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Local 6, who brought us the Spider-Man pepper spray bracelet, today is all over the trend of women dumping Tupperware parties for Taser parties—there’s still wine and cheese, but they’re groping “light, stylish” metallic pink Tasers which are a “must for any modern woman” instead of boring kitchenware. https://gizmodo.com/spider-man-pepper-spray-bracelet-looks-like-a-toy-317989 While we’ve questioned the need for…
Here’s what Zune has for us this year: a 4/8GB flash-based Zune that’s the same size as the 2nd Generation nano, a 30GB first-generation Zune that gets updated features and firmware, and a 80GB Zune with the improved Zune pad and larger storage. The question to both new customers and owners of the first-gen: is…
WTF? It’s a $39.95 PC. Could this be the machine to beat the $200 OLPC at its own game? It’s billed as a “cheap desktop computer,” and then gets worse from there. First of all, it’s a refurbished IBM PC from the late 20th century, probably occupying many a junk heap by now and maybe…
The Prius is widely recognized as a technological marvel, with its regenerative braking, its hybrid electric motor setup, and the supercar-low drag coefficient of 0.26. Which is why it’s sobering to geeks and treehuggers to watch Top Gear describe the Prius as so slow that “a child could run into the street, retrieve his ball,…
Thanks to the Zune 2 firmware update and the $89 deal, the Brown Zune is outselling every other player (flash or hard drive) on Amazon. [Amazon] https://gizmodo.com/dealzmodo-30gb-black-and-white-zunes-for-84-321725
Oh man, you guys definitely got the right idea now about what kind of contest entries we’re looking for. We got some great new entries, including one from a guy working with explosives in a lab, a guy working at a port control center and a couple guys reading Giz during sex. Nice job! Keep…
Someone in Japan must love little trash can robots as much as nerds in the US do, because they’ve made an R2-D2 soy sauce bottle. Just load up the can with soy sauce (the liquid kind, not the semi-liquid kind) and pour it out through R2’s opening into your food for maximum Star Wars flavor.…
A surveillance camera at a Parma, Ohio, gas station caught some footage of what appeared to be a ghost last Sunday, and passersby were immediately calling the blue cloud an angel, attributing it to buried Indians from long ago, and evoking all sorts of supernatural beings. One guy might’ve had it right: Maybe it was…
Artist Billy Chasen took an iPod, blew it apart, and encased it in resin. Big deal, right? Well, the cool thing about this is that the iPod still works. Yeah, despite being blown up and frozen in resin, he’s still able to play music off of it. This would be the best desk stereo ever…
You can grab a free copy of ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware from now until 7 a.m. PST tomorrow as part of their “Patch Tuesday” giveaway. The site’s not redirecting correctly for us now, but it should be back up soon. [Zone Alarm]
This WGA strike sucks, to be sure. If it goes on for more than three months (which is looking increasingly likely), pilot season won’t happen, no new shows will be created, no new seasons will come back, and we’ll be stuck with the dregs of reality TV for a full year. Yep, that means no…
For anyone who might be interested, ACCESS has announced a beta virtual machine that will allow owners of the Nokia N770, N800 and N810 to run Palm/Garnet OS applications. A complete version of the software will be available for free sometime before the end of this year. [Press Release via intomobile via Boy Genius]
The Pentagon doesn’t care where on earth those freedom hatin’ terrists are, they want to be able to blow them up. That’s why they’re spending $100 million on the Falcon project, a weapon that could strike anywhere on the planet in less than 2 hours after being launched from the United States. Similar programs have…
The official announcement is slated for tomorrow, but the official press pics of the Nokia N82 have already been leaked to the public. As far as features are concerned, users can still expect to see a 5-megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss Lens and auto-focus, 3G, 30FPS VGA video capture, secondary video camera, 2.4-inch screen,…
The Toys R Us Black Friday ad has been leaked, and it has some gadgety goodness on top of the deals on toys that you’d expect. You can grab an original Zune for $80, those Zelda and Nintendogs DS Lite bundles for $150, and a compact DVD player for $20. Hit the jump for the…
The “Citron” Zune, which looks like citrus yellow, has been found by deep diving into the Zune software released today. Since Microsoft hasn’t actually announced the color yet, we’re thinking this is either an unreleased surprise for some promotional event—they’ve done many special editions for promotions before—or an old color that was scrapped at the…
You saw our complete Zune guide yesterday, but what you didn’t see was the Zune Social—which didn’t go up until today! The social is pretty much Facebook for music (and only music), and displays the stuff you and people on your list have listened to on their Zune players. It really helps your enjoyment if…
If your new Zune software has been mixing up your album art, here’s how to fix it. [Zunerama] https://gizmodo.com/new-zune-software-and-firmware-available-322033
Norazza’s new PocketRAID drives may look tiny, but don’t say that to their faces, because they store anywhere from 120GB to a whopping 320GB in a measly 5″ x 3″ x 1.5″ frame. Support for eSATA and USB 2.0 ensures that the data is good to go wherever you are. Shipping now, these puppies will…
Throwing darts has never been this fun. Not only do you get the satisfaction of hitting a bull’s-eye if your aim is true, but as soon as you score, this supremely confident blond encourages you, crying out in ecstasy the inexplicable phrase, “Young girl, bull’s-eyes! Wonderful!” Even though it is a bit misogynistic for our…