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I remember watching Captain Eo back in my college days, using polarized eyeglasses. At the time I was blown away by the 3D experience, which also incorporated real life effects, like lasers and fog. Now, the 17-minute film is back. After watching 3D movies like Up!, I have my doubts about Captain Eo passing the…
This guy stole $6,000 in Apple products from a small computer dealer. In the process he drove his car through the store, tripped over cords, nearly fell over tables, and had his whole pathetic burglary caught on surveillance video. Apparently this thief grabbed all the store displays he could find, and “didn’t bother to unplug…
Nine years ago, as a young tech reporter at Time Magazine, I co-wrote a buyer’s guide with the latest and greatest gear known to man. Today, it sounds ridiculous. • Creative’s $500 Nomad Jukebox (pictured above), was not only “sleek”—at least when compared to a CD Walkman—but “can hold as much music as 150 CDs.”…
Step one: bring your iMac to a Panera Bread. Step two: play WoW on it. Step three: be old. Step four: win the unconditional respect of the entire internet, forever. UPDATE: This appears to be a habit. [Reddit]
The new MacBook Pro family brings precision engineering and advanced technology to everyone. And with a new LED-backlit display and powerful NVIDIA graphics processors, MacBook Pro is perfect for the latest 3D games and graphics-intensive applications. Featuring durable aluminum unibody enclosure and an incredibly long-lasting battery, high performance now comes in three sizes: 13-inch, 15-inch,…
Scribd, the YouTube for print, is working on a new way to get e-books onto your Kindle without buying them from Amazon. Right now, to get one of the tens of millions of Scribd documents has — books, papers, and other content — off the web and into a Kindle, a user has to email…
A new study shows the top 100 search terms kids used in 2009, and whoo boy are we all in trouble. “Youtube” is the winner across all age groups, with Facebook and Google rounding out the top three. In the four hole, the teens and the tweens are both searching for “sex,” which is just…
It turns out Avatar is pretty cool after all, so bring home all that sweet alien action with a nice deal on Avatar: The Game on 360, PS3 or Wii. If that wears you out, replenish with a free Whatburger. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-review-yes-it-changed-everything-after-all-5429424 Top Deals: • 17.3″ Dell Inspiron 17 LED Laptop for $449 plus free shipping…
Are planes your last refuge from this horrible, awful internet? Or are they terrifying airborne isolation chambers, which pose a dire threat to your carefully regimented Tweeting schedule? Either way, don’t buy a ticket without consulting this chart. [Jaunted]
World’s Greatest iPhone: The image of the iPhone above is obviously a shop, but YouTube, Weather and Safari still have me laughing months later. [igmur via Link] Beta Version of BigDog Quadrupled Robot: Needless to say, the beta version of Boston Dynamics’ BigDog was rather primitive. You have Peter Furia, David Fine and Beau Lewis…
It’s Friday. You’ve got the weekend and, chances are, a short week coming up. Life is good. Let’s celebrate by kicking back and enjoying some gadget hilarity. World’s Greatest iPhone: The image of the iPhone above is obviously a shop, but YouTube, Weather and Safari still have me laughing months later. [igmur via Link] Beta…
I don’t know what the bloody hell is going on with Great Britain and their stolen government laptops—sixty-six so far this year, 658 in four years—but it’s getting absurdly ridiculous. The last case, however, is really serious: This has the potential to become one of the most serious security breaches at the Ministry for a…
They’re chopsticks. They’re a spoon. They’re a massive mess waiting to happen. Spoon Chopsticks! Yeah! [Yanko via DVICE]
As our Avatar review illustrated, 3D is evolving from a mere gimmick to a technology that is poised to be the center of our home entertainment experience. And those cheezy glasses? Expect them to get a lot more sophisticated. https://gizmodo.com/avatar-review-yes-it-changed-everything-after-all-5429424 If XpanD, the company behind the 3D glasses for Avatar is anything to go by,…
One lucky guy in the UK found himself on the receiving end of a very cool Nokia promotion, where he had to hack open a PC-controlled box, revealing a shiny new N900 inside. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n900-maemo-is-a-phone-makes-the-n97-look-silly-5346818 Utku, a Product Manager at web design agency Mint Digital, managed to get a Nokia N900, copy of Modern Warfare 2…
Ripxx is a water and shock proof gadget that uses 3 accelerometers and 3 gyroscopes to record your path speed, vertical drops, spins and falls for playback on your computer later. It also reports time of run, top acceleration, speed, jump data (time in air, distance, height), rolls (count and rate), top altitude and steepness…
The GenevaSound iPod dock is huge and kind of ridiculous. Now, there’s a much more sensible smaller version with the same form factor, and the price is smaller too: $300 compared to $1,450 for its big brother. [Unplggd] https://gizmodo.com/geneva-sound-system-model-l-reviewed-verdict-purdy-180728
After publishing Fusion Garage’s response to Arrington’s lawsuit, a reader noticed that Fusion Garage is violating PayPal’s terms with their Joojoo pre-sales. The Joojoos are supposed to be delivered in 8 to 10 weeks, which is prohibited by PayPal: https://gizmodo.com/fusion-garage-responds-to-arrington-lawsuit-5428923 ll.4 – Prohibited Transactions. […] You also agree not to use your PayPal account to…
You know what they say: nothing prepares you for parenthood like a creepy stuffed bearchild that cries real tears. Or something like that. This is Yotaro, the Japanese baby simulator. It looks like a big stuffed animal bear with a baby’s face projected on to it. It’s actually got a lot of complex stuff going…
After yesterday’s censorship brouhaha, Microsoft has released Zune HD Twitter app version 1.1, now with unfettered swearing. You may now return to your regularly scheduled vulgarity. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/zune-hd-twitter-app-wont-let-you-f-ing-swear-5428825
