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Dr. Frog Reminds You to Water Plants, Plays One on TV

If your plants always look like they came out of the jungle where Predator and Governor Schwarzenegger did battle, invest in Doctor Frog. He’s an accredited Ph.D. in plantology, and uses what’s left of the lower half of his body—he was in a horrific golf cart accident—to detect the conductivity of your soil. Once he…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 17

Word Origins: Imagineering, continued (1942)

As a follow-up to Tuesday’s story about the origins of the word “Imagineering,” I found a January 22, 1942 article from The Cullman Banner (Cullman, Alabama). Below is an excerpt from the story as well as the story in its entirety. New Noun – War brings new words – or bring back old ones in…

Tech News Matt Novak May 17

Sony Ericsson Adwatch: Beautiful Japanese Phones and Women

I stumbled across this ad for Sony Ericsson Japan’s handsets for their FOMA SO7033i phone. That might mean very little for you, like it does for me. But I did like the ad’s mosaics of hundreds of handsets flipping from one side to the other, behind a few faces that were not too hard on…

Tech News Brian Lam May 17

PSP Hardware Refresh Coming Later ’07, Says Sony

If you were thinking of buying a PSP at its new low price of $169, you may want to wait a little. At Sony’s San Diego gamer’s day, the company let fly some announcements about the handheld that says they’re going to do a “hardware refresh” later this year. https://gizmodo.com/retailers-wish-is-granted-psp-priced-dropped-to-169-249386 Whether it’s just a bigger…

Tech News Jason Chen May 17

Golf Swing Analysis Watch

Can you sense it? Yes, that is the smell of the freshly clipped grass and the sound of the birds chirping. Oh, and there is Tiger Woods approaching on a par 5. He may not need this Golf Swing Analyzing Watch, but you sure do. This watch uses a series of complex algorithms that will…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 17

Apple Patent Gives Lightweight Notebooks a Bulletproof Skeleton

The folks at Apple wanna redesign the ultraportable as we know it. Well, its insides at least. They wanna give it an enclosure that’ll keep them from flexing, but not add any weight. You see, the enclosures inside most notebooks have mechanical assemblies with parts that are screwed or fastened on. This makes for sturdy…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 17

JVC to Rock Three Next-Gen 120Hz 1080p TVs This Fall

JVC announced Clear Motion Drive II (CMD II), second-gen 120Hz technology that blasts creamy-smooth frames out of LCD displays at a blistering pace, double that of garden-variety 60Hz LCD screens. The company says the motion interpolation in CMD II is five times better than its 720p predecessor. The new technique was designed specifically for 1080p…

Tech News Charlie White May 17

Hands-On Gallery: Colorware Makes Xbox 360 Elites Obsolete

Click to viewIf you’re one of the few who wanted an Xbox 360 Elite more for the color than for the HDMI or the 120GB hard drive, then you’re in luck. For around $99, you can get your own black (or blue or green or red or orange or whatever color you want) Xbox 360…

Reviews Jason Chen May 17

Sony Gooses Vaio Type R Master Series with Faster Graphics

We already liked this Sony VAIO R Master PC’s form factor before the company announced its latest iteration, letting you order an NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card that not only speeds up that 1080p Blu-ray playback, but lets you feed a couple of gigantic dual-link displays at the same time. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-type-r-master-series-sheep-in-wolfs-clothing-204919 Plus, it’s packing…

Tech News Charlie White May 17

Transportation Exhibits at the New York World’s Fair (1964)

The 1964 film World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas took viewers through a preview of what the 1964 New York World’s Fair would have to offer. Below is a short clip of the film that shows the transportation exhibits, including the paleo-futuristic Futurama. World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas can be found on the DVD…

Tech News Matt Novak May 17

iPhone Totally FCC’d, My Fantasy of 3G Finally Crushed Into Nothingness

The iPhone has been FCC approved. Richard Baguley of Wireless Info studies the frequency data on the accompanying docs, and laments evidence of that which we already know: At best, the iPhone will only EDGE data. That’s on point with what was already widely known, but I’d secretly hoped for a Boom! moment where they’d…

Tech News Brian Lam May 17

Traveler 515 Laser Mouse with Flip 3D Button Gives You an Excuse to Actually Use Flip 3D

If you’ve been dying to use Windows Vista’s stacktastic Expose killer (or not) Flip 3D but stretching your fingers from the Windows key to tab is too much effort for your slackass, then the Traveler 515 Laser mouse might be your ticket to supreme Vista bliss (or not). It sports a dedicated Flip 3D button,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan May 17

P40 Tigershark Warbird Ceiling Fan, Piloted by Wrong-Way Corrigan

Who wouldn’t want to have a P40 Tigershark Warbird airplane poking through the ceiling, also functioning as a ceiling fan? This $200 prop doesn’t include the rest of that WWII hotshot flier, but making up for that is the fact that it only uses the energy of a 75-watt lightbulb. These fans aren’t exactly brand-new…

Gadgets Charlie White May 17

Apple Patent Watch: Apple to Turn iPhone and MacBook Into Crime Fighters

A recently discovered patent filed by Apple in 2004, seems to point to a new feature that could help protect your portable electronics from getting stolen. By utilizing the accelerometers built into devices such as the iPhone or MacBook, this new feature can look for certain movements that are characteristic of theft. In the event…

Tech News Ben Longo May 17

Subbuteo Giant Inflatable Pitch: Inflate Your Way to Soccer Fun

It seems like every week there’s some new giant inflatable object for sale. One week it’s a bathtub go-kart track, the next it’s a human-sized hamster ball. Well, today we found an inflatable soccer field, big enough for you and three buddies. That’s right, for the sporty gadgeteer who has it all, there’s an inflatable…

Tech News Ben Longo May 17

Ricavision Shows More Vista Love with Trio of New SideShow Gadgets

The folks at Ricavision must have a serious infatuation with Vista’s SideShow. Their latest gadgets are all centered around the Vista feature ranging from a digital pad to an eBook reader. First up is the MK140 FM Magnet/Scribbler. The device is basically a modern-day take on post-it notes letting you leave digital notes on its…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez May 17

MasterCard PayPass Embedded in a Watch

MasterCard is spreading its PayPass technology far and wide, and a simple tap of a little key fob device is as good as showing a credit card with no receipt signing to be done at all. Now the company has rolled out a program starting at Garanti bank in Turkey that involves this hoary-looking watch…

Tech News Charlie White May 17

Disneyland to Take to Highways Tonight (1958)

The TV critic for the Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, New Mexico) wasn’t a fan of the Disneyland TV episode, “Magic Highway, U.S.A.” The review in May 14, 1958 proclaims that, “the future for driver’s is hideous if Disney artists have their way.” Below is the full review. Walt Disney’s Disneyland goes a-motoring in “Magic Highway, U.S.A.”…

Tech News Matt Novak May 17

Low End Theory: State Property

By Brendan I. Koerner Arkansas is certainly a land of wonders—how else to describe a place that features Hot Springs National Park, the annual Tri-Lakes Bass Tournament and the birthplace of Skeets McDonald? Yet until this week, I was completely unaware of the Razorback State’s greatest attribute: a government surplus auction site that is a…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner May 17

Surf’s Up

Crap surfers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your head—sorry, cred. https://gizmodo.com/with-a-powersurf-fx-surfs-always-up-261244 LG’s laptop thinks it’s a cellphone. I think it’s a laptop. https://gizmodo.com/lg-z1pro-laptop-is-sweet-like-chocolate-261180 Robot Fight. Nekkid. In Jell-O. For Money. So, some of that isn’t true, but where would we be without hope? https://gizmodo.com/robot-fights-in-osaka-where-referees-talk-to-things-wi-260828 Hamster Shredder, The Sequel. Nekkid. In…

Tech News Ad Dugdale May 17

Dr. Frog Reminds You to Water Plants, Plays One on TV

Word Origins: Imagineering, continued (1942)

Sony Ericsson Adwatch: Beautiful Japanese Phones and Women

PSP Hardware Refresh Coming Later ’07, Says Sony

Golf Swing Analysis Watch

Apple Patent Gives Lightweight Notebooks a Bulletproof Skeleton

JVC to Rock Three Next-Gen 120Hz 1080p TVs This Fall

Hands-On Gallery: Colorware Makes Xbox 360 Elites Obsolete

Sony Gooses Vaio Type R Master Series with Faster Graphics

Transportation Exhibits at the New York World’s Fair (1964)

iPhone Totally FCC’d, My Fantasy of 3G Finally Crushed Into Nothingness

Traveler 515 Laser Mouse with Flip 3D Button Gives You an Excuse to Actually Use Flip 3D

P40 Tigershark Warbird Ceiling Fan, Piloted by Wrong-Way Corrigan

Apple Patent Watch: Apple to Turn iPhone and MacBook Into Crime Fighters

Subbuteo Giant Inflatable Pitch: Inflate Your Way to Soccer Fun

Ricavision Shows More Vista Love with Trio of New SideShow Gadgets

MasterCard PayPass Embedded in a Watch

Disneyland to Take to Highways Tonight (1958)

Low End Theory: State Property

Surf’s Up

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