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Modern Warfare 2’s exercise in excess “Prestige Edition” features a book of artwork and character details, a metallic collector’s edition of the game and…a fully functioning pair of night-vision goggles with a creepy sculpted head as a stand. We don’t know much about the night-vision goggles, except that they’re MW2-branded and feature “alternating modes” (alternating…
Unveiled in 1978 but released in 1979, the Black & Decker Dustbuster was a revolutionary home-cleaning device, and the only power tool a parent was likely to let a children play with. Vroom! Reading this retrospective, I’m both surprised and unsurprised at how innovative and well-designed the Dustbuster is. It was rechargeable, wall-mountable, used a…
Click to viewAdobe and University of Wisconsin scientists have created software that can correct shaky camerawork, but it’s way cooler than anything on the market now. Using 3D modeling, it guesses the intended look, then warps the original video to adjust. Basically, the software examines each frame and warps it to form a steady line…
Ecto-1 for sale on eBay…a dismemberment plan for Steve Jobs’ mansion…air conditioning so efficient it will never get made…Sears’ revolutionary new way to deal with faulty gadgets… How much you got on you? Let’s pool cash and score Ecto-1, the original Ghostbusters’ ’59 Caddy ambulance. OK, maybe not the original, but at least one that…
Sometimes, when you least expect it, something happens that shatters your life so hard that the resulting wave could destroy this 6-Story condo. This time, you can expect it to happen tomorrow, Juluuii 14tgdsgas wwwehatt thgee fuchthtoh isgg ghoonngg oooonnn See? See what I did there? Aw, never mind. Tomorrow you can tune in live…
In the spot where the old Robert Mueller airport used to be, the city of Austin is building, among other things, a solar farm made of these contest-winning, 16-foot-high “sunflower” style solar collectors. The collectors aren’t active yet, but when they’re switched on they’ll be used to power lights for a nearby hiking and biking…
Thanks to some moronic Jamaican and Canadian drug smugglers, the 1979 mustache patrol cracked down hard on LPs that had the rare distinction of being certified "pot." Gizmodo ’79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital, and most of our favorite toys…
This 600FPS video of slow motion Japanese boobs is mesmerizing. Update: video’s back. Click to view There’s a reason why both Canon and Nikon are both made in Japan. And if you’re asking how I know this is Japanese without seeing the faces? Trust me, I can tell. [Boobieblog (NSFW) via Fleshbot (NSFW)]
As DeviantArt artist DivineError noted: Windows are made glass, so why not glass Windows? Download the wallpaper at DA. [Deviant Art]
This Blaze Game Selector for the Nintendo DS Lite attaches to the DS’s back and allows you to toggle between 3 games with the flip of a switch. We’re not sure the marginal effort saved is worth the aesthetic sacrifice. The Selector features three slots for games and an indicator light to show which game…
Terminators have night and infrared vision. But they had to start somewhere, right? In 1979, a robot at Stanford called Cart that was radio-linked to a mainframe tracked and navigated 3D obstacles using a sliding camera for stereoscopic vision. First, they saw chairs littered around rooms. Then they saw us. [CMU] Gizmodo ’79 is a…
Lisa @ BBG took the updated Nike+ Sportband for a run. The short of it is that it does what you think it does, and does it with a better screen than the original. https://gizmodo.com/official-59-nike-sportband-works-without-ipod-375156 The upside is that it’s only $59 and functions as a wristwatch when you’re not running. It doesn’t have all…
This round goes to you, Zak McFlimby. [b3ta via Boing Boing Gadgets]
That’s my takeaway from Lexmark’s trio of Wi-Fi touchscreen printers—Technologizer notes unlike HP, Lexmark’s touchscreen is designed to simplify, not like, print web content directly, as the HP models. But Lexmark’s start at $200. [
Talking up Verizon’s July 28 developer event, GigaOM drops the bit that Verizon’s “app store will be the sole marketplace on devices sold by the company meaning stores such as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile Marketplace won’t get placement on Verizon handsets.” Granted, multiple app stores on one phone is…
As we pointed out in our call for a revolution against beta culture—they don’t make em’ like they used to. But is that really true in your opinion? Were gadgets more reliable 30 years ago then they are today? https://gizmodo.com/a-call-for-revolution-against-beta-culture-5083371 Were Gadgets More Reliable 30 Years Ago?(trends) Gizmodo ’79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets…
According to the designer of the iBum, "the ass is the window to the soul." I suppose that is true for the kind of person who would buy a chair with a built-in butt photocopier. The concept is simple—motion sensors detect the presence of a victim and prompt the embedded photocopier to scan. The image…
An unidentified man working with a cardboard shredder in Lincoln Heights, LA was killed in what must have been a horrifying fashion after getting tangled in the device. Details on exactly what happened have not been determined, but we are not above jumping to wild and absurd conclusions. As Jason Chen put it “that’s why…
Ken Musgrave of Fast Company comes to the conclusion that we need a “unit” of green measurement for products, much the same way that calories and fat grams are used in food. Yes, but it won’t be so easy. How are we going to measure greenness? How much of the original product is used in…
It’s probably just the horrible background music and the schizo camera work that makes Doug Liman’s look like butter, but this video of Windows 95 running on an iPhone by the iSoft team makes my tummy turn. The hack makes use of a standard Windows 95 image and the Bochs emulator, though as you can…
