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Video games have always been about fantasy. In 2000, my fantasy involved Regis Philbin reminding me about debt. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire was, as I recall, the only thing people watched on TV in 2000. The one-liners were usable in so many situations. Is that your final answer? Do you want to phone…
Is there a burning question you have about tech? Like what’s the difference between $100 and $100,000 headphones? Or why every country has a different f@%#ing plug? We explained all that, and a whole lot more this year. Photography What Everybody Should Know About Cameras The essentials of digital camera knowledge, from all the different…
For those moments when sane earphones just don’t cut it, consider these Crazy Earphones from Solid Alliance. Especially if that 243rd playing of Feliz Navidad makes you want to put a sword through your head. There’s also an arrow through an apple for when you’re feeling wacky, an ear earbud for your meta moods, and…
The joy experienced on Christmas morning is wonderful, to a point. If you take it too far, however, you end up looking crazy. And just think of the meltdown he’ll have when he gets his first RROD! [Funzine.nl via TDW] https://gizmodo.com/survey-xbox-360-failure-rate-is-over-50-people-dont-5339915
Asus’s subsidiary is coming out with this colorful robot vacuum called the E-Clean. It includes a bacterial killing UV light, a fragrance sprayer and remote control. It’s set for China and Taiwan only for a mere $150. [Wired]
The moment you unpackage a new smartphone is a magical one. Don’t let the moment right after that, when you realize that it’s practically useless out of the box, cancel that out. Here’s everything you need to know: What You Need to Buy There are plenty of smartphone accessories that are worth considering, and a…
The iMac CS: A Coffeemaker, Subwoofer and Mac Mini All-In-One. You don’t even know why you want it. This isn’t modder Klaus Diebel’s first experiment with the iMac case. In the past he has also used it to create a mailbox and a birdhouse. However, this design is far more ambitious—allowing you to use the…
You got a new Mac for Christmas? Awesome. But don’t let Justin Long’s smarmy face fool you, it doesn’t just give you a warm hug and set itself up. Here are 10 things you need to do pronto: 1. Check Out Snow Leopard’s Interface Tweaks: They’re not life-altering, but Apple’s spiffed up the OS X…
If you got a new Windows 7 laptop for Christmas, you are truly in luck. But here are 10 things you need to get the most out of it. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-review-you-can-quit-complaining-now-5330609 1. Take a Spin Around the New Interface: Still glassy, glossy and damn near glittery, the Windows 7 interface is actually a major progression for…
What happens when a couple of engineers decide to make a Christmas edition of SNL’s Lasercats sketch? Some legitimately fearsome lasercats with autoturrets, that’s what. [Laughing Squid via The Daily What]
A working cable car would be just the thing to help your modified action figure ornaments travel up the Christmas tree. I mean, the tree is like Everest to them. [Walmart via OhGizmo]
Not everyone’s a PIcasso when it comes to long exposure art—though some of you guys aren’t too far off—but even Pablo himself couldn’t replicate the precise, geometric light illustrations created by Nils Voelker’s Lightdrawing robot. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-slow-shutter-photography-5407851 Voelker, a German designer, says the robot is still in the prototype phase, but from the look of things…
WebOS’s App Catalog may be way behind iPhone and Android in total number of apps, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some great ones. Here are our picks for 20 of the best. All you gallery-haters, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-20-essential-palm-pre-apps-5433408 WHERE: WHERE integrates several widgets designed to answer any question that starts with its name. Where’s…
A decade ago, this marriage proposal was presented like a business proposal—for humorous effect. Now, that just doesn’t seem so nuts to me. But any business proposal presented today without PowerPoint? I mean… that’s just trippy. Anna Jane Grossman will be with us for the next few weeks, documenting life in the early aughts, and…
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“TIS is proud to inform that we are the first in our Kominternovsky region to employ Giant Humanlike Combat Robots within the Security Department. Model TIS-1CB.” That’s the caption for this photo. What are they up to in Ukraine? Updated. Seriously, if anyone has a detailed explanation for this thing, please shoot me an email.…
The Apple Tablet, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, has just gotten a little more interesting. Thanks to some crack investigative reporting, MacRumors discovered that Apple purchased the domain for “islate.com” back in 2007. Dum dum dum! What we know: islate.com was registered to Apple in 2007, through an intermediary (to disguise…
You will never find this snow leopard in any Apple promotional shot. Why? Because there’s a naked woman in there. And a very sexy one at that. Can’t you see her? She’s right there, completely nude. Not yet? Look closer: Click to viewYes, now she’s very hard to miss. And in three-dee! No amount of…
This is a video that I can’t even describe with the usual oh-woah-wow-look-at-this sort of excitement, because it just plain scares me. It shows how a Christmas tree can burn down an entire room in less than a minute. While I know that this video was filmed under controlled conditions, a room set up by…
