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Forgetting to bring your electronics with you on a flight sucks really, really hard. This is why the DFW airport has allowed Best Buy to put Best Buy Express vending machines inside several terminals, giving travelers a chance to pick up the lost gadgets, chargers or headphones that they would otherwise have to do without.…
For a long time, I just threw all of my gear into an Eastpak backpack I’d had since high school. But my laptop got all scuffy and gross like it had been hanging out in the wrong Starbucks or something, so I finally got an actual laptop bag to keep it all protected. (Also, the…
Good news, chubbies! Science has got your back. Researchers at the Salk Institute have found two drugs that trick the muscles in mice into thinking they’ve been working out like crazy, even when said mice have been playing World of Warcraft and eating Funyuns for 8 straight hours. One drug, known as Aicar, increased the…
A clever modder on the Ben Heck forums managed to cram an Xbox 360 controller into the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock controller. What resulted is an unholy union of the two consoles, bringing a controller for people with smaller hands to Microsoft’s great grey beast. There’s no headphone jack, although it may be…
We reported in our massive feature on the SDK and App Store’s shortcomings that Apple didn’t even tell devs how many times their app is downloaded. I guess they realized devs might wanna know, ’cause now they’re offering daily download statistics to registered devs. One brick at a time. [Mac Rumors] https://gizmodo.com/why-we-still-need-the-iphone-app-black-market-5027790
A California County Superior Court judge has just ruled that early termination fees from cellphone companies violates California state law and are illegal. What’s this mean to you? Sprint Nextel has been ordered to pay $18.2 million in reimbursements to customers who already paid their ETF, and to stop trying to collect $54.7 million from…
Hey, I love pleasing scents as much the next person, but I don’t think people are quite ready for an MP3 player that pumps odors through your earbuds. Nonetheless, a group of designers has come up with that very idea and dubbed it “Sweet Honey.” I highly doubt that you will see something like this…
For those of you who’ve finally repressed Frucci’s homoerotic slow-mo watergun facial montage, we’d like to offer a piece of apparel to commemorate the occasion (and bring back painful memories). By ReThink clothing, the Super Soaker T-shirt gives a metallic sheen to the classic water weapon, putting it on aesthetic par with something far more…
You would have thought that the only way a police officer could have made a drunk driving arrest on a Segway was if the car jumped onto the sidewalk and slammed into one. However, an officer actually managed to chase down a drunken 18-year-old woman in a not-so-hot pursuit down the streets of Jackson, Michigan…
One of the more eyebrow-raising rumors in the scramble of them about Apple’s upcoming MacBooks is that they will switch from Intel chipsets to someone else’s. It seemed odd on its face, since Intel and Apple are fairly tight, and there’s not a very apparent reason to switch. Jon at Ars lays out a fairly…
Today’s Newegg deal involves a $30 mail-in-rebate, but it’s a pretty damn good price for a 16GB flash drive. Enter in the $5 promo code EMCAHDBAJ found on their savings page and you’ll get $5 off, which coupled with the $30 rebate nets you a drive at $34. What can you do with a 16GB…
This has been a big month for big-time cameras. First we we first saw the Hasselblad H3DII-50 and its whopping 50-megapixel sensor, which was topped the following week by the Phase One’s P65+. The Leaf AFi 10 medium format camera falls in the middle of the war over sensor-size with a 56x36mm TWF sensor that…
The Accupal won’t make your next root canal painless, but it will lessen the sting of the needle. Essentially an ultrasonic toothbrush with a hole in it, when coupled with minor amounts of topical anesthetic, you can apparently poke and prod someone’s mouth all day without pain. It seems to work through a combination of…
Click to viewHere’s a bunch of crazy Lego heads building the Lego Death Star diorama, probably the best Lego set available this side of the Millennium Falcon with 3,803 pieces, and 21 mini-figs-a stunning number for any Lego set-but definitely the most fun to play with, with 14 scenarios from the original movie. https://gizmodo.com/3-800-piece-death-star-diorama-is-coolest-star-wars-leg-5018137 Looking…
NASA just announced that the Phoenix Lander has successfully scooped up a Martian water ice sample and placed it in its oven for scientific analysis. “Mars Odyssey discovered this ice six years ago, but we’ve now touched it and tasted it, which is something that hasn’t been done before,” said a scientist at today’s press…
As the folks at Robots Rule show in this video, Femisapien is “smart, funny, can dance up a storm and perform skits with you.” What a gal. Here we get a demo of just about every feature imaginable, including Fashion Pose mode, Backup Singer mode, Business Card Handout mode—you get the idea. All fine and…
If you’re looking for one statement to neatly sum up the world we live in right now, allow me to present to you this one, made by Google lawyers in their defense during a Google Street View lawsuit: “Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete privacy does not exist.” I mean, I…
Logitech’s just partnered up with Activision to release some official “premium” instruments for the upcoming Guitar Hero World Tour game. There aren’t a whole lot of details in the release, but Logitech will provide a guitar for each of the four platforms (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2) that the game’s coming out for. Why are…
A day before the FCC is expected to slap Comcast’s Hellboy-like wrist, FCC Emperor Kevin Martin gave the the NYT his big hairy vision for openness for cable, wireless and the internet: He wants to set a “very high bar on what network operators can do in terms of putting limits on consumers.” But that…
Creative’s finally put that whole driver fiasco behind them and released Vista-capable drivers for their X-FI cards. What took them so long? Who knows, but they’ve added DVD Audio playback, which is nice, I guess. Grab yours now if you haven’t broken your X-Fi in half already. [Creative via X-Fi]
