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Now you can add “fish tank” along side “beverage cooler” and “projector” on the long list of job titles R2-D2 has had in his post-acting career. But rest assured that no matter what his occupation happens to be, R2 has a strong work ethic. In addition to housing your fish, he will rotate his head…
It appears that a complete Nokia smartphone prototype list may have leaked, playing Nokia’s entire hand a bit earlier than the company would probably like. But whether or not Nokia’s offerings have impressed you as of late, there are quite a few handsets listed that look more than a little fantastic. We’re talking big touchscreens,…
I don’t know if these MacBook Nanos are a custom hack or if they come from some kind of shady outlet selling retrofitted MSI U100 laptops made to look like shiny-and fictional-Apple notebooks with Mac OS X installed. I do know one thing, though: I wouldn’t mind having one, specially seeing the contrast with the…
Just days after supplanting the BlackBerry in customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users, Apple’s iPhone has taken down another cellphone icon, Motorola’s Razr, in terms of total sales for the quarter. According to NPD (the leading wireless research firm) the iPhone outsold the Razr in the 3Q—representing the first changing of the guard in…
Behind the jump, there are photos of a Tubgirl Xbox 360 faceplate. I am warning you, it’s horrible and, obviously, NSFW. You don’t want to see it. If you don’t know what Tubgirl is, believe me when I say that in this case, ignorance really is bliss. But if you really must see the faceplate,…
Copenhagen threw an international competition to design a bridge that would connect their office buildings and civic spaces. Two towers connect their two pedestrian bridges 65 meters above the sea with an remarkably disjointed style that, frankly, looks a bit scary to walk upon. The Langenlinine tower (left) uses the old harbor as its geometric…
There are lots of ways to wrap your headphones. Only one of them is correct. Some ways are more wrong than others—if you hate your buds, looping them tightly around your iPod like a bondage rope is the surest way to kill them fast while making it look like it was done in by natural…
DHL, a popular shipping alternative to FedEx, UPS and the US Postal Service, has gone belly up in the ever more fun economic crisis. Today the company announced that it will end all domestic shipping services starting January 30th (which means 9,500 layoffs) while only international shipping to/from the US will remain. Hopefully one less…
Samsung’s Behold for T-Mobile—which we peeked a couple days ago—just plunked down at our doorstep with its five-megapixel Korea-power camera and TouchWiz UI. Off the bat, really like the easy-open battery door. It’s the least trouble my clumsy fingers have ever had popping off the back of a phone. Don’t like that the microSD card…
According to inventory spy shots obtained by BGR, the North American version of the Sony Xperia X1 is expected to finally hit store shelves in the States via Best Buy stores starting on December 7th. If you were eager to get your hands on one, be prepared to fork over a whopping $800 for what…
The only acceptable excuse this week for missing out on Gizmodo’s Pulitzer-winning weekend coverage is you were barred from doing so, just like that iPod guy from Apple. Otherwise, you got some reading to do: • Apple passed RIM to take its place as the big number two. • Is the Kindle worth six grand?…
Using a white LED heatshrinked to fit on the ends of these pieces of broken CD tray plastic, Keith Neufeld created a really cool lighting system for an art installation, which could just as easily find its way onto your wall at home, if you are one for soldering and breadboarding. The whole thing is…
Hands up who thought Zune guy was crazy, even after his recent tattoo makeover? Right…brace yourselves: The guys at Crackberry were running a “What would you do for a BlackBerry Storm?” contest, and they’ve got themselves a winner. A genuine new BlackBerry Storm-tattoo-toting winner. Ohgoodgodno. Check out the video of the nutter winner actually getting…
Click to viewThe crew at CollegeHumor have outdone themselves with their latest short, The Matrix Runs on Windows. The concept is pretty self-explanatory: the movie The Matrix if the construct was run on Windows XP. It’s incredible that content shot for the web is reaching the quality of the movies that it spoofs. Seriously, how…
If you’ll allow me, I’d like to unleash a small personal diatribe. I promise it’ll be brief. But I’ve been suffering through the buggy pile of crap that is the New York Times iPhone app for long enough. Seriously, how hard can it be to make this app work? It’s so ridiculously simple. It needs…
What you are about to see is real footage of a real event. From the 3rd annual Austrian Hexapod Championships, watch robots dance it off in extreme competition, surprisingly, without a single tongue-in-cheek reference to the dance known as the robot. If one of these entrants looks familiar, that’s because he is. The…uhh…one in the…
Nvidia has released what it describes as “the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history”-the Quadro FX 5800, which packs up to 240 of Nvidia’s CUDA independent graphics cores for shouldering some of the load normally handled by the main processor as well as 4GB of graphics memory, another claimed first. The 5800 is…
Rumors like this have been wrong in the past, but word is that CEO Jim Keyes told investors that Blockbuster will be delivering Movielink downwloads via their own set-top-box by the holidays. No details have been announced, but Blockbuster got burned badly on this one already, so they are going to need to bring something…
Often, when people carp about Mobile Firefox or Opera not being able to run on the iPhone ’cause of Apple’s SDK restrictions, they’ll point to Android and say “I can’t wait for Mobile Firefox on Android” or some variation of that, since Android theoretically doesn’t have any limitations. I’ve got some bad news for those…
I hate the term viral videos. I mean, if you’re a company trying to get “buzz” with the “kids,” you want to create them. But you can’t create viral videos, they become viral on their own. When a company makes a stab at it more often than not it’s some nonsensical clip that sort of…
