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The devil has been cast out of in the Allen Parish community of Reeves, Louisiana thanks to a change in their 666 phone prefix. Residents said it was “distasteful” and that it conflicted with their religious beliefs. A new 749 prefix will be delivering the town from evil, and residents must switch their numbers in…
Wii modchips have been around since the start of the year in one form or another, but some folks at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress just demoed a new Wii hack that lets them have full access to the console, including all the hardware. By using a custom serial interface, they were able to…
Imagine drinking copious amounts of alcohol, all while staring at this “waterfall” optical glass bar designed by Tokujin Yoshioka. You would be heading to the bathroom every 15 minutes. In reality though, no actual water is used. The effect is created using an optical glass block that is crafted in such a way that it…
Click to viewOur buddy Ramon of modding fame has been busy lately, with the Rockstar Wii mod following up a long procession of mods anybody would be glad to call their own. This latest mod was comissioned specially for Kevin Smith, and features the four main characters from Clerks. Not only is the console itself…
While we’re just now struggling to get credit cards that pay wirelessly, Korea’s already moved on to the next stage and made their credit card USB-compatible. Not only can you wave this thing in front of a register like Harry Potter trying to Wingardium Leviosa Hermione’s dress, you can plug this into your computer to…
The Associate Press just reported that the FAA is now banning all Lithium batteries, meaning you can’t travel with extra batteries for your laptop or digital camera. Outrage of outrages! The problem is, they’re wrong. The FAA is now banning Lithium Metal batteries; the Lithium Ions that power a good chunk of your gadget collection…
Not all of us like fitting a DSLR in our pants when we go on vacation, which is why DigitalCameraInfo’s best point-and-shoot cameras is useful for just about everyone. They graded on different criteria, with the Fuji F50fd taking the prize in resolution, the Sony T100 in least image noise, the Canon A570IS in color…
Toiling away in a cubicle all day can be boring during a slow holiday week, believe me—I know. So it is no surprise that employees will often turn to office toys in an attempt to get to 5 p.m. without doing any actual work. Sounds like a great idea, but you had best stay away…
• A new law in New Jersey willl ban internet sex offenders from the web. But then who will read Gizmodo? [The Register] • AOL will discontinue development of the Netscape browser early next year. RIP Netscape, you were the original IE alternative. [TechCrunch] • Once upon a time, Google went by the name BackRub.…
Unlike yesterday’s unquestionably, uh, questionable 64GB and 128GB USB Micro Vaults, this solid-state disk is as real as the subject of any press release. We’ve played with them before, but this one’s promising 32GB, a massive drive that slides right into that mostly unused little ExpressCard 34 slot on your newish laptop, and could very…
Reader Brian tells us of a clever way that he’s gotten the already fair iPhone rate plan from AT&T down to a measly $14.95 a month, as long as you’ve got another AT&T plan to leech off of. Here’s how he did it: I talked with an AT&T rep, and while they weren’t excited to…
So, you wasted some hard-earned money on bought an Amazon Kindle. Good for you! Now that you have one, it’s time to exploit the crap out of it. I’m talking, of course, about easter eggs, otherwise known as functionality that should be available to everybody in the first place. Yes, there’s Google Maps access with…
Derrik Wang wants to make sure you never break open your piggy bank just because you’re trying to scrounge up some beer money by making his piggy bank nauseatingly authentic. Not only do pig guts spill out when you break open the bank, the insides are rendered with blood as well, making sure you will…
Info is sketchy thus far, but Nikon lovers will be interested to know that the next lower-end digital SLR from the company might be called the D60, and reportedly will make its debut in Spring 2008. Most of that assertion about the upcoming DSLR seems to be derived from reading the tea leaves of a…
We seldom find a use for wearing a Bluetooth headset on our ear when we’re not making calls, but this Wendy’s employee has found one of the only three valid exceptions. It all started when a potential robber went up and asked the two employees at local Wendy’s to open up a safe when one…
If you’re too lazy to walk a few steps but still want your dog to get a workout, this Fit Fur Life $1400 dog treadmill lets you get some vicarious exercise, courtesy of Fido’s four feet. We’re not quite understanding why this is so expensive (other than its maker calling it “the best dog treadmill…
The cheap and the unlucky who didn’t get anything from Apple for Xmas this year (that’d be us) will be happy to know that MacMall is holding a sale on just about all their stock from now until the end of the year. You can pick up some MacBooks for 7% off, iMacs for up…
A small part of this magic teaspoon’s handle is made of Nitinol, a special metal that can remember its shape. That little fact lets you play some crazy tricks, because when you heat it up, it bends to that shape that you bent it into before. So if you put this in your tea, for…
We’ve been lucky enough to live most of our lives in areas that have central heating, so we don’t quite have the experience of having an ugly radiator sitting in our rooms. For those of you who have, this harp radiator is just the thing to make your place that much more classy while at…
While sifting through the umpteenth Tech Products of 2007 lists, we stumbled upon this Yahoo! Tech list that contains most of the usual suspects, except one of the entries interested us: Voted one of the 10 worst tech products of 2007 were Pear Audio “Anjou” speaker cables, those pieces of wire that cost $7,250 and…