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Thrustmaster Adds an Optical Wheel to Their New Controller

If you need a bit more control in your games, the Thrustmaster Run’N’Drive 3 in 1 controller purports to give you just that. Featuring an optical wheel surrounding the left-hand d-pad, it gives you extra nuance in driving games and in situations like zooming with a sniper rifle in FPS games. Seems like a pretty…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Mar 23

Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

How were the deals yesterday? Were they any good? No? Well, keep using the Woot-off checkers so you won’t have to waste your day refreshing. Refreshing Woot, that is. Keep refreshing Gizmodo. Woot

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 23

Apple TV: Niggling Questions Answered

You’ve been sending questions about Apple TV, we’ve got answers. Does Apple TV support 5.1 audio? Yes (and no). Apple TV supports Dolby Pro Logic II surround sound, at least that’s what they told me in the demo, but it does not feature 5.1 discrete audio (sorry DTS lovers). Technically, it plays back AAC-LC audio…

Tech News Noah Robischon Mar 23

U of Nebraska Bills the RIAA for Wasted Time

The University of Nebraska isn’t scared by the RIAA and their army of undead, soulless lawyers. No, they’re refusing to hand over student data to the bullies, but what makes them even cooler is the fact that they’re billing the RIAA for the time they’ve wasted. Hot damn, that takes balls. Will the RIAA pay…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 23

Adwatch: Novell Tries Its Hand at Mac vs. PC Spots, Flogging Linux With a Babe

Novell decided to jump on the Mac vs. PC parody bandwagon, with the zillionth imitation of those spots. But now they bring Linux into the equation, represented by an attractive young lady. While she is quite eye-catching, we would like to have seen a hotter babe to go along with the indescribable beauty of Ubuntu,…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 23

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Now that we’ve all seen the gutted insides of Apple TV, some forum users claim to have hacked into the unit and gotten it to run nonsupported codecs like XviD. The actual hacking shouldn’t be too hard for the skilled. It involves removing and mounting App TV’s hard drive and installing a few scripts. The…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 23

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Remember the basketball court that opens up and lets out the X-Jet in X-Men? That’s exactly what this mouse looks like—except instead of a jet, a dragon comes out. It’s too bad this dragon doesn’t fly or shoot eye beams or throw exploding cards (we suppose it does have claws). It just acts as a…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 23

Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

As much fun as it would be to make lame jokes about the name Virgin and how phallic a big steel tube flying through the sky is, we’ll just leave it at saying Virgin America’s just been tentatively approved by the US Department of Transportation. Virgin, for the unfamiliar, has state-of-the-art planes that play Doom…

Gadgets Jason Chen Mar 23

DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB

Click to viewIn case you were wondering, it is possible to upgrade that measly 40GB hard drive on Apple TV, in this case to 120GB. Tipster Jonathan Bare says he’s done it, resulting in a capacity of 107.36GB. Now that’s more like it. He sent along these two pictures (click on the gallery below for…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 23

Procare e|Share ES-8068: Dedicated BitTorrent Client Fetches Booty On It’s Own [verdict: arrrrrr!]

Personally, I don’t care about what Adam says, I just can’t tolerate all those evil criminals, those potential terrorists who insist on stealing music and movies from their rightful owners by using BitTorrent in their computers. Shame on them! https://gizmodo.com/yet-another-reason-to-boycott-the-riaa-241376 I mean, why waste computer processing time when you just can do it with style…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 23

Creative Video Blaster Helps Old Lappies Render Video

Getting your home movies to DVD can be a pain if you’ve got a geriatric PC/laptop with no FireWire ports. That’s the crowd Creative is aiming for with their Video Blaster Editor. The external box offers all the A/V ports you need to get video onto your PC and helps your PC render video to…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 23

Sulis Personal Water Purifier: A Bottle-Top Device That Could Save Lives

We’ve already written about the LifeStraw, a product that could save the lives of the 1.5 million under-fives who die each year from drinking untreated water, and here’s another. Developed by an Israeli company called Water Sheer, the Sulis personal water purifier (named after the Roman goddess of spring water) is a 2.7-inch, 10-gram device…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Mar 23

PC World vs. PC Mag: Windows Geeks Take a Gander at Apple TV

Here’s another perspective on Apple TV from non-Mac devotees: A reviewer at PC World took Apple’s media streaming device out for a spin, and generally liked what he saw. It’s a good read, praising the easy setup and straightforward operation. But that’s nothing you couldn’t get here. When you go to the trouble of reading…

Reviews Charlie White Mar 23

Digg T-Shirt Says ‘Bury Me’

Click to viewCan’t get enough of digg.com? Put your plea for diggs front and center with this T-shirt from NerdyShirts. Check out this toolish dude wearing the shirt with his strategically placed laptop and strained expression. WTF is he doing, anyway? One thing’s for sure, he’s begging to be buried. Not exactly the shirt to…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 23

Ubiquam’s Hybrid Phone Does CMDA and GSM

When it comes to cell phones, your mobile either operates on the CMDA or GSM frequency. Here in the States that means Sprint/Verizon vs AT&T/T-Mobile. Ubiquam’s U520, however, is the first mobile to operate on both standards. Speed-wise, it supports up to 2.4 Mbps data transfer rates on CDMA EV-DO, but maxes out at 80…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 23

HTC X7500 Unboxing: Dopod Not as Dopey as Its Name

This HTX7500 Advantage, also known as the Dopod U1000, is one sweet Windows Mobile device, hitting a smart midpoint between a smartphone and a UMPC. Here’s an unboxing video that gives you a good idea of what the $1500 handheld can do and its compact form factor. We like its 5-inch screen, its Wi-Fi and…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 23

Unlike TV Counterpart, Homer Fridge Magnet Says Just One Funny Thing

And that is “Hey Buddy, mind if I lick that cap?” It’s just over 10 inches tall, costs around $50 and it does what all useful fridge magnets should do – namely crack open a cold one with the minimum of fuss. Actually, I’ll give it another one. “Hey, excuse me, but I’ve noticed that…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Mar 23

PS3 European Launch: A Continent Yawns and Continues Picking Its Nose

You’ve already heard about the free tellies and taxis over in London, well this is how the PS3 was welcomed in France – with a gallic shrug. Just 60 per cent of its 100,000 available units have been reserved, a smattering of press attended the official launch – and a pleasure boat coated with Xbox…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 23

Extreme Envy: Free HDTVs for PS3 London Launch Attendees

And they STILL can’t get a big line going. From what I recall, NY PS3 launch attendees got rain, and maybe a PS3. In SF, we got shit…and maybe a PS3. At the unofficial lines at Best Buy, you sometimes got mugged, or shot. https://gizmodo.com/ps3-launch-nyc-celebrities-booth-babes-on-the-loose-215742 For the record, the TV was some 46-inch HDTV. I’ll…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

Reminder: Download the PS3’s 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

Hey there. Just a reminder for you PS3 owners: Now that you’re home from work, go download the update version 1.6 that’ll let you do many things, including save the world by running Folding @ Home. You know, it’s that distributed computing project we showed you live screenshots and videos of last Thursday. I started…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 23

Thrustmaster Adds an Optical Wheel to Their New Controller

Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

Apple TV: Niggling Questions Answered

U of Nebraska Bills the RIAA for Wasted Time

Adwatch: Novell Tries Its Hand at Mac vs. PC Spots, Flogging Linux With a Babe

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB

Procare e|Share ES-8068: Dedicated BitTorrent Client Fetches Booty On It’s Own [verdict: arrrrrr!]

Creative Video Blaster Helps Old Lappies Render Video

Sulis Personal Water Purifier: A Bottle-Top Device That Could Save Lives

PC World vs. PC Mag: Windows Geeks Take a Gander at Apple TV

Digg T-Shirt Says ‘Bury Me’

Ubiquam’s Hybrid Phone Does CMDA and GSM

HTC X7500 Unboxing: Dopod Not as Dopey as Its Name

Unlike TV Counterpart, Homer Fridge Magnet Says Just One Funny Thing

PS3 European Launch: A Continent Yawns and Continues Picking Its Nose

Extreme Envy: Free HDTVs for PS3 London Launch Attendees

Reminder: Download the PS3’s 1.6 Update and Folding @ Home App

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