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I have played this video again and again, trying to figure out what’s going on here. I can’t. My brain is fried. Yoshimoto Cube has fried my brain and it’s not even 2009 yet. According to the description, the Yoshimoto Cube transforms into two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. Which is a fancy way to say “the…
While everyone else is getting drunk, doing all kinds of exotic drugs and making out, you could ring in the new year with a breath-powered virtual new year’s horn for your iPhone. But don’t. I’m all for iPhone apps replacing real-word objects and tools that I would then no longer have to purchase, carry or…
If you were planning on buying a Blu-ray movie and game from Amazon anyway, you can score a free PS3 Blu-ray remote ($20 value) with the code “PS3BDREM” at checkout. Not bad. [Amazon via Dealnews]
OK, who gave Brando the rhinestones? With Valentine’s Day a little over a month away, we’re all scratching our heads as to how to get our loved ones jewelry that we can actually play with. Luckily, the $33 USB Thumb Drive Bracelet showed up just in time to ship from overseas. Hiding a discreet 8GB…
While most of us can’t avoid the convenience of credit cards (and their reusable nature is commendable), their plastics aren’t so good. Now Discover has launched the US’s first biodegradable credit card. Constructed of biodegradable PVC, 99% of the card’s substance is said to be reabsorbed by the environment given exposure to soil, water, compost…
While even Blu-ray players are getting into the media streaming business, Verismo Networks has announced the $100/$150 VuNow PoD, promising everything from YouTube to BitTorrent in a clean Apple TVesque interface. The palm-sized $100 VuNow PoD is standard def and equipped with ethernet, Wi-F and 2 USB ports out of the box. It’s almost hard…
Honestly, most of the solar gadgets we see aren’t terribly practical, and often rely on a primary, wired power source. Not the Nextar NXBT handsfree kits—these are the real thing. The NXBT is modest in its goals, serving as a no-frills Bluetooth handsfree kit for your car. It offers a simple caller ID interface as…
Right, so this is a weird one: we’re getting tons of reports—tons—about failing Zune 30s. Apparently, the players began freezing at about midnight last night, becoming totally unresponsive and practically useless. Update: The easy official fix here. https://gizmodo.com/official-fix-for-the-zune-30-fail-5121822 The crisis has been dubbed by Zune users ‘Z2K9’, due to the apparently synchronized faceplantings across the…
Citing “three independent sources close to Apple,” one who has “actually held the device,” TechCrunch says Apple is planning to release a giant iPod touch device with a seven- or nine-inch screen next fall. In other words, it’s a tablet running the scaled down version of OS X that’s on the iPod touch and iPhone—not…
First Google Street View captures a person peeing on the street, and now they drive right by a bunch of Porsche prototypes in Colorado. https://gizmodo.com/google-street-view-captures-man-woman-peeing-in-the-str-5117122 We’re not sure how old these photos are, but they’re supposedly of updated “Boxters, Caymans and even a 911”. Is nothing safe? Do I have to put on my pants…
HTC’s confirmed to Engadget that the “cupcake” OS Update will should be available to the T-Mobile G1 some time in the future. https://gizmodo.com/cupcake-roadmap-hints-at-whatll-be-in-the-next-android-5113029 No specification on when the over-the-air update will hit, though. [Engadget] Chris from Engadget just told us that it’s still up to T-Mobile and Google whether or not the update will hit,…
So weird. This iRobot Packbot has a Situational Awareness Mast built-in, a surveillance system which can grow from 25 inches to 20 feet lifting 200 pounds, on its top configuration. The mechanism is very ingenious: Developed for military and applications by Geosystems, the Situational Awareness Mast doesn’t use a telescopic design to extend itself, which…
Behold the rare Octopus USB drive mating ritual. Notice how the magnetized lips join together in a passionate kiss. Unfortunately, like the praying mantis, the female is prone to violence after mating. In the background you can see that the female has ripped the face off the male and stuck his lifeless corpse up on…
Christmas has been over for what, five days now? What do you think you’re doing, taking a break from buying new things? Put that holiday cash to work: it’s the gadget deals of the day. Computing • Cavalry Pelican 32GB SATA II & USB SSD for $79.99 plus free shipping (normally $170). Flash Memory •…
Now this is just low, Walmart—about as classy as us putting up a game called Wii Should Maybe Protect Our Employees From Being Trampled To Death next to the break room. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/walmart-worker-trampled-to-death-by-deal-crazed-black-f-5099819
This is the Israeli Defense Force’s official YouTube channel, where they are posting several gun camera videos per day of bombs falling on Gaza. That is, until Google temporarily shut it down. It’s back up now, but a message on the idfnadesk channel’s profile (Age: 60, the wit) explains: We were saddened earlier today that…
This keyboard teaser shot for the Vaio Pocket, Sony’s upcoming mystery netbook, shows two things. It has a full size keyboard (like the Vaio TZ) and a track stick for mousing. https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-pocket-the-fancy-mystery-netbook-leaked-5118086 As a reminder, the P has a 1600×768 resolution on an 8-inch screen. That sounds both awesome and ridiculously bad for your eyes…
Using a cluster of 200 PS3s, an international group of researchers have crafted a “skeleton key” digital certificate that can perfectly impersonate any website on the internet. The weak point that allows the technique to work—which researchers will be detailing at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin—is the MD5 hash algorithm, which, basically, is…
Sometimes you don’t want a mouse that looks like a mouse. Sometimes you want a mouse that looks like a Hot Wheels toy. Road Mice are $45, officially licensed sports car versions of wireless optical mice. Infused with scroll wheels and LED headlights, the Ford Mustang, Chevy Z06 Corvette, Dodge Charger SRT8 and more are…
Amazon and Newegg are where 90 percent of my online dollars go, since they’re among that small cabal of sites you’d trust with your children. Where do you buy most of your stuff online? I’m wondering because I’ve literally spent thousands of dollars at Newegg because I hold them in much higher regard than say,…
