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And you thought your dating site was niche. This concept dating service for pet mice owners lets singletons meet other like-minded individuals, and if their mice “get on” then with any luck, so should the humans. Presumably membership at this ultra-exclusive dating site would gift each user with the Rotastak-esque tubing device for transporting your…
On-the-rocks drinkers can be very particular about their ice. Creating perfect ice spheres is one way to ensure that you don’t sacrifice flavor—this Ice Drop is another. Created by the team at 5.5 designers for Hennessey cognac, the Eternal Ice Drop is basically a spherical piece of glass with frozen water inside. The spherical shape…
The Big Picture has published the first part of a 2009 photo retrospective. These are my favorite shots, starting with this image of a soldier fighting in his “I love NY” pink underpants against the Taliban. Go to the Big Picture for the rest of the series. [Big Picture]
Matt says that using a headset will provoke accidents too. This advertising showing a giant crashed cellphone says otherwise. I say that you should not use cellphones while driving, period. What do you think? [Direct Daily]
This homemade "Princess and the Pea" alarm clock is hooked up to a compressor that will literally toss you out of bed if you hit the snooze button. Not exactly subtle, but it sure is effective. [ProjectPage via Make]
It’s time again to look for those lucky people who want to intern for Gizmodo in the SF Bay area. The position is a lot like our previous New York intern positions, except for the obvious location thing and something different we’re trying out. We’re looking for one of four different types of interns: https://gizmodo.com/new-york-intern-needed-5411147…
Nic H tells us that this is how his Xbox was returned after being sent to Nurse Microsoft. If that’s really true, then it looks like Microsoft is getting brutal on Xboxes that dare get an RRoD. Geez. What the hell is Microsoft using to punish misbehaving Xboxes? This thing looks worse than the one…
I used to love the winter, but now I find myself missing summer more and more. I assume this will culminate with boob-high pants and a condo in Florida, but gifts like these would help me make due for now. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click…
Nikon’s 140-seconds-or-less digital film festival is nearing—tomorrow, December 15th, is the last day to submit online. For now, you can check out both the videos that have already been submitted as well as this clip, in which judges Rainn Wilson (Dwight from The Office) and iJustine (from the internet, I guess?) talk about the festival.…
Does your obsession with superheroes make you a movie-geek, a comic-geek, or both? What sort of geek are you? This master diagram will tell you what your geek culture sub-group is based on interests, obsessions, and idols. Click on the image for a closer look. I’m quite happy to see that one of my favorite…
Show us a picture of the gadget gifts you plan on giving this holiday. Who will receive it (a spouse, a parent, child, friend, etc.)? Let’s find out which of you are the most generous gift-givers.
Ah, crisp, high resolution display. Side shot after the break! Thin is in, folks. BGR features the latest tech news, mobile-related content and of course, exclusive scoops.
According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they’d lost in the first place. That’s a lot of emails—but not as much data as you might first think. Berkeley estimated in 2003 the average email size to be…
According to the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Craig Kornblau, if 30 percent of a movie’s home video sales today are Blu-ray, that’s pretty damn good. Consider the big picture laid out in the WSJ piece: Blu-ray, as a format, despite costing more per individual movie, only pulls around 14 percent of the revenue…
Remember SideShow? That technology designed for Vista that allows you to display gadgets on an external device? Silver PAC is digging it up for their Evolution 550 universal remote set for release this February. Features Include: * 4.3 inch touch-color LCD display with a resolution of 480 x 272 * ARM9 processor * 1GB flash…
Whether for crippled controls, downgraded graphics or general lack of effort, games almost always get worse when they’re ported to the iPhone. But what if you’re adapting a concept from a plastic toy? Yeah, that works. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to guess that the Battleship concept would work great on the iPhone,…
Google has an odd placeholder page waiting. Based on the URL, it should be a page for phone support, support of a phone, support over a phone, what else? There’s also some sort of weird javascript countdown hidden in the HTML of the page so maybe some kind of mysteries are lurking there. [Google]
The name of the soldier in the “I love NY” underpants is Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, fighting next to Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, LA and Jordan Custer of Spokane, WA, center. A front shot of the Hudson River waterlanding, as passengers waited to be rescued. https://gizmodo.com/us-airways-waterlanding-close-up-image-of-inflatable-r-5132435 Nothing really impressive happening in…
Here are eight impressive factoids about the most popular construction toy in the planet. If you want to know more, check out our extensive guide about everything you always wanted to know about Lego and the Lego timeline. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-lego-5019797 The Daily Mail has an interesting article about all things Lego. Not as extensive as Giz’s…
