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Over at Technologizer, they’ve assembled a fantastic list of vintage electronic game patents, including this original patent drawing of Simon. Over 30 years later, the game is still in production (though we’re not sure you can still find the full sized version on store shelves)—and that’s a lot more than you can say for Atari’s…
We have seen several different add-on lenses designed to enhance the iPhone camera, but these versions ditch the case in favor of magnetic mounts. There are also three different lenses to choose from. https://gizmodo.com/brandos-telescope-case-now-for-iphone-3g-owning-voyeurs-5038164 Because the iPhone has a plastic case, a self-adhesive ring with a magnet must first be affixed to the area around…
Your dog is lazy and shiftless, not paying his way through life at all. It’s time to make your dog work for his food by attaching him to a scooter, bike or skateboard. Yes, now you can get your lazy ass carted around by your poor dog, attaching him and up to three other dogs…
Speeek is an app that can recognize up to 1,500 spoken Japanese phrases and translate them into either English or Chinese. Pocket Babel Fish? Yes please. This is, of course, only for Japanese speakers, and it only covers basic hello/goodbye/where is the bathroom type phrases, but this doesn’t seem like too far of a leap…
File these under “new to me” category, but while I’d seen programmable thermostats before, I’d never encountered a vent that opened and closed on a timer. The battery-powered Vent-Miser features a clock that opens and closes the vents at programmable intervals, completely independent of your thermostat’s settings. So if your A/C doesn’t need to keep…
Hey guys, just a reminder that applications to be our NYC intern are due by 11:59PM EST Dec. 31. Here’s what you need to know and what we want out of you: What You Need • Gadget love and knowledge • An alarm clock, ’cause you’ll be up early every morning • Basic experience with…
The town of Glastonbury is overrun with hippies, drawn there by the healing energies in the area. Which have been destroyed by the town’s new Wi-Fi network, apparently making them all sick. Wi-Fi, the hippies whine, screws with your chakra and “breaks ley lines,” whatever the hell that means, making hippies sick. In response, they’ve…
Britain’s minister for culture doesn’t like the scary stuff he finds on the internet when he searches for his secret perverse fantasies, so he’s hoping to work with Obama to create ratings for websites. Andy Burnham wants the US and UK governments to work together to police the internet to keep it safe for kids.…
While most of us will never fight crime with an arsenal of custom gadgets, we could build our own net shooter to foil pesky coworkers who just want to use the copier. Constructed mostly of PVC pipe, the DIY net gun is capable of shooting a “90 square foot net 15 to 25 feet using…
The international team of code-monkeying playboys known as the iPhone Dev Team gave a talk at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin recently, where they presented a comprehensive history of iPhone hacking to date. Yes, all we have here is an annotated hour-long PowerPoint, and yes, almost all of the content is of interest only…
Heath Blom did not want a Wii for Christmas. When his grandparents gave him one, he flipped out—as kids sometimes do—except he’s 26 and was arrested on misdemeanor “domestic-related” assault charges. https://gizmodo.com/50-christmas-wii-flip-outs-make-you-hate-nintendo-holi-5117541 Sergeant Kuffer Kaltenborn explains that “Heath Blom wanted a remote-controlled airplane for Christmas, and not the Wii,” unlike every other person on the…
Your standard animated equalizer t-shirt is generally considered obnoxious enough. But when you stick an Apple logo on the front, well, it’s a statement that can’t be ignored. https://gizmodo.com/t-qualizer-equalizer-t-shirt-video-210857 As clearly explained on Jetsobox, the $45 Apple Tqualizer "rocks and looks the business !" with a sound-sensitive, multi-color equalizer display. Powered by four AAA batteries, the…
Amazon has published a list of their top selling products from the holiday season (they broke records again with 6.3 million items ordered on December 15th alone). So can you guess the biggies? Amazon said best-selling holiday items this year included the Samsung 52-inch HDTV, the Apple iPod, the Acer netbook computer and Nintendo Wii.…
We like wood. We like the iPhone. We like deep-fried hot dogs with rooster sauce. That’s completely unrelated, but we really like them. As much as this wooden replacement case for the iPhone 3G. This iPhone 3G wooden replacement case comes from the same guys who did the clear replacement case. [icustom] https://gizmodo.com/clear-iphone-3g-replacement-case-shows-its-fugly-guts-5119300
The OLPC Foundation’s last advertising effort was close to perfect, with a strong message and affecting imagery. Their latest? A creepy, boomer-manipulating, possibly effective oddity. Lennon’s soliloquy, a patchwork of Beatles allusions, catchphrases, old footage and digital additions, is distractingly strange to the point that it loses what little efficacy it could have had, at…
We all know that text messaging is overpriced, but the NYT has pulled back the technological shroud to find out that the prices aren’t just bad, they’re practically extortionate. The article goes into depth about how text messages are transmitted. In short, texts are unsurprisingly transmitted between towers over the main, wired network in the…
Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company’s Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable. The first thing to notice is the specs: unlike last time around, they’re actually pretty solid. The GD910, as it’s called, will…
HP’s EX485/7 iteration of their MediaSmart Server now comes with a revamped UI, remote music and photo streaming capability, and is the first non-apple NAS product to support Time Machine. https://gizmodo.com/hp-mediasmart-server-arrives-looking-hunky-yet-chunk-321034 Though it looks the same on the outside, the hardware received a bump, now using a 2.0 GHz Celeron processor and 2GB DDR2 RAM.…
Here’s the new iPhone Pro, something that we don’t expect at MacWorld 2009 at all. However, we do expect something like this to come at a later date. Why? Because it just makes sense. Click on image above for higher resolution version This concept started as a Photoshop idea by Giz reader Mat Brady. He…
At least that’s what the CrackBerry folks who got their hands on the latest Storm OS seem to think anyway. Install at your own risk (unofficial update), but the changes appear to be pretty solid. Just to be clear again: Update OS 4.7.0.85 is unofficial at this point, so proceed with caution. That said, sources…