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Continuing their trend of painting up gadgets you love, Colorware has extended their painting expertise to the iPod touch/nano/cassic as well as the iMac, ensuring your drapes always match the carpet. And if you want to see close-up shots to illustrate why their work warrants a somewhat premium price and is better than a crappy…
Would you like to be remembered as a pathetic geek who based his entire life around a piece of pop-culture sci-fi entertainment that you didn’t even have a hand in creating, filling a unique role of someone who’s completely passive yet also obsessive compulsive? Great! This Star Trek urn is for you. It’s shiny, futuristic-looking…
Seagate’s latest Momentus notebook hard drives feature 256MB of flash memory and come in sizes of 80, 120 and 160GB. The point of the on-board NAND flash? To speed up performance by caching frequently used data in the NAND instead of reaching onto the hard drive every time. By storing boot information in there, it…
Lockheed Martin’s scored a $2 million DARPA contract to develop the One Shot System, which will crunch data on and compensate for wind conditions so snipers can peg targets from further away, even during typhoon season. A prototype’s at least 9 months away, but Kotaku will be getting an eyeful of our own One Shot…
This video tries to make you think that all you have to do is mix a bit of Mountain Dew with a few innocent household chemicals, and you get yourself the equivalent of a lightning bug, or maybe even a neon light. Is this real? We can’t tell how bright this really is, but it’s…
Remember this woman? The one that was going to coat your iPods and cellphones in gold? She’s taken it to the next step and is now offering to coat both an iPod and a cellphone in gold—that’s right, an iPhone. For an as-of-yet undecided price, you too can have the rims of your iPhone be…
For those seeking to be strong with the Dark Side of the Force on the go, the Darth Vader PSP drops tomorrow as part of the $199 Star Wars Battlefront Entertainment Pack. [Game Life] https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-darth-vader-star-wars-psp-278443
Halloween may only last for a day (not counting November 1 cleanup efforts), but with the MP4 Skull Buckle with Line In Control player, goths can experience their favorite day of the year all year long. Not only is this thing shaped like a skull, it’s got an FM tuner, MP3/WMA audio support, MTV/DMV/AMV video…
Last week, a jury that we are not a fan of awarded the RIAA $222,000 for 24 songs shared via Kazaa. The first RIAA lawsuit brought to trial, it sets a pretty lousy precedent and it’s seen as a big ol’ victory for the freedom-haters that rep the major labels. Jammie Thomas, the woman who…
WTF? OK, I am not sold on this, but according to the story, a guy who just bought an iPod touch wrote to [email protected] with complaints about lack of games support, hi-res photo syncing, disk mode, notes storage, add/edit calendar entry and more. The strange thing is, [email protected] wrote back. Here’s the full reply, plus…
Gateway laptop with 15.4-inch screen on sale at Best Buy for $299 [Notebook Review]
We’re not sure how many of Google’s apps have gotten the iPhone makeover, but GMail (along with Google Calendar before it) look quite optimized for the phone’s screen. Of course, there’s no real use to optimizing Google Maps for it, so don’t expect that one anytime soon. [Google via Boy Genius] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-google-calendar-organization-on-the-go-303085
While it’s not quite ready for mere mortals to use it, hackers that call themselves the iPhone/Touch Dev Team say they’ve finally managed to jailbreak the iPhone firmware version 1.1.1. It’s great news because 1) the latest iPhone can be activated again without signing up with AT&T and 2) third-party applications will be able to…
Curious about the new Guitar Hero III controllers? Well, MTVs Multiplayer blog did this great video walk-through of both the PS3 Xbox 360 and Wii versions, showing how the necks detach and how the Wiimote actually gets hooked directly into the body of the guitar. It even shows how dorky you look when you’re playing,…
The first service pack for Windows Vista is on its way, and PC Magazine has a preview of an early private beta version. The good news is that reviewer Neil Randall found the service pack to be faster overall than the shipping version of Windows Vista, and also noticed more drivers available and improved encryption.…
Rumor has it that those new, gimped 40GB PS3s will go on sale here in the States on November 2nd for $399. It’s just a rumor, but it makes sense to us. We’ll see. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/40gb-ps3-finally-made-official-backwards-compatibility-307595
If you missed us blogging our hearts out across the weekend, here’s what went down: •Penryn processors were rumored to be coming to a Mac Pro near you. •A Class-Action Lawsuit was brought against Apple for their bricking tactics. •Bill Gates had problems getting into Nigeria. •We interviewed the maker of the gold Macbook Pro.…
Here’s a longer version of the Comic-Con Futurama teaser. The new DVD is coming Nov 27th and we’re just thrilled at the opportunity to be disparaged by robots again. “What’s the secret of time travel doing on Fry’s ass?” “It was bound to be somewhere.” [via digg]
You read the post about DVRs screwing with Nielsen ratings, right? I’m gonna take a wild guess that most Giz readers never watch regularly scheduled programming. Here’s a quick way for all of us to find out: Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in…
We showed you the first gun-toting robots when they were first unleashed in Iraq, but those were merely bomb-disposal robots with guns attached to them. Now, from the same company, we have robots built from the ground up to be killing machines. Think of them as a very early version of the T-1000. Danger Room…