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Gearlive figured out how to get IRC working on the iPhone. Awesome news for time travelers who are planning a trip back to 1999. [Gearlive]

Here’s One Magnetic Free Energy Machine That Actually Works

OK, so it isn’t the finest week for free-energy machines, but perhaps the boys at Steorn are just giving this category a bad name. Some seemingly free-energy concepts make sense, because they are powered not by mystical cosmic vibrations, but actual earthly ones. Scientists at the University of Southampton have created a generator that is…

The iPhone Period Trick

Some of you iPhone users have been complaining about the period key being banished to the numbers and symbols keyboard layout. Well quit your whining, here’s a quick and easy way to get around that. All you have to do is press and hold the numbers key, and without lifting your finger slide it over…

The Comfort of the Paleo-Future

LiveJournalist Blayne has an interesting analysis of why we may long for yesterday’s future. His take on paleo-futurism seems to be rooted in the comfort of the nostalgic. After the romantic innocence of retro-futurism is stripped away, you can see what drives our contemporary longing for imagined past-futures: Nostalgia, and a sincere desire for a…

Magnetic Pajama Buttons Get You From Clothed to Naked in 0.5 Seconds

If you’re anything like us, your major complaint about pajamas is that they’re just too hard to take off. That, and how urine stains never seem to wash out completely. These magnetic pajama buttons don’t do much about problem #2, but they totally take the clothing-removal equation to the next level. Of course, these magnetic…

JesusPhone Makes a Great Peeping TomPhone

Click to viewWhile all of you iPhone owners are busily pushing the envelope with your new gadget, taking calls, pinching images and locating sushi bars, some people are actually coming up with useful, critical applications. No, not hacking it. I mean making it the perfect friend for the Peeping Tom in you. At least according…

Fiat 500 Rolls Out in Europe, Bristling with Tech Goodness

This Fiat 500 plays ball with Microsoft, building in Windows Mobile to give you GPS, USB connectivity and Bluetooth goodness all in the same car. Jointly developed by Fiat, Microsoft and component company Magneti Marelli, the car’s voice-activated system lets you connect any Bluetooth device to its stereo system, giving speakerphone capabilities as well as…

Someone wants to fuck you in the ass for your iPhone. Females only. Ugly assholes need not apply. [Fleshbot (NSFW)]

iPhone Headset Doesn’t Support Noise Cancellation

If the official iPhone Bluetooth headset is $129, what would you expect it to have? More than just auto-pairing via the dock, right? Well, a reader just told us he called up Apple support and asked them whether the headset supports noise cancellation. They said no. Not only that, they recommended that he buy a…

How to Comment: E3

I’m going to E3 next week again to cover the major announcements for Gizmodo and to give Kotaku a hand. There should be some hardware announcements to be had, especially with rumors of Sony cutting PS3 prices by $100. It’ll be good to catch up with the Kotaku guys again, many of whom I’ve seen…

Helio Adds YouTube Features, New MySpace App

We told you the YouTube on Helio’s 3G was free now, but they’ve gone and added a couple more features to it since Monday. First, Helio users can record videos on their Oceans and upload them to Helio Album. Why’s that cool? Because if you configure your Helio Album correctly, it can push those videos…

Rumors Abound of New Sony DSLR and Matching Full-Frame Lenses

Although Sony has yet to confirm anything, the camera world is full of little whispers that a new camera is about to join its Alpha range of digital SLRs, along with a range of full-frame lenses. There is all sorts of speculation about the model number (so we won’t bother going into that) but there…

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

It’s still not too late to win an iPhone. Here’s a sample entry from reader Brian that made us chuckle. It’s called the DreamStream, and it allows you to choose exactly what dreams you want to have and allow it to be piped into your brain overnight. Live the ultimate life before you have to…

Garbage Men of the Future (1989)

This image is from Isaac Asimov’s book Space Garbage, published in 1989 as part of the Library of the Universe series. The caption to the image appears below. Low orbits are the most littered with space junk. Perhaps one day orbiting “garbage collectors” will be used to clean up these trash-filled orbits.

Denon DHT-FS3 X-Space Surround Bar Coming To US?

Since most people don’t like running wires and speakers all around their living room, surround bars are becoming all the rage. A Denon model just started popping up in the UK press, a 150-watt bar with subwoofer, using something called “soundbeams” to project sound around the room, regardless of the floorplan. It’s enough to make…

Human Pixels Perform Huge Real-Time Animation

These Samsung-sponsored dancers take football-stadium card flipping to the next level with this inspired routine. They combine computer-generated choreography, perfect synchronization, custom-designed costumes that can instantly reveal a variety of colors and a level of cooperation that’s probably not even possible in America. Wow. Samsung Dance [Neatorama]

Pokemon Legos Make Dialga and Palkia Even Awesomer

Mega Bloks may not be as cool as LEGOs, but do LEGOs form together and build Dialga and Palkia, the two legendary Pokemon from the two newest Pokemon games? We think not. Not only can you form these creatures and wreak havok on time and space (we forget which is which), there are a few…

Contest Reminder: Win a TiVo Series 3

Hey trivia fans. If you really want a TiVo Series 3, you should hurry up and answer our trivia questions. We’ve gotten a bunch of entries already, but you still have a better chance of winning this than actually finding something useful to do with your knowledge of inventions. Hit the link below for the…

Remote Control Your Mac With Your iPhone

One of the things on the iPhone wishlist is being able to use it as a universal remote for your Mac and your Apple TV, but this Telekinesis webserver app meets us at least halfway. By installing this app on your Mac and hitting up the webserver, you can load up pages that allow you…

Each BEAM Nightlight Has Photography Shot Just For You

No two BEAM nightlights are alike, thanks to photographer Ernest Goh and designer Daniel Pillai. The case, nearly a meter long, employs 40 LEDs to light a strip of medium format transparency film. Instead of using a reproduced sheet of photos, the BEAM lights up an entirely unique strip individual to your nightlight. So what…