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For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want to see you come up with your fantasy dwelling, the place you’d live if reality wasn’t standing in your way. https://gizmodo.com/electronic-houses-home-of-the-year-makes-me-want-to-die-5241526 Devise an image of your dream home of the future and send it to me at [email protected] with Future Dream Home in the subject line. Name your…
Xerox’s new ColorQube printer promises to revolutionize the pricey color-printing game using a waxy ink that can reduce the cost per page by as much as 62%. Like traditional multi-function printers, the ColorQube can print, copy, scan and fax—it can also be networked by several dozen people in an office. However, it’s the crayon-esque ink…
Save yourself the trouble of bending over all the way to the floor by using this Side Wired desk. Not only is it a nice looking glass-topped desk, there are outlets all over. [Core77]
It’s high time you started saving more dough on all these shiny techy toys you keep buying. Plus we’ve found some of the cheapest PC games around in months. Computing and Peripherals: • 8.9″ Acer Aspire One Netbook with WinXP, 160GB HDD for $279.99 plus free shipping (normally $329.99). • 8.9″ Acer Aspire One Netbook…
100 hundred drives loaded with confidential information like building blueprints and test launch procedures for Lockheed Martin’s ground to air missile defense. That’s what you can buy on eBay these days. The drives were part of a group of 300 hard drives sold on the auction site, coming from the US, UK, Germany, France and…
According to Diesel, your coffee table is obscuring a series of turntables used for your closet DJing habit. In reality, that fossilized trilobite-esque table up top may be more your speed. [Diesel via MoCo Loco]
Straight from the twitter account of the man himself, the NIN iPhone app has been approved and will be available sometime later today “unchanged” from the version that Apple found objectionable. https://gizmodo.com/heresy-apple-rejects-trent-reznors-nin-iphone-app-upda-5237936 So, it appears that Apple has caved in to the criticism, further illustrating that their approval system is all kinds of messed up.…
Repeat after me: Psystar computers are not Mac OS X clones (to be Mac clones they need EFI firmware. They don’t have it and that’s why they are as crappy as any other Hackintosh computer.) That out of the way, according to a MacRumors reader, they are preparing a netbook with the hackintosh version of…
Ski season is over, sadly, which means that hardcore skiers need to figure out ways to stay in shape over the warm, boring months. This Olymp ski trainer seems like a pretty good way. The Olymp is an off-season trainer that you strap into your boots and work your carving muscles with a turn simulator.…
An internal memo obtained by BGR from an anonymous tipster reveals that Palm will be throwing a Pre “Launch Lunch” on June 5th. Presumably, the Palm Pre would debut within days of that lunch meeting. Lending credence to the rumor is the fact that the timeline coincides with the Best Buy trial run slated for…
According to Cote Collaborative, AT&T will reduce the price of the entry level iPhone monthly plan from $69 to $59 when a new model is introduced in June. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-mywireless-app-lets-you-easily-manage-your-account-5242450 The move would be designed to head off competition like the Palm Pre, but whether this information is based on any insider information or just market…
OK, we are done with the Star Wars weddings. Tiger and Issa win starting with her stormtrooper bustier. Unless the Darth Vader marries you in spectral form, no Star Wars wedding will surpass this one: https://gizmodo.com/death-star-wedding-cake-wins-fanboy-of-the-year-award-382455 No, it’s not a show. It’s an actual wedding. Look at her dress—classier than the Stormtrooper hooker, though—the lightsabers,…
For the upcoming BBC nature series “South Pacific,” filmmakers rigged a TyphoonHD4 to shoot above and underwater HD in gorgeous slow motion. https://gizmodo.com/tips-for-shooting-the-best-slow-motion-video-5164508 (Be sure to watch that clip in HD.) Shooting a frame rate 20x the speed of normal HD (I’m assuming that’s somewhere around 480fps if the standard HD cam shoots at 24fps),…
Microsoft really wants to make Windows 7 the least offensive OS ever. Case in point: They’ve made the little dialog box that pesters you into activating Windows less annoying. In Vista, you couldn’t shoo the little bastard away for at least 15 seconds. In Windows 7, you can make it vanish immediately by telling it…
Yesterday, on my Twitter account, I made the snide remark that the Kindle DX was saving newspapers through a $500 donation to Amazon. Apparently, my cynicism wasn’t that far off the mark. UPDATE https://gizmodo.com/kindle-dx-offers-9-7-inches-of-e-ink-for-489-5242310 According to James Moroney, President and CEO of the Dallas Morning News, Amazon demands a ludicrous cut of newspaper sales for…
Although the Datel Blue Tool boots your PSP 300 into service mode, it’s not a real service mode that let’s you install and run homebrew. This latest TIFF Exploit, however, is one step closer. https://gizmodo.com/datel-lite-blue-tool-hacks-the-psp-3000-with-a-battery-5092898 The video above shows (turn the sound off if you’re at work) shows developers “Davee” and “Bubbletune” using a TIFF…
On many Disneyland coasters, there’s a camera set up to automatically take your picture as you go down the biggest drop. They then try to sell you said picture at the end of the ride. Of course, this is a great opportunity to flash your boobs and have a bunch of kids see it, so…
Intel’s lifestyle ads have been around forever, in fact, inspiring Apple’s own marketing direction in the 80s. But everyone does this now, and so, they’re changing things up after all these years. The campaign has two major slogans: "our rock stars are not like your rock stars", or variations on the "not like your" theme…
This is what may have happened if Jonathan Ive from Summer 2001—who designed the iMac graphite on the right—had a time machine to travel back and design the Mac SE/20 in 1987. The machine was a limited run of ten models, done before the final run to see how everything fitted inside. Charlie Springer—the owner…
Who’s a wittle good dog speaker? You are! And you’re only $40! (Click through for full speaker puppy inversion.) Does the wittle doggie want its bewwy scwatched? I bet he does! I bet he does! Ohhhh, I bet the wittle doggie wuvs his bewwy scwatched. Wittle puppppyyyyy…wait…a second…is this piss on my keyboard? What the…
