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I’ve heard similar things, but it’s unconfirmed. My guess is iPods, as we had last September. [Macrumors]
Leave it to the BBC to introduce a show about robots attacking humans and generally making a mess of the landscape that’s both funny and tailor-made for the ADHD audience. The Wrong Door is a violent, live-action Robot Chicken prone to the same breezy matter-of-factness that made Terry Gilliam’s Python interludes both funny and horrifying.…
The International Defense Exhibition of Land Forces went down in Moscow this past weekend, and it seems like it was a pretty a great time, judging from these photos sent in to our good friends at English Russia. First stop, obviously, is to strap on the Tevas and nautical print Hawaiian shirt for a quick…
On the list of ways to go, having your lungs explode is definitely on the gnarlier side. Too bad for bats in treehugging locales, though, because that’s what’s happening to them, due to a pretty serious error with their awesome echolcation systems crossing with the seemingly benign forces of Bernoulli’s principle put into motion by…
At the Intel Developer Forum last week, a lot of the buzz on the demo floor was around new Atom hardware. There were the requisite netbooks and EeeClones floating around, but it seemed like peculiar little quasi-computers, or palmtop Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) stole the show. Sure, it’s impressive to see a full, net-connected Vista…
While the city of Philadelphia is content with using 3D images to deter speeders, the authorities in ShanXi province, China are taking a far more drastic approach. They built a 100 foot long, 2 foot high, winding speed block smack dab in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway. Sure, it scratches up cars, looks…
If you thought this post was going to contain a “in Soviet Russia” joke-think again. Besides, spending a whopping $990 on an iPhone is hardly a laughing matter. Actually, the price is a bargain compared to the 600,000 or so iPhones that have hit the market through unauthorized sales-but it is still well out of…
On Sept. 9, Universal will release an amazing 10th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Big Lebowski that’s packed inside of a mini-bowling ball. A goddamn bowling ball. And it’ll have all-new bonus features, which I hope/suspect is filled with John Goodman screaming various permutations of “fuck” a lot. For only $24. Why so cheap? Because…
Microsoft’s just gone on the record with RPG-TV and said the Fall Xbox 360 Dashboard Update will be hitting in November, which technically is still a part of Fall. Previous updates have also been released in late November (as close to Winter as you could push it while still being Fall), but all those new…
Lisa’s guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, which is a brilliant combination between one of the best Japan writers in the US, and well, BOINGBOING. I’d hire her for Gizmodo, but I’m not sure our personal relationship would last through a working relationship. Better to not push my luck by trying to fish an amazing…
Looking for a space shuttle to convert into a funky dwelling? Believe it or not, there are quite a few pieces of once cutting edge space technology that have been left to rot. For example: there is a Russian Buran space shuttle lying abandoned in the Arabian desert, a NASA Jet Propulsion Lab sitting in…
No, this is not a bad joke. An Italian priest is starting the online beauty pageant Miss Sister 2008. Nuns register online and attach a photograph (with or without the traditional veil) to get featured on Rev. Antonio Rungi’s blog. And while the Associate of Catholic teachers made a public statement against the site, Rungi…
In case any of you missed Adam Frucci’s brilliant piece on Apple ruining his entire life by releasing a moderately buggy iPhone 3G, you may have also missed a tip he got from Apple. If you’ve been having trouble finding reception after losing it (say you go into a building and lose reception, but when…
Once again, the week before Labor day brings offbeat art lovers from around the world to Black Rock City, Nevada, for a seven-day event that immerses the senses in radical artistic self-expression. Actually, its pretty hard to describe Burning Man unless you have actually been to one, but it is certainly a far cry from…
Following last week’s announcement, CrunchGear found the PlayStation 3 Wireless Keypad listed on Amazon which, if accurate, will be available on November 30 for $50. The PS3’s savior is near! OK, maybe not. [CrunchGear]
TouchArcade has found evidence of two upcoming iPhone control pads that add, at the very least, an SNES amount of buttons to the iPhone. iControl pad is the first, and has four face buttons, a D pad, Start/Select and an LED to show when it’s in use. It may be ugly now, but it’s just…
I’ve spent the morning at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and I’ve seen some pretty amazing inventions that may not be far away from a shop near you. One of the coolest was these magnetic LED tiles that allow you to build any kind of 2D- or 3D-shaped display by just attaching one to…
Nikon Rumors and Neutral Day have more on the D90, well, mostly just these product shots being touted as “100% legit.” That, and a few more “official” spces-12.3 megapixels, movie mode (still no resolution confirmation), 3″ LCD, an ISO range of 100-6400 and 11 AF points (same as the D80). The confirmed AF-S 18-105 mm…
While this is by far our favorite geek vanity plate, we don’t pretend that others don’t exist. And frankly, if I pulled up behind someone repping a wireless radio standard for all to see on the back of their Hyundai, I think there’s a great chance I might spit-take my Big Gulp and risk a…
There is an alternate universe much like our own, but in this universe there is no war and cows produce ice-cold milkshakes. And in this universe, you’ll also find the manifested counterparts to these wooden Wii peripheral concepts. Made of wood and featuring well-placed LED flare, the only thing better than the Wiimote and Nunchuk…
