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iTunes Store sales hit 3 billion songs. Can we get a counter with spinning numbers in the top right-hand corner? [Apple]

AT&T & eMusic Open Over-the-Air Music Store: No DRM, No iPhone Support

Rumors of an impending AT&T/eMusic tag team for an over-the-air music store were true: The eMusic Mobile store will be stocked with 2.7 million songs in delicious DRM-free MP3. Better yet, not only do tracks download directly to your phone, a second copy is sent straight to your computer. Not so delicious: https://gizmodo.com/rumor-has-it-that-at-t-has-teamed-up-with-drm-hatin-onl-282374 The price,…

Craziest, Weirdest, Coolest Soviet Airplanes Ever

If you didn’t get enough with the Typhoon closing on the Hercules, check this Sukhoi SU-27UB whizzing by just 4 feet above the runway. However, this isn’t the most impressive thing flying at the Russian 2007 Air Show. Check out some of the strangest and coolest airplanes you will ever see, after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/typhoon-strike-fighter-closing-dangerously-on-hercules-283575…

Suicide Bomb Box

Do you watch boatloads of CSI to get your fill of dramatic interrogations? How would you like to experience the show…but for real? Because the Suicide Bomb Box is not just a fun conversation piece (like this guy), but a life-altering, sleep-depriving, head-dunked-in-water, that-rifle-won’t-fit-up-there-ok-yes-it-will piece. Featuring a big red button and all sorts of nifty,…

EzKEY Keypad Mouse, for Number Crunchers on the Go

This EzKEY combo mouse and keypad might be just what you’re looking for if you’re on the road, suddenly need to add a long list of numbers, and your laptop doesn’t have a keypad. Just flip up the top as you would open your car’s trunk, and there you have a keypad to do some…

Sony Getting Sued for PS3’s Cell Processor

Despite the Cell processor being a joint venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for “synchronised parallel processing with shared memory,” which they claim Sony has broken with the use of the Cell processor in PS3s. But…

TabletKiosk Sahara Slate i440D Tablet PC Shipping

The TabletKiosk Sahara, a relatively unknown tablet that can do both dual pen and and touchscreen input, is shipping now. Comes with an intel Core Duo LV processor, and can be configured at up to 4GB of DDR2RAM and 160GB of SATA. [TabletKiosk]

Nightlighter Lights the Darkness, No Cursing Necessary

No need to curse the darkness with this Nightlighter, which not only lights your path ahead but shines a couple of really bright LEDs toward the ground, assuring you that you won’t trip over that sleeping dog in the middle of the floor when the lights have gone out. Powered by a trio of AAAs,…

DeLorean Going Back Into Production

The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of greasemonkeys in Houston who like to refurbish cars. They have about 200 of the original DeLorean 2.8 L V-6 engines…

New Phone for People Who Like Mushrooms, Hate Poisonings

Foraging for mushrooms can be fun, but getting poisoned by the wrong species always ruins a nice afternoon. Researchers at the Hagenberg College in Austria have developed software that can identify which mushrooms are safe to eat and which are poisonous, just from a photograph. This means it could easily be run on a mobile…

Surgeons Finish Operation Using Just Cellphone-Screen Lighting

Surgeons in Argentina were able to complete an operation using the light from cellphone screens after a city-wide blackout. The hospital’s generator failed to kick in and they continued to work in darkness until someone stepped into the room—not the Spanish Inquisition but, nevertheless, someone completely unexpected. Local man Leonardo Molina was on the operating…

Niles IC2, the Mother of All Universal Remotes

Niles, remote maker to the stars and NBA basketball players, has finally decided to upgrade its venerable easy-to-use Intellicontrol remote control to the IC2, an even simpler version with larger buttons and up-to-date devices. Long a mainstay of the high-end home theater installation market, the Intellicontrol has been around for 12 years, and is the…

Anti-GPS Tracking Devices Plugs into Cigarette Jack and Loses You Your Tail

If you’re important enough to have one, that is. This is a small jamming device that you plug into the cigarette lighter of your car and it blocks any GPS tracking devices that might be trained on your vehicle. It’s probably illegal, but hey, so is sex with your sister. Working Band: L1 system 1450…

Casio’s USB Printer for Labels, Egg-Shaped, Useful, from Brando

Brando is firing on all cylinders today with this eggy USB label printer from Casio. I didn’t think it got any better than the iPhone battery but a girl can make mistakes. Features and price are below the gallery. Egg-Shaped Printer USB Connector for fast installation Compact, space saving design Print using any TrueType font…

28-Wheel Truck Climbs Mountains, Builds Telescopes

What has 28 wheels, is 20m long, weighs 130 tonnes and has as much power as two Formula One cars? This truck does, and it’s been built to haul 115-tonne telescope parts 5,000m up the Chilean Andes. At that height the driver won’t be able to breathe, so the seat has been designed so that…

Futurama Back in November as a Feature-Length HD DVD

Cult cartoon Futurama is coming back later this year as a full-length film. The movie, Bender’s Big Score, will be available to buy on November 27 as a high-definition DVD, and will be followed by three other feature-length movies. Each movie will, however, be divided into four separate episodes and will be aired on TV.…

If you’re a Linux fan, then your options just got bigger. It seems like Acer are following in Dell’s footsteps, and starting to offer Ubuntu preloaded on some machines. [Hardware Zone]

Turn Your Dog into Michael Jackson with AirPress O2

Slightly sad people who humanize their pets will be hyperventilating at the O2 Dog from AirPress. An oxygen chamber that is identical, apparently, to the ones used in beauty treatments for humans, except for the fact that it is dog-sized. Oxygen therapy, apparently, reduces wrinkles. So I guess this means that if you put a…

Brando Releases Cheapest iPhone User-Replaceable Battery Yet

Brando may not be the first (that’s these guys from iPodjuice), but they are the cheapest—offering a replacement iPhone battery for just $20. So, can someone tell this guy Trujillo, he of the Apple-shaped lawsuit, about this? More details about what you get alongside the battery after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/third-party-iphone-battery-replacement-for-25-65-282086 Rechargeable Battery Assembly Tools Instruction…

Appian Technology Stinger Reads License Plates, Calls Police

Appian, the company behind much of Britain’s surveillance madness, has released a new camera that will no doubt be top of the shopping lists of Big Brothers throughout the world. The Stinger is able to recognize license plates from any country thanks to its choice of IR wavelengths: 810; 870; and 940 NM. Then, ensuring…