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When we first heard that Fred Barton the robot maker could make our own life-sized Cylon, we started lathering Crisco all over our chest in anticipation of some Six action. But alas, that’s not to be! Barton specializes in creating metallic robots, which results in both the original metal Toaster cylons from the ’70s as…
There isn’t much to know just yet about the Sony Mylo 2, an update of the original Skype/Wi-Fi/Browser/Messaging tool that hit last year. What we do know is that it looks slightly more squarish than the original, it keeps the sliding form factor, adds a camera and has 802.11g as well as 802.11b. The only…
If you’re looking for decorative weirdness around your abode, a strange-looking Brisa 2000 ceiling fan by the Matthews Fan Company ought to fit in perfectly. Imagine a spinning fan, itself orbiting around a counterweighted axis as it fills the room with fresh breezes or draws all that hot air upward, your choice. Available in a…
Getting the three Jason Bourne movies on HD DVD with free purchase of an Xbox 360 HD DVD box is the kind of deal we can get behind. Reader Dan tips us off to the deal that he just received in his email, which states that not only are you getting the three Bourne flicks,…
This just in for parents who want to control every aspect of their teenagers’ lives: The Liquor Lock secures your Christmas spirits under a three-digit combination. Supposedly, the stopper within expands when you engage this $15 device, but we’re hoping the glass on that bottle is stronger than that muscular kid down the street with…
On this week’s netcast, Gizmodo’s Charlie White and DVICE’s Stephen Schleicher bring you the Coolness Roundup Holiday Gift Guide, packed tight with 20 of the best gift ideas for that geek on your list. The Gurus pick their fave cameras, HDTVs, cellphones, home theater gear and much more on this fast-moving review-fest of gadgetude that’s…
Surprise, surprise! The Apple Store is down. Could this be Xmas on the 17th? New Apple Cinema Displays or servers gone to heaven? Last-minute discounts for the US-based procrastinators? Update 2: The Apple Store is now up. At first sight, it looks like the only new thing is a huge table detailing the last days…
This life-sized model of Bender hides a secret inside, and it’s not a hatred of humanity. No, that’s no secret. This Bender is also a beer brewer. And you thought Bender couldn’t get any cooler. Inspired from a Futurama episode in which Bender did actually brew beer (Season 3, Episode 12: The Route of All…
If good looks translate into spectacular sound, these Waterfall Audio speakers might just take you to audio heaven. They’re made of special glass that makes it look like the drivers are just floating there in mid-air. The Victoria EVO model you see here is a three-way design with four drivers, including a down-firing 8.5-inch passive…
Remember Greg Packer, the shameless guy who sat shirtless at the front of the iPhone line? I’m sorry if you do, that might be partially my fault. Well, Greg is still around, and our intrepid videographer Alex Goldberg happened to run into him this weekend. He still has that first iPhone and actually saw our…
The SanDisk Photo Album might just be worth carrying around in your camera bag on your Christmas journeys this year, because it takes those photos you’ve shot off the small screen of the camera back and tosses them up on the big screen of any TV. It accepts just about any kind of memory card…
Click to viewIt’s been a gigantic year for Nintendo. It reclaimed the living room console throne for the first time in forever with the Wii, and continued to dominate the portable gaming space with its DS. But how did it do on a scale of A to F? Did it earn good marks for quality…
Swedish Canon exec Robert Westin has apparently told the (also Swedish) site Kamerabild that Canon’s announcing a new DSLR on Jan. 24, a week before PMA. The obvious choices are updates to either the Digital Rebel XTi (aka EOS 400D) or EOS 5D, since they’re the two DSLR lines that’ve gone the longest without an…
Contrary to our exclusive report about the detention of Santa by stormtroopers and the brutal assault on his North Pole factory, we got confirmation he just was happily being escorted by Imperial Troops. Apparently, Santa is an Imperial collaborator and a personal friend of Darth Vader, Dick Cheney and Steve Jobs. The elves, however, are…
Thank goodness there was no one sitting in this Smartcar when it hit the wall at 70mph, but even though the German-made Mercedes vehicle is tiny, it’s built like a truck. Remarkably, the door still opens after that tremendous impact. Maybe the Smartcar isn’t a deathtrap after all. Although we still doubt such a crash…
Click to viewAccording to the UK PlayStation page, new firmware 2.1 could be hitting tomorrow (technically their lead is “An update to the PS3 system software was released on December 18, 2007”) and it’s brought treats for everyone in the class. First and foremost, we finally get Blu-ray Profile 1.1, otherwise known as the “final…
There’s a new Swarovski-encrusting, gold-plating organization on the rise, going by the name of Gilty Couture. It’s got a wide range of precious metal hard-cases from $55 to $200, with crystals “evoking the Gilded Age of the late 1800s.” However, one enclosure in particular evokes something else: it gives the newest “fat” iPod nano a…
Those fancy Europeans are now making supersonic beer: PDX is a process that blasts steam at supersonic speeds into the brewing bat to “rip the liquid apart completely to form tiny, atomised droplets, which creates a massive surface area that speeds up brewing reactions” says the technical director of Pursuit Dynamics, the company that has…
Japanese researchers have developed a new approach to robotics that could revolutionize the future of artificial limbs. The team, from Okinawa University, has come up with an amazing “muscle” design that is driven by compressed air and is simpler than the designs of many other prosthetic arms currently in development. More info, plus a video…
If you went to the movies this weekend, you might have seen the new Dark Knight trailer that we posted yesterday. You probably didn’t see this new 6-minute Dark Knight trailer, however, as it only showed before IMAX screenings of I Am Legend. It hasn’t been posted to the internet yet in anything other than…
