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The Pentagon’s current crop of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are insanely powerful—the “Hellfire” is so named for a reason—but also fairly imprecise, often killing innocent, nearby civilians. The DoD’s new UAVs hope to cut down on such casualties. In a recent briefing, the Department of Defense laid out its new plans: Smaller and far more…
Those deconstructionists over at Rapid Repair have taken their tiny screwdrivers or whatever to the iPhone 3GS and disassembled the poor baby. And so soon after its birth! Rapid Repair went out to France to snag the iPhone 3GS at its first site of release, the Orange Boutique in France. The teardown is pretty basic…
Yamaha’s MusicCAST2 Network Music System is a Wi-Fi-based tunes center that allows you to wirelessly transmit and listen to music in up to 32 rooms throughout your home. Do you even have 32 rooms in your home? Touted as the ultimate multiroom wireless system for music lover’s, the MusicCAST2 supports iTunes AAC files as well…
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) I see a headline that reads “Jetliner lands safely after pilot dies,” I click, expecting a story about how advanced modern planes are, that they can even land with a corpse at the wheel. But no, this mostly happy ending came because not one…
This drill, posted by Flickr user S8, serves absolutely no purpose. On any level. Yet I look at it and still think to myself, “that’s friggin awesome.” Ladies and gentleman, an unbelievably small drill. [Flickr via Make via CrunchGear] Click to view
There’s a real company promoting a not-so-real poweryacht called the Code-X. The differentiator—or “thing that’s supposed to land a billionaire customer”—is that the boat will have two Formula 1 engines and two solar-powered electric ones. It’s not abundantly clear when you’d use the as-yet-unannounced electric engines, or exactly how efficiently the onboard solar panels will…
After seeing this latest Twitter app offering, I think Commodore 64 availability should be the benchmark to judge whether or not your web 2.0 app has officially “made it.” Yes, there’s really a twitter app for the C64. Breadbox64 runs on the embedded Contiki OS, and lets you tweet and view your friends’ timeline from…
Art is great, sure. But art made from bolts of electricity fired from tesla coils? That’s my kind of art. Boing Boing Video went and checked out Omega Recoil, a group of crazies who put on performances with gigantic Tesla Coils. And while I’m sure you’d love to read me opine about what their performances…
EA sports and Pizza Hut have teamed up to bring boxing fans the chance to win a limited edition Fight Night Round 4 custom Xbox 360 console. It’s made by colorware, the same people that paint consoles for regular folks. Oh, and the grand prize is a trip to Vegas to see a championship fight.…
If you still don’t know what you’re getting Dad for Father’s Day, HybridSpace Furniture has come up with an all-in-one home entertainment “Man Wall,” which includes gadgets that are stereotypically man. A 52” Vizio LCD HDTV is the wall’s centerpiece, with two smaller flat panels, a Panasonic 5.1 home theater system, DVD player, CD changer,…
Rob at Boing Boing Gadgets thinks that Node—a power outlet that can accept several cables safely—may be the power outlet of tomorrow. I completely agree with him. If you live in the US or Japan, that is. [Metaphys via BBG]
Eurogamer got Microsoft on record to confirm that the Xbox 360 Arcade will begin shipping with 512-megabytes of built-in storage. Here’s what Microsoft told them: “The Xbox 360 system software uses some of the included 512MB memory; less storage will be available to users. Additional storage (sold separately) may be needed for game saves, Xbox…
According to Boeing, the U.S. Air Force tested an oxygen-iodine laser with a 9 mile range in the New Mexico desert, calling the trial run a success. USA Today says that the Advanced Tactical Laser was carried aboard a C-130 plane. Though the power level produced during the test wasn’t revealed, these lasers, Global Security…
This week Lifehacker instructs on how to be a cheap bastard that uses a duct tape wallet, how to make your Linux machine like a Mac, how to diagnose network health and how to make your desktop look like that. • StandaloneStack for Windows • Make a duct tape wallet to match your duct tape…
Samsung yammered back in January about making a 32-gigabyte DDR3 RAM stick, and now they’ve unveiled the beastly piece of hardware for servers. These new 1.35-volt modules are also 20-percent faster than previous 1.5-volt DDR3 modules. Nice. That said, Mark heard straight from Samsung who said that there’s no release timetable for this thing yet,…
Combining previously separated 3G modems for North American CDMA networks and foreign GSM networks, Verizon Wireless has come out with a single device—the Novatel USB1000 global wireless modem—that features both technologies in one. Starting tomorrow, Verizon’s wireless global modem can be purchased for $149.99 (after a $50 mail-in rebate) with a two-year contact, with plans…
“OK, I’m ready for everything! EVERYSINGLETHING!” Dark Roasted Blend has a nice collection of strange photos of professional and amateur photographers ridiculously trying to get that elusive Perfect Shot. Here you have a few of them. Check the rest of the series here. [Flickr via Dark Roasted Blend]
We’ve already reviewed the iPhone 3.0 firmware, nitpicking the features one by one. But in case you still haven’t studied the update closely enough, here are the 10 things you should know about iPhone 3.0. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-software-review-what-to-expect-5292789 The Upgrade Rush Seems to Be Over Before we begin with our tips, a note: Yesterday, we received countless…
At the Executive’s Club of Chicago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer let fly in a speech that a new Xbox 360 would be hitting store shelves in 2010. The new device will be equipped with technology that is “really, really, close” to an actuality. The console, which was described as having a “natural interface,” will have…
It’s probably safe to say that videoartist Marco Brambilla is a bit crazy. Actually, it’s probably safe to say he’s absolutely nuts after watching Civilization, the video-window montage that will take you from hell to heaven in an elevator. I had to watch his dementedly baroque video—which is featured at The Standard Hotel, New York—a…