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The Japanese are not unfamiliar with using gadgets to improve their appearance, but this Oral Grip Machine just looks and sounds too painful to be used while not inundated with sake. It’s a couple pieces of plastic you shove in your mouth to work your oral muscles out with for four minutes at a time,…
Urban Outfitters (proprietors of all things hip, ironic, and kitsch), is now offering some cool bobble heads in honor of the Star Wars episode of Family Guy [swongled.com]
We only just heard about the Nokia N78 last month, but it’s already making its way to the US by way of the FCC. It’s got a 3.2-megapixel auto-focus camera, AGPS, Xenon flash, Wi-Fi and FM radio. Wireless Info points out that the 3G supported seems to be AT&T’s (seeing as, you know, AT&T is…
[www.foobies.com] Testing if this share tool works. -JC
The Facade Vase from Orcadesign is a wool slip-on cover that lets you turn an unwanted plastic bottle into a minimalist vase. It’s a design that will clearly please eco-friendly types and cheapskates too. We can see the conversations now: “Here you go, honey, I’ve got you a flower and (glug, glug) a vase!”… “Oh,…
These Samsung YP-S2 Pebble MP3 players look quite similar to the Creative Zen Stone (because they both look like small rocks), and hold about 1GB of MP3s and WMAs. They’ve got about 10 hours of playback, but don’t do a whole lot else (other than looking and feeling like rocks). They’ll be available in the…
LG’s touchscreen + keypad cellphone we saw yesterday just got official for Alltel (whose logo was already prominently featured on the phone anyway, so it’s not much of a surprise). You’ll be able to buy your own starting March 13. https://gizmodo.com/lgs-glimmer-phone-has-touchscreen-keypad-heading-to-366480 Alltel Wireless launches the exclusive Glimmer by LG Touch screen phone combines music and…
One owner of a shiny Nikon D3, $5000 of flagship DSLR goodness, decided that it was a ripe target for some destructive testing. So, he dropped it 15 feet onto a bricked walkway. Yes, that’s not too far off a two-story drop. Onto something damn hard. We found this idea so traumatic, gentle Giz readers,…
A group of researchers from the Medical Device Security Center (who would’ve thought we needed one of those?) have demonstrated wireless vulnerabilities in some cardiac monitor-pacemakers that may allow someone to remotely deactivate them while they’re implanted in a patient. Now that’s what I call malicious. Properly called “implantable cardiac defibrillators,” the devices are used…
Continuing our obsession with recapturing the worst of the ’80s in wristwatch form, these new Casio G-Shocks are more than a little fantastic. Aside from their classic G-Shock form, a solar panel under the face constantly recharges the watch so it’s ready to automatically illuminate whenever you check the time. Our friends over at Homotron…
Microsoft today released a patch for the new Office for Mac, fixing “issues that might cause Office 2008 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly.” I haven’t noticed any hinkiness of this nature, but I know some people have. If you are among the grouchy, then this patch is for you. [Microsoft Mactopia] https://gizmodo.com/first-hands-on-microsoft-office-for-mac-2008-339376
Good news, kind of. TiVo has just announced that their networked Series 3 and TiVo HD subscribers will be getting YouTube access through their boxes sometime “later this year.” While new media features are always a plus, TiVo’s more recent advanced service offerings (like Rhapsody integration) have been a bit buggy. Here’s hoping YouTube rolls…
This is what you get when you capture 69,550 full resolution frames from the six Star Wars movies and combine them with a version of DaVinci’s Last Supper on a PC with mosaic-making software and a custom matlab-based algorithm. The 262-megapixel mosaic (24,168 x 10,864 pixels) took two weeks to complete, including 30 hours of…
Apple says that over 100,000 iPhone software development kits have been downloaded since its celebrated unveiling on March 6, not a week ago. The announcement below is atypical of Apple: following the standard chest-puffing from execs such as worldwide marketing SVP Phil Schiller, you’ll find exec quotes from Namco, NetSuite, PopCap, Rocket Mobile, Six Apart…
According to our estimations, between various bowel problems and a nasty affliction of general apathy, the average person has accidents around 2-3 times per week. We know what you’re thinking, “So what?” Well sometimes crapping one’s pants can actually be inconvenient. For those rare circumstances, Pants in a Pinch are 100% cotton bottoms that can…
In case you were wondering when the final treaty would be signed in the megapixel war, I think today is as good as any day to call it. There’s a 12-megapixel GE—that is to say, brand-licensing no-name Chinese manufacturer—camera selling on HSN for “under” $200. It even lists a 2.7″ LCD, an SD/SDHC card slot…
The TAD gadget is designed to help fat-fingered folks (or just plain clumsy typists, like me) who have trouble with touchscreens or tiny buttons on cellphones. It’s simply a plastic ring with a customizable “nubbin” for better contact than your fingertip offers— you can choose rounded for buttons and pointy for touchscreens. The makers claim…
Audioengine has released a software independent, wireless music streaming solution, called the AW1. The AW1 set contains a receiver module and transmitter; the receiver connects via USB, RCA or line-out and the transmitter connects to your PC via USB. The audio sent is then picked up by the connected audio source, with a reported 100-foot…
Click to viewUpdate: Video of project Pwnage after the jump. The beta 2.0 firmware that comes with the iPhone SDK has been modified to unlock the iPhone and run any application. Part of the Pwnage Project, the hacked firmware will allow you to do anything you want, including the installation of both official and unofficial…
Gear4’s BassStation iPod dock will have a 35W pumping subwoofer, RCA connectivity and a fully featured remote control. The white on black styling looks retro enough for us to give the 2.1 stereo speaker the time of day, and the 10m range of the control gives us enough space to shield our eyes when it…
