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We are publishing this story not because Kina Grannis has a wonderful voice. Or because she is good composer. Not even because she is beautiful and sexy and has a choir to match. Heck, we are not even doing it because of the song she has dedicated to Digg users, which is actually a really…
Good news procrastinators and slackasses! Have you still not bought The Orange Box or another appropriately awesome game for your best bud with an Xbox 360? No worries, just give them a shitload of Microsoft Points from the comfort of your lonely computer chair. As of yesterday, you can gift points from the Microsoft Points…
The good news is, all you guys who have been dreading the use of internet calling on airplanes may be in luck, because airlines and airborne service providers alike are considering a ban on Skype. The bad news is, they’re also considering a ban on that age-old lonely traveler’s companion, porn, says the AP. Here’s…
In our first hairless wonderland feature, we took a look at how you could rid your entire body of hair using three simple gadgets. The Mangroomer, the Flowbee and the Philips Bodygroom allow you to make sure your back, head and crotchular regions are free of any unslightly plumage. But what about the most important…
Charlie White and Stephen Schleicher present their definitive list of free software you can’t live without—download them all and start using them today on this week’s Coolness Roundup netcast. Then, get a hands-on evaluation of the good and bad points of the eStarling Wi-Fi digital picture frame, and hear Stephen’s gleeful rant about retailers who…
Promote heavenly peace in your household with the USB Punch Head, who cries out when you smack him down. This grotesque effigy shrieks with pathetic, mournful protests and whines that might just get the dogs to start howling along. This could be the perfect antidote for all those annoying relatives invading your household for the…
It’s Xmas time, which means love, family, friendship, hope and, the really important part: Xmas stocking booty! And megalomaniac 22-year old Lauren Porter, a student at Bath Spa University, is going for a huge lot with her knitted scale 1:1 Ferrari. Seeing her posing next to it gives you the idea of how huge this…
Turns out, the U.S. military has a gas problem, though not the same kind as your Aunt Millie’s. In order to cut down on its use of petroleum—over 5 billion barrels last year alone—the Pentagon might turn to a portable device that takes paper, wood and food waste and turns it into jet fuel. The…
Any of you itching to let off fireworks over the holiday season should watch this safety film that comes with love from us to you—because, no matter how big our fireworks are, we geeks need to take care. Here’s “jihadi group” the Liberation Army Against Freedom showing you how not to light your firecrackers this…
It’s Christmas Eve, and apparently that means people are making their last, mad dashes to immortalize their kinship through iPods and GPS systems. It’s clearly too late to be shopping online for your holiday merchandise, but numerous inquiring minds need to know (OK, just ours), where did you do your holiday shopping this year? Gawker…
All this fighting about HD formats makes me wonder if the lot of you have forgotten about DVDs. BitTorrent aside, there are a lot of official ways to get video these days, high def discs and downloads. Even so, it’s worth reiterating that DVD is still my favorite way to go and will be for…
The School Zone is one of those concepts that should become a reality pronto, if only to give you the illusion you are Pac-Man while crossing the street: loaded with LEDs (our favorite light sources,) School Zone can indicate how much time you have left to cross because they are networked with the traffic lights.…
Did you know that most Japanese people can type faster on a cell phone keypad than on a standard keyboard? This is not just because QWERTY is hard to use, but because the original Japanese keyboard configuration was actually much more complex and impossible to master than anything we can imagine. But even the most…
This HDMI 1.3a cable supports deep color and has a mini signal repeater to allow the cable to be run up to 82-feet behind walls. Useful, if it works (it’s not powered). As we proved in our HDMI tests, like all DC current over straight wire, even digital video signals degrade over great distance. [Accell]…
Nothing better in the run-up to Christmas to have a Jesus lookalike modelling a Pac-Man hoodie from Hot Topic. It’s a steal at $45, but why is it only 80% cotton? Nylon just makes me come out in hives, guys. [Oh!Gizmo]
A few months ago, I happily wrote a post about Fuji camera’s continuing decision to build sensors with fewer megapixels in exchange for better light sensitivity. Apparently, that philosophy has not kept up. Proof: Old generation Fuji point and shoots like the F30/31 are going for more than double the original retail price on eBay…
Hard to believe the face of green cars, the Prius, is 10 years old this month. And it’s still so slow. Here, mod yours with a switch to run in purely-EV Stealth mode. [Make and Gizmag]
Click to viewToday I went to buy some lights for our Xmas tree and came back with a Philips LivingColors, a beautiful lamp with high-power LEDs which combine to produce any color in the spectrum, controlled wirelessly with an Apple-style remote. Here’s our 60-second video review. https://gizmodo.com/philips-living-colors-lighting-system-almost-available-268181 The first thing I saw was that, with…
While I try to quell thoughts of “Oh, the humanity,” take a look at another fanciful attempt to bring back the glory days of the Zeppelin airships. This one is called the Manned Cloud, and can fly fast enough to take a round trip around the globe in three days. The 1640-square-foot craft, whose French…
Once again, it’s time to entertain the fruit of your loins with a little web application we like to call “tracking Santa as he makes his deposits around the world”, or what NORAD calls “NORAD Tracks Santa” (we’re much more creative, methinks). This year NORAD’s hired a flash designer and spruced up the site a…