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This horny toad Roomba subsists on a diet of dust and debris. It also petrifies household pets and small children. Make yours today! [i-toad via Make]
You have the choice of orange and blue, and they smell like “ocean truffles” and “ocean breeze”, respectively. Am I the only one who’s ever wanted to put an iPod in my crack? No? [Etsy]
Extreme with an “X” huh? You know these new CyberPower desktops are bad ass. And by “bad ass” I mean yet another overpriced rig with a gimmicky case and some 3D glasses. Specifically, the Gamer Xtreme comes in Intel and AMD versions (2.66GHz Core i7-920 processor for the Xtreme 2000 or Phenom II X3 720…
It’s been a while since we explained how to use your Giz given right to speak up and become a valued commenter. So here’s how: 1) Click the “Login” link on the top right of the page and doing so will show a drop down box for logging in. Click the “new user?” link and…
311 French workers detained the president of Sony France because their plant is closing on April 17. Apparently, that decision didn’t sit quite well with them. [Brisbane Times via Engadget]
EA has said that Wii MotionPlus will put an end to lazy, couch/wrist Wiimote gaming. This clip demonstrates why. https://kotaku.com/ea-sports-exec-says-wii-motion-plus-ends-lazy-wii-mote-5169129 Watch how MotionPlus matches movement 1:1 between the real golf swing and Tiger’s golf swing. The swing itself is still on a track (it doesn’t appear, for instance, that you could make Tiger swing the…
Happy 15th birthday Linux. For a teenager, you’re pretty well traveled. In fact, you’ve gone to some pretty weird-ass places. Places I probably wouldn’t go myself, and not just for sanitary reasons. https://gizmodo.com/happy-15th-birthday-linux-5169216 So in honor of your 15th birthday, here is a list of how to install you (Linux) on a… • Badger •…
In case you aren’t lucky enough to be attending the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival, you can download 1,267 songs from bands in the festival. You’ll find the pack broken in to three big torrents, obviously downloadable on BitTorrent. And don’t worry, not only is it legal—BitTorrent makes an excellent platform for SXSW music…
Boy Genius says they’re getting loads of tips from users saying there’s a BlackBerry outage going on right now. We’re actually seeing some sporadic AT&T and T-Mobile outages in our tips too, but nothing confirmed. [Boy Genius]
Let’s just get this out of the way right now: if you like Japanese mecha, lasers and iPhone games, get ExZeus. Holy shit. ExZeus: If you fast forward to around two minutes in, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Built by Japanese devs HyperDevBox, ExZeus is based on an obscure shooter-on-rails game that’s found its…
For some reason, Israeli missile maker Rafael thought that a Bollywood dance number will help missiles sales to India. I don’t know if I should laugh hysterically or cry. I will do both. According to the video description, “the Israeli arms firm Rafael displayed this Bollywood dance number-based marketing video at the recently held Aero…
My gigantic hands can’t type on a netbook, you can barely see some cellphones, and I’m worried about choking on the new shuffle. The question is: are gadgets getting too small? https://gizmodo.com/ipod-shuffle-review-2009-5169174 Are Gadgets Getting Too Small? ( surveys) [Image via Flickr]
Are you secure in your masculinity, or are you just insecure? Against all odds, the following gadgets will help you retain your manhood while doing extremely wussy things.
We have all heard horror stories about how keyboards have more germs than a toilet seat right? Now a startup called Vioguard is taking this issue seriously with a self-sanitizing keyboard for hospitals. As you can see in the TechFlash interview, the Vioguard works by automatically retracting into the monitor base for a germ-killing UV…
I like going out to bars and everything, but I think I’d like it more if I could nerdily acquire fake trophies and points while doing so. Finally, my dream has become a reality with Foursquare. This free iPhone app from the creator of Dodgeball lets you tell your friends where you’re hanging out, but…
Screw Friday the 13th—we’re helping you get lucky today with 30+ deals, including free beer glasses, free panties, and a ton of cheap games and gadgets. Sounds like the beginning of an awesome weekend. Computing and Peripherals: • OCZ 4GB Laptop Memory Kit for $28.99 plus free shipping (normally $43.99 – use this rebate form).…
Flight enthusiast Matthew Sheil has built a 747-400 flight simulator in his Sydney warehouse that can stand up to any $40 million training version—and he did it for under $200,000. Thanks to 45 different software programs running on 14 different computers, the simulator allows Sheil to fly to and from 27,000 different airports around the…
No, it’s not one of Adam’s Photoshop contests (but the premise could work). Tokyoflash has sent us twelve Bluetooth necklace concepts, and they’d like to know which three they should put into production. I’m not sure that you could ever catch me wearing a Bluetooth necklace (that statement will come back to haunt me, I’m…
This sits beautifully nestled in my science geek and design geek Venn overlap quadrant: a good place to be. Designers Squidspot created the table, with fonts arranged roughly into related group columns showing (although Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica not being in the same family! Ok, I’ll stop). They’ve also ranked each roughly according to popularity…
Apple wouldn’t let you do it, but WinandMac found an app called iBluetooth for jailbroken iPhones that will allow you to send and receive files over Bluetooth. Just like a real phone! There’s really not much else to it. You can shoot files to and from Bluetooth devices, like other Bluetooth-enabled phones that aren’t iPhones.…
