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Are you one of those lousy parents that won’t buy a dog for your kids but try to pass off a goldfish as a pet that’s just as good? Well, if you want to help your case that fish are just as fun as an adorable golden retriever, there’s the R2 Fish School. It’ll let…
According to Zune Insider, the Red Zune 80 is starting to show up in retail stores after a stint at Zune Originals. The color must be hot, hot, hot! [Zune Insider] https://gizmodo.com/red-zune-80-now-customizable-via-zune-originals-369855
Ryan at Engadget says they’ve been chatting up one of the divinely chosen to lay eyes on the second-gen iPhone, and they’re claiming a couple details we haven’t heard before, as well as the by-now familiar: 3G and real GPS—expected, and hoped for. Metal backing out, glossy black is in, with chrome volume buttons, which…
There is no doubt that many of us spend entirely too much time sitting in front of a computer each day. Naturally, this problem is even more acute for people who rely heavily on computers as part of their jobs. That having been said, the question is simple: how much time do you spend on…
Once again, the Thank Giz It’s Friday roundup is here to get the weekend started off right. If you are planning on a big night out, the following gadgets will help you handle everything from keeping your drinks cold to keeping your budding alcoholism on the DL. After all, if you are going to party…
After purchasing out-of-business CompUSA a couple months ago, TigerDirect is reanimating the red, white and blue corpse with “Grand Re-Openings” of fifteen stores in Florida, along with one brand new one. They’re promising “Lower prices… New wider selection… And amazing new deals.” We hope so, their prices were ridiculous even when they were actively trying…
The Super Mario invincibility doesn’t really make a huge appearance in Super Mario Galaxy as far as we’ve seen, but this desk version should more than fill in. For $17.99 you get an unlimited amount of star power activated in tiny little segments every time you hit the button on its back. Will it get…
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Remember the case of the drunkard dressing up as Vader and beating some Jedi-wannabees with a crutch? Here’s the vid. I can’t believe someone got charged with assault for this. Footage of the actual attack just takes all the juice away from the tale. I mean, in the old days, you had to take off…
Mobile Skype was previously only available on Smartphones like Windows Mobile, but they’ve just ported a Java version for all kinds of non-smart phones. Be aware that this isn’t like the previous iterations and even Skype to Skype calls cost money (or use up your minutes), so there’s no huge reason in using this to…
Psystar, the Mac clone company, just posted this video on their website showing off their systems installed with Windows, Ubuntu and OS X. There’s not a whole lot of close up detail on the OS X machine, so no real questions are being answered. It’s supposedly made on Final Cut Pro on one of their…
This $2.28 deal for a 40GB PhotoBank seems too good to be true. Picture it as a 40GB portable hard drive with Compact Flash/SD/etc slots that you can dump your digital camera photos onto when the card gets full. $2.28! [PC Connection via Random Good Stuff]
Sometimes a bike is just a bike… there’s no photoshopping going on here, guys. This is Uno, of course, a segway/motorcycle mashup shown publicly for the first time at the recent Toronto National Motorbike show. Technically it has two wheels, but they’re right next to each other and it does balance on them under its…
Purple Tentacle, Iron Man, the Spaghetti Monster, a super cool MacBook Air, Master Chief, Ren & Stimpy, and even a Blue Screen of Death made entirely of folders? Oh yes. We got 14 entries for the desktop clutter art contest that started with Spider-Pig and Homer Simpson, and we got the winner right after the…
AT&T officially began rolling out their Starbucks Wi-Fi hotspots today (and confirmed the first one spotted in the wild). AT&T broadband customers get free Wi-Fi at all 7,000 Starbucks starting May 1 but the rest of us have to wait as it’s deployed on a market-by-market basis throughout the year. (Which means the spots for…
OK, say it: What the hell? What’s with all the Casio EX-F1 love? It’s because this camera is the most underrated gadget to hit the market in at least a year—the camera fiend’s equivalent of a jungle gym, with slow-mo, super slow-mo, high-speed stills, and simultaneous HD video and full-resolution still shooting, to name a…
It’s Friday, and Friday means it’s time to go visit again with our favorite Korean and Indian couple, Harold and Kumar. What’s that have to do with our sponsors? They’re coming too! Thanks Absolut, AT&T, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Chili’s, Coors Light, Dash Express, Elgato Systems, LG Monitors, LG Scarlett, Mini, NCTA, Netgear, Nokia, Rubio’s, Toyota,…
Audiowrapz, those cool, silicon Nano cases with a passive speaker incorporated into the skin, are to go on sale at WalMart. Although you can already buy them in several colors for $25 online, the press release says they’re going to be available in the stores in just black and pink for under $20. They’ll be…
It looks like there’s no end to ASIMO’s skills: the smart, cute robot will pick up the baton and conduct cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on May 13th. A robot conducting an orchestra? That’s pretty amazing, we think. Honda’s ASIMO and the 15-times Grammy winner musician will be performing a piece titled…
Did you know that there’s only one manufacturer of pinball machines left in the world? That sole survivor of the pinball age is Stern Pinball, based outside of Chicago, and it’s the last purveyor of this relatively low-tech entertainment left. And things aren’t entirely rosy for Stern Pinball. While they used to pump out 27,000…
