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5 Cures for the Common Gift Guide

While it is no surprise that everyone and their mother is putting out a gift guide during the holidays, the problem is that most of these guides are basically the same. It is not that they aren’t useful—many are quite comprehensive, featuring the most popular gadgets today. But what if you are not interested in…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Dell World of Warcraft XPS M1730 Gaming Notebook Unboxing, Looting and Grope

Dell’s $4500 WoW-themed XPS M1730 gaming notebooks are hot shit, even if you aren’t into WoW: overclockable Intel Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo processors, NVIDIA SLI DX10 graphics cards, PhysX card, Full HD 17-inch widescreen, pre-loaded with WoW and Burning Crusade expansion, plus a plethora of other limited edition WoW merch. Check out a more…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Awesome Mod: $550 20GB Asus Eee PC

This is the best Eee PC mod we’ve seen yet—and it pretty much slays the $499 Eee PC 8G, which has just eight gigs of storage. EeeUser forum member Johnx took the guts of a $140 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager (and a Bluetooth unit) and ran them off of USB connections from the Mini PCIe…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Finally, the Tin Foil Hat Gets Upgraded for the 21st Century

Good news, crazies! There’s a new update to your tried-and-true tin foil hat which promises to “stop aliens from abducting humans.” Finally! The website gives you full instructions on how to construct a Stop Abductions helmet of your own using only a pair of scissors, a highlighter, a yardstick, a paper plate, a roll of…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Floppies to CDs: “Who the $&@* are you?”

Just as burning a girlfriend a CD will never be as romantic as making her a mix tape, so too will sharing pirated software prove a heartfelt disappointment on anything but floppy. So one (genius?) designer has made CD-Rs that look like 3.5″ floppies. At $8 apiece (for 200MB) in packs of 4, they aren’t…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Wearable Computer Fashion Show Unveils Clothes of the Idiotic Future

Last weekend in Korea was the Wearable Computer Fashion Show, a glimpse into one possible future in which we all look like jackasses with technology arbitrarily attached to our bodies with no real rhyme or reason. Like this “Light Hat,” for example, which makes no sense whatsoever. I mean, in the future, will we all…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

MPAA’s ‘University Toolkit’ Taken Down For Violating Copyright

Oh, this is rich. The MPAA’s “University Toolkit,” which is essentially spyware the MPAA asked schools to install on their servers to make sure their students weren’t pirating License to Wed when they were supposed to be studying, has been taken down for copyright violation. Copyright violation! What a collection of assholes. The Toolkit is…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Samsung Announces S760 and S860 Cheapish Cameras

Samsung has just added two new S series cameras to their line, the S760 (7.2MP) and S860 (8.1MP). Other than their captured resolution, both cameras pack the same 2.4-inch screen, 3x optical zoom, face detection and 640×480, video at 30fps. Oh, and they come in colors! Look for these models starting at $169 this January—just…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Australian Rental Chains Side with Blu-ray

HD DVD takes another blow on the chin today as Australian movie rental chains Video Ezy and Blockbuster have both decided to offer Blu-ray exclusively. Actually owned by the same parent company, Franchise Entertainment Group, the combined franchises have 870 stores in all. And while that number isn’t massive, remember that if each store were…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Elecom ASP-S750 Speakers Have a Look That Jumps Out At You

Good-looking mini speakers are few and far between, IMHO, but Elecom’s ASP-S750 diagonal speakers have a certain je ne sais quoi. Designed to go “forward toward the sound of fire,” according to the Engrish blurb, the 2.5W-per-channel speakers come in white or silver, and full specs are below the gallery. 2.5 W 2ch. 180 Hz…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

LG XNOTE P300 13.3-inch Laptop Comes with LED-Backlit Screen, Usual Product Ninjas

LG’s XNOTE P300—if you discount the faux-tiger stripes, that is—is a 13.3-inch notebook with all sorts of lovely features, including an LED-backlit screen. Specs and sex(y ladies) below. 1280 x 800 resolution Core 2 Duo CPU (2.4 GHz) T7500 2GB RAM GeForce 8600M video card with 256MB VRAM 1.3-megapixel camera WWAN HDMI 1.6 kg Price…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Why Aren’t You Buying DVDs Anymore?

You might protest you do, but the numbers tell a different story. Box office blockbusters that typically sold 20 million DVDs in the past feebly struggle to touch the 10 million mark. Films revenues are looking to drop by about a third, or $19 million on average. So… Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Metaphys Designs Shown Off at 100% Design Tokyo

These Metaphys designs were shown off last month at the 100% Design Tokyo Show, but they’re cool enough that we wanted to show you anyway. The Japanese brand Metaphys, which is lead by designer Chiaki Murata, puts out cool stuff like the Lunacalente CD player shown above, as well as the flip-open toothbrush and the…

Gadgets Jason Chen

What Satellite Service is Better for Your HDTV?

On Black Friday, some of you walked home with your first HDTV. Or second. Discount voodoo is understandably hard to resist. But unless you’ve got HD content, you’ve got nothin’ but a pretty frame. Since it’s the holidays, you probably don’t wanna screw around in customer service hell. If you’ve narrowed your choice down to…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Sputnik Ceiling-Mounted Subwoofer Looks Like a Turret of Sound

We’ve been playing too much Mass Effect, but these Sputnik Subwoofers look like mounted turrets that shoot lasers at you. Instead of lasers, these ceiling-dangling units shoot sound; deep, deep sound. Inside is a 12-inch passive subwoofer that can handle 1000 watts of continuous power directly at your face, provided your face is in its…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Timberland HT2 Outdoor Performance Watch Gives You Time, Temp, Compass and More

If you by some miracle find yourself in the great outdoors this winter, what better accoutrement for your wrist than his Timberland HT2 outdoor performance watch? It has dials on top of dials, of course showing the time in both analog and digital form for keeping track of four time zones in all, but also…

Gadgets Charlie White

Cowon Q5W PMP Has Wi-Fi, Touchscreen, 60GB Storage, GPS

The Cowon Q5W could be one of the most feature-rich PMPs we’ve seen yet, even beating out Archos’s big boys in terms of how much stuff you can cram into a music and video player. Oh, and it’s not nearly as un-carriable as the Archos devices either, which is fantastic. It’s got Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Water Resistance Treadmill Combines Running, Swimming and Hot Tubs

Here’s a practical design: the Hydro Physio Lifestyle Water Resistance Treadmill (believe it or not, that’s the short version of the name). It combines the water resistance of swimming with the monotony of running to create a really strange form of exercise. The water level can be adjusted so it focuses on different areas during…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Plate Flipper Sends a Message To Cars You Just Passed

If you’re the kind of driver that enjoys passing cars and subsequently giving them the bird, this Plate Flipper will save you time and energy by doing your flipping for you. It’s essentially a version of the plate-flipping gadget that KITT had on Knight Rider, but instead of flipping open to reveal another plate, it…

Gadgets Jason Chen

Urinal Headrest Invention Would Make Thomas Edison Proud

This, my friends, is the greatest patent the world has ever known. Brilliant in its simplicity, it’s a headrest for placement above urinals. I mean, haven’t we all been in a state where we would just love to take a quick nap while peeing, but worried about the cleanliness/comfort of the tiled wall above the…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

5 Cures for the Common Gift Guide

Dell World of Warcraft XPS M1730 Gaming Notebook Unboxing, Looting and Grope

Awesome Mod: $550 20GB Asus Eee PC

Finally, the Tin Foil Hat Gets Upgraded for the 21st Century

Floppies to CDs: “Who the $&@* are you?”

Wearable Computer Fashion Show Unveils Clothes of the Idiotic Future

MPAA’s ‘University Toolkit’ Taken Down For Violating Copyright

Samsung Announces S760 and S860 Cheapish Cameras

Australian Rental Chains Side with Blu-ray

Elecom ASP-S750 Speakers Have a Look That Jumps Out At You

LG XNOTE P300 13.3-inch Laptop Comes with LED-Backlit Screen, Usual Product Ninjas

Why Aren’t You Buying DVDs Anymore?

Metaphys Designs Shown Off at 100% Design Tokyo

What Satellite Service is Better for Your HDTV?

Sputnik Ceiling-Mounted Subwoofer Looks Like a Turret of Sound

Timberland HT2 Outdoor Performance Watch Gives You Time, Temp, Compass and More

Cowon Q5W PMP Has Wi-Fi, Touchscreen, 60GB Storage, GPS

Water Resistance Treadmill Combines Running, Swimming and Hot Tubs

Plate Flipper Sends a Message To Cars You Just Passed

Urinal Headrest Invention Would Make Thomas Edison Proud

Scientists Found a Weird New Way to Wash Fruits and Vegetables

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Gym Bros Are Pushing Mystery Muscle Drugs Doctors Barely Recognize, Study Warns

The Head of HBO Explains What it Takes to Get a ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Going

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Don’t miss out: Bitdefender, One of the World’s Best Antiviruses, Is Now on Sale

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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