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I’ve got the Monday blues, so I’m going to veg out as I shop for gadgets, dunk my food in free salsa and BBQ sauce, then wipe my face off with a free Aerie towel. Computers/Laptops: • Apple Mac minis/MacBooks (refurbished) for $999 or less (only 6 available). • Dell Inspiron 530s Desktop PC for…
If you liked our exclusive Lego minifig graphic timeline and you are a Star Wars fan, you will love this gallery with all the Lego Star Wars minifigs manufactured since 1999. https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-the-evolution-of-the-minifig-5070884 These minifigs are part of the limited edition poster that Lego has published as part of their 10th anniversary celebration of Lego Star…
A battery that provides 32 hours of continuous MacBook use? Now we’re talkin’. Sound’s great until you find out that the 222Wh Hypermac external charger costs a whopping $500. On the plus side, Hypermac is offering some smaller capacities at more affordable prices: like a 60Wh version for $200, a 100Wh for $300 and a…
We’ve seen a few instances of mind-controlled wheel chairs, and now researchers from the University of Zaragoza, Spain, offer us yet another amazing prototype. The chair displays a realtime 3D HUD while the user concentrates on basic functions, such as rotating the chair left or right. That information is read by the chair via EEG…
Expect a few BlackBerry announcements this week from the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, but here’s the first: BlackBerry app developers now have access to push, meaning apps will have the same push powers as email. [RIM]
Barry Silver was standing next to Lindsay Lohan in a Tokyo nightclub and took this photo. That’s a lot of digital cameras! And almost no dudes! What the hell nightclub was this?? [TokyoMango]
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s new movie breaks some major Hollywood rules, and not just because it stars porn actress Sasha Grey. It’s also available now on Amazon a full 3 weeks before it hits theaters. It’s not the first time Soderbergh has experimented with different ways of releasing his films. His 2006 film Bubble was…
The sequel to their iPhone 3G speedtest, Wired’s doing a nationwide speedtest for every 3G smartphone. It takes 5 minutes, and we’re interested to see how it compares to our own nationwide 3G test. [Wired] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3gs-download-speed-woes-get-surveyed-by-wired-5036882
Now I’m no PETA member, and I consider a nice lamb chop to be one of life’s great pleasures, but even I get uncomfortable watching this robot do its thing to a racked-up sheep. Despite how unsettling this contraption is, the inventor, James Trevely, claims that the sheep don’t mind it all that much. In…
Myst is now on the iPhone. It’s a $6, 730MB download that requires 1.5GB of free space to install. Yowzah! [App Store via 9to5Mac via bbGadgets and MacRumors]
Navigon will no longer be selling PNDs (personal navigation devices) in the US. In a statement released today, the company explains, “Due to the difficult economic environment and the aggressive pricing we have decided to withdraw from the PND business in North America for the time being. We are however not closing down our Chicago…
Hey there. Gizmodo is hiring, and I thought I’d put another feeler out for applicants, along with more detail on what we’re looking for. Maybe you can help me take Gizmodo to the next level. Asia/AU/EU Writers: -Must have tech journalism (not manuals for xerox machines) experience on blogs, newspapers or magazines and a body…
Sprint is in a bad place. Another $594 million and 182,000 customers vanished this quarter, and it’s thinking about paying Ericsson $2 billion to maintain its network—yes, it’s turning to outsourcing its network. CORRECTED. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-loses-another-million-subscribers-1-6-billion-5156418 CORRECTION: Sprint lost 182,000 customers during the first quarter of this year, not 1.3 million. It lost 1.3 million customers…
The Judas Cradle was a popular form of torture in the middle ages, involving slowly lowering some poor, naked bastard onto a pyramid. Now you can bring that fun home with you in stool form! The Stake Chair by Russian designer Ton Guglya is one of the most horrifying pieces of furniture I’ve ever seen.…
Want to make your car invisible? It’s an expensive and possibly impossible task, unless you want to get creative with it. https://jalopnik.com/drive-an-invisible-car-avoid-parking-tickets-5237582 Design student Sara Watson turned her old beater of a car invisible in a mere three weeks, and it didn’t even cost her that much. Of course, she can’t drive it now, and…
Last week we told you that Esquire had shot their June magazine cover in video. This week, we see that Megan Fox photo in all its…wait, there is no way “Fox” is her real name. https://gizmodo.com/megan-fox-esquire-cover-shot-in-video-not-stills-5229743 Captured on the 4K RedOne (that’s a frame resolution of 4096×2304, or 9.4 megapixels), the video-sourced cover image is…
I always thought text messages were limited to 160 measly characters because of some archaic pre-1970s technical standard. But apparently, it’s because some German dude thought 160 was “perfectly sufficient.” Friedham Hillebrand was a communications researcher who was working with a group on developing a standard for cellphones to send and receive text messages. So…
Hello, AT&T customers. This here BlackBerry Curve 8900 can officially be yours in “early summer” for an unnamed price. No 3G, so don’t ask. [CNN Money/PR Newswire] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-curve-8900-first-impressions-kills-the-orig-5071533
Borescopes are extremely handy devices. These flexible video tubes are perfect for exploring the tight confines of your PC motherboard or that pesky, always-stuffed left nasal passage*. (*Technically, borescopes become endoscopes when they enter the body.) This USB borescope features a 300k, water resistant camera with two LEDs at the tip, complete with an optional…
If you’re in Japan and trying to decide between the Xbox 360 and PS3, maybe you should take a look at these reading materials first…including an anime girl wearing a desperately revealing Xbox 360 dress. I’m not judging, but if your dress is inexplicably longer in the back than the front, to the point that…
