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iPod Sex Video

Anyone could get ten seconds of jokes out of making an iPod have sex with a Microsoft Zune. Gadgeteer-entertainers Chris and Ponzi Pirillo get four solid minutes out of it, and it actually stays funny. “Can I squirt something?” “What?” “That’s just what I do.” “Don’t make it weird.”

LG to Develop YouTube Phone

First it was the LG with built-in Google applications, today is a phone optimized for YouTube. LG announced today that they have signed an agreement with the company and will unveil it this year in Europe, probably before Apple releases the JesusPhone. However, the LG won’t be just a YouTube client. https://gizmodo.com/is-this-the-lg-google-phone-271239 It will allow…

Gigamungous Gigantor Coming to a Square in Kobe Next Year

You’ve got to love a mayor whose vision for municipal art looks something like this. A 60-feet statue of Gigantor is to have pride of place in the town of Kobe, Japan. The 135-million-yen structure (around $1.1 million) will weigh 70 tons and is going up for two reasons. The sculpture of the iron behemoth,…

V/a.g.r.a. Lamp Goes Down as Well as Up

Italian design lab Nonesiste has come up with this beautiful lamp. A collaboration with physicist Stefano Besseghini, the V/a.g.r.a lamp (did you see what they did there?) goes up when it is turned on. Romolo Stanco, the lamp’s designer, describes it as a “living lamp.” I could just turn it on and off all day…

Four-Way USB Hub with Extender Cable from Elecom

Elecom has come out with two ingenious four-way USB hubs that look like they would be more at home in a tool box than on your desk. Available in four colors – black, blue, gray and white – the U2H-FC024S is a drum design for you to roll the cable up on – so no…

Man and the Moon filmstrip (1970s)

The filmstrip Man and the Moon depicts moon colonization as something just around the corner. A video clip of the filmstrip is below and can be found in its entirety at Droppin’ Science. (On a sidenote, the Droppin’ Science website says that Man and the Moon was produced before the first moon landing, which isn’t…

Looks for Era of Brotherhood (1923)

Winifred G. Hedenberg laments the brutality of WWI in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut) article “Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence.” The year 2022 will see a world reverted back to barbarism if another war on the scale of the so-called World War takes place within the next…

AIRcable Host XR Extends Bluetooth Range By 20 Miles

The AIRcable Host XR packs a receiver advertised at 10 times more powerful than the average Bluetooth dongle, with nearly 20 miles (or 30 kilometers) of range. The range sounds a little nuts—and requires an external antenna. With such an involved setup, the unit likely won’t do much for you unless you’re an industrial firm…

Glide wins the race to work around the iPhone’s crippled Web 2.0 support—word processing ahoy. [InfoWeek/Yahoo!] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-web-2-0-standards-support-sucks-274211

Room Sized K’NEX Calculator

The best thing that I can remember making with K’NEX was a ferris wheel, and I followed a set of directions. However, a couple of engineering-crazed kids from Olin College have devised a gigantic K’NEX Binary calculator that can add or subtract numbers as high as 15 (That’s way more impressive than it sounds). It…

Sony Refuses To Enter +100-Inch HDTV War

It would seem that 100-inch or larger LCD sets are best left to the big boys, and Sony is, at least for now, not included in that particular club. “I think it is unnecessary for many companies to make a 100-inch TV,” explains Sony Corp President Ryoji Chubachi. He claims that there currently isn’t enough…

Helio’s 3G YouTube Access Now Free

Helio originally wanted to charge a few bucks a month for YouTube, but in response to the iPhone’s free access, they’re doing it free, too. And that’s over 3G, so it’ll be fast where ever you have EVDO coverage. See? One-up-manship can be beneficial for all. Oh, did I mention that you can upload your…

Ten Takes on the Apple iPhone

We’ve heard the iPhone news nonstop for days. We’ve known it uses slow EDGE for months, and have always suspected that the typing might not feel right. But at the end of the day, a LOT of people are going to pick up this phone, either way. So are they suckers, or the tech elite?…

XCM 360 Hot Rock Case Warns Of Impending Doom

If you or someone you love has been affected by the Xbox 360’s red rings of death, consider the new 360 Hot Rock case from the modders at XCM. This clear case mod comes with a temperature gauge and multicolor LED that goes from cool blue to flaming red as your console approaches the melting…

How Long Does It Really Take To Browse NYTimes.com On EDGE?

[UPDATED: A few more trials yielded faster results]The Apple iPhone ad showing off Safari brags that it doesn’t have the Kinda-Sort-Looks-Like-the-Internet on board….just the Internet. But as you’ve heard for months, when using AT&T’s EDGE, it’s actually the real Internet, kind of slow. Watch. On WiFi things get considerably faster (10 seconds), but you can’t…

Nokia Bringing Tactile Feedback To Touchscreen Phones

The technology that makes phones like the LG Prada wiggle is now coming to Nokia phones. A new partnership with developer Immersion opens the doors for Nokia phones to get tactile feedback from touchscreen interfaces using VibeTonz software, so typing on the virtual keyboard feels more like using the real thing. Other applications include user…

ROBO Chair, Voice Controlled Massage Chair For the Lazy Elitist

The INADA ROBO chair is the every-man’s dream. It has all of the features that your typical massage chair includes like a 3D rolling mechanism, leg massager and 170˚ reclining ability. But it has one more trick up its armrest that sets it apart, voice activation. So when you’re too lazy to reach around for…

SlingPlayer Mobile for the Palm OS is out of beta. [The BC Blog]

35WPM On an iPhone Keyboard

Here’s another guy claiming he gets 35wpm by typing with a thumb an his index finger. Personally, we don’t see how using the index finger on one side and a thumb on the other helps the typing. Unless of course, he’s got a foam rubber thumb on his right hand. YouTube (see related videos for…

Optimus Prime Full-Sized Working Truck (Video)

This Saturday at BotCon in Providence, RI, I shot 360 degrees of the new Optimus Prime truck. The prodigious blue tractor trailer sports red, orange, and yellow hot rod flames and an Autobot emblem in place of the Mack logo. I’m not going to lie—it’s a beast. I was exposed to some monotone grumbling from…