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Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

If you have a pair of hard-soled shoes, two pressure-sensitive LED tiles, and some baby mama drama from which you need to extricate yourself, let this Instructable be your guide and recreate the special-FX steps from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” Admittedly, I’m not sure how easy it would be to do any sort of dancing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Feb 23

Looking For A Few Good Knights And Swordfighters In Austin Area

io9 is seeking some excellent historical re-enactors to stage a sword fight at our South By Southwest party, the evening of March 13. Ideally we’d love folks from (or sympathetic to) the SCA or Renaissance Faire who have cool garb and are comfortable sword fighting among modern folk. But we are also open to any…

io9 Annalee Newitz Feb 22

Gizmodo’s Post-iPad Punchdrunk Party

The best thing about Apple events isn’t whatever they’ve announced. It’s the after-party, which is kinda like a Christmas-party-slash-reunion, but without the crushing holiday depression and teeth-gnashing. Everybody’s actually happy. And it’s great to see all of our friends. It was the perfect kind of post-explosion gathering: Low key, but vibrant. Of course, everybody was…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 28

An Exploded iPhone Is a Major Frat Party Buzzkill…Or Is It?

The latest tale of a flaming iPhone encounter comes to us courtesy of Bobby Hodges, who describes how such an incident almost ruined a fraternity house party. https://gizmodo.com/flaming-iphone-3g-melts-a-crater-in-this-car-seat-5327124 I was at a fraternity house hanging out one night. One of my friends had his iPhone plugged into the speakers so we could have music. We…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 4

You Guys Had Some Wild and Crazy Windows 7 Launch Parties

A lot of people made fun of the idea of Windows 7 parties, but you know what? Getting together with friends to share a common interest, plus a healthy dose of booze and cake, is pretty great in my book. Of course, none of you people had as much fun as I did at my…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 23

Send Us Your Windows 7 Launch Party Pictures

Are you having a Windows 7 party? Did you get the kit and everything? Do you have big plans to have some cocktails while discussing Microsoft’s new OS? Great! We wanna see it. Take some pictures of the celebrations and send em to us at [email protected] with Windows 7 Party Pics in the subject. We’ll…

Tech News Adam Frucci Oct 21

Gizmodo Gallery Private Preview: Drinks and Lightning

It was great seeing so many friends at our preview last night. Even though the AC broke, there was always a cold drink from the bar or coke machine to be had. And we dropped some exclusive Microsoft news. The gang and I had pulled two all-nighters setting up. The later it got, the less…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 23

GDGT Launch Party Tonight in San Francisco, and We’ll Be There

GDGT, the gadget-based social networking site, is throwing a launch party tonight at DNA Lounge here in sunny San Francisco. There’ll be gadgets to grope, giveaways, and we’ll be there too—it’s a party with gadgets, after all. [GDGT]

Gadgets Dan Nosowitz Aug 4

Games2U Brings a Portable Arcade To Your House

The only time people visit arcades these days is when they’re waiting for the 8:30 showing of Transformers to start. Whether it’s convenience of quality of games, people just aren’t going. But what if it came to YOU? Games2U puts PS3s, Wii and Xbox 360 games inside of a van and delivers it, letting 20…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 30

Panasonic Locks Out Third Party Camera Batteries With Latest Firmware

If you’ve got a Panasonic digital camera and you’re using a third party battery pack, DON’T UPDATE YOUR CAMERA FIRMWARE. Your battery will get locked out by the authentication scheme Panasonic just implemented. Panasonic claims that they did this for safety reasons, and from the horror stories of batteries exploding in phones that have really…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 24

Zune Party Featuring Morgan Page at Snowmodo

Grammy nominated DJ/Producer Morgan Page will be playing the Zune party at Snowmodo this Saturday at Northstar-at-Tahoe. Not enough to excite you? How about custom Snowmodo Zunes or our Official Snowmodo Soundtrack… https://gizmodo.com/gizs-snowmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-april-4th-north-5143084 Zune is throwing an epic party for our Snowmodo event on Saturday April 4th at Northstar. They’ve lined up Grammy nominated Morgan…

Gadgets Christopher Mascari Apr 2

Pirate Bay Trial Watch: Everybody Get Drunk Edition

Welcome to your Saturday evening update on the trial of the century. Today, in celebration of the end of a week’s worth of court, the Pirate Bureau threw a massive and slyly rebellious rager. The trial has been going well for everybody’s favorite Swedish internet pirates, with the prosecution showing signs of a lack of…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Feb 21

Rockterscale Lets You Know When Your Party Gets Violent

If you’ve got a huge, insane contraption designed to monitor how hard a party is rocking, your party is not rocking. Sorry to defeat the purpose of your contraption, but come on. The Rockterscale measures how hard a party is rocking via four different signals. One, if someone wearing the Hat of Rock and is…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Dec 18

Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law

Two hundred years ago, all a mad scientist had to worry about were villagers with pitchforks, but these days mad scientists are being profiled as possible terrorists. This week, police arrested the host of mad scientist-themed party after mistaking the partygoers’ bright lights and chemistry sets for explosives or drug-making paraphernalia.Members of the Bearded Kitten/Sugar…

io9 Lauren Davis Nov 6

Chicago Gizmodo Party, In Photos

Thanks again to everyone who made it out to the Hotel Sax for the Gizmodo’s Chicago reader meetup. For those who didn’t make it out, I think the night went pretty well, as people alternated between the line for the bar and the dual Rock Band 2 stations, the official ecosystem of the event. We…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 28

REMINDER: Gizmodo Chicago Meetup TONIGHT

To all of you who’ve RSVP’d for the Chicago Gizmodo Reader Meetup, remember that it’s going on tonight at the Hotel Sax from 8-11pm. You can find full details on the event here, but if the prospect of free drinks, hors d’oeuvres, socializing, informal tech demos, Rock Band 2 and maybe a few small giveaways…

Tech News Mark Wilson Sep 27

BoomCooler: A Portable Party in an Ice Box

Throw in a cooler, some speakers and mix with a little hillbilly inspiration and you have yourself a BoomCooler. Billed as “the ultimate portable entertainment system,” the BoomCooler makes it easy to roll your tunes from one party to the next thanks to some fancy wheels and a handle. It also cranks out a decent…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 23

10 Gadgets for Instant Portable Partying

It’s Friday…finally. Have big plans for the weekend? A big party to go to perhaps? You know, you don’t have to wait for the weekend to have fun—you could be partying every day. Not only that, you wouldn’t have to waste time planning and getting things set up. Using the following 10 gadgets, you could…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Sep 12

Smoke Turret Will Make You King of the Party (Through Force if Necessary)

Quite simply, the Smoke Turret is the most dangerous-looking fog machine on the market. Five feet tall and swiveling 180-degrees on its tripod base, the turret’s six barrels utilize a 90psi air compressor to fire smoke for up to 15 feet. On top of that, a strobe light is concealed in the gun sight for…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 27

Party-A-Cargo Brings the Bro-Down to Wherever Your Truck Can Park

Hey dudebro, looking to take a bro-dtrip but afraid you’ll make the ultimate braux-pas: not bringing enough beer and having a totally whack sound system? Chill out man, Party-A-Cargo’s got your back with its tow hitch mounted kegerator. The Party-A-Cargo Ultimate can store up to 160 glasses of beer and contains a jockey box with…

Tech News Elaine Chow Jun 29

Dance Away Your Paternity Anxieties With DIY “Billie Jean” Shoes

Looking For A Few Good Knights And Swordfighters In Austin Area

Gizmodo’s Post-iPad Punchdrunk Party

An Exploded iPhone Is a Major Frat Party Buzzkill…Or Is It?

You Guys Had Some Wild and Crazy Windows 7 Launch Parties

Send Us Your Windows 7 Launch Party Pictures

Gizmodo Gallery Private Preview: Drinks and Lightning

GDGT Launch Party Tonight in San Francisco, and We’ll Be There

Games2U Brings a Portable Arcade To Your House

Panasonic Locks Out Third Party Camera Batteries With Latest Firmware

Zune Party Featuring Morgan Page at Snowmodo

Pirate Bay Trial Watch: Everybody Get Drunk Edition

Rockterscale Lets You Know When Your Party Gets Violent

Fake Mad Scientists Arrested Under Anti-Terrorism Law

Chicago Gizmodo Party, In Photos

REMINDER: Gizmodo Chicago Meetup TONIGHT

BoomCooler: A Portable Party in an Ice Box

10 Gadgets for Instant Portable Partying

Smoke Turret Will Make You King of the Party (Through Force if Necessary)

Party-A-Cargo Brings the Bro-Down to Wherever Your Truck Can Park

Ryan Coogler Is Shifting ‘Animorphs’ Into a Disney+ Show

No Fooling, ‘Spaceballs 2’ Will Hit Theaters April 2027

I Regret to Inform You That the Artemis II Astronauts Are Having Lots of Screen Time

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‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 3 Is Doing What You Hoped

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