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With Halloween just a couple of days away, you may find yourself searching frantically for that last minute costume. If any of the following outfits are on your list, strike them off immediately —for these are costumes likely to result in a severe ass kicking. And nothing ruins a Halloween faster than wedgie-induced taint rippage…
Even though Singapore Airlines has equipped its new A380 jets with private double bed suites, company officials are saying you’d better not do the bouncy bouncy in there or you’ll meet with their stern disapproval. What are they going to do? Throw you off the plane? The first couple to book one of the double…
While the Gulf Coast of Florida has no shortage of angry old coots living in trailers, this Saturday was the first time one of them shot a bomb-sniffing robot in the face (or well, the lens). Over the weekend, a SWAT team, K-9 Units, and Special Ops negotiators were called into a North Fort Myers…
The Odaiba Ferris Wheel in Tokyo is the tallest in the world, bringing riders up to a height of 377 feet at its zenith. We went on it and, stupidly, decided to ride in one of the 4 glass-bottomed cars on it. It was basically the scariest thing ever. We were level with the surrounding…
Join the Gurus of Cool as they look forward to astonishing discounts on HDTVs for the holiday season, pointing out their fave LCD and plasma displays for your shopping and money-saving pleasure. Don’t miss the Coolness Lounge, where Charlie reveals behind-the-scenes details of James Randi’s million-dollar offer for proof of Pear speaker cables’ higher quality,…
We had a super-duper weekend. If you missed it, stop crying like a sissy and check the roundup below: Apple set a two iPhone limit and stopped accepting iPhone cash purchases. The Palm Z Silverlit Mini RC flew into our lives. Leopards were seen marking their territory on PCs throughout the land. The iPumpkin was…
Get ready for some monster-sized TVs for monster-sized prices. Shinoda Plasma Corp of Japan is prepping some 3x2m modules for sale to manufacturers, which would provide the guts for 142-inch plasma displays. They won’t be cheap, however, with prices for manufacturers running in the “several tens of millions of yen.” With 10 million yen equaling…
Partly due to the Leopard’s relatively incremental, evolutionary nature, I’ve had a surprisingly angst-free upgrade process. The Apple Support forums have been relatively quiet, save the now fixed BSOD issue. But that doesn’t mean I believe everyone’s experience has been so good. How’s your Leopard experience been? [How To Comment] https://gizmodo.com/apple-leopard-install-bsod-fix-316051
On the fence about getting a Nintendo Wii? Don’t miss “Buy Mii a Wii,” stand-up comedian André Meadows’s parody of T-Pain’s “Buy U a Drank.” We like this guy, laying out the nerdousity and geekitude in his inimitable style. It’s infectious. So now we’re playin’ Ninten-Do, oh, oh, oh, oh! [BlackNerdComedy, via BB Gadgets]
NVIDIA has just announced their new GeForce 8800 GT. It makes all those new Direct X 10 accessible to your midrange budget. Look for the cards for $199-$249 starting…NOW! [nvidia]
When most of us look at this Russian group CD-ROM cult, we’re silently relieved that the Cold War is over. I mean, how does one defend against assailants armored with the best hits of the 80s, 90s and today? Your only real defense is to make friends over a bottle of wine and some cured…
Here’s a tricky way to transport whatever contraband suits your fancy. Of course, you might not be able to get this one by the TSA screeners at the airport, since they’re already on the lookout for that highly explosive water that’s such a horrific threat to us these days, but this clever container could come…
Intel rolls out first 45nm processor, the quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX9650 desktop CPU. Penryn architecture brings 1,333MHz front-side bus up in there, lower energy consumption and whoa, it’s faster, too. [I4U and reviews at PC World, Bit-tech, Legit Reviews, and Tom’s Hardware overclocking the mutha to 4GHz]
The situation is confusing enough when havoc strikes, and when radios aren’t working and firefighters don’t know where their colleagues are, it gets a whole lot worse. Learning from the communications problems of 9/11, designers solved those problems with this Smart Suit whose embedded sensors transmit the exact location and vital signs of each firefighter…
With no announcements or fanfare, Zune Marketplace appears to be improving the resolution of their album art. Users are noting that new albums looks better, while numerous old albums are momentarily dropping from the service only to be replaced by bigger, more beautiful versions—all available for free re-download. One Zune owner reports that their 1680×1050…
The just-announced Shadow runs on Windows Mobile, but it’s somewhat forgivable given the nice UI that HTC and TMO added this UI on top of the sludge. Scrolling the wheel navigates you through the submenu, while clicking up and down on the 5-way. There’s media playback on the home page that supports music and album…
Who knew a minor variation in the shape of the top of an ordinary trash can could be so useful? There’s usually a trashcan next the toilet, so Snowtone Design figured it might be nice to put that receptacle to use during the times you’re not throwing stuff in it. Just drag it around in…
Easily installed iPhone apps are back on version 1.1.1. If you point your iPhone/Touch browser to jailbreakme.com, click “install AppSnapp”, it’ll use the TIFF exploit to jailbreak your phone and install Installer.app. Our test notes include the following: —Before you start, I’d probably switch to Wi-Fi and turn off the auto-screen lock (set it to…
While we know that Apple will eventually roll the Intel Santa Rosa chipset down through all of its laptops, there are surely a faithful few who feel their weekly pilgrimages to the Apple Store aren’t being properly appreciated by Lord Jobs. But new Leopard driver evidence nearly proves that Apple does have Santa Rosa MacBooks…
New ideas are needed to keep the tumbleweeds from blowing through the Walgreens photo department, and the latest is a burn-your-own-DVD kiosk, specializing in the rare and out-of-print. We were the first to report on the DVD Copy Control Association voting to approve the “DVD Download” CSS format. But many of you complained that it…