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At only $60 with free shipping, you too can afford to toss around the helmet from the Halo 3 Legendary Edition and not feel (too) bad about it. It’s Amazon’s deal of the day, so make haste before they sell out. [Amazon] http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/?tag=gizmodo08c-20 https://gizmodo.com/halo-3-xbox-360-swag-bag-is-incredible-unbagging-shots-302483
If you picture music industry CEOs as cranky old white men who are completely out of touch with technology and mad at the world for changing around them, you’re pretty damn spot-on. Wired has an upcoming profile on Universal Music CEO Doug Morris, and the guy seems as fit to run a newly tech-based company…
Rumors fly about a couple of shiny new Pentax digital SLRs, possibly rolling out January 24th just in time for the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) convention. The Pentax K20D will allegedly replace and look a lot like the $799 K10D (pictured above) that shipped over a year ago, and the K200D is due to replace…
This week at TreeHugger: Target has begun experimenting with selling “refurbished” electronics on its web site, making us wonder what that’ll shorten the life of the iPods, gaming systems and TVs sold on the site to…any guesses? Do we hear six months? We have not one but two solar DIY projects for the adventurous gadgeteer…
Shimura’s apparent goal is to add an additional layer of aluminum to Apple’s already aluminum-covered product line. We already told you about the tarty blue aluminum housing for MacBooks. Today, Shimura is showing off a covering for the new nano, in red, black or silver, that clamps down with industrial might upon the slender little…
Charge this mini flashlight in a USB port, and use its notebook clip to shed light on your laptop keyboard. For less digital activities, use its book clip to illuminate that page-turner trash you read under the covers every night with no one the wiser. It has an LED inside that’s bright enough to light…
In a startling announcement, Verizon Wireless pledged today to offer its network to “wireless devices, software and applications not offered by the company.” We’re a bit surprised, given the network protectionism that Verizon is known for. According to the release, Lowell McAdam, Verizon Wireless president and chief executive officer, didn’t say this was a change…
Shower time just is not the same without your tunes to kick back with. Thanks to iConcepts Shower Radio, you can take your iPod into your watery hub in full confidence it won’t be getting wet. The iPod enclosure is fully waterproof, and if you get bored of your melancholy iPod mix, spruce things up…
In the world of snow fun, there are sleds, there are tea-trays and there are even plastic bin bags (if you are a suicidal sledger, as I was in my teenage years). And then there is this, the Alu sled. Built from aluminum, the shock-absorbent silver slider has plastic runners, a handbrake, and packs up…
Oh dear, poor The Al Gore. The Nobel Prize Laureate, internet inventor and husband of Tipper has had his website hacked. His blog for An Inconvenient Truth is now selling Viagra, Valium, Zovirax and Xanax. Don’t expect to see an inconvenient bulge in Al’s pants (metaphorically speaking) however, as the hacking is only visible in…
Floating keychains are common, but this is the first time we have seen something like the Waterbuoy: you chain it to whatever valuable object and, if it falls into the water, the contact will fire up a gas valve that will instantly fill a balloon capable of lifting 2.2 pounds. The water will also activate…
The winner of Electrolux’s Design Lab 2007 competition will be announced tomorrow in Paris, and these are the final eight products hoping to win their creator 5,000 ($7,435). The brief was to design something eco-friendly and sustainable for 2020, and sexiest is the Fog Shower by Joo Diego Schlmansky from Brazil, which consumes just two…
We love technological advancement, but there is something that just feels wrong about TAB Austria’s Virtual Pinball machine. Sure, the six different animated games offer more variety than your conventional machine, and the 42″ plasma display looks a damn site sexier than the usual mechanized pinball floor, but these things were never meant to be…
Here’s our one and only Wilson Rothman getting all Tom-Cruis-eyed with the weekend Today Show presenter. In theory he’s showing what’s hot for purchase in the gadget world these holidays, which looks like last year’s options. He says something about the Wii, then something about the DS, then some more about the Sling (“Sling takes…
Looks like the Wibrain B1 has finally made it over here, just in time for the holidays. There are two models: the B1E, with 512MB of RAM and costs $699; and the 1GB B1H, which costs $849. The Wibrain B1, with its cute pop-up camera and mic, is available from mid-December. Full specs are below…
Just looking at Nyko’s Perfect Shot controller shell brings back childhood memories spent playing Namco Arcade Shooters. Now a bit of that nostalgia is coming to the Wii. I think Nintendo’s zapper attachment is nice, but the plain white design was a bit generic for my tastes. This, however, is a whole other story. The…
We weren’t too disappointed when we heard that the Zune 80 almost matched the 80GB iPod classic in terms of battery life, but CNET’s hands-on testing has determined that the Zune’s actual battery life is quite a bit shorter than its stated battery life. https://gizmodo.com/zune-almost-matches-ipod-battery-specs-310997 Instead of getting 30 hours of audio with Wi-Fi off,…
Matt Chapman, co-creator of Homestar Runner, sent me this great image from the 1978 book Exploring the World of Robots. While I’ve never had a maid, I didn’t know that they were always on the verge of crying! As Matt notes, “the ‘Maid Without Tears’ does not appear to have been made without cords as…
If your hard drive is seriously f*cked, and you have some big shiny balls (or you’re dumb as hell), you might be interested in how a fellow from Mandible Games claims that he recovered data from his drive. According to the article, he noticed that his drive would spin, but it would not show up…
The MousEX Glider pad is weird in the sense that most people wouldn’t come up with a pad you rest your mouse on that you slide around with your hand. Why would anybody do this? Because that same pad holds different add-ons like a navigational wheel, a giant button, or an 18-button pad that you…