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Today’s available gadgets list is all about monitors. Iiyama has a new power-sipping panel out, and Mimo’s tiny USB touchscreen display is available for you to (excuse the terrible pun) get your hands on. • The Mimo 720-S USB mini display is now shipping. The device looks a lot like it’s brother, the 710-S and…
This vacuum fluorescent display clock would look awesome on your desk wouldn’t it? The good news is that making one yourself is a little easier with the kit from ladyada. Features: •Cool glowing blue tube with 8 digits and alarm on/off dot •Adjustable brightness •Alarm with volume adjust •Precision watch crystal keeps time with 0.002%…
Over the next few months, a select group of East London ATMs will prompt customers with utter disregard for the King’s English. Instead, the machines will use a nearly indecipherable, rhyming cockney slang dialect. ATMs run by a company called Bank Machine offer a language option allowing customers to enter their “Huckleberry Finn” instead of…
With the Sony Reader Daily Edition, the 3G-enabled ebook reader battle is pitched. At the end of this year, it’ll fight Amazon’s Kindle 2 and DX and Plastic Logic’s eReader to the death. Here’s how they all stack up now: Aaaand we can’t not do a proper sizemodo, naturally:
Remember this disgusting specimen? It was Pizza Hut Japan’s Double Roll Pizza, and it packed a whopping 646 calories… per slice. Good lord. Wait ’til you see the list of toppings. https://gizmodo.com/japans-pizza-hut-double-roll-is-ultimate-geek-food-646-283014 What contributed to such a high calorie count? Try little bacon wrapped sausages that acted as the crust, and mini hamburger patties on…
Holy crap. Is that a MacBook in this Microsoft website photo? Haha…seriously though, that is the least of their problems when it comes to the Polish version. [Microsoft and Microsoft Poland via Engadget]
You’re so right, Mario. But to be fair, you’ve got to play the game a lot more conservatively when you only have one life and there are no 1 ups. [Threadless via Laughing Squid via The Daily What]
Well, this is int-er-est-ing: Early testers have come across what looks like a new antivirus function within Snow Leopard. Or to put it another way, Macs don’t need antivirus! Wait. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-why-os-x-shrugs-off-viruses-better-than-w-5101337 The new feature behaves like a cross between a traditional antivirus tool and the “Are you sure you want to open this?” warnings already…
MediaMall is on the verge of announcing their Wii PlayOn beta, which has been in quiet testing for a while now. What this means to you: For about $40, you’ll be able to stream Hulu and Netflix to your Wii. PlayOn’s been around on the Xbox and PS3 since last year, as well as on…
Designed to accommodate a MacBook Air to a 17-inch MacBook Pro, the BookArc stand helps you to free up desk space by turning your laptop into a desktop. The product page goes on about the benefits of running your MacBook closed when using an external display and whatnot, but the bottom line here is that…
The test machines all showed massive improvement in opening these large, detailed (read: hard to compress) cityscapes of Tokyo, which were blown up to 35MB at 20,000 pixels wide. We also noticed how the snow leopard machines opened the files in parallel, while Leopard opens them sequentially. Here’s a test we used during Windows 7…
Today’s Dealzmodo has some great deals on laptops of all different configurations and sizes. If you’re in the market for a desktop, don’t miss out on the incredible Dell Vostro deal that includes a 23″ Samsung LCD. Computing and Peripherals: • 16″ HP HDX16t Intel Core2Duo Laptop for $749.99 plus free shipping (normally $1149 –…
I’ve been assuming for a while now that Apple was close to giving up on the aging polycarbonate MacBooks, but apparently not: AppleInsider’s got a source saying that, pending a “industrial design overhaul,” they’re here to stay. Lately, the plastic MacBook has felt like an unwanted orphan. It’s a tired generation-old design that looks stodgy…
If you have ever had the privilege of dining in the Bellagio in Las Vegas, you might have got a glimpse of Jean-Philippe Maury’s breathtaking 27-foot chocolate fountain. This taste bud tempting, 2100-pound behemoth circulates around 120 quarts of chocolate per minute. Just take a look at the videos and see if you can resist…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine up some kitchen gadgets that have yet to be invented. And if I don’t have a faucet that dispenses hot cheese by the end of the decade, I’ll be pissed.
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Motorola just passed us an Android-stamped invitation to a September 10th event in San Francisco, where one of its leaked Android phones is all but guaranteed to show up. Looking forward to meeting you, Morrison! And sure, Sholes, you too. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-motorola-morrison-phone-gets-specs-release-da-5333612
Japan can be a little obsessed with their produce (I passed on a $70 bunch of grapes I spotted in one boutique Tokyo market), and now they’re growing cucumbers in non-cylindrical shapes. By raising the vegetables in simple plastic molds, one producer creates heart and star-shaped cucumbers that, when sliced, can add a touch of…
As if the movie wasn’t good enough—the first ten minutes alone make it worth it, even if they kill me every single time—now you can get a real Luxo Jr. lamp with this limited edition of Up! For $140, the Up! Limited Edition Luxo Jr. Lamp Pack will get you the classic Pixar icon plus…
The PS3 Slim is coming out in September. This is true! Unless, apparently, you live in Florida, where residents in two separate towns are reporting that the console is already on shelves floors in their local Best Buys. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/sonys-playstation-3-slim-is-300-in-september-5340035 A tipster sent us this shot from a Daytona Beach Best Buy, where there’s already…