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European Xbox 360 owners don’t just get the Dashboard update with DivX and XviD playback, they’re finally getting Xbox Live Video Marketplace as well! They’ve been asking for it forever (seriously, they ask almost every time there’s Video Marketplace news), but come December 11, they’ll be able to pay 380 points for 720p HD video…
Fortune magazine reports this week that there’s a formidable new weapon on the horizon, an Autocopter Gunship that’s a mini helicopter drone with two of those badass AA-12 12-gauge recoiless automatic shotguns strapped on. Imagine swarms of robot-copters, each equipped with dual shotguns filling the air with lead, all at a moment’s notice. https://gizmodo.com/recoilless-auto-shotgun-fires-300-rounds-per-minute-no-324453 If…
In the mood for another contest? Good. Here’s how you can win a PlayStation 3. This is going to be a photo contest, so here’s what you do. First step: paint yourself blue. Second step: go to a public place and take a picture of yourself. Points will be awarded both for being more blue…
What do you get when you combine the largest student dorm in Finland, a cellphone, and a love of Tetris? Something that’s way cooler than the Russian monochrome equivalent. Video after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/russian-dorm-tetris-284988 [Flickr SET via Mikontalolights]
We’ve been lucky enough to not have to deal with carpal tunnel, but those of you who do might be interested in this Brando “Infrared Thermal Patch.” We’re not sure which part of it is infrared, or which part of it is a patch, but it’s just a little plastic plate you place on the…
Confirming our scoop from yesterday, InfoWorld’s reporting that Moto’s chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, is out the door, complete with her Soviet-like erasure from Motorola’s websites. While the article says “it’s hard to know if Warrior’s departure is linked to Zander’s,” our original source later added that it’s rumored Warrior and incoming CEO Greg Brown…
If you’re picturing a boob when you’re squeezing a regular squishy stress reliever anyway, why not just cut out the illusion and make one actually shaped like a boob? This Instructables post shows you how in 12 easy steps, provided you have the prerequisites first (a woman that will let you use her boob as…
So here’s a good news/bad news situation for Microsoft. The good news is that people aren’t pirating Vista as much as XP. The bad news is that people are pirating XP twice as much, meaning that even when given a choice between each for free, people are sticking with trusty old XP. They can’t even…
Click to viewThe Xbox 360 supports DivX and XviD as of today, which may make some of you with big file collections (like us) as giddy as a kid in store with puppies made of candy. We threw our entire collection of movies, TV shows and random clips at it and found that the 360…
Stephen T of MTV Multiplayer’s got a huge interview with the Director of PlayStation Network Operations, Eric Lempel, a man partially responsible for the recent rollout of the PSP Online Store. Right, that’s the same store that lets you download games and demos onto your PSP from your computer. Here are some of the highlights.…
While it is no surprise that everyone and their mother is putting out a gift guide during the holidays, the problem is that most of these guides are basically the same. It is not that they aren’t useful—many are quite comprehensive, featuring the most popular gadgets today. But what if you are not interested in…
Dell’s $4500 WoW-themed XPS M1730 gaming notebooks are hot shit, even if you aren’t into WoW: overclockable Intel Extreme Edition Core 2 Duo processors, NVIDIA SLI DX10 graphics cards, PhysX card, Full HD 17-inch widescreen, pre-loaded with WoW and Burning Crusade expansion, plus a plethora of other limited edition WoW merch. Check out a more…
This is the best Eee PC mod we’ve seen yet—and it pretty much slays the $499 Eee PC 8G, which has just eight gigs of storage. EeeUser forum member Johnx took the guts of a $140 16GB Corsair Flash Voyager (and a Bluetooth unit) and ran them off of USB connections from the Mini PCIe…
Good news, crazies! There’s a new update to your tried-and-true tin foil hat which promises to “stop aliens from abducting humans.” Finally! The website gives you full instructions on how to construct a Stop Abductions helmet of your own using only a pair of scissors, a highlighter, a yardstick, a paper plate, a roll of…
It’s rare that an offbeat speaker gets the seal of approval of a respected audiophile, but sure enough, Cnet’s Steve Guttenberg loved the ultra slim Podium Model 1. The pair of speakers are only one-inch thick, and radiate sound from the front and back. Guttenberg (no relation to Johnny Five’s human counterpart) admits that it…
T-Mobile will stop selling unlocked iPhones in Germany after the court dismissed Vodafone’s injunction against contract-only locked iPhones. From now on, only the $585 locked model with a minimum 24-month contract will be available. After the two years customers will be able to unlock their iPhone before throwing it to the trash and buy a…
For those of you who conscientiously object to using Apple products with a mouse—balancing out that karma for Xerox—Troll Touch is now offering 20 and 24-inch iMacs with touchscreens. While the new models look almost no different than conventional iMacs, the screens do operate through one of the iMac’s external USB ports. But just like…
Skype 2.7 Beta is now available for Mac OS 10.5 Leopard users, delivering 25fps at VGA resolution. No R2D2 hologram effect on that, either, but at least you can once again videochat with non-Mac users. [Skype via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/why-did-os-x-leopards-ichat-lose-the-star-wars-r2d2-vid-311636
This week at TreeHugger: Meet China’s biggest solar geek, Zhao Chunjian, who installed, on his roof, China’s first “domestic power station” using 22 solar panels. We check in with Pixel For Tree, a new web-based endeavor that does exactly what it sounds like: buy a pixel of ad space, get a tree planted in your…
Just as burning a girlfriend a CD will never be as romantic as making her a mix tape, so too will sharing pirated software prove a heartfelt disappointment on anything but floppy. So one (genius?) designer has made CD-Rs that look like 3.5″ floppies. At $8 apiece (for 200MB) in packs of 4, they aren’t…
