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Another Monday (sigh). Don’t you just wish that there was a way to skip forward in time to the point when when you clock out for the day? No, I don’t have a time machine, but I do have the next best thing: 10 gadgets that you can use to hypnotize yourself until quittin’ time.…
If you can’t wait until Black Friday to hunt for deals for the holidays, or you just need to upgrade your gear now in these times of economic uncertainty-why save if everything is going to hell? Spend!-here’s a round up with the lastest deals we have found on the Web, from an unlocked Nokia N82…
This one is strange: Nobody knows exactly why, but Google has taken down most of the more than fifty applications that were supposed to be in the Android Marketplace. Although I’m getting an Apple deja vu here, nobody knows yet why this is happening, although there’s plenty of speculation. Explanations range from “trying to save…
There is no doubt about it—a 20-inch tall R/C Mechagodzilla is something a lot of kids (and quite a few adults) would like to get their hands on this holiday season. The size is definitely impressive, but Bandai has also thrown in some spinning hands and decked it out with LEDs to sweeten the deal.…
At last! The Beatles iPod is out, although not from Apple. But if you are a fan of the Fab Four and you still think the classic iPod is worth it and you want to help Paul, Ringo, and Yoko through the crisis, you will need to blow $795 to get it. The Limited Edition…
A Best Buy presentation leaked a couple of weeks ago revealed a November 16th “in-store” date for the BlackBerry Storm. A Best Buy product sheet recently obtained by BGR seems to back up this information citing an “in-stock” date for the same day. If this information is correct, the Storm could hit before Thanksgiving. [BGR]
Improv Everywhere, the pranksters behind such internet classics as the Grand Central freeze and the No Pants Subway Ride, recently did a tour of four North American cities to hold their MP3 experiments. These consisted of thousands of people getting together, each with a special MP3 loaded up on their portable audio players, and then…
Near a highway, a few hundred feet from the biggest electronics building in Tokyo’s Akihabara district, sits a tiny mecca for gadget geeks. The orange store belongs to Thanko, masters of weird USB devices, and it is their first of 4 shops. The blinking raremonoshop sign tickled my eyeballs, but my geek lust was triggered…
There are all kinds of keyless door locks on the market these days, but this DIY version utilizes a touch-sensitive system powered by an arduino that offers a cheap, secure and discreet method of entering a locked room. To gain access, the user must touch a wire jutting out from the door in a specific…
It’s 2008. Why are we still calling the devices we carry in our pockets “phones.” The difference between cordless phones and cell phones is just one word, though the difference in functionality is vast. Even more clumsily, we call phones with email and web browsing “smartphones,” despite most modern geeks using less than 10% of…
I don’t know what to think about this noose-shaped hanging lamp. It’s funny, but it’s not, like the noose meets the electric chair meets your darkest thoughts, specially in these times of recession and 1929-style market crashing. The designer—Marie Thurnauer—will probably have to use the 135-centimeter-long light fixture herself, however, as it costs a crazy…
The New Xbox Experience is, in a word, fantastic—I got to check it myself out last week, and was amazed by its totally smooth re-imagining of the Xbox UI. If you’re jealous, you won’t have to be for long. On his podcast, Major Nelson not-so-subtly hinted you’ll be able play with it early, maybe as…
Not surprisingly, there are several ongoing attempts to increase the efficiency of solar cells: IBMs use of concentrator photovoltaics or the University of Delaware’s technology that splits light into high energy, low energy, and medium energy chunks are a couple of examples. The latest breakthrough comes from Ohio State University where a new hybrid material…
With the election coming up in a mere two weeks, our friends over at Dvice decided to take a very in depth look at the technology behind all of the states voting machines and just how susceptible they are to both malicious hacking and human error. What results is a beautiful interactive map showing the…
Yeah, yeah. You’re still nursing a weekend Sarah Palin hangover after her visit on SNL this weekend. We get it. Time for some serious atonement with the best of Gizmodo’s weekend coverage: • The British government admits on ordering fighters to fire against UFOs over their airspace. • IBEX launched on Sunday, in orbit by…
Qik, the service that turns a smartphone with a data plan into a live-streaming webcam, now works with over a dozen feature/non-smart/dumb phones with a new J2ME client currently in alpha. If you’re a proud owner of one of the following 13 phones, you can start fiddling with the alpha today; and on top of…
If you’ve got a Windows Mobile 5 phone from HTC and have been putting off the jump to WM6 for whatever reason, you’re reaching do-or-die. HTC will be pulling its Windows Mobile 6 upgrade link on Oct. 31, forever sealing the fate of your T-Mobile Dash or AT&T 8525. You’re still running Windows Mobile 5…
Looks like I really wasn’t wrong when I said e-paper is in the news: Samsung’s just demonstrated its own funky e-paper tech, only this time the display uses carbon-nanotube electrode technology—also a technology that’s in the news. The color carbon nanotube active matrix electrophoretic display (say that after a few pints of beer) works by…
The latest beta for Opera Mobile 9.5 is out now. It adds a few things to the mix, but they’re pretty big. Besides being faster, it now comes with widgets, making it the first mobile browser to offer extensions (though Firefox Mobile will be right behind it)—you can grab the SDK to make your own…
Now here’s a creative military operation: the British set up a fake Laundromat in Belfast, where they wanted to find IRA bomb-makers. They staffed the Laundromat with locals and sent out coupons to different neighborhoods, with each neighborhoods coupon a different color. When people brought their clothes and coupons in, they got their clothes washed,…
