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In an incident that wasn’t at all excessive (nope), a 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin was arrested for refusing to stop sending text messages during class, where she proceeded to hide the phone in her ASS CRACK. According to the Smoking Gun, the unnamed girl apparently ignored the teacher’s requests to stop using her Samsung phone,…
Quick, what can you do with some metal sheeting, LEDs, a mirror, and wire? Make a lamp, of course! Yanko posted this simple, but functional, Nimbus Reading Lamp, created by Donell Huston. Essentially, Huston has the LEDs in the base of the lamp shining up into an angled mirror, which reflects on to the table…
Making use of a 103-inch Panasonic Plasma and a multitouch-capable overlay from U-Touch, British software developers UI Centric put together this awesome-looking table hockey demo that puts all other 103-inch, touch-based table games to shame. UI Centric created the game as a demo for the 2009 Integrated Systems Europe show in Amsterdam, which is for…
Charlie at Wired’s Gadget Lab finds NTT DoCoMo‘s two-piece magnetic phone entertaining, but to me, the reasons it’s supposed to be useful range from frivolous to baffling to just plain dumb. The phone, composed of screen half and number-pad half, can be joined along either edge. But DoCoMo calls this phone “separable,” able to be…
Hey, when I throw a party, it’s only the finest for my guests. That means boxed wine and all the cheap beer you can drink served in these elegant Piss Glasses. [Donkey Products via Szymon]
Two materials, lonsdaleite and wurtzite, have just been recognized as being harder than diamonds. Lonsdalite, similar to diamonds that its made from carbon, is formed during asteroid impacts, and is 58% harder than its cousin. Wurtzite boron nitride is formed during heavy volcanic eruptions and can be up to 18% harder than diamonds. Both are…
It’s true, just as it’s tough to simultaneously enjoy outhouses and Japanese toilets, chances are that you won’t dually appreciate both circuit boards and pens. Still, we had to write (type, I should say) about the Circuit Board Pen. Not just some ballpoint coated in a cheap electronic veneer, the pen features a real circuit…
Slow motion makes everything more beautiful, even snow. Here’s a simple snowshoe hike during a storm, transformed by 300fps capture. The Exilim slow motion EX-F1 isn’t new anymore, but it’s still one of the most fun cams out there. What’s key for me is the switch to quickly jump from 30 to 300fps, which I’ve…
This shot from Hiptop3 supposedly shows the Sidekick 2009, which has the rumored codename of Sidekick Blade. https://gizmodo.com/3g-sidekick-lx-2009-edition-spotted-5141420 Not much new detail in this post, but from last time, here are the rumored specs: Social Networking Suite of Apps – Facebook – MySpace w/ video upload – Twitter – YouTube Mobile Access via browser GPS…
So often the public gets caught up in flamewars, arguing futilely over which console is the bestest or most popular. In reality, these sponsored pieces of hardware get along far better than we ever imagined. Discovered on the IGN forums, these unsigned pieces (anyone know the artist?) may be a tad idealist, but they make…
A new service dubbed TrapCall allows users to unmask pesky blocked callers—revealing not only their number, but their name and address in some cases. It’s actually a fairly simple procedure. TrapCall reroutes unanswered blocked calls through a 1-800 number then back to your voicemail. Since anonymity is denied to 1-800 numbers, TrapCall simply picks up…
Long ago, in a mystical land (China), there were heaps of electronics poisoning the Earth. A couple of those circuit boards were shaped into a dragon, and everyone lived happily ever after. [Sparkfun via MAKE] https://gizmodo.com/60-minutes-reporter-investigates-chinas-e-waste-pits-g-5079133
Oberthur Technologies has come up with yet another interesting application of accelerometer technology. Their new SIMSense card is the first motion-sensing SIM card on the planet. Why the hell would you need a motion-sensing SIM card you ask? Well first off, it could give any run-of-the-mill handset the capability to navigate menus, send calls or…
And it’s only one of several entrepreneurial efforts to make some green while people still feel HOPE. I also love the model we found of BHO’s 757, a.k.a. Hope Force 1. And so does America. These were custom made by the exhibitor for QVC, where they apparently sold out all 2500 of the limited edition…
Guess which version is the second gen DLP Pico projector. (Hint: It’s the smaller one on the right that’s better in every way.) There’s really nothing exciting about micro projectors now other than where they can go. And TI’s second generation projector is a promising step to mobile media “is that HD in your pocket?”…
We’re inundated with stats about everything from babies dying to pounds of pizza eaten, but what does all that stuff actually look like? A site called So_Many_A_Second explores the simple idea of showing us what X somethings per second looks like through a simple but effective flash animation. Our lead image is a still grab…
The Mac junkies at ifixit are performing another one of their brilliant autopsies on the 17-inch MacBook Pro. It seems the only surprise thus far is that the laptop’s mega battery screws in. [ifixit] https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-3g-gets-dissected-5023769
Practicing yoga can involve achieving higher levels of posing and meditation. Only Green Man can achieve true Nirvana by sitting cross legged with his decapitated head lying in his hands. Suck on that Sting! The Green Man USB drive is completely poseable and his removable head can hold 2GB of data. Available for $31. [Geek…
We’ve got an unusually large number of awesome deals today, with everything from games and movies to HDTVs and digital cameras at serious discounts. So let’s cut to the chase, shall we? Gaming: • Left 4 Dead on Xbox 360 for $43.99 (normally $59.99). • Batman: Arkham Asylum on Xbox 360/PS3 for $36 (normally $48…
Nestled amongst the scores of stuffed, cuddly and friendly playthings here was another, somewhat unexpected toy. Behold, the safety booths and x-ray-powered spot lead contamination detectors of Toy Fair 2009. The booths from China, obviously, were our favorites. [Toy Fair 2009]
