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I haven’t played Dungeons and Dragons since I was a little kid, but I remember the time I spent geeking out with my friends fondly. So, when D&D co-creator Gary Gygax passed away earlier this month, I couldn’t help but feel a little bummed. Apparently, a group of students at MIT felt the same way—which…
Just because you are stuck at work doesn’t mean you can’t get boozed up! Thanks to these canoflauge vinyl can wraps, you can discreetly hide your alcohol problem behind an “inconspicuous” soft drink facade. So the next time someone asks what you are drinking, you can say “why, I am enjoying a harmless thirst-quenching can…
At least one Gizmodo reader has informed us that he attempted to cancel his OLPC laptop order and was denied. Apparently, they are “not accepting cancellations from anyone for any reason.” That is, unless you refuse your shipment then call and cancel after the laptop arrives back at the manufacturer. This doesn’t make a damn…
A well known 18 year old graffiti artist that goes by the name “Skullphone” has expanded his repertoire of vandalism to include 10 digital billboards around L.A. Earlier this week, onlookers were treated to Skullphones’s calling card in between the normal ads running on the display. Nice work dude, let’s hope that the police and…
Sadly, I think these lightsabers planted by SpikeTV might not be the real *bzzt* *plop* flesh-disintegrating deal, so even if you did break in case of Sith (or muggers) at best you could just beat them over the head and hope they don’t Force choke you and steal your wallet. Since people will swipe just…
Much like a tandem bike, this concept tandem umbrella by designer Jasmine Rasnahan has a romantic vibe to it. However, it also has some of the same flaws. For example, I am 6’3″ and my girlfriend is 5’3″—therefore it would be next to impossible for couples of vastly different heights to walk around comfortably under…
After home pregnancy kits revolutionized stick peeing from an office to a home affair, the door was opened to the general public performing previously lab-only work on their own toilets. Identigene and Rite Aid have taken it one step further, allowing you to tell whether or not that kid is yours with a simple $29.99…
Why is this dinky little TV so important? Its screen is roughly the size of the box that Lebowski comes in, and it costs hundreds more than the 50″ plasma overshadowing it in the picture. Why so important? Because this little TV is LCD’s Grim Reaper. The days of the LCD are numbered—the time of…
The iPhone is definitely turning into an enterprise heavyweight. Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices and Applications Group (which houses their Mac developers) confirmed to Fortune that Microsoft is looking at bringing native Office apps to the iPhone with the SDK: “To the extent that Mac Office customers have functionality that they need in…
What better than a pajama’ed gentleman swinging gracefully back and forth in the middle of your living room to make the statement, “I am an adult, and I have arrived.” Unlike traditional chandeliers, which have too many lights and too few places to hang off of, this trapeze chandelier allows five models to lounge around…
Twice a year Japan holds the Robo-One championships, which is like Street Fighter for robots. The most awesome one by far is Leghorn, a robot chicken (hell yes) that beats down other tin cans with its "Chicken Chop." But is that really all they’ve got? One of the dudes said it’s all about making robot…
The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker’s legs instantly put me in mind of a kind of merciless Matrixesque robot, snatching up human bodies and doing terrible things to them. But apparently, it’s the world’s fastest industrial robot, and is used to pick and sort items on a production line— innocent things like sausages and croissants. By…
The International Dance Party looks like an unassuming flight box. But as soon as its radar detects people dancing, its motorized face drops to reveal two speakers running 600 watts of the world’s best unfiltered Eurohouse and other assorted Electro Boogie. But really, it’s hard to explain how incredible this machine is, unless you watch…
What the crap? As if shoving two GPUs onto a single card wasn’t enough to play contemporary games at a decent frame rate, Asus has just made an EAH3850 Trinity, a tri-core card with its own connected water-based cooling system. When you break it down, it’s three RV670 cores in one card, generating output for…
Usually, Microsoft only gives you a gratis year of support if you buy a boxed version of Vista. But because the ride to SP1 has been so peanut butter-smooth (hey, sarcasm) they’re offering free support for all users who upgrade to SP1, even if you got Vista on say, your Dell box. “Unlimited installation and…
The rumor about Netflix surveying the scene, prepping a possible streaming movie solution to Xbox 360 and PS3 seems to be on the verge of coming true, according to Netflix themselves. They just released a statement that says they’ve surveyed subscribers to see how interested they were in streaming movies over Xbox 360 (PS3 was…
Here’s a weird USB thumb drive called Cellink T from Korea’s Human C&C which looks like a normal thumb drive at first, but flips out into a two-pronged cellphone connector. One of the ports still goes into your computer’s USB drive, naturally, while the other slides into a cellphone (Korean, naturally) in order to transfer…
So, there might not be an iTunes subscription plan, but that doesn’t mean the labels are any less enthusiastic about a monthly cash drip. According to their CEO, Sony BMG is “working on” its own subscription service, which would “provide access to our entire music catalogue for all digital players, including Apple’s iPod” for about…
Zoltan is a 33-year-old guy from Georgia. Average height, average looks, and not a rich man. He works in an arcade, where he fixes video games for a living, and still lives with his elderly parents. No wonder he was nervous about asking his slim redheaded girlfriend Alice to marry him. To make things more…
This week at TreeHugger: Everybody loves kites, right? Even high-sea commercial cargo ships, especially with fuel savings of up to $2000/day. GE has figured out a way to print out OLEDs like paper. A mechanical dinosaur sat on a pile of coal in Germany, and Solaria figured out a way to make cheaper and more…
