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Amazing LEGO Dioramas Imitate Fine Art

Who knew you could set up such realistic 3D versions of fine art and classic movies with LEGO? That’s just what Flickr user Udronotto has done. That’s his takeoff on Edward Hopper’s painting “Nighthawks” above, and he’s got an entire 42-pic set that shows you the depth of his talents. See our gallery below for…

Belkin Wireless USB Hub Is All Dressed Up, No Place to Go

Belkin’s bringing some seriously pretty design to its game, and here’s another example: a four-port wireless USB hub that lets you roam freely with your USB devices. Belkin says this model F5U302 lets you transfer data at the full USB 2.0 speed of 480Mbps over a 30-foot range. This might come in handy for a…

Belkin N1 Vision Router Makes 802.11n Sexier Than Ever With Built-In Screen

Belkin’s latest N1 series router, the N1 Vision, isn’t just hands-down the smokiest 802.11n draft 2.0 router we’ve seen—it tries to one-up everyone else with a built-in LCD screen that displays info ranging from a bandwidth speedometer to the number of neighbors leeching your internet. At $200, the sexiness doesn’t come cheap, but it can…

Samsung’s Slim G600 Slider has a 5MP Camera

Samsung wants you to ditch your digital camera and just use their phones for all your picture-taking needs. At least that’s what the upcoming G600 leads one to believe, what with it having a 5-megapixel camera crammed inside. Sure, they have phones with 10-megapixel cameras in them, but they’re bulky gimmicks only available in Korea.…

Just Because You Hate DRM Doesn’t Mean You Have Taste

Clearly, not all anti-DRM geeks have the impeccable taste of our own Adam Frucci, who balances smoldering rage toward the Man with a solid fashion sense. Consequently, you’re looking at the third- place entry in TorrentFreak’s anti-DRM T-shirt contest, because the winner—chosen by popular vote—is ugly (but you can hit the jump to check it…

Google TV Might Watch You, According to Patent

A patent recently filed by Google for an interactive TV service is chock full of new details, but the most interesting is this one: “an image capture device (e.g., digital camera, video recorder, etc.) can be used to measure how many viewers are watching or listening to a broadcast.” According to the patent, the main…

Screaming Fan Has an Anatomically Correct Uvula

Scare kids and small animals everywhere with The Screaming Fan, a 3D sculpture of a crazed sports fanatic yelling his fool head off. It hangs out your car window, attached by a “break-resistant window bracket,” but you’ll have to supply your own screaming sound effects. This $25 rubberized torso can’t decide whether it’s a replica…

Apple Rumor Du Jour: Touchscreen Video iPod Set to Launch Next Month?

Wintek is supplying touchscreen panels for Apple’s upcoming video iPod in time for an August release, according to sources within the Taiwan supply chain. We’re taking this “leak” with a heady dose of skepticism, naturally, but the naming of a specific supplier as well as the date—Apple has a healthy history of big late summer/early…

iPhoneDrive Gives JesusPhone a Disk Mode, Sort of

iPhoneDrive will let you use your iPhone as a flash drive from a file transfer window. No, it won’t give you access to the entire file system and it’s not as transparent as the iPod’s Disk Mode. But for $9.95, it will be good to move your data around until Apple fixes this. [Product page]…

Sleek Steel Puhlmann Nixie Wall Clock

The Puhlmann Nixie. Or as I like to call it, Dr. Zarkov’s Timing Countdown Thingamabob. You install its 12.7 x 6.2- inch brushed-steel frame on your kitchen wall and you will be able to time your roast or wait for Flash Gordon to save the Earth. All thanks to its always fascinating nixie tubes, as…

Ford Aiming to Break the Fuel Cell Car Speed Record

This is the Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999, the fuel cell-powered car that Ford is hoping will break some records at Bonneville. The green speeding machine just might be able to smash the world land speed record for a production-based fuel cell-powered vehicle. Phew, I’d like to see how they fit that on the trophy. Ford…

DJ Mix 2000 USB Console Will Turn Your Cubicle Into a Groovicle

The DJ Mix 2000 Audio Console from NTI Comodo is a neat little gadget for anyone who fancies themselves as a record changer DJ. Aimed at anyone with more than a passing interest in internet broadcasting, audio dubbing—even Karaoke Queens (yes, loverboy, I mean YOU)—can just plug it in to a computer via USB and…

First Spy Pics of Upcoming TiVo Series 3 Lite?

Click to viewA tipster sent us these spy pics of what he says is the upcoming cheap version of the TiVo Series 3 personal video recorder, which is rumored to be a sub-$300 HDTV digital recorder to be available this fall. We don’t know for sure if this is for real or not, but the…

iPhone vs. Blender Ends in Grisly Tangle of Metal and Plastic

It seems like just yesterday we showed you the Transformers meeting their maker in the Blendtec blender, and now it’s the iPhone’s turn. Behold, fanboys and haters alike: The iPhone is not immortal. Just don’t breathe its dust when it’s all over. [Blendtec YouTube Channel]

BoomBucket Sound System for iPod Looks Like Ice Bucket

The BoomBucket is a weatherproof, portable speaker system with remote control for your iPod. Once charged, its two speakers will run for eight hours, meaning that you can bug your fellow beach monkeys by playing Chacarron on a loop. It’s fourth- and fifth- gen iPod-, nano- and mini-compatible, and charges them while they are docked.…

Hotel Door Alarm Keeps Unwanted Visitors Away (But Not Bedbugs)

Hang the Hotel Security Alarm on the door knob of your room and it will emit a scrotum-tightening 105 decibels of screechiness if someone touches the handle on the other side. This is the perfect gadget for men whose wives have thrown them out of the marital home and are bunked up in a ground-floor…

Radio-controlled Jousting Knights Don’t Say Ni but Are Cool Anyway

[singing*] We’re radio-controlled knights, we fight around in tights. / We ruin your floor and table, but our joust is impec-cable. We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and Spam a lot/We’re knights of the Round Table, our fights are for-mi-dable. But many times we’re given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able/It’s…

A hacker known as Geohot claims that the iPhone will be unlocked within two weeks. That should make our Jesus happy. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-file-system-hacked-custom-ringtones-to-come-soo-276723 655 bucks

Japanese Turd Flashlight Is Thankfully Not a Medical Gadget

If what’s missing from your life is a light-up poop, then fear not, because your happiness is sitting in a Japanese vending machine. Epoch, purveyor of the USB darts board, has come up with the weirdness that is a flashlight shaped like a turd, or Unchi, as they are known over in Japan. https://gizmodo.com/usb-darts-make-drunken-cheating-a-bit-harder-272464 Available…