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“Mommy, what are those cookies doing?” “Well, honey, they’re fighting, maybe pretend-wrestling, and rolling around, having a good time, that’s all. They’re getting in the holiday spirit!” “Have they been good? Will Santa bring them lots of presents?” “No, honey, it looks like they’ve been bad. Very, very bad.” In addition to the four patterns…
We tested out the Ped 3, a sturdy rotating stand for iPhone and iPod touch, and we give it a big thumbs up. It’s heavy enough to keep the iPhone from tipping over when you push its single button, and effortlessly spins the phone around from vertical to horizontal. Its clamp won’t scratch up your…
Eating while driving is inadvisable, but at least you have a bunch of “car” between you and the thing you hit. Not so when you’re on a bicycle, which is why this BreakFast tray—which holds your breakfast AND has a slot for a cup—is probably a bad idea. Sure, if you can manage to balance…
Looking to make Guitar Hero a little crappier? Great! Just play it on a Commodore 64. That’s what Toni Westbrook is doing for some insane reason with his Shredz64 project. The game isn’t done yet, but when complete it should provide a rudimentary facsimile of the popular game using the squawking beeps that the Commodore…
Straight outta Germany, the colossal Acapella Sphäron Excalibur speakers look like a couple of tubas attached to a piece of wood. The cabinets feature four 15-inch woofers and weigh a herniating 1,364 pounds each. Acapella only recommends these behemoths for living rooms that are at least 131 square feet (the size of many entire apartments…
Dru and Nate over at Gearlive don’t only have awesome looking matching beards, they also have matching love for replacing the iPhone battery. Their video tutorial lets you see—in moving picture—exactly how to shove a new battery into your phone. It’s hardly been six months since the phone has been released, so most of you…
Earlier this year, Viacom put every Daily Show episode online for free, and it was awesome. Now, they’re following suit with South Park, with plans to put every episode of the animated series online for free next year. https://gizmodo.com/viacom-putting-all-of-daily-show-online-297809 It’s a ballsier move than putting The Daily Show online, as South Park sells lots of…
Steampunk meets The Matrix in Sony’s crazy spot that reminds me of a bad dream I had last week. The company is trying to somehow illustrate how the processor power of the PS3 can keep you one step ahead, but we’re just thinking somebody slipped some kind of special fairy dust into the bong bowl…
Having taken the tiny Jabra JX10 Bluetooth earbud for a spin, I can say without a doubt that it is among the most losable earpieces on the market. I believe the loaner unit once spent an entire month down in the motorized track system beneath my driver’s seat. So it makes complete sense that some…
This ETree floor lamp is certainly distinctive looking. Built out of multiple strands of electroluminescent tubes that you can manipulate into pretty much any shape, it’s like a glowing, malleable sculpture for your living room. It looks really cool, but I have trouble picturing it fitting in with the décor with many living rooms. Maybe…
Update: Apparently there’s actually something good in this update! Too bad they didn’t actually include it in the press release, but the Xbox 360 will support DivX and XviD! Hurray! Here’s what we got from the Xbox team: **15. What types of AVI files are supported? The Xbox 360 supports files encoded using MPEG-4 Part…
Here’s what happens to the Rado Ceramica chronograph when designer Jasper Morrison gets his talented paws on it. The Ceramica’s trio of chrono dials show up under its sapphire crystal in your choice of five colors of gold from white to deep pink. Take a look at three of the other colors: Sexy. If you…
Ed Zander—the celebrity CEO who made Motorola’s RAZR an Apple-like sensation then somehow spoiled it with all them spinoffs—will step down on Jan. 1. Does this mean we won’t get the POOPR, the SHTR or the TFSU? Does this mean that Motorola might recover from its slip to third place in the world cell phone…
We wouldn’t usually call people douchebags lightly (ok we would), but when you complain that deaf people are getting special treatment when they’re offered a $27.99 non-voice, data-only plan for their iPhone, you’re one huge douchebag. A Colorado AT&T store was offering said plan for the hearing-impaired—since they get very little use out of a…
Boy Genius Report may have gotten their hands on early specs of the upcoming touch-interface BlackBerry 9000. And according to their sources, the (iPhonesque?) 9000 has two hardware advantages over the iPhone. First, it features a 624MHz Intel XScale PXA270 processor that just edges out the iPhone’s 620MHz ARM 1173 processor (on paper). Second, the…
You may think we look silly when we’re dancing about our living rooms, playing our little plastic instruments. Our sponsors don’t. They know what it is to pretend to be rock stars. Thanks Adobe, Ask.com, Atari, AT&T, Audi, Bank of America, Belvedere Vodka, Blu-Ray Disc Association, Canon, Current TV, Evolve Speakers, Firefox, Ford Focus, HP,…
Who says you have to scape up millions of research bucks to make a working robot arm? Meet Wooden Menace, a roughly functioning robotic appendage that Chris, an enterprising craftsman at PyroElectro, put together for less than $50. Its parts are carved out of wood, and Chris connected those parts with a few servo controllers…
The Nintendo DS is about to get even more multifunctional in Japan, as a new media download service is set to launch in the land of the rising sun for the DS. Featuring a microSD to DS cartridge adapter, the service will allow people to download books, videos, and manga for viewing on their DS’s.…
Google has confirmed what we’ve pretty much known for a long time, they will be bidding in the upcoming 700MHz wireless spectrum auction on January 24th. And also as suspected, Google will not be bringing in any partners for the bidding. From Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman and CEO: https://gizmodo.com/google-to-enter-wireless-biz-wants-to-make-it-less-evi-280942 Consumers deserve more competition and innovation…
Click to view People buying new iPhones with 1.1.2 software will find that it’s not possible to install applications, like the must-have LucasArts game emulator. This video tutorial will teach you how to easily install applications and bypass activation in the iPhone. It’s not as straightforward as previous versions, but anyone can follow it. https://gizmodo.com/native-lucasarts-games-emulation-makes-iphone-absolutel-326257…