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We have seen our fair share of Wii peripherals, but the Wii Crossbow actually looks like it could be used by police officials to take down the bad guys. Sure, the ping pong ball tip doesn’t look too menacing, but we’re sure there’s a razor sharp arrow underneath. If you’re worried aiming is going to…
iTunes will offer private developer pages, which will host app stores for a select audience only; e.g. specialized for universities, etc. Some of the pages have already been opened to those select individuals with audio and video content on offer. One such example is the Education First Educational Tours site the above picture was taken…
Cloudbook modder Azazel has done some extraordinary work to the Everex Cloudbook. His mod, called Dreambook, adds in a touchscreen display, internal 4-port USB hub, GPS unit and 4GB’s of flash memory. The webcam had to get the axe to fit all the new features under the hood, but we think it is a good…
The Kyouei Design house has come up with the fantastically titled, Mobile Light, which incorporates a small solar panel bed at one end and a light at the other. Activation is automatically instigated once the ambient light levels fall below a certain threshold, which ensures the stored energy is put to good use quickly. Sure,…
It may not require 1.21 gigawatts of electricity for you to spring forward tonight—that is, tomorrow at 2 a.m.—but a new study does show that rather than save energy, Daylight Saving Time may very well lead to added energy consumption, potentially costing the country many billions of dollars. The great state of Indiana (biggup Hoosiers…
OK, Gigabyte’s Cool Rain Memory Cooler was never featured in Blade Runner, and yes, we called it stupid overkill, but just look at it. The watercooled unit, which we mentioned earlier, can accommodate memory in dual channel form, has a radiator that flips open, uses two heat spreader units and a blue LED. If only…
The image above isn’t something from James Cameron’s Aliens of the Deep. No, it’s actually an artist’s rendering of a spam email with the subject, “HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THAT YOU ARE GETTING FAT?” The images below represent some of the most notorious code the world has seen, including PWS-Lineage, Stormy, MyDoom, Mytob, IRCBot and…
A user at Niketalk forums posted up these images of an iPod nano that went up in smoke this morning. The forum user, MJair was awoken at 2 a.m. by the fire alarm going off. On a quick panicked inspection of the room, an “orange glow” near his PS3 was seen. That orange glow was…
Although we think CeBIT is largely a waste of convention center, one standout was Korean PC-case master GMC (no relation to America’s own troubled automotive titan). Its sexiest case concept was by far the disc-shaped red-and-black beauty captured by Aving above. Even its simple name, “Pot,” evokes a feeling of peace and ease, tinged with…
The Masdar HQ in Abu Dhabi has big ambitions; the site is planned to be the world’s first positive energy building, meaning it will create more energy than it consumes. Checkout some more fantastic images by clicking through the gallery. The project is expected to cost $300 million, and it will form an impressive center…
It happens from time to time, a man driving a tank lets his vim and vigor get the best of him. In this case, which took place in Russia where both tanks and vodka are plentiful, an allegedly drunk tank driver smashed into a cinderblock house while on a vodka-and-snack run. https://gizmodo.com/man-takes-out-6-cell-towers-in-tank-rampage-278637 “A drunk tank…
This Wi-Fi radio concept design from Cambridge Consultants is a rubber-edged plastic cube. Four of the sides are assigned your four favorite stations via a web interface (maybe some of you have more, but frankly, I think four about covers it for me). The minute some annoying commercial or crap song starts playing, you just…
In case you missed it, part of the news about Pioneer’s radical restructuring includes this shocker: The Kings of Plasma are about to start making Pioneer-branded and (maybe even) Kuro-branded LCD displays using Sharp’s panels. Boom! https://gizmodo.com/how-pioneer-is-keeping-worlds-best-tv-secret-sauce-mos-365336/ They’ll also do Blu-ray players together, and Japan Sharp Cellphones will work with Pioneer’s in-car nav systems. The…
El Jobso wrapped up the iPhone SDK roundup, and it was a doozy. In case you didn’t catch all of the announcements from our liveblog, we’ll get you up to speed. • Apple Reveals iPhone SDK • iPhone Getting Multitouch Games Including Spore and Super Monkey Ball • AIM Client for iPhone, At Long Last…
MobiTV is the mobile TV provider for Sprint, which costs $20 a month. They’d keep content they charged you for protected, so freeloaders couldn’t swoop in and pick up the same streams, right? Wrong. By punching in qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd, anyone with the right phone can access the streams. That info was posted on Howard Forums, and…
The Arduino platform has been the basis of some awesome projects in the past, but I have yet to see an application of the technology that is more fun than this Etch-a-Sketch clock. At the beginning of every minute, the device draws out the time in a matter of seconds and then erases it to…
Legos are awesome as we all know, but trying to build an entire set of office furniture out of them could pose a bit of a challenge. That’s where Bloxes come in. These cardboard modular building blocks can be assembled into furniture like desks, chairs, cubicles, and dividers for the office—and their interlocking design makes…
A chess board recently unearthed in the Czech Republic takes an fresh look at the classic game by adding a third player into the action. Apparently, the game starts out like regular chess, but somewhere near the middle all hell breaks loose in an orgy of complex diagonal moves. Moreover, because their are three players,…
The race to release the world’s first mobile projector continues to heat up with the word that 3M has found a “leading consumer electronics company” to help get its product out the door. It appears that the product in question is the same half-inch thick LED illuminated projection engine that 3M was shopping around back…
Buffalo’s managed to cram 500GB into this MiniStation Turbo, which is a small, portable, 5400RPM USB hard drive with “shock absorbing material” to protect from unintended drops. Buffalo claims that it’s got up to 30% faster transfer rates than “most USB hard drives”, but chances are you’re going to be buying this for the size…