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This is one radical-looking lighting fixture. The Wild Thing Ceiling Pendant hangs on a pair of guy wires and makes you want to get your motor running. Its satin nickel/polished chrome frame holds a couple of medium-base lightbulbs, and its functional headlight lights up, too, packing an MR16 bulb inside. It seems kinda small in…
The Best Buy Black Friday ad held a couple deals in terms of reasonably priced TVs and a $399 Sony laptop that’s sure to sell out before you even get in the store, but Circuit City has its own set of goodies for you to camp out for. https://gizmodo.com/best-buy-black-friday-ad-weve-got-the-dealios-320845 Here are only some the notables.…
Luxe designer Louis Vuitton is designing a USB Flash drive for geeks who need a side of haute couture with their gadgets. The thumbdrive features a sexy curved body, and will be made of white or yellow gold with ostrich or alligator accents. Like the designer purses, the flash drive manages to incorporate Louis’ signature…
Do you want a hot set of washboard abs to impress the ladies with? Are you also much too lazy to actually do the sit-ups required to get them naturally? Good news, America! You can get “abdominal etching” done, a form of plastic surgery that gives you a six-pack without the work. For a mere…
Since we showed you the My Chopsticks Bra earlier this week, a video has surfaced, giving us a closer look at exactly how the “concept undergarment” works. The fact of the matter is, it doesn’t work; the bowls are just a decorative flourish instead of containers for real food. Indeed, there are chopsticks that are…
Discovery’s Moon In My Room is an AA-powered smart nightlight that hangs, wire-free, from any wall. You can flip through the phases showing on its detailed, accurate lunar surface, or just go hands-off, letting it rotate through all 12 phases on its own. When the sun goes down, a light sensor turns up the moonglow.…
Dopers who want to get baked without all that cough-inducing smoke have known about the Volcano Vaporizer for years, but recently the company rolled out Volcano Digit, adding a digital display to the front that precisely shows you the temperature at which your weed is cooking. The Volcano Digit’s LEDs add a nice high-tech aura…
Smart Card maker GK Power has been contracted by Dubai First Bank to produce 1,000 diamond-packing credit cards for their most affluent clients. While the deal cost the bank $175,000 just in materials, we’re more interested in the conversation when some guy loses his card. “Shit, I think my credit card was stolen.” “That sucks,…
KOBIE and RABIE are networked robots designed by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). They are essentially sensor and motor arrays whose varied “emotions” are processed on a nearby PC. Because of the wireless connectivity, they deliver greater variety of response with less overhead within the little koala bear doll or creepy rabbit-Pac-Man shell that…
For those who just can’t get enough of scrounging through the forest to collect fungus in its various mushroom incarnations, now you can get the same FUNGtional experience in your home. Designer Simon Duff’s mushroom floor lamp is an LED light that sits on the floor. While we like the idea of spreading little lamps…
Black Friday is only a couple Fridays away, but we’re already gearing up to lose tons of sleep so we can save fifty bucks. Why are we doing that again? Right, because our sponsors are with us! Thanks Ask.com, AT&T, Audi, Canon, Current TV, DLO, Emusic.com, Firefox, Ford Focus, Free Press, Hellgate: London, HP, IBM,…
This new Guinness ad, airing for the first time tonight in the UK and shot over the course of a week in a village in Argentina, features a sweet Rube Goldberg contraption made out of everything from dominoes to old cars to flaming bales of hay. Apparently sequences of it were shot upwards of 15…
BlackFriday.info has just posted the leaked Best Buy ad for everyone’s favorite post-Thanksgiving thrillfest—freezing your ass off in line to save some cash. We took a quick pass through the list and spotted quite a few good deals. Here are some of the more tempting purchases we spotted: HP 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV $996.99 Dynex…
This personal music player (PMP) from Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Reachgood Digital is so thin, if you hold it sideways it’s almost invisible. Its 5.5mm-thin stainless steel case makes it resemble a razor blade. But it’s not thin on features, playing MP3 and WMA files, and also handling mp4 audio and video on its 1.8-inch screen.…
At one of Toronto’s locations of The Bay department store, four giant screens have suffered from the infamous Blue Screen of Death for days. You’d think that someone would, I dunno, turn off the freakin’ screens. Or, at minimum, there’s gotta be some 2.4gHz nanny cam feed they could leech for at least a few…
If you’re looking for the biggest, baddest-ass mofo car stereo amplifier you can get, you might want to consider this 10,000-watt Warhorse from Kicker. The WX 10000.1 weighs a hefty 67 pounds, and that 10kW power stream is enough to slam-dunk you and your subwoofers with its highly refined power. You’re not going to be…
Soon all soccer moms will be James Bonds, changing the color of their car with the flip of a switch. That’s because Nissan is developing a paramagnetic iron oxide paint polymer. Using an electrical charge, the arrangement of iron oxide crystals can be tweaked, adjusting the car’s color. (It just so happens that metal-bodied cars…
Not only did Sony honcho and Knight of the Realm Howard Stringer say that the format war was a “stalemate,” he also confirmed that the tide turned when Paramount went exclusive to HD DVD, when he spoke to an audience in NYC last night. “We were trying to win on the merits, which we were…
In the mad scramble to invent teledildonics devices, an inventor has created a forerunner of the category with the Kiss Phone. Although we’re wondering who would want to be seen in public with this odd-looking phone with its downturned mouth that reminds us of all manner of masturbatory mechanisms, its inventor apparently has high hopes…
Jonathan Tseng, VP of marketing at Asus, promises an Eee in 2008. Like the simple, cheap Eee Laptop, it’ll probably have the Eee Linux interface and it won’t have a monitor. [Digitimes]