new drums from the upcoming game Rock Band, Amazon has priced the Xbox 360 bundle (so keep in mind, this isn’t necessarily final). For $200, you get the game, a mic, wired guitar and drumset. And hearts everywhere are broken. Most players will probably already own…

Solar Wind Pavilion, Gathering Place of Energy

The Solar Wind Pavilion is a design proposal for California State University to provide an ecofriendly space for students and faculty to gather. The design begins with a 150-foot wind generator that leads down to a roof featuring concentric rings of solar paneling. This rippling form represents the actual energy flowing toward the campus from…

Boat in a Bag for Sailors on the Move

The MiniCat is a self-assembling catamaran. Costing $4,905, it consists of a couple of floats, sails, some aluminum rods, an alloy mast, a rudder, keel fin and a trampoline. You can assemble it in around half an hour (well, it would take me a couple of days—the Addy-Ikea Flatpack interface is not a sight most…

Western Digital Launches Efficient GreenPower Drives, From 320GB to 1TB

Like other companies hoping to cast a greenish hue on whirring machinery, Western Digital today unveiled GreenPower, a line of internal hard drives that focus on efficiency. That is, they use 40% less power than the competition thanks to some fancy engineering. The 3.5″ SATA drives for desktops, the WD Caviar GP series, are now…

Car Bar and Hand Hooks, for That Surreal, Other-Dimension Look

Look what just crashed through the wall: a Car Bar, and it looks just like a good old ’57 Chevy. Not fancy enough for you? There’s also a Rolls-Royce Car Bar, and accompanying that could be these hands that serve as coat hooks or flower vases, completing the illusion of off-the-wall weirdness. If you want…

PS3 Firmware 1.9 Details Announced, Best Update Yet?

Sony keeps chipping away at the PS3, and they’ll carve a great multimedia system out of it…even if they need 100 years. The new firmware 1.9 update just hit in Japan and we’re digging some of the new features. Here are the complete changes, and the notes on what were most excited about. • Ability…

Although we said AMD would make the Q4 2007 ship dates of Phenom chips, the ’07 shipments are not going to be “substantial,” says AMD’s honcho. Better luck in 2008! [Reg Hardware] https://gizmodo.com/amd-quad-core-phenom-gaming-system-in-the-flesh-and-bl-280245

Buffalo 56GB Solid State Portable Drive

Buffalo is taking the gloves off the solid state market, releasing a portable drive (just 57x89x14mm) that’s up to a very palatable 56GB in size. Resistant to shock and ready to tumble, Buffalo’s newest iteration puts solid state into slap-fight range of smaller portable drives. Of course, at $828 the pleasure will run you almost…

Logitech Rolls Out Tiny VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse

Logitech just rolled out its VX Nano Cordless Laser Mouse, especially designed for notebooks but still using that hyperfast scroll wheel that Blam liked so much in its big brother, the MX Revolution. Its most remarkable feature is its improbably small USB receiver, the tiniest yet conceived. How small is it? Insert the receiver into…

Roller Printer Kind of Rocks, Makes Good Excuse for Age Poll

Someone just got his hands on his fav 3D program and produced this concept for a modern Roller Paper Printer, which allows you to print at any length if you still have a copy of Broderbund’s Print Shop around. You can see how it is supposed to work after the jump but suddenly I don’t…

+336+ Mirror Displays Your SMS Alongside Your Utter Sad-Sackness

This is the +336+ Mirror. More than just a concept (maaan) it is an idea-made-flesh for those 20 people in the world stupid enough—and rich enough—to shell out $10,000 for a looking glass that can display text messages sent from a cellphone. So either this is the least mobile mobile phone (albeit one without the…