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Haagen Dazs is selling a limited edition brand of honey flavored vanilla ice cream, and it is the most incredible flavor I have ever experienced. But don’t eat this ice cream for the benefit of your palate. Do it for the bees. Which your cellphones are allegedly murdering. UPDATE: Or not, but who cares? This…
The ShareCentral is a 5-port USB hub that allows two computers to share USB devices without a network. Just plug the devices in the $80 hub, plug the hub into both computers, and you can use your mouse, keyboard, hard drive or whatever on either computer with the flick of a switch. Best of all,…
While The Veda concept is a fairly new idea out of Microsoft’s R&D labs, the design itself looks as though it was picked out of a time capsule sealed in the mid ’90’s. Apparently, the Veda can be used as a phone when the screen is closed, as a multimedia player when the screen is…
As a guy who dabbles in the arts, I can sympathize with anyone who struggles to find the perfect light for their creative projects. The Halo Lamp by Sander Muller offers a seriously good looking solution to this problem with the Halo Lamp. Because there is a circular ring of light and no bulb, it…
You know what we hate? When people get all up in our cake. You know what we’re talking about. You’ve got a sweet banana cream or a succulent red velvet, and then, you know, someone gets all up in your cake. What’s with that? With this plate, you can measure your cake consumption-or more appropriately-the…
The Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles (C3UV—the "3" makes it hip) at the University of California, Berkeley has developed a system that uses the iPhone to develop tasks, set coordinates and send orders to a fleet of UAVs. Naturally, this development is interesting because it allows a single person to control a large…
This rumor comes from the same leaky survey site that provided the Xbox 360 Avatar rumor and the WiiFit-like balance board rumor, so it may or may not be legit. Supposedly there’s a company working on a device called Trioxide which, according to Kotaku, allows “the ability to play the latest console games (ie Xbox…
As you know, I’m in Billund, Denmark, right now. Tomorrow I’ll be talking with the guys who make LEGO, the ultimate geek toy, and I would be able to ask them anything I want. So what would you like to know? What would you like to see? Tell me in the comments or write to…
I like ice cream as much as the next guy, but all I need to enjoy it is a spoon or a cone and a nice hot day. However, Swiss ice cream manufacturer Mövenpick has taken things a step further by hiring Claudio Colucci to design a chair specifically customized to enhance the ice cream…
PSP firmware 4.00 is giving the portable Google search, with stored memory for the 20 last searches. And video played off a memory stick can be sped up or slowed down. Funny how such a monumental firmware digit stands for such minor upgrades, but we’re happy to see improved functionality by software any day, in…
Poor incandescent bulbs. They had about 100+ years of dominance, but now it’s the era of energy-efficient compact fluorescent. And this triumph of the CFL has been archived for future historians in the most permanent record known to our culture: a T-shirt. If you’d like to see this clever garment actually be produced, make sure…
The miBook is a $130 PDA with a 7″ screen that teaches skills to people through step-by-step videos and other multimedia. Now, we don’t like to reinforce gender stereotypes, but the pictures of each $20 title in the gallery below, such as cooking, gardening and home decorating show a woman learning the job—all except the…
When a company comes out with an innovative, landmark product, many other companies will end up incorporating those design features into their own products over time. But at what point does drawing inspiration from a rival’s innovations become simple bootlegging? We asked three experts. Yves Behar, designer of OLPC and Jawbone, and founder of fuseproject…
We’ve just updated the FAQ with many of the reader questions you guys sent in over the weekend. Thanks! For ease of reading, we have the newly added questions below. If you want to see the whole FAQ, which has all the questions (including these new ones), it’s here. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-3g-faq-5016398 Can I activate my iPhone…
With the news from a new survey that says 48% of music owned by teens is illegal, I got to thinking. My iTunes library is stuffed with tracks bought from the Music Store, along with ripped CDs I actually own, and there’s a huge stack of CDs I’ve yet to rip to MP3… which I…
United Airlines may be screwing passengers with hefty ticket prices and bag fees, but if you are an iPod/iPhone user, the friendly skies just got a little friendlier. A new deal makes United the first U.S. carrier to offer iPod and iPhone connectivity to its in-flight entertainment system. Passengers will be able to plug in…
HTC’s already familiar with the UMPC seeing as they’ve been shipping the Shift for a while, but they’re going to go even more hardcore into mini laptops. Their CEO Peter Chou didn’t elaborate exactly what their strategy was, but Digitime’s sources say HTC is planning on making mobile internet devices with Intel’s Atm and Qualcomm’s…
AT&T just gave us new details on how their upgrading plans will work for the iPhone 3G. The company is treating the iPhone 3G pretty much just like any other phone in that people who are ineligible for upgrades have to pay the full, unsubsidized price for the phone. People who qualify for upgrade status…
We’re as excited about the MSI Wind as you are, but the US release has been delayed to June 27. Since the hardware is long finished and distributed to the rest of the world, don’t fret about production problems or false promises on this $500 $479, 10″ Eee-killer. MSI probably just wanted to launch with more…
The SlimBlade presenter mouse is a Bluetooth device with a very smart feature—when your computer goes to sleep, the SlimBlade saves power by going to sleep too. It also does double duty, flipping between laser mouse and handheld presenter with a double-click. It runs for three months on two AAs, costs $60 and is out…