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Wii Fit apparently turns you into a new man by literally breaking you. The Sun reports that the Wii is sending at least 10 people a week to the hospital with Wii-itis. Updated 3:50PM https://gizmodo.com/the-wii-fit-review-six-months-later-5083987 Not only has there “been a 100 percent increase in patients complaining of Wii-itis,” according to Dr. Dev Mukerjee of…
It’s hard to read whether this is desperation or just a good deal, but Vudu has knocked $200 off its player, now just $100—you just gotta buy $50 of movie credits too. [Vudu via Engadget]
Test Freaks wrangled as many flash drives as they could and ran them through an oddly intense testing regime, finding out that your choice in USB stick brand may actually matter. The test is by no means exhaustive, as there are many hundreds—if not thousands—of USB drives on the market today. The test did include…
If you don’t have a Xmas tree yet, don’t worry, because here we love procrastinators—the leaders of tomorrow. Here’s a catalog of last minute ideas, including my personal favorite: The Doughnut Xmas Tree. [pfadvice]
In the latest bizarre turn in a protracted, anything-goes legal battle, Psystar is basically claiming that Apple doesn’t own the copyright for OS X. Sound unlikely? It probably is. According to court papers filed on Psystar’s behalf: Apple is prohibited from bringing action against Psystar for the alleged infringement of one or more of the…
Energizer’s Solar Recharger looks, at first glance, like a confused device. Is it an iPod battery extender? AA charger? Solar adapter? Well, it’s all of these things, which is why it’s awesome. The heart of the gadget is a simple battery charger, intended for regular rechargeable AA and AAA batteries and primarily powered by an…
Hey Jason, how’s the Bay Area been? I’m at Lake Tahoe and I took my friend’s 4runner up. Wasn’t a good idea. I needed extra space to carry stuff, but his all season tires are really beat up and its not doing so well in the snow. Bad gadgets are annoying, bad tires are terrifying.…
Sir? Could I interest you in a boobs app for your iPhone? Perhaps one that’s motion sensitive, so you can jiggle it at will? Ooooh, I’m sorry. It’s not possible. Apple has denied our application on the grounds that it’s either obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory. Apologies! Maybe with the upcoming NSFW category in the…
This may sound weird, but maybe the children—the future engineers, programmers and techs of our world—deserve crappy gadgets as presents this holiday. It’s not that I think all kids are bad. Nor is it about avoiding breeding spoiled brats. Buying high end gadgets for kids is not quite like buying new driver a sportscar. Not…
After cutting down the voice chat feature in PlayStation Home, Sony PlayStation Network’s Abigail Murphy says that their new 1.05 update brings the feature back but limiting it to users’ personal spaces and clubhouses: PlayStation Home update 1.05 is scheduled to be released on December 22. With this new update, users will be able to…
If your one dream in life was to read the teenage vampire novel Twilight on your iPhone and pay twice as much as normal, you can now die happy. ScrollMotion has designed a book reading interface wrapper for the iPhone and partnered with major publishing houses like Simon & Schuster, Random House, Houghton Mifflin and…
Fun House has posted some fun images from the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, which was also known as the “Century 21 Exposition.” The image above is a map which “illustrates your trip through the World of Century 21.” Previously on Paleo-Future: Seattle World’s Fair Official Souvenir Program (1962) Frederick & Nelson Ad (1962) Century…
Using a polishing technique previously employed in the semiconductor industry, a professor has discovered that it’s possible to make a tooth too slick to have bacteria stick to. For reals. The professor and his student have shown that “bad” bacteria cannot stick to the surface, which is great, since it’s the type of bacteria that…
The biggest flaw of touchscreen phones is that they’re even more dangerous (and annoying) to type on while driving than button-y phones. Textecution is a G1 app that won’t let you text, period, while driving. The way it works is pretty simple: It taps the G1’s GPS, and if you’re moving more than 10MPH, it…
If you were curious about how the secondary display works in the new dual display IBM ThinkPad W700 laptop, take a look a this video. It looks pretty sleek and sturdy to me. [Uberbin] https://gizmodo.com/crazy-ibm-thinkpad-w700ds-has-integrated-secondary-disp-5113768
Digitimes, who was already kinda wrong this morning, says that HTC will release a second Android phone by April and a third is already in development. https://gizmodo.com/garmin-confirms-android-phones-coming-in-late-2009-5115634 The third phone already being in development is a super-obvious rumor, since every company has tons of things going on simultaneously, but a second Android phone by April?…
What could be better than a super loud alarm clock at 6 am? How about a super loud alarm clock that makes you feel like an idiot? https://gizmodo.com/sonic-bomb-alarm-clock-lightning-review-it-explodes-yo-5055531 That’s right, the UK branch of the Mensa society for smarty pants has released a brain training alarm clock that combines groggyness, loud noses and puzzles (a…
Behold, the new ePhone. An iPhone clone so perfect, so uncannily identical, so curvaceously exact, that it’s only one letter and a logo away from being the real McCoy. Until you turn it on. Then you realize this is nothing more than yet another clone, even while it looks like a perfect, logo-less clone of…
Our buddy Zatz over at Zatz Not Funny received a death threat over Xbox Live. t’s unclear whether it was a real one or just some kid mouthing off, but it doesn’t matter. According to Zatz, some guy who couldn’t hack it in Call of Duty said, “I’ll kill you in real life with a…
I don’t know about you, but in my opinion the Lumina Italia Ra fiber optic lamp is the world’s most strikingly nerdilicious gadget to ever illuminate a desktop. Designed by Ettore Cimini, the Ra features two fully adjustable steel and technopolymer arms that separately deliver and focus light from a 100W fluorescent bulb from the…
