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I can’t decide whether I like carbon fiber, or I just love the color black. The Triumph Speed Triple motorcycle features a 1050cc triple engine to get you going and twin 4-piston, 4-caliper brakes to bring you to a stop. But if that’s not enough, a special, limited run of 55 Triumph Speed Triples will…
Hey ladies, are you sick of air drying your bras and having it take forever? Me too! That’s why I totally love this BraDryer concept, which is specially designed for drying off your support garments. The great thing about the Bra Dryer is how unambiguously designed it is. No one will have any doubts about…
Even the people who should be wearing spandex really shouldn’t be wearing spandex, if you know what I mean. But a skin tight suit that depicts your inner muscle tissue? OK! By Tomek Pietek, the Skin Muscle Suit digs deep below your gelatinous layers of skin, fat and creamy filling to find your inner beauty—namely…
The National Health Service in the London Borough of Hounslow, in an effort to coax young people into getting tested, is offering free self-service STD kits, with an added bonus: text message diagnosis!. After sending off your little envelope of chlamydia ‘n’ hope to a lab, you can opt to receive your potentially traumatic results…
Even though we explained what’s new, many of you are confused how the DSi is different than the DS. Since we now assume that most of you can’t read, here’s a video explanation. [Kotaku]
Commenter robkonz1 noticed something strange about Google’s recent offline Mobile Gmail demo: the HTC Magic used in the demo had—ohmygoodness—a T-Mobile logo on it. Does this mean the Magic is going to be our G2? https://gizmodo.com/browser-based-offline-gmail-demonstrated-on-iphone-and-5156357 Engadget noticed this as well, and notes that the T-Mobile logo on this particular handset is a uniquely US…
Retailers trying to replenish their stock of Apple’s only normal-sized display are now being told something to the effect of “NO, JESUS CHRIST, NO MORE 20″ DISPLAYS, OK?” This, of course, created rumors. MacRumors points out the most obvious possibility: that Apple is letting current stock dry up to facilitate a transition to new, refreshed…
BGR reports that the first few paid apps have infiltrated the bohemian mobile development commune known as the Android Market, just one week after the submission gates were opened. https://gizmodo.com/paid-android-apps-live-better-apps-are-coming-soon-5153238 The string of comments following the post indicate that most users won’t be able to throw their money at fart apps just yet (there are…
If you like 8.9-inch screens, you might want to get one now. Asus has said that it’ll be phasing out that size in 2009, since 10-inch models are dominating the market. https://gizmodo.com/asus-8-9-inch-eee-pc-900-confirmed-363243 According to Digitimes, Benson Lin, president of Asustek Computer’s Asia-Pacific division said that 10-inch models account for 95% of the company’s sales. 7-inch…
These two beautifully quirky lamps were fashioned out of obsolete technology, including aircraft compasses, railroad signal switching relays and stainless-steel ink cylinders. Creative recycling is so awesome. The lamps were made by Alan Lishness over at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. The round bulbed one was made from a water-cooled dual processor yanked from…
I wonder what she’s looking at through the view finder of that Cosina Super 8 camera. Cosina, I found out, is an Japanese camera and lens maker from the 1950s, based in Nagano, Japan. (The “Na” in their name stands for Nagano.) The Cosina CX-2 was the original that the Lomo knocked off, and while…
Dean Kamen is brilliant, but I’ve always felt Segways were kinda for lazy people. Well, I did think that, until I got this email from Allen, a segway using reader with a disability. Doh! Hello Brian, Let me start by saying that I love Gizmodo. I read it almost every day and frequently post in…
Chris Hardwick and Wil Wheaton, internet gentlemen extraordinaire, just saw The Watchmen. They say it was awesome. This gives us hope. Read a spoiler-free summary on Nerdist. [Nerdist]
Hello comrade. How are you. Oh this? This is not a $300 Third Eye Video camera that lasts 2.5 hours on a charge. I just have an unfortunate birth defect. [Hammacher via BBG]
PC Perspective’s review of Intel’s X25-M SSD, a custom-designed solid state drive, showed that the manufacturer’s sector remapping actually lowered overall performance dramatically over time as the drive became irreparably fragmented. Some background info. First, sector remapping—a custom solution from Intel— is a method that makes sure wear and tear on the drive is spread…
Oh, Woz. I want to tease you, but deep down I’ve got to respect you for doing whatever the hell you want and not caring what anybody thinks. Dance your heart out, Woz. https://gizmodo.com/woz-to-dance-with-the-stars-and-denise-richards-5149503 And for those of you interested, Woz’s partner in this will be Ukrainian dance champion Karina Smirnoff, one of my favorite…
Kotaku notes that a NZ Halo Wars press release makes mention of an EB exclusive Red Xbox 360 Elite. [Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/red-xbox-360-mentioned-officially-by-microsoft-5156170
Either the New Yorker has access to super-classified government intel (Seymour Hersh FTW!), or they just possess a healthy enough imagination to have come up with this approximate sketch of Obama’s new and improved Blackberry. https://gizmodo.com/obama-allowed-to-keep-blackberry-must-use-sectera-edge-5136260 No matter the motive, the final product is great, and comes with a breakdown of the phone’s features, which…
A new report commissioned by the Office of Naval Research makes a grim statement about the increasing danger of combat-trained robots in the 21st century: “We are going to need a warrior code.” Simply put, increasingly sophisticated robots programmed to kill enemies living and animatronic will at some point be making their own decisions about…