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Rupert Murdoch says he’ll bar Google from indexing any of his sites. Apparently Murdoch is under the impression that readers who come into his vast media empire (which includes Sun, The Times, The Wall Street Journal, FOX News/movies/channel, MySpace, and I-don’t-even-remember-what-else) through Google aren’t going to lead to any sort of profit: If they’re just…
Google’s bought Gizmo5, a VOIP company. They’ve got Google Voice, but no way to use Google voice for calls to and from your computer—only redirecting calls to existing physical and mobiles. Not anymore. The scoop by TechCrunch suggests Gizmo5 and Google Voice could join forces to create a skype like service. (Although many readers have…
It’s a humidifier disguised as a Fleshlight disguised as a beer can. Seriously. https://gizmodo.com/i-had-sex-with-furniture-the-shameful-nsfw-fleshligh-5375323 OK, not seriously. But it is a humidifier disguised as a beer can. You can connect it to your USB port, creating mist using ultrasonic vibrations. The $38 device can load 140 milliliters of water, which get soaked into a sponge.…
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There’s not much to say about these images of the Hoover Dam Bypass except expletives mixed with a dozen shades of amazement. It’s not the longest or the tallest or the biggest or the complexest, and still, it’s stunning: Click to viewThese images of the bridge—called the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge—were shot in September…
Imagine if you’d spent the last 90 hours of TV watching doing something more productive. Could you have built this lovable-but-treacherous portable Gamecube? (Probably not, so don’t quit your current “hobby.”) Loading stock discs from a wickedly exposed spinning disc drive on the back of the device, this “Gamecube” is ironically constructed from almost everything…
I’m flabbergasted, dumbfound, and mindboggled. In fact, my whole mind is a bag of bbggglll after watching this high speed video of water drops falling. It’s unbelievable how high speed photography can change your perception of the world. There’s nothing special in this video. No special water or additives. It’s just that the world gets…
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If you were thinking about grabbing the Nook for the holidays, you had better make up your mind soon. High demand for the e-reader is pushing the second wave of pre-orders into the first week of December. This development could be problematic for people who are waiting to test out the device in person at…
I doubt that words can do justice to the unbridled fulfillment a man receives when standing next to a bacon lamp birthed from his own brilliance. Flickr user kmkelley617’s bacon lamp is real and it’s (mostly) edible. The shade is made out of 99% handwoven bacon which was then baked as a mold in the…
Maybe I’m just a sucker for umlauts and radioactive thresholds of orange, but these 15 and 17-inch Haglöfs Laptop Drybags have me sold on both their padding and Ziplock-style watertight compartment. They run about $30. [Haglöfs via Stilsucht via OhGizmo!]
We haven’t seen a full ad scan on Sam’s Club’s Black Friday sale yet, but this potentially leaked list making the rounds now isn’t much to write home about. Below are only the parts of the list that we could even merit pasting. The bold items look like the best deals. Acer Aspire One 10.1″…
On one hand, what’s happening here is very simple: Rock Band’s singing feature just senses pitch, not words, so it’s perfectly reasonable that a flute—or indeed almost any instrument—could do the trick. On the other? This is art. The musical cosmos have been tilted out of balance for quite a while now, violently thrown askew…
Engadget got a few screenshots of what may be the user interface for all Google web applications, from Gmail to Google’s search itself. As you can see in these images, they may adopt Google Wave’s look. It’s still not clear if these screenshots are real, but if they are, I will be very grateful. If…
It was only a matter of time, right? Check out this setup where a laptop player controls “Pac-Man” while being chased by robo-vacuum ghosts. And get this: it’s actually a demo of their unmanned aerial software that guides airborne vehicles. That’s why the red tape marking the maze is really only there for the video.…
Yes, that’s a Windows XP error, floating in the sky. No, it’s not a Photoshop. And this is what it looked like after a reboot: Apparently, the fog near a plaza in Ukraine was so utterly intense, advertisements were reflected in the sky. This one, for a church or a house or a vacation or…
As you would expect, the world’s tallest fountain is in Dubai. As you would expect, it’s next to the world’s tallest building. And as you would expect, it’s as naff as everything else in there. The Dubai Fountain—which was recently finished by the Burj Dubai—can reach 492 feet up in the air. https://gizmodo.com/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defie-5038788 It was…
This sweet-looking ergonomic media chair is but a concept in the mind of industrial designer, Martin Emila, but I dig the look, and the integrated iPhone/iPod dock and projector. 3-way speakers on either side of the head also provide surround-sound. Emila says the chair would be crafted from hard plastic, and have four telescopic legs…
The neatest thing about this demo isn’t that 20 iPod touches have combined to make a giant touch display; the neatest thing is that the technology can scale: Both the proof-of-concept video and the above illustration are by Japanese design house PROTOTYPE. Their giant hive display can begin a chain reaction when someone touches one…
In case you missed it, the Litl Webbook is a unique “cloud-based netbook” with only 2GB of local storage, a presumably Linux-based custom OS, and a 12-inch display that bends over into “easel mode.” Here’s what it looks like action: https://gizmodo.com/litl-webbook-banks-on-cute-overlooks-practical-5396815 This video from CrunchGear shows that the operating system is all about simplicity. From…
