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This is a demonstration of the previously seen iPod glove control concept, allowing snowboarders to control their music without reaching into a pocket and fiddling with the not-made-for-gloves Click Wheel. As you can see, different combinations of finger presses bring up tracks in Postal Service’s serviceable studio album, which look like an awkward thing to…
In the Kenyan slum of Kibera, outside of Nairobi, an oven fueled by garbage is now in testing. At its heart is a superheated steel plate that vaporizes drops of water. The oxygen released burns discarded sump oil from vehicles, reaching even higher temperatures up to 930° Fahrenheit. Garbage is then used to maintain the…
The folks over at Crave discovered that Ask.com’s new search algorithm gives you some pretty questionable suggestions when you type in the beginning of questions. To answer your question, getting preggers in a hot tub all depends on how virile you are. Consider that a challenge. Another challenge: find the most ludicrous suggestion it gives…
This isn’t new (obviously), but many of you might not know that back at CES 1985, Nintendo demoed an Advanced Video System that was the spiritual design predecessor to the grey and black NES we all grew up with. This consoleputer was supposed to be entirely wireless and tied together via line-of-sight infrared, and contained…
Instead of gouging you for hundreds of dollars in international iPhone data roaming charges, AT&T is now giving you a Global Data Plan that tacks on $59.99 a month on top of your calling and existing iPhone Data plan and gives you 50MB to play with. After your 50MB is up, you’re going to be…
If you have the balls to weave your bike through heavy traffic on city streets, you might not even consider Bicygnals, battery-operated LED turn signals that make your bike look like a cop car. For the rest of us, we can appreciate how these front and rear signals communicate with each other wirelessly with a…
Tucked away in a basement in Roppongi (easily the sleaziest neighborhood I went to in Tokyo, as it’s the one that caters to foreigners) lies Hollow Point, a bar with a twist. Sure, you can get drinks and bar food here, but down at the end of the narrow space is a shooting gallery. You…
Fortune magazine must have been sniffing around our haunts lately, because there’s a fresh piece in its pages today about the ongoing war between your friends here at the Giz and our respected and worthy competitors at Engadget. Entitled “The blogs of war: Engadget vs. Gizmodo,” the one-page story recounts the origins of the two…
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For Palm Centro fans holding out until the Ruby Red ones arrive, Sunday’s the big day. That’s when they show up at “all Sprint sales channels, Palm stores and online,” says an official little birdy. [Palm Centro] https://gizmodo.com/palm-centro-unboxed-and-reviewed-verdict-yep-definit-309196
Those of you who have chosen to decorate your kitchen with an eye toward all things Apple will delight in Williams-Sonoma’s iPod-lookin’ Triple Timer. The basic kitchen timer allows you to set three alerts for different dishes, using what looks like a handy iPod clickwheel. (Somebody’s patent’s getting infringed.) The Triple timer also has a…
The photo above ran in the August 6, 1970 Daily Courier (Connellsville, PA). The last sentence of the picture’s caption appears to believe that the telephone was “discovered” rather than invented. Start digging and you may discover some brand new technology, in your own backyard! Lee Klingensmith (left), son of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Klingensmith…
We’ve been eying up gaming chairs for some time, but crescent-shaped ground rockers feel a bit too 13-year-old’s room for us. But the Renegade Gaming Chair may just be the obnoxious gaming chair that we can finally justify, as it also combines the obnoxiousness of a massage/recliner—all into one, efficiently glorious, ubergeek seat. USB compatible…
The Pterosaur might look to you like a typical model airplane, but it’s a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) powered by a highly efficient hydrogen fuel cell. It just broke a world distance record for hydrogen fuel cell micro UAVs, flying 78 miles—28 miles farther than its previous world record, set in 2006. You ain’t seen…
This crazy fin thing was developed by DARPA for scuba divers to swim 150% faster and with less effort than regular fins, helping to get places quicker and preserve oxygen along the way. Modeled after observing swimming habits of penguins and dolphins, it takes the strain away from smaller leg muscles, instead working the glutes…
Click to view At Kepler’s bookstore in Menlo Park, minutes from Apple campus, Fake Steve Jobs just finished a great book reading. And Woz introduced him and gifted him a black mock turtleneck, official uniform of The Steve. FSJ had a “Invented the Friggin’ iPod” shirt for Woz, too. [Giz at FSJ Menlo Park Book…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, steampunk stuff is tired. Just add some bronze, a few gears, and we’ll automatically post about it, right? Well, I’ll tell you what. You take a laptop, add some bronze and gears to it, and make something as incredible as Doc Datamancer’s Steampunk Laptop. I’m guessing you couldn’t do it, because this…
Updates promise to fix a bit of crashiness that users have experienced with the latest-gen Intel iMacs, one each for Tiger and Leopard. [TUAW]
This patent for an “energy weapon protection device” is the perfect accessory for your next anti-war march. It also might be a good idea to just have one handy for other occasions, too, as you never know when the 5-0 might get a little TASER-happy on you for failing to fully stop at a stop…
Gamblers at Tokyo’s Edogawa Kyotei boat races have a (better?) solution than just throwing away their losing tickets. Because now, players can feed them to a robot goat. When the ticket is placed up to the goat’s mouth, a sensor is tripped, cuing the goat to chomp away at finger ticket stubs. Consuming about 500…