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Have you heard? We’re throwing a Snowmodo meetup at Northstar-at-Tahoe on April 4. Aside from skiing and boarding you’ll demo/win cool products, party with us on Zune’s behalf, and receive great weekend discounts at Northstar. Our second annual Snowmodo event is going to be an amazing amount of fun, so if you are anywhere near…
We’ve all wondered whether those internet chat support people were robots, but have we ever gotten them to admit that they were robots? Someone just did. [Consumerist]
A brilliant concept—chairs that can be transformed into wall art to save space. Plus, it’s a turn on to anyone who ever fantasized about 16th hottie Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo. [Treehugger]
Microsoft’s once again going for the cute-little-girl route for their “I’m a PC” ads. And while this girl is cute, she’s not quite as cute as the first. https://gizmodo.com/latest-im-a-pc-ad-entices-new-windows-users-with-cutene-5149071 These ads work. After seeing the first one, Mark’s wife said she wanted an Asian baby and a PC. This, after she JUST got a new…
A lucky Brit bought a BlackBerry on eBay and found the numbers of Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Kevin Spacey and about 50 other Hollywood-types in the contacts. Unfortunately, no one wanted to talk to him. It turns out the phone belonged to a producer from Working Titles Films who didn’t understand that when you sell…
In addition to cutting 15,000 jobs, Panasonic’s all but ordering another 10,000 employees who didn’t get axed to buy Panasonic electronics. https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-cutting-15-000-jobs-5146540 Surprisingly, this isn’t the first time that Panasonic all but forced its employees to buy company goods. It did the same in 2002, during the last down-economy. Higher-level managers need to purchase 200,000…
In order to transform this table from pub to coffee-sized all one needs to do is give it a push down until it clicks into place. Push it down again and the table raises up. The fact that the Push-Up could effectively do the work of two separate tables makes it practical given the trend…
What woman wants 400gbp/s in her slot? What. The. Hell. [Thanks Ponies!]
Have a romantic evening planned for tomorrow? You do? That’s good…that’s good. Just remember, there is a dark, scary side to love. The following gadgets are a sign that you might be in danger. Gabe Evans NYT” />
When LinkedIn user interface designer Bryan Haggerty decided to propose to his girlfriend, he wanted to do something more than the old romantic candlelight/beach thing. Instead, he wanted the iPhone to do the heavy lifting. So he designed the Romantech iPhone app to lead his girlfriend around San Francisco, spurred on by video clues to…
Granted, it’s a 720p Magnavox, but the $200 barrier is great one to see fall at a major, big-box retailer. You can grab it starting this weekend at Target. You may laugh while pointing to your 50″ plasma, but I know a lot of people for whom a 19-inch HDTV would be the perfect bedroom…
Have you ever seen how close photographers and spectators get to the action at rally car events? This guy is lucky that his head didn’t go flying with his DSLR. Click to view [Break via Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/speeding-rally-car-clips-photographer-sends-camera-fly-5152879
Jonathan Berg’s Wall-E computer is so cute, I just want to pick him up and squeeze him. But that would probably upset the delicate mechanisms inside. This is a plexiglass custom case built to look like Wall-e. He features Intel’s Atom 330 processor on a mini- ITX board. He has bluetooth, wireless-N, a 250GB hard…
[Google via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/first-screenshot-of-chrome-on-os-x-5153035
My ideal refuge is the ball pit from Chuck E. Cheese. But since I’m too tall to partake, I’ll have to settle for the slightly less colorful but equally round Globus Scriptorium desk and chair. Stored as a white polyurethane sphere, the Globus Scriptorium splits into hemispheres when in use—one for your rump, one for…
Apple just today declared jailbreaking illegal. So, in outlaw style, it’s a good day to take a break from the App Store to peruse the naughty treasures available to jailbreakers via Cydia. https://gizmodo.com/apple-says-jailbreaking-iphones-is-illegal-dammit-5153101 As you’re well aware by now, Apple’s official SDK limits apps from doing lots of things, like cut and paste, video capture,…
Microsoft is offering a $250,000 bounty for the Conficker worm’s designer. Microsoft isn’t alone in this hunt for the writer of the biggest PC worm in recent history. They’ve got a team of superfriends involved with the hunt: Symantec, F-Secure, VeriSign, Afilias, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), and the Shadowserver Foundation. The worm itself is dangerous,…
Lifehacker’s outdone their find of retro gaming wallpapers and found some re-made and re-rendered retro gaming wallpapers on Deviant Art. Super sweet doesn’t begin to describe these. https://gizmodo.com/our-favorite-lifehacker-posts-of-the-week-5152485 Hop on over to get full versions of Link to the Past, Sonic, Metroid, Gunstar Heroes, Mario, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania, Megaman and that one Disney game…
The long-promised support for paid apps in Android Marketplace has finally come. As of today, US and UK devs can publish apps with end-user pricing, which will then be available in the store mid-next week. https://gizmodo.com/wall-street-journal-android-paid-apps-coming-this-week-5150849 Germany, Austria, Netherlands, France and Spain will get the same support later in Q1, and will all be under…
I made my first cellphone call in the mid 90’s. The phone was actually fairly small in comparison to some of the monsters featured in OObject’s list—especially Centel’s 1989 model. [OObject]
