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We used to be hardcore into the build-it-yourself PC scene, thinking that it would save us money and give us more powerful machines in the end. That theory’s fine if you have loads of time to research and experiment and shop, but if you’ve actually got a job and other hobbies, it can be pretty…
Don’t forget to send in your pictures for the lousiest casemods you can find. They don’t have to be ones you made personally—although we’ve gotten a few personal entries from Gizmodo readers that make us shake our heads in shame—so send them in to [email protected] with the subject “Crappy Casemod Contest.”
Click to viewThe Private Cloud is a patented rocking bed by German designer Manuel Kloker. They don’t tell the price, but it is real. You buy it and it’s supposed to be all like, you know, wheeeeee, and then whoooooo, and then one goes like oh, what about and you are like hmmmyes, which gets…
This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius (and obvious) idea. Like a regular desk grommet, it’s a big hole that lets cables through. Unlike a regular desk grommet, it’s got notches on the side of different sizes to grasp and…
This is something of a surprise. We sorta didn’t expect Sony’s 25-megapixel full-frame serious pro sensor to land in a Sony DSLR. The cam’s details are scant as hell—it doesn’t even have a name, just “flagship model system.” All we could squeeze out of recalcitrant reps, other than what we already know about that sweet…
HTC’s TouchFLO UI was great because it was one of the first “skin Windows Mobile to make it usable” applications—even if it isn’t quite as good as PointUI. This supposed TouchFlo 2.0 upgrade looks much improved, even if it is still early in the development stage. If you’re feeling brave you can actually try and…
Those of us not brain damaged enough to remember stuff from a year ago will recall the crazy response Boston had to the LED Mooninites plastered around their city to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. This elite group of people lacking severe head trauma sure didn’t forget, and they’re definitely not letting the…
Customers in the Midwest and the Southeast regions “may be experiencing trouble accessing data on some devices” said a spokesman for AT&T. Not all of them, but the iPhone is included in the list. Voice calling is not affected. The issue began this morning at approximately 6:30AM EDT, and technicians are working to identify the…
Leave it to the Japanese to create a heater that’s as ingenius as this. It may look like a cross between an LCD display and a space heater, but the display part of the gadget actually shows a “real” fireplace. The end result is that you get to imagine that your (really tiny) Japanese apartment…
The fight for the 700MHz spectrum has reached a milestone: an anonymous bidder has made a $4.7 billion offer, surpassing the minimum reserve price of $4.6 billion. https://gizmodo.com/rev-your-engines-fcc-700mhz-spectrum-auction-starts-to-348433
The Pitch A harried mother, her face creased with exhaustion and dread, pleads with her son’s principal via telephone. It seems that little Sammy’s been expelled on account of some violent malfeasance. Mom promises that her demonic offspring has seen the light, but Sammy proves otherwise in the background; he inserts a vacuum in the…
The Macbook Air is showing up at doorsteps and we’ve reposted our photos and video of the innards since Apple’s loan unit was off limits the first time around. Even on second look, this thing is as beautiful on the inside as it is on the outside. [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-tear-down-sexy-on-the-inside-too-348769/
The Nike SPARQ Parachute is designed to create drag “to force athletes to push themselves harder to achieve speed” and look like a moron in Central Park. Why would I want more drag as I’m already dragging my feet to the coffee shop to have a cafe au lait, two croissants and one brioche with…
Do suits enjoy having a good time? We’d think so, although we’ve never actually seen physical evidence of this, which is why BlackBerry’s Remote Stereo Gateway might be just the thing for them to loosen up those ties a little bit. The Gateway works like so: connect your phone via Bluetooth, connect your speakers into…
One of today’s biggest stories is the fact that India and the Middle East had about 75% of their digital connection to Europe cut off when two cables on the floor of the Mediterranean snapped under mysterious circumstances. Cables get damaged all the time, but never have two gone out simultaneously. It will take days,…
First off, you can zoom while recording movies in 720p. It’s a nice, slow ‘n’ steady zoom too, not a jerky or overly fast one, keeping things smooth while you shoot. The LCD is big and bright enough for HD videorecording on this kind of level, though it’s not astounding or anything. It’s sorta hard…
This is what my future home will look like: clean, simple, white— like a doctor’s office, you might think. But when I turn a nondescript “white box cube,” all sorts of crap starts happening: what you thought was my painting is now my TV, a planter starts emitting colored mood-light, music spews from a mural…
In 2004, just before Google went public, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, agreed to run the company together for 20 years. So by the time they can first retire, Page will be 51, Brin will be 50 and Schmidt will be 69. Schmidt, my man. I think you…
Scientists have injected a mouse with a chemical that makes its brain glow where there’s activity, and implanted a tiny camera directly inside the hippocampus to watch what’s going on. The team at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in Japan are using the 0.1-inch-long camera to look for information on brain activity that causes…
Okay, I get prosumer cams like Canon’s G9 or even Fuji’s other big-zoom shooters. The S100FS, I do not get. It’s the same size as a DSLR. It costs the same as a DSLR ($799). But it’s not a DSLR. And not in a good way. https://gizmodo.com/fujifilms-s1000fd-and-s8100fd-ultra-zoom-pro-sumer-came-348273 Its showstopper feature, the ridonkulous ISO ratings, fell…
