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Last week, I asked you to create visions of Bill Gates in retirement. You responded. As per usual, the easiest joke had the most entries (this time, it was Bill Gates working at the Apple Store/at the Genius Bar), many of which were left on the cutting room floor. However, there are a pretty serious…
In case you missed Jesús’ tour of Lego’s secret vault containing every Lego set ever made late last night —just one of his Lego adventures in Denmark, you can check it out right here. https://gizmodo.com/this-secret-underground-facility-guards-all-lego-sets-e-5018990
Orange, a cellphone provider in the UK, has just developed a couple prototypes of this Dance Charge cellphone charger. You wrap this thing around your arm while you’re dancing and your kinetic energy will translate into electricity to power your phone. It’s like those flashlights that you have to shake before use, but much, much…
Crunchgear went on a trip to Dyson’s headquarters in Malmesbury, England and caught this video of an incredibly soporific employee narrating the entire history of their upright vacs. If you can listen to five minutes of this guy, you’ll get a very cool journey through the adventure of cleaning up crap from your carpets. Super…
Clever social marketing or desperate ploy for viral popularity? Sprint’s offering $20 to the first 1,000 people to feature the Instinct in a YouTube clip, while the Grand Prize Winner will pick up a sweet $10,000. The official rules will be released on Monday when the contest, appropriately called “Sell Out,” kicks off. Hit us…
Those sly birds had us fooled! Their are they/aren’t they relationship-which ended, but Kathy Griffin is still talking about-apparently wasn’t a relationship at all. Or at least, wasn’t one that involved any exchange of bodily fluids. https://gizmodo.com/wozniak-and-kathy-griffin-end-relationship-384936 Kathy explains that they “were dating, but were just friendly. I never fucked him or anything!” And that…
Does Vista boot slower than a turtle slogging through molasses after you press the power button? If you have a multi-core processor (and you probably do), you can make it scoot at least a little bit faster with just a couple clicks. Run msconfig (type it into the Start search bar, press enter). Click boot,…
This appears to be the first shot in which we see the iPhone up against the iPhone 3G. While the angle isn’t all that telling, maybe that’s exactly the point. For all intents and purposes, the two phones look one in the same. But to fanboys and those who’ve already held the original iPhone for…
Under military funding, a Califorinia company named Ultracell has developed a 25W methanol fuel cell system capable of running a rugged laptop for 8 hours at a time. Using 250cc canisters of methanol (about the weight of a can of Coke), the system can convert the methanol to hydrogen and the hydrogen to electricity. While…
Bill Gates wrinkled his nose at me. “You just squished your question.” Aw shit, I just annoyed Bill Gates. I asked about collaborative tech projects between the Gates Foundation and Microsoft. You could see the question practically crawl up his spine and spill out of his eyes as laser beams of frustration fueled by my…
Those of you who’ve been patiently waiting for your fancy new smartphone (you know, one that lacks any real buttons) will be happy to know that the Nokia N78 has been released in the US for $560. We pasted all the spec info after the jump in case you’re in need of a refresher, but…
Some will realize that this t-shirt is really just a clever response to a Steve Rubel piece from last year. But recognizing the allusion is hardly a prerequisite to enjoying Mr. Kool-Aid himself kicking the internet in the groin. Besides, it’s the only thing we’ve got to tide us over until the Web 3.Oh Yeaahh!!…
Remember the old Apple iSight: auto-focus, built to last, clip-on and generally fantastic? Well, Logitech is trying to take us back to the days when you snapped a cam onto your machine to do your video-calling, and has released the QuickCam Vision Pro Webcam for Macs. It’s got Carl Zeiss optics, a voice-coil motor for…
This week at TreeHugger: Water-powered cars. Everytime oil prices are high, we hear about them. The latest one is the Genepax from Japan, but we don’t think it’s truly powered by water and we explain why here. In 2007 there were 11.8 million servers in the US, up from 2.6 million ten years before, and…
News flash, guys: a 32-inch Digital Photo Frame is actually a really crappy HDTV with all the tuners and inputs pulled out of it. It is not a photo frame. Selling it as such is a way to use the products weaknesses as its selling point and to remove money from the wallets of the…
Virgin Mobile, the little MVNO that could, is introducing what it says is the lowest-priced unlimited nationwide calling plan on the block—$80 a month for “totally unlimited” calling, starting July 1. Unlimited text and messaging adds another $10, so the super duper unlimited plan will run you $90 all told. Hopefully they’ll offer it to…
The recent Sichuan Earthquake in China was so intense, tremors were felt all the way over in the tallest completed building in the world-the Taipei 101 building in Taiwan-a whole eight minutes after the quake originated. (The title of tallest building period was taken by the Burj Dubai back in May.) What’s interesting about the…
While Asus has brought mini-notebooks to US shores, for the best stuff you’ve still got to import. The Kohjinsha SX Series is a 2.8lb laptop with a few interesting quirks. Powered by an Atom processor, the 8.9-inch Vista system can convert to tablet with the rotation of the convertible touchscreen. And to make sure you…
With 12 megapixels of creamy goodness, Ricoh’s GX200 is an upgrade of last year’s GX100. The Smooth Imaging Engine III processing engine gives you better noise reduction, there’s a 2.7-inch, 460,000-pixel HVGA LCD screen, an electronic level function for horizontal and vertical shooting, and 5fps continuous RAW mode. Cost in the UK is either $700…
A team of US and UK scientists have invented a portable scanner that may be useful in the hunt for life on Mars. And it sounds a whole lot like a Star Trek tricorder: it uses a beam of ultraviolet laser light and detects fluorescence from organic molecules, so it works remotely and doesn’t damage…
