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Like it or not, the NFL 2008/2009 season is in full effect today. What’s a jock-hating geek to do? Well, how about compromise? That’s what EA and ESPN are doing with their NFL Sunday Countdown coverage today, as the two mega brands have reached an agreement that puts the Madden franchise front and center on…
That avalanche of TVs, fridges, iPod docks, and iPod dock fridges that some people like to call IFA 2008 but I call Satan’s Hell on Earth, agonized to its end this week. About bloody time. To me, the star of this fair wasn’t the Sony ZX1, the Samsung X360 or even Addy’s bags, but one…
When we’re talking office PC accessories today, there’s boring, and then there’s Dell boring. Regular boring gets you a quick trip to irrelevancy. Dell boring, on the other hand, gets your product onto the desktops of a million cubicle drones the world over. And that’s probably where we’ll see these pre-release products from Dell. The…
Last we left Mitsubishi’s LaserVue 1080p rear-projection monster, we had size and shape, but price was a mystery. The mystery was solved today, as BitStream discovered the massive HDTV will set you back $7,000 when it ships later this month. There’s still no pricing info for the 73-inch LaserVue, which was also revealed in June.…
Another day, another golf cart size, three-wheeled solar-powered car with style ripped from the 1980’s. At least with this one, the Solar Taxi, there’s a record at stake, as Swiss “adventurer” Louis Palmer is taking the car on a trip across the planet without using a drop of gasoline. He’ll be the first to do…
Ars Technica is now backtracking from its initial prediction that iTunes 8 won’t be a hit at Apple’s Let’s Rock September 9 event. Not only will iTunes 8 be available then, but they say Apple will also release the iPhone 2.1 update that in theory will fix its huge password security flaw. Jacqui hints that…
We’ve been kind of laser crazy here at Gizmodo lately, and with good reason: Deployable solid state lasers could be landing in military hands as early as 2009. We simply wish to be at the forefront of the pew pew revolution, with the hope that any burning sensation our writers feel in the near future…
Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done! According to the Bubble Fogger’s Amazon listing, this marvelous contraption creates fog solution-filled bubbles and casts…
Error or scam, Amazon has pulled the page with the 52-inch $38.45 Sharp Aquos, probably overwhelmed by the orders from crazy Giz readers dreaming about a glorious, gigantic HDTV in their living rooms and/or toilets. Reader Max called Amazon to check on his order and they told him there was something weird going on: Just…
It looks like something went really wrong at the Lego factory because, when Jenny at The Bloggess opened her 30th Anniversary minifig celebration pack, she got a whole bunch of transvestite minifigs. “I think Eddie Izzard in drag is 10 times hotter than Brad Pitt covered in nougat, but this is just bizarre,” Jenny says.…
Right now, one of the stores at Amazon.com-myOfficeSource-is selling a 52-inch Sharp Aquos 1080P HDTV for $38.45 (thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents). That’s $2,261.54 off its list price. New, not refurbished. Obviously, something wrong-or fishy-must be happening because, right now, you can buy a bunch of products with this discount. Giz reader Cliff, who gave…
The Eclipse 400 looks is one of those airplanes that you can only imagine in movies or comicbooks. But this is not the Avenger’s Quinjet, it is very real, as the video shows. Right now it’s being perfected and will be delivered to Tony Starks wannabes in just three years. Its four-seat interior looks more…
Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google’s Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now: Dear Señor Google, please don’t make a new tab automatically display my most visited sites by default. Seriously. Don’t. [Vital Security]
It’s happening. The Let’s Rock Apple event has started to roll. Here’s the first photo outside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. [iPhone Savior]
Who else would spend $25 in a Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker-which moves pretending she’s a DJ at the rhythm of the music played in your digital audio player-but a twisted disco pussy lover with probably too much Jack Daniel’s running through his veins and listening to ABBA right now? FedEx says they are delivering…
If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES-like I am-you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago. Without a doubt, my favorites are the shot from…
Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the most stunning flustercucks in gaming history. According to his account, Microsoft willfully ignored deep, systemic…
Yesterday we said that the leaked iPod nano shot looked real to us. After all, Apple seems to be going through its curved surfaces and tapered edges period. This new shot of this old-green-lime colored one however is a completely different beast. • First, the proportions in the green one are all wrong compared to…
At last. Female sex pros and male overachievers rejoice-as the rest of us scratch our heads and look somewhere else while the level indicator on this $28 condom dispenser keeps going down at the same rate of our hand cream dispenser. [Uncommon Goods via Random Good Stuff]
Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown’s latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on the boats. It turns out,…
