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Today I was extremely harsh with the Beamz Laser Music system. So acid, it seems, that the public relations company that represents the product contacted me about it: https://gizmodo.com/beamz-infomercial-is-most-stupid-promo-video-in-history-376659 Jesus: Ouch! – you really nailed us on the beamz video. Okay, you don’t like the video – I get that. But that’s not being fair…
The Gizmodo reader meetup happened on Saturday at Alpine Meadows and we had a great time. The snow was soft, the gadgets were plentiful, the beer flowed and no one fell on their head except Joe, who got a black eye when he face planted on the first run. The photos above were uploaded on…
Your feet? They smell like a baboon’s butthole. Especially at the gym. So, the brilliant dudes at places like Nike and Adidas have started lining their socks with nano-bits of silver to fight microbials and the intense funk radiating from your tootsies. It works (woohoo), but every time you wash them, some of the particles…
This USB CapsLocker is slightly less cruel than the phantom keystroker, but the base idea is the same. Plug the USB device into one of the back ports of someone’s computer and it will randomly hit the caps lock key at intervals between 30 seconds to eight minutes. The best part is how cheap and…
Microsoft’s been working on a Wiimote-esque controller due to come out late this year—development started on it all the way back in Summer ’07—but the whole process has been “a colossal clusterfuck.” Here’s what MTV news knows courtesy of their exclusive source, who sketched out what it looks like above. The 360 Wiimote shaped very…
Welcome to my pad, sexy. Thanks so much for paying for the cab; I must have spent all of my money on Appletinis without realizing it. You understand, you hot, fab thing. Oh, this? It’s my bed, I assume you just love it. As you can see, it’s got a 32-inch LCD TV built into…
We’re not sure why someone would want to make an OLED desk lamp at this point in time, what with the technology being relatively new and somewhat expensive right now, but OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and designer Ingo Maurer have done just that. This lamp, called “Early Future”, is made up of ten distinct OLED tiles…
As people who’ve already made (or attempted) the jump to Vista SP1 know, before you get to the actual service pack, you’ve gotta clear a gauntlet of pre-install updates, which started rolling out in Feb. One of the updates apparently sent some users into an endless spiral of reboots, so Microsoft hit pause on the…
Shuhei Ogawara spent two years of his life collecting 7,382 wood disposable chopsticks from his office cafeteria, glued them together in three months, and applied a polyester coat to build this 13-foot long, 66-pound canoe. This is heavier than a regular canoe, so he still doesn’t know if it’s going to float or not. What…
When I groped Sprint’s Instinct at CTIA and was flipping through the features, one of the reps made sure to show me visual voicemail—a necessity for any device taking on the iPhone. Apparently, he didn’t just mean visual voicemail in the generic sense, it’s the real, patented deal, licensed from Klausner—who’s currently suing the balls…
National Geographic has a fantastic story about the “instant cities” in China that have been popping up in response to the tremendous manufacturing boom in the last few decades. These cities are home to manufacturers who specialize in one niche product—such as bra rings, bra straps, plastic bags, or blue jeans—and sell them to the…
This wireless data exchange concept is very similar to a few designs we’ve seen already, but Postmachina is going to be manufacturing a wireless device called Project E that holds your personal information and swaps it when it comes into contact with another, similar device. In essence, it can hold all the info on your…
When I was a kid, I used to think all celebrities were like 30 feet tall, since they look pretty gigantic on the big screen. Then I got older, and heard nasty rumors about how dwarf-y people like Sly Stallone and Tom Cruise really were, but I didn’t really believe it, since I couldn’t exactly…
Mitsubishi’s Laser TV stunned us back at CES (though the booze-filled nightclub filled with half-naked dancing girls might have skewed our, um, vision). Apparently, it’s gotten even better, like better than the best TV on earth better. HD Guru says that the LaserVue set popped colors that were “the most vivid of any display device…
Fifty-thousand people compensating for something bought the Hummer HT1 phone. The new HT2 pulls the same trick as the H2 truck—it shrinks the original and adds a brighter coat of paint, with a fresh splash of asinine. In this case, even more so, because it seems to pack the same ho-hum specs as the HT1.…
Yesterday we had one scary(ish) robot design, and here’s another. Ok— not so scary, really, as all Daisy’s slice’n’dice menace is just a sham. That huge propeller is simply a fiberglass copy of a cargo ship one. And all it does is flex and rotate its robot muscles, slowly. But it’s massive, and it does…
Be happy to arrive late to every cellphone technology party, America, because the European Union has just approved the use of cellphones in airplanes. Effective immediately, any compliant aircraft will allow for in- and outbound calls using regular cellphones starting at 9,800 feet. The technical requirements are quite simple. You will only need an on-board…
Here’s the best of weekend Giz. We have no idea why you missed it, but we’ll let you off this time. Jump in for the roundup. • Walt said the 3G iPhone was coming in June. • Quake 3 made it to the iPhone, supposedly. • A Mac was pictured with 150 apps running, completely…
I messed around with Novint’s Falcon haptically endowed globe/joystick at Tokyo Game Show last year. It was neat, but not going to replace my mouse—in part because game support was lacking. Now it’ll be supported in real, live games from EA: Madden NFL 08, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, Need For Speed ProStreet, Battlefield 2…
Brian Krische and his roommate had a lot of their Netflix discs go missing before they received them, and they grew suspicious. So, like any self-respecting and enterprising geeks, they set up a motion-sensing camera pointed at their mailbox. The results? One chubby, shirtless criminal caught red-handed. Yes, it turns out their “white-trash tenants in…