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Hey, guess what? There’s a Woot Off going on right now! Head over to Woot and see how quickly things like glow in the dark jumbo remotes get snapped up even though nobody supposedly has money anymore. [Woot]
Gizmodo Gallery visitors got a great sneak peek at Tokyoflash’s new watch, the Kisai Tenmetsu, which presents time using tri-colored LEDs in Tokyoflash’s per usual esoteric fashion. If that floated your boat, it’s available now on the company’s website. https://gizmodo.com/at-gizmodo-gallery-a-never-seen-before-tokyoflash-watc-5100801 Kind of like a cross between the Tokyoflash Fire and Denshoku, each of the three…
Tokyo’s Shibuya train has a special installation for Christmas that uses its pedestrians’ footsteps to generate electricit. A mat using piezoelectric gadgetry runs a LED display board and a small holiday lights display. The roughly 35-inch squared mat near the Hachiko dog statue at Shibuya station generates roughly 0.5W every time someone weighing 132 lbs…
Stan Veit-the first editor of Computer Shopper-has a fascinating first-person account on the very early years of Apple, starting with what may be the very first Apple tech support call ever, answered by Steve Jobs himself. According to Veit-editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper magazine from 1983 to 1988-Steve Jobs contacted him when his computer shop in…
According to Samsung, by 2010, the majority of people who want an LCD TV will have one, and after that, they expect sales to drop sharply. Their solution? Entice buyers with radically new, must have technology. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-high-end-lcds-for-2008-series-6-and-7-hdtvs-g-341062 Today at the Samsung Tech Forum, JunHyung Souk, vice president of display R&D, thinks that television revenues could…
Here’s a video of the first test of Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle, hovering and moving in 3D space with deadly precision. But while the video is amazing on itself, how does the MKV work? The Lockheed Martin’s Multiple Kill Vehicle will be the first anti-ballistic missile system designed to search and destroy multiple warheads…
Speculation about if when iTunes would score DRM-free tracks from all major studios like Amazon and Walmart do has been rampant, but according to a rumor at AppleInsider, all this speculation may come to an end tomorrow. https://gizmodo.com/sony-to-bring-drm-free-music-to-itunes-says-rumor-5081908 AppleInsider cites a Dec. 3 story from the French publication Electron Libre that says iTunes will remove…
Well, that is, if you’re a scatologically inclined Japanese television viewer. What’s that, Xiao-san? Squeezing my Zink sticker prints off at the pool? Arigato gozaimasu. [YouTube via Crunch Gear]
An unfortunate man in Malaysia learned the first rule of Karaoke by the painful way of being stabbed to death last week. (This is what he should have done to appease his attackers.) https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-fellating-a-microphone-sounds-like-nsfw-5095110 The AP reports that this Malaysian man was punched and stabbed because he refused to share the microphone and was hogging…
Multitouch is great. We like it a lot. Except when it’s totally unnecessary and just make our flabby arms tired, like in this demo of a multitouch media transfer application for Windows 7. The app, by PQ-DVD (they make iPod video conversion software), is supposedly the first to use multitouch to organize media on the…
An F-18 has crashed in San Diego, killing at least two people two miles from the famous Marine Corps Air Station Miramar*, after the pilot ejected. According to a witness, the tragedy could have been even worse: I did not realise until about 40 minutes later, on my way back to work, that they jet…
We already know that the people involved in the trampling death of Jdimytai Damour on Black Friday were deplorable, but few could have imagined how bad things really were. https://gizmodo.com/family-of-trampled-walmart-employee-file-lawsuit-5101653 Enhanced audio from a cellphone video combined with eyewitness accounts have revealed some truly monstrous behavior. For example: as a paramedic fought to save his…
Who has time to wait for public works projects to resuscitate the gasping economy. While BO says a broadband build out might be the next interstate highway system, we’re impatient: thus, the deals of the day. https://gizmodo.com/president-elect-obama-loves-the-internet-pledges-to-br-5103530 Gaming: • Sony Dualshock PS3 Wireless Controller for $40.99 plus free shipping (originally $54.99). • Left 4 Dead…
Japanese engineers have been making automated masturbation devices for a while now [here and here], but as Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku finds, they’ve finally made a game to go along with the action. https://gizmodo.com/japanese-robotech-thruster-sex-machine-262624 The SOM, a USB-connected wank toy, comes packaged with a game called Cross Days. Developers hooked up the SOM to be…
On Saturday at the Gizmodo Gallery, we blended a fully-functioning iPhone with a Blendtec, sacrificing it to the gods of copy and paste. What we learned was that if you blend an iPhone with its battery inside, it explodes. Whoops! Yeah, so we probably should have taken the battery out, but we wanted to show…
Back in the October 1955 edition of Mechanix Illustrated, readers got a glimpse of their automotive future that never was. The Argentine Aerocar eschewed the normal automotive design for GIANT PROPELLER BLADE technology. The photo tells you pretty much all that we know—the car could reach 100mph using a giant fan to power its motion…probably…
Reader Alex points us to this robotic McGruff costume police departments are now purchasing for their “scaring the poop out of little kids”” program. It looks about ten times as effective as the old one. Alex says a department in Florida purchased this costume (that trenchcoat still has the tags on it, Winona Ryder style)…
We don’t write about batteries much on Gizmodo because, well, there’s not much going on with batteries in the consumer market. But Energizer has a new technology that they’re hyping for CES 2009. It’s called Zinc Air Prismatic and the company promises that it will offer 3x the battery life of a similarly sized alkaline…
Regular Christmas trees have a string of lights. High-tech trees have 30,000 LEDs, 43 LCD televisions and lasers. Get the picture? Good—because the following trees definitely fall into the latter category. Sharp’s Aquos LCD Tree: This year Sharp unveiled a 26-foot tall Christmas tree in New York’s Grand Central Station constructed out of 43 televisions…
The standard “journalism” rule is that three is trend. So here’s one with the new MacBooks: They’ve got problems! Screwy video cards, insomniatic, power-sucking sleep and not playing well with other RAM. https://gizmodo.com/beta-culture-apple-acknowledges-video-problems-in-new-5099671 There appear to be a couple variations of the sleep problem. The more obvious, crazier one is that after going to sleep,…
