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On the opposite end of the fanboy self-loathing scale created by the PS3 XCM Cross Battle adapter is the Cross Fire. It brings Dual Shock controllers to the Xbox 360 (with turbo!). https://gizmodo.com/cross-battle-adapter-brings-xbox-360-controller-to-ps3-5156500 Like its Cross Battle cousin, this adapter delivers the Dual Shock experience some gamers crave but cannot have on their Xbox 360…
If that headline didn’t grab your attention, I don’t know what will. A British 13-year-old smuggled a stun gun he bought on vacation into school, and proceeded to go a little zap-crazy. The kid bought the gun for $15 while on vacation in Bulgaria, which makes Bulgaria sound like kind of a badass place to…
Amazon recently threatened the smackdown on a site offering instructions on how to trick the Kindle into reading other types of files. This isn’t a question of copyright infringement, it’s a question of control. Amazon invoked the decade-old Digital Millenium Copyright Act, or DMCA, as proof of the wrongdoing of a Russian hacker who discovered…
The BlackBerry “Niagara,” or 9600 series, popped up on eBay for about a minute before it was pulled, but you can’t hide pictures like these. Check out the gallery after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-sprint-users-this-is-the-blackberry-youve-5164796 The 9600 series is sort of a combination of the Bold and Curve/Javelin series for CDMA, though we don’t know a whole…
In preparation for the zero-emissions grand prix, Evo Design Solutions has this fearsome electric superbike, fast enough and tough enough to challenge the old-school gas models. Evo Design Solutions used a couple design tricks to allow room for the bike’s large battery, including a monocoque that encloses the drivetrain, which negates the need for a…
Sure, this project is the product of a great humanitarian impulse: wiping out malaria, which claims about a million lives a year. But you can tell the astrophysicists are having a blast with it, too. First, I’d like to commend the Wall Street Journal for what’s probably their best headline ever: “Rocket Scientists Shoot Down…
A bunch of iPhone games, among them the destructively awesome Tap Tap Revenge 2, have received updates to include Facebook Connect functionality. What does that mean for you? Networking. Delicious networking. Facebook Connect allows you to link your game, with all its scores and stats, to your Facebook account, which in turn lets you connect…
Okay, math dorks, enjoy your day of circles and pie-related puns. Come book week, we liberal arts nerds will celebrate for SEVEN TIMES longer. How you like them numbers? [Pi Day]
That rumored BlackBerry Bold with a touchscreen was just a whisper before, but now we’ve got a shot of the packaging to prove its existence. Let’s see what we know about this new hybrid. We’d known it as the Pluto, but now it’s been given a traditional RIM numeric identification as the 99xx series. It’s…
In the right hands, high dynamic range imaging can blend multiple exposures of the same scene to more closely reproduce what your eye can see. Here’s how to do HDR the right way. So when should you use HDR? It’s simple: when you’re trying to capture a scene with a wide range between its lightest…
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse‘s sorta-classy black-and-white ads have been canned. Could bespectacled Verizon guy or spiky-haired Alltel guy get the axe next? Please? Watchers talking to the WSJ said Dan Hesse’s commercials were pretty dull. Viewers thought one commercial, filmed in the back of a New York City taxi, was actually Hesse in a pricey…
Pocketgamer.biz, who we’ve never worked with before, says Apple may be working on a section of the App Store for more expensive (read: $20 and up) apps. Regardless of the rumor’s truth, they need some sort of method to separate the wheat from the chaff. It’s a mess in that store, full of shit apps.…
Some guy got a bunch of random YouTube clips of people playing instruments, editing them together into one of those omfg-I-can’t-believe-this-is-real video. At least, I can’t believe it’s real. Click to viewBut apparently it is. I don’t know how many days it took to be cut, looped, edited. I don’t even know days (or months)…
Constructing a building to be bigger and taller is overrated. But constructing a “building”—which is just 55 shipping crates stacked on top of each other—with a unique design is apparently all the rage these days. Designer Lars Behrendt’s newest project—Lotto Turm—is to revamp the “Oesterreichischer Platz,” which is currently a parking spot in Stuttgart (Southern…
When you think Tank Chair, you might consider something more imposing than what’s presented here. But then you realize it’s inspiration does indeed come from the treads of a military tank. https://gizmodo.com/tankchair-168301 Creator j-michael doesn’t really say whether or not the chair rolls like real treads or not, but at the very least, it would…
I love that RED’s upcoming Scarlet camera will cost around $2500 and can produce beautiful footage like this. Paired with a 100mm RED PRIME PRO lens here, the 2/3″ Scarlet captures footage at 3K resolution. https://gizmodo.com/red-unloads-modular-cameras-a-dslr-3d-and-28k-5085242 Jarred Land from RED says this is the first footage from the 2/3″ Scarlet prototypes and that the frame…
Forget suicide booths—this $25 Bender-esque robot can decapitate himself so that you can hide 4GB of your secret files in his body. [Gadget4all via Craziest Gadgets]
Did you know Microsoft trimmed down sound files so your computer can boot up faster in the Windows 7 release candidate? Here are a few changes we found amongst the over 70+ obvious UI changes. Desktop and User Interface: • Gadget view options In the Windows 7 beta it was impossible to separate desktop icons…
This week, Kotaku shows that the Batman game is going to have an expensive collector’s edition, why fitness games are booming, and why arcades are dangerous. • Fitness games are propping up Majesco • Batman: Arkham Asylum’s collectors edition costs $100 • Man arrested for trying to get an 11-year-old to send him naked photos…
I’m not being sexist: Most of the women in my life have to pee 27.3 times every hour. Or something like that. I’m getting all of them Have2P for their iPhones. Have2P tracks every public restroom around you, giving you directions through the iPhone’s Maps application. It will also tell you what toilets are for…
