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Chicago Thieves Are Out Stealing Whole Central Air Units

The Chatham neighborhood of Chicago is suffering from a rash of air conditioner thefts right now. Turns out the criminals are stealing the entire units, not just a pipe here and there. I mean… at least they’re dedicated? According to CBS Chicago, the copper inside the ACs is sold for scrap, great for making enough…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Share Your Facebook Pics on Google+ with Move2Picasa.com

If you’re considering migrating your social media life from Facebook to Google+, you’ll probably want to start with your pictures. Move2Picasa.com drags your entire photo library from the House of Zuckerberg over to Picasa, which will soon be Google Photos. Be forewarned: You can’t pick and choose which photos will cross over. You’re pretty much…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Plushtography Pillows Are Camera Lenses You Can Sleep With

Sometimes you just want to cuddle with your camera. If you’re a camera fetishist anyway. Plushtography pillows were designed to satisfy that need to express your love of photography in a quirky way. Good for pillow fights, too, I’m sure. The pillows are made out of fleece and felt, and are highly detailed. The Canon…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Maxell’s SSB-1 Soundbar Seems Destined for Home Theaters on a Budget

Maxell’s SSB-1 soundbar is by all definitions, a budget product. Combining two 7.5w speakers with a 15w subwoofer, the SSB-1 likely won’t send you into a state of awe. But at the same time, it’s only $130. Meant for “smaller TVs,” you can use the SSB-1 as a TV pedestal, provided it’s under 55-pounds. But…

Tech News Adrian Covert

An Aphrodesiac that Actually Works? SRSLY?

At first glance, SINsual Shot seems like a 5-Hour Energy Drink knockoff you’d find next to the Enzyte at your local head shop. It also packs about the same wallop of B-vitamins as 5-Hour Energy, but the comparison ends there. [NSFW]

Tech News Fleshbot

Monster CleanTouch Pen Gallery

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Tech News Casey Chan

Shooting Challenge: Fail

The greatest discoveries are made by accident. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to stage accidents and pray for serendipity. In short, you’re going to fail. The Challenge Screw up when taking a photo so incredibly badly that you create something unique and worthy unto itself. The Technique The secret this week is to…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Cash Is Dying. Long Live Dollars

The United States Treasury didn’t print any $10 bills last year. Shocking, but true. It’s because we use less and less cash every year. Which doesn’t mean we’re going to be a cashless society anytime soon. That’s great. A story in the New York Times reveals some fascinating data about the business of printing money.…

Tech News Mat Honan

The 10 Coolest Windows Shortcuts You Never Knew About

Keyboard shortcuts are the essence of PC productivity. While newbs slowly mouse around their screens in search of buttons to click, seasoned tech vets hammer through a day’s work with ease thanks to a wealth of arcane hotkey combos that knock out useful tasks in seconds. Of course, every PC user knows a few handy…

Tech News Robert Strohmeyer - MaximumPC

Next For Facebook And Skype: Calls To Outside Phones

Skype consumer head Neil Stevens confirmed that the next thing planned for the Facebook-Skype partnership is the ability to call from Facebook to any phone in the world. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-skype-video-chat-something-awesome-upda-5818418 Stevens said that wherever users see a highlighted phone number on Facebook, they’ll be able to click it and place a voice call. The service will…

Social Media Matt Rosoff - Business Insider

The Best Deal of the Day

I just used a screen cleaner on my laptop and oh sweet rainbows and bikini bottomed beaches, it’s like I got a new laptop! Lookit those colors! Lookit that pretty girl! No dusty layer! Everything is different now. Well, that’s what I like to think. I save these screen cleaning sessions so I can witness…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

HP Touchpad Has $318 Worth of Parts

iSuppli believes that HP’s WebOS-powered Touchpad tablet has an estimated $318 worth of parts, with a manufacturing cost of $10. The 32GB 3G iPad 2, by comparison, had $325 worth of parts. The majority of the costs in the $599 32GB model went to the display technology, which accounted for $134 worth of the total…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Talk Facebook Announcement On MSNBC

Gizmodo editor-in-chief Joe Brown joined MSNBC Live on July 6, 2011 to talk about the Facebook announcement. Watch above.

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Droid Bionic Appears in Leaked Best Buy Ad

According to This Is My Next, the Motorola Droid Bionic just popped up in a leaked Best Buy ad. While it looks like most other Droids, the redesigned phone was delayed after CES to receive “enhancements.” This could be Verizon’s first dual-core LTE handset. [This Is My Next]

Tech News Kwame Opam

Teens Keeping Dying Languages Alive by Texting

The loss of indigenous dialects (and their old, rich, associated cultures) is a problem that spans the globe. Luckily, SMS spans the globe as well, and kids in regions where certain tongues are falling off are using tech as conservation. The method is accidental, as Samuel Herrera of the Institute of Anthropological Research in Mexico…

Tech News Sam Biddle

How To Create A Vanity URL for Google Plus

Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 111203177111013925515. Gah! Here’s how to pretty it up. That Google+ profile address looks like crap on the Web, and even worse in an email signature. But if you want to share your profile, and make it easy to remember, head…

Tech News Mat Honan

Obama’s Twitter Town Hall Has Started

Obama’s Twitter Town Hall is going on right now. You can ask him whatever you want using the hashtag “#askobama” [Ask Obama]

Tech News Michael Zhao

Turn Any Armchair Into a High-Flyin’ Desk With a Laptop Stand

Say you’ve got no room for a desk in your apartment, but you have a kickass comfy armchair. This laptop stand will act as a nice substitute, all while ensuring your posture isn’t ruined by slumped laptop use. [Archi Portale via Born Rich]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Turn Your iPad 2 into a MacBook Air

M.I.C.’s Aluminum Keyboard Buddy Case doesn’t just protect your iPad2 screen, it also has a bluetooth keyboard like a few other iPad cases. But what sets this one apart is that the outer casing is made of aluminum. When closed, the iPad bears resemblance to a MacBook Air, albeit to a rudimentary extent. But the…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Facebook + Skype Video Chat = “Something Awesome” (Updated: Hands-On)

Facebook started Rollout Season 2011 with its answer to Google+ Hangouts today in the form of Video Calling, an integrated video chat feature built on Skype technology. Update (Hands on): Typically, if two FB users want to perform a video call, they’ve got to leave Facebook and connect through either a Skype client, Apple’s Facetime,…

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Chicago Thieves Are Out Stealing Whole Central Air Units

Share Your Facebook Pics on Google+ with Move2Picasa.com

Plushtography Pillows Are Camera Lenses You Can Sleep With

Maxell’s SSB-1 Soundbar Seems Destined for Home Theaters on a Budget

An Aphrodesiac that Actually Works? SRSLY?

Monster CleanTouch Pen Gallery

Shooting Challenge: Fail

Cash Is Dying. Long Live Dollars

The 10 Coolest Windows Shortcuts You Never Knew About

Next For Facebook And Skype: Calls To Outside Phones

The Best Deal of the Day

HP Touchpad Has $318 Worth of Parts

Watch Gizmodo’s Joe Brown Talk Facebook Announcement On MSNBC

Droid Bionic Appears in Leaked Best Buy Ad

Teens Keeping Dying Languages Alive by Texting

How To Create A Vanity URL for Google Plus

Obama’s Twitter Town Hall Has Started

Turn Any Armchair Into a High-Flyin’ Desk With a Laptop Stand

Turn Your iPad 2 into a MacBook Air

Facebook + Skype Video Chat = “Something Awesome” (Updated: Hands-On)

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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