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Botanicalls Let Your Plants Call When Thirsty

Instead of having to remember to water your plants every day, how about installing a gadget that allows them to call you when they need water? Botanicalls does just that, with a soil-moisture sensor that detects whether a plan needs water and call you (on the phone that’s connected to the plant) with the results…

LG BH100 Hybrid Disc Player Plus 10 Free HD DVD or Blu-ray Discs!

I rarely use exclamation points in my headlines, but this deal seems too sweet not to. I’m talking about a LG Super Blu hybrid disc player that can play back HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs for $1200, plus any combination of Ten in stock HD DVD or Blu ray discs, for free. https://gizmodo.com/first-review-lg-bh100-hybrid-blu-ray-hd-dvd-player-ve-231149 Good job,…

iPhone Mates With Sony Dock Like a Jack Rabbit On an Antelope

At Sony’s holiday line show last night, we got to check out one of Sony’s new pair o’ docks for iPod, the clock/radio ICF-C1iP in black. Of course, the first thing we did was stick an iPhone in it, like giggling school kids watching a pair of goats getting busy at the petting zoo. Too…

iPod Karaoke Patent Brings Fear to Mass Transit Riders

Some may call this latest iPod/iPhone patent from Apple “dynamics lyrics display for portable media devices,” but we call this Karaoke City. The patent details a scheme to activate “karaoke style lyrics,” which then grabs lyrics and displays the lyrics in time and in sync with the music that’s playing. This way, the right words…

AMD Quad Core Phenom Gaming System in the Flesh (and Blood)

Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks to John Woo’s new game Stranglehold. AMD is still mum on pricing and final specs, though they did reaffirm…

Foot Mouse Gives You an Extra Pair of Hands

Attention foot fetishists and carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers: Here’s a new take on alternative pointing devices. Slide your foot into the FootTime Foot Mouse’s slipper attachment and then you’re off and running, controlling the cursor with one foot and pressing six buttons and a scroll wheel with the other. Yeah, there was a foot mouse…

Black & Decker Hydrator (1989)

In the futuristic world of 2015 you’ll "hydrate" Pizza Hut pizzas with your Black & Decker Hydrator. This clip, from the 1989 movie Back to the Future: Part II, also contains a pretty interesting fruit storage device along with a "Master-Cook" console which looks like some kind of recipe holder. See also:Back to the Future:…

Motorola’s Revenues Down 4 Quarters in a Row, May See Early Termination Fees For Ed Zander

Motorola’s revenues were down 19% from a year earlier, reporting a second quarter loss of $28 million. You’d think making the same phone 19 times would guarantee big money, but we guess not! As we said around the RAZR2 launch, the phone is just another RAZR design evolution, not something drastically different enough to make…

Meizu MiniOne Real Pricing, Availability

Either this site is overcharging by a crapload or the previous pricing was totally off, but the Meizu MiniOne is up to $988 for the 16GB model, compared to $450, which was listed before. What could cause such a rise in price? Hard to say. https://gizmodo.com/meizu-minione-specs-revealed-its-actually-got-some-jui-261388 We do know that the phone should be available…

First Glimpse of Sexy Windows Home Server From Velocity Micro

Now that the Windows Home Server platform has been released to manufacturing, a lot of cool concepts are becoming sweet realities. We just scored some juicy details on Velocity Micro‘s design, destined to ship in the coming months, with external expansion upgrades in early 2008. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-its-windows-home-server-software-has-bee-278802 Here’s what we can relate to you now: •…

Why You Shouldn’t Smash a Can of WD-40

Click to view You’ve gotta love natural selection caught on video. Intelligent people know that it isn’t a good idea to smash a can of WD-40, even if they’re curious about what would happen if they did. Luckily, some mouthbreathers decided that they’d give it a whirl, showing us exactly why we’re so smart to…

BigBelly Solar Trash Can Crushes Garbage, Frustrates Hobos

The BigBelly is a public trash can that’s solar powered, allowing it to compact people’s garbage and store four to six times as much as a regular can. In addition, it keeps less trash from spilling out, meaning less food for birds, meaning less bird poops on your car. Seems like a win-win to us.…

Hype Sheet: Samsung and the Cirque du Soleil Approach

The Pitch As watered-down, possibly Slavic electro kicks in on the soundtrack, a woman covered in multi-hued body paint dances in a black, gravity-free void. Cut to swirls of rainbow vapor, then back to our porcelain-faced harlequin performing back flips and other dazzling gymnastic feats. It’s not until the very end that one of Samsung’s…

Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate

This week at Uncrate: We go from daytime protection to nighttime cool with Smith Interlock Sunglasses, spice up our summer vacations with Top Secret Tourism, and ride our bikes indoors thanks to the Cycleops Fluid2 Trainer. We also feed our feathered friends with the Eva Solo Take Away Bird Feeder, kick up our grilled meats…

What You Might Have Missed on the Giz

From the sublime story of a teenage boy opening up what he thought was a PlayStation 2 he’d bought on eBay to find $90,000 in cash to the ridiculousness that is ciggie-flavored condoms, the Giz has it all—even poop masks for your “nether throat.” Gundam, iPhone hacks, docks… • A squadron of unmanned aerial drones…

DIY Nintendo DS Lite RumblePak

If you like tinkering with the inner working of gadgets as well as the Nintendo DS Lite, have I got a sweet project for you. Instructables has instructions on how to make a homemade RumblePak for the DS Lite that fits nicely inside the GBA cartridge slot on the bottom of the device. It’s not…

My Computer Speakers Died; Giz Readers’ Assistance Needed

OK, dudes, I need some help here. I’ve had a sweet set of Yamaha 2.1 computer speakers for about eight years now. They’ve served me well, they sound good at a high volume, they’re small and simple, and they even survived getting an entire can of root beer splashed on the subwoofer in college. Now,…

18k Solid Gold iPod shuffle Signals Downfall of the Civilized World

Normally we skip over these bullshit gold-plated gadgets, but it turns out this 18-karat iPod shuffle isn’t gold plated at all, but it’s solid 18-karat gold. Its picture was so pretty we couldn’t resist, even when we first thought it was 18k gold plated. We would’ve been even more impressed if it were solid 24-karat…

Text-O-Possum

The Text-O-Possum is a Bluetooth laser-projected keyboard that’s been…modded…into the back leg of an opossum. You know what they say: one man’s trash is another artist’s response to the lack of a technological utopia in the year 2007. Or something like that. The artist isn’t actually selling the Text-O-Possum (despite a shopping link) but if…

OLED market projected to reach $2.9 billion by 2012 and $5.9 billion by 2014. [prnewswire]