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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I hope you’ve enjoyed your unhealthy overeating and awkward familial encounters. While you take a break from watching football, fighting with your dad, or forcing yourself to throw up, I invite you to take in some brilliance provided by your fellow Gizmodo readers. The challenge was to bring the first Thanksgiving into…
There’s about 12 hours before the online Black Friday deals go live, and less than 24 hours left before the stores open up. If you’re planning on storming the mall, here are all our major Black Friday finds: • The Ultimate Black Friday Guide, with major deals summarized. • All Black Friday related stories. •…
20 years ago today, during a broadcast of a Dr. Who episode on WTTW channel 11 in Chicago, a video pirate took over the airwaves dressed as Max Headroom (remember him?). Wearing a mask and standing in front of a moving background, the video pirate rambled for a couple minutes in a tough-to-understand voice and…
Lest ye forget: While everyone else is having Black Friday door-buster, blowout sales, Apple will be having its more elegant-sounding one-day “shopping event.” We’re a little nervous because there’s no mention of any deals on Apple products. You’ll have to click onto the Apple Store site—on Friday only—to see what’s up. But there is one…
Kitchen Budapest’s Mllamp project is out to give everyday items the ability to simulate emotions. As you can see from the video, a pair of lamps have been rigged to mimic human emotions. What those human emotions are, we’re not sure. We just know that these lamps totally remind us of Pixar’s mascot, Luxo Jr.…
This is the Aerion Supersonic Business Jet, the first private plane that will fly at 1.6 Mach. The first unit has just been purchased by Sheikh Rashid, the ruler of Dubai. This bird will be able to fly the Ellisons, Jobs and Gores of this world from Paris to New York in just over 4…
I admit it: even though I barely play my PSP, I’m absolutely in love with the platform and its future of connectivity to the PS3. So when Sony starts talking about a PlayStation phone again—which they just did, by the way—we listen. Because we know there’s no way in hell they’re fitting UMD in that…
The holidays are all about candy, and nothing says holiday sweets like a set of chocolate tools. Wait, is that right? We know there are chocolate shaped bunnies, Champaign bottles and even gadgets, so we guess chocolate tools aren’t that strange. These photos from Sicily, Italy, show a set of working chocolate tools, complete with…
Other than the teenage, female demographic, I’m not quite sure who would want a gold-plated cellphone, or go through the trouble of sticking a bunch of little plastic squares all over it. The idea is that one could customize their phone on a whim, but it seems like doing so would be tedious. It’s a…
The Pitch Time for a little holiday nostalgia this week, as Hype Sheet goes digging through the crates for this 1983 Texas Instruments gem—a textbook example of preying on parental fears. A blond, bowl-cutted moppet sits on daddy’s lap, toying with an educational program on the family’s snazzy TI-99/4A. “A Texas Instruments home computer can…
Place some bare framework festooned with folded paper into the included petri dish, add water, and a few hours later you have these elaborate Christmas decorations bursting forth as if by magic. It reminds us of compressing a straw wrapper, then adding a few drops of water—and voilà! It turns into a squirming worm. Looks…
What do you have to be thankful for? When Thanksgiving comes around every year, it makes us start thinking about all that is good in the gadget world. The Gizmodo team got together this morning and started blurting out stuff, all the (mostly) gadget-related things that we’re glad to have around. The result is this…
Have you heard of Steam Trek: The Moving Picture? It’s the result of 14 people showing their unnatural love of both steampunk and Star Trek by making an silent movie set in 1899 about boldly going where no man has gone before. There’s an engineer named Sootie, coal instead of dilithium crystals and a redshirt…
Too many times have my Karate Kid “one-strike-per-nail” experiments gone wrong. This simple device holds your nail in the middle of a piece of plastic with a cross slice that holds a nail but lets the head pass through when you’re finished pounding. Brilliant, but the people too busy to hammer carefully don’t have time…
With the Black Friday deals just hours away, PC World gives neophytes a guide to buying a flat-screen TV. [PC World]
As a follow-up to my post on the LED Christmas tree lights, here’s a link to a DIY menorah for all you chosen people. The microchip serves as candle holder, and lights up the LEDs in the right order. [Make] https://gizmodo.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-led-christmas-lights-323951
The “Bay Watch” bikini life jacket concept is brilliant on three levels: It can help save lives, it is much more attractive to wear than traditional life jackets and your likelihood of being saved by a male lifeguard in the area probably increases ten-fold when you are wearing it. Plus, it looks as though there…
Analog X-ray machines could be a thing of the past, thanks to Samsung’s new film-free version. Measuring 45 x 46 cm, the Flat-Panel X-Ray Detector, or FPXD, boasts a 3072 x 3072 resolution, or 9.4 Megapixels. The Korean firm claims it will replace existing X-ray machines faster than digital cameras replaced film ones. Here’s how…
Those of you whose families disowned them years ago may find comfort on this, the bleakest of days, in Evergreen’s 18-buck toasty headphone-earwarmer combo. Then again, you may not. [Impress Japan]
If you want to avoid the mobs and beat some suckers to the punch, the sites for Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA and OfficeMax have already flung open the Black Friday floodgates, with most of their deals ripe for the picking. https://gizmodo.com/black-friday-are-you-risking-your-life-for-deals-325408 Not all of their previously listed Black Friday bargains are available online right…