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Criminals have made it on Broadway thanks to the FBI’s newest video billboard, one which displays their stories-tall mugs alongside Diddy, oversized M&Ms, and other Times Square staples. The billboard, which was unveiled yesterday, is part of an agreement with Clear Channel that gives the FBI access to over 400 digital billboards in 33 cities…
French blogger Eric from PresseCitron, currently meeting with LG at their Design Labs, tweeted that Windows Mobile 7 will be coming to LG handsets in September. The Tweets were taken down pretty quickly, but WMPoweruser captured them even quicker. Eric also tweeted that LG will be coming out with an Android 2.1 handset in April.…
This may not necessarily be the most practical DIY, but if you’re looking at that picture—I mean really looking—and you’re not thinking “I want to go to there,” well, I just don’t know what to tell you. Like Daft Punk before you, now you too can dazzle people with a line-y, glow in the dark…
To be a photographer is to lose lens caps. They slide under stacks of paper and get kicked across floors. But armed with a shampoo bottle, an X-acto knife, and this guide, you can make your lens caps stay put. The simple system involves attaching a plastic hook to your camera strap and an elastic…
Faced with an “unprecedented mobile response,” mGive and the Red Cross have collected over $10 million in relief for Haiti. With text donations pouring in at a rate of 10,000 a second, and average donations of $10 automatically charged to phone bills of mobile users, mGive’s system has proved essential for those looking to contribute.…
Laugh at the website’s design if you want, but the subject matter depicted therein is un-mockable: Decades upon decades of sometimes beautiful, sometimes ugly cameras bought from junk stores. Check out some of our favorites after the jump. God, these are great. Makes me want to go hit the Goodwill and pick up whatever 35mm…
He doesn’t believe in touchscreens or tablets, and maybe He is right. It’s all old school buttons and switches for The Dude in the Heavens. [Maneggs]
After a quote that Google’s Nexus One is his “favorite gadget” went around, Steve Wozniak took the time to leave us a note. Read on for his explanation of how everyone misunderstood him and why fanboy-style arguments are ridiculous. https://gizmodo.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniaks-favorite-gadget-the-go-5448641 This is the comment Woz left us in the on the post about his gadget…
Shark with lasers are so aughts. Nipple lasers? So old they are the newest new. If anyone can please explain me what’s going on here, feel free to talk in the comments or shut up forever. Was this a promotional shot for an olympic aerodynamic bike? Why did the boobs fire lasers? Why was Geordi…
Unconfirmed, but likely: Pricing for Verizon’s first two WebOS devices has leaked, and it’s looking like $150 (after $100 rebate) for the Pre Plus and $100 for the Pixi Plus. There’ll probably be a buy-one-get-one deal along with that. [PhoneArena] https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-and-palm-pixi-plus-are-coming-to-verizon-5442913
It’s rough for robots in the armed services lately. Lack of funding is forcing the United States military to end the Army’s Future Combat Systems program and eliminate many robotic soldiers, including autonomous helicopters and mine-sniffing transport vehicles. The good news is that some of the remaining funds are being used to upgrade existing programs…
You can easily render these wicked images—which look warped on paper and straight when reflected on a metal cylinder—with a computer and a raytracing engine. But the fact that someone drew this blows my mind. Absolutely nutters.
Nice try PCgadgets, but I know a plain old storage locker when I see one. I’m sure that branding it for the Xbox 360 is the difference between a $40 price tag and $15 price tag. Are those Playstation games in there? That’s right—don’t be fooled. This locker isn’t just for the 360. And nothing…
I wish this iPhone video app to get people naked in real time actually worked as perfectly as shown here. In fact, I wish it just existed, period. For now, I would just get amused by the perfect choreography. [Nomao]
In this week’s self-contradictory app roundup: Videos, recorded! Hoops, shot! Stuff, copied and pasted! Photos, LEGO-ed! Navigation, given away! Classic movies, obsessively documented! Marbles, gratuitously exploded! Rivals of Yelp, doomed to die! And more… If you’d rather view this post as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5449457 Simplenote: An app that’s similar to, but obviously…
For the more fashionable readers at Gizmodo (someone? Anyone? Bueller?) comes these Marc Jacobs USB hubs, disguised as ye olde mixtapes. MIXTAPES. You remember them, right? [The Malcolm via Hypebeast]
Somewhere on the family tree of the Edifier M3-Plus you are going to find a tennis ball and a cardboard tube. Surprisingly, this design hodgepodge has yielded some interesting portable speakers. Designed for travelers, the Edifier M3-Plus consists of two racquetball sized speakers and a 2-inch Neodymium-iron Boron Magnet assembly subwoofer housed inside an aluminum…
The Freedom of Information Act allowed the ACLU to view documents concerning the Customs and Border Protection‘s searches of laptops and other electronic devices at the United States’ international borders. They discovered that third parties view and copy some data. The ACLU was quite thorough and analyzed the documents—which detailed searches of not just laptops,…
Yes, a business card that shoots a magazine of 10 pennies with rubber band power will get you noticed—but it probably won’t be the kind of attention you hoped for. Then again, load that thing up with Krugerrands and you will definitely score yourself some allies despite the painful welts. Hit the following link iIf…
Here’s a Genius Bar horror story for you: Justin Barry, an apparently disgruntled seventeen year old, walked into a Staten Island Apple Store and typed this message on one of the display machines. He’s now facing seven years in prison. https://gizmodo.com/hey-apple-store-geniuses-tell-us-your-horror-stories-5448349 I have threatened your store and all its employees with a bloody death ……
