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The days are getting shorter pretty quickly, and that can only mean that Old Man Winter is coming. Fortunately, there are a plethora of games today so you can manage those brutal winter days indoors. Top Deals: • 10.1″ HP Mini 1000 Netbook for $269.99 plus free shipping (normally $329). • Halo 3 ODST and…
Sure, you could keep emergency supplies in a box in your closet. But keeping it on your cat is just far more adorable, which is important in a crisis. [Japan Trend Shop via 7 Gadgets]
Julius Genachowski is the honorable Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. And Julius Genachowski is in to kick some telecommunications companies’ ass, because he wants to introduce legislation to forbid content or traffic throttling. To avoid more comcasting, you know. https://gizmodo.com/comcast-n-bittorrent-bff-whats-good-what-sucks-373162 Adding to previous guidelines, the FCC Chairman talked this morning about how he wants…
No doubt you were impressed by the two story Lego house built by Top Gear’s James May and 1000 volunteers. Unfortunately, the pictures may be all that’s left unless they can find a buyer in the next 24 hours. Initially Legoland planned to buy the house, but that deal fell through because it was deemed…
Last week, a Venn diagram made us face the harsh truths of early adoption. This week, we face unfortunate realities of Macs, Windows and Linux. You may disagree, but you’d be wrong. Multi-chromatic overlapping circles never lie. [GraphJam Thanks Eric!] https://gizmodo.com/truth-dear-readers-5362897
While Boeing is struggling to get the Dreamliner into the skies, Airbus is already planning their A30X next generation aircraft, which include really cool stuff like forward swept wings, u-tails, and lower-placement engines. Their five-decker A380 replacement is even crazier. https://gizmodo.com/boeing-swears-dreamliner-will-fly-this-year-really-5347229 These won’t come for another 15 years, but they represent a significant change in…
Electric cars might be beautifully quiet, but they lack the aural balls of a V8, and pose a safety risk to pedestrians. That’s why next year’s Nissan Leaf will have a whirring sound reminiscent of a Bladerunner Police spinner. Nissan’s engineers were originally tasked to simply recreate the sound of an engine. But, says 30-year…
AT&T’s network is basically a huge failure. And if you want to fix their incompetence in your area, you’ll need to pay an additional $150 for a 3G MicroCell. I call bullshit. Update, March 24th, 2010: While AT&T wisely offered to cancel the monthly payments, we still think some of the principles below still stand.…
Things in Dubai get dirty pretty fast thanks to the desert. But how the heck do you clean the 2,683-foot Burj Dubai? What about a window-cleaning SWAT team rappelling down its surface with high pressure water guns. [Thanks Gerard] https://gizmodo.com/tallest-skyscraper-in-the-world-almost-completed-defie-5038788
And with a bit of luck and a lot of practiced skill, the stoic hunter feeds his family for another day. Now commemorate the plebeian triumph with this $19 shirt. [uneetee via Fashionably Geek]
You’re walking through a dark cave, clutching your enchanted bow when you realize, CRAP, you’re really just in the back of a comic shop with some friends. And you’re thirsty. Jones feels your pain (and recognizes that severe geekdom is akin to any other profitable addiction), so they’ve started making D&D Spellcasting Soda. Coming in…
I always love me some Texas inbreeding. Austin based Dell announced that it will buy its neighbor Perot Systems for 3.9 billion buckaroos. Perot Systems, founded by infamous presidential candidate Ross Perot, is an IT services company that provides technology infrastructure to healthcare, government and other commercial businesses. The deal should be completed by January.…
You need the controllers before getting the goodies, and that’s why this NEC xHCI host controller is the first USB 3.0-certified device. Good, because I need this USB 3.0 1080p camera, capable of capturing 60 raw, uncompressed frames per second: The camera is manufactured with a Sony 3-megapixel CMOS sensor by Point Grey, and will…
Oh hello Microsoft Tablet, Turtle, Pure phones! Rumors about Microsoft’s Pink phones are back, along with talk of a shrunken Surface…tablet. Numerous sources are reporting that Microsoft is working independently on the tablet and the phone. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-chooses-zunes-ad-agency-to-promote-zune-phone-5306235 ZDNet Microsoft extraordinaire Mary Jo Foley’s sources say a phone (singular) and a tablet are brewing. The tablet…
How’s this for a bad idea: Japanese erotic game Love Death 4 is using face tracking and shape detection to add a nice dose of horror to the game’s already-questionable content. There are scant details for how it’ll work, and hey, maybe there are other shapes that an erotic game would want to detect other…
September 1989: Much excitement surrounds Apple’s first battery-powered Mac. But the 4-inch thick, 16-pound beast stretched the definition of “Portable”. And though $6500 wasn’t unusual at that time, it was underpowered, and couldn’t run on AC power while charging. Apple spared no expense, adding a 10-inch (640 by 480-pixel) active monochrome display—while PC portables were…
Hey Gizmodo Gallery starts Wednesday and it’s going to be amazing. In case you’ve missed any of the action, everything you’d ever wanna know about Giz Gallery ’09 can be found here.
No really, so happy you called. [Engrish via Craziest Gadgets]
Leave it to Yoichi Wada—president of final fantasizer Square Enix, the biggest Japanese game house—to break the news about the next generation Nintendo Wii. All while predicting that Microsoft and Sony motion efforts won’t be “truly successful.” Wada says that the next-generation, high definition Wii will offer the same capabilities as the Xbox 360 and…
We knew the Chocolate Touch or LG VX8575 was headed for Verizon in time for the holidays and the first leaked shots are nice looking. But I am seriously disappointed the touchscreen candy bar doesn’t look like the LG BL40. https://gizmodo.com/first-lg-chocolate-bl40-official-shots-dont-surprise-s-5326249 According to Phone Arena the LG VX8575 will have a 3.2MP camera and 3.5mm…
