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A man from Ohio was recently sentenced to 15 months in prison after being convicted of “hacking” for using his work computer to look at pornography and upload nude photos of himself to adult websites. In the span of 5 months, Richard Wolf spent approximately 100 work hours using his work computer for personal use,…
Proclaimed as the Lego of lights, the TwistTogether Lamp is a colorful lighting display made up of LED-filled blocks that can be stacked, twisted and reconfigured to create unique designs. Although the lamp is powered solely through one block, twisting on additional blocks onto the original one will cause the array to light up. For…
Perfect for couch potatoes who are addicted to reality television, the Nest Box is a birdhouse with a built-in hidden infrared camera that will wirelessly transmit audio and video to your TV. Made out of weatherproof pine wood, the £139 ($211) Nest Box works in degrees from -10 to 50°C during both night and day,…
An interesting article published on the CableFax industry webpage argues that vendors and suppliers need to loosen their grip on the set-top box in order to keep up with our increasingly open source culture. But perhaps it’s time to examine the cable industry’s lease model. Is having all of those logo-branded boxes on the balance…
Is there anything better than watching Vincent Price try to sell an insanely complicated 3D camera as simple? No, no there isn’t. [Funny or Die]
Zombies! Zombies in your kitchen, zombies in your bed, zombies on the streets, zombies in your pants! Zombies in your iPhone with Resident Evil: Degeneration. Seven dollars of gore, “laser targeting”, and “Shake of Zombie.” Doesn’t look bad for a 9.6MB app, but I will keep hooked toiFighter, which is my current favorite. It doesn’t…
A new study reported this month revealed that 17,000 children were admitted to emergency rooms in 2007 for injuries related to falling furniture. Of those incidents, nearly half involved falling TVs. Apparently, the 41% rise in injuries/deaths since 1990 correlate with the increasing popularity of flat screen tvs and the narrow stands that often support…
“Don’t do nothing stupid.” That’s what Dwayne Stewart allegedly said to a man leaving the Apple Store, before he disappeared with the man’s Mac. It wasn’t the first time he’d done this, nor the last. For him, Christmas lasted until January at the Prince St. Apple Store, where he spent weeks waiting for victims to…
We call people douchebags all the time, but Wes Moss, the star of Microsoft’s latest Zune ad has all the credentials of being a record holder. Let’s look, shall we? https://gizmodo.com/microsofts-latest-ad-is-dumb-ipods-cost-30-000-to-fil-5249869 Even if we put aside the fact that he looks and talks and gestures like a douche, he has plenty of douchey bullet points…
Yes, it’s a Boeing 747. But what the hell is that thing inside the engine? Click to view Remember kids, don’t ever walk in front of a working turbofan. Not even if you are a metal luggage container with legs. [BBC News]
It’s not official yet, but it’s getting close: The Wall Street Journal is claiming that Microsoft is developing a new 3D video camera for the Xbox 360 that will allow you to control games, Wii-style. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-xbox-360-getting-full-body-motion-sensing-contro-5236060 According to the WSJ’s sources, the new technology will give players “more accurate control over games” than earlier z-depth…
What do Panasonic, LG and Samsung think about the notion that plasma flat-panel TVs are on their way out? Gary at HD Guru went to the source to find out. Tim Alessi, LG’s director of product development stated that his company is still committed to the format claiming that “LG will include some of our…
The latest point release of Leopard is out now, which you can get if you hit up Software Update from your Mac. Updated. Besides general security fixes, there are Dvorak and Yahoo syncing bug fixes, Widget stability updates, Spotlight network searching for network volumes and some Ethernet Flow Control performance upgrades. There are also improved…
We’ve got a ton of great discounted games and home entertainment deals, including a 42” HDTV bundle for a little over $1,000. And who doesn’t love free tacos and ice cream? Computing and Peripherals: • MSI Wind U90 Netbook for $194.99 (normally $259). • 1TB Buffalo Technology DriveStation External Hard Drive for $89.95 plus free…
Oh, yeah, those rumors about the Zune phone in June? We told you this guy was full of shit. In related news, Mary Jo may be on to something. Updated https://gizmodo.com/did-microsoft-just-announce-a-zune-phone-on-twitter-5250347 Jesus talked with our friend Dennis Liu—the guy behind Pretending to Work and Office the Movie. He confirmed that the Twitter account officethemovie is…
First there was too many faces, and now diesel has done a 180 with a watch with no faces at all. What’s next? Putting the clock on the back of the watch? https://gizmodo.com/five-faced-diesel-watch-screw-you-midwestern-states-5044423 Inexplicably, clocks for four time zones are embedded into the side of the Diesel DZ9044. So, you would need to twist the…
The rumors around Microsoft’s Pink—their fabled iPhone competitor—are gaining momentum even after Steve Ballmer repeatedly denied them. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has published the hardware guts of this beast. https://gizmodo.com/steve-ballmer-on-zunes-future-i-won-t-say-full-steam-5180712 According to her, this “may or may not be the final specs for the Windows Mobile 7 Chassis 1,” the hardware specs necessary to…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to design your dream home, no matter how impractical it may be. It turns out that a lot of you want to live on the Death Star. First Place – Vince Versna Second Place – Richard Green Third Place – Jeff
Despite the fact that this photo was snapped in broad daylight in a busy Seattle REI store, Shane Becker was threatened by fake cops and arrested by real ones. One of the Loomis & Fargo guards servicing the public ATM threatened to tackle Becker if he tried to leave the store—apparently snapping a photo of…
Intel is launching their Calpella quad-core notebook chips in the third quarter, according to DigiTimes’ sources. Knowing that Apple always nicks their chips first, we probably can expect new MacBook Pros around that timeframe. There will be three chips, successors to the CPUs in high end notebooks today: Core 2 Quad P1 (1.6GHz priced at…