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23 Tips to Turbocharge your TiVo

Here is a handy list of 23 tips that allows you to get more out of your TiVo or DVR (although a good chunk of the tips are specifically for TiVO). Learn anything from adding hard drives to transferring content to a PC to customizing the GUI and more with this convenient list (complete with…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

Avocent HD Extender Brings HD Anywhere In Your Home

For a mere $2090 (plus tax), you can use Avocent’s HD Emerge MPX1000 HD Multipoint Extender to bring HD-content to any room in your house. The Emerge supports up to 720p, and requires an MPX100T Transmitter ($1095) and an MPX100R Receiver ($995) in order to work. Cool if you’re really keen on watching the same…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 16

Wii Disc Dumper Lets You “Back Up” Wii Games

Good news for all you Wiitards out there who are dying to “back up” your games. A Wii Disc Dumper has been unleashed on the Internet, allowing you to rip your discs to your computer so you can “share them” with your “friends” so they don’t have to “pay” for games anymore. You’ll need a…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jan 16

Win a $100,000 Diamond Encrusted Pepsi Can to Decorate Your Refrigerator

The Super Bowl is coming up on February 4th, and along with it all those ludicrous promotions, including this $100,000 Super Bowl Edition Pepsi can. It’s inspired by the coveted Super Bowl ring worn by the winners of the big game, and it’s made of solid sterling silver with dozens of diamonds, rubies and sapphires…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 16

Kingston Water (and Pee) Proof Thumb Drives

Waterproof to a depth of four feet, these Kingston DataTraveler drives are safe from accidental toilet-droppage as well as Travis’s midnight pee attacks. https://gizmodo.com/usb-drive-urine-test-209137 Available in 512MB to 4GB sizes (8GB to come), the drives have 256-bit AES encryption and locks itself down after 10 intrusion attempts. Although a bit more expensive than standard drives,…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 16

A NES Gets Crammed Into a NES Controller

An enterprising young modder has managed to cram an entire NES into a classic NES controller. Yes, now you can simply plug a controller directly into your TV without having to worry about a system in between. It’s not exactly your childhood’s NES. The controller is pre-loaded with 70 games, and you can pop a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Jan 16

Wearable Finger-Based Cellphone Concept

Since the hand is the “most basic communication method,” why not transform it into a cellphone? That’s what designer Sunman Kwon did with this finger touching wearable mobile device, a concept that puts 3.5G and 4G technology on your fingertips. Each joint in your hand (save for the thumb) corresponds to 12 buttons. Just goes…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 16

No Porn On Blu-ray? Not Quite

It seems the porn founder interviewed at AVN was full of, well, something. Joone, founder of Digital Playgrounds, said he was forced to use HD DVD because no Blu-ray manufacturer would make his discs. https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-betamaxxx-2-228203 However, the story’s not quite so simple. Sony, as a company, refuses to “replicate” adult titles on any format. That…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 16

First Pirated HD DVD Movie Weighs in at 19GB

It’s only been a few weeks since Muslix64 bypassed HD DVD’s DRM protection and now it appears the first HD DVD movie has made its way onto BitTorrent. The movie of choice is the sci-fi flick Serenity, which weighed in at 19.6GB. The .EVO file is playable on most DVD software packages like PowerDVD, the…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 16

Penny-Arcade on CES: Part 1

Gabe may have wanted to rub his penis all over Sharp’s 108-inch LCD, but a lot of you folks would have rather seen our own Jason Chen put that huge beast in his pants. Regardless, enjoy all 108 inches however you see fit. https://gizmodo.com/sharp-108-lcd-screen-aint-perfect-227089 Penny-Arcade

Books & Comics Travis Hudson Jan 16

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

This week at TreeHugger: Dell launched the ‘Plant a Tree for Me’ initiative, a project to keep the planet cool while our computers hum away. The Consumer Electronics Association is celebrating the new year by launching a new website, at myGreenElectronics.org, which aims to be a resource for finding both electronics recycling and greener electronics.…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

Trekkie Spends $15k on DIY Star Trek Home Theater

It’s one thing to model your home theater after the command bridge in Star Trek, but it’s a completely different ball game when you build it from scratch all by yourself. Yet that was Gary Reighn’s goal back in 2002 when he first started working on his Star Trek home theater. The finished project looks…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Jan 16

Dealzmodo: Sennheiser RS100 Wireless Headphones, $44

Buy.com has these 900 MHz wireless headphones for half-off. The list price is $90, and after $46 of instant savings it brings them down to $44 out the door. The large wireless transmitter prevents any kind of portable iPod usage, but they could still be great around the house. Product Page [Via Dealhack]

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

FastMac TruePower Laptop Batteries: Gizmodo’s Mission Critical CES/Keynote Gear

How do you manage to liveblog a two-hour Macworld Keynote while using EV-DO to constantly upload pictures without stopping to change your batteries once? FastMac’s TruePower is how. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-ev-do-gizmodos-mission-critical-ces-keynote-gea-228218 Thanks to FastMac’s extended batteries, we were able to post live from Macworld and CES without having to run back to the press room all the…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 16

Jabra BT8010 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Hey you! Yeah, you, with the doofy Blueooth headset on that looks like you are talking to yourself. Have you ever wanted to enjoy music through that headset in glorious stereo sound? Sure you have! That is why Jabra developed the BT8010 Bluetooth stereo headphones. This Bluetooth headset has the option to plug in an…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

Ceramic Concept Toaster Toasts, Organizes

Not only does this concept toaster toast your bread in one pass, there’s a convenient shelving mechanism to catch hot bread as well. It “works” by passing the bread through with three rollers to the toasting mechanism at the end. Instead of being made of plastic or metal, it’s made of ceramics—part of a “Ceramics…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 16

Mock-up Nokia E61i Spotted: Please Stop Teasing Us

For the low, low price of $22.99 you can get your hands on this non-working, store display version of the Nokia E61i, successor to the E61. We’ve learned not a damn thing about the smartphone in the process, but we’re willing to bet that it still runs some sort of Symbian OS. Maybe you can…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon Jan 16

Video: The Adventures of Steve and Woz

MyiPhone.com put up a clip of my favorite section of last week’s Macworld Keynote. When Steve’s clicker went down, he told the story of how he and Woz built TV scramblers in high school and punked people with em by jamming their Star Trek. It gets good around the 40 second mark.–Brian Lam Adventures of…

Tech News Brian Lam Jan 16

Asurion’s Cellphone Insurance Works – Even For Idiots

What’s with bloggers and anger management issues? First Kotaku’s Crecente smashes the wall with his fist while installing Windows, now Consumerist’s Popken smashes his cellphone with his fist while being retarded. Good thing the Poppers had Asurion, which took his claim even when confessed to manually smashing the phone in anger. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/i’m-an-idiot/windows-broke-my-hand-206158.php So yes, Ben…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 16

Gasp!—Sony to Produce Compact Flash Memory

In the biggest twist of the year (including last year), Sony has announced that they will produce Compact Flash memory in addition to their proprietary MemoryStick line of flash memory. They want to target the DSLR users with the CF cards that will have transfer speeds of 66x and 133x and come in capacities up…

Tech News Travis Hudson Jan 16

23 Tips to Turbocharge your TiVo

Avocent HD Extender Brings HD Anywhere In Your Home

Wii Disc Dumper Lets You “Back Up” Wii Games

Win a $100,000 Diamond Encrusted Pepsi Can to Decorate Your Refrigerator

Kingston Water (and Pee) Proof Thumb Drives

A NES Gets Crammed Into a NES Controller

Wearable Finger-Based Cellphone Concept

No Porn On Blu-ray? Not Quite

First Pirated HD DVD Movie Weighs in at 19GB

Penny-Arcade on CES: Part 1

EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger

Trekkie Spends $15k on DIY Star Trek Home Theater

Dealzmodo: Sennheiser RS100 Wireless Headphones, $44

FastMac TruePower Laptop Batteries: Gizmodo’s Mission Critical CES/Keynote Gear

Jabra BT8010 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones

Ceramic Concept Toaster Toasts, Organizes

Mock-up Nokia E61i Spotted: Please Stop Teasing Us

Video: The Adventures of Steve and Woz

Asurion’s Cellphone Insurance Works – Even For Idiots

Gasp!—Sony to Produce Compact Flash Memory

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