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Kohler’s Karbon faucet is not the first to receive a cutting edge design, but it packs that extra wow factor with it’s segmented, cylindrical design. The articulated faucet not only looks like a series of James Bond-esque pistol silencers, but it lets you drag and hold the faucet where you need it. It doesn’t hang…
Restricting yourself to a super-low calorie diet has been discovered as a way to extend your lifespan by a noticeable number of years, but it comes with a pretty lousy side effect: you don’t get to eat anything. Not worth it! I’d rather die at 70 knowing the sweet taste of ham and cheese Hot…
Just when you thought advertising couldn’t invade our lives any further, a new company has repurposed artificial snow-making machines to create “Flogo”—ads that look and float like clouds. Each Flogo is made using a mixture of soap-based foams and lighter-than-air gases pumped through a snow machine fitted with a computer designed stencil in the shape…
We’ve no idea how old this image is—it’s probably been floating around the internet for a while—but unless we see any other possible entries, we’re going to award this the Most Ghetto Car Stereo Ever trophy. If you’ve got an old beater from the 1970s or ’80s, you can actually make your own! I know!…
I don’t know why anyone would want to port around an entire PS3, but now you can thanks to Clearvision’s new LCD attachment. And don’t worry Nintendo fans, you haven’t been left out of the fun, because China Vaison has developed a similar screen for the Wii console. Both screens measure 7 inches and feature…
In the fantastic South Park episode last night (“Did you guys see the ghost?”) most of the nation was without internet. What does such an internet-connected society do when faced with such a technological dilemma? Face the giant Linksys router that controls all traffic in the country. And do This (see the video.) Something we’re…
Click to viewSpider-Pig! Spider-Pig! He’s made of folders, Spider-Pig is! Can you make him into bacon? No you can’t! He’s foldspider pig! Lookout! Here comes Spider-Pig! Today a reader sent us an ad illustration made out of Finder folders and document icons, which gave me an excuse for two things: 1) organize a desktop clutter…
Now we’re not sure what’s going on with Keyport now. Two weeks ago they managed to ship a unit to NOTCOT to fool around with, but apparently there’s SOMETHING going on in the manufacturing process that makes it unsuitable for shipping it out to paying customers. Keyport told Josh five months after he paid and…
Game Daily had a chat with Microsoft Game Studios VP Shane Kim about the Xbox 360, and one of the topics that came up was the defunct (but cheap!) HD DVD player, which you might still be tempted to eBay for $1.25. But you shouldn’t! Kim effuses sentimentally about why you should hang it onto…
Are you a feeble, pasty pansy? For the low price of $1000 a month, you could overcome your physical limitations with a HAL exoskeleton from Cyberdyne. While HAL prototypes have been around for a few years now, Cyberdyne has just begun building a lab that will mass produce 400-500 of the suits per year starting…
Designer Andrew Aloisio’s lighting designs, dubbed Somewhere in between were apparently an attempt to combine the work of the homeware and labware manufacturing divisions of plastics-maker Kartell. So the aluminum lamps are dotted with test-tube racks, retort stands, burette clamps and more. But by using striking red metal tubing and cables, what did Andrew actually…
We’ve been updating the Psystar story since yesterday, and if you haven’t seen the updates you should take a look. The whole things just gets weirder and weirder. https://gizmodo.com/psystar-exposed-looks-like-a-hoax-380488
Microsoft continues their quest to bring Minority Report to life with a recently published patent for a wearable mouse from 2006. Now you too can wave your hands around like Tom Cruise—jumping optional—to control the cursor on your computer screen. The mouse is placed around the palm and activated by making a fist. The cursor…
Our friend Gary Merson, the HD Guru, has uncovered an issue that may soon piss you off. Cable customers who use the current CableCard to decode signal directly in their TV, a TiVo or Windows Media Center PC may soon start losing HD channels because of a change in technology. To conserve bandwidth, cable carriers…
The Samsung/Armani design train keeps rolling, now from cellphones to HDTVs. Today in Milan, Sammy and Giorgio showed off the first Armani LCD TVs—a 46-incher and a 52-inch model. Both are 100Hz “Full HD” sets (hopefully that means 1080p, not 1080i), and will strut their stuff in Europe, Korea and Russia this summer. The fashionable…
Yeah, so that awesomely stupid (or stupidly awesome) Microsoft video from yesterday with a fake Bruce Springsteen painfully crooning about the power of Vista was a spoof. Duh. (Probably.) Microsoft actually has a sense of humor occasionally, remember? But it’s not just a spoof—it’s a challenge. We talked to Microsoft, and they think they’re not…
Boy Genius has some more details about AT&T’s imminent mobile TV service, adding to what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega told us earlier. It’s going to launch May 4, and there will be three packages: Limited ($13/month), Basic ($15) and Plus ($30). It’s the exact same as what Verizon VCast offers, price and…
Scientists have developed a pair of robotic hands that are both strong and sensitive. The tweezers can guide themselves to pick up and move individual cells without damaging them, and have a grip that can be as slight as 20 nanoNewtons of force. In fact, so advanced are the little grippers, that they can be…
Five months after converting to Blu-ray, former HD DVD diehard Universal will finally release its first Blu discs: The Mummy trio on July 22. The Mummy was already on HD DVD, so they’re firing off re-releases from the get-go. All told, Universal plans to drop about 40 discs by the end of the year. Appropriately…
A neurosurgery team at Osaka University is now installing brain-machine interfaces directly into patients’ heads. They claim the invasive open-skull surgery allows control over robotic limbs with the mind more accurately. In fact, in trials with four test subjects, their method has more than 80% accuracy. Team leader Professor Toshiki Yoshimine says that using electrode…
