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This Kanye West glasses bookmarklett is almost perfect. If it also changed every word on the page to “Kanye West,” we’d have a winner. [F.A.T. via psfk]
Oh Craigslist…so many idiots. Case in point: some dude is trying to pass off an ancient IBM PC running Windows 3.11 as being “ideal for home or office” and “a great deal” at $500. For sale – IBM PC-compatible computer. 486/33MHz custom-build computer running Phoenix BIOS, 80MB hard disk-drive, 640K of base RAM and 384K…
We love bacon. We love lube. We love bacon lube. Yes, you know its uses. A friend of mine sent me the link just now. The mail’s subject: “Mmmm…bacon.” I agree. [BuzzFeed—Thanks Rebecca]
Ars tricked Matt Woodward into running a gauntlet of tests on eight USB flash drives—a gadget you typically only evaluate by price/storage—to discover the secret king of flash drives. It’s an epic piece. Interestingly, the physically largest drives—the OCZ Throttle (which also has eSATA) and Patriot Xporter—are the absolute fastest, but Ars recommends Super Talent’s…
Today, we’ve got just about everything you need to complete your own home entertainment room, with receivers, speakers, blu-ray player and HDTVs with cheap movies/games to play on them as well. Computing and Peripherals: • Mac mini Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz Desktop for $449 plus free shipping (normally $479). • Dell Vostro 1520 Intel Core…
Maximum PC tests and answers the three biggest questions you have about RAM: How much better is DDR3 than DDR2? Is high-speed RAM worth it? How much RAM do you really need? On the DDR3 question, with AMD’s latest AM3 Phenom II chips, they found no difference between DDR2 and DDR3. Which is good, since…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to create a nightmarish robot or machine hell bent on the destruction of the human race. Make us scared. Finish up your masterpiece and send it in by next Tuesday morning to [email protected] with Deadly Machine in the subject line. Save your files with a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming…
The guys at KickingTires have put the TeleNav turn-by-turn GPS Navigator for Android and the G1 through its paces and have emerged feeling that the software is impressive, but overpriced. https://gizmodo.com/telenav-brings-turn-by-turn-gps-to-android-and-the-g1-5152170 Indeed, while they felt that the software scored well in major categories like ease of use, routing, map quality and accuracy, the value factor…
Featured in a 1935 issue of awesome futurist-comic-book-slash-science-mag Modern Mechanix, the Notificator is almost certainly the world’s first Twitter client. According to the article, the Notificator was placed in train stations—the depression-era equivalent of the internet, apparently—so that travelers could post ephemeral message for friends, families or passers-by. I like to imagine 1935 Twitter as…
Nooooo! Sony, why would you go and discontinue the Rolly! I think it was just about to catch on. I mean, when’s a better time for a near-useless $600 MP3 player than during a recession? Updated https://gizmodo.com/sony-rolly-rollies-into-us-391976 OK, so maybe it’s not that surprising that the Rolly got shown the door here only a year…
The Big Dog robot is scary, but at least you know you can get away from it by climbing a tree. Not so with the RiSE robot, which climbs poles with ease. Just imagine a Big Dog with a RiSE on its back. The Big Dog chases you down and then it unleashes the RiSE…
It’s not Japan-only anymore: Toshiba’s Portégé R600-ST4203 gets a 512GB SSD in June, with an official USD price of $3500—steep but more realistic than Asus’ claimed $1650 512GB SSD lappy. [Toshiba] https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-dynabook-ss-rx2-worlds-first-laptop-with-512gb-5253345
Woman – For the song Woman, I didn’t hear a sound quality improvement beyond:(web poll) Feel Good Inc. – For the song Feel Good Inc., I didn’t hear a sound quality improvement beyond:(ning polls) Carmen – For the song Carmen, I didn’t hear a sound quality improvement beyond:(opinion poll) Audio Equipment Cost – My total…
The first 400 people to buy a $599 Viliv S5 Premium UMPC today will also receive a leather carrying case, extra battery and car kit (valued at $135). [Dynamism – Thanks Douglas!] https://gizmodo.com/viliv-s5-lightning-review-netbook-meet-mid-5220569
There will be no judgment in this post. No sound snobbery. I’m simply asking the age-old question: At what bitrate should we encode MP3s? And I need your help. This test is occurring in two parts. In part one, I’m sampling three songs chosen from vastly different genres, encoded from CD and transcoded into the…
“One day, I will grow to be a great, big NES,” the Littlest NES said with glee. “Just like you, papa!” The Littlest NES’s father was indeed the biggest, strongest NES in all the land. So the proclamation, though one of just a small boy, was not to be written off. “Actually, son,” Father confessed,…
This is a real book. There are so many questions I have just from the cover. 1) What the hell is a Time Banana? 2) What am I doing with a Time Banana? 3) What am I doing on a book? 4) Why am I gesturing for people to go INTO a burning village? 5)…
My friend Leander has a story about a hacker claiming to have access to Steve Jobs’ Amazon account, and his entire shopping history for 5 years—20 thousand items! Seems odd.[Cult of Mac]
If you thought the Epix was the BlackJack III, nope. Meet the Jack. It’s a pretty standard Windows Mobile 6.1, 3G and Wi-Fi deal, and it compels copywriters to make lame playing card puns: https://gizmodo.com/samsung-epix-aka-blackjack-iii-first-smartphone-with-5066527 AT&T COMPLETES ITS FULL HOUSE OF SMART DEVICES WITH THE NEW SAMSUNG JACK™ Compact, Elegant Handset is Powered by Windows…
A new design, a new place to get answers, and tons of new gear – it’s been a busy couple weeks at Uncrate. Here’s what’s new. This week at Uncrate: We celebrate the launch of Uncrate Answers, a new place for men to seek and share information, cook up some breakfast on Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast…
