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How To Recharge Standard Duracell Batteries

There’s a reason why standard batteries contain warnings for you NOT to attempt to recharge them. But, if you’re either brave or cheap, here’s a guide to extend regular batteries by around three charges with 50 cents of parts from The Shack. Glossing over the details—we fell asleep during just about all of our EE…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 6

Elekson Gadget Bag Doubles as USB Keyboard

It’s a prototype from Eleksen, the company that makes fabric buttons. Just look at it, in all its cloth-y, clicky, gadget-protecting goodness! The guy from Carrypad UMPC blog says he can type very fast on it, despite the keys having no travel: about 55% of his normal rate within 30 minutes of practice. And the…

Gadgets Brian Lam Dec 6

MediaREADY PC Gives Windows MCE the Boot

If you’re looking for a media center PC sans the Media Center OS, Video Without Boundaries’ MediaREADY MC is for you. It has all the features you’d expect from a multimedia PC, but rather than rely on Microsoft’s OS, it uses its own software to deliver what it calls a “television-optimized interface.” Your $899 also…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Dec 6

Poll: How Do We Keep the Species Going?

It’s pretty well known that gadgets and technology are topics followed almost exclusively by dudes. The Giz has a 90% male readership, for example. Why is that? What’s with the sausage party? Lord knows we didn’t ask for this. In any case, that’s the way it is and it’s something we’ve gotta live with. But…

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 6

Kingston HyperX Races to 1.2GHz

They’re not as flashy as the gold-plated RAM we showed you earlier and they’re not as exotic as the water-cooled modules from OCZ, but when it comes to speed you can’t top Kingston’s new HyperX modules, which max out at the 1.2GHz mark. The HyperX DDR2 9600 (1.2GHz) and HyperX DDR2 9200 (1.1GHz) are available…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Dec 6

Tesla Electric Roadster Gets Its First Speeding Ticket

We know the Tesla is fast. And so we also knew it was only a matter of time before the Electric supercar got its first speeding ticket. Zero to sixty in 4 seconds is somewhat impressive, but the fact that the car was doing it nearly silent, save the sound of the whirring tranny and…

Gadgets Brian Lam Dec 6

Fishy Extension Cord

Something’s fishy about this extension cord with the male plug at its head and female receptacle on the other end. Not sure what kind of fish this is, but we’re thinking it must be an electric eel. Better tuck this sucker away somewhere so you don’t accidentally step on it. Check out the site for…

Gadgets Charlie White Dec 6

Update: CNet’s James Kim Found Deceased

It’s a sad day: James Kim was just found in the woods, deceased. We’d hoped things would have turned out for the better, but all we can do now is be thankful his daughters and wife are safe. More info at CNet. James Kim Found [Cnet]

Tech News Brian Lam Dec 6

Brightonnet Cylindrical Active Speaker: Pretty, But No Boomtube

Take an aluminum pipe, stuff a tiny 2.2-watt amp and a couple of speakers inside and you have a cylindrical active speaker from Brightonnet Japan that works with just about any iPod. The speaker draws power from a PC’s USB port or runs on a quartet of AAA batteries, and is pleasingly portable at just…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 6

New Device to Heal Broken Bones in Half the Time

Good news for pro football players, Jackass cast members, and people brave enough to stand in line for an over-hyped next-gen video game console: there’s a new device in the works that’ll heal those broken bones a lot faster. https://gizmodo.com/playstation-3-melee-watch-police-shoot-suspected-thief-219666 Aussie researchers from the Queensland University of Technology are figuring out just how bone cells…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Dec 6

Talking Plate Tells Fatties When to Lay Off the Burgers

When you’re overweight, the last thing you want is a constant reminder of how fat you are. Yet that’s precisely what Ukranian scientist Dr. Hryhory Chausovsky has invented. The Smart Plate is a normal-sized dish that has embedded weight sensors that track how much food you’ve piled on to it. The second it realizes you’ve…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Dec 6

Other Bits and Bytes

•Photos show evidence of recent water on Mars [CNN] •Dell, Microsoft collaborate on storage tech [InfoWorld] •Cingular, MySpace shake hands, big-time [MobileMag.com] •Driver texting with BlackBerry causes six car pileup [TG Daily] •Testing DRM-free waters: EMI selling a few MP3s through Yahoo Music [Ars Technica]

Tech News Blongo3 Dec 6

Make the Ultimate Gamer’s Cabinet

As gamers, this is probably the best thing we’ve ever seen. An amateur woodworker converted a standard cabinet into the ultimate gamer’s cabinet through some hard work and some wood. Each level holds a game console, elevated for maximum ventilation. He also drilled holes on the sides to put lighted PC fans to help move…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 6

Frankenfight: Cheap, 32-inch HD LCDs

LCDs have plummeted in price over the last year, so much so, that if you are willing to sacrifice a bit of quality and maybe go generic, you can snag a 32-inch HD for under $1000, and often far less. But you aren’t like the rest of the cheapos out there, grabbing the first bargain…

Tech News Mark Wilson Dec 6

Adwatch: Brad Pitt Teases Japanese Schoolgirls for Softbank

Cameron Diaz’s hotness combined with a new flat-rate calling plan crashed Softbank’s system back in October. What’s Brad Pitt’s new commercial for the Aquos-screened handset going to trigger? My prediction: schoolgirls will start to spontaneously combust from overexcitement, and their juices will bubble over to drown the entire island of Hokkaido. How much do you…

Tech News Lisa Katayama Dec 6

NY Times Has a Bad Feeling About This Spam Thing

The New York Times has heard about this thing called “spam,” which apparently is like junk mail but in your email box. Next week, cellphones: will they catch on? The big news is that spammers are wily and rascally, easily trumping every filter anti-spam companies come up with. Image spam, specifically image spam that automatically…

Tech News Adam Frucci Dec 6

CrustaStun Kills Your Lobsters Humanely

Instead of lobbing your lobsters into hot water and have them boil to death like one of the Baldwins in Backdraft, use the CrustaStun. This shellfish killer zaps lobsters with 2 to 5 amps (that’s a lot) at 110 volts, which first knocks them unconscious, then kills them through sustained current. More humane than searing…

Gadgets Jason Chen Dec 6

James Kim Update: Satellites, National Guard Enter Search

The search for James Kim is being expanded: Not only is the National Guard on their way, but a satellite is being rerouting to help spot the man. The eye-in-the-sky is GeoEye’s Ikonos. The satellite could record images of an area as large as 2,000 square kilometers. The cameras on the Ikonos boast a very…

Tech News Brian Lam Dec 6

Gizmodo T-Shirt Contest Reminder: One Day Left To Make Your Mom Proud

Our T-Shirt contest ends tomorrow, so this is your penultimate chance to make yourself heard. We mean read. Whatever. Just submit your entry to the contest thread in the comments, and we’ll pick the best ones and put it to a vote. If you’re the winner, you get a shirt with your slogan on it,…

Tech News Jason Chen Dec 6

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

This week at Lifehacker: Geocaching 101 “A high-tech treasure hunt in which the journey itself is often the biggest reward, Geocaching substitutes a GPS receiver for the tattered old pirate map and a box of trinkets for the treasure chest.” Mouseless navigation “Today I’m releasing an improved version of my Mouser app with an eye…

Tech News Gina Trapani Dec 6

How To Recharge Standard Duracell Batteries

Elekson Gadget Bag Doubles as USB Keyboard

MediaREADY PC Gives Windows MCE the Boot

Poll: How Do We Keep the Species Going?

Kingston HyperX Races to 1.2GHz

Tesla Electric Roadster Gets Its First Speeding Ticket

Fishy Extension Cord

Update: CNet’s James Kim Found Deceased

Brightonnet Cylindrical Active Speaker: Pretty, But No Boomtube

New Device to Heal Broken Bones in Half the Time

Talking Plate Tells Fatties When to Lay Off the Burgers

Other Bits and Bytes

Make the Ultimate Gamer’s Cabinet

Frankenfight: Cheap, 32-inch HD LCDs

Adwatch: Brad Pitt Teases Japanese Schoolgirls for Softbank

NY Times Has a Bad Feeling About This Spam Thing

CrustaStun Kills Your Lobsters Humanely

James Kim Update: Satellites, National Guard Enter Search

Gizmodo T-Shirt Contest Reminder: One Day Left To Make Your Mom Proud

Power User – The Best of Lifehacker

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