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Who knew a lowly router could be so sexy? We got our hands on one of these 802.11n draft 2.0 Belkin N1 Vision routers today, and it looks just as smooth, aerodynamic and downright alluring in our hands as it does in its publicity photos. We’re especially attracted to its interactive network display, showing us…
Get ready for another in crescendo orgy of Apple rumors, because according to Jacquie at Infinite Loop —Ars’ Apple blog, not The Mothership’s address— the iPods are coming. “Specifically” she says, in a special event on “September 5, according to our sources within the company.” [Infinite Loop] https://gizmodo.com/ipod-nano-spy-shots-confirmed-as-real-by-apple-legal-292524
Behold the view from 117,597 feet, taken on August 11, 2007 by a camera hanging from a helium balloon launched by a group of guys in Alberta, Canada. Called the SABLE-3 (Southern Alberta Balloon Launch Experiment #3), the balloon’s small payload box was packed with a Byonics MicroTrak 300 APRS tracking device, a Nikon Coolpix…
It took 100 hours of Jon C. Acosta’s time to make this rather humbling lightsaber. The steampunk and Star Wars fan planned his work with military precision, naming the finished article Lumen Ex Consilium (Light From Within Wisdom) and even cut, using a diamond bit, the hand-painted crystal himself. There’s more of Jon’s labor of…
Fed up with clueless cellphone gabbing in public? Put an immediate stop to it with this Personal Cellphone Signal Blocker. Running on a portable battery that lasts three to four hours, this 6-ounce pocketable jammer (4″x1.85″x.71″) disrupts signals from GSM, CDMA, DCS, PHS and 3G networks, and its manufacturer says it can do this miracle…
A bag for all seasons, this Flo backpack is modular and can change with your moods—which, if they’re anything like mine, rage from Breeze of Sweet Pea to Tsunami of Bitchqueen Stompiness. You can adapt the Flo to any size—from a pack worthy of a long hiking weekend to an afternoon trip to the city.…
Haven’t you ever wanted to build an undersea paradise where man, machine, and crazy dudes in diving suits could co-exist peacefully without them shooting rivets at your face? We have. Thanks to our sponsors, it’s a reality. Thanks Ask.com, AT&T, Audi, Bank of America, Blackberry, The Book of General Ignorance, California Lottery, Cazadores Tequila, Chargepod,…
1TB CDs on the way, but drives, blanks and burner won’t be cheap [The Inquirer]
Rarely does a woman herself qualify as a gadget, but this time, Michelle Ryan, star of the upcoming NBC remake of Bionic Woman, perfectly fits the bill. At least that’s the best excuse we could think of to find some sensational shots of her and bring them to you all in one place, clickable with…
After being unlocked not once but two and even three times, Engadget is reporting today that the iPhone has been unlocked for the “first time.” Well, it’s not the first iPhone unlock (as my european Vodafone-TurboSIMed iPhone shows), but apparently this method uses only software: a commercial application that will be for sale “soon.” [Update:…
First up, you have to wait for them to go on holiday. The rest is easy. It’s not quite as long as this one, but it looks a lot scarier. [YouTube via Spluch] https://gizmodo.com/drunk-american-heroes-create-homemade-535-foot-slip-n-s-290606
This magnificent shot by Andrew Hunt, taken with a Nikon D70, shows the huge Airbus A380 decked out in Singapore Airlines livery and crossing a bridge at Changi Airport in Singapore. But look, what’s that in front of it on the runway? Why, some airheaded Mac fanboy forgot his MacBook, whose 12.7-inch width is positively…
[UPDATED 9:20EST: jump for US release information.] The new TomTom Rider 2nd Edition, the GPS for bike riders, is finally out in the US and Europe and it looks great. It comes loaded with new features, like its easy-to-setup RAM mount (as the male sheep, not the memory) which fits almost all motorcycles and “withstands…
Today, a Giz team has been deployed to a remote location to hunt some seriously big game. Before we tell you what it is, we want you to guess. Here are the clues: 1. It’s either the biggest or the second biggest in the world, depending on your taste. 2. It brings a rare smile…
This is probably more fantasy than reality, but at Samsung’s recent “Sdium” showroom in Korea earlier this week, the company was showing off radical-looking models of flexible displays. We especially like the Samsung SDI flexible display shown here, which is apparently rolled up within its two scrolls until you want to watch a cartoonish-looking still…
There are summer camps and summer camps, it seems. Camp Okutta, somewhere in the Canadian wilds, is the best training camp outside a war zone, apparently, where you can toughen up your little darlings. Twinky-looking camp counselors give classes in grenade throwing, automatic weapon handling and land mine dodging (quite a handy skill if you’re…
Those freaky scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute are always thinking up cool stuff, and now they’ve figured out how to turn body heat into electricity. It works by taking advantage of the difference between two temperatures, but until these Fraunhofer dudes got ahold of the idea, the required temp range was too great to use…
Connecticut’s Secretary of State released a video on YouTube explaining how to use the state’s new optical scan voting machines. The video is also available for download to something called an “iPOD.” It is frightening to think of an electoral process where you’re encouraged to watch a training video over and over. What happens to…
Click to viewAh, the good old times of the Cold War: Space race! Arms race! Spy race! Trains race? While astronauts were floating in their tinfoil suits, the real action was happening down on rails: The Soviet Union and the US were in a race to get the fastest and spiffiest train ever. The story…
This is the Benefield Anechoic Facility in Edwards Air Force Base: the largest chamber of its kind in the world—a room in which RF and sound signals don’t bounce off the walls, so you can get clean radio frequency testing on all kinds of gear. In this case, electronic warfare systems in huge toys like…