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So you are a 2-pack a day smoker and it’s your birthday. Congrats, you lived another year. Unfortunately you lack the lung capacity to blow out your candles. Puff the arduino dragon can help. Puff scans the area to find flames then attempts to “blow” it out with his built-in fan. The problem is that…
With the price of Wii Motion Plus bringing the cost of a full Wiimote to a whopping $80, we thought we’d reexamine the true cost of buying a console today. Which is truly the cheapest? https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-coming-june-8-for-20-5211305 We’re going to pretend we’re either a family of four or an apartment that wants a system loaded up…
Introducing the new Audi Q5: Performance, luxury and functionality meet unmistakable design. With features like piercing LED lighting, a distinctive front grille and quattro® all-wheel drive, you no longer have to compromise when it comes to crossovers.
You shouldn’t use a verse from the Koran as a ringtone—if you answer halfway through the verse that’s bad, according to an Islamic group’s fatwa. Not to mention the toilet. The fatwa—which is just a a decree issued by an Islamic scholar—on cellphone usage issued by a panel of clerics from the Islamic group Jamia…
We’ve seen more than our share of Tetris-themed furniture, but these new concepts by Brazilian designers Diego Silvério and Helder Filipov may be the first to actually make some level of sense. https://gizmodo.com/return-of-revenge-of-tetris-shelves-in-color-172686 Regardless of what countless lost games of Tetris may have taught you, these iconic shapes actually fit together very well. Their intrinsically…
Yoooo have you heard this Phish bootleg from Birmingham in ’94? The one where they do a 36 minute jam of “Tom Sawyer”? So sweet man. So sweet. Oh what’s this awesome thing strapped to my head? I dunno, it’s just some thing Speedo sent over to me. Underwater music? Yeah. Yeah it’s kind of…
“The Gaming Revolution” shirt foretells the day when the proletariat will rise up and seize control of the government using advanced military skills developed through endless hours of Call of Duty. [Threadless Thanks Paul!]
While I’ve clearly stated that, despite Best Buy’s 57 overpriced “choices,” HDMI cables pretty much all do the same thing, this isn’t the case with analog audio cables. Here’s the physical explanation why: https://gizmodo.com/the-truth-about-monster-cable-grand-finale-part-iii-282725 While there aren’t a lot of parts to audio cables, there are more than you might think, especially on higher-end cables.…
Most Mac users looking for a nice, budget monitor will ignore Apple’s Cinema Displays for monitors by Dell or other major manufacturers. But these third party monitors don’t feature mini DisplayPorts. The CinemaView is the first (third party) monitor to support Apple’s mini DisplayPort standard, which means that unibody MacBook users won’t need to mess…
There is absolutely no aspect of your job that necessitates the use of a spycam necktie. I’m sorry, but your work just isn’t that interesting. But that’s why Man was given imagination. For instance, you could pretend that you needed this $128 tie for important reconnaissance work, using its one button controls to grab footage…
Microsoft’s SideWinder gaming mice get more homogenized every release: The $40 X3 looks normal, almost boring, more Clone Wars than Darth Vader. It’s got 2000DPI, on-the-fly switching and a single thumb button (WTF). [Microsoft] https://gizmodo.com/razer-mamba-vs-sidewinder-x8-wireless-gaming-mice-rev-5209312
So says the Amazon. We’re excited for this one. [Amazon]
GigaPan has put their famed Epic gigapixel photo system on steroids, so the Epic 100 manhandles pro point-and-shoots and small DSLRs to create even more massive gigapixel photos from a bunch of stitched together shots. https://gizmodo.com/gigapan-epic-review-verdict-a-cruel-yet-fantastic-tea-5155329 Like the original Epic, it transforms the art of panorama into a machine process, automatically tilting and moving your…
Techblog.gr claims to have just leaked Toshiba’s mobile product line for the next year, and there are threeproducts we found especially exciting—a 7-inch netbookish transformer and a series of touchscreen QWERTY cellphones. The Toshiba K01 is a 4.1-inch capacitive touchscreen QWERTY slider. It features a 1GHz processor, 3.2MP camera and WM 6.5. The K02 is…
After months of silence on Nintendo’s part, Wii MotionPlus has finally gotten an official release date. It’ll be out June 8th for $20. https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-hands-on-verdict-melancholy-bliss-5025659 Nintendo’s Wii Sports Resort, which has been designed specifically for the peripheral, will not be available until July 26. As we reported last July, it will sell for $50, bundled with…
DigiTimes has laid it all on the line this time. Skipping their normal incremental rumors, the publication has listed all of the companies allegedly associated with the next iPhone. To be assembled by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and subsidiaries, many of these components have been announced in previous DigiTimes stories, like the 3.2MP imaging sensor,…
For dazed, RRoD-weary Xbox users, hearing that there’s one more way that your console might die on you was almost too much to bear. Thankfully, Microsoft has announced that these latest victims are covered, even retroactively. https://kotaku.com/microsoft-extends-warranty-for-e74-failures-5211159 From Redmond, via Kotaku: While the majority of Xbox 360 owners continue to have a great experience with…
Remixing that scene from Der Untergang is a whole genre into itself now. Here’s one we found about Hitler’s Tesla electric car. The Führer is mighty pissed. We also take a look at lighting and the potential benefits of LED bulbs. Did you know that according to the US Department of Energy, the amount of…
Motorola is building a generally unremarkable “au Box” portable set-top box for Japanese electronics company KDDI. But one part of their plan stands out: It’ll run Android. UPDATE: According to Motorola, this KDDI box will not run Android. See their full response below. Motorola Clarifies KDDI “au BOX” based on KreaTV platform for set-top devices,…
You know those guys (and gals?) who are just, like, super proud of their farts? Thanks to this cool guy and Twitter, these assholes can indulge their disgusting habit without wrecking our noses. Known Gentleman Randy Sarafan decided to make this office chair to help “accurately document and share [his] life as it happens,” which…
