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Hey boys and girls, you can now grab a refurbished 8GB iPod touch for $249 from Apple’s special deals store for the first time. The discounted 8GB refurbished iPhones are also back in stock. Remember that these are limited-time offers based on available stock. [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/apple-certified-refurbished-8gb-iphone-for-349-358205
This ice hovercraft school bus has to be the coolest and worst news ever to descend upon children all over the world. I mean, I would have loved to go to school in one of these spiffy snowspeeders powered by dual fan engines. But then again, I was like Calvin when the snow paralyzed the…
Arik Hesseldahl of Business Week claims that a source tells him the official iPhone SDK will be delayed by one to three weeks, much like the recent delay in the Apple TV 2.0 upgrade (2 weeks). Apple hasn’t made any official statement, but there’s only a week left for them to hit their previously-announced “February”…
Researchers at Kansai University in Japan have developed a machine that has the capability to scientifically measure the quantity of a person’s laugh as well as the sincerity. The device works using a series of electrode sensors that monitor the amount of bioelectricity generated by various muscles involved in laughter. The data is then whisked…
We love us some big ass glass. Here’s an amazing set of the homemade variety, a 400mm binoscope (a honkin’ set of binoculars basically) painstakingly hand-crafted over the course of three years by a hardcore French dude. The detail on it really makes this thing a DIY engineering marvel. [MAKE]
Ken-ichi Horie, a 69 year old Japanese sailor, is planning a solo 4,350 mile trip from Hawaii to Japan using the most advanced wave powered boat on the planet. If successful, the trip would earn him a Guinness record while simultaneously proving the viability of wave powered propulsion. His boat, the Suntory Mermaid II, turns…
The iStick concept is the size of lipstick tube. But it has four touchscreens for four times the Coverflow. I don’t really get the white cube eating up a quarter of the stick though—why not just make the whole thing a solid tube of touchscreen, with the bottom and top holding the single button and…
As a result of Sharper Image’s bankruptcy filing earlier this week, the company’s decided to stop accepting gift cards until they can get their finances in order. That really sucks for you if you just received a Sharper Image gift card for Christmas ’07, but it really sucks for people who returned merchandise and could…
I told you SSDs would be plummeting in price this year, and here’s Samsung coming along making me look like some sort of genius for finding an article that said that and then writing about it. I rule! Anyhow, Samsung is looking to double the size of its SSDs not once this year, but twice,…
With pico projectors on the brink of becoming available to the mobile masses, Sony Ericsson has filed a patent for technology that would automatically adjust the projected image using analysis from the handsets camera. Naturally, there is no clear timeframe for when this technology might show up in a commercial product. [Cellpassion via Intomobile via…
Concept gadgets are great because they offer a possible vision of our future while showcasing the potential of outside of the box thinking. The one problem is that many of the designers out there are not even on the same planet as the box. The trick is to come up with an interesting, marketable idea…
Erica Sadun of iPhone coding fame just rigged up a sort of LoJack for your jailbreaked iPhone. Using Twitter, the iPhone can send periodic updates telling exactly where it is in terms of the location of its nearest cellphone tower. If your phone is lost or stolen, just check the Twitter update page and grab…
Waiting in line at the airport sucks. Especially with people who act all surprised when they get to the scanners and suddenly bust babies, knives, lighters and giant sports bottles of water out of their pocket. Well, Transportation Security Laboratory Director Susan Hallowell wants to combine the harrowing misery of an airport line with the…
“Can we say that the MacBook Air has a perfect, sophisticated external appearance, but its insides are full of waste?” And by waste, the Japanese engineers doing Nikkei’s teardown really mean screws. Thirty of them. (We thought it was marvelous.) Apparently, Apple is as anal about its manufacturing specs as it is about aesthetics. A…
The TiVo HD hasn’t even been available for a year, but you can get your hands on a refurbished one for just $199. Head on over to the site before April 2 and you’ll be able to grab one at the low, pre-used price as long as you purchase 1 year of TiVo service at…
Although Mossberg’s Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook Air fight compared things like weight, portability, inputs and functionality, it didn’t compare the thing that power users care about—performance—in absolute numbers. Notebook Review did. In their CPU benchmark, the Air finished the test in 68 seconds while the X300 took an almost double the time at 118 seconds.…
There’s no better way to annoy your travel companions than to take something like this handheld-computer design wherever you go. Not only can you hold it up to buildings and get the address, history and architectural schematics (you know, for a heist), but it also supposedly hooks up with your personal organizer, a dictionary and…
Hate doing your taxes? Balancing your checkbook? Grinding for loot in World of Warcraft? Just take a look at Han’s face to know that someone has it even worse than you. As painful as it is to look through all your receipts from the last year, it’s much worse to have all the cells in…
Click to viewNintendo, the current third-place for online console gaming features, just announced Wii Pay & Play. What this means exactly is still fairly vague, but Nintendo says they will collect “fees for some services [that] will allow us to adapt flexibly.” To us this says that they’ll start charging for some online content or…
That awesome little native web browser for Apple TV, Safari HD, is no more. It emerges from the crucible of Apple Legal as Couch Surfer—as we like to say, more original, more better. [Apple TV Hacks] https://gizmodo.com/web-browse-on-apple-tv-with-safari-hd-out-now-357626
