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Fact: After years of too much pizza and beer, every time I exhale, my esophagus plays Merry Had a Little Lamb. Now PillCams have seen a major upgrade that will allow scientists-who’ve long been wanting to study my ravaged GI tract in hopes of developing a superior race of competitive eaters-to check out my esophagus…
When I want a perfect cup of coffee, a trip to my local Dunkin’ Donuts generally does the trick. But when you attempt to make the perfect cup at home using a precise blend of coffee, cream and sugar, the results can be hit or miss. A new concept called “Coffeetime” hopes to change all…
We’ve seen the iHome iH69 before, but it and the slightly newer iH70 computer speakers have an iPod dock built directly into the body. Why’s this useful when you’ve theoretically got your computer plugged into your computer; the same computer that already has the music library that you fed your iPod with? That’s a good…
This “Really Cool” keyboard mixes two things we really love about keyboards: the ability to type quietly and the ability to withstand a glass of milk being poured on it. It’s completely sealed in a silicone outer shell with “no” moving parts, which explains its waterproof-ness. If our experience with silicone keyboards is worth anything,…
With Computex 2008 in full swing, the sub-notebook announcements are coming fast and furious. First came the Eee PC 901 and 1000, followed by the MSI Wind and the Asus Aspire One. Now we have learned that AMD is entering the fray with two new ultraportables. https://gizmodo.com/asus-eee-pc-901-and-1000-get-super-duper-official-5012490 These versions include a white 8.9-inch version with…
IEEE, the industry trade mag for gigantic nerds, has this cool Flash demo of what a bionic body shop of the future would look like. Just pick out the parts of your body you’d want to enhance-hand, leg, heart, eyeball, ear, brain, peepee, foot or bladder-and it’ll show you how much the add-on will cost.…
These concept virtual goggles don’t take into account any, you know, technology that actually exists, but I don’t really care. Maybe it’s the curves, maybe it’s the slick-looking display or maybe it’s the beautiful woman wearing them, but they look damn cool to me. They’re certainly cooler than any other glasses display that I’ve ever…
Take a look at the above picture. Notice anything strange? Those legs and that hand next to the guy with the microphone belong to a critic of Vladamir Putin named Mikhail G. Delyagin. The rest of him? It’s been digitally erased from the entire broadcast, a result of his being placed on a “stop list”…
Remember the canned cheeseburgers? Now you can make yours even more yummylicious with canned 100% US bacon, cooked and ready to eat. Actually, forget the burger: make your own bacon sandwich using two additional layers of bacon instead of bread. Each can contains all the vitamins and minerals you need to keep a healthy life…
If you were an AT&T customer duped into buying recurring ringtones or horoscopes from third parties on bills between January 1, 2004, and May 30, 2008, you may be entitled to some cash back through a recent settlement by AT&T. While the company admitted no wrongdoing, the class action suit charged that AT&T was not…
Last week, I introduced our DIY Apple Mockup Kit, a Photoshop file with all the doodads that’ll allow you to make your very own fake Apple product for leaking to blogs before a big announcement. We got a great response. Hit the jump for the 35 best entries as well as special awards for Most…
We’ve been talking about next-gen display technology like e-paper for ages, but professor Roel Vertegaal thinks we’re not thinking about future computing flexibly enough. He’s convinced that “non-planar” computing devices with screens in almost any shape will one day be ubiquitous, and is busy building prototypes in his lab. https://gizmodo.com/epson-proud-of-its-13-inches-of-e-paper-392498 Professor Vertegaal forsees drink cans…
This is the view from the biggest flyer in the world, a 492-foot diameter monster located in Singapore, 16 feet bigger than the Star of Nanchang, China, and 98 feet more than the London Eye (which I’m looking at right now, after moving into the city this weekend.) The capsules’ interior look straight out of…
This week at TreeHugger: We can’t know the future, but the more accurate our models are, the better we can deal with bad stuff before it happens. The good news is, the Argonne National Laboratory has developed new algorithms that will improve computer models of air pollution, and eventually climate change. Hybrid Technologies has announced…
There are T-shirts and there are T-shirts. And in my humble opinion this garment has fully earned its italics. R2-D2 officially goes “steampunk” in this little parcel of cotton, though “antique” may be a better term. Or maybe “Victorian.” (We don’t know about this stuff, sorry. Knowledge of pre-colonial design trends was not in the…
Just like we told you yesterday, the Starbucks free Wi-Fi program with AT&T is officially a go today. If you go to sign up for a Starbucks card, you get the option of with or without Wi-Fi. As long as you use the prepaid card once a month, you get two hours of free Wi-Fi…
Compared to basically every other appliance you have plugged in at home, the Playstation 3 sucks up more juice. That’s according to a new study by Australian consumer agency Choice, which found that when a PS3 is running, it sucks up five times more energy than a refrigerator. If you leave it on all the…
NPD’s latest survey of consumer awareness about Blu-ray tries to cheerlead, with the headline, “Consumer Awareness and Potential for Blu-ray Disc Devices Rising.” But then you read the results-45 percent of HDTV owners are now “familiar with Blu-ray,” up from 35 percent the same time last year. That means over half of HDTV owners-not regular…
JBL Control Now loudspeakers love donuts. Because since each speaker covers a 90-degree curve, four Control Nows can be assembled to make a donut. Or two can be combined to form a half-donut. (Of course, there’s nothing stopping you from fitting together 3, but nobody wants a donut that someone’s already taken a bite out…
Yesterday, I showed you a great video of NASA scientists explaining how magnetic fields work over beautiful animations making the fields come to life. Today, now that you’re all caught up on how the fields work, I’ll show you how geophysicist Dan Lathrop is building a fake planet filled with liquid sodium that will, if…