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In case you’re interested in a cheap, reusable 9V to USB adapter/charger, AnythingButiPod has a neat step-by-step tutorial up that requires little more than soldering. Or you can always just buy a Duracell Instant Charger for not much more. [AnythingButiPod] https://gizmodo.com/review-duracell-instant-chargers-are-pretty-perfect-5350880
So, this guy sends his laptop to Dell for repair and Dell sends him back a hard drive…just a hard drive in a box. So what’s the problem here? Last week I called Dell Technical Support about my Dell Studio 1537 Laptop and a DVD drive which was making loud noises and ejecting all cds.…
The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. The design is a rough map of the city’s neighborhood as distinguished by “air boundaries”. The…
Pulling a Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers, Adobe shows its darkest side screaming and pointing the finger at Apple in this Flash installation web page for iPhone users. Their razor-sharp message: Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of tecnologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe…
Tap into your inner power user with the behemoth HP dv8t laptop, your inner rock star with Guitar Hero Aerosmith edition, or your inner film critic by scooping up two free passes to the new movie Gentlemen Broncos. Top Deals: • 18.4″ HP dv8t Laptop for $1100 plus free shipping (normally $1500 – use coupon…
Is your Sanchez starting to curl? Movember is in full swing and it’s not too late to join the moustache-growing competition to benefit cancer research. Click here to enroll in Movember-you could even become this year’s Man of Movember! At the Movember closing Gala events, men from all across the country gather to celebrate their…
The Motorola CLIQ smartphone, which we thought was a step in the right direction, is available at T-Mobile stores today. Also shipping is the XM SkyDock which allows drivers to control XM satellite radio with their iPhone or iPod Touch. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-cliq-review-5381995 The Motorola CLIQ, a new Android smartphone from Motorola with a bevy of social…
Bill Gates—one of my favorite Gizmodo readers—was in Vancouver last week, watching a U2 concert. He was celebrating his birthday, so Bono and the crowd sang a song for him. Belated Happy Birthday, Señor Gates. [Techflash]
A buzzy new report says that iPhone ebook apps are on the rise, and accounted for more new apps in October—nearly a fifth—than even games. It’s unexpected and exciting, but what does it mean? Spam, is what. The data shows a clear rise in ebook apps over the last few months, such that they account…
Jason Chen’s experience with the Windows 7 burger was an inspiration to us all. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, I want to see the fast “food” that you eat—be it gorgeous or grotesque. https://gizmodo.com/i-ate-the-windows-7-burger-5394184 The official challenge: “Fast Food.” As always, interpret the theme however you’d like to give us the best shot that you…
If the details on this shirt don’t represent at least some of what you’re interested in, I don’t know what you’re doing here. [Threadless via The Daily What]
Think about all of the half-assed repairs we can already do with duct tape. Imagine what it would be like if embedded LEDs were thrown into the mix? We’re talking half-assed upgrades here. In other words, you could use duct tape to actually pimp something out as opposed to simply keeping it together. That must…
My favorite actor died today, which makes me truly sad. He’s Spanish, so you probably don’t know him, even while he got an Emmy in 1972 for this short: The Telephone Box, a frightening tale with a shocking ending. The short is in Spanish, but it’s made like a silent movie—there’s almost no dialog, and…
In this video, a hapless Russian warehouse worker destroys about $250,000 of precious, precious vodka in about 3 seconds (he escaped unscathed). Insert Yakov Smirnoff joke here. [English Russia via The Daily What]
This is weird: the next version of µTorrent, currently in beta, uses an updated version of the BitTorrent protocol that decreases your speed (usually uploads) when it detects network congestion. Will it slow downloads? Not necessarily…apparently. “uTP measures the time a packet takes to get sent from peer A to peer B, so in theory…
Apple’s apparently pitching to networks a subscription plan that would deliver all your TV shows through iTunes for $30 a month, with the goal of launching it next year. But don’t hold your breath on it happening yet: Peter Kafka has “yet to hear of a single programmer that has made a firm commitment.” As…
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For a stereo, the Wall of Sound isn’t massive. But for an iPod dock, it’s gargantuan. Pitched as “the world’s most powerful iPod speaker,” the Wall of Sound is a $4,500, handcrafted iPod dock with a stocky 3×4-foot frame that weighs in at 225 pounds. As for the sound itself, the 125W system promises a…
Like Wii Music before it, Nintendo’s upcoming Wii Xbox 360 takes something that once required skill to be good at and lowers the bar for entry. Finally, your mom can kick ass at Call of Duty! https://kotaku.com/wii-music-review-jam-with-the-bland-5066687 Written by me, directed and edited by Craig Rowin, makeup by Annamarie Tendler, starring Noah Plener, John Ward,…
This is exactly what the world needs: Another taser. This one can be fired using a standard 40-millimeter grenade launcher, which gives it a 197-foot range—three times the range of the XREP. Supposedly, it’s non-lethal. Some disagree: https://gizmodo.com/xrep-taser-fires-from-shotgun-fries-your-foes-wireless-275461 There is a known risk of severe injury from impact projectiles, either from blunt force at short…
