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This week’s Photoshop Contest asked you to design your own personal Heads-Up Display, and we got some really awesome results. Unlike many contests, nearly every single entry was unique and there aren’t a lot of the same gags over and over again. And I can personally say that I would kill to have almost all…
Of all the Big Brother things corporations, governments, and other nosy entities that want to examine all the minutiae of our daily lives looking for transgressions of stupid little rules, I feel like speedtrap cameras are the most egregious. Endemic in Europe, they’re gaining a foothold in the US. They break the whole system that…
Toshiba‘s new “timesculpture” advert takes The Matrix’s Bullet Time film technique one bizarrely cool step forward by animating within the freeze-frame. It was filmed with 200 Gigashot camcorders arranged on a special rig, recording a mahoosive 20 terabytes of data from which the ad was composed. Check it out—it’s like a weird moving Bullet-Time ballet,…
If you spot a hole in the side of your house that a bunch of wasps are constantly going in and out of, obviously building a nest, what do you do? Do you get a can of Raid and spray it in there and hope you don’t get stung? Do you just stay the hell…
Just yesterday the HTC Fuze was spotted for the first time in its AT&T retail packaging and we assumed that the launch was not far off. Fortunately, we only had to wait a few hours. AT&T has announced that the Fuze is now available at stores and online for $299.99 with a two-year contract and…
Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year’s holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Target made this year’s gift cards into digital cameras, and now Best Buy’s are a cheap-o…
Researchers at Hanyang University in South Korea have developed new Lithium batteries that can last a whopping eight times longer than today’s models. They’ve achieved this by using cathode materials in the batteries, replacing less-efficient graphite with more-efficient silicon. It’s all very scientific, I’m sure, but it all boils down to this: you’ll be able…
Those running Intel Macs are probably at least familiar with Parallels, the famed virtualization software allowing you to run Windows alongside OSX. Well now the company has just announced their fourth revision of the software, Parallels 4, that promises to run 50% faster than the previous version.The virtualization engine itself promises to use 15-30% fewer…
According to the consistently reliable iPhone Hellas, the iPhone OS 2.2 update will appear even sooner than we all expected. Barring any sudden plan changes, the iPhone Hellas people are saying the upgrade will be available on November 21. The new feature list remains unchanged from the previous beta versions, so the question here is:…
The Nyko Wing is a high quality alternative to the Wii’s barebones Classic Controller, syncing with the Wiimote wirelessly, playing 30 hours on a pair of AAAs and offering a mini USB option for charging. We liked the Wing during our own testing, and now it’s available to the public for $30. That price is…
Hi guys, John Mayer here. When I saw the Mac OS X dock icon pillows that some guy named Roberto made for his friend Michaela, I wanted my sofa to look exactly like that. I was tempted to fire up Mail and write a message to my pal Steve’s minions—asking why they didn’t have the…
When we first laid eyes on the $2,500 PodWombats Mark III Pod, we thought that our dream of gaming in a secluded, impenetrable cave-fortress had come true. After all, the convertible top can slide closed to block out all noise and light, creating a pseudo isolation chamber for gaming. But then we took a look…
It won’t clip your toenails. It won’t skin a rabbit. It won’t slice rope, repair a canoe or tweeze out a splinter, and it’s not going to do a damn thing to get that fallen boulder off your chest. But when the chips are down and all hope is lost, a hazelnut chocolate bar isn’t…
Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky has written a fascinating article on Tim Cook, the quiet Apple’s Chief Operating Office unknown by most of the public, but a key member of the Dream Team that helped Steve Jobs to turn the company around during its dark ages. Why now? I can’t help to think that this is related…
Fuel cell tech is literally just around the corner from being inside many of our gadgets, and with this new design it could allow for some unusually-shaped gizmos. A company called MyFC is showing these bendy, flexible hydrogen-powered cells that can be draped over the interior curved surfaces of a gadget in a way that…
You know that plug-in hybrid revolution everyone keeps talking about? Well, apparently this is what it is going to look like. If Piaggio keeps its word, the first mass-produced plug-in hybrid vehicle will be an updated version of its MP3 scooter, identical to its older brother in nearly every way except for its powertrain. The…
It may look like one of the wilder fantasy toy cars you used to play with all those years ago, but Scythe is nothing like a toy when you look at its stats. Two steering wheels, twin-supercharged 1,005 horsepower engine, composite body handmade by Galpin Auto Sports, backwards rotating door design and a 3G-connected Shuttle…
Free pizza. Yummy. Along with free beer, life really doesn’t get any better than free pizza. Which is precisely what Maximillian Hill, the winner of Gizmodo’s MacBook Event Bingo, got last week: A large pizza with italian sausage and extra cheese. Maximillian sent us the bingo at exactly October 14, 10:30 AM east coast time:…
The US government plotted to hide the fact that they were constantly flying nuclear-armed B-52 bombers over Greenland during the 1960s, the BBC has discovered in a recent investigation. The operation, called Chrome Dome, was designed to instantly respond to the Soviet Union if the latter launched a nuclear missile attack against Thule, a US…
VMware, which consumers know mostly for their Fusion desktop virtualization software, is moving into the mobile space, albeit surreptitiously. The company has announced VMware MVP, a thin layer of software that will interface between handsets’ hardware and operating system, allowing for a standardized development platform across any handsets that include it. What does this mean…
