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There are gaming chairs that have speakers and a subwoofer, which are nice and have been done to death, but Gyroxus’ gaming chair is a GAMING CHAIR. It’s akin to the types of rigs you see in arcades that jiggles you like crazy in sync with whatever racing, flying or shooting game you’ve just thrown…
And here she is. After FCC commissioner Johnathan Adelstein withdrew his support today, the vote is now deadlocked and awaiting the yea or nay from Deborah Taylor Tate, a Republican who is expected to approve the merger so all of this can finally be over and done with (something tells me a large batch of…
The Gadget: A laptop docking station for your Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro that makes it extremely easy to plug in all your various ports in one easy lever-based motion instead of one by one like some sort of neanderthal. The ports are replicated in the back of the BookEndz so you can always keep…
The kids over at CrackBerry got their hands on the new Blackberry Kickstart 8220-the first flip phone BlackBerry. And while they have yet to publish a complete review, CrackBerry definitely likes the hardware, claiming that RIM has not cheapened the build quality for its casual audience. But how does it match up to the BlackBerry…
If there was a contest for the nerdiest piece of furniture ever made, my money would be on this Periodic coffee table. It has everything a science fanatic could ask for, including the actual elements (even the toxic ones) encased in a thick layer of resin to ensure safety. As a whole, the table is…
This, my friends, is absolutely shocking. That guy who made himself the laughing stock of the entire internet by getting himself tattooed up with not one, not two, but three Zune logos, has decided to cover up the tattoos. It’s not out of shame, however. We’ve known for a while now that this Adonis has…
You actually know what some of the crazy doodles on the side of an HDTV means when it comes to video-720p, 1080i, 1080p. Congrats, you’re ahead of most people, like my mother. But do you understand the alphabet soup of audio, the confounding constellation of logos on your Blu-ray player’s box? While there are basically…
Spilling soda is a death sentence for gadgets. Even if it still works, that damn thing is going to be sticky forever. The new “Pour Thing” helps prevent spills from awkward 2-liter bottles using a container that can be manipulated with an easy push. To be honest, it seems that this thing could actually cause…
It’s not even a year old, but the Treo 755p is already being axed by Verizon to make way for the Centro. However, it will not die in vain. You can now score the phone from Verizon for $100 with a 2-year contract. [Verizon via Treocentral] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-adds-samsung-sch-i760-palm-treo-755p-and-two-m-312294
Solar windows have finally made their way to the consumer market, and these new panes from Nihon Telecommunications Systems in Japan aren’t a bad start. The inconspicuously equipped windows, at peak, generate a claimed 70 watts per square meter, which can be accessed through a few USB ports. In other words, the only way to…
Anyone reading Gizmodo already knows that science is cool. But just in case those around you are questioning the fact—crazy people who probably wear tinfoil hats and fear falling off the edge of the Earth when visiting Disney Word—you can pick up one of these fantastic Science! shirts. Starting at $17.50, nothing says those biochem…
It’s very well possible that this video is fake or staged. Then again, it’s also possible that it’s real, and this annoying little brat of a kid just delivered the gleeful revenge of ten thousand pissed-off cable customers to one unsuspecting cable guy’s beanbag. The world may never know. [TastyBooze; Thanks, Blakeley!]
One place where “if you build it, they will come” doesn’t always apply is in military hardware. After constructing two Zumwalt class DD(X) stealth destroyers at $2.6 billion apiece, the Navy has scrapped its plan to build up the rest of its intended 313-ship fleet-turns out, the demand for a ship whose primary mission is…
As a result of Nintendo’s loss in court to a Texas-based company called Anascape, the judge ruled that all sales of the Wii Classic Controller and the GameCube controller need to be temporarily halted until funds can be placed into an escrow account. What’s the impact on you, Joe or Dan Consumer? Starting today, July…
Who wants a free iPhone? All you need to do is enter our Made in Eureka contest, where you come up with your own best invention akin to the stuff on the Sci Fi show Eureka and show it to us. One of the previous entries we’ve had came from Vic Soto and his iRing,…
If you’ve been scouting for components to build a budget media center PC, this Asus ATI Radeon HD3450 is going for just $19 after a $10 mail-in rebate. (It usually runs about $50.) While not a gaming powerhouse, the card is DirectX 10.1-compatible, HDCP-compliant, capable of 1920×1200 resolution and happens to be a “champ with…
A company called Creative Coffins offers a service where you can choose themed caskets designed however you like, leading the nerds at T3 to mock up some interesting ones with the concept. Would you want to be buried in an iPhone casket? A Vista casket? How about GTA4, Halo, or an SNES one with an…
Here’s some of the sweetest CCTV footage we’ve seen in a while: this guy was just sitting at a table by the window of a diner in North Carolina, minding his own business, when a car smashed through the wall, ramming him into the counter. His reaction? First things first, he put his hat back…
Shopping carts are festering hotbeds of germs and disease, or so one would think seeing the expense Chevy Chase Supermarket has put into installing shopping car washing machines in their store. The fancy new machine sprays down every cart in the store between uses with a peroxide solution that kills 99.9% of germs, leaving them…
The Magic Tricycle (horrible name) concept is designed around a reasonable idea. On the highway, you may want to drive a car. So the Magic Tricycle (horrible name) road rages through traffic with three wheels. But when you just want to cruise around town, it transforms into motorcycle mode: The designers claim that the top…
