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Lens-mounted flash rings are a fairly common camera accessory, but the powerfully-named Digi-Slave Flex-Ring 6400 might take the premise to its ultimate conclusion. https://gizmodo.com/ray-flash-ring-converter-5137552 This monstrous ring light features 64 oversized LEDs—that’s 32 around the lens and an extra 16 on each flexible flank. With light approaching your subject from every visible angle, the Digi-Slave…
I don’t know how Level 10 works, but apparently this PC case—designed by BMW DesignworksUSA for Thermaltake—is real. It looks like the son of a Terminator and a Cray supercomputer conceived in Miami. Apparently it’s aimed at gamers, with some of the components—like the drive units—mounted out of the actual case. [Carscoop via Luxury Launches]
Placing a fake Craigslist ad for random strangers to call your ex-boyfriend at work to “talk dirty to him” may be funny, but it can now also get you charged with identity theft. Kari Heath learned this the best way you can learn something: by doing. She appears in court March 19. How did the…
In a parallel universe, keyboards are made of white chocolate and PCs are solid toffee. Motherboards are generally graham cracker, a bit flimsy, yes, then topped in icing circuits and sugar plum processors. The mouse is not a mouse at all but a Chunky bar that melts to conform to one’s hand. And the monitor,…
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This is all too familiar. The Apple support forums are lit up by complaints that the new 17-inch MacBook Pros are plagued by faulty Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics cards. https://gizmodo.com/do-the-new-macbook-pros-have-faulty-nvidia-graphics-car-5107277 Complaints run something like this: When the more powerful Geforce 9600M is switched on, the display is ravaged by green lines and other weirdness, which…
The new iMac is a pretty attractive machine, but a bundled TV Tuner, Blu-ray burner and an iPod dock would set the design over the top. https://gizmodo.com/imac-early-2009-review-5165335 Onkyo’s Sotec is an all-in-one media PC featuring a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz processor, 2GB/4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, 21.5-inch screen, TV Tuner, 4X Blu-ray player,…
The country and the world is going to hell but, hey, what are Republicans and Democrats worrying about in Washington? They are whining about how much their BlackBerry Storm sucks: The BlackBerry, to me, is a utilitarian too. It’s not easy to send e-mails on that thing [the BlackBerry Storm]. It is not a good…
It’s true. Not only can you turn off Internet Explorer in Windows 7, but you can turn off basically every major Windows feature—Media Player, Media Center, Windows Search—everything but the core OS. WTF? Below is a (lengthy) screenshot of everything you’ll be able to turn off in one of the future releases of Windows 7—you…
Digital cameras do more stuff than ever—detect smiles, track specific people, shoot HD video—but while some are adding dials and buttons to manage feature bloat, others are shedding buttons like dead, obsolete skin. Here’s a sampling of user interfaces across compact cameras from every major digital camera maker: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Casio, Olympus and…
Color me surprised: A $140 Chinese cellphone that, even while looking PSPishly cheesy, brings a great flip-out gamepad design and Nintendo Entertainment System games, along with a whole bunch of great features. • Dual sim card • NES GAMES • E-book reader • Dual Screen • 2.4-inch 16:9 WQVGA LCM, 260k QVGA ; PX: 240*400…
Scratch another one on the checklist for Humanity’s ultimate self-destruction. A Warrior-Alpha drone from the US Army’s Odin Task Force fired against enemy forces with no pilot. The Predator variant was controlled by plain soldiers: We know we have the capability, but we’ve never had the opportunity to use it before. Those are the words…
GameFly has just introduced their first G-Box rental kiosk as part of an orchestrated plan to take over the US game-rental-vending-machine market. Formerly just a place to rent games online (Netflix for games), the company is releasing G-Boxes nationwide. The kiosks will be stocked with various Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii titles, and a…
Liquidators who are squeezing the last life blood out of Circuit City announced that all remaining stores will close by the end of the business day on March 8th. Farewell old acquaintance. [BusinessWire]
iFixit has posted a fantastic, step-by-step tutorial tutorial explaining how to swap out the new Mac Mini’s optical drive for a second hard drive. Being the compact Mac Mini (and involving 2.5-inch laptop drives), you knew it would be a bit more complicated than your standard, tower bay component swap. The process does require a…
Cydia has been the hub of the iPhone gray market for some time now, but developer Jay Freeman is planning on turning the jailbroken app manager into a questionably licit competitor to the App Store. https://gizmodo.com/the-week-in-iphone-apps-essential-jailbreak-apps-5152714 Converting Cydia into a proper application store won’t be complicated, and more or less amounts to Freeman adding a…
