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A new patent from Nokia shows a pretty interesting new design: a full widescreen that can swivel behind a QWERTY keyboard so only half the screen is visible. When held in one position, the phone looks a lot like Nokia’s traditional QWERTY candybars, but the screen can swivel up and out to present a widescreen,…
Dell’s got some killer coupons for you guys today. With a code, you can snag 20% off videogame consoles with free shipping. That makes for a $320 PS3 or an Xbox360 Pro bundle for $240. Links to the individual game consoles can be found here, and the code is “ZCFLR1BTX5Q1D$”. But that’s not all, because…
Designer Da Feng created the Gym Car mockup that includes a near-complete home gym as well as a Batmobile-esque carbon fiber exterior. No word on the safety of doing bench-presses while driving. The car’s interior features a step machine, rowing machine, bench press, pull-up simulator and weights, and the energy outputted during a workout would…
Pastebud, the service that lets you copy and paste text from email and Safari, has been sending the copied emails (including personal information) out to anybody but the original user. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-pastebud-copy-and-paste-trick-for-iphones-saf-5108418 We were excited about Pastebud, but reports are showing that the full text of the copied emails, which are sent to an online clipboard,…
Corey Menscher, in a fit of fatherly devotion, constructed a device that notifies him when his unborn baby kicks inside the womb. Even better, he’s training his kid to post on Twitter right from conception. The Kickbee is a wearable device made of elastic and a whole mess of sensors and electronics. Piezo sensors detect…
Intel released survey results that attempt to measure the place of Internet access in both men’s and women’s lists of priorities, and found that it’s more important than any other nonessential purchase. This is one of those reasonably meaningless polls that ends up saying what we already knew: people like their Internet access. In this…
American Toy and Invention Co. is selling a kit that’ll let you build, implode, and rebuild a multi-story structure that looks strangely enough like the 5th Avenue Apple flagship retail space. I’m sure it teaches about the physics of demolition, but hey! Stuff’s blowing up! Stuff with iPods inside! The inventor, going by the name…
Engadget got themselves a United Keys OLED Keypad, which may remind you of a crappier Optimus Aux keypad. And, well, they found it to be a crappier Optimus Aux keypad. On the upside, the keypad by itself, without its cheap attached keyboard, will only run you $200. Compare that to Optimus’ baby, which goes for…
Analysts Medialets found the top Android apps based on downloads, rating, and number of comments. It’s a slightly limited mix of games, social networking, and audio tools, but Android’s still just a baby. The number one app is Namco’s immortal Pac-Man with more than a quarter-million downloads, no surprise since it’s an exceptionally well made…
Some guy got tired of kids wrapping his house in toilet paper every night. So he borrowed some mil spec night vision goggles, filled a super soaker with pee and drenched them when they showed. The story said the watergun was filled with Fox urine, which according to commenters in the know, can be bought…
This car has 43% battery life remaining, but I wonder if that gauge depletes linearly or, as on my laptop, surprisingly quickly near the end. The car charges in under 3 hours using a 240 volt [fixed…Jalop had it wrong, and I neglected to fact check at 3am, but good catch people!] power source at…
It should be common sense to back up whenever you are sending your laptop off to be fixed, even for something small. According to Consumerist, one unlucky reader learned the hard way. While there is no official HP policy on erasing the hard drive for minor hardware defects, its something that might want to be…
Horrific yet incredibly intriguing is the only way I can describe this spiked and gelatinous alien nest that mimics the landscape around it. Fortunately, it won’t hold any eggs waiting to snatch human bodies. In reality, it’s an art museum and alpine ice research station that will be completed next year in the Swiss alps.…
YouTube may be full of robots, but few as charming as this little drummer bot. Armed with a rudimentary pill-jar plastic drum and a beep-bop-boop synthesizer, he somehow gets quite the groove on. The Lil Drum and Bass Bot’s creator Calculon320 claims only humble aspirations for the little $50 beat box—”plays his drum, provides his…
In order to get back some of the money spent on the McCain-Palin campaign, items from the campaign were sold today at a yard sale, including a $20 BlackBerry, fully loaded with confidential information. When reporters from Fox 5 stopped by the McCain-Palin headquarters today, they were excited to find BlackBerry phones being sold for…
If you like smelling like a horse, we’ve got the deal for you. Computing • Seagate FreeAgent 1TB USB External Hard Drive for $129.99 plus free shipping (going for $180). Flash Memory • Dane-Elec 4GB USB Drive for $11.99 plus free shipping (going for $20). Gaming • Playstation 3 80GB Gaming Console for $320 (going…
Hey Brian, yeah the Funde Razor was lots of fun, and I’m glad Chris from Wired was there to help out. I’m looking forward to the Gizmodo Snow Bunny Meetup in 2009 too, and all the broken bones that’ll result in. And speaking of cold, it is COLD now. Winter managed to stay away until…
Kira Mason, a victim of the London bombing attacks in July of 2005 has been fitted with a cyborg arm that fuses with her own skin and bone. The procedure has been called “a breakthrough.” Doctors were able to fuse a titanium alloy rod to her bone and the skin healed naturally around it—creating a…
Slingplayer for Mac received an update today to 1.0.7, offering improved video quality, easy toggling between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio, and the ability to register and store your Slingbox ID online. For those unaware, Slingplayer lets you watch streaming video over the internet from any source connected to a slingbox. Some of these features,…
I’ve come to the conclusion that despite childhood fantasies, I will never be passionate or self-loathing enough to run a marathon. However, I could track a friend via SMS. This Sunday, the Dallas White Rock Marathon will implement a pretty cool feature for participants and their friends/families. While most modern marathons track runners with (RFID?)…