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Here’s your proof that the iPod touch is easy to use: It’s such a no-brainer that even a hairy mammal with a brain smaller than most humans can scroll through the pictures on it. Hey, it also shows how scratchproof that glass screen is. [Core 77]
The Xbox 360 Racing Wheel Retrofit program that Microsoft instituted back in August is well underway, with people getting letters like the one above that we personally received. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-starts-xbox-360-racing-wheel-retrofit-program-292687 If you signed up for a “retrofit”, you’ll be eventually sent a shipping container that you can shove your wheel for Microsoft to repair and ship…
The winners of the Best Science Images of 2007 have been chosen, and we have the top five for you right here. The awards are given out annually by the National Science Foundation, and they’re looking for the pics that do the best job of making our eyeballs pop with science-y info and stuff. So…
If you find it hard to keep counting after your 100th push-up, this piece of genius from those kooky Japanese people might be just what you need. Push the big red button with your chin with each rep, and prove to the world that you’re a real man. You can do up to 999 push-ups…
Trying out demos for new games before you buy is a fantastic idea (as Xbox 360 owners can attest), which is why Nintendo’s bringing DS demo downloads to your Wii console. There are no details or release dates yet, but besides having a Wii, a DS, and some kind of internet connection, there shouldn’t be…
Today at Yamaha’s line show in NYC, pianos took center stage. Yamaha, one of the world’s biggest piano makers, has been innovating on the design for years. The current crop of radical, digital shifts forward: • Disklavier 2.0 – $10,000 to $80,000 – Grand piano’s brand new software streams digital player-piano songs over the internet,…
Brando touts this small Eco-Power Display Turntable for displaying collectibles, anime figurines as you see here, models and such, but we would suggest using it to shoot videos of small objects, making it look like you’re doing a Steadicam move arcing around them. That’ll work well under video lighting, too, because this $15.90 turntable has…
Philips has a pretty sweet deal going on right now in its online outlet store, offering a bunch of refurbed plasma TVs for prices as low as $949 for a 50-incher with shipping costing a mere $30. Yeah, they’re refurbs and last years models, but a 50-inch plasma shipped for under a grand is tough…
Despite the fact that the ad agency and studio Sony hired to create their bunny Bravia ad, Fallon and Passion Pictures, clearly and blatantly ripped off LA-based artists Kozyndan, it’s standing behind them and denying that anything dickish was done. https://gizmodo.com/sony-bastards-ripped-off-the-bunny-tsunami-ad-307398 Basically, Passion Pictures got in touch with Kozyndan two years ago about working with…
A group of 20 people have celebrated a party in a huge jacuzzi at the top of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps at 15,711 feet. They had to carry 45 pounds of equipment each, custom-made to work with less oxygen, lower pressure and “against wind and freezing temperatures.” Full gallery and details…
We asked readers for examples of outrageous audio equipment, and boy did we get a boatload of responses! Thanks to all our readers who sent in suggestions for our list of audiophile accoutrements. Dive into the gallery below for the grand exhibition of audio enhancements and tomfoolery, with gadgets and geegaws from the sublime to…
This week at Uncrate: We contemplate traveling to the Tokyo Motor Show to steal a Honda CR-Z, carry our meager stacks of cash in some DB Clay Version 3 Wallets, and straighten out our drives with the A-Balance Golf Tee. We also take a tour of Kazakhstan using the Borat Travel Guide, hit the town…
Here’s a selection of spooky-ook furniture you can buy if you’re opening a haunted fairground attraction*/Madame of the world’s least sexy themed brothel*/looking to scare seven shades of shit out of your kids*/on the shortlist to decorate Marilyn Manson’s new crib*/a very sad and lonely individual*. Anyway, it’s expensive, it’s bad taste (that bloodied -baby-cradle…
Our brothers from another mother over at Jalopnik posted this great video of the Nissan Round Box concept car from Tokyo Auto Show. Honestly, the vehicle looks a bit like a minivan molested a PT Cruiser on the outside. But the inside has a dashboard that’s absolutely amazing featuring superfluous graphics up the wazoo. Granted,…
Keep ignoring e-paper and e-readers, but as we see more color displays it will slowly take over the world. And Fujitsu just showed off some of their sweet new color e-reader prototypes. These readers feature 8″ or 12″ displays, boast 4,096-colors and XGA 768 x 1024 resolution…all on top of touch screen capability. The only…
Remember yesterday’s photos of the Citroen that a couple of Chinese guys lovingly turned into a Transformer ? Our sister site Jalopnik has uncovered a news report of the cut-and-shunt-it-into-something-altogether-more-wondrous-than-a-Citroen leviathan and Bloody Norah is the bugger big. [Jalopnik] https://gizmodo.com/hefty-assed-transformer-built-in-china-from-a-citroen-309054
Sony Ericsson takes its design chops to the limit with this Portable Bluetooth Speaker MBS-100, a softball-sized orb that reminds us of something we saw in a microscope when we put some soap scum on the slide. With its rechargeable battery that’s said to last five hours, it’s just about small enough to take with…
The Slipstream is Volkswagen’s idea for transport in 2057: a pod that changes from futuristic car on the road, with the driver laying down, to Segway-like vertical transport in a cities so overpopulated that normal cars would be absolutely impossible. Much more agressive than the current Toyota i-Real concepts, the Slipstream can reach 250mph on…
The Sagem Porsche P’9521 cellphone has resurfaced after its initial intro we showed you last June, and this time there are clean and sexy pics along with some first impressions from LetsGoMobile. The phone will be available sometime before Christmas exclusively at The Phone House for a Porsche-like price of €1200 ($1685). Egads, that would…
From time to time we get sob stories here at the Giz, where unfortunate souls are so enthralled with our gadget coverage that they just want that stuff sooooooo bad. Bad enough to beg us to post some publicity for their personal begging websites. Well now, here’s Payittome, a “wish fulfillment” website set up specifically…