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You know what was the first thing I thought when I got my hands on a PSP? This screen would make a really great second computer monitor… No, I’m just kidding; never in my life would I think that. But apparently PSP homebrew developer Jochen Schleu did, and worked up a mod that lets you…
Square-Enix and NeuroSky will unveil a mind-controlled gaming demo on Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. The setup works with a Windows PC and the MindSky headset, and runs Square’s software created specifically for this demo. The headset fits over your head with earmuffs and has one electrode that monitors brainwaves. The headset itself is…
Silverstone’s Raven gaming mouse looks really interesting at first glance, what with the giant, glowing and strangely hypnotic tumor bolted to its side. It appears to be a secondary scroll wheel, which sits next to the usual thumb buttons. And you’ve got another pair of buttons next to your middle finger. But when you think…
Wireless deadbolts have been on the market for a while now, but the new Remock Lockey seems like a decent solution for doors you want to secure inside a home. The remote controlled lock is placed on the inside of a room and can only be opened with a remote control “key.” It runs on…
Click to viewNeed more evidence that Democrats are more grassroots tech savvy than their elephantine counterparts? At a Sarah Palin rally in LA on Saturday, the California Democratic party rented a digital billboard across the street which displayed questions for the veep candiate sent by text message. Granted, even if Palin did read them, she…
Not just one, but three new ways to view YouTube today. The first two should be familiar to anyone who’s used Hulu—lights out and theater mode. Lights out dims your whole screen except the video, while the latter also blows up the player and adds tacky/cool theater curtains on the side. Right now, they’re only…
Another day, another spectacular tower in Dubai: The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, a curvy building “inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1”, will not only appear in Dubai but in six other cities around the world. According to the architects—who worked in Beijing’s Water Cube—the design…
There have been other attempts at fusing a flashlight with a lamp, but ‘Two Lamps’ with its simple click-off rechargeable flashlight design offers up one of the most elegant solutions (similar to certain lantern camping flashlights, only probably wouldn’t suck). The flashlight may not be powerful enough to burn paper, but it would be nice…
It’s official. We’re hosed. The National Debt Clock near Times Square has just run out of spaces to add more zeroes to its running count of our national debt, thanks to the one-two punch of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout and the $100 billion used to prop up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before…
The MLB’s must-buy At Bat iPhone app for baseball fanatics, which delivers live game info, video, more stats than you can swing a stick and other goodness, is currently on sale for $2.99, two bucks off of its usual $5 pricetag. But it’s more of a bait-and-switch than a steal, because the app will expire…
This is a group of snailfish-the deepest living fish in existence-filmed alive for the first time in history in the name science and nausea. They live at depths of 4.6 miles (7,500 meters) or more, so scientists had to develop new camera technology capable of supporting a pressure of 8,000 tonnes per square metre-“the equivalent…
Sonim has gone to great lengths to convince European customers that its XP1 is the toughest phone on the market. They even went so far as to take the phone on tour and encourage spectators to try and beat it into submission. Now the company is planning on launching an updated version, the XP3, in…
Best Buy is remodeling some of its newer stores to make them “girlier,” using input from female customers to redesign locations with flourishes like skylights and earth tones, hoping it’ll bring in more of the ladies—presumably to buy more easy-to-use, pink gadgets. I’m all for nicer stores that are less like industrial warehouses packed with…
By rebranding “Wii Points” into “Nintendo Points” you would think that a system would be in place to share points between the Wii and the upcoming DSi. But that is where you would be wrong. Simply put, the points are locked to a single system—they cannot be transferred. That is a real bummer—especially because I…
The casual consumer has little idea what they’re getting with a Blu-ray movie. Sometimes it’s great, with restored picture and lots of brand new special features. Other times, it’s just the same scratched up print and SD extras crapped out from DVD to Blu-ray. So Sound & Vision decided to name names and called out…
Racing wheels have come a long way, featuring excellent accuracy and realistic force feedback. But they’re still quite awkward, requiring a properly positioned table or precarious lap placement. The RennSport Wheel Stand by Fanatec solves these positioning problems, holding the wheel, pedals and even stick shift in the perfect, adjustable spot for each player.Constructed solidly…
The question is not IF there will be a zombie apocalypse, but whether or not said end of the world will occur before or after singularity and the robot uprising. Here, in the maudlin sculpture Zombie Apocafest 2008, we see the battle depicted in the only artistic medium that will survive when Man is literally…
Whereas a live online stream of the first presidential debate was a bit harder to pin down, our pick for tonight’s at 9PM Eastern is Hulu. Its live stream of the final two presidential debates is actually Hulu’s first ever live broadcast, which is something they might do more of following the debates. (Unfortunately, it…
Hanging out at sites like Giz may have instilled in you an insatiable, pocket-emptying gadget habit. But now we’re entering a new era-the old guys on the TV are saying that soon we may not even have pockets, let alone money for them. Don’t panic though: You’ve probably got a wealth of gadgetry sitting underutilized…
Modders prodding around inside the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 have discovered that there is a lot of potential to add new functionality thanks to some areas with empty space. That having been said, MyDellMini member Tom Beauchamp used a pocket next to the Bluetooth adapter to add a super-small GPS receiver. If using your PC…
