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So, you dropped all of this money on a home theater system only to have it burst your eardrums, break your dishes and create a shockwave that can be felt 100 miles away whenever Bruce Willis blows up a helicopter with a police car. For some, this can be a good thing. After all, if…
The Sling Modem cable modem + Slingbox device we saw back in January is finally launching. The first network to carry it is EchoStar, which has a really tight relationship with Sling seeing as it purchased them last fall. With this, you’ll be able to use the same box for your cable internet to surf…
Imagine being able to dip a brush into a bucket or spray a wall with paint and have an instant OLED screen or solar panel. The term “far-fetched” comes to mind, but according to Mitsubishi Chemical and Sumitomo Chemical, this is a very real possibility. The companies are currently working together on two different versions…
Things I’d do before installing AOL Desktop software onto my Mac: 1. Eat a live cockroach. 2. Get a Darth Maul facial tattoo. 3. Start running. 4. Date any of the contestants from The Bachelor. For those who have already completed alternatives 1-4, feel free to hit the jump to scope the details. Speed Installs…
Recently, some Windows Media Center owners were blocked from recording American Gladiators and Medium because of an incorrectly set broadcast flag from NBC. What’s the deal here? The broadcasters (NBC, ABC, HBO) can turn on a flag in their data stream that tells whatever DVR machine on your end that it’s NOT alright to record…
The Intel Atom-based UMPCs are finally rolling out, but not all of them are as inexpensive as we’d hoped. Fujitsu—never known for their budget systems—has announced their latest UMPC featuring a 5.6-inch rotating (touchscreen?), “3.5G” wireless and GPS. The catch? It’s $1,300 in Taiwan. Even with the extras and the Fujitsu name, that’s just way…
If you guessed that Giz Explains Plasma TV was just the first of several TV-technology explainers, you were right. Congratulations! You win… this week’s installment: Giz Explains LCD TVs. The little panels are in your phone, on your desk and maybe you’re looking at one for your home theater too. Here’s the quick and dirty…
Thanks to the research team at EnteroMedics, there may be new hope in our quest to lose weight while avoiding regular physical activity and a healthy diet. The device they have come up with is implanted just under the skin and uses electrical signals to block the vagus nerve—which controls how the stomach expands when…
Atari isn’t going to let Nintendo hog all the video game fitness money, as evidenced by the announcement of Family Trainer for the Wii. It’s pretty similar to Wii Fit in that people stand on it and do activities, but it doesn’t weigh you and actually has pads for you to jump or step on.…
“A boat’s a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. IT COULD EVEN BE A BOAT! You know how much we wanted one of those.” – Peter Griffin For $10 with free shipping, you can buy “something” at somethingstore. You won’t know what it is until you open it, but it’s most probably new,…
Basically a desk tidy, the Butt Station, as it has been tastefully named, stores your business cards, sticky tape, pens and pencils, and has a little compartment for paperclips, in the toilet bowl. Lift up the little man and the clips will come out attached to said little man’s bottom. It’s classy, it’s assy, and…
While the Prius is more practical than high efficiency solar vehicles, why not add some solar to the Prius anyway? This solar kit from SEV seamlessly installs onto a Prius’ roof and claims to add up to 20 miles per day of electric mode driving/increase fuel economy up to 29%. Compatible with Prius models from…
Created with lonely people in mind, Drew Burrows’ INBED is an “infrared-sensitive” light projected virtual girlfriend. A sexy brunette, she’s got about three tricks up her sleeve—and she does all of them from a supine position. Kiss her on the cheek when you slide into bed and she’ll bury her face in the pillow. Hmmm,…
Zenith pioneered the TV remote control, but those early models were more drag than advantage. Electronic House has a full walk down remote-control memory lane, but first, here’s a quick Retromodo look at Zenith’s first three creative attempts—and what was tragically wrong with them: Lazy Bones (1950) – According to Electronic House, it was the…
Alltel, the runt of the nationwide carriers, added 1 million customers this past quarter, totally now over 13 million subscribers. Even though the CDMA-based carrier says it operates the “largest” network, we don’t actually know anyone who uses it. Still, its aggressive pricing strategies and frogdesign-based interfaces have drawn our attention. Maybe Sprint, down a…
We know that the Spritzer Cup—a $14.95 cup with built-in face spritzer—has separate chambers for your drinks and your water. But all we can imagine is somebody filling this whole thing up with artificially red high fructose corn syrup beverage and spritzing away. The resulting mental image of eyelash stickies coupled with the distinct possibility…
Rumors about an Atom-powered tablet based on the iPhone are a bit premature and overwrought, says Intel. We all jumped on it after the head of Intel Germany made some cryptic (and perhaps poorly translated) comments. He was talking about types of gadgets, not specific gadgets. Sadly, we’ll probably have to wait a little longer…
I’m sure many of you have ancient, obsolete gadgets kicking around your home, maybe gathering dust in the back of a closet somewhere. You know, that old Mac Plus you didn’t have the heart to throw away or an old cassette Walkman in the back of a junk drawer somewhere. But how many of you…
See, I told you it was 50% smaller! And in case you missed it, check out the full review. https://gizmodo.com/lightning-review-aliphs-spankin-new-jawbone-verdict-390592
Why do jars only have one lid? How many mothers have—upon discovering they were running low on peanut butter while readying her three kids from school—smashed the jar against the counter and filled their children’s lunches with a deadly mixture of creamed legumes and shrapnel? It’s a senseless loss of healthy youth esophagus, and an…