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You can get everything Pantone-branded these days, so it only figures you can stick something between your legs in cherry-red 186C shade. And green 672C, yellow 14-0848 and so on. That official smack of paint will cost you, though. Bigtime. They’ve just arrived in the UK from Italy, landing at department store Heal’s for £790…
Not to be confused with LG’s Windows Phone 7 phone the Optimus 7, Samsung’s Omnia 7 has received a thorough going-over in a video, showing off more the hubs, and even Office. Microsoft Office! It looks great. The UI may be running the French language, but you can still get a strong grasp of what…
Save yourself $5k by making a Leica M8 out of LEGO for $50. It’s a good way to dodge those red-dot taxes, but I’ll warn you: the 3MP camera will hardly hold up to your phone, let alone a Leica. MOCPages user Schfio Factory used a $50 LEGO camera as a base for the camera,…
Chase customers have been depositing checks via iPhones for months now, but from today millions of PayPal users will never have to go to the bank again. Well, other than to steal pens or use their toilet. To use the app, you must take a photo of the front and rear of a check, whizz…
You don’t need the R2-D2 Droid phone to download this app, but for full credibility I’d suggest all owners of that phone fork out the $3 it costs. In fact, any Verizon customer with an Android phone should pay up. It’s celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back,…
Another Facebook redesign, you groan? Yes, indeed. According to TechCrunch, the design is already visible to some users of the site, with the IM chat window appearing on the left and people’s profiles looking more like Places pages. [TechCrunch]
On my next trip to New York City, I’ll have to stop by a coffeeshop called D’Espresso. After all, how could I resist sitting in a place where the floor is on the wall? Don’t worry that I’ll destroy any books with my dirty shoes when I go though, because the shelves of books are…
Mischer’traxler’s automatic cake decorator uses a rotating platform to draw a flowery, spirograph-like design on its cakes. As a final touch, the mechanical arm drops sugar-pearls across the cake’s surface. The automatic cake decorator is part of an exhibit entitled “til you stop – how much is enough.” You determine how decorated the cake gets…
Everywhere you walk. Everything you watch. Every day of your life. Our world is infested with logos large and small. Unless the Unlogo project has its way. Here’s the signageless life they envision, and how they’ll make it a reality. Basically, Unlogo is a way for you to replace any logo with the image of…
This is Brozo the Creepy Clown, a television host on the Spanish language Televisa network. Apparently he gets very upset when people impersonate his co-host Marissa Rivera on Twitter. So upset in fact, that he threatens to come after them. According to Boing Boing, the threatening part of Brozo’s message translated to something along these…
Cut the Rope is a cheery new physics-based puzzler in which you slice ropes in an effort to feed candy to a green Miyazaki-esque monster. Hmm. It makes more sense when you see it in action. $1 [iTunes]
ABC Nightline’s Google TV special gave us an early look at Sony’s Google TV controller. It’s got two circular directional pads, a QWERTY keyboard, and a lot of other buttons. Check out the video for more details. [Engadget]
Click to viewWell this is pretty sick. Residents in Obion County, Tennessee have to pay an annual fee of $75 for fire department service. The Cranick family didn’t pay, so firefighters stood around and watched their house burn to the ground. Initially, the South Fulton city fire department wouldn’t even respond to the family’s calls,…
The Motorola Droid Pro on Verizon isn’t what we expected: It’s a like a Motorola Droid, but with a BlackBerry keyboard bolted on the bottom. Or like a BlackBerry Torch that’s permanently stuck open, running Android. Take your pick. Weird. The Droid Pro’s running Android 2.2, and it’s a world phone, so it’s definitely aimed…
Recently I found myself asking someone why the hell his company’s new product stinks so much that I want to leap out of my second floor window. Insulted by my question or not, he explained that new gadget smell. The product was a funky iPad stand/case and despite my desire to try it out right…
In a basement at Carnegie Mellon University, a computer is reading the web. It’s been doing so for nearly nine months, teaching itself the complexities and nuances of the English language. And the smarter it gets, the faster it learns. That computer is NELL, the Never-Ending Language Learning system, and it’s the star of a…
You might not know what alumina is—neither did I. But hundreds of Hungarians do, after torrents of the stuff poured out of a plant and through their villages, prompting the country to declare a state of emergency. UPDATED Click to view Waves of red toxic muck, gushing from a giant reservoir used by a bauxite…
Jezebel was concerned by the conspicuous lack of female characters of substance in this weekend’s top grossing movie, The Social Network. Check out our sister site for their take on the truth, lies, and gender roles put forth by the film.
Marriage can be complicated. Everyone knows that. But marriage proposals can be complicated, too—just ask Robert, a Gizmodo reader who constructed an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine to deliver his girlfriend’s engagement ring. Watch the big moment zip-line in. Robert says: I”m a big fan of Gizmodo, it’s been my homepage for almost 5 years now.…
This week on TreeHugger, crazy arm-powered tricycles, an app that turns your iPhone into a TomTom, wood floors that fold into stools, curvy cubicles for outside offices, and more. Smiling Switch Makes You Happy to Conserve Electricity Would making your switches look adorable help you to conserve energy? A design by Zhou Yide, Euphe Mo,…
