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Click to viewAmid all of the MacBook Air hullabaloo, you might have forgotten about the Apple announcement that Fox would begin providing “free” iTunes versions of programs via DVD. The first release was Family Guy Presents: Blue Harvest, a Star Wars parody. Being the brave product testers that we are, we tried it out. It…
Joel Johnson, former ed of Giz and buddy, went on a small internet television show, decked out Leno style with a real band, an audience and a full staff. He was brought on to talk about the cheery and harmless subject of gadgets (how cute!) but instead, turned it into an audience participated bitch fest…
When out at a restaurant or coffee shop, we are often forced to sling our coats over the chair or put our purses and bags on the dirty, dirty floor. My guess is that this annoying reality is the inspiration behind the Chair Wardrobe concept by designer Erohina Yulia. As you can see, the chair…
Did you think your absence last weekend would stop us from blogging like blogging Olympians? Well, it didn’t. You’re probably sore about missing all the weekend action, but here is your opportunity to catch up: • We found out the real use for MBA’s eject button. • We peeked into the Batcave. • We got…
You can listen to an interview I did with Virginia Prescott at New Hampshire Public Radio here. See also: Paleo-Future in the Wall Street Journal Article for MungBeing Sincerity and the Paleo-Future Postmodern Paleo-Future
If you had just three fewer hoops to jump through for HBO on Broadband, it’d be an amazing service. So, if you have Time Warner in Wisconsin, HBO on Demand and Roadrunner broadband (and Windows), you can download to your PC as much as you want from a catalog of 600 shows and movies they’ll…
Hmmm. I wonder why a company would develop a digital pocket scale with a cover shaped like an iPhone knockoff? My guess is that they needed some sort of gimmick to catch the eye of their drug dealer clientele. After all, today’s drug dealers have a wide range of choices when it comes to their…
Thrilling Monday morning news: Crappy phonemaker Kyocera is acquiring crappy phonemaker Sanyo’s mobile business for $3.7 billion. Kyocera will keep pumping out Sanyo-branded products, so Katana fans needn’t weep into the night. [Press Release]
Click to viewMost people have already declared Blu-ray to be the format war‘s victor—even us, begrudgingly—and our recent talks with Toshiba and Universal seem to suggest that the HD DVD camp might be ready to pull up stakes. Back at CES, so many moons ago, Microsoft said HD DVD was over when Toshiba said it…
The Samsung Intergalactic Empire, makers of everything from memory chips to TVs to gas tankers and probably complete Death Stars, also make vacuum cleaners like the new Silencio (“silence” in Spanish.) It doesn’t only trap 99.3% of the dust with a suction power rating of 360 “air watts” (whatever that is in the metric system;…
In what must have been one of the most surreal moments in scrapyardding history, one MAKE writer encountered a Stargate while digging through an otherwise inconspicuous pile of aluminum. Intricately detailed and just 9 inches in diameter, humans, of course, can’t fit through. But MAKE is unofficially starting a “make me 9-inches wide machine” contest.…
The Bowers and Wilkins Liberty claims to be the world’s first wireless entertainment system to offer 8 channels of audio—full 5.1 and an extra 2 channels for wherever the hell you want. But even more promising, maybe, is that while streaming your CD or DVD audio to its bundled speakers the Liberty will automatically adjust…
Sweet Baby Jesus and all the orphans, we wonder what possessed the creators of this nightmarish webcam as they slaved away at the drawing board. Something nasty with horns, a wicked headache and really bad taste in art, I reckon. Let’s see—take one webcam (pretty standard USB 2.0, 1.3 Mpix little number, with lights and…
We’ll give it an A for effort. But man, this “Pimp My Dell” case mod is…well let’s just say that it has “Dell” written in rhinestones. And it’s covered in what we believe to be 35% of the world’s supply of gold spray paint. The “pimp inside” logo, however, is admittedly fantastic. For those who…
Ah, 2008, you are a cool year so far, but not as cool as 1958, when the Fulton Air Surface-to-Air Recovery System started to operate: attach yourself to a helium ballon using a nylon cable capable of sustained 4,000 pounds, shoot it into the air and wait until a cargo plane grabs you and takes…
Brando’s miniature Bluetooth adapter is a tiny little gizmo you can hook up to your laptop or PC to give you Bluetooth connectivity. Works with Windows ME, 2000, XP and Vista, and Mac OS 10.1.4 or above, and full specs and price are below the gallery. Connects most Bluetooth devices. Supports A2DP up to 30…
Just when you thought the iPhone’s Giz-induced alternative moniker, the JesusPhone, was about to fade into obscurity, a Texas church has seen reason to bring it back. The Colleyville establishment has plastered a massive sign on one of its walls that is mightily reminiscent of the iPhone, with some rather interesting apps icons (anyone want…
A new system devised by a pair of UCLA students could well bring democracy to music selection at parties. The two scientists have created a software-and-antennae combo that currently works on laptops, scanning people’s music collections, grabbing the most popular tunes from guests’ MP3 players and adding them to the night’s playlist. The next step…
Much more tech-y than some case mods we could mention is this Weighted Companion deal from Magnus Persson, based on those handy crate-like things all you Portal players are fond of throwing around. Magnus designed and completed the 7.9-inch-wide case in the space of a week. Still, he managed to successfully squeeze a VIA Epia…
The iPhone is now available for the corporate world: AT&T has released the iPhone for enterprise users. The plans require a two-year service agreement, and they go from $45 to $65, all of them including unlimited domestic web and email traffic, plus unlimited messaging at the top. They also have $25 (20MB/month) and $60 (50MB/month)…