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At first I thought this just was pretty great Futurama – Gears of War mash-up Then Jason told me the same guy provided the voice for both Bender and Marcus Fenix, and my world collapsed in on itself. The petition for this to be unlockable in GoW 3 starts now, people. [Futurama Time via Geekosystem]
T-Mobile is catching flak for abruptly banning its customers from receiving text updates from WeedMaps, an opt-in service that points you in the direction of the nearest legal medical marijuana dispensary. Does T-Mobile have the right to stifle legal smokers? Ez Texting, a firm which specializes in carpet bombing you with mass-texted advertisements (TEXT CUPCAKE…
If you’re staying in a miserable hotel, you’re entitled to post a bad review of it. But as a British couple recently learned, you should probably wait until you’re checked out to write it. Or they’ll check you out forcefully. Adrian Healey and girlfriend Sherrie Andrews, both 33, were taking a vacation to resort town…
Terry Pratchett may write a mean fantasy novel, but he also forges one heckuva sword. In honor of being knighted last year, Sir Pratchett dug up 175 pounds of iron ore, sprinkled in some meteorites, and made himself a proper weapon. Pratchett gathered the iron ore deposits himself from a field near his town, and…
In some ways, this is the most accurate map of Washington, DC I’ve seen: those colors represent the demographic breakdown of a divided city. Here’s how the largest metropolitan areas in the US look after the same treatment. Eric Fischer has created and compiled similar maps for the 40 largest cities in the US, based…
This summer the issue of recording on-duty police officers—and consequent phone and camera confiscations—has received a great deal of attention. Here’s how to make sure your coverage won’t get lost should you find yourself in such a situation. Camera-wielding citizens were arrested in Maryland, Illinois, and Massachusetts under interpretations of state wiretapping laws, while others…
So you want to own a food truck, but you don’t know where to start. Apparently that predicament is a common one, because the Mobi Munch, a $125,000 “scalable mobile food truck infrastructure,” is designed as just the solution. The Chicago Tribune encountered the Munch back in May, at this year’s National Restaurant Show. The…
It’s one lucky pooch whose gets to live in this 2.5-meter tall replica of Matsumoto Castle, with one impressively handy owner. Won’t you please join me on a guided tour? The video, unfortunately for this monoglot, is in Japanese, but I can give you a few details. The house took six months and about $600…
So you’ve got your decks, your MacBook and a few CDJs, but they’re sat on a couple of beer crates—or a desk from IKEA, if you’re lucky. $1,300 is a sound investment for your DJ skillz, surely? And let’s face it, the smooth high-gloss lacquer finish is a chick magnet of the highest order. If…
Zune’s been going in this direction for a while, but Microsoft has finally gone all MP3 with their Zune Marketplace music. All 11 million tracks in the US, and 8 million tracks in UK, France Italy, Spain and Germany. Yes, Europe! In addition to not having any more WMA files in the marketplace (save for…
This collapsible solar cooker from 1970 is just one piece from the Museum of Modern Art‘s new exhibit, Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, a whirlwind trip through the evolution of the modern kitchen. Thank you, WWII and electricity. A miraculous little history captured in a single room, it features everything from propaganda posters…
Remember when the iPad first came out there were all those Etch-A-Sketch jokes? Now you can own the punchline for only $40. Sadly, the knobs do nothing. Even more sadly, the official Etch-A-Sketch app has iffy reviews. [GetAHeadCase.com]
Things are getting freaky over at Photokina, where Leaf’s showing off their new Aptus-II 12 and Aptus-II12R digital camera backs. The price: $32,000. The pixels: 80 million, the most of any camera back to date. Good stocking stuffers. [PopPhoto]
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Normally, we couldn’t think of anything more thrilling than a song dedicated to you by Stevie Wonder. Unless you’re the World Intellectual Property Organization, and your policies are making it harder for the disabled to access and appreciate information. Current laws make it difficult, expensive, or just plain illegal to make disability-friendly audiobook copies of…
I woke up from a nap in a fit of terror, realizing mid-dream that I left the stove on for 5 hours. A public utility waste of that degree is a rare occurrence in my home, but I do tend to leave shit on: Lights in closets, electric kettles, lamps in the kitchen, towel warmers,…
Sure, you could stand in your kitchen, glaring at your pasta water, waiting for it to boil. Boil. Boil you bastard. Or, you could relax, and let the floating Boil Buoy whistle from afar when your water’s ready to go. The Boil Buoy is deliciously simple. A miniaturized buoy that floats inside your pot, jingling…
The most cleverest geek nightclub sign you’ll ever see, compliments of San Francisco’s Red Devil Lounge. Also: flashing is strictly prohibited. [SFist via Geekosystem]
Earlier today, in the wake of the announcement of the Peek 9, the latest and greatest in a series of truly baffling gadgets, Brian Barrett asked “Who In Their Right Mind Would Buy a Peek 9?” Well, would you? https://gizmodo.com/who-in-their-right-mind-would-buy-a-peek-9-5642837 In that post, Barrett outlined the Peek 9 feature set: email, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Maps…
“I have seen a lot of technology for the blind, and I can safely say that the iPhone represents the most revolutionary thing to happen to the blind for at least the last ten years.” That’s what Austin Seraphin wrote last June, describing the experience of using his new iPhone and its VoiceOver feature to…
