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Thanko’s new EMP-708LITE Vonia earbuds work by actually vibrating the bones of your skull, which is then picked up by your brain and processed as recognizable music. They are, quite literally, skull-rattling ‘buds. What’s remarkable (and remarkably Thanko-like) about these is the price: Similarly designed headphones, often not waterproof at all, run for well over…
Pentax’s P80 camera doesn’t really do anything that original or spectacular for its time—the 12.1 megapixel sensor, 720p, 30 fps video recording, face detection and 0.8-inch thickness are all pedestrian compared to other cams—BUT it is $200. The P80 can even detect faces at an angle and can find up to 32 of them in…
Click to viewThis video shows a crazy man launching himself off an epically-large water slide and landing perfectly in a kiddie pool very far away from it. Is it fake? I suspect so, but I really want it to be real. The site that explains the stunt is all in German, save one vague video…
The boring answer: because it’s going to form the underpinnings of the entire internet within a few years, and most major browsers—including Chrome, now—support it. The better answer: because it’s really cool, enabling webtoys like this, without plugins. A year ago, this cool (as in smoooooth) visualization, which plays music, displays fluid animations, and integrates…
Pentax’s Waterproof cameras are super pocketable, and so I love them, but the WS80 is only rated for 5 feet. That’s no better than their first gen w10 model and far worse than their W80 model rated at 16 feet. https://gizmodo.com/review-pentax-w60-waterproof-camera-catching-whale-sha-5038693 It’s good enough for a casual splash in a pool or a river swim,…
Watching live TV on your phone is something that everyone does in Japan, unlike America, so naturally they want to be able to do it on their iPhones. This USB antenna lets them do just that. The SEG Clip works by plugging into your laptop’s USB port and then broadcasting TV to your iPhone via…
As a part-time physics nerd, I get excited enough just reading Brian Greene books, so I can’t even imagine what the mood’s like over at the CERN dorms, where this polite advisory was allegedly posted. This theory, though extremely difficult to prove conclusively, doesn’t jibe with CERN’s latest explanation for their LHC’s failure to perform:…
We never ran into this obscure Windows 7 memory leak bug on our final RTM build: If you run CHKDSK using the “/r” parameter on a secondary drive—not your actual Windows partition—you could crash out the OS. https://gizmodo.com/windows-7-review-you-can-quit-complaining-now-5330609 But you—regular guy—probably won’t run into it, Ed Bott says after hours of testing the bug this…
If your job involves giving presentations on a regular basis, you might want to look into two new offerings from Logitech—the R800 and R400 Wireless Presenter remotes. The R800 offers a green laser pointer, LCD display (providing info like battery life, time alerts and wireless reception) and a 100-foot range. The R400 is stripped down…
These 45 Nano Cases are made from gutted cassette tapes and fit 4th gen iPod nanos. They’re pretty much perfect; I want an iPod Nano just so I can get one of these. So awesome. [Contexture via HolyCool via TDW]
Bad news: The crazy Sukhoi Su-35 stunt was not entirely true. The pilot flew without canopy, but the ejection was on the ground. Dangerous, but not that dangerous. We tracked down the video, which shows how the eject seat works. https://gizmodo.com/crazy-russian-sukhoi-su-35-pilot-ejects-for-a-hollywood-5323825 The clip is from Mirror Wars, an unwatchable Russian action flick about some plot…
While there are more than a few exceptions to the rule, most graffiti is nothing more but lame, self-serving tagging. But combine simple signatures with LEDs and slow shutter photography, and the genre is born anew: Halo is a concept by French designer Aissa Logerot. Shaped like a bottle of spray paint, the LED light…
Apple’s just squeezed out OS X 10.5.8—the last major update to ole’ lame duck Leopard before it gets totally replaced—and it’s loaded to the brim with bugfixes and minor updates. Check the full changelog below. https://gizmodo.com/leopard-10-5-getting-one-last-update-to-fix-bugs-placa-5288045 This is characteristically a maintenance update, tying up a few loose ends before 10.6 arrives. For perspective, a few…
How awful it must feel to be a fancy new cable with nothing to plug into. Such is the plight of the sad NXG 20-meter HDMI 1.4 cable, whose 3D/2160p/Ethernet talents will simply go unnoticed, at least this year. https://gizmodo.com/hdmi-1-4-internet-sharing-more-pixels-and-ridiculous-5254264 Available to system builders for a steep $380, the Y95054 doesn’t seem like a fully…
Previous versions of the UStream app for the iPhone only allowed you to stream video from the service. Their latest offering finally allows you to record and send video to the web. https://gizmodo.com/ustreams-iphone-video-broadcasting-app-is-live-for-jail-5165904 Granted, there are other applications in the App Store that already do this like Kyte and 12Cast, but UStream promises high quality…
Rosa at Lifehacker has casted a magic spell to kill Gmail ads based on research by John McKay. I don’t mind them myself, but if you do, just add these two sentences to the end of each message: https://lifehacker.com/massacre-gmail-ads-with-these-two-sentences-and-some-t-5330642 I enjoy the massacre of ads. This sentence will slaughter ads without a messy bloodbath. They…
Google has entered into an agreement to acquire On2 and their video compression technology. With YouTube in it’s back pocket, it seems likely that Google could push this technology all over the web—giving them even broader control. [BusinessWire]
We’ve already brought you some great deals on Xbox 360s this week, but today’s Dealzmodo features the best one yet. Check out the Rock Band 2 sets, too. They’re hitting awesome clearance prices before The Beatles: Rock Band releases. Computing and Peripherals: • 17″ HP G70t Core2Duo Laptop for $569.99 plus free shipping (normally $799…
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So mind-bogglingly complex that it took over a year to develop—little rubber chunks called Mouseblisters give sweaty palms better mouse gripping capability. Apparently, this will help reduce RSI and tendonitis symptoms. It also helps to modify the size of your mouse—something that can make things more comfortable if you have big hands. Oh, and if…