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Viacom’s Hypocrisy Could Defuse YouTube Lawsuit

Anyone checked out iFilm lately? Ars Technica did, and found several videos that were guilty of copyright infringement. Were any Viacom videos part of that roundup? Nope, because Viacom owns iFilm. Wait, what’s that you say? Viacom couldn’t possibly own a company that violates others’ copyrights because right now they’re suing YouTube for a billion…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 20

Velocity Micro First to Ship CableCard-ready HTPCs

The wait felt like an eternity, but it appears the first CableCard-friendly PCs are ready to roll. Velocity Micro’s top-of-the-line Grand Theater systems are “100 percent” and shipping this week while the Pro Cinema systems will ship a few days behind. While other companies have announced Vista MCE boxes with CableCard certification, these will be…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 20

Journee Lighting Announces Lotus, First Track Lighting Using Ostar LED Technology

We were just gushing about Siemens’ Ostar LED tech a few days ago, and now Journee Lighting announces Lotus, 5.75-inch bullet-shaped track lighting fixtures that are the first low-voltage track lights to use that Ostar LED chip. https://gizmodo.com/siemens-ostar-led-its-on-245007 This is some fine-looking high-tech track lighting, and those LED bulbs are much longer-lasting and more efficient.…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 20

Rapex Anti-Rape Gadget Almost Ready For Purchase

Inventor Sonnet Ehlers claims his invention, Rapex, is the solution to rape. How does it work? Essentially, it’s a female condom with a locking bear- trap type device inside. We wrote about it last year, when it was delayed, but it’s actually a pubic hair’s breadth away from being released now. https://gizmodo.com/rapex-the-rape-prevention-device-delayed-182437 Hear that? That’s…

Gadgets Brian Lam Mar 20

Tattoos for Your Laptop: Safer Than Letting Your Mac Drink Jack and Ride a Hog

A Williamsburg tattooist, Scott Campbell, has come up with half a dozen designs that you can have lasered onto your laptop for $200. If you up the price by $100 he’ll etch your own design onto your machine, just like he did above, for Brooklyn-based artist Kaws. If these take off, perhaps Apple will change…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 20

Touch Screen Doesn’t Need to Be Touched [verdict: WTF?]

Forget about that Apple “multi-touch” Finger-print-magnet™ mega-platform crap and welcome the touch screen that actually doesn’t even need to be touched. https://gizmodo.com/analyst-apples-multitouch-launching-a-mega-platform-244219 With this display, complete with Front Row style interface, you can manipulate things from a distance of six inches, which opens the door to all kinds of exciting possibilities. You know, manipulate things…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 20

World’s Largest Gadget, Airbus A380, Completes U.S. Maiden Voyage, 747 Pwned

The monstrous double-decker Airbus A380 made its maiden voyage to the United States yesterday, landing at New York’s JFK airport, and a few minutes later, another one landed at Los Angeles’s LAX. While these were not the first flights of the world’s largest passenger airplane—that happened in April of 2005—it is the first time the…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 20

Rumor: 17-Inch iMac Going Bye-Bye, 20- and 24-Inchers Getting Sexified

Citing the ever mysterious “people familiar with the matter” Apple Insider is reporting that the iMac form factor is being refreshed for the first time in almost three years, and will be “slimmer and sleeker” than the current lineup. The bomb, however, is that only the widescreen 20- and 24-inch models will benefit, with the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 20

Feminine Beauty (New York Times, 1909)

“Most interesting of [Jules Bois’s] predictions, perhaps, is that the present ideal of feminine beauty will have ceased to be held by the majority of the Caucasian race. Physical weakness, extreme delicacy of physiognomy, and acquiescence in a mere secondary position in the social organization will have given palce to a type in which beauty…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 20

More LED Backlit Crazyness To Drive Apple Fanboys Crazy

While Apple rumor sites keep kicking the LED backlit MacBook and iMac horse to death, somebody else keeps delivering the actual goods beyond Fujitsu: Toshiba Matsushita Display has released seven LED backlit screens. https://gizmodo.com/fujitsu-beats-apple-and-hp-to-the-punch-with-led-backli-234126 They start with a too-small-for-a-Sub-MacBook-but-good-enough-for-a-multitouch-mega-platform-thang™ 8.9 inches, 1,280 x 768 pixel model. The range tops at 13.3 inches with 1,280 x…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 20

Chinese Concept Phones: At Last, a Useful Place for a USB Connector

No idea whether these will ever make it into production, but Chinese phone company Huawei showed off three pretty spanky ideas at CeBit 2007. First up is a phone with a built-in USB connector that doesn’t need any additional cables to function. Made of flexible rubber, the connector bends any which way you want to…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 20

Feel Bright Light: Light Therapy and Bad Taste All Rolled Into One

My first reaction to this was, “Ah, turquoise eye shadow—that’s so Yetro*. And she’s been brave enough to team it with a tangerine leisure top—truly, this woman should be working for Lindsay Lohan as a stylist, not as ‘Lindsay Lohan’ in a look-alikes agency.” And then the industrial-grade LSD wore off and slowly, through the…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Mar 20

Toshiba Gigabeat U: Is This the Zune Nano? [redux]

If Microsoft is contemplating bringing out a Nano (the Nune? The Zazo?) follow-up to their repackaged Toshiba Gigabeat, this may be it. But then again, it may not. https://gizmodo.com/first-generation-microsoft-zunes-are-toshiba-oems-seco-196720 The Toshiba Gigabeat U can charge its battery in 10 minutes to get a three-hour playback time, but only if you use the MEPUAA 10 USB…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 20

WSJ Pulp Bite: Mossberg Upchucks on the Samsung Upstage

While David Pogue needlessly defends his humorous style of gadget review to insignificant, humorless bloggers, Mossberg is sticking to the serious, oh-so-very serious business at hand. And that business is kicking the living optimism out of the innovative, but overwhelmingly imperfect Samsung Upstage. Also, his stage presence has improved dramatically, no small thanks to a…

Gadgets Brian Lam Mar 20

100 Miles per Gallon! (1992)

The end of the article says it all: “…sometime in the near future, you will be able to go to your local dealer and buy a car that incorporates much of what you see here. And it will get 100 miles per gallon.”

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 20

Worst Gadget Ever on CNet: Xploder PS2 HDTV Player

It’s a slow news day, so I’ll share with you this review, which I believe is the worst gadget CNet has ever seen. John “The Sheriff” Falcone has seen a lot of crap in his day, but it wasn’t until last November that the copy for the Xploder PS2 HDTV Player article landed on his…

Tech News Brian Lam Mar 20

Today in Giz: Dear Boss Man

Lam, I’m finally back from Spring break! I know you missed my intern powers while I was gone, but now I’m back fully charged (aside from a what seems to be a permanent hangover). And it looks like I got back just in time, because the gadget world is going crazy. Phillips has finally gone…

Tech News Ben Longo Mar 19

Golla Bags Really Are for the Ladies

After figuring out (through our super scientific poll) that the Philips 598 isn’t really for ladies, we’ve found something that is. These Golla Bags. Yes ladies, you can stick your cellphone, camera, or PDA inside and strut around anywhere like there’s music playing and you own the place. We think men would like this as…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 19

Rich Guy Converts Indoor Pool to Home Theater

What do you get when you take an indoor pool, a sedentary family, and an insatiable desire for Judge Judy? A spacious home theater with stadium-style seating. Among the impressive equipment they used to fuel this home theater are a Marantz projector mounted to the ceiling, 106-inch Draper screen, wiring through the pool’s plumbing, and…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 19

Robot Picks up the Dead or Dormant. Wait, Dormant??

Among the robots Japan’s been making to help their elderly population, this body remover is probably the scariest. Sure, the Gundam maid robot looks mean when serving you tea, but does it remove dead bodies? We don’t think so. https://gizmodo.com/japans-makes-maid-robot-that-surprisingly-looks-like-gu-240846 And seriously, does is their population really dying at such a rate that Japan needs…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 19

Viacom’s Hypocrisy Could Defuse YouTube Lawsuit

Velocity Micro First to Ship CableCard-ready HTPCs

Journee Lighting Announces Lotus, First Track Lighting Using Ostar LED Technology

Rapex Anti-Rape Gadget Almost Ready For Purchase

Tattoos for Your Laptop: Safer Than Letting Your Mac Drink Jack and Ride a Hog

Touch Screen Doesn’t Need to Be Touched [verdict: WTF?]

World’s Largest Gadget, Airbus A380, Completes U.S. Maiden Voyage, 747 Pwned

Rumor: 17-Inch iMac Going Bye-Bye, 20- and 24-Inchers Getting Sexified

Feminine Beauty (New York Times, 1909)

More LED Backlit Crazyness To Drive Apple Fanboys Crazy

Chinese Concept Phones: At Last, a Useful Place for a USB Connector

Feel Bright Light: Light Therapy and Bad Taste All Rolled Into One

Toshiba Gigabeat U: Is This the Zune Nano? [redux]

WSJ Pulp Bite: Mossberg Upchucks on the Samsung Upstage

100 Miles per Gallon! (1992)

Worst Gadget Ever on CNet: Xploder PS2 HDTV Player

Today in Giz: Dear Boss Man

Golla Bags Really Are for the Ladies

Rich Guy Converts Indoor Pool to Home Theater

Robot Picks up the Dead or Dormant. Wait, Dormant??

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