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You saw Sean Kenney’s 7-foot long, 250 pounds blue Nintendo DSi made out of 51,324 Lego pieces. It took him 200 hours to build it, as you can see in this timelapse video. https://gizmodo.com/huge-lego-dsi-takes-picture-of-huge-lego-cat-5198577 If you are in New York City, go to the Nintendo World Store at the Rockefeller Center to see this massive…
The Wii Spray concept project by University of Weimar’s Martin Lihs is now a reality, as you can see in this video. You can pick colors pointing at patches, and even use stencils. https://gizmodo.com/wii-spray-wiimote-hack-breaks-up-the-family-fun-with-a-5014389 The toy itself doesn’t require a Wii to work: It uses Flash on a normal PC as the platform, and the…
Hooray for the Chinese, for they have developed a super cool new anti-ship ballistic missile with low radar signature and unpredictable flight path which can destroy US Navy Supercarriers on one go! Oh, wait. According to the latest intelligence report, the new missile—a modified Dong Feng 21—can strick carriers or any other warship within a…
Allegedly, this is Nikon’s new entry-level DSLR. It has the D60’s size and a flip screen LCD. According to the forum member who posted it, the images were taken during the filming of a commercial. This person says he was just “passing by” and snapped the “spy” photos. Life is just a big chain of…
According to a missing slide from Harmonix senior designer’s presentation at GDC, there will be a Lego Rock Band this year. The question is: Will it come with custom instruments like the Beatles’ version? https://gizmodo.com/beatles-rock-band-will-come-with-custom-beatles-instru-5165089 Obviously—since the slide was not in the final presentation—Dan Teasdale didn’t say a word about it, so we don’t know.…
Oh, what is this? In addition to the previously unearthed features, the next generation iPhone’s guts will have full FM transmission and reception capabilities, according to its spec sheet: https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-next-gen-iphone-includes-support-for-802-1-5199267 The BCM4329 includes both FM transmit and receive capabilities. FM transmit enables consumers to stream music directly from a personal media players (PMPs) or mobile…
Here’s another clue to uncover the huge box mystery: The new Star Trek TV spot. In it, Kirk is kicking ass and Uhura’s bra—unlike bra-less Betty—is armor plated. (I’m partial to yellow lace.) https://gizmodo.com/mystery-huge-box-hint-2-a-peek-inside-5191377
The New York Times is reporting tonight that T-Mobile will release a new tablet and home phone in 2010, and that both devices will be powered by Google’s open source OS, Android. The NYT says “confidential documents” revealed the unnamed home phone would plug into a docking station, and will come complete with a device…
The $7 billion deal between IBM and Sun Microsystems has all but failed, say sources at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Sources say Sun balked at IBM’s latest offer and IBM eventually withdrew sometime today. https://gizmodo.com/nearly-official-7-billion-sun-swallowed-by-ibm-5197473
According to the US Northern Command, the infamous North Korean launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—which went over Japan terrifying Brian Ashcraft—has been a complete failure, with its payload falling into the Pacific Ocean: NORAD and USNORTHCOM monitor North Korean launch April 05, 2009 PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – North American Aerospace Defense Command…
There’s very little from Lenovo’s laptop side that appears with their splash into the PMP front. The specs for their newly announced China-bound MRT800 are pretty standard, and there’s nary an HD screen in sight. The MRT800 doesn’t have a release date or pricing yet, but if it’s anything like the specs, it could also…
I sat down with Jeff Steverns Guntzel and Bennett Gordon at the Utne Reader offices in Minneapolis to talk about the Paleo-Future blog. You can listen to the podcast here. The year 2009 looked very different when seen from the 1950s. Nuclear powered cars roamed the streets and people feasted on meal pills for dinner.…
Harvard professor David Edwards wrote a graphic novel envisioning a future world where people ingested their food by smelling, or “whiffing,” it. That vision begot Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler. “Over the centuries we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals,” Edwards said. “It seemed to us that eating was tending…
Tipster Noah from Phonedog has directed us to a tentative list of release dates for several anticipated T-Mobile phones, including the “Blade” Sidekick (May 13) and HTC Touch Pro 2 (July 22). The list, leaked today to TMONews: * “Blade” (Sidekick 2009) – May 13 * HTC “Maple”/”Snap” – July 1st (contrary to earlier speculation,…
Famous pairings include Apple pie and ice cream; Apple’s Steve and Steve; Jason Chen and pantsing new electronics; and, of course, the iPhone and video editing. It’s just a rumor for now, bits of newly discovered beta code, really, but that last pairing could be true, and soon. Now, video editing and the iPhone isn’t…
Just down that whole shaker of salt right now, please, because some obscure Dutch games retailer has given Nintendo’s press shy MotionPlus attachment a July 10 European release date. https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-not-delayed-says-nintendo-5167253 Kotaku has feelers out to Nintendo Europe for a comment, but my Spidey Sense is telling me they’ll probably get the usual “We do not…
One of our more educated readers has chimed in on The Woz’s Dancing With the Stars elimination. If he’s right, let the Internet masses descend on ABC with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. https://gizmodo.com/major-woz-dancing-with-the-stars-development-spoilers-5193101 Says Giz reader (and dancer?) Dallas in an email to Gizmodo from this morning: I just watched the [Woz]…
If you’re the kind of BlackBerry gadgetphile who loves product code names, please sit down, because that’s what we have here. Three new cologne-sounding code names for BlackBerry products, coming soon: Onyx, Driftwood, Magnum. The secret list of three was procured by BGR, and is in all actuality a list of three different code names…
I use DropBox [www.getdropbox.com] and set up a little script that calls whatismyip.org and writes the result to a text file. This is done once an hour. DropBox syncs to my work machine with that text file. That way a static ip isn’t needed. It’s ghetto, but it works. 🙂
We tend to cover the zany antics of the Google Street View team quite a bit here at Gizmodo, as you can see. For those of you who hate that, this story is pure Schadenfreude. Last summer, when the team was busy mapping the streets of London for the recent European Google Maps Street View…
