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After years of production and planning, coming on January 13, 2008 is the TV version of the venerable Terminator series, entitled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Depending on your point of view, it’s either going to bring a fresh new Terminator into your home every week or completely ruin the entire franchise. Nevertheless, on the…
A NES cartridge is being sold on eBay for $12,000. These limited-edition gray cartridges were given to the 90 semi-finalists of the 1990 Nintendo World Championship, a contest that pitted children in a feast of carnage, Mario worshiping and Tetris psychedelia that apparently was inspired by an equally psychedelic movie: The Wizard, with Fred Savage.…
Here’s the perfect way to slow down those doggone kids driving their noisy pocket rockets, invading the neighborhood at high speed without regard to the peace and personal safety of the local inhabitants. This Deutsch-speaking dude has created an unusually powerful gadget that will teach those whippersnappers a lesson. Profoundly satisfying. If only these expertly…
Watching football is clearly the best way to get scores to the games you’re interested in, but if you’re unable to view the games due to being busy or having them blacked out in your area, this fancy new Ambient Football Scorecast should keep you all up to date. It displays football scores in real…
If you want an easy way to record your skiing adventures, this O’Neill H4 Campack hooks up to its own helmet-mounted camera, letting you control its portable media player/recorder with a huge record button on the shoulder strap. The player nestled inside has enough battery power for recording four hours of your winter sports hijinks.…
Other than the iPod dock toilet paper speaker we thoroughly tested, there hasn’t been any real advancement in the area of ass wiping technology in the past few years. This Hello Kitty dispenser changes everything with its automated dispensing unit that lets you program exactly how many sheets you want for your next wipe—which may…
The break is over for now, but here is your opportunity to catch up with the best of the extra-long holiday weekend just past: • We issued a verdict on the Amazon Kindle… in bed. • We were impressed by Mark Richardson’s iMac commercial. • Rock Band drums went cross platform. • Our wallets whimpered…
As expected, the Germans can now get their unlocked 999€ ($1473) iPhones. The big news is that they don’t come already unlocked. They are normal iPhones, and to unlock them you only need to use iTunes: https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-germany-sells-1-478-unlocked-iphone-to-avoid-325298 When you buy the $1473 iPhones, the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number is recorded and sent to…
Touchscreens! The make you think of the future, don’t they? Either that, or ATM machines from the past decade or so. Either way, this external HDD case from ezSECU features a touchscreen that makes you put in a password before you can retrieve your precious porn and pirated movies collection. Yeah, stick it to the…
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry wants the UK—and probably everyone else on the planet—to follow French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s example and ban everyone who uses the intertubes to share copyrighted files: The plan will force ISPs to cut service if they catch you downloading copyrighted material three times. A spokesman from the Phonographic…
Here’s how they listened to MP3s back in the late 19th century, using this steampunk Ambient Enhancer. Handmade by a guy who calls himself Porkshanks, it features a gutted pair of vintage Cannonball Empire headphones whose innards were replaced with modern-day Sony earphones. He wrapped some handmade leather and brass around an ordinary MP3 player,…
You didn’t want to stand out in the cold for your deals on electronics, risking death by trample to save a few bucks? We can’t blame you. So here are 10 great deals you can get from the comfort of your own home during the internet’s version of Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Hit the jump…
Super Rubes is an upcoming one-hour TV show for The Discovery Channel that will pit a super team of Rube Golderberg creators against impossible challenges. The show is currently casting artists, scientists, engineers, architects and designers—or anyone with mad Rube Goldberg cred or enthusiasm. You need to be between 25-39 years old, and if you’re…
Geneva has made a name for itself by building high-end iPod speaker docks with large wooden cabinets for better resonance and warmth. But the Model XL costs $1,275 and the Model L costs $699. Today, Geneva rolls out the Model M which, at $499, dips just below the “ridiculous” price point to something possibly within…
When most of us think biofuel, we think imperfect solution granolamunchingmobiles. But the Koenigsegg CCXR supercar just changed our minds. Featuring a lightweight, cast-aluminium V8 engine, this bad boy of biofuel can go 0-100kph in 2.9 seconds, cranking out 1018 HP at 7200 rpm and 780 lb/ft of torque at 6100 rpm. These drool-worthy specs…
We prefer drinking from cow whenever possible, but the Soyabella soymilk maker, an auto soy grinder and roaster that makes soymilk with the touch of the button, interests us nonetheless. Just add water and soybeans and you’ll have fresh “milk” in 15 minutes. But to ensure that it doesn’t collect dust after your two-week soy…
Back in the olden times when people used to dress up in multi-piece outfits to impress their colleagues, there was a thing called a tie clip. Now that historical object has been designed into a multipurpose display device that not only plays MP3s but notifies everyone exactly how much of a geek you really are,…
According to its eBay listing, this $20,000 piano “is not a piano at all” but a fully functioning computer with a hidden 26″ Philips LCD TV/monitor and a 6.8 GHz processor. Modded from a 1904 Chickering upright piano, the maker argues that it is not just “the world’s most beautiful computer,” but “the world’s oldest…
If you thought The 40 Year Old Virgin was just a hilarious movie with no basis in reality, get a load of this: it’s an eBay auction for $34,500 worth of Star Wars action figures. Why get rid of what’s clearly the product of a lifetime worth of being a creepy shut in? Well, “THIS…
Every once in a while we read a mundane press release—in this case, announcing that Canada gets TiVo—and just start laughing. Poor Canada is finally getting TiVo service, “just in time for the holiday season.” But that’s not the funniest part. The only hardware available will be the TiVo Series2, standard def, last gen DVR…