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The Mushroom Lamp is a glowing feat of technology. But it’s not the power efficient LEDs that will stretch the life of the 4AA battery power supply that has us impressed. It’s the lawsuit-avoiding tech of unlicensed merchandise. Clearly reminiscent of the mushrooms floating around in Nintendo’s famous Mario Bros. franchise, buyer beware. These mushrooms…
The August 28, 2007 issue of Esquire ran a piece by Chuck Klosterman on the Tulsa time capsule we examined a few weeks back. An excerpt appears below and you can read the entire story here. In June of 1957, the community of Tulsa buried a Plymouth Belvedere in a downtown concrete bunker beneath the…
Not all of you loved the Kaws Darth Vader when it was first announced, but for those of you that did, Toys R Evil dug up some great new shots. According to the toy blog, only 500-1,000 were made, and they were selling for $150 exclusively at Kaws’ Original Fake store in Tokyo. In any…
The Red One Camera, which we saw in person back in April at NAB, just got unboxed. Yes, it’s the same camera that Peter Jackson used to shoot the Crossing the Line short film proof-of-concept, but he seemed to like it enough that maybe, just maybe, he’s buying a crapload to shoot the Halo movie…
Engadget’s claiming that the Zune 2 is coming on Wednesday and bringing a firmware upgrade for your original Zune along for the ride. As you can see from the picture, firmware version 2.1 is clearly running on the old hardware, and is most likely going to make it forward-compatible with the second-gen. Whether this means…
This paper shredder design by Hong-Li Zhuo Roy may look like a regular shredder at first, but it’s actually supposed to be “Green”. We’re not sure how the innards are supposed to work, but it takes your crappy credit card applications and transforms them into Post-It Notes. Quite cool if they can actually pull it…
Updated: Better picture. Zune Scene has a leaked image that’s supposedly three display units at a “large retailer” for the upcoming Zunes. If these are on target, there’s going to be at least a pink and brown flash-based Zune that’s smaller than the current one, and a black hard drive Zune that’s about the same…
Alright, that’s enough talk. Our Halo 3 Gizmodo vs. Kotaku match is on. McWhertor may arouse us to no end with his #1 pose, but we’ll see who takes home the prize. All we have to do now is pick a time, a date, and a prize for the winner. As for you, dear commenters,…
Adobe followed through on a promise to release Flash Lite for mobiles with FLV support, which is Flash video support for you people not peering into the guts of YouTube.com. Phones with S60, WM5/6 and a few others should be able to run the plug in, but since Flash video is notoriously greedy when it…
The other Pentax launched today is this 8MP slim that is about 2cm thick. Not bad, but a quick Google search shows that Sony’s had thinner Cybershots, even if at lower MP ratings. (Not sure if that’s counting the big lens cover slides that most T series cams have.) The back has a 3-inch LCD.…
This guy Ed McBride makes all sorts of crazy steel sculptures, including BBQ grills that look like dragons. The largest one he’s made stands a hulking 9 feet tall and has a wingspan of 10 feet. They sure are awesome looking, in a strangely hypermasculine and dorky way, but with prices ranging from $40,000 to…
The medium-sized A40 has a 3x zoom, a 12MP rating and digital and mechanical shot stabilization. Coolest is its ability to record in DivX, which I guess is neato for distributing your home movies on BitTorrent, but maybe won’t result in high quality movies once you run ’em through iMovie or Windows Movie Maker for…
It’s not every day that an actual automaker creates a steering wheel for console gaming, so this Porsche 911 setup is especially awesome. It’s a “fully licensed, to-spec reproduction,” which means the wheel, the 6+1 gear sticks, and the wireless pedals are all as authentic as you’re going to get in your living room. It’s…
As I become more and more enthralled by the simple home theater setup fake surround sound bars provide, I’m surprised to see high-end Marantz get into the game that is otherwise known for midrange players. (This was announced at CEDIA, but I missed it then, and it deserves your attention now). Like the Yamaha YSP…
Bang & Olufsen and Samsung made their new Serenata music phone official today, as promised, sporting the distinctive look and sure-to-be ludicrous pricing that B&O is known for. Loaded with 4GB of flash memory, the Serenata has a built-in speaker that’s designed to pump out your jams with no headphones necessary. I’d say don’t use…
Is your air too dirty to merely filter? Then check out the Antibac2k. This little rotating sphere one-ups all of the gigantic air filtration systems in the US by proactively sending out an air filtration mist that rids your room of bacteria and dust. Think of it as Purel for the air. And if that’s…
Remember Microsoft’s gesture-based table computer called Surface? We got a hands-on of it back at All Things D, but Ars Technica got an in depth look, getting videos of some of the eight apps—some of which ship with it in late 2007. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-surface-confirmed-touch-sensitive-10k-min-264338 Some of those we saw before in the Surface announcement, some of…
Congratulations to Morgan Carlson, the winner of our Energi to Go iPod contest. Morgan wins an Energi To Go Charger, an iPod classic, an iPod nano, and a Nike+iPod Sport Kit. Thanks to everyone who entered too—this was an all-time high turnout. We’ll have even more cool stuff to give away soon. https://gizmodo.com/contest-win-an-ipod-classic-an-ipod-nano-a-nike-ipod-302141
Starbucks and Apple just kicked off the iTunes Wireless Music Store for Starbucks in NYC. https://gizmodo.com/apple-partners-with-starbucks-for-free-wi-fi-access-to-296696 Starbucks CEO Howard Shultz was there, along with Apple iTunes VP Eddy Cue and musical guest John Legend. There were about 50 or 60 people inside the location (it’s the largest of several Starbucks shops around Astor Place, some…
The MummyWrap is a stretchy shirt designed for pregnant moms to protect their unborn babies from electromagnetic radiation (EMR). It works by utilizing a special fabric called Swiss Shield that blocks out the EMR or “electro-smog,” as they call it. Now all of the gadgety moms out there can keep on using their cellphones and…