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Tis the season to build repurpose crazy electrical contraptions for a little merriment. From Peter Terren, the same crazy Aussie who brought you hits like the Tesla “Eye of Sauron Anti-Theft Device” has now transfigured Tesla coils to a festive Christmas tree shape. The trick was pulled off by building a frame (held together with…
Today NBC pulled their lineup (including NBC owned sites, such as Sci-Fi and Bravo), and ended their deal with the iTunes Music Store after a little catfight they had with Apple and El Jobso. However, as Italian blog setteB.IT points out, some shows from NBC owned networks are still up on iTunes, leading some people…
We’ve already covered a juicy rumor about Motorola developing Motorola Z10 successors known as “Zine.” Hmm…maybe that’s Zines when pluralized. Anyway, Motorola has filed a trademark for “Zine” in relationship to the following huge blockquote of smartphone technology categories: https://gizmodo.com/moto-zine-the-official-name-for-upcoming-multimedia-pho-328049 Mobile telephones, pagers, radio transceivers, electronic personal organizers, headsets, microphones, speakers, carrying cases and phone…
I4U points out that when acquiring some Wiis from wholesalers, they were surprised to find that the price had increased from last year. While the Wii retails for $250, in 2006 they had to settle for a $476.11 pricetag for just the Wii system. This year, that number has inflated to $538.80…or become $60 more…
If Ben Heck modded speedboats, I like to think it’d turn out similar to Malibu’s Z06 Corvette Speedboat, which is Frankensteined with a 505-HP LS7 Corvette Engine. Every aspect of the boat, from the hull right down to the trailer it rides on, is influenced by the design of the Corvette. Looks like that Ferrari-powered…
The Sony TZ91 is available in two flavors. You can get the computer with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, or you can load it up with a 64GB solid state drive (for around a $1000 price premium). Check out this video to watch the SSD toast the moving hard drive by about 12 seconds when…
The international yacht show, which ran earlier this year, saw some crazy yachts on display. Best of the bunch had to be the Superyacht concept, by Focus 21 France. Yachts are generally pretty super in their standard yacht state, but the Superyacht can fly, and that makes it the daddy. If the calm sailing speed…
Google Street View will soon cease to be fun. Because while we were once able to enjoy the antics of strangers photographically busted outside of kiddie strip clubs, Google has announced that they will begin blurring all faces and license plates in Europe’s soon-to-be-launched version of Google Street View. And according to a Google rep,…
If you are pretty good with the old reading sills, you’ll know from the title that Sony’s XEL-1 OLED display just had an unboxing worth perving over. It might look like a bad day at Abu Ghraib prison from the top photo, but click through to see the slinky screen in all its anorexic, model-like…
If you have fingers as big as chorizos and want to click with more precision on the iPhone, here’s the Pogo Stylus. According to the manufacturer the Pogo Stylus is the first device of this kind for the iPhone and “has been engineered using a patent-pending technology to simulate the touch of a finger on…
We write about Japan and its geek mecca Tokyo with some frequency here on Giz, which is why we found this recent census data so interesting. Tokyo slipped from the 10th most expensive city in the world to 13th, according to a survey by ECA International. The survey factors in the city’s price of things…
It looks like a Dynamism product listing has revealed about when the 8GB Asus Eee PC will be hitting store shelves and for just how much damage to your bank account. Listed for $499 as expected, the tiny laptop featuring 8GB of flash storage and 1GB of RAM will be shipping in mid to late…
Click to viewIn an effort to keep up with Apple’s changes at a faster speed, the iPhone Dev Team is considering open sourcing AnySIM, the free unlocking solution for the iPhone. In an exclusive talk with Gizmodo, iPhone Dev Team member Sam said that this move could “open a lot of possibilities for the future,”…
Ah, the irony: a reader sends us this screenshot of the Nintendo Wii News channel admitting its own four-week “defeat” against the Sony PlayStation 3. It’s either that a) the channel editors feel they are not being paid enough, b) that Nintendo doesn’t give a damn about giving the losing side some respite, c) nobody…
While almost all of science fiction is a direct comment of the time in which it was created more so than a prediction of the future, paleo-futurism is more often a direct prediction of the future. This image of “advertising in the near future,” while not science fiction, is clearly more a comment on the…
Two years after the Xbox 360 kick-started the next-gen console race on a Black Friday week, EA chief John Riccitello says this year’s Black Friday completed the transition to the (now) current-gen consoles: “It’s been the longest, hardest transition in the history of the industry…Last Friday marked one of those points where you can say…
This is not the first time we have come across a wristband that alerts you to incoming calls. Some of you may recall the BlueQ from earlier this year. It worked—but not all that well. Could this device, dubbed the LM957, be a better alternative? According to the product site, the LM957 will not only…
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, it can add fewer than 3 million new subscribers before it hits the wall, pretty…
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat—but if I were his parents I would be more worried about the fact that he is…
The PS3’s still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It’s launching next year in Japan only. And the launch content seems pretty anemic unless you’re into cars and racing:…