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Seem like it might be obvious, but the technical specs for wild, woolly and wonderful devices to attach to Verizon’s soon-to-be wide open network will be unveiled March 19 at their Open Development Device Conference. Start heating up those soldering irons, boys. [Verizon] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-says-you-can-port-from-sprint-build-your-own-p-326896
Believe it or not, Rufus Terrill, owner of a downtown Atlanta bar named O’Terrills, has had it with the drug dealers, vandals, and other riff-raff that frequent the area around his business. So, he has done what any sane American man would do in this situation—build a robot out of a meat smoker to lay…
Have you entered in our Toshiba x205 laptop contest yet? You do want a free laptop, don’t you? Click here to see how to enter. https://gizmodo.com/contest-win-a-toshiba-x205-laptop-358288
The Venn Diagram of people who really want a 32GB iPod touch and people who really want a 1GB iPod shuffle looks less like 2/5 of the Olympic Rings and more like an eight-year-old’s crayon drawing of a pair of boobs, but if you’re going to buy a touch, why not get a free shuffle…
Click to viewIt’s always sad when a store you used to frequent goes out of business, but how about when that store used to mark up its prices like mad? Things become slightly less sad. Nevertheless, this desolate scene at a Portland CompUSA definitely brings a slight tear to our eye. Reader Russ went in…
Oakley’s Split Thump sunglasses aren’t exactly popular outside of the mullet-sporting bounty hunter demographic, but if you can get past the looks (tough to do), it’s actually a decent sunglass-MP3 player. Tech Digest says the drag and drop file loading from both Windows and Macs was incredibly easy, plus the volume is quite loud and…
Users have been complaining about HTC’s undercooked video drivers for the TyTN II, the touch and the Mogul for a while—only to get various reassurances that everything is OK in response—but HTC’s finally released a statement saying that a fix is coming. They say that the video acceleration will be supported in the future, and…
In what is a sure sign of recklessness and suicidal tendencies, IBM has decided to take us closer to Skynet with Kittyhawk, a global-scale shared supercomputer so enormously big, so gigantastically powerful that it will be able to run the entire internet as one application. Because that’s exactly what the planet needs, a Skynet-like supercomputer…
What do most of us do when we’re repeatedly yanked around by gadget companies who refuse to completely fix broken electronics? Most of the time we give up, resigning ourselves to the fact that we’re not getting anywhere and eventually just buying a new phone/mp3 player/toaster to replace the defective unit. This man in Singapore…
This is fascinating if you’re planning on getting a new computer soon or if you’re a gigantic spec nerd, but Sun just spilled the beans on Intel’s upcoming processor lineup in the form of a leaked roadmap. In it, you can see that there’s two six-core processors, one Xeon Dunnington and one Nehalem. The Dunnington…
Even though the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on is discontinued, you didn’t expect Microsoft to just give them away, did you? You did? Well then, this $49.99 liquidation price tag should be extra surprising to you. [Xbox – Thanks Daft Punk!] https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-xbox-360-hd-dvd-player-officially-discontinue-360054
Rumor site AppleInsider is claiming that new Apple MacBook Pro part numbers have popped up in both Apple and channel resellers’ inventory management systems, including Best Buy. Allegedly, one of the databases indicated that stock would be available this Friday, February 29th, which leaves this Tuesday as the only possible introduction date. New prices are…
USB Missile Launchers have been around for years and years and years, but why did it take this long for someone to stick a webcam on it? Seriously, what could be better for aiming a foam dart at that punk Bob from accounting than being able to see where you’re aiming in first person view?…
Prepare yourselves, dear readers, for the greatest invention of the 21st century so far: the Breast Massage Robot. Yes, this miracle of modern science is designed for all sorts of women, from “girls who are reaching or having reached puberty, hope to improve the growth of breast” to “women who want to improve the quality…
A team of Danish researchers has discovered a way of dating dead bodies via the corpse’s eye using a nuclear particle accelerator. The procedure, which measures the amount of a carbon isotope in the eye lens, has been made possible because of atomic weapons testing half a century ago. The technique only works for people…
So you were watching Spongebob Squarepants all weekend; a reasonable excuse for missing Gizmodo goodness. Here’s your chance to catch up: • Elmo wanted to kill a kid. • Microsoft closed the coffin on HD-DVD. • The Retailer of the Year thus far lets you swap your HD-DVD players for Blu-ray. Sweet. • We took…
A company called YoungToys is bringing out a cellphone aimed at kids and toddlers in Korea. The Zeki is a digital walkie-talkie, enabling conversations and short messages exchange between two handsets up to 260 feet apart, as well as MP3 playback and audio/video recording (presumably useful if you’re the snooping parent type). For older kids,…
Those nutty Brits, obsessed with their CCTV cameras, dirty hot water and blood pudding, have decided to mix it all into a single gadget: road cameras which can detect blood and water in the bodies inside the car using an infrared beam. The system will be able to spot who’s abusing the carpool lanes, fining…
If you like to pretend you’re working in the bowels of an airship while you toil away on your Excel spreadsheets, this “Steampunk Furnace Mouse” is for you. A handmade labor of love that uses smashed windshield glass found on the side of the road to create a very realistic glowing-embers look inside its brass…
In our never-ending quest of building our own super-powered utility belt, we came across this 686 Snow Toolbelt. While appearing to be a normal pant-holder-upper, this snowboarder waistpiece is really packing two screwdrivers, a hex socket wrench and one ever-useful bottle opener. BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow quite literally tried one on for size and has been…