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I Want To Take The Q-Speakers for a 360-Degree Spin

Q-Speakers are hand-crafted in New Zealand wood and have a “reflective audio” system designed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers sound engineer, Dave Levine. And yeah, they are gorgeous. The speaker uses highly efficient Class D amplification to deliver 60W of sound and includes hidden mid/high end speakers that produce 360-degrees of clean audio. Of…

The Free iPhone Apps You Need To Download Right Now

Nobody wants to pay for iPhone apps, and some people simply don’t. The good news is, you don’t really need to: For almost every paid app, there’s a free app that’s nearly as good. Here are the best of the best. A lot of these apps will be familiar to anyone who’s checked out our…

New Iron Man 2 Poster Reveals Villain Whiplash

Mickey Rourke wants to kill Iron Man but is doing his part to save print journalism in this new teaser for Iron Man 2. Hold tight—every day that passes is a day closer to May 7. [io9] https://gizmodo.com/in-new-iron-man-poster-whiplashs-weapons-look-more-dan-5423635

Street Furniture Designs Are Art You Can Sit On

This is ‘Muscle,’ the latest outdoor seating design from French artist Alexandre Moronnoz. Along with Moronnoz’s earlier works, Muscle makes a strong argument for moving to a world where form matches function in even our most everyday settings. Moronnoz works with materials ranging from laser-cut steel (“Interferences”) to modular Y-shaped timber (“Y”). His designs are…

New Apple Patent Prevents You From Screwing With the Hardware

The latest patent from Apple reveals ways in which their products could be fitted with a simple label or tag that provides evidence of tampering. If the strip is compromised, it gives Apple leverage to void your warranty. Apple’s patent application notes that it is in the best interest of an electronics manufacturer to be…

Star Trek LED DIY Boldly Goes Where No Menorah Has Gone Before

It’s almost time for Hanukkah, and what better way to celebrate the Festival of Lights than with Kirk, Spock, Scotty and the the gang? The answer is none. There is no better way. If you want to make your own, all you’ll need are some Star Trek Pez heads, a Deluxe LED Menorah Kit, and…

The 5 Bestest of the New York Times’ Best Ideas of the Year

The New York Times’ Year in Ideas is one of my favorite end-of-the-year lists because it’s smart. I mean, they’re the best ideas of the year. Here are the 5 bestest ideas of the year. Like getting liquefied when you die. There’s a ton more ideas—not just tech ones—at the full spread. Read it, it’ll…

Ruppy is the world’s first fluorescent dog, who looks normal until he’s under ultraviolet light, and then he glows all red. That’s because he’s also the world’s first transgenic dog, with the genes of a sea anemone. Yes, we’re all going to be splicers, like in BioShock. Seems like a good idea to me! Well,…

Free iPhone Apps

Amazon: Amazon’s usually the first place I look during a fit of impulse buying, which their iPhone app now makes stupidly easy. Product searches, comparisons and account management are a given, but what really pushes this one over the edge is a new feature called “Remembers.” Just snap a picture of a mysterious product or…

The 3 Best Netbooks Right Now

Yesterday, we saw the best laptops at any price. But what about their little brothers, the netbooks? Quite simply, here are the three best models that you should choose from, provided by Mark Spoonauer from Laptop: https://gizmodo.com/the-best-windows-laptops-from-400-to-1500-5421823 Toshiba mini NB205 Starting Price: $399.99 ($382.36 now at Amazon) If you’re going to be staring at a…

iPhone-Controlled Music Bot Improvises Just Like Your Favorite Jazz Master

We’ve seen the Shimon robot playing some music and also bobbing its head, but this video shows it doing both at the same time, all while being controlled by an iPhone. And wowee zowee, is this thing impressive. As you can see in the video above, you use the iPhone to make some simple initial…

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today’s Dealzmodo brings more free holiday MP3 tidings and a multitouch laptop to take your Facebook poking to a new, literal level. Also, find big savings on the Spykee spy robot to take your stalking to a new, robotic level. Top Deals: • 14″ Lenovo ThinkPad T400s Laptop with Multi-touch for $1,699 with free shipping…

Your Wish for a Ridiculously Large Television Granted Today

Save $330 on an LG 32″ Full HD LCD HDTV at CompUSA.com, thanks to AMEX Daily Wish. Sale starts today and only 100 are available, so snap one up now!

Aircraft Crash-Absorber Shield May Save Your Life One Day

NASA has came up with a rather simple and clever idea that may save a lot of lives: An expandable Kevlar honeycomb cushion that would absorb the impact force in an aircraft crash. NASA’s Karen Jackson is hopeful about it: I’d like to think the research we’re doing is going to end up in airframes…

100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got

In Your Flying Car Awaits, author Paul Milo discusses “robot butlers, lunar vacations and other dead-wrong predictions of the 20th Century.” Here are 10 calamitous tech failures. Even the ones that did make it aren’t anything like their original visions. Cities Under Domes The architect and all-around visionary R. Buckminster Fuller believed that one day,…

Ballerina Sweetspot: A Chair Designed Specifically For Audiophiles

There is just something about chairs. Just look around the office—they are not just places to sit anymore. Chairs have become super-engineered status symbols. Now audiophiles can have their own high-tech throne. https://gizmodo.com/herman-miller-embody-review-the-best-chair-weve-ever-s-5071571 The Ballerina Sweetspot is designed to be the ultimate music lover’s chair. It features a thin headrest to accommodate headphones and prevent…

Steve Wozniak (Or His Twin) Singing and Dancing in NYC Subway

http://youtu.be/oCq4Jsda7H We all got our evil twin, and here’s Steve Wozniak’s, singing and dancing in NYC’s subway, on the L line Bedford Avenue station. https://gizmodo.com/this-looks-like-you-ha-ha-ha-5393952 Anna Jane Grossman—author of Obsolete—wants to believe he’s the real one. I do too. Jump to 1:45 and see. [Obsolete]

Opera Mobile Browser Is Finally Coming to Android

With the impending arrival of the fantastic Opera Mobile, the Android browser wars have officially kicked off. But wait, Opera on Android? That sounds sort of familiar! Here’s what’s actually going on, and why this is great news: https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-opera-mini-4-2-beta-for-android-5098162 Opera has announced that it’s offering Opera Mobile to OEMs—the people who actually make your phones—to…

iHandstick Doesn’t Solve the iPhone’s Touchscreen Gaming Controls Problem

The biggest thing keeping the iPhone from rendering the Nintendo DSi and Sony PSP Go obsolete is its lack of physical buttons. You just can’t play some games with a touchscreen. And this wacky iHandstick does nothing to solve that. Instead, it pops the iPhone or iPod Touch into a Playstation-like grip, allowing you to…

Is $200 a Reasonable Cost For Enhancing an iPhone’s 3MP Photos?

$200 is a fair wedge of cash for any iPhone accessory, but Factron has something special tucked up its little aluminum casing. Fisheye, super-wide and close-up lenses can be screwed on, enhancing those 3-megapixel photos you like taking so much. Of course, they’re sold separately, securing Factron even more of your dosh, but it’s a…