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A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out. “You end up lying there saying, ‘I’m not stopping. It would be an act of shallow cowardice. Or you decide to quit and you say, ‘This…
When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. I’m not sure what kind of sleep it was in (I was only gone for 6 hours and I’ve left it alone…
If being ruler of the free world weren’t enough for President Elect Barack Obama, when he’s sworn in, he’ll never wait for an open telephone line, either. Yup, access to the National Communications System is just one of the perks to being the President. Put in place by President Kennedy in 1963, the NCS’ priority…
Product renders often look far different than their production line counterparts. Take the XCM Dominator Joystick for the PS3. To be fair, the right is a night shot. But still! [XCM] https://gizmodo.com/new-playstation-3-accessories-bring-joystick-controls-5115157
Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance. The thing looks like a scaled-down inverted GPS mount, with suction cup there to grab the device, and a clamp to latch…
Much of my kitchen is filled with hand-sewn potholders in which you can see the details down to the thread. But in the digital age, we prefer to see things down to the pixel. The Clicking Kitchen Grip is perfect for those times you want to mentally point, click and drag your way to culinary…
Who needs the fake boobies of iBoobs when Wobble lets you add boob jiggle to real photos? Just tap, resize, repeat, and any photo you have on your iPhone becomes an instant jigglefest. https://gizmodo.com/nsfw-boob-app-on-the-iphone-is-obviously-called-iboobs-5116493 We tested it out on our own subject, Mark Wilson. It wasn’t quite as appealing as the demo video above, but…
See if you can guess which icon represents said “new low.” Have a guess? I bet you do. But thankfully, there were some legit cool apps this week too. Zit Picker: The aforementioned low. I write about it only to warn fellow Gizmodo fans, with hopes of condemning this app to the graveyard. You pick…
Bloomberg News is claiming that Steve Jobs is considering a liver transplant, citing “people who are monitoring his illness.” Does this mean Bloomberg talked to his doctors? His nurses? It’s unclear, since “people who are monitoring his illness” could technically mean quite a lot of people. In a telephone interview today, Jobs said he won’t…
You could go out tonight, spend lots of money, get super drunk and hook up with a really attractive member of the opposite sex. Or you could stay in, make Easy Mac and shop. Computing • LaCie 750 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for $88.24 (normally $125). • iRobot® Looj 120 Gutter Cleaning Robot…
It wasn’t just because it was closer to my house. Or because it undercut Best Buy by at least a buck or two on new movies and CDs. No, I genuinely liked Circuit City better. https://gizmodo.com/circuit-city-to-liquidate-prices-may-go-up-to-msrp-5132968 Circuit City was always more honest. After they ditched commission in 2003, employees (rightfully) had a chip on their…
My brother just got rid of an epic beater car. Over it’s 300K+ miles it has been smashed, burned and broken in every way imaginable. This post is for anyone that shares his pain. Flickr” />
Forget about your fancy MP3 player. Back in the day, if you wanted a stand-out audio device, it had to be shaped funny. The Wonderful Hand Radio is an homage to a bygone era, when you distinguished a clock by putting a radio in it, and you distinguished a radio by building a nicer clock.…
To combat a building wave of fear over gaming addiction and its scary, violent manifestations, Chinese players will soon spend 72 hours without bath or sleep leveling up without the comforting blanket of anonymity. https://kotaku.com/game-addict-swallows-saw-blades-to-commit-suicide-5129292 The registration system will go into effect this year. Real-name registration has been proven to reduce strongly addictive behavior in…
Rumors about when/if the “cupcake” OS update might be heading for the G1 got a little more confirmation today as Google and Blog discovered after speaking with a G1 PDA Specialist. https://gizmodo.com/cupcake-roadmap-hints-at-whatll-be-in-the-next-android-5113029 According to the rep, the update (dubbed RC31) is, in fact, coming to the T-Mobile G1 with an end of January target for…
Where did Circuit City go wrong? Maybe it was Divx. Maybe it was the elimination of commissions in 2003. Wherever it happened, this chart shows the last two years were miserable and ugly. [Consumerist]
Ustream, who brought you the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, is working on an iPhone app that can stream any of their videos—including Obama’s Inauguration—for the official App Store. Their CEO told TechCrunch that users will be able to “participate” in the live chat of the stream directly on the phone. It’s the 16th now, and…
Artists Tristan Eaton and AZK ONE have been invited to join the Vader Project based on their collaborative work on this sweet Darth Vader gas mask. If you are unfamiliar, the Vader Project is a traveling exhibition that displays artistic reimaginings of the iconic Darth Vader helmet. I have to admit, this work is particularly…
This must-be-from-Japan iPhone game is called Tsumineko Mew Mew Tower, and even from the Engrish name, you can pretty much deduce what it’s going to be about. Yeah, you build a tower of cats. And yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. Who hasn’t wondered what it would sound like to stack cats, claw-to-back, in…
I’ve tested Vista on two netbooks, and it’s never been good (not counting the Vaio P). In fact, Vista has been unusable in both circumstances. Then I loaded Windows 7 onto the Mini 12. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 If you look back at my original review of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12, a 12-inch Atom netbook with 1GB…
