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Over the weekend we learned that the iPhone firmware 2.2 beta was going out to developers sans copy/paste (again). Apple claims that it is not a top priority but, to be honest, I’m beginning to think that it will never happen. Nonetheless, AT&T released a survey to customers in an attempt to determine what the…
The EasyBloom is a sort of hybrid between a USB stick and a flower. You put the EasyBloom in the ground wherever you’d like to track light, temperature, humidity and soil moisture patterns over 24 hours. Once said time has passed, you pull the EasyBloom from the ground, wipe it off (our tip, not theirs)…
Here’s a piece of advice: when riding a high-speed train with a toilet that uses super-high powered suction to flush, keep your hand out of there. One unlucky Frenchman learned the value of this advice the hard way when he dropped his phone into the toilet of a TGV train. When he reached in to…
Yes, the photo above is real: It is Animal-from The Muppets-driving a British Audi while speeding through a German road. The famous pink drummer is driving the police there absolutely crazy, because he keeps doing it again and again. Or better said, the real driver is, using a low-tech approach to take advantage of a…
Apple did a passable job with the iPhone UI. But let’s face it: We need some tough love nostalgia injected into the overly polished device. Luckily for us, there’s the iGameboy theme for the iPhone. At last, we’ll be able to cover the universally stylish black background with the trademark B12 vitamin-pee green backdrop of…
Duct tape was the perfect medium for Instructables user seamster to craft this cool-looking Dark Knight-era Bat-mask for his mug. Halloween’s just around the corner, and no everyone can’t go as Sarah Palin, so if your costume/dominatrix supply shop is sold out of knee-high patent leather boots, librarian glasses and $5,000 dresses from Barney’s, consider…
The specific story varies, but as legend has it, the original Jack-o’-Lantern came about as a punishment after a crafty gent named Jack played a trick on the Devil. We don’t know if TiVo was trapped after their similar stunt, giving man a way to skip past pesky commercials before advertisers sealed the company’s soul…
Portable speakers for the iPod are a dime a dozen, but these limited edition “Headphonies” are a little more eye-catching than other generic models. The set includes 5 figures created by several artists (including Frank Kozik), and 2 blank versions that you can decorate yourself. Naturally, you don’t expect to get a booming sound with…
Spaceships, famous sci-fi ones from Star Trek and Star Wars, made of cunningly folded dollar bills—the Millenium Falcon takes just three dollar bills—and possessing fantastic detail. Enough said. Well, that and the fact it seems a pretty good use for dollar notes nowadays. Check out the gallery below, and more of origamist (?) Won Park’s…
It’s no secret that the Chinese government censors web content, but what’s it like to actually be a citizen trapped inside the Great Firewall of China? A new FireFox plugin called China Channel can show you. It reroutes your IP through China, allowing you to look like any other digital Chinese citizen from anywhere in…
This is for those of you who got a shiver when the magic mirror spoke to the witch in Snow White… or rather, it’s the sort of thing that’ll give your kids a shiver in this electronic age. A guy called Al has hooked up an old PC, an LCD screen, an Arduino board and…
If you’re dying to start outfitting your virtual apartment in the PS3’s oft-delayed virtual world/XBLA-like community add-on, PlayStation Home, Sony has set it up so all downloaders of the November edition of Qore, a monthly video news feature available via the PS Store, will receive guaranteed access to the closed beta. You can still try…
New details have emerged on #3 cable provider Cox Communication’s plan to enter into the wireless business. Apparently, subscribers will be able to control their DVRs, watch television, and automatically sync their address book with home PCs via their cellphone. Cox will be riding on the back of Sprint to get things going in the…
Have you ever wondered what somebody looks like under their clothes? I’m guessing you have! Well, so have researchers at Brown University. That’s why they’ve developed some fancy software that creates models of what people look like naked based only on pictures of them in their clothes. Awesome? The researchers claim that the technology is…
Microsoft is not including all the new Windows 7 goodies in the pre-beta version that will be distributed at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. However, the good news is that they are putting in a lot of new stuff that will have fans of the operating system excited until the public beta hits-if…
Apple-obsessed financial analyst Charlie Wolf said today in a research note that Apple could cut the price of the 8GB iPhone to $99. Why? Apparently, just because they can. At least, based on his guesstimations on the iPhone margins and costs, and we can only guess, his famed telepathic powers, animal entrails reading abilities, and…
Nokia may rule a large portion of the worldwide cellphone market, but you know, with the economy and everything, it never hurts to diversify. Nokia is setting up musical benches throughout the UK to promote their Comes With Music audio service, each featuring three integrated handsets with headphones to sample music.The track lists are said…
There’s a reason High School Musical 3 made a gazillion dollars this weekend. You. Unfortunately, your actions came at the expense of Gizmodo’s weekend news, which you passed over for Zack Efron. Make up for it by reading our best posts: • Taxes suck, especially when glorious graphics like this one show just how much…
Past generations decked out their bike spokes with playing cards, this generation is doing it with LEDs. One of the best examples so far comes from a Flickr user that utilized six SpokePOV kits to turn his bicycle wheel into a stunning, illuminated Obama logo. If you would like to do a little campaigning of…
As predicted and expected, homebrew on the WIi is back thriving after being blocked by the most recent software update from Nintendo. Brewers can go about getting their software back by installing a new version of the Homebrew Channel (which also adds SDHC support for cards larger than 2GB) on their updated Wiis. In addition,…
