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Who says you need drugs to have a good time? All you need is an open mind and a little imagination to tap into the psychedelic potential of your brain. Oh, and gadgets like the 10 featured here can definitely help. Even if they don’t work, just remember that even without the drugs you still…
ROMP—or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform—is a poor man’s version of an iRobot battlefield bot. Instead of fancy tracks and miniaturized sensors, these ROMPs seem more like sophisticated all-terrain RC cars rigged with consumer cameras. Until you meet the older brother, of course, the weaponized WROMP with its big gun on top. In the words of…
If you have an old, dead iPod kicking around and are also looking for a way to disguise your disgusting cigarette addiction, here’s a nice way to kill two birds with one stone: hide your cigarettes in your iPod! It’s a pretty straightforward operation, involving getting rid of the guts in your iPod and then…
These mini wiimote novelty keychains have a unique function—it can shine an image of your favorite Mario-Kart character on the wall at the push of a button. Fans can collect six different versions that feature Luigi, Wario, Princess Peach, Yoshi and Baby Mario—but I wouldn’t expect Mario to come flying out of the woodwork on…
A Comcast cable guy just told me that if you go to swap out your composite or component DVR/cable box for an HDMI-friendly one, and you specifically ask for an HDMI cable, they’ll give you one at no charge. It’s not super long, but it should do the trick in most cases. Even if you…
Last week CNN got wind of some of the doorbuster deals Walmart would offer this Black Friday. The promise of a 50-inch Samsung plasma HDTV for $800, Xbox 360 bundle with Guitar Hero III and wireless guitar for $200, $128 Blu-ray player and $400 HP desktop got our hopes up that Walmart would swoop in…
Click to view Oh, wow. Apparently, in May, a Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai and BASE jumped from it at 650 meters up. Now, there’s video available of their infiltration, jump and subsequent escape. The footage from up top and the jump is just incredible stuff. I wish I…
According to a long thread at the AVForums, several Xbox 360 users are losing all sound after upgrading to the New Xbox Experience. Apparently, the problem only appears in HDMI-connected systems. but there has been one report of someone having the same problem using a SCART connector. Fortunately, there seems to be a fix. •…
As expected, T-Mobile has passed on the costs of running their 3G network on to you, the smartphone customer. All plans now match the T-Mobile G1 at $25 for unlimited web and 400 text messages. Unlimited web, text, picture and email will run you $34.99. [T-Mobile and Brighthand]
You know, all of the jokes that come to mind about this fetus USB flash drive—complete with a detailed how-to process to make your own—I really can’t make them. But I’m pretty sure that it manages to be offensive to both pro-baby killers and anti-women’s-righters all by its lonesome, miniscule self without my help, even…
Do you remember that photo of the Large Hadron Collider that showed an employee looking suspiciously like Half Life’s Gordon Freeman? The clowns over at Reddit sent him a crowbar, a headcrab and a book, allowing him to go to town on the alien infestation. The very happy alien infestation, by the looks of that…
Generally, water and gadgets don’t tend to play nicely together. But I’m a fan of this wireless router/flower vase concept design from Saudi telecom company STC. With it, the router doesn’t have to be shoved away in the corner, its tangle of wires collecting dust bunnies by the pound. Now, how aboud a daffodil—or a…
Two free Blu-ray discs with a player can’t be a bad deal, particularly when the movies are the Dark Knight and Batman Begins. It’s a Denon special holiday offer from November 23rd through January 10th, and it applies to the DVD-1800BD and DVD-3800BDCI players and the DVD-2500BTCI Blu-ray transport. That DVD-3800 machine is worth $2,000,…
In China, they’re currently working on the Siduhe Grand Bridge, what will be the tallest bridge in the world when completed. How tall is it? Well, let’s just say that you could put the Empire State Building in the valley below it and it wouldn’t touch the bridge, with a whopping 360 feet of overhead.…
I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested…
From AMD’s upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it’s AMD’s second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the “overhead” built into the chip by overclocking one to a crazy 5GHz. It did take a special CO2 sublimation cooling unit that…
The balance, the precision aiming. The man: Woz takes a piss on his Segway. If this is Photoshopped (or the world’s most convincing Woz lookalike), there truly is no God. [Macenstein] UPDATE: Woz confirms in the comments! From the man himself: not photoshopped…it was years ago…some wild eyed guy was blurting out questions at a…
Here’s a story nobody likes to see. 19-year-old Abraham K. Biggs overdosed on pills on a live webcam stream before hundreds of people on Wednesday night, all while commenters on Justin.tv and bodybuilding.com encouraged him, apparently thinking it was some kind of joke. He lay passed out on his webcam for hours until he appeared…
A few days back, I showed you the new touch interface for Media Center PCs running Windows 7, and though I had to pull the video, I promised a walkthrough of proposed Windows 7 Media Center features. I say “proposed” because, like everything else about Windows 7, this is all alpha and subject to change.…
Before you ask “why would I need fireproof gloves?” it’s just one feature of this glove system from Outdoor Research that’s in use right now by the military in Iraq, including special forces chaps. They can also handle extremely cold and hot environments, and the outer layer is made of a specially abrasion-resistant “wolverine” material.…
