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Aside from some nice tapas, wine, and caipirinhas, is there any better way to end the week than a revolution at the office? I say NO! Here are the complete instructions: Warning: Pictures in the gallery contain NSFW illustrations with nudity According to its creators—the Centennial Society—the pamphlet is really designed to strike back against…
I don’t know if this is good or bad news. Best Buy‘s CEO Brian Dunn is predicting an optimistic holiday season and is preparing by adding more blue shirt employees. Positive stuff for the economy, but don’t expect mouth-dropping prices. https://gizmodo.com/the-seven-types-of-employees-you-meet-at-best-buy-5311140/ Reuters reports that Best Buy does not plan to use “heavy discounts to fuel…
I want to live here. Spacious, sunny apartment, hard wood floors, glass and steel. Except that this is not an apartment. It’s not even a building. It’s the strangest yacht I’ve seen, as these pretty shots show: Designed by luxury fashion company Hermes and ship-builder Wally, the $142 million WHY 58×38 is more floating mansion…
It’s out, and you should get it, if you own a BlackBerry and a Mac. That’s about it. [BlackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-desktop-manager-for-mac-review-oh-thank-god-5372381
Crappy earbuds are killing music. It’s true. The problem is that good earbuds, like speakers, aren’t cheap. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-the-difference-between-100-and-100-000-5214792 We’re gonna be talking in-ear earbuds—canalphones, really, or in-ear monitors, if you’re snooty—since all the good stuff goes deep into your precious earholes. We aren’t talking about headphones because great headphones aren’t the most discreet things around—can’t…
The one way Nokia could doom their well-styled, long-lasting, 3G-and-GPS-having Booklet netbook? By punching it in the mouth with an $800+ price, like they did in the UK. A Best Buy inventory shot points lower, but not by much. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-dishes-booklet-3gs-full-specs-and-price-5350654 The Windows 7 netbook, which’ll be a Best Buy exclusive when it first goes on…
You might remember that the U.S. Air Force and Boeing have equipped a C-130 plane with an Advanced Tactical Laser for initial air-to-air tests. In September, it finally hit something successfully: A truck. Cool enough, but don’t expect any explosions. https://gizmodo.com/us-air-force-successfully-tests-advanced-tactical-laser-5295833 The parked truck’s hood and engine gets burned through like butter, and as you…
The BMW Lovos—a beautiful solar-powered car from hell—is one of those concept cars that looks as amazing as it is probably useless. And dangerous. Just imagine those metal scales slicing through a pedestrian’s body. The details are stunning: Created by 24-yo German designer Anne Forschner, the Lovos stands fo Lifestyle of Voluntary Simplicity. Each of…
Here’s the latest Apple rumor: The Mighty Mouse may get mightier-or less suckier, because that nipple sucks a lot—with new looks and touch technology. I hope so, although I would be just as happy with an anti-filth mouse. https://gizmodo.com/how-dirty-and-gross-is-your-tech-gear-364065 According to AppleInsider, the mouse’s nipple—the ball in the middle that gets useless after a while…
So I get that Google Wave is an attempt to re-invent a modernized version of email. But its mashup of email, documents, and social networking is kinda hard to get your head around. For me at least, this video helped: By the way, if you’re one of the 100,000 who have scored an invite—go here…
It seems as if Flip Video is getting into some non-camcorder territory. My guess is that this Flip Video Remote that appeared on the FCC controls some sort of accompanying settop box. https://gizmodo.com/flip-minohd-lightning-review-so-easy-a-caveman-can-do-5084357 The details are slim on the FCC page, but the pictures show a very simple, Fisher Price looking design. Could Flip (which…
Yes, that’s Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman there with half a brassiere clamped tightly over his nose and mouth. That said, this is not some scandalous spy shot that will bequeath Bill O’Reilly’s next wet dream. It’s actually this: The brassiere is one of the award-winning bits of science and invention from this year’s…
Wow, this could be my fallback plan for a lightweight entertainment PC if the Eee Keyboard ends up sucking. The EB1501 is the first EeeBox with an optical drive, Windows 7, and a classy new design. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-keyboard-confirmed-for-october-wireless-hdmi-5358748 Otherwise, its specs are the same as the recent EeeBox EB1012. That means dual-core Atom N330 processor, 2GB…
Say what? Back in 1958, Ford designed models of its batmobile-like concept with lead-shielded uranium fission-plant. Fears of nuclear-meltdown meant it never got built, but it lovingly appears in two recent car retrospectives well worth a read. [Jalopnik and LIFE] https://jalopnik.com/seven-concept-cars-of-future-past-5345204/
Seriously, some of the coolest-looking gadgets coming out these days are for electronic musicians. The latest example: this USB MIDI controller that has a 64-button grid specifically designed to trigger audio clips in Ableton’s Live music creation/performance software. Similar to the open-source Monome project (though a little more refined), and smaller and cheaper than Akai’s…
I know it’s frustrating when your phone is borked, but telling an Apple Store staffer that you’re “so mad I could pop a 9mm at it”—before revealing you actually have a real 9mm concealed—probably won’t help matters. But that’s what a man allegedly did yesterday at the Apple Store in Cincinnati’s Kenwood mall. According to…
There are two things I don’t like when I wake up in the morning—looking across the room at the alarm clock on my desk, and sitting up to make sense of it. This timepiece acknowledges both issues. Designed by Greg Wolos, the Emily alarm clock is both wall-mountable and sideways oriented so that it is…
My second biggest Star Trek fantasy? Being able to tap a badge to communicate. Silly, but not to a Finnish company who is improving on Star Trek design and my fantasies with flexible, fabric communicators toting built-in GPS to boot. Over the last year and a half, Patria Aviation Oy has worked on developing a…
Apple’s latest patent filing revolves around dual-handed touchscreen detection for typing, gesturing, controlling a 3D interface and handwriting. But it this intended for the fabled Apple Tablet, or something entirely different? Apple Insider says this multitouch interface is designed to recognize specific user hands touching the device (personalized profiles!), and could differentiate between actions such…
Those evil, evil people at Evil Mad Scientist are already setting up for Halloween with their new version of their Cylon jack-o’-lantern. Now you can buy your own Larson Scanner Kit to do exactly the same. Their new Larson Scanner Kit—which requires soldering—only costs $13, and it is a lot more energy efficient that the…
