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I’m not quite sure how you would actually play a game of Tetris with ice cubes, but if you put a little food coloring in there and pop them into a glass—you will have yourself a frosty drink that can only be compared to the lego ice cube tray in terms of sheer geekyness. Unfortunately,…
Made in Italy by Parafernalia, the $31 Falter 2D is a flat piece of metal that converts, in just four easy steps, into a pen but also a ruler, and a envelope opener, and a device to kill people a la Calo killing Don Licio Lucchesi in the Godfather III. How-to after the jump. The…
Paramount’s PR department is slower than the rest of the industry. They’re officially Blu-ray as of today. So now it’s totally and completely finished: All of the major studios, Wal-Mart, Amazon, Best Buy and Netflix are full steam ahead on Blu-ray. If you haven’t digested the fact that HD DVD is gone by now, maybe…
It’s a day some of us never thought would come. Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus OLED keyboard is finally shipping to everyone who pre-ordered it. Icing on the OLED cake, the Configuator software is available now, too. If you bought one w/ passive keys, you’ve still got another month though. [Optimus Project]
The guys over at MAKE had a great time at the 2008 Toy Fair, and their round-up post links to all the weird and wonderful things they found there. We’ve had a look, and collected some of their findings into a gallery. Check it out and you’ll find matchstick architecture, VEX robotic bugs, 3D mazes,…
John Biggs of Crunchgear wrote a piece for the NYTimes on the custom build ZZZphones from China. He got these first shots of the unfinished hardware, but also figured out that the handsets are not running Windows Mobile as previously reported, suspecting a linux OS. [NYT via Crunch]
Laptop Mag posted this nice little tour of the Lenovo X300. Looks great, covering so many of those shortcomings of the Apple Airbook, at the cost of more girth. The guy in the video hefts it around, making it implicitly clear that it is not nearly as thin as the Air, but what’s a few…
While Toshiba said they had no plans to produce a Blu-ray player when they killed HD DVD, it turns they’re at least considering Blu drives for their notebooks. Next question: Who would they buy them from? Surely not Sony…. [Pocket Lint] https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-kills-hd-dvd-official-357957
Sure, explosions are great and everything, but isn’t there a more gentle way to catch errant satellites and missiles? There sure is, according to a recent patent from SVC solutions. Rather than blow them up, we can just wrap them in a giant blanket and parachute them to Earth! Yes, it’s so stupid it comes…
A new camera chip design from scientists at Stanford University has opened up the possibility of 3D photos. The chip has stacked 16 x 16 pixel arrays and a host of micro-lenses, much like a fly’s eye, enabling the whole chip to “see” in three dimensions, unlike a normal 2D pixel array digital camera sensor.…
Here’s a new Apple Patent for a new type of full hand multitouch that distinguishes between single and multiple fingers, as well as palms and pens. It reminds me of the Jeff Han Perceptive Pixel large area touchscreen, but at the same time, because it describes resting palms and the screen, it reminds me of…
This week at Uncrate: We upgrade our goldfish-in-a-bowl to a Nature Aquarium, take a trip back in time with MASH Camp, and practice our knife throwing skills with the Wüsthof Ikon Blackwood 22-Piece Set. We also consider using our wine collection for financial gain with the CB2 Home Wine Bar, treat our pores to some…
NVIDIA’s first GeForce 9 series card officially launched today, the budget 9600 GT, which is based on a shrunken version of the G92 graphics processor in their mid-range 8800 GT and the newer GTS cards. It’s actually extremely similar to the 8800 GT, but smaller and more efficient. It has half the number of stream…
A professor from the University of L’Aquila in Italy says has discovered a clue which may point the way to the fabled G-Spot—or at least prove that some lucky ladies have it, while others don’t. Emmanuele Janini’s findings (he scanned 20 women, 11 who experienced vaginal orgasms and nine who didn’t, with a vaginal ultrasound)…
Dash Express GPS, one of my most highly anticipated gadgets, will ship to customers who preordered on March 27th. [Dash on Giz, Dash Blog]
Reading the writing that’s on the wall, Microsoft is going to play nice with open source. They’ve laid out for new interoperability principles for their biggest products: Vista, Office 2007, Server 2008 (plus some more bizzy wares) and “all future versions of these products.” Their new get-along principles are “ensuring open connections; promoting data portability;…
Designed by Arianna Vivenzio, the Elastico concept is basically an elastic band stretched around a stout pair of metal posts mounted on your wall. Tension in the band keeps your various books standing in place, and you could even insert box-shaped structures for trinkets and the like. Presumably, to avoid sagging it couldn’t carry too…
Long before the Pixar movie hits the big screen this summer, a group of German modders have been inspired by Wall-E’s cuteness to take an old and unloved Nintendo GameCube and some scraps of metal and acrylic, and put together a sweet mod that looks just like the little robot himself. It even has tank…
I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]
The next iteration of the Nike+ line of running-enhancing gear just hit the FCC, and it looks like Nike went ahead and ditched Apple for this go around. This one is the Nike SportBand, a little device that fits into a bracelet. It communicates with the Nike+ doodad in your shoe and stores its data.…
