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Here’s the new Volvo in-house wind tunnel simulator, a 28 million dollar facility that is the first in its class to have a road simulator. In theory, it will allow the Swedish manufacturer to precisely test the effect of road changes and airflows all around the car to make cars more fuel efficient. Strangely enough,…
Best Buy and Gamestop are discounting the remainder of their stock of Xbox Live Vision Bundles to $49 in order to clear them out for the new Chatpad Live Bundle that’s coming soon. If you still don’t have a camera for Xbox Live, this is a fantastic deal to get that, 12 months of Xbox…
Our constant reportage that border agents can snatch and frisk your laptop for basically no reason at all seems to have worked. The sighing, sweaty “feh” of nerds and barks of disapproval from hardcore business travelers, both unhappy at the thought of some macho dickhole agent tooling around in their notebook, seem to have trickled…
Click to viewWith all the cute little robots that have been presented at CEATEC, it’s easy to forget why we shouldn’t be making robots in the first place. Because if they don’t kill us with their bare hands, they will kill us out of raw horror. Like the Repliee R-1, a five year-old girl developed…
How did HP, the second largest computer maker in the US, get away with not having a 13.3-inch notebook for so damn long? It’s like the perfect notebook size. The Pavilion dv3500t is their first, which is its most exceptional feature, actually. Otherwise, it’s a pretty standard collection of the latest in notebook silicon—with specs…
Ah, 2001. You and your monoliths and your psychotic computers and your awfully bad presidents taking power and your Tiananmen self-immolations and your terrorist attacks… a year with no iPods or YouTube or amazing technology blogs or Gizmodo! How much we don’t miss you. Apparently, Google does, because they have found a vintage search index…
In what it could seem like their last chance to regain some relevance in the cellphone market—and actually survive the current war—Motorola has confirmed their bet on Android in an official statement answering previous rumors: We’re excited about the innovation possibilities on Android, and [we] look forward to delivering great products in partnership with Google…
Sometimes, you just need a huge fucking hole dug. Enter the world’s most interesting boring machines—all big enough to Chunnel their way under vast bodies of water, massive gem mines, that kind of thing. Huge well-ventilated rotating digging heads are the name of the game here—good to ogle from the safety of the internet, because…
This computer uses 100% passive cooling (read: no fans or liquid chilling systems). So how is that possible? Well just look at the thing. It’s like one big freakin’ heat sink. We don’t have much information on the design, but from what we can tell, copper tubing helps dissipate the heat from hot spots like…
Why put your very expensive aquarium out in the living room where everyone can see it? That’s just silly. What you should do is stick it in the backroom so you can admire it while you’re sitting on the toilet or brushing your teeth. That makes much more sense! Especially for $4,700, which is how…
Worried that you might have Multiple Sclerosis but are too lazy to go to the doctor to check and see? Well, you’re an idiot, but your laziness may soon be, if not rewarded, at least not punished thanks to the work of some researchers at the University of Leeds. They’ve developed new biosensor technology that…
Ever since the PlayStation 3 QWERTY keypad was announced, we’ve been wondering (incessantly night and day) whether or not you could actually reach the thing as it sits perched on top of the DualShock 3. But according to some pics snapped by MTV, it doesn’t look like you’ll need grotesque, alien fingers to reach the…
We know that you probably don’t need help figuring out if what you’re drinking is hot or cold, but that only makes these Smart Coasters all the more endearing. Essentially a solar cell trapped in waterproof resin, cold drinks light up blue and hot drinks light up red. Full instructions to build your own can…
The fact is, technology has done just as good a job disseminating and democratizing adult entertainment as it has any sort of critical life-sustaining need, from food to vaccines, clothing to housing. Starting with photography, moving to wide-scale magazine print and movie theaters, propelling VHS and now dominating the internet, pornography has not only been…
This balsa wood Canon DSLR is a perfect object of desire for both photography aficionados and people who like crafts—which is not going to be any of you, judging from the zero entries in the Gizmodo Arts & Crafts contest. The steps are really simple, and the results—as you can see in the image—look great.…
We’ve already seen the SpursEngine teased in laptops, but Toshiba is becoming vocal about bringing the SpursEngine—the same technology found in the PlayStation 3 Cell processor—to standalone video cards in 4-core configuration. The first will come from Leadtek later this month for $286, a 128MB card that can fit into a small form PC, and…
Derrick is a comedy trio who’s been making short comedic videos for the web for a few years. You’ve probably seen at least a few of them in the past. But now, they’ve set their sights higher: they want out of the internet comedy ghetto and into the mainstream. How’re they going to do that?…
High on the list of gadget annoyances that make me want to scab my eyes out with a spork—just below cables and batteries—is the unfettered proliferation of memory cards. Even though they all fundamentally do the same thing—store data for handheld devices—they come in a million different sizes and shapes from almost as many companies,…
MCV, a respected gaming news publication out of the UK, has stated “according to [an] impeccable source in Japan” that “Nintendo will announce a new, updated version of its DS console at a press conference tomorrow morning.” They cite the exact time of the conference to run at 5AM UK, or late tonight/early morning for…
Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they’re adding Skyhook’s Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi chipsets, spreading the location-based love even without GPS. This is how iPhone regular finds your location in addition to using nearby cell towers (Skyhook…
