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When the latest and greatest gadgets are released, it is not surprising to find a makeshift geek village thriving (and stinking) outside of a store. These are the hardcore early adopters. Sure, having those “look what I got” bragging rights is fun for a while, but it can often turn around and bite you in…
Option has taken the lid off of two HSUPA PC/Express cards—the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express for AT&T’s 3G BroadbandConnect and EDGE networks. The Ultra is compatible with laptops (PC or Mac) that feature a Card Type II slot while the Ultra Express has the Express card slots covered. Both devices are tri-band UMTS/HSPA…
The music industry did take something away from Radiohead’s experiment, though it’s not exactly what most of us were hoping for. A senior Universal VP dropped this inspired business idea at Mobile World Congress: https://gizmodo.com/radiohead-offers-new-album-for-whatever-you-want-to-pay-305566 “If an artist has just delivered an album from [the] studio, we could potentially deliver it to a limited number…
The Air Poo is everything Apple could stuff into a toilet, minus OS X. The multi-touch flushpad intuitively uses one finger swipe to send no. 1 down the pipes and two fingers for no. 2, which its built-in iPod dock and surround sound masks with “crystal clear highs and bowel-shaking lows.” There’s a dock for…
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for recycling, but it’s the process I’m not so thrilled about. For bottles and newspapers things are fairly simple, but there is a whole gray area that makes knowing what is appropriate for recycling more complicated. The Barcode Trashcan offers a high-tech solution that utilizes the product barcode to…
As promised, here are the runners-up to our HDTV and Media Center Extender contest. As you can see, we have some entries that maximize the seductiveness angle or maximize the lousy gadget angle, but our winner poses the best combination of the two. But that’s not what you’re here for. You want the boobies. The…
That busted spy satellite that was going to fall to Earth and hopefully not kill anyone? Well, the Pentagon has decided to not just assume it’d land in an ocean somewhere, and they will take matters into their own hands. That’s right: they’re going to blow the thing right out of the sky. https://gizmodo.com/dead-us-spy-satellite-hurtling-towards-earth-wheres-yo-349573 The…
Toy cars are fun, but when it comes to acting out our Speed Racer fantasies we want to feel like we’re part of the action. Soon we can with the help of the Race-A-Round Sound Helmet. Moving the helmet in any direction triggers a variety of crashing and breaking sounds, and buttons on its side…
We’ve got Mattel’s entire line of Batman and Speed Racer cars for 2008, and we hope the movies are as geekgasmic as the toys. The Batman lineup punches all of my little fanboy buttons—not only the entire squadron from The Dark Knight, but the two best Batmobiles ever: from the animated series AND Adam Batwest.…
Giving up your Xbox 360 to Microsoft for four to six weeks while they repair a red ring error is fine if you can survive that long without gaming or using it as a Media Center Extender, but why would you own an Xbox 360 if you could? Team Xecuter, a mod/hacking group that’s famous…
Even though the PlayTV PVR for the PS3 was announced for Europe in the middle of ’07, they still haven’t managed to release it yet (target date was early 2008). The BBC managed to get a hands-on video look at the device over at Sony’s UK offices and it actually looks pretty great. https://gizmodo.com/sony-europe-releases-playtv-pvr-for-playstation-3-292322 You…
Packet Video‘s latest Mobile Broadcast Receiver, which looks like a small white box, is able to stream mobile TV to devices with no mobile TV reception capability, such as the iPhone and iPod Touch. It works by receiving DVB-H, MediaFLO or WiMax (depending on the standard for your particular market—Verizon uses MediaFLO) and transcoding it…
Does the ability to heat eight ounces of water in three seconds interest you? Then take a look at this Teal quick Cup, which produces hot (we’re not sure if it’s near boiling) water by spinning the cold water you pour in around the spiral heating element. Not only is it fast, it’s supposedly more…
So you want to sleep at work. I can’t say that’s the brightest idea in the world, but who am I to judge? Let me help you out: if you want to sleep at your desk and also look really, really creepy while awake, all you need to do is buy some of these eye…
SSD prices might be trickling downward, though the performance/price ratio is still pretty low. But Sandisk and Toshiba have come up with new ways to cram more stuff into the same amount of space, to start tipping it the other way. They’ve both hit the 32Gb density point, which, combined with multilevel cell tech (storing…
The eggheads at Philips research department have filed a patent for wallpaper that’s embedded with conducting metal strips so you can hook up electrical items anywhere on the wall. Don’t worry though: having a leak from the upstairs apartment or hammering in a nail won’t kill you as it offers a range of voltages for…
Anyone having problems receiving messages on time in Gmail? On both a desktop mail client and the web UI, I see some new mail popping up timestamped two hours in the past (or about that), far down past some more recent messages. What gives? It’s been happening for about two weeks.
Click to viewWhat do you mean that today’s already the 14th? Oh crap! Can you rush out during lunch hour and buy something? Yes, but what? Flowers and an erotic cake might be barely passable, and that’s what you did last year, so you need to step it up. Go with a slightly more expensive…
Here’s a creepy way to advertise a hair salon: stick the lower half of some guys face at the bottom of an escalator, and place various hairstyles on the stairs. As the escalator moves, said guy gets a new haircut with every stair that passes by. Creative? Yes, definitely. Unsettling? Oh, hell yes. It’s at…
This stunning 1:36 scale B-1B bomber is made of about 8,000 LEGO blocks, beating the Millennium Falcon’s 5,195. Created with no special pieces, it has movable wings and retractable landing gear, just like the rest of its companions: one Russian plane, the SU-27 Flanker, and two classic US aircraft, the E-2C Hawkeye and the now…