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Whether it’s “Officer, I was only going 90MPH” or “Honey, I can’t get ’em off,” sometimes you just lack a handcuff key. Fortunately, you can print one—if you happen to have a 3D printer, that is. Using a 3D printer and a high-resolution image of the official handcuff key of the Dutch police, Ray, an…
Hard drive clock, sure sure, we’ve seen that before. But watch the video—this thing is just about the gaudiest clock I’ve ever seen. It’s got dancing neon colors, rapidly flickering lights and tosses in some creepy artwork too. Apparently built by some Polish tinkerer, this clock uses LEDs and the hard disk’s natural reflectiveness to…
I saved my first porn on disks using this thing to hide it from my parents! Please return it! Keep the wheel barrel! [Burbia via The Daily What]
Joining our ever-increasing pantheon of stupid criminals, we have one 19-year old Pennsylvania man who was nabbed after forgetting to log out of his Facebook account at the scene of the crime. Why the hell would someone stop to check Facebook on a computer owned by the person you robbing? Facebook addiction is a serious…
Would you like to write a saga about a spaceship with a womanizing captain, an awkward scientist/philosopher, a maniacal doctor, a drunk engineer, a voluptuous communications officer, a communist pilot, and a gay helmsman? Well, this Macintosh 128 won’t help. If your name were Gene Roddenberry, however, that would have been a piece of cake.…
That game gets hard enough around level 8 without having to move the stick two feet to drag a piece. [Kotaku Japan via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/tetris-for-giants-30959820
Building on a proud tradition of charging for things that shouldn’t cost anything, Best Buy’s crack team of dudes who can fill out inane bubble tests will now rip your CDs, for the low low price of $1 a disc. https://gizmodo.com/best-buy-iphone-3g-buy-bs-accessory-package-geek-squa-5045706 Lest you judge too quickly, let’s take a look at the Geek Squad’s latest…
It’s only a concept at the moment, but designer Matthiew Tarrit claims that his Polar Vehicle arctic base was created in cooperation with polar scientists. If it ever does come to fruition, scientists working in some of the most inhospitable areas of the planet will certainly be living in style. [Coroflot via Core77]
LA radio station KCRW is great because they’re hellbent on keeping independent radio alive. So we were ecstatic when they said they’d have Morning Becomes Eclectic host Jason Bentley come by Giz Gallery ’09 spin a live DJ set. In addition to serving as KCRW’s musical director, Bentley is the musical supervisor for numerous TV…
You think the cheeseburger in a can, bacon in a can and whole chicken in a can are disgusting? You don’t know disgusting. How about sheep’s head in a can? Or “Lunch Tongue”? Welcome to the Meat Museum. https://gizmodo.com/cheeseburger-in-a-can-is-both-the-best-and-worst-thing-350091 The Meat Museum isn’t really a museum at all, but rather the personal collection of one…
We’d speculated before that Voodoo was essentially toast, but we really wondered what was up when HP appropriated the “Envy” brand and design into HP laptops. Aaaand we it seems from Rahul Sood’s latest that it’s basically dead. https://gizmodo.com/is-hp-shutting-down-voodoopc-5053392 Essentially it’s been consumed and digested by the rest of HP: Many people assumed that Voodoo…
Theorize all you want, but your answer’s right here. From the horse’s mouth: “Keep in mind that for Verizon Wireless, it isn’t so much about the device as it is about the delivery.” These are the words of a Verizon spokesperson, who is apparently comfortable acknowledging that Verizon’s entire phone-choosing strategy is based on a…
Lenovo released a new nettop today, but they’ve got bigger and better plans for their latest creation that might be worth waiting for. • Lenovo’s C100 nettop we first spotted a few weeks ago is now shipping, but we’re still waiting on Lenovo to deliver some of the more exciting features they promised. The C100…
No doubt taking cues from the famous German PartyBike, cargo bike builder Metrofiets designed a man-powered mobile Bar, pizzeria and dance club for Portland’s Hopworks Urban Brewery. The bike features 2 kegs in the cargo bin along with 25 pounds of ice—but the beer also beer runs through a 50 foot cooling coil to ensure…
Fact: The FDA doesn’t allow very large or very small condoms. Magnum XLs are only sightly bigger than normal. In Europe, however, they are soon going to get them in 70 different sizes. Are you a J33 or a G22? Click here to download the fit kit in PDF format Believe it or not, using…
Congrats to Josh and the gang at Engadget for their first ever Engadget Show—a big deal and accomplishment not just for them, but for all blogs, really. (The outstanding title sequence alone makes it worth clicking play.) [Engadget]
How many gadgets do you have on you right now? Empty your pockets, open your bags and, God forbid, take off those holsters and show us pictures of what you’re packin’ in the comments. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-shoulder-holster-is-chuck-norris-favorite-fashio-5086832 UPDATE: Remember—text is fine but we’re looking for PICTURES here if you can take ’em. [Solar Vest via Chinavision]
Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein confirms the obvious: Palm’s WebOS-only from here on out. Bye bye Treo Pro. [SAI]
For those of you who live in small spaces, imagine what it would be like to fold up your kitchen when its not in use. How about taking your kitchen with you when you move? This is the idea behind Targa Italia’s kitchen in a box concept. Like the Casulo before it, Targa Italia focuses…
Zune Guy, who abandoned Zune because it abandoned him first, is considering crawling back to the Zune HD, and getting a new Zune tattoo to mark the occasion. If there’s anything sadder than fanboys, it’s fanboys with no conviction. [Wired] https://gizmodo.com/zune-guy-buys-ipod-classic-hell-freezes-apocalypse-ne-5029339