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Because of the WGA strike, there’s no Daily Show, which sucks. But if you think you’re suffering, think of how the writers of that wonderful program feel! In this video that the writers of our favorite mock newscast made on the picketline, they clearly explain why this strike is happening and how the studio chiefs…
The fat lot of nothing done about Comcast’s alleged-but-shiftily denied P2P blockage has been kicked over by a hot plate of lawsuit action. Filed by Comcast customer John Hart in the most consumer-friendly state around, it hits them for “breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and violating the…
We introduced you to the EcoStrip awhile back, but now the mystery about its release date has finally been cleared up. For those of you interested in saving some extra cash on electricity each month, the EcoStrip can be had right now for $34.95. [Product Page] https://gizmodo.com/ecostrip-saves-energy-polar-bears-305105
Today Amazon launched their 2nd annual special holiday edition of customers vote, and this year there are six rounds of rock bottom prices on some truly awesome gear. Starting today, customers can put their two cents in (or $79.99 as it were) on the console wars by deciding which gaming system should get this huge…
Being the last one to find something out can lead to some pretty embarrassing situations. Watch as a flash mob member goes rogue thanks to his phone’s slow network speed. It’s, uh, not exactly the kind of solo debut that anybody would hope for. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed pellentesque leo…
I don’t know if it’s the sheer devotion or a matter of numbers, but Guitar Hero controller hacks tend to be some of the slickest around. But they all just got beat with this awesome vid: Fungus amungus’s coordinated, LED backlit buttons make button-bash shredding that much sweeter. It’s a simple formula: more lights=more sweeter.…
I go into a conniption when I show someone something on my notebook and they press their dirty, oily finger into my screen, knowing I’ll have to bust out an LCD wipe to restore its pristine state. No more! LG Philips LCD’s latest LCD panel—which takes after non-stick frying pans&dmash;will let you wipe off smudges,…
We’ve seen amateur idiots turn industrial robot arms into their own personal amusement park ride before, but now a real amusment park is using a robot arm by German industrial giant Kuka to power a ride. Apparently, it’s the most powerful robotic arm in the world. It looks like fun, but perhaps a little less…
Word of warning if you have an Apple-shaped twinkle in your eye: Lo-jacking the Asus Eee PC with OS X is legally dubious (like a lot of worthwhile tech endeavors tend to be) thanks to licensing restrictions and whatnot. Dan’s method more or less follows Adam Pash’s awesome Hackintosh tutorial over at Lifehacker, but an…
Click to viewIt looks like the 10.5.1 update has just hit, bringing with it fixes to Airport, Disk Utility, iCal, Mail, Printing, Security, Finder, and Time Machine. The big fixes that we can see are the finder network data loss problem that was reported last week, re-wording the firewall to reflect what it really does,…
Word from ATI on the initial lack of Clear QAM support—for picking up unencrypted digital cable channels—in the Mac version of the TV Wonder 650 Combo USB TV tuner we showed you: The team was focused on getting it out the door, so it’ll “be available via a software update within ATI tvPORTAL itself to…
We always thought you needed a fancy glass cutter to split a beer bottle this cleanly, but here’s a way to do that with some good old-fashioned acetone nail polish remover and a short piece of string. The video isn’t showing us how long to wait after placing that acetone-soaked string around the bottle. Hmm.…
If you have a spare $3,000,000 lying around, Space Adventures wants you to know that you, the public, can now apply to “to train as a private space explorer alongside” Richard Garriott, the mighty Lord British, developer of Ultima, founder of Origin and defeater of the Saxons. All without wearing a gnome suit or an…
Having third-party manufacturers add functionality to the iPod after the fact is something Apple’s familiar with, and this miShare song swapping gadget enables the iPod to join Microsoft’s Zune space in song sharing. The $100 device has dock connectors on both sides, essentially ass-to-assing two iPods in order to allow them to pass songs back…
Datamancer, otherwise known as Rich Nagy, is the top creator of custom steampunk objects around today. He created my personal favorite, the Steampunk Laptop, as well as the Opti-Transcripticon steampunk scanner and the awesomely-named Nagy Magical-Movable-Type Pixello-Dynamotronic Computational Engine, one of the craziest PC case mods around. We caught up with him to ask about…
Sony rolled out a couple of sweet tape-based HDV camcorders for pros and well-heeled hobbyists, and both of them can shoot 1080p, 24p and 30p natively. They can also be outfitted with a solid-state recorder that snaps onto the back or side of the camera, recording HDV 1080i onto a garden-variety CompactFlash memory card. So…
The Pitch As a raucous Hardnox tracks kicks in, a nimble-footed, ponytailed cat named Charles does his thing on an unadorned soundstage. And what a thing it is—the sort of gorgeously fluid dancing that makes us Joe Q. Publics curse the gods for failing to grant us such talent. Charles’s moves are all the more…
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From the Philippine Agent 00 series, here’s a clip of the late miniature martial artist Weng Weng showing off his mad rocket pack skills. We don’t necessarily have all that much to say about the technologies employed in this clip, other than we had no idea that strapping two fire extinguishers to your back could…
Paul McCartney just told Billboard that digital distribution of the Beatles back catalog is happening in 2008, and that the legal hurdles were already mostly cleared. Of course, he did qualify that with an “I’m pretty sure…” Here’s what he told Billboard: “It’s all happening soon. Most of us are all sort of ready. The…
