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A five-year-old boy allegedly stabbed her ten-year-old sister over a Nintendo DS. The prosecutor says that little Chucky here thought the knife was part of a Power Rangers game. Update: It may have been the mother! It happened in Uckange, France. Apparently, the prosecutor thinks the Power Rangers may be the key to his behavior…
Blockbuster’s reportedly hired a firm to explore bankruptcy options, mulling whether or not they should declare bankruptcy. Update: Actually, they’re denying it.[Dallas News] https://gizmodo.com/blockbuster-denies-rumors-of-bankruptcy-5163967
We’ve got your standard cheap monitors, hard drives and mobile accessories in today’s deal roundup, but also free movie tickets! You can’t beat that, can you? Gaming: • Nintendo DS Soft Protective Case with Wrist Strap for $0.69 plus free shipping (normally $5.99). • Wiimote and Nunchuck Controller Bundle for $50 (normally $59.98). • Xbox…
Asus’s amazing-looking Eee Keyboard, which is a home theater PC stuffed inside a keyboard, complete with wireless HDMI and a secondary touchscreen, is dropping in May or June. And for only $400-$600! https://gizmodo.com/eee-keyboard-an-entire-touchscreen-home-theater-pc-5124985 Asus CEO Jerry Shen says they’re working on two models, one wired and one wireless. The wired version will run about $400…
Available in 1, 8, and 16GB, these flash drives look exactly like tampons. And for once, I have nothing else to say. [The Bloggess via Geekologie]
The Xbox 360 “game” Rumble Massage is basically just a way to control the rumbling of your controller. So who better to have review it than someone very familiar with vibrating plastic objects? Stoya is surprisingly down with geeky things. A dedicated Sid Meier fan who grew up learning DOS from her IT dad (daddy…
JVC’s new Everio X camcorder can handle imaging of all kinds, it shoots both 600fps slow-mo vid and 9-megapixel stills—and can even capture 5-megapixel photos while shooting 1080p HD video. The 600fps slow-mo shoots at a tiny 640×72 resolution—this isn’t a surprise given the resolution of the Casio’s awesome slow-mo cams—but you can bump up…
Two things make Panasonic‘s Lumix GH1 Micro Four Thirds camera stand out from its G1 forebear: The mondo 14-140mm kit lens and its 1080p full HD video powahs. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-micro-four-thirds-sequel-shoots-5163482 We couldn’t pull any video off the cam—it is a prototype, after all—but we did notice while playing around with it that even on its dinky…
With America’s status as a technological superpower comes a tendency to occasionally straight ignore the rest of the world. For better or for worse, here are technologies we’ve all but completely missed out on. Laserdiscs When Laserdisc player production finally spun down a month or so ago, it wasn’t much of an occasion. I mean,…
Valleywag’s tipsters tell them that there could be slashes at Apple today, specifically in the sales departments. [Valleywag] http://valleywag.gawker.com/5163575/apple-layoffs-today
What is the worst product idea you’ve ever heard? Now double it. We’re talking about sunglasses that tape on, and yes, they’re real. Starting this spring, hipster-fashion-tape-design-company Azumi & David will sell you sunglasses tape. We’d like to believe that the sticky ribbon is merely intended to spruce up a shirt or a bag, you…
Panasonic has just gotten around to releasing their next Micro Four Thirds camera, and it looks awfully familiar! That’s because the GH1 is, more or less, the G1, with added 1080p HD video capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-g1-review-worlds-first-micro-four-5092126 In fact, it looks as though allthe GH1’s changes revolve around that single new feature, which was sorely missed in…
We spotted the world’s first 1TB 2.5-inch solid state drive during CES. Now the world’s first actual laptop with a 1TB SSD will be made by Asus. https://gizmodo.com/worlds-first-1-tb-2-5-ssd-from-puresilicon-is-the-drea-5128280 The company just revealed that their previously announced ASUS Lamborghini VX5 (a 16-inch Intel Core 2 Quad system with 4GB of RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M…
Now I hate to sound like a broken record here, but am I the only one mystified by the new Mac Mini pricing? Who’s dropping $200 more for the higher end model? It’s all right there in the specs. There are two models: a $600 model and an $800 model. Literally the only difference between…
Looking for an all-in-one but don’t want to pay Apple-level prices? Well, the new Asus EEE Top is now available for preorder in the US. https://gizmodo.com/asus-all-in-one-eee-top-touches-down-in-taiwan-5095357 The 15.6-inch models are set to ship from Amazon on March 9th for $600. It comes in either black or white, loaded up with a custom touchscreen interface, a…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen! Come on in and see for yourselves! Same price, fewer keys, less clutter, less fewer! Thankfully, you can still pick the full one for no extra cost. [Apple]
Even if it’s packaged as yet another Guitar Hero clone, it’s always nice to see multitouch appear where it wasn’t meant to. The Nokia 5800 is the latest device to cave to multi-finger temptations. Developer Jamie Fuller somehow managed to coax the 5800 XpressMusic’s resistive display to recognize multiple touch points at once, showing off…
I’ve tried various solutions to bring a mouse and keyboard to the PS3, but the most elegant idea I’ve seen by far is the mLani MoBi. https://gizmodo.com/phantom-lapboard-review-5136332 One part 2000DPI laser mouse, one part the left part of the PS3 controller, the MoBi essentially replaces the bulky mouse and keyboard setup with a mouse and…
In all of the Apple announcements today, it would be easy to miss that the 15-inch MacBook Pro ($2,500 version) has gotten a processor bump from 2.53GHz to 2.66GHz, along with an upgrade option that now reaches 2.93GHz. That puts its base configuration on equal number crunching footing with the 17-inch MacBook Pro (the only…
Now you can get a 24-inch iMac for the same price of the old 20-inch—$1,499—with the 20-inch dropping to $1,199. The 24-inch base model also got double the RAM and hard drive. The granddaddy of the new iMacs is a 24-incher with a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM, a 1TB HDD and a…
