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Jeff over at 2719 Hyperion consistently has great analysis of all-things-Disney. Last week he posted the futuristic segment from the 1958 Disneyland TV show, “Magic Highway, U.S.A.” Provided it stays up, I recommend checking out the clip because you can’t find this program anywhere else. You may remember the clips that we’ve looked at here…
Instructables has a tutorial on a CD repair technique designed to bring nearly any disc (barring any cracks, breaks, etc…) back from the dead. The fix requires you to heat the underside of the CD over a gas burner, boil it in water and dry off your freshly resurfaced disc. The process seems to leave…
Our Amazon Kindle coverage is crackling like the fires of knowledge or whatever Kindle refers to. Everything we’ve got on the so-called iPod of reading (or not): •Amazon Kindle Hands-On, Plus All Your Questions Answered •Giz Live at the Amazon Kindle Launch •Amazon Kindle Vs. Sony Reader Bitchfight •Video: How to Use Amazon Kindle •Kindle’s…
The N810 tablet, with its keyboard, GPS, linux OS, Wi-Fi but no cellular connection is on sale today. Long Live the PDA/UMPC? [Nokia]
Wired has put together a list of ten gadgets that have done little more than separate the gullible from their hard earned money. There are some classics on there, including: the harmony chip, MPion MP3 Player, the Philip Stein Teslar Watch, and my all-time personal favorite —the “ionized” Q-Ray bracelet. Seriously, every time I saw…
CrunchGear’s Matt Hickey wrote a good how-to on upgrading your iPod touch’s firmware to 1.1.2 without sacrificing the ability to download third party apps. The process is farily simple; it involves downgrading to 1.1.1 (if you’re not there already), downloading and installing a program through installer.app called OktoPrep, upgrading to firmware 1.1.2 and finally running…
As part of Walmart’s Thanksgiving madness, you can get an 80GB Playstation 3 plus 10 Blu-ray discs (under $30 in value), plus the 5 free titles you can get with mail-in rebate. That’s the biggest deal we’ve seen on HD discs since the $99 HD DVD players. This bloody format war, we call it the…
These are about the creepiest cellphone accessories we’ve ever seen: Androgynous babies tied up S&M style dangling from your cellphone. The disturbingly satisfied Kewpie Dolls are available with five different rope colors for about $6. If you wanna feel really icky, check out the promo shot after the jump, which makes the orgy above look…
Fast lane daily has a video of the Nissan GT-R, with rare footage of that amazing instrument cluster designed by Gran Turismo game designers. Fast forward past the talking head to witness footage of the boost gauge, lateral and longitudinal G-forces (over time!), among many other stats, at your fingertips. Might have been better to…
In the tradition of Dr. Frog and Botanicalls comes Thirsty Light, a $10 sensor that sits in your potted plant and blinks when the soil goes dry. You get to trade all that anxiety for a straightforward Pavlovian response: you see a blinky light, and you water your plant. Alternatively, there’s a “quick-check” method: buy…
Jalopnik reports that Moller, makers of the M400 flying car vapor we’ve come to love inhaling, have “substantial doubts” the cars will ever get off the ground. They’ve always been confident, even if the public hasn’t, so this is a change of tune for the futurist company. Moller posted a quarterly loss of $81, 071,…
A friend who works at Best Buy told us that there are five additional ad pages that didn’t make it into the leaked Black Friday ad, so there might be extra dealage to watch for in Thursday’s paper. Any Best Buy employees out there able to confirm or deny? [Black Friday @ Giz] https://gizmodo.com/best-buy-black-friday-ad-weve-got-the-dealios-320845
If you consider yourself something of a handyman, my guess is that your toolbox at home has become increasingly filled with laser guided goodies over the last few years. That having been said, feast your eyes on this new laser guided hand saw. I could be wrong, but it seems like it would be fairly…
Meant for your kitchen countertop, this 20-inch stainless-steel LCD TV will match most of your other kitchen wares, and comes with a water-resistant remote for accidental splashage. The resolution isn’t specified, though it’s an HDTV with an HDMI input. Granted, if you’re just using it to follow along with Alton Brown on Good Eats 1080p’s…
According to Kansas.com, Airbus SAS plans to build a 900-seat version of its famously enormous A380 superjumbo. Currently, the A380 is intended to carry between 500-800 passengers depending on the configuration—although it has held up to 873 on at least one occasion. https://gizmodo.com/video-873-people-ditch-a-downed-airbus-in-77-seconds-257841 That could mean a “stretch” Airbus A380 could be adjusted to hold…
OK, you can take your tinfoil hats off now. German site Heise Online has tested Hackint0sh user XianLi’s claims about the iPhone sending its IMEI to Apple while accessing the web. According to Heise and other sources, this is not true: https://gizmodo.com/apple-spies-on-iphone-users-hackers-claim-324238 While the code says “IMEI,” which stands for International Mobile Equipment Identity, it…
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After the sheriff’s office busted six dudes in July and a male teacher a week ago, Martin County commissioner Michael DiTerlizzi has had it with the wave of Larry Craigs getting it on around his beaches. Solution? $5500 solar-powered cameras that flash a bright light and spout off a verbal warning when they detect motion.…
If you are as blind as I am, you have probably noticed that glasses are outrageously expensive. Naturally, that means that style often takes a back seat to price when picking up frames. The “Switch Glasses” concept by Hyo-Jong Kim aims to change all that with lenses that can be spun around for two distinct…
NVIDIA got official today with its GeForce 8800M GTX and GTS notebook GPUs, which you might remember from the fresh-out-the-door Alienware beast from a few hours ago. Mark Rein, Epic Games’ VP is “ordering one” exclamation point, if that makes you more blisteringly excited. [Nvidia] https://gizmodo.com/alienware-further-teases-us-with-powerful-area-51-noteb-324442