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After his last Wiimote-for-hippies mod shut down his site, DHreck is back with another one, and this time his mini-mote and nunchuck mod is for midgets! people who like cute, small things. https://gizmodo.com/the-hemp-wiimote-a-labor-of-free-love-5107796 As you can see from the photos, the Mini-mote is a minimalistic mod that doesn’t change much from the original Wiimote, except…
As one Apple founder takes a break from creating tech, Woz is joining Enterprize SSD company Fusion-IO as chief scientist. https://gizmodo.com/steve-jobs-taking-a-leave-of-absence-from-apple-due-to-5131535 Fusion-IO’s main product is ioDrive, with “performance comparable to DRAM and storage capacity on par with today’s hard disks”. I just hope Woz makes something fun for us geeks who aren’t in corporate IT…
A good way to end the debate between using real estate for physical keys or pixels. In theory. [MozPhone via Core77]
An Italian programmer and over 100 other individuals, including public figures, policemen, and government officials, are currently being investigated for what seems to be a traffic-light-rigging conspiracy. Stefano Arrighetti, 45, the engineer in charge for programming the T-Redspeed system which is used throughout Italy, is being accused of rigging traffic lights to have shorter yellow…
Summer Glau, who plays a bot in Terminator TV show, tells Connor something shocking at the end of the premier. Spoilers ahead: Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers ahead! Spoilers…
Mary Jo Foley’s saying that we’ll see Windows Mobile 6.5 devices in September of this year, and confirms that Windows Mobile 7 will be seen on devices in 2010. [AllAboutMsft] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-ceo-says-windows-mobile-7s-not-coming-til-2010-5145355
You don’t need to know my name. I was just a lowly salesman at Circuit City. But know that these people losing their jobs are not just my coworkers. They are my friends. [The following words are quotes from the tales of over a dozen real CC sales folks, managers, liquidators, and corporate workers. I’ve…
Daniel Alvarez, 21, of Austin, Texas was recently arrested for allegedly attempting to strangle his girlfriend with a Wii controller. Why? Because she wanted to know who stole the cookies from the cookie jar. Alvarez’s girlfriend, Christina Alvarado, had apparently woken him up after she had discovered her Girl Scout Cookies had gone missing. An…
Although having two built-in flushing options on toilets is nothing new, the Brondell Perfect Flush kit lets you mount the two-button flushing options onto your own toilet, without help from a professional plumber. The idea behind having flushing options is that the two major bodily ejections differ in quantity, so they should be flushed down…
This super crazy looking gadget is Nikon’s new stereoscopic microscope that can be attached to your Nikon DSLR for some serious close-up photos. Don’t have a DSLR? You can also attach this to some point-and-shoots. After mounting it to the back of your Nikon DSLR, you can take detailed photos with a magnification of 20x…
This week, Lifehacker shows us how to make fonts from our own handwriting, get better sounds from in-ear headphones and save money by brewing our own coffee. • Easily tweak your photos (in Windows) with PhotoPerfect • File & Folder Unlocker app tells you what other processes have a certain file locked down, then allows…
Hughes Telematics stopped by to show us and our buddies at Jalopnik the in-car connected tech they’re pitching to OEMs, which was actually pretty great. But it did include this perfect piece of generational misunderstanding. Yes, this car will text your colleagues “b 15 m l8” next time you’re running late. Like Ford’s Sync service,…
At a recent Hall of Fame news conference, a woman claiming to be Ex-Cowboys receiver Bob Hayes’ half sister read an emotional thank you letter written by him in 1999. But something is amiss. Bob Hayes died in 2002 and this letter was supposedly a thank you pre-written in the the hope that he would…
Award winning architect Zaha Hadid has applied her love of curvy, metallic design into this cutting edge faucet. Seriously, it could easily be part of a sculptural exhibit at some fancy modern art museum. https://gizmodo.com/zaha-hadids-dubai-opera-house-design-makes-me-see-cylon-5013802 The touch sensitive controls can deliver filtered or unfiltered hot and cold water via two channels in the faucet neck—and…
Are you feeling dumb today? I kind of am, and if I had time, I’d cure that by watching one of the TED Conference’s smarties present what’s beautiful, inspiring and interesting to them. We’ve featured TED talks on the site pretty frequently (and the Medium column had a good explanation recently in the New York…
For unknown reasons, the release date of the 17-inch MacBook Pro has been pushed back until February 19th. [Appleinsider]
This very sad story of a 4-year-old girl dying in a washing machine when her 15-month-old brother hit the start button reminds us to lock up our machines, especially around small children and pets. [MSNBC]
With all of the horror stories in the news these days about people resorting to violence over gadgets, I’m starting to worry about our obsession with technology. https://gizmodo.com/knife-wielding-teen-holds-parents-hostage-over-cellphon-5140041 I mean, just today I read that a gamer beat up his girlfriend because she ended up killing his character by standing in front of the TV.…
Another day, another list of sweet gadget deals. So, without further ado, let’s whip out that credit card and start accruing some debt. Bluetooth • Jawbone Bluetooth Headset for $29.99 (normally $45 – valid until 2/11. Use rebate form). Computing & Accessories • Lenovo IdeaPad S10e 10.1″ 1.60GHz Netbook for $298.99 plus free shipping (normally…
In what is probably the coolest conference-talk attention grab I’ve ever heard of, Bill Gates apparently just released a swarm of mosquitoes into the crowd at TED, the geniuses-only mind meld. Holy shit. http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm “Not only poor people should experience this,” the Tweetosphere has Gates saying as he released the swarm into the audience. Malaria…