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You voted, and Alain Yves, the busy teacher and road-warrior dad, has won a brand-new Suzuki Boulevard Cruiser! (That’s him on the left, with his little girl.) Read Alain’s Suzuki-winning story here. Suzuki Boulevard Cruiser: the Official Bike of You! https://gizmodo.com/vote-for-your-favorite-road-warrior-the-winner-gets-a-5392041
Skateboarding legend and artist Mark Gonzales has created a preposterous “Circle Board” for his exhibit, Round n’ Round, at the Franklin Parrasch Gallery in NYC. Fellow skater Anthony Pappalardo is attempting to ride this unwieldy beast around Manhattan in this video with limited success. Perhaps with a stronger frame and some practice, it would be…
The tale of Netflix on the PS3 is sad: It’s just now shipping after sitting pretty on the Xbox for more than a year, and to add insult to injury, it comes on a disc. Thankfully, it’s slick. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-streaming-on-ps3-coming-soon-5389719 The interface is technically new in that it’s visually catered to the PS3, but it should…
A week from today, a brand new Best Buy is opening in the space on Union Square South that Circuit City used to reside. But this is no ordinary Best Buy: it’ll be open 24 hours during the week (while only staying open from 11-7 on Sundays for some reason), and it’ll have concerts. Concerts…
You may be excellent photographers, but some of you have atrocious (OK, delicious) taste in food. Here are winners of this week’s Shooting Challenge: Fast Food. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-fast-food-5395262 First Place 8 Bigmacs. Two SB-800 speedlights and on-camera flash (nikon CLS kicks ass) Nikon D80 I think at 1/125 f/5.6. Fast enough to shoot hand-held before it…
You may remember Myka from their BitTorrent player, but now they are bringing Hulu, Boxee and NVIDIA ION graphics to the table with the Myka ION. Apparently, Myka goes beyond Hulu and Boxee allowing you to run other full PC applications like XBMC and “browse to any web site and play video content directly onto…
Allow me to introduce the Hi-Pod phone. It comes with a one-inch LCD display, FM radio support, and an imitation iPod clickwheel stuck onto a hideously clunky chunk of plastic. It’s $85 and doesn’t work in the US or Canada. If for whatever reason this piece of junk appeals to you, you can order it…
Hot date this weekend? Impress with your sports memorabilia collection by snatching up these 5,000 condoms leftover from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. With inscriptions like faster, higher, and stronger, they’re a bargain at a starting bid of $730. The tale behind the auction is that somehow, out of the 100,000 condoms distributed during the Olympics,…
Before email, newspapers used intern runners to courier things between departments. Less than 50 years later, we have robots to do their jobs. Toyota’s delivery bot uses stereoscopic vision and laser rangefinders and speech recognition to find its way through a sea of cubicles. [Plastic Pals via UberGizmo]
With stacks of eight being only 0.6mm thick, Samsung’s new 30-nanometer NAND chips are practically anorexic, but for once that’s a good thing. Thinner chips like these could bring smaller gadgets and hopefully also lead to lower SSD prices. According to Samsung, their new chips are actually the slimmest ever and “40% thinner and lighter…
Screencap formats, secret dock animations, previously unseen menu shortcuts, login screen backgrounds: These are the hidden settings the Apple doesn’t want you to see (or just forgot about) and that Secrets, a free, super-simple app, helpfully wrangles into one place. The hidden tweaks are a mix of features that didn’t quite make the final cut…
Famed internet pranksters Improv Everywhere just posted their latest "mission," a musical about the joys of lunch sung inside the atrium of Trump Tower. But this time, they got to record it using a boatload of NBC’s high-tech gear. Because the Today Show was doing a piece on pranks and wanted Ann Curry to be…
There’s no love lost between Google and Microsoft, at least based on a recent interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt. “I’ve learned not to respond to quotes by Steve Ballmer. Hopefully we won’t repeat the same mistakes that Microsoft did 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that have been happening with…
An AN0100 802.11n wireless adapter for Tivo is up on the FCC’s site. While there’s not much information on what the add-on will bring to the DVR, the promise of increased bandwidth suggests more robust network streaming for Tivos in the future. Here’s to hoping. [Engadget]
Photoshop! On Android! Adobe’s free Photoshop app for Android is surprisingly just as slick as the iPhone’s though it’s missing all of the special effects, focusing on basics like saturation, exposure and cropping. https://gizmodo.com/hey-look-its-adobe-photoshop-on-the-iphone-and-its-fr-5378149 Basics are fine—and we like what it does there—so our real gripe is that there’s no adjustment for white balance, which…
The Tenori-On remains one of the most eye-catching, hypnotizing ways to make music, and Yamaha has a cheaper model coming in January. Unlike the original, it can’t use batteries, has plastic casing, and the LED-lights only show on one side. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-yamahas-tenori-on-synthesizer-we-love-it-380767 But it will also cost $800 or less by the time it hits stores…
iPhone game developer Storm8, creator of games such as World War, iMobsters and Vampires Live, has just been hit with a suit for secretly gathering the phone numbers of everyone who purchases its games. It’s not the first time we’ve seen this; Swiss developerMogo got busted gathering numbers and then calling people to harass them…
In the not-too-distant future, we’ll be able to upgrade our bodies with real hardware. But what exactly do you want grafted onto your body? The world is your nanomachine-powered oyster! Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Bionic Upgrades in the subject line. Save your files as JPGs or GIFs, and use a…
It’s a “No Disrespect” from BBNT in Melbourne. Camera used was a Canon 50D, with a 17-35 f/2.8L lens. Photo was taken at 35mm, f/2.8 @ 1/250s and ISO 100 -Tharaka Pathirage LG Voyager cell phone 2.0mp. we call it the “McGangBang”. step1: purchase a Mcdouble cheese burger from mcdonalds. step2: purchase a mcchicken sandwich…
After capturing just 3 seconds of brain activity through EEG, designers Lucas Maassen and Dries Verbruggen can carve a snapshot of your thoughts into a block of foam. While the idea itself is entirely unique, the process of constructing the couch sounds almost automated. After hooking someone into an EEG, software converts the brainwave readings…
