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Holy shit. Robots Rule developed a new Elmo personality for the ElmoSapien, essentially turning the RoboSapien we love so much into an Elmo doll that haunts our every waking and non-waking moment. To install it on your own RoboSapien—although we don’t know why anybody would—just download the instructions, sound files, and follow the guide on…
The HTC Touch Slide, previously known as the HTC Nike—is the slide-out version of the HTC Touch we reviewed back in June. On the inside, there’s 3G HSDPA, 400MHz processor, 2-megapixel camera, and a microSD expansion slot. https://gizmodo.com/htc-nike-touchscreen-slider-287423 On the outside, where it’s interesting, is a SureType keyboard that allows much, much faster text input…
That 20-inch Dell SP2008WFP LCD monitor we told you about has finally launched, complete with the 1680×1050 resolution, 2ms response speed, and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. The best part, besides the great display itself, is the built-in 2.0-megapixel webcam, which makes it pretty unnecessary to purchase another webcam. Unless of course you’re not happy with…
The slo-mo car ballet has been an effective advertising technique for years, but you don’t often see those synchronized cars crashing into each other. Not so in this German Renault commercial, which builds up to some pretty spectacular wrecks. I don’t speak German, so I don’t know what it says at the end, but I…
Click to viewIt’s about 3 months after the iPhone launch, and happy with the improvements, I was planning to change our “Wait” verdict to a full-on and rabid “Buy”. That wasn’t because of Apple, but because of the cool apps being offered by independent developers. All that came to an end yesterday after the new…
Kotaku reports that they’ve gotten tips from their GameStop employee readers that an email got sent out telling store managers to take down any signs relating to the Xbox 360 Core version (that’s the gimped, hard-drive-less model). There haven’t been any reports yet of the same thing going on in other retailers, but unless this…
A HoFo user got his hands on an AT&T Tilt, also known as an HTC Kaiser or the HTC TyTN II, and took a few shots of its exterior hardware buttons and its fairly standard Windows Mobile 6 UI. From the shots, you can’t tell whether the phone has the TouchFlo topscreen UI like the…
There are plenty of stupidly big speakers out there, but how many of them make good use of their hulking sizes? Not many. That’s why this AMP speaker is so awesome: it’s not only a speaker, but it’s also a desk. It’s an active speaker, meaning it has an amplifier built into it. Because of…
Next time you’re wondering if the earthquake of the century is starting to hit, this GraGraph earthquake meter will let you know just how bad that tremblor is, in real time. Once an earthquake starts (it doesn’t say how strong, could mean a lot of false alarms), this little alarm-clock-sized device lets out a powerful…
Credit card companies are dragging their old hairy asses into an uncertain future, finally and begrudgingly offering the convenience of payments without signature to locations everywhere. Here’s the latest evidence of that from bloodsucking Visa, with its Visa Micro Tag that lets you make micropayments without touching anything, where you nonchalantly wave this sky-blue keyfob…
Poor Microsoft Windows Vista. So many people think it sucks that Microsoft has extended the life of the ancient but stalwart Windows XP, originally scheduled to stop shipping in January 2008. Now the company will extend XP’s sales life until the end of June 2008, and will keep those boxes of software flowing to “emerging…
Taking pictures from space takes a lot of tech power. Basically, you need to take many, many pictures and then stitch them together to get anything worthwhile, such as the photos taken for Google Earth. In order to battle the issues that come up with this method (vehicles showing up in multiple shots as they…
Without further ado, the third and final part of the 1987 concept video, Classroom of the Future. See also:Classroom of the Future (Part 1, 1987)Classroom of the Future (Part 2, 1987)Homework in the Future (1981)The Answer Machine (1964)The Road Ahead: Future Classroom (1995)Closer Than We Think! (1958-1963)Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (Part 7, 1993)
After the unboxing of one of the first LEGO Collectors Millennium Falcons, here comes the time-lapse video showing the construction process by a numerous group of German fans. Total construction time: 2 hours 53 minutes. https://gizmodo.com/legos-ultimate-collectors-millennium-falcon-unboxed-no-303613
Some of us old cane-carrying codgers don’t get no respect, we don’t get no respect at all. That’s why we need this cane with a RESPECT stamp on the business end, leaving a mark on those punk whippersnappers who want to disrespect us with their “rap music” and hepcat attitudes. Well sir, those days are…
We asked you to send us some gadgets to wreck a while back, and we finally got to the task today. The Geek Squad had a crusher set up at Digital Life, where they were being generous enough to break our tech products for free, rather than charge $49.99 like they usually do when people…
Are you really stressed out about money? I mean, you can’t help but spend it on frivolous things, despite the fact that you really need it for boring stuff like rent, groceries, and student loan payments. Well, here’s the worst solution possible for your problems: Japanese “Adult Milk” that is supposedly loaded up with the…
Why spend a cool $1000 or more on a touchless toilet when you can make a Roboflush mechanism yourself with a bit of programming and LEGO NXT Mindstorms? The ultrasonic sensor discovers your presence, and as soon as you’re done and gone, it sends the signal to the NXT unit which croaks out a strained…
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As apparently I’m the de-facto expert on all things cannabis related around here, I was asked to post about this N64 Controller/Bong mod. In my expert opinion, it’s badass. I mean, it looks like there’s some sort of tinfoil bowl apparatus where the thumbstick used to be, which is good, as if he was just…