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Scrabble is serious business, people. That’s why it’s all the more fundamental to have an 8-foot Scrabble board in your backyard. Now: F, O, P, U, Y, E, letter of your choice. Go. F = 8 points O = 1 point P = 5 points U = 4 points Y = 4 points E =…
In Washington D.C., parking meters are allegedly out to destroy the human race as “out-of-order” meters are suddenly coming back to life and repairing themselves, leaving a number of motorists with “wrongful” parking tickets. According to the D.C. Department of Transportation, 74% of more than 15,000 very old parking meters in D.C. are designed to…
Early guesstimates had the Windows 7 release pegged for this summer, and with the release candidate to be released soon, a September ship date sounds just about right. https://gizmodo.com/its-official-windows-7-shipping-mid-2009-5079563 According to a PC contractor that builds for Acer, HP and others PC manufacturers, the software should be available in either late September or early October.…
What better way to clean that dusty screen than rubbing it down with a cheeseburger? If a cheeseburger isn’t your thing, how about a donut, piece of cake, cookies or a BLT? Dubbed “Sweets Cleaners” these tasty-looking screen cleaners will help you keep your monitor dust-free (and keep you mind off of work and firmly…
Colombian artists Andres Barragan and Miss Vynilos have painstakingly tiled the interior of a shower to depict scenes from Donkey Kong Junior. Either these guys are big fans of the game, or they get a cheap thrill out of bathing with pixelated baby monkeys staring at their naked bodies. It’s a common fetish—I’ll bet there…
Who would want to refinish the iconic Sears Tower—the nation’s tallest building clad in classic black—to Toyota Prius, gaudy hubcap, old fillings, generic cheap electronic silver? Unfortunately, it’s the owners. I should clarify, it’s the building’s New York owners, a point that the Sun-Times was sure to slip in to the source article, knowing it…
Panasonic, Sony and Philips are spinning off Blu-ray licensing into a single company, which for us, the real people, means we should be seeing Blu-ray prices take another tumble downward. That’s because the costs of licenses for people to make Blu-ray stuff will drop as much as 40 percent, since manufacturers won’t have to talk…
The AIM iPhone app has never been great, but it just got some pretty solid features—it pings when you have new IMs, even after you quit the app, and lets you send free SMS messages. No, it doesn’t use Apple’s long lost push notifications. Instead, it uses SMS notifications, for up to 24 hours after…
iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and even PSN are all pretty good at distributing downloadable movies and music. But all of these data files, as easy as they are to buy, make for a crappy gift. Let me backtrack for a moment. Someone I know has a birthday coming up, and one item I’d really like to…
It’s been 24 hours since Safari 4 made it’s beta debut, so you’ve had some time with the new features. What are your impressions? Did you like it enough to make it your default browser? Have You Made Safari 4 Your Default Browser? ( polls) What were your impressions? What features do you like /…
I thought we learned our lesson from cheesy sci-fi movies. You know how everyone in the fictional future is walking around with clunky, stupid glasses? Now a designer wishes to birth that digital dystopia. From Dior, the Blow glasses are a fluorescently fugly take on the future of fashion, debuting in a limited batch of…
Well, this is the most terrifying table lamp I’ve ever seen. Why anybody would want to stare at this thing every time they sit on the couch is beyond me. The lamp’s name is Frankie, and it’s shaped like a skull with some sort of horrifying modification over where the mouth should be. The eyes…
Kotaku just talked to Acclaim’s David Perry, the guy who allegedly spilled the beans on the upcoming PSP 2 earlier today. And he’s pretty sure about a launch date. https://gizmodo.com/the-psp-2-will-ditch-umd-according-to-developer-5160139 I spoke to a developer who is working on [the PSP 2] right now. I know this developer is already working on it, so that…
How much packaging is necessary to ship a small package of 4″x6″ photo paper, Best Buy? Let’s put it this way. If our reader had ordered two packs of photo paper, the world’s rainforests would be but a pile of sawdust, plus enough air would be trapped within plastic polyair bubbles to make a simple…
One day, Sprint asked us if they could quote us from our big multi-city 3G performance test, and I said, “hmmokay.” To my surprise, the ads are kind of everywhere in NYC. https://gizmodo.com/the-definitive-coast-to-coast-3g-data-test-5111989 The big papers, the airports, even Times Square. First off, I want to let you, the beautiful readers, know there was no…
Sleeping on a train, plane or car would be a hell of a lot more comfortable if your jacket had a hood that could inflate and function as a pillow. The jacket, confusingly dubbed “Never Stop a Rolling Stone” by designer Rahel Ritchie features a fully inflatable hood that can be manually adjusted via a…
I didn’t watch Obama’s speech last night, but I bet it involved spending a lot of money. Luckily, we’ve got a bunch of deals so you don’t wind up with your own trillion-dollar deficit. Car Gadgets • VALOR ITS-700 In-Dash DVD Receiver w/ 7″ Touch Screen for $199.99 plus free shipping (normally $279.99). • Jabra…
We have featured tesla coils music before but, if there’s a music piece these things were created for, that has to be the Imperial March. Someone put Luke in between those, please. [Star Wars Blog]
Bandai’s Aqua Dance water toy utilizes some sort of nanotech coating to send endless balls…of water cascading through a maze. I feel the urge to pee just thinking about it. When the water balls have finished their journey through the maze, they are sucked back into the water tank to be reborn once again (haha…innuendo).…
Yep, AT&T is pulling its Quickfire Sidekick-wannabe off the shelves. That’s because if you shove the charger in the wrong way, as some people have done, it, well, the punchline pretty much writes itself. https://gizmodo.com/at-t-quickfire-release-date-leaked-5077808 Here’s the text message AT&T is sending out to people who own Quickfires to make sure they don’t plug it…