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You find yourself held under “house arrest” in a remote jungle region of Indonesia, sometime in the late 1950s. You may have your suit, fedora and at least one halfway decent tie, but the chances of getting back to the US of A seem slim. The CIA thinks you’re not so dispensable, so spytechs—with the…
I don’t know what you thought “the great swallow project” was (actually I do), but I can tell you what it’s not. It is definitely not the act of a sane, rational person. For some reason or another, artist Benjamin Verdonck built a nest hanging high on the Rotterdam Weena Tower in the Netherlands. Apparently…
Can Blockbuster compete with the new Netflix Player? Their first attempt at a box of their own (seen here) looks like it might fall a little short when it comes to streaming movies and TV shows on demand. But it absolutely dominates the competition in the areas of fast food pizza delivery. Different strokes, I…
At first glance I thought that this homemade wheel mount was absolutely ridiculous—and with good reason. However, the fact that I recently played Mario Kart with my novice girlfriend leads me to believe that there could be a place for a mount like this. Using only a couple of 36-inch bungie cords and a plastic…
We’re a little sick of the Asus Eee metric too, but it sure makes for a succinct headline. The Bestlink Alpha 400 is a 7-inch Linux PC with a 400Mhz processor, scant 128MB of RAM and 1-2GB of internal flash storage. It’s nothing impressive, but it only runs $250…through probably not much else, if you…
Click to view This poor bastard signed up as a volunteer for this “science” show and ended up having to stand with his junk in front of a tennis ball machine. The test? To see what happens to your body during a solid strike to the ol’ hangin’ brains. Shockingly, his pulse rate went up…
Last night when I was chatting with Jesus, I mentioned I wanted to get out of the Giz virtual office so I could build my new gaming desktop. He laughed and mocked me for being “so 1990s.” It bothered me, but he’s right: Barely anyone I know has a full-size, honkin’ desktop anymore. By all…
More supposed info on the supra-entry level Rebel XS (1000D) DSLR Canon’s rumored to be cooking up as a replacement for the XTi: The specs are just like the XTi, but with Live View tacked on. A 10.1MP sensor with a Digic III processor, 7-point AF, 3FPS bursts, 2.5-inch LCD (what, no screen love?), XSi-esque…
Apparently, the folks in Japan are suckers for snake oil tourmaline trinkets like this bra that was recently unveiled at the Beauty World Japan exhibition in Tokyo. If you are not familiar, tourmaline is thought of as a “miracle electric stone” capable of blocking harmful radiation from cellphones, improving moods and reducing stress. Apparently, the…
It never hurts to take cues from nature when designing technology, and that’s just what BioPower Systems did when engineering its bioSTREAM underwater generator. It’s inspired by shark tails, using the shape in a fixed device that moves with the motion of the ocean. It reverses the use of the tail, with the water moving…
My attempt: “Oh, crap, this is John Cronner’s birthday party? My bad.” Surely, you can do better. [Fukung]
Taking a page out of the book of Pultius from Art.Lebedev Studios, designer Tamer Koseli lost his friggin’ mind when it came to this Super Phone concept. It has no superfluous features, just two touchscreens—one that displays basic information and another that handles input. Why any manufacturer would actually produce this is beyond me, but…
We haven’t been talking much about e-paper as of late, but companies are still chipping away at the technology all the same. Epson just unveiled their newest flagship demo, a 13.4-inch display with 3104 × 4128 resolution and pixel density as high as 385ppi. Contrast ratio is also quite good at 10:1 (the WSJ is…
With fluorescents and LEDs making major headway in the market, energy efficient alternatives to the incandescent bulb are becoming big business. That having been said, the next big thing could be coming out of a partnership between Saazs and Saint-Gobain Innovations in the form of Planilum—the “world’s first light emitting glass.” Planilum is only 0.8-inches…
Today Sony’s PSP guys gave us a heads-up on what’s next for the portable. Two years after launching in Japan, we’re finally going to get GPS action for the PSP on this side of the pond. Happily, it looks like we’ll be getting a much better package than Japan for a change. https://gizmodo.com/psp-gps-hardware-ships-software-to-follow-220383 Due in…
The Seven Media Group is so excited to distribute TiVos in Australia before the Beijing Olympics (and worried about fierce regional competition) that they’re actually offering the boxes with full service sans subscription fees. If you ask the average non-TiVo user why he/she uses an alternative DVR, 9 out of 10 people will probably point…
The 3G iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold are two of the most buzzed-about phones due out this year. And while we don’t have any shots of the new iPhone, it’s a safe assumption that it won’t look all that much different than the current model. With that in mind, the folks from The iPhone Blog…
Nothing gets the bile rising in the throat faster than a couple wearing the same clothes—that is until you have witnessed a couple wearing these Embrace Me hoodies. The abstract logo on the front of the garment is actually made of a conductive fabric. When two people wearing the shirts embrace, small white lights flicker…
You could wait until Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out to get your gunmetal PlayStation 3. Or, you could make your own, spiting Kojima, Sony, all MGS4 fanboys and people who just like the color black. One modder did just that, repainting his case in dark weapon-happy silver (Tamiya Gunmetal TS-38 spray paint). And it…
Happy Birthday Mr. T. Thanks for not beating all of us fools up on April Fools. May you have many more years of jibba jabba.
