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These kids messed with the tracks of their local express train and got it to go off its normal tracks. I don’t want to spoil this video for you, so just watch it. Trust me, it’s worth it. It’s another one of these great videos in the spirit of yesterday’s flying car clip, of which…
So this OLPC thing, it’s not exactly everything it was supposed to be. It’s being outsold by competitors and is falling far, far short of its initial goals. And now, to add insult and injury to what was previously only injury, a Nigerian company is suing the OLPC for patent infringement. That’s a kick in…
Toshiba cuddled up to the environment today by creating a new Carbon Zero offset scheme. UK customers now have the option to tack on £1.18 ($2.44) to the purchase of a laptop that will go toward planting a tree in Cumbria, a rural area in England. According to the company, said tree will offset carbon…
All right you potheads, knock it off. This is not a special one-hit toker. No, it’s the Tea Stick, a spring-loaded doodad that lets you place loose tea on its little retractable shelf, and then you stir it into some nice hot water, resulting in a tea connoisseur’s nirvana. The stainless steel and plastic implement,…
Analyst Richard Windsor predicts that Apple’s 200 patents on the iPhone’s UI will stop the new eerily similar Nokia S60 based touch UI from coming to market. Oh, analysts. [Marketwatch] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-introducing-touch-ui-to-open-source-s60-os-311363
Mount a telescope on the SmartStar Cube, and you’ll have yourself the lowest-cost way to automatically gaze into the infinite and beyond. This $199 SmartStar Go To AltAzimuth Telescope Mount, otherwise known as the Cube, gives you computerized pointing and tracking, where you select a star, planet or galaxy in a huge database, and it…
Google has just announced Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 which will allow people without GPS-enabled phones to pinpoint their location on their handsets. Using its new “My Location” technology, which uses the location of nearby cell towers to determine your location, it delivers a makeshift GPS-like locator on many phones without GPS. Navizon for hacked…
Click to viewIf you’re upgrading your TV, you might wonder what to do with the old one. Girlfriends and traditionalists will say get rid of it or kick it to another room in the house. But I say keep it set up next to your new one, side by side. Screw picture in picture, this…
Drones like the one you see in the video above might soon be used by the Miami Police Department, serving as an unmanned eye-in-the-sky that can go places where it’s too dangerous for human beings to tread. Expected to be rolled out next year first in SWAT team operations, the 14 lb. vehicle is unarmed…
You probably don’t want to use something like this eSATA to USB adapter to keep an external drive going for any extended period of time— it would be all too easy to trip up and unplug one of the many cables in such a complex setup. But for a quick data grab or dump onto…
Those eggheads at the Smart Cities group at MIT are a clever bunch, coming up with a design concept for an electric scooter that folds up into a package scarcely larger than a wheeled carry-on suitcase. In the Utopian vision for such bikes, you’d ride one to work, then fold it up and roll it…
Yes, it’s true: you can get an Optimus Keyboard for less than $500. There is a catch, however: if you’re cheap and spend less than $500, your keyboard will only have one “active button,” and it’s the space bar. Yeah, weak, I know. But hey, it’s “only” $462.27! If you bump it up to $599.01…
A New York judge who jailed all 46 people in his courtroom after someone’s mobile phone went off has lost his job. The chairman of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct has recommended that Judge Robert Restaino be removed from the bench, three years after the incident, which was described as “two hours of inexplicable…
It’s too far away from April Fools’ Day for this to be a joke, so we’ll just tell it to you straight: The TwoDaLoo is called a “supertoilet,” created to “save rocky marriages and the planet.” Not fancy enough for you? Get it with a 7-inch LCD TV and an iPod docking station, so you…
Why let Microsoft’s Media Center PCs have all the fun? Today, TiVo announced a partnership with Nero to “develop a software solution that will bring TiVo features to the personal computer.” The company claims that this is in response to the “growing PC TV tuner market,” and in our opinion its a wise move. TiVo…
Yesterday, Google announced that it plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in sources of renewable energy to help them power their vast server farms. The money, which will go to people like engineers and researchers looking into new forms of solar, geothermal and wind power, will both help the Googe save money in…
The irony about the new PSP Slim is that while it gets twice the battery life, Sony shrunk the battery capacity in half…defeating their own engineering. While modders have been sticking old, larger PSP battery packs in new PSP Slim models, Sony has decided to make the whole idea official. https://gizmodo.com/new-psp-slim-coming-september-kinda-looks-the-same-277336 Their new extended battery…
If you have dogs or cats that like to sign their names—and by that I mean piss—in every corner of the house, Dirt Devil has a potentially miraculous solution for you. The $100 Purpose for Pets Portable Extractor has a 3″ brush with mounted blacklight LED for illuminating stain patches that may be easier to…
Sometimes the only way to make something old new again is to increase its proportions to a gigantic scale. The mantra has worked for the fast food, automobile and twine industries for some time. So its introduction into the vintage console modding market was inevitable. Take this gigantic, functional Atari Joystick. In video, this oversized…
After months of speculation, the Windows Mobile XV6800 is now available for $450 after $50 rebate, arriving in stores on Dec. 5. The smartphone features touchscreen, stereo Bluetooth and support for Microsoft Office docs. [Verizon Wireless] https://gizmodo.com/verizon-adds-samsung-sch-i760-palm-treo-755p-and-two-m-312294