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According to English Russia, this special PC is used to work on fuel “connected directly to the car’s gas tank.” Hmmm. Apparently “it analyzes the state of the fuel and diagnoses the overall condition of the car, while consuming some gas fluid.” Possibly even without detonating and killing everyone nearby. There are more pics in…
As the Second Coming of the JesusPhone looms over the horizon, the rumor pace starts to accelerate, with people digging in the dirt to try to get any clues about what’s awaiting in this incarnation of Apple’s cellphone. StuffTV is now reporting that—just like Jason wanted—Nike+ will definitely come to the iPhone in a big…
The T39 Replica Gas Pump Entertainment Center is not just for the car enthusiast who is obsessed with the 1940s. It’s for the guy who wants to spend almost 2 Gs on his entertainment center but never watch a TV bigger than 13 inches. Because while the gas pump’s illuminated globe and retro styling are…
This new gizmo will charge a pair of your AA or AAA NiMH/NiCad batteries in three to four hours of slurping power from a USB socket, no power brick required. It’s also apparently the “smallest and lightest” in the world. That may or may not be true, but it certainly is small enough to slip…
Fans of Waldo, the geek in the striped beanie and glasses who’d pop up where you least expected, can now hunt him down on Google Earth. Canadian student Melanie Coles has installed a 55-foot painting of Waldo on a Vancouver rooftop, and expects other people to follow suit with their own Waldos. More below the…
I’m in conflict over this new “pimp your ride” car toy. Firstly, the old-fashioned fluffy, dangly rear-view mirror dice were never cool, unless they were an ironic statement. And secondly, I kinda liked them anyway. This 21st Century version, the “Rainbow Dice-Shaped Lamp”, is just one die and, sure, it glows in seven fantastic colors…
Described as a soft and wearable muscle suit, this exo-skeleton is used for the lower body, where its pneumatic muscles help the wearer to lift heavier loads as well as walking. Made by a team from ITP. NYU, it’s powered by a small scuba-diving bottle worn on the back, and is triggered when the user…
A team of designers in Britain have give the good old fashioned Post-It note a 21st Century electronic make-over. Their Ixp-Note device is a new digital version incorporating a touchpad and alarm: you just slide to select time and date, and write down what you need reminding of. When it’s time, it bleeps and the…
This rather worthy-looking laptop is Fujitsu’s WoodShell. Made with cedar wood, it’s part of the Japan Design Innovation 2008 exhibit at the Salone Internazionale Del Mobile in Milan, an event for furniture strokers everywhere. There’s a picture of the WoodShell with its lid down below, and you’ve got to love Fujitsu’s take on a generic…
If this were just a simple clock shaped like a Rubiks Cube it would be cool. Throw in the ability to twist the top row to switch between time, temperature, alarm and date modes and it becomes awesome. Plus, it is priced at an affordable $24.98 and you never have to endure the shame of…
The internet’s an exciting, lively place, full of innovation and wonder, right? Wrong. It’s dying. The cancer that’s slowly killing our internets: the iPhone and Xbox. While it sounds like some fool’s jibba-jabba, it must be true, because an Oxford professor with degrees from Harvard and Yale says so. Basically, Jonathan Zittrain argues that the…
The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” meaning it totally pointed somewhere it wasn’t…
If you are a multitasker that receives numerous calls, texts, IMs, Facebook messages and the like, you may find something useful in the idea behind this Tame Cube concept. Each side of the cube can be customized with a status message of your choosing and can be synced to your devices and applications. For example,…
Ok, it may not be an officially licensed product, but the term Lego-esque certainly applies to this desktop calendar. In true Lego style, the sections can be stacked and configured into any pattern you choose—and changing the date is as simple as smacking the top of each brick. And we all know that relieving some…
Originally thought to be another one of those obscene Japan-only gamer perks, the limited edition Metal Gear Solid 4 gun-metal grey PS3 is going to be infiltrating the US after all. But it might easier to procure an actual Metal Gear than one of these babies—the official Playstation blog warns that the package is going…
Whether you’re walking through a dark city alley or stalking prey in wilder terrain, Nuge knows you should always be armed, preferably with a bow. That’s where this crossbow-ish marshmallow shooter comes in. Just pop a load of Stay Pufts into the Bow and Mallow’s magazine, draw back the bowstring and let fly the marshmallows…
Click to view It looks like the PS3 is finally getting some hot mod love from console modding’s reigning wizard, Ben Heck. We don’t really have all the details since he hasn’t announced the project yet, but the display looks like it’s the one he used for the Xbox 360 Elite laptop, for a true…
A few months back, we broke news on Lenovo’s ultra-thin, ultra-functional X300 laptop. Now we’ve gotten an update on what the company’s been up to during the interim. All of their lines are seeing a major refresh, but the biggest news is that starting this September, the famous X300 will have a family. https://gizmodo.com/ultralight-lenovo-x300-series-thinkpad-leaked-346797 Soon…
Don’t get me wrong, I like where the designer behind this tracksuit bed concept is coming from. Having the ability to comfortably rest just about anywhere is definitely a positive feature—but the flaw here is not in the concept, it is in the execution. Powder blue tracksuits are not flattering—and stuffing them with padding does…
Remember that guy you know who really, really loves Ferraris? The guy that’s got Ferrari posters and Ferrari keychains and Ferrari dinner plates. Yeah, your ten-year-old nephew. He would LOVE this Ferrari cellphone. Not only does it look like a Ferrari when you lay it down on a table, there’s a 2.2-inch touchscreen LCD underneath.…
