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If you’re going to turn a Nintendo Gamecube into a handheld portable device, you should really spend a little more effort than this man here. Geekologie doesn’t have any details on it, but as you can see, whoever did this just broke a regular GC controller in half, soldered some holes into a piece of…
When we’ve got enough money to get what looks like a 1500-sq-ft living room/home theater area, we’re going to load one wall up with a MisuraEmme wall system. Not because it classes up the place in a way that cardboard boxes just do not, but because it combines a sliding flat-screen TV with a self-contained…
Good news on the Pepsi-Amazon MP3 contest front: It’s official, it’s not a contest and they’ve giving away more than MP3s. It’s a point-based promo that launches on Feb. 1, with 4 billion Pepsi products carrying points that you can bank on PepsiStuff.com for MP3s from Amazon store, which now has tracks from all four…
This isn’t spectacular news unless you’re the Silver Surfer or the silver-haired fox our intern was chatting up last week, but the LG Prada phone is coming in silver all across Europe some time later this year. So if colour was the reason why you’ve been holding out on getting one of these fashion phones,…
This new watch concept from Nikita Golovlev is designed to give a visible warning to hearing-impaired users if something dangerous is going on nearby. Dubbed AlarMe, the watch has a bunch of omnidirectional microphones and does some intelligent listening to sense if anything audibly important such as a fire alarm is happening. It then gives…
Global warming is bearing down on us with the fire of a thousand suns, and soon, the arctic chill of like a billion perfect storms. Whatever is Jake Gyllenhaal to do? Hole up in a Polar City, of course. Envisioned by “visionary futurist” Dan Bloom—how would he know he’s a visionary unless he, in fact,…
Click to view Get ready to be the coolest uncle ever: here’s a video tutorial on how to make “Magic Fireballs,” which are what they sound like. Yes, small balls that you can light on fire and play with without getting burned (well, as long as you know what you’re doing). They’re sure to make…
We were recovering from our crazy week in Vegas, but did we let it stop us blogging you through the weekend? No, Sir. Read on for a roundup of the lazy day goodness. • The Asus Eee PC went technicolor. • Benny and Frucci beat Matt and I during an ultimate F1 test. They cheated—Frucci…
Honestly, I’m not too big on laptop stands—I don’t use an external keyboard—but if I did, I’d totally go the cheapskate route and hack together my own from scraps of junk metal and plastic dolls. Err, a sleek paper towel holder from Ikea. It matches the MacBook Pro’s aesthetics for way less than the $40…
Click to viewA Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business?…
Our sister site Jalopnik is ripping through the Detroit Auto Show with diesel in their veins. Check ’em out.
Sometimes, the internet opens up doors to worlds of geekery that you never knew existed. I guess I shouldn’t judge people for being into whatever it is they’re into as long as it doesn’t intrude on my life, but… come on. Lion of the Sun makes custom animal masks and costumes that are super-realistic, featuring…
The March 5, 1959 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD) ran an Associated Press piece titled, “Thomas Quotes Max Factor On The Woman Of The Future.” Factor predicts, among other things, the extensive use of cosmetics by men of the future. The entire article appears below. HOLLYWOOD (A.P.) — Fifty years from now, a woman of 50…
Led by the writer of Air Bud (that bodes well), a large posse of out-of-work WGAers is looking to launch the online video company, Visual Arists, later this year with over $30 million in funding with Silicon Valley types. Supposedly a bunch of A-listers are on board, which gives small hope that they punch out…
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product…
This is a location print-up from the only classy big-box store, Target. Before Christmas, if an employee scanned a Wii, it’d just say “Wii Console.” Now, it says “Wii White.” Giddy fanboy deduction: Why go through the trouble of adding an additional color descriptor unless other colors were on the way? While it’s not exactly…
Just a month after optimizing the entire array of Google apps for the iPhone, Google is making them even better with a quicker, slicker UI, more customization, iGoogle gadget integration and more speed across the board. If only Google’s magic powers could speed up AT&T’s network, we’d be golden. Details: https://gizmodo.com/google-optimizes-more-apps-for-iphone-330352 Today, the first day…
Experimenting with how musicians physically interact with an electronic kit is not new but this design for a drum sequencer interface by doctoral student Peter Bennett is just awesome. It’s simple too: each drum effect has a track on BeatBearing’s plastic screen, and by dropping a ball bearing into a hole you activate that track’s…
This isn’t suspicious timing at all. Toshiba is slashing the crap out of HD DVD player prices to push mass market adoption—cheap holiday deals are now locked in tight. The HD-A3‘s new MSRP is $150—cheaper than the 360’s attachment (will it get the chop, too?)—and Toshiba’s high-end HD-A35 is only $300. (Amazon has got another…
Oh my god. So, the SeXbox would be a lot less creepy if it was filled with a bunch of obviously sex stuffs—vibrators, condoms, whatever. But it’s not. No, it’s so much worse than that. It’s just a cosplay costume, some lotion and a roter—rohtah in the original script, but I still have no idea…