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“Once upon a time, she loved me. I remember when I helped with her photos, took care of her music, edited movies together. And now… now she left me here, in the coldness of NYC.” Oh poor you, you sad Macintosh you. You were left to dream the eternal slumber on the streets of the…
One summer, I took a solo trip to Kauai. I brought along a waterproof camera to capture what I saw in and out of the water, at the same time. This wonderful shot is from mathetdjam’s photostream and was taken with a Canon EOS 300D with what I’d assume is an external housing. Since my…
Engadget contacted Mitsubishi direction to confirm that Laservue HDTVs are back in production. [Engadget]http://gizmodo.com/tag/laservue
If you’re strapped for cash but you really need a ring flash for your camera, Make has found some instructions that we think will be easy for you to do with some basic household stuff. Because the instructions are in a foreign language, we can’t exactly tell you step-by-step how this basic ring flash is…
They don’t make toys like this anymore: why have an E-Z Bake Oven when I can have a U-238 Atomic Energy Lab and create my own Manhattan project in the backyard? (BAM! Emeril said it.) The Atomic Energy Lab set was only available from 1951 to 1952 and sold for a whopping $50 (that’s without…
The En Suit Sky Garage, a personal elevator for your car, is pretty damn cool. The idea of it is quite simple. When you pull up to the apartment building, at 200 Eleventh Avenue in New York, NY, the garage will automatically identify who you are and which apartment your car belongs to. After driving…
In the battle for e-book reader domination, Samsung’s Papyrus—a new touchscreen model. The A5 paper-size Papyrus features a stylus and 512MB of memory, and comes in a range of colors, including white, black, and a retro sea-foamy green. The e-book reader also includes handy applications: a memo pad, scheduler, calendar, world clock, calculator, and contact…
What would you do with a Hero Wide camera and a Traxxas VXL Slash R/C car? No, not upskirts you perverts. I’m talking backflips baby…backflips. [YouTube]
Najmi Jarwala, the president of Sony Ericsson U.S.’ division, announced today that he will be leaving the company. Likely in response to those terrible Sony Ericsson sales. [Sony Ericsson via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-sales-drop-by-almost-half-in-one-quarter-5176733
If you’re in the market for a Zune, you might as well go to the store that’s completely dedicated to everyone’s favorite portable media player. Click to view [CollegeHumor]
I have to admit, this Rube Goldberg machine is pretty friggn’ ingenious—even if it does result in a the gruesome death of a delicious Cadbury Egg. [Telegraph via Jezebel] https://jezebel.com/eggcellent-5182472
Nokia recently asked for Bluetooth headset designs inspired by a certain song; this is what G. Smith presented after listening to “Robot Rock” a few dozen times. R. Kelly and Michael Jackson are also well-represented. I was really torn between which of these three are my favorite, because this one inspired by R. Kelly’s “I…
Ripdev’s InstallerApp makes installing third-party jailbreak applications on your iPhone slightly easier, by eliminating the need to jailbreak your iPhone at all. You just need to pay $7 for the privilege. The process works by installing an app onto your iPhone that’s not quite jailbreaking, but is enough to allow those not-quite-official applications to get…
Northstar-at-Tahoe has provided Gizmodo with a coupon code that will save you up to 30% on lodging booked for our Snowmodo event. So come up early, stay at Northstar and grab a drink with us. https://gizmodo.com/gizs-snowmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-april-4th-north-5143084 Our Snowmodo Event on April 4th is packed with fun things to do, including the Zune party. But before…
From a fitness and educational standpoint, I understand the idea behind the Alpha Mat. It provides a plyometric type of workout while engaging the mind with numerical sequences—but it’s missing a key ingredient. The problem is that the mat isn’t hooked up to anything. It’s not a gigantic calculator and it can’t connect with your…
In 1982-83 Geoff Lawson created these concept paintings for General Motors. Stumbling upon great pieces of transportation futurism from the past certainly makes me wonder if a current lack of imagination is what has doomed the American auto industry. (via BigLorryBlog) Previously on Paleo-Future: GM’s Shopping Cart Car (1964) Transportation of the Future (1992) GM…
Not only is this blue Xbox 360 so cool it can only be photographed at night; it’s got twice the RAM (1GB) of a stock 360. Of course, it’s only made for developers. The Xbox 360 Midnight (totally a name I just made up) is Microsoft’s latest 360 development kit. And its main feature, other…
I’ve always wanted an outdoor kitchen—something with gas burners, a grill, sink and some storage space (maybe even a wood-fire pizza oven). This compact Cheope oven from Alpina fits most of those requirements. The stainless steel unit features two standard gas burners, 2 gas burners to reheat the lava rock grill, a single burner for…
On my way home from running errands yesterday, I noticed that every house in my development had a phone book tossed in their driveway. “Who the hell still uses a phone book?” I thought to myself. It would seem that this epic tree rape is largely unnecessary, given the fact that the internet and many…
You have some lousy luck if you’re near the site of an A-bomb strike. You have really, really bad luck if, three days later, you get hit with another nuke. That’s exactly what happened to Tsutomu Yamaguchi back in 1945. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima, where he suffered serious burns to his…
