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Some students in Denmark have invented a toilet that functions like a punchline in some god awful 90s sitcom. The seat automatically lowers itself after you flush. LOL GENDER WARS OMG. The kids, from Skjern Technical College, managed to win the Young Enterprise entrepreneurial award for “best product.” Great. You know what this encourages, guys?…
Forget Eee Phones: Garmin and Asus have created a strategic alliance to design, build and sell co-branded Nuvifones, starting with the original one—now called G60—and probably moving towards Windows Mobile and Android. https://gizmodo.com/nuvifone-garmin-drops-a-phone-into-the-gps-350894 Yes, the delayed Nuvifone is still scheduled to come out in the first half of 2009. There’s no carrier or price announcement…
The U.S. surpassed Germany as the biggest producer of wind power in 2008, I guess proving that its alternative energy efforts haven’t just been a load of hot air. New wind projects made up 42% of the U.S.’s total new power-producing capacity added last year, adding 8.4GW of new facilities into the grid. That brought…
Google’s released Latitude, a Maps tool that allows for automatic tracking of friends in real time, using a laptop, Symbian 60, Blackberry, WinMo and soon, iPhone or Android. Laptops and cellphones (when not using GPS) can locate to a fair level of accuracy using geotagged Wi-Fi and cellular tower points in a database that Google’s…
Dezeen posted on this crazy looking house built in Suffolk, England, which is actually three separate structures, and a garage that are unified by a sliding wall which can envelop them together. Designed by Architecture firm dRMM, the outer wall of the house moves along a 28 meter track and can sit over any part…
This 5-in-1 Spy Pen is every secret agent’s wet dream. It functions as an audio and video recorder, USB webcam, 2GB USB flash drive, and works as a fully functioning pen too. Using a single rechargeable Lithium-ion battery, the pen can record up to 60 minutes of color video, and can be charged using a…
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a robotic arm that can be controlled remotely and help medics assist wounded soldiers that can’t be carried off the battlefield. Howie Choset, an associate professor at CMU, engineered the robotic arm with various sensors so it can monitor and assess a soldier’s condition. The are detectors on…
How deeply does Nintendo’s tendrils penetrate Japanese society? So deeply that this wanted poster was spotted in Kanagawa, and instead of a traditional composite sketch, what’s that we have there? A Mii portrait?? No word on the suspect’s Wii fit rating, or his preference of dogs vs. cats, in Everybody Votes, but, goddamn, I don’t…
We’ve already got a few great companies lined up but we wanted ask you guys, what products or companies would you like to see at Snowmodo? https://gizmodo.com/gizs-snowmodo-reader-meetup-saturday-april-4th-north-5143084 If you have any ideas for products or companies you would like see at our Snowmodo meetup, than please leave a comment with your suggestions. Try to keep…
The Headset Hotties blog documents instances of headset hotties—stock photos of (mostly) women used in low-budget template-based websites. I’ve seen quite a few “headset hotties” in stock photos from when I created websites, and these aren’t nearly the best ones on the internet. Maybe you guys can help them out? [Headset Hotties via Boing Boing…
Artist Dustin Cantrell took Kidrobot’s classic Dunny toy and fused it together with a novelty favorite: the Tesla-inspired Plasma Globe. But even crazier, he’s letting ToyCyte give one of these amazing creations away for free. In a post published on ToyCyte, Cantrell said he was inspired to create the Plasma Dunny was always a little…
Mary Jo Foley’s got the roadmap for Microsoft’s MobileMe-like Skybox service for mobile phones over the next year or so. Skybox 1.0 and 1.5 are standard syncing services, but 2.0 sounds incredible. Skybox 1.0 will go into beta later this month and be free, thanks to ads on its web port. As we’d heard earlier,…
Designed for high-end restaurants, the “Chompr” hamburger grasping device concept ensures that your delicate hands never actually come in contact with the bun—only elegant walnut and polished aluminum. Plus, the supports would be spring-loaded to ensure a firm grip on even the thickest of thickburgers. After all, Hardee’s is a place to see and be…
The merchandising machine for the upcoming Star Trek film is getting fired up with a slew of absurd and unrelated products—including a three-fragrance lineup for men. https://gizmodo.com/star-trek-super-bowl-trailer-seething-with-captain-kirk-5143987 Apparently, the “Tiberius,” “Pon Farr” and “Red Shirt” fragrances will be available in finer stores starting the spring for an undisclosed price. Start saving guys. After all, who…
The folks behind Red Bull’s Snowscrapers event this week in the city will tell you, as they’re building the biggest ramp ever in an urban area in New York City’s East River Park. [For some reason these video embeds hate our site: check them out at the source here] It consists of a 90-foot main…
Stephen Fry was stuck in an elevator for 45 minutes! He tweeted about it and you could follow it LIVE. Isn’t Twitter great? [Stephen Fry/Twitter]
By now, Tokyoflash watches need no introduction. Here is their new, stainless steel “Heko.” Priced at $109, it features either white, blue or multi-colored LEDs which, pending your PhD in cryptology, signify the time. [Tokyoflash]
Hello, Windows networking. Hello, pain-in-the-butt. Decidedly, Microsoft attempted to fix the nightmare commonly known as Windows networking, with Windows 7. They may have, or may have not, with Homegroups. The main goal of Windows networking is to enable multiple computers on the same network to share files to each other-so you can share your huge,…
No one expects an MSI Wind to run OSX as well as the latest MacBook, but how does the 1.6GHz N270 Atom system stand up to the 1.33GHz iBook G4 with 768MB of RAM? In short, it competes. Comparing load times, as you see in this graph, it’s quicker across the board. The MSI Wind…
When a cellphone explosion kills a person, you think it is a rare event. When you learn that another man just died for the same reason, you start looking at yours like a potential killer. https://gizmodo.com/man-killed-by-cellphone-explosion-327338 The cellphone of this victim-a man in a Lenovo shop in Guangzhou, China-exploded without warning in his shirt pocket,…