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iPhone Linewatch: One $600 Phone Away From Homelessness

Here he is again, Sweaty McTouchscreen, the #1 linesitter at the midtown Apple store, this time explaining himself via a strange variation of the “I’m homeless, need money for booze” sign. https://gizmodo.com/non-interview-first-iphone-campers-not-what-apple-expe-272140 Well, that’s it. We’re doomed. We’ve had a good run, but it looks like this whole humanity experiment didn’t really work out. Let’s…

Boingo WiFi, like T-Mobile hotspots, goes $40 for flat international access. [Boingboing]

Pen-Sized Fishing Rod

The Fishpen, by outdoor gear company Coleman, is a telescoping fishing rod in a pen sized container. It’s for when you happen to pass a creek, or pond, and the mood strikes you to Fish your little heart out and hook some bass in the mouth for the pure love of the sport. The compact…

Siberian Diamond Building Proves Siberians Are Pretty Crazy Too

If you thought the people of Dubai were the only ones who made crazy ass buildings, Siberians have a surprise for you. This diamond-like tower looks and reflects light like a “cut diamond”, but actually absorbs enough energy to be self-sustainable thanks to solar light. The tower’s designed by architects at Foster+Partners, and is planned…

Non Interview: First iPhone Campers Not What Apple Expected

Click to viewYou know those two guys waiting in line for the iPhone a whole 100 hours early? We’ve got an exclusive non-interview with them. And this grumpy guy is probably not what Apple expected when it envisioned the perfect customer for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-line-has-started-100-hours-early-272088 Fake Steve is going to cry this is a Microsoft…

SSH coming to iPhone via Safari? [Infinite Loop via MyiTablet]

DIY 8-Bit Game Console

The Hydra 8-bit console kit has more juice than an NES, and you can write your own games for it. $200 gets you instructions on how to program for the Propeller processor, a keyboard, mouse, NES-ish joypad, and a 128KB rewritable cartridge to match its 128K EEPROM. Thinkgeek [via BoingBoing]

Nigel writes this iPhone Fantasy Roadmap, 5 years out, as seen with rose colored glasses. Worth reading, if only to understand this is the first of many iPhones. [Red Ferret]

Transformers Snippet: Sleep Good, Handsome Man

If you missed it during Leno, here are forty-five more tantalizing seconds of the Transformers movie. It looks like little Louis Stevens (Shia LaBeouf) may bring some humor to the film after all.

Cat+Toast=Anti-Gravity

For this anti-gravity experiment we will need one cat (preferably cute) and one piece of toast buttered on one side only. Now this experiment relies on two constants, one being a cat in motion will always land on its feet. And the other being when buttered toast travels from point X to point Y, it…

“Rocobo” Will Love You Even If You Hate It

If you’re the kind of person who is always at your computer, you might want to look into importing a Rocobo. Due out in August in Japan for around $11, the little boxy bot will keep you company on cold, late nights—through the good times as well as the bad. Treat Rocobo poorly and it’ll…

iPhone: Place Your Bets. Seriously.

The iPhone may be Apple’s new cash cow, but Apple isn’t the only one looking to make a quick buck off the hysteria. BetUs is currently willing to help you lose your hard-earned money by offering odds on a variety of crazy launch-day-and-beyond iPhone possibilities. From someone getting trampled (20:1, place ’em now!) to the…

Horse Racing Challenge Makes Taking Friends’ Money Easier

With the iPhone coming out in just a few days, you’re going to need two things fast: something to do, and some extra cash in your pocket. Luckily, picking up Horse Racing Challenge will let you do both, all the while watching energetic little Infrared horses chatter their way around the track. For $100 you…

Lap Blaster Boosts Laptop Blasts

The product mix from the talking chair people at Pyramat is about to get a little deeper. Word on the street is their next gadget accessory is the Lap Blaster, a laptop dock that replaces those tinny tweeters on your mobile machine with the real McCoy. A USB iPod dock rounds out the audio utility…

‘Face Your Pockets’ Project Reveals the Inner You

What are you carrying in your pockets right now? Show the world in the “Face Your Pockets” mass photo project whose organizers are inviting worldwide participation. Artfully arrange the contents of your pockets onto a scanner, perhaps add something funny or poignant to the mix, position your face nearby and push the button. When you’re…

Pictures Stately Edifices (1923)

As promised, we have the first in a long list of predictions found in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut). Today’s excerpt is from architect Thomas Hastings. It’s particularly unsettling to read someone from the 1920s writing about the possibility of another World War. I get such a feeling of detachment, as though…

Dell Kills Crapware…Almost

Regular readers know how much we hate preinstalled trialware on PCs. And how much we appreciate Dell’s XPS systems, which have an option for a “clean install” OS when you buy em. Well they’re moving that option to the Dimension desktop line, and Inspiron notebooks, too. And they’re shipping some machines with crapware uninstallers. Machines…

Help Iconfactory, maker of the Wii Wallpaper starring me, get Frenzic on the iPhone. [Gedblog] https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-on-ur-wallpaperz-unpantsing-ur-wii-220175

How much do you think it costs to power all of the computers left on overnight? According to a recent study, $1,720,000,000.00. [EcoGeek]

Chinese Sedan Earning its 1-Star Crash Rating

When Germany’s ADAC testing agency tested China’s Brilliance BS6 sedan, it came back with a 1-star rating. A person crashing this car at 40MPH would likely not survive. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/brilliant-chinese-brilliance-bs6-sedan-crumples-like-a-271345