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Good news for G1 users: T-Mobile Germany’s says that the Cupcake updates will be released next month. They have stated in their G1 promotional page, heralding the new features which sadly don’t include vanilla frosting. https://gizmodo.com/but-hed-really-prefer-a-red-velvet-cupcake-5221695 • Additional on-screen keyboard – you decide how you enter your messages • Video recording and playback • Pictures…
This one-of-a-kind zebrawood iPhone case won’t protect your iPhone from shocks or drops, but it will fit your iPhone like a glove…that’s made of wood…and looks sorta like a zebra…also made of wood… Priced at $85 on Etsy (along with a few similar wooden products), the case features one of those slide-off lids that you…
If you’re watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs, you might need this free Quattro Titanium razor to shave that beard off if your team is losing as badly as my team is. Let’s go Sharks! Computing and Peripherals: • Dell Vostro 2510 15.4” Laptop for $649 plus free shipping (normally $1,100). • 1TB Hitachi 3.5” SATA…
Just the other day I was thinking that I spend entirely too much on paper towels—but I refuse to buy a ShamWow from Beavis. This kitchen towel sanitizing machine just might be the answer. https://gizmodo.com/have-you-ever-bought-an-as-seen-on-tv-gadget-did-it-5190667 The idea is simple—a mini countertop washing machine that can sanitize your germ-ridden kitchen towels. I mean, how often do…
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to inappropriately insert gadgets throughout the ages. Get creative with it, and send your masterpieces to me at [email protected] with Historical Gadgets as your subject line. Save your files as JPGs, PNGs or GIFs and use a FirstnameLastname.jpg naming convention. Get your entries in to me by…
Now available together for the first time on Blu-ray Disc, the X-Men Trilogy. Boxset includes X-Men, X2: X-Men United and X3: The Last Stand. The set also includes Movie Cash and a BD-Live feature to access an exclusive preview to X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in theatres May 1.
If you’ve ever wanted to register givemehobomodos.com, wiidownmypants.com or andirocks.com but never had the guts to pull the trigger, GoDaddy is offering 1-year .com domain registrations for $0.99 (normally $9.99). Select 1 year for a single domain per customer and use the coupon code 99BUYCOM upon checkout. Though the coupon code is good for both…
This is the HiPhone Nano N3+, a 2.8-inch touchscreen based with swivel screen cellphone. It’s a Chinese clone of an Apple product that never happened, but which actually looks like it could have happened. Sure it’s not perfect and it lacks the finesse of Apple’s designs—and I shiver thinking about the software this thing packs—but…
Cooking is one of my passions. Eating and drinking is another. Playing that I cook food that I can’t eat is not. Fortunately, this Personal Cooking Trainer Nintendo DS bundle is about the first two. The package includes a lime green—which is my favorite—, a nice case, and the game Personal Trainer: Cooking. I won’t…
Mormon crickets are insects with multiple wives who live in Utah, travelling to Nevada to eat crops and play craps—or something like that. I’m not David Attenborough, ok? One real thing: They hate rock music. They hate it so much that residents of Tuscarora, Nevada, fight this pest with a perimeter of—get this—boom boxes and…
You may never be Grammy-nominated artist, DJ, label owner and global megastar Paul van Dyk, but you can score that guy’s iPhone app! Intended for DJs and fans alike, the app includes a BPM Counter, Frequency Analyser, Decibel Meter, Seismic Reader, Virtual Glow Stick (yes, friends, they played to that house music stereotype), DJ Check…
A new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—labeled 10A335—has hit developers. Apple hasn’t mentioned any new features or bug fixes, however. The Server version—which was released alongside—does come with an easier to use version of Podcast Producer, new spam mail filters in Mail Server, and other niceties. https://gizmodo.com/os-x-10-6-to-be-called-snow-leopard-5013188
Bucky Balls are tiny little powerful magnets that look like little round pellets. They stick together and can form basically any 3D object that you want. They are awesome. I had a chance to play with these things a few days ago, and they’re additively fun. In the video on the site you can see…
Bare is a paint that can transform your body into a circuit (without the inconvenience of electrocuting you). The product of a few Royal College of Art students, the non-toxic temporary paint, applied with a simple brush or stamp, turns your skin into a conductive surface. Mostly, the paint is meant for artistic performance. But…
Brilliant. [Irishstu, Buzzfeed – thanks, Alex!]
We knew this was coming—a day after it was in the hands of partners, legit copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 (build 7100) have hit your favorite torrent site. Watch out for fakes. [ZDNet] https://gizmodo.com/downloader-beware-windows-7-release-candidate-torrents-5224524
You may have thought stupid format wars were over. You thought wrong! This week brings the first saleable “China Blue” players—a rival to Blu-ray. My guess on the rationale? Players made of heroin. That China Blue doesn’t smuggle itself across the border, so it only makes sense for enterprising Triad lords to form the raw…
From the little we claim to know on the topic, most women make do using electricity (batteries or plugs) to power their vibrators. But what about those poor Amish and extreme eco hippies? For these under represented sexual minorities, a company has released the “world’s first 100% eco-friendly sex toy,” the $95 Earth Angel Wind-Up…
Enjoy feeling like you’re making progress while you can, suits. It won’t last too long. [alt1040] https://gizmodo.com/the-pirate-google-bay-gives-the-finger-to-record-compan-5223533
The Kinesis K3 power generator updates their previous K2 unit with a new power source: In addition to its windmill and solar cells, it can now charge its internal battery with external electricity sources. https://gizmodo.com/kinesis-k2-puts-solar-and-wind-charging-power-in-a-hand-5127385 Sounds a bit weird and anti-green, but for some reason now you can charge its 4,000 mAh battery using a…