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Our Deep Throat at the Pentagon’s parking lot has sent us an update with new pictures and the reason why the DARPA Challenge cars have taken over the military installation today: “they are showing off.” After all, the men with the funny hats pay the bills. You can check his complete explanation here. https://gizmodo.com/darpa-urban-challenge-cars-invading-pentagon-parking-lo-378672
Playing a Neo Geo fighter on the Wii just isn’t the same unless you’ve got one of those four-button gamepads you used to find in the arcades. That’s why we must insist that you buy one of these Neo Geo Stick 2 from Play Asia for $59, connect it to your Wii, and beat the…
Two years after initially smacking down Echostar (now just Dish Network) in court for stepping on its patent for a “multimedia time warping system” (aka a DVR) Tivo has clinched final and lasting victory against the satellite provider. Dish Network subscribers won’t have to worry about losing their DVRs or seeing anything different though, since…
The Windows Mobile hackers over at XDA forums seem to have gotten Android working on an AT&T Tilt (HTC TyTN II), meaning that eventually you might be able to get an Android phone working without actually buying a particularly "Android" phone. The stability is pretty nonexistent, but you can see that it actually works insofar…
Hirokazu Hamamura, the head of gigantic Japanese gaming mag Famitsu’s parent company, made a prediction that Nintendo will unveil the next-generation DS at E3 2008 this summer. Normally we wouldn’t think anything of some businessman making predictions, but if anyone knows what’s going on with Nintendo, it’s Famitsu (the gaming industry and gaming press are…
Do you want to prove to your office mates that you’ve got an acerbic wit and great sense of irony? This Paper E-Mail isn’t the way to do it. Sure, it’s clever to write notes to Bob that look like emails (cc: your mom!), but is it really clever? Is it $3.99 clever? Perhaps. Is…
The truth is out! Windows Vista’s User Account Control makes you want to put your computer through a wall because that’s what Microsoft wanted. David Cross, a product manager who designed UAC (sadly, not that one), told attendees at the RSA 2008 conference, “The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users.…
This week we learned that loving doesn’t have to be between two living things, it can be between a man and a machine. Or a woman and a machine. Or a man and a woman and a woman and a machine. Or a man and a man and a man and a woman and a…
This is only going to last about 3 hours or until supplies are out, but you can get a Guitar Hero III for Wii at the low price of $64.99 on Amazon if you act fast. We don’t know if it’ll be the old version with the mono sound, but if it is, you can…
Are your headphones “broken, crusty or damaged” or just plain suck? Swap ’em for a pair of new Sennheisers. They’ll take your old set in pretty much any condition, and will give you $5 toward earbuds, $10 for classic, $15 for in-ear and 25 bucks for noise-canceling headphones in exchange. You’ve just gotta mail in…
I imagine Dutch designer Sander Bokkinga stumbling around his garage when he had the artistic idea to make his Bok range of furniture. Everyone has strings of cable and old hosepipe lying around, but it takes some lateral thinking to stiffen it and tie it up to turn it into chairs, stools and lamps. They’re…
Here are new pictures and diagrams of the awesome Sarcos-Raytheon’s XOS Exoskeleton, the full-body motion-assisting suit for “super soldier.” For the time being it may look as fat and ugly as Iron Monger, but remember Iron Man’s clunky beginnings. This may get to the point of being like the hot rod red and gold armor…
Don’t have 12 minutes and/or the ability to boil water? Someone has gone and done the impossible work of hard-boiling eggs—and sticking them in a bag—for you. Sure, they cost 400% more than regular eggs, come in a recession dozen (9 or 10 to a bag), and were given a glowing review of tasting “stale,…
We have good news and bad news. The good news is that IBM is exploiting electrons to create memory with 100x the data density we see today. In terms of iPod, that’s 500,000 songs. The bad news is that the technology won’t be ready for 7+ years. Here’s how it works: In a crude analogy,…
The European Parliament voted on anti-piracy bill that would boot persistent “file-sharers” off of the net, at the last minute shooting down that particular measure. More importantly, it added an amendment that said the European Union and its member countries should “avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles…
It looks like Microsoft is planning to take a page from Apple’s playbook, with rumors of plans to open a number of retail stores dedicated exclusively to Microsoft products. It’s not clear what that will entail exactly, but I’m guessing there will be a big focus on Vista. Like Apple’s Genius Bar, Microsoft will staff…
When most of us think balloons, we think, “I never should have had children.” But these solar balloons are a lot more promising than their carnival counterparts. Constructed of photovoltaic fabric, the soft tank is filled with helium and tethered by power wire above a home, saving space on the ground while optimizing sun exposure.…
Here’s a brain machine made from an old pair of shades with customized lenses by Okini393939. Stick ’em on and you have an instant meditation session thanks to the flashing lights and sound. I particularly like the instructions he put on the inside of the lenses—check it in the pic below. Made from a miniPOV…
Gizmodo reader Andrew Friend was strolling yesterday through the Pentagon’s North Parking back to the office when he noticed the car above, MIT’s entry in the DARPA Urban Challenge, which aims to produce a car that can run completely automated in any conditions, without human intervention. He reported today that all the challenge cars arrived…
At the moment you wake up, how smart are you? If you’re like me, your answer is “not very.” Which is why I hate some jerk for teasing me with this IQ-test alarm clock. We’ve seen puzzle alarm clocks before, but none that try your cognitive skills in this manner when all you wanted to…