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Under $20 MAKE Electronics Gift Guide Good For Frugal Holiday Season

Times may be hard economically, but you don’t need to give your electronics-DIY enthusiast friend a naff present, thanks to MAKE’s sub-$20 Electronics Gift Guide. In fact, some of the items listed are so neat I’m tempted to gift a couple to myself right now… There’s a DIY battery-powered USB charger kit good for iPhones,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Disney Slams SUVs into Children’s Faces

The brand new reboot of the Disney’s Witch Mountain series is packed with CG effects, The Rock, UFOs, shiny lights . . . oh and Master Chief. Or was that Boba Fett? Either way they’ve managed to cram a ridiculous amount of crap into this kiddie movie that was once a treasured memory of mine.…

io9 Meredith Woerner Nov 18

Flash 10 on the Android G1: It’s Getting There

It’s no secret that Adobe is playing with Flash products on Android, but at the Adobe MAX 2008 developer conference that company showed off Flash Player 10 running on Android (and the T-Mobile G1 phone, of course). As you can see, the implementation isn’t the silky smooth experience we’ve become so accustomed to on our…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 18

Newest System Menu 3.4 Wii Update Kills Homebrew Again

Hey, Nintendo-what’s going on here? After a good year or so looking the other way on Wii homebrew (for the most part), now we’ve got two fairly serious brew-killing updates in the last month? Word from the folks at Wiibrew.org is that the latest update, System Menu 3.4, is apparently a doozy when it comes…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 18

Numberkey Transforms iPhone Into Sweet Wireless Numberpad

The best ideas really are the simplest ones. I don’t want to carry around a 17-inch notebook (does anyone?) and I’m not an accountant, but sometimes I miss the numberpad, like when I’m dropping in a credit card number or doing a stupid Excel spreadsheet, and using two hands to pound digits is just annoying…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Nov 18

Meet Ape Gremlins In War Monkeys

Never mind any half-assed Planet of the Apes remake; we’ve discovered the monkey SF film we’ve been waiting for all along in the simian shape of War Monkeys. It’s the next project from director Kevin Munroe and he’s describing it as an updated Abbott and Costello crossed with Quentin Tarantino. Starring monkeys with guns. I…

io9 Graeme McMillan Nov 18

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

The Colussus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, is going to be rebuilt as an innovative light sculpture—the “world’s largest light installation” according to its architect. And it’ll be even bigger than the 120-foot original, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 226BC.The new architectural piece will be between 200…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low

After a Jefferies Group analyst cut Microsoft’s 2009 revenue forecasts, Microsoft’s stock fell to its lowest levels since 1998. The projections were reduced due to “downward pressure on PC unit sales,” not Vista or lawsuits. And indeed, when you study Microsoft’s decline the past few months that’s right in line with the S&P 500, it’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 18

Desktop Wallpapers That Give Away The Enterprise’s Secrets

We’ve spurned “wig spoilers,” but we’re not above “desktop wallpaper spoilers” here. Especially when they may help to explain just what’s up with the Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie. Meanwhile, there’s a batch of new Transformers 2 details, including Megan Fox claiming to be a special kind of Transformer. Plus spoilers for BSG,…

Television Charlie Jane Anders Nov 18

14-Pound Lego Safe Is Guarded by 305 Billion Codes

By definition, you would think that a Lego safe won’t be very safe. But, right now, and looking at the photo and features of this 14-pound Lego Mindstorms NXT Safe, it looks like a much more secure place to guard my savings than any bank out there. All the $34.67 of them. Seriously. Once glued,…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 18

At Gizmodo Gallery: Ancient Apple Phone Prototypes

Hello there. We’re starting to release the details of some of the things we’ll be showing off at Gizmodo gallery, and I think for our first, we’ll show off one of the most interesting and mysterious: This Frog Design made Apple prototype which I cannot find many official details of. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-gallery-our-wonderful-world-of-gadgets-on-disp-5082811 There are photos of…

Tech News Brian Lam Nov 18

Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm Private Pre-Sale Has No Storms

Oops. You know that pre-sale flyer that was doing the rounds to Verizon “VIPs”, the one with the BlackBerry Storm on the left hand side? Turns out that if you, a VIP, turn up at a store with that very flyer you’ll not be able to buy a Storm ahead of its launch. You won’t,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

HP Not Too Happy About the ‘Vista Capable’ Standards Scandal

The class-action lawsuit filed against Microsoft for allegedly lowering the requirements for a “Vista Capable” sticker to appease Intel (henceforth referred to as Stickergate) has begun to turn up some dirt. Apparently HP wasn’t exactly thrilled to find out about the artificially lowered standards after they spent $7m to bring their products up to speed,…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 18

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

Blackbird’s Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it’s far more highly-tech’d and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be bullet-proof, but Blackbird says its “nearly indestructible,” making it perfect as a travel guitar. The material has meant a few design tweaks over a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

It’s been a while since we mentioned the iDog from Tiger/Hasbro, because it was basically a dog that’d had its day: Until now that is, when Tiger have removed one of the toy’s problems by adding cuddliness. It still has a speaker and does the same LED-flashing face and wiggling in reaction to your music,…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Beautiful Voltron Painting Took an Entire Year, Captured in Time-Lapse Video

San Francisco artist Robert Burden spent a year — a year — painting his man-sized Voltron pièce de résistance, “Defensor Mundi”, and caught the whole process in time-lapse. Sure, the floral theme doesn’t inspire much confidence in Voltron’s RoBeast-slaying abilities, but the music and painting are a treat. [BoingBoing via Make]

Tech News John Herrman Nov 18

American Express My WishList Holiday Super Deals Get December 1st Launch

My WishList is, if you remember from last year, American Express’s holiday e-shop deals promotion, and we’ve just learned it’ll be launching December 1st this year. Basically American Express has this “holiday e-tail” site where they sell gadgets at crazily bargainous prices, in a kind of “get one if you’re lucky enough to click” manner.…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

The G1’s Deepest, Darkest Secret: Hidden Multitouch

Some resourceful folks at the #android IRC channel and RyeBrye, after realizing that the G1’s Synaptic touch screen might be able to handle multiple inputs, say they managed to re-enable some commented-out code in the phone’s touchscreen driver and log some multitouch gestures. The lack of multitouch in the first Android phone was a minor…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 18

Office Depot Black Friday Ad Leaked

The closer we get to Black Friday, the more leaks we’re getting and they are all proving to be kind of… well, mediocre. This one from Office Depot is not bucking the trend, but they do have a few good deals on smaller items. It’ll be nothing to clamor for, arms flailing and shrieking like…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 18

Man Pleads Guilty To Sending U.S. Space Info To China

In what’s bound to be embarrassing for the Chinese space program, the president of high-tech company AMAC International has pleaded guilty to giving China military data about fueling systems for space launch vehicles. Shu Quan-Sheng is a Chinese native who’s a naturalized U.S. citizen. The incident puts a black smear on the country’s otherwise extremely…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 18

Under $20 MAKE Electronics Gift Guide Good For Frugal Holiday Season

Disney Slams SUVs into Children’s Faces

Flash 10 on the Android G1: It’s Getting There

Newest System Menu 3.4 Wii Update Kills Homebrew Again

Numberkey Transforms iPhone Into Sweet Wireless Numberpad

Meet Ape Gremlins In War Monkeys

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low

Desktop Wallpapers That Give Away The Enterprise’s Secrets

14-Pound Lego Safe Is Guarded by 305 Billion Codes

At Gizmodo Gallery: Ancient Apple Phone Prototypes

Verizon’s BlackBerry Storm Private Pre-Sale Has No Storms

HP Not Too Happy About the ‘Vista Capable’ Standards Scandal

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

iDog MP3 Speaker Toy Goes Soft And Cuddly, At Last

Beautiful Voltron Painting Took an Entire Year, Captured in Time-Lapse Video

American Express My WishList Holiday Super Deals Get December 1st Launch

The G1’s Deepest, Darkest Secret: Hidden Multitouch

Office Depot Black Friday Ad Leaked

Man Pleads Guilty To Sending U.S. Space Info To China

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