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When we posted an unexpectedly well-received video of dice stacking yesterday, little did we realize that this peculiar activity has been developed into an artform by some amazing magicians. Here’s a new dice stacking video from Thomas Fischbach, the same guy we saw in the video update yesterday. For those of you who thought this…
Last month, NY was overwhelmed by Play-Doh bunnies as Sony shot its new Bravia ad. Well, folks, you’ve got a few weeks to wait for the spot to air, but until then, here’s a tiny taste of what’s to come. [Sony BRAVIA – New York] https://gizmodo.com/bravia-ad-shoot-overwhelms-nyc-with-play-doh-bunnies-289341
For some reason, we’re seeing a lot of spy gear making the rounds these days, and here’s yet another, an eavesdropping device you can make yourself for less than $25. This guy has replaced the earpieces on a $10 stethoscope with condenser mics from a couple of cheap-ass multimedia microphones. Then it’s no big deal…
There’s something about those initials HDMI that send some manufacturers into fits of greed, but not Oppo. The company that makes up-rezzing DVD players, two of which we’ve favorably reviewed, now announces an HDMI switch that turns three 1080p sources into one, electronically switching them with a remote control and sending those crispy clean signals…
A neat idea to back up your contacts from both your SIM card and cell phone memory in one fell swoop, the Back-Up Pal keeps safe all your contact info, whilst ignoring ringtones and SMS messages (although future Back-Up Pal models will probably be able to do this.) It costs $39.99 for cell phones with…
This MD4-200 MD is a microdrone, a small flying machine with a built-in GPS for “position hold (in case of strong winds and autonomour waypoint navigation.” It can do surveillance and it even has a blackbox, which uses a microSD card to save flight data in real-time. However, perhaps the coolest thing is their new…
The inventor of the HomePub, a fridge freezer with built-in draught beer system, is, it goes without saying, a genius. Designed with special people in mind, the kind who like to pour beer on their cornflakes or drink their coffee with beer and two sugars, there’s designated space for two five-liter kegs. The HomePub is…
These boxing gloves for the Wii come with their own air pump for easy inflation. They also come with some weird instructions: Nope, I’m not sure what invagination means either, but I’d sure like to find out. They cost $14.86 from DealExtreme. [DealExtreme via New Launches]
The August 3, 1970 issue of Time magazine profiles Alvin Toffler and his book Future Shock. An excerpt appears below but you can read the entire article here. What brings on future shock, according to Toffler, is a rate of social change that has become so fast as to be impossible for most human beings…
Click to viewJust released, ready in your iTunes. This update includes the iTunes Wireless Store, but if you have an unlocked iPhone, be aware that this firmware may make your iPhone unusable. After several hours of testing in house and with the iPhone Dev team, here is the summary of what it does: • The…
The MI5 says this chocolate bar is really a grenade. Made of steel and covered in chocolate, the Nazis designed this during WWII to kill British Royals, who were thought to be chocoholic and stupid. The Royals only had to open these and seven seconds later they will be dead. No bomb ever arrived to…
Google Earth is once again changing the world —or, more specifically, they’re changing the way swastika-shaped buildings are built. The Navy is spending upwards of $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks that, when viewed by satellite imaging programs like Windows Live and Google Earth, looks like a giant swastika. It’s nice that the world has…
If you’ve ever accidentally killed anyone while playing Wii Tennis, then you’ll definitely appreciate the Wii Strap. The not-at-all sexy wrist strap was unveiled by Atlantic’s GameKeeper at DigitalLife 2007 and is designed to prevent you from throwing your beloved Wii controller into your beloved LCD screen. The strap fastens through the controller loop and…
Are you sneaky enough for the SIM Card Spy Gear Remote Listening Device? Just take your SIM card out of your cellphone and stick it in this mysterious black box that’s about the size of a bar of soap. Hide the $85 device in an inconspicuous location wherever you want to do your listening, and…
The world will end with neither a bang nor a whimper, it will end with a pair of Hello Kitty Bluetooth wireless headphones. Sanrio’s Hello Kitty earphones, specifically advertised to enhance your music and video gaming experience, will set you back $135 (15,750 Yen). I definitely wouldn’t mind a pair of wireless headphones — I…
This has to be one of the weirder combos we’ve seen, but Ricardo sent in this picture of a tube of glue that comes free with a dice game in his Portuguese supermarket. We know whenever we have to do some home repair we always wish we had some dice to throw around, and we…
Panasonic’s set to release an updated 7-series version of their Toughbook laptops that can drop 76 centimeters, or 2.49 feet, while on and still function correctly. Although 2.5 feet isn’t all that tall, it’s about the height of the average desk, which means you can safely launch the so far Japan-only Intel Santa Rosa-based laptops…
We’ve just received word from the iPhoneSIMFree team: they claim that their iPhone SIM unlock solution (which we documented on video here) doesn’t send your iPhone with 1.1.1 Firmware into Activation Limbo, unlike anySim. We still have to test this, however. Read what they say after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-software-unlock-confirmed-on-video-297651 We have successfully completed a test…
French cellphone provider Orange (owned by France Telecom) and Apple are having troubles coming to an agreement about the iPhone distribution in France, which may lead to delays—or even worse, going to another cellphone provider entirely. There’s not much else we can say about Apple and Orange fighting that would be funnier than the fact…
Don’t forget to enter in our contest for the Energi To Go Charger, an iPod classic, and iPod nano, and a Nike+iPod Sport kit. Click here for details on how to enter. It’s much better than an iPhone because you get TWO iPods, one you can take running and one that holds a bunch more…