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I’ve waited for this moment since season one of Futurama. Man and canine, living together, sharing a bowl. Now with Kooky Chew Human Dog Food, you can succumb to temptation and indulge in the succulent but crunchy world of kibble. And you even get a bundled bowl to complete the experience. 2 and 1/2 ounces…
Squirt guns. Floating trampolines. Water balloons. There are all sorts of awesome things that only come out when the sun is shining. But I want more! So let’s come up with some really crazy summertime toys and products. Send your best entries to me at [email protected] with Summer Fun in the subject line. Save your…
Nintendo DSi firmware update 1.4, out in Europe, Japan and Australia—so likely coming here soon—adds direct Facebook photo uploading. But it also now blocks all DSi-compatible flashcarts. So what’s it gonna be? Free games or Facebook? [Tiny Cartridge]
We know Verizon is cooking something up with Android, and if motofan.ru’s information is correct, the Motorola “Sholes” render pictured here might be one of their Android projects. https://gizmodo.com/captain-obvious-of-verizon-says-verizon-iphone-is-apple-5302270 According to the site, the device will feature a 3.7-inch (480 x 854) touchscreen, CDMA, EVDO Rev A support, 512MB of storage 256MB of RAM and…
As a guy constantly fighting clutter in his garage, I can appreciate the brilliance of a towable trailer that doubles as a vertical storage unit. When you buy a house, one of the first things you realize is how useful owning a truck can be. The Tow-n-Stow serves a similar purpose, but it appears to…
Yeah, you’re bad. You stole from a bank (even if it was just a pen). Or did you? At last, the $4 The Bank Job Pen fulfills that little part of your brain that’s always wanted to walk into a bank, cut the pens away with the assistance of jaws of life and a team…
This is what happens when you build an extremely powerful vortex cannon, loaded with “one of the most dangerous gas mixes in the world,” to fire it against houses made of straw, sticks, and bricks, like the big bad wolf. Looking at the video—filmed at 1300 frames per second—it seems like the big bad wolf…
Most savvy gadget shoppers know that extended warranties at places like Best Buy are the equivalent of lighting money on fire, but now HD Guru Gary Merson has done some investigating to show just how bad they are. Best Buy’s sales pitch often differs from what you’ll encounter if you actually try to use your…
We’re not so certain that investment in inflatable furniture is a good idea (unless you live on a houseboat or something), but Dutch comapny Blofield is prepared to sell you premium Chesterfield-style chairs and sofas. Constructed of PVC and vinyl, the 1, 2 and 3-seaters are intended not so much as pool novelties as permanant…
Of course this Iron Man anime is totally badass—Japan’s made cartoons about dudes in robot suits for over 40 years. And of course, Iron Man is blowing up a bunch of other dudes in crazy robot suits. That bad guy is creepy—like a cross between M. Bison and this dude I saw on the cover…
Leica’s finally got a price for its 37-megapixel monster S2, with its massive 30x45mm sensor: $26,000. That’s body only. A spare battery charger will cost you another $425. Yours, you rich guy you, in October. [DPReview via Wired] https://gizmodo.com/leicas-s2-is-what-you-get-when-you-crossbreed-a-tank-wi-5163136
I do love the Swedes. Most of them. Maybe not the couple who drove 400 miles away from their destination because they misspelt its name—typing the industrial city of Carpi instead of the island of Capri—into their GPS. The couple wrote Carpi and, without questioning the weird 400-mile detour the GPS was showing and the…
Yeah, the 8500 series is Samsung’s first set of LED-backlit LCDs with local dimming this year and has the Yahoo widget engine for streaming video, but all I really care about is that awesome looking blue stick holding it up. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-whats-so-great-about-led-backlit-lcds-5271493 I mean just look at it. It’s from the future or something . The…
The WSJ says they totally are. Ryan Block says that the WSJ is full of shit. But wait, haven’t we had this conversation before? Like, a few times? https://gizmodo.com/apple-going-to-ces-next-year-source-says-5127242 The reason this is even a subject again is because of an oddly (and perhaps tellingly) vague piece posted on the the WSJ’s Digits blog by…
Apple has just announced a new, 2TB Time Capsule that’s available today for $500 (the former price of the 1TB). So the 1TB drops to $300 (the former price of the 500GB). [Apple Thanks Jelmer!]
Rustic getaways, gin made in a tub, and arcade-style fun at home – get over your app rejection blues with the week’s best from Uncrate. This week at Uncrate: We back our bags for a trip to beautiful Nimmo Bay, transfer our cash and cards to DB Clay Hand Printed Wallets, and take a spin…
I know, you play Call of Duty SO COMPETITIVELY that you can’t even blink. But since that mentality leads to eyestrain (which leads to fewer kills), Japan’s Masunaga Optical Manufacturing has invented Wink Glasses. The glasses implement a sensor that constantly tracks how often you blink. Go just five seconds without blinking your eyes and,…
Short of price, release date and carrier(s), there’s not a whole lot that hasn’t been leaked about LG’s comically long next generation Chocolate, the BL40. But somehow, these first official shots are still enticing. I mean, look at it. Shock and mystery, I suppose, are at the core of the BL40’s appeal, at least until…
This is the opposite of surprising if you know what a good, modern cellphone is but Motorola sold about half of the cellphones this year that they did in Q2 last year. That’s still 14.8 million handsets, but we know where that trendline is going if you chart it out a few quarters. On a…
Since Holland is mostly under sea level, keeping houses from flooding is a constant problem. This concept fixes that problem by just having an apartment complex that floats. The Citadel is the residential part of the “New Water” complex, which tries to embrace Holland’s waterworld-ness instead of fighting it. It’ll have a floating road to…
