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Today’s iApp-a-Day brought iPhone users a surprisingly fun game, Air Hockey. This 2-player game takes advantage of the multi-touch display by having the player’s finger control their air hockey mallet. The game can be a bit buggy at times, especially when your mallet goes out of control and hits the puck into a million different…
Just as we suspected, Best Buy has been holding out on us with the Black Friday dealios. Top of the list of these Bonus Doorbuster deals is a notebook, a Toshiba A135-7404 for $229 that will also include a Canon all-in-one printer. While all 20 at each Best Buy store are sure to sell out…
Tony, a soldier returning from Iraq after a year of active duty, found out that his wife couldn’t wait for some lovin’ while he was gone by checking his Wii. When he confronted her with his friends’ accusations, she claimed that she only kissed another man once. However, after checking his Mii channel for war…
Click to viewSo Amazon unveiled its Kindle yesterday. The fancy eBook with “free” EV-DO got a lot of attention and has a lot of people talking about whether or not digital books have a chance of taking on the paper kind. But the Kindle is far from the only eBook out there, naturally, and it’s…
The Writers Guild strike already stripped us of our Daily Show and Colbert Report, and now it may take away Heroes and House as well. Looking to escape Reality TV hell? We’ve painstakingly reviewed three free (and mostly legal) video services—Joost, Miro and Hulu—for your faux-TV enjoyment during these dark times. https://gizmodo.com/the-wga-strike-and-the-death-of-television-322068 The Contenders: Hulu:…
Instructables has a neat if dangerous tutorial on how to quickly make a key copy by tracing the metal from a Coke can. It’s pretty obvious, and with that seed planted in your mind, there’s probably no need to read the instructions. Let me go one step further and remind you that you can copy…
The Register is reporting that according to a manager at Spain’s Telefonica cell carrier, Apple has plans to drop a sexy 3G iPhone on the world in May. Translated from the Spanish, the exact quote from the manager is: “OMG OMG iPhone OMG 3G OMG Apple May Rumors OMG!!!” OK, not really. Here’s the real…
You don’t need a snorkel with a bone-conducting speaker that receives audio from a base headset. But it’s interesting to know they make gear like this. The set comes with seven radio equipped snorkels, with antennas in the 40.68MHz range that extend out of the water via the breathe tube. The base station can send…
Fujitsu takes some poundage off your shoulder with its latest 14-inch LifeBook S6510 notebook, weighing in at a mere 4 lbs, and measuring just 1.42″ at its thickest. Under the hood, the compact S6510 has a Intel Core Duo 2 processor, an LED backlit WXGA display, a webcam and fingerprint scanner. Fujitsu also released another…
(UPDATE: The deal in question was a misprint in the Fry’s ad and they actually meant the Mac Mini) Looking for a sweet Black Friday deal? Search no further if you want an iMac, because Fry’s Electronics is offering a 20-inch iMac with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor for $794. It’s priced so low…
Are you looking for a PDA that doesn’t have a phone component? No? Neither is anyone else, which is why Palm is using Black Friday as an excuse to push some older merch out the door. Starting right now, you can score a Palm TX for $199 and a Tungsten E2 for $149. Not that…
We recently showed you simulations of Mars voyages here on earth, and now NASA is looking to get in on the fun. The department of space nerds will begin a yearlong test of an inflatable moon base in Antarctica in January. Fully inflatable in a mere 11 minutes, the base probably won’t be housing astronauts…
First we showed you the remote control pirate ship, and now we introduce to you the pirate himself, in a vicious R/C battle against his ninja nemesis. Of course, since ninjas are superior to pirates in every way, this should be no contest. Jump to the next page to watch the video of the two…
Looking for a new monitor? Well, take a gander at this 24-inch widescreen monitor from Dell. The E248WFP features a 1920×1200 native resolution, 5ms response time, DVI with HDCP and a 92% wide color gamut for colors that pop. The best part? It’s only $399, which is a total steal for a widescreen monitor of…
Just when you thought every USB gadget that could be invented has graced these pages, along comes the USB Putt Returner. This is not going to help you win any bets on the real links, but just like a full-size putt returner, this one pops your ball right back to you if you nail one.…
Those “His and Hers” special edition Nintendo DS Lite bundles we told you about a while back got official today. Available in pretty pink (with a paw print) or gold (with the Triforce logo!), they come with Nintendogs: Best Friends or Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, respectively, and will cost $150 apiece when they go…
The geeks at MIT modded a blender so that it’s controlled by the pitch and the intensity of your voice. Judging from the video, the louder and higher you growl, the faster the Blendie 2000 will whir. (We’re not certain if other less freakish sounds will work.) Though I can’t really see this taking off…
This sensor guidance system from Stara Technologies looks like a tiny precision missile, and that’s basically what it is, but it’s a whole lot more sophisticated than meets the eye. It’s not specifically designed to deliver explosives, but when you toss it out the window of an airplane (or a Predator drone as you see…
This winter, Vudu will give every Vudu owner and new buyer copies of both The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, pre-loaded on their boxes in glorious HD. They will also have the opportunity to download The Bourne Ultimatum to own for $25. This is a sign that Vudu—and Universal—are looking past the current format…
You never know when you might need to whip out a projector, and here’s the smallest one you can buy so far, made by the Chinese company that calls itself Oculon. The 640×480 Hikari Pro920 is $299, giving you a 24-inch image from about a yard away, or a 12-inch picture from a foot away.…