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Praise Odin by consuming a Coors Light in seconds via his favorite symbol of power and virility—the horn. This is crying out for a Viking Horn Beer Bong Helmet mod. [Product Page – thanks, Esther!]
Planning on starting a nuclear war between the superpowers? You’ve gotta have the proper lighting for such activities, such as the AIRFLITE light, which was inspired by the war room in Dr. Strangelove. The ring-shaped lamp contains four curved florescent tubes and shoots 80% of its light upwards to reflect off the ceiling. This should…
Metal Gear is one of my favorite game franchises of all time, and it’s arguably the biggest making its way to the iPhone. I’m excited, but I don’t know about this trailer. From the smidgin’ of gameplay footage we see there at the end, it kind of just looks like Time Crisis with Solid Snake—I…
Jeff Bezos brought a Kindle 2 to the Daily Show last night, where Mr. Stewart lobbed some pretty hefty criticism at it. And all Bezos could do was laugh like a gassed hyena. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Jeff Bezos Click to view Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things…
You can download Safari 4 Beta right now. It’s got a new Javascript engine—called Nitro—that 4.2x faster than Safari 3. Feature-wise, it pulls a lot from Chrome and Firefox it looks like: Top Sites sounds like Chrome and Opera’s home page, with your most frequently visited websites in a wall of previews. The new Tabs…
If this somewhat dubious photo is to be believed, a Pocketables.net forum poster has successfully booted OS X on a Vaio P. He claims that much of the hardware doesn’t work yet, though. As you know from our Dell Mini 9 Hackintosh guide, hardware support is everything-a netbook running OS X with no networking, sound…
The Astonishing Tribe has posted another eye-candy cellphone UI demo for the world to ogle at. Unlike their last endeavor, though, this one might have a future on our phones. At least, I hope so. https://gizmodo.com/coolest-cellphone-interface-ever-is-also-absolutely-use-5155597 The concept, which gives traditionally flat interface elements a very convincing sense of depth and layering, relies on eyetracking…
Non-crippled DSLRs don’t get a whole lot cheaper than $700, so it’s heartening to see the Olympus E-620 carry such a solid spec sheet at that crucial price point. The E-620 is a 12.3 megapixel Four Thirds DSLR—the company says it borrows tech from its big brother, the E-30, and crams it into a body…
Oh, the beeper-wearing, big-glasses-having software engineers that designed Windows 3.x never could have foreseen this: an industrious young Pole has installed the OS on his futuristic “Enn Ninety-Five” hand-held electronic voice paging device. Technically the installation isn’t native, but it runs pretty convincingly through the Symbian version of DOSbox. The process only took developer Marcin-PRV…
A company has “borrowed” famous Korean rabbit MashiMaro and turned it into an MP3 player. And true to the spirit of the cartoon, they placed the audio connector in a well analyzed place: The Msplayer has 2GB of flash memory and support for MP3, WMA, OGG, ASF, ACT, WAV, and APE audio playback. When fully…
Ars reviews AMD’s latest quad-core, the Phenom II, against a barrage of Intel chips and finds that while it “puts AMD back on the map” against today’s chips, AMD’s got a “long-term problem.” [Ars Technica]
I just signed on Xbox Live to play some SFIV and lookie here: That red Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 is all officially revealed. You can check it out on Xbox Live right now. https://gizmodo.com/resident-evil-5-xbox-360-is-red-like-dead-zombie-blood-5138236 All of the details Ars leaked about the RE5 package were correct: It’s an Xbox 360 Elite with a bloody…
Elecom’s MicroSD USB reader takes advantage of the storage format’s miniature size to ensure that the only thing poking out of your computer is a colorful— and dare I say stylish— little nub. The MR-SMC03 is so small that it kind of looks more like a USB hole stopper than a media reader. To use…
While Consumerist wasn’t terribly optimistic about your credit card company helping you out if you bought a shattered HDTV, the HD Guru and a Giz reader note American Express specifically will save your ass. https://gizmodo.com/buying-an-hdtv-from-circuit-city-liquidation-is-like-lo-5158765 Here’s the deal: If you buy the TV with an American Express card, Purchase Protection covers your ass for up…
It’s brilliant, a five-minute tank of air complete with retractable mouthpiece. You wear it on your chest like a badge of heroism—or superheroism—but it’s sad, really. How many people can you save? [Yanko via DVice]
Charlie Sorrel over at Gadget Lab found this Chinese typewriter at an art exhibit in Barcelona. It has 2000 characters to choose from, but instead of buttons, you use levers to select those characters. Apparently, by maneuvering the two levers, there’s a grabber that can pick up the character and print it on the page.…
British website Mobile Today is claiming that the LG GD910 Watch Phone will sell on the Orange network across Europe for about £1,000, which is the rough equivalent of $1500 USD. https://gizmodo.com/lg-touchscreen-watch-phone-will-support-3g-speech-reco-5119487 A £1,000 pricetag would seem to make sense, since it this is a boutique item and it was announced last week that Orange…
Thirty years ago, it would have been obscene to think a PC could fit into a case the size of the Apple II’s floppy drive. Now Charles Mangin’s Mac Mini lives in one. I was just reading about the development of the Disk II. Randy Wigginton and Woz worked on it for a few weeks,…
Someone made this apparently one-off set of baby slippers back at Burning Man 2007, but we want these as a real product. Seriously, these are better than bunny slippers. [Flickr Credit via DC via CG]
Is it any huge surprise that someone is already charging the maximum Android Marketplace price for a nonsensical, paid app? Or that the name makes reference to the $1000 “I Am Rich” iPhone app? No. https://gizmodo.com/google-sets-price-cap-for-paid-android-apps-5154661 Network World says ‘I Am Richer‘ is essentially identical to the iPhone app, except it has a blue diamond,…
