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Although the Japanese often improve on many of our gadgets, replacing the dirt in an ant farm with a nutrient-rich gel doesn’t quite work as well as you’d think. Instead of digging tunnels and generally surviving, the gel ants in this Antquarium live only a short time by feeding on the dead flesh of their…
The Pitch This commercial’s official title is “Helping Hand,” but “Manmade Disasters” would’ve been more accurate. The spot opens with a dude balancing his old tube TV on a balcony ledge, then scanning around to make sure no one’s gonna bust him on such an obviously callous maneuver. (Pity about the pedestrian who will likely…
From the 1977 book Rocketship: An Incredible Journey Through Science Fiction and Science Fact: Paul Maiwurm’s fanciful Cyclonic Rocket depends on four rocket engines, unusual rotating tubular wings (wouldn’t the whole vehicle tend to rotate?), scoop propellers and happy pilots. Obviously it’s a California first. See also: Aerial Navigation Will Never Be Popular (1906) Commuter…
This week at Uncrate: We chop our way to birdie with the Tree Surgeon Golf Club, lug our laptops in the Incase Sling Pack, and celebrate our favorite font with the Helvetica DVD. We also cart around our future gadgeteers in the Bugaboo Bee Stroller, hit the highway, family sedan-style in the 2008 Honda Accord,…
Matt Tovey made this really slick table using 434 Itanium CPUs on the way to the trash can. Rather than waste some perfectly good hardware (list price as of last year for all those chips: over $800,000), he made a striking and unique desk for himself. Check out his detailed step-by-step, with plenty of photos,…
Similar to the way that the power cables on the original Xbox had problems with possibly catching on fire, the Xbox 360 Racing Wheel can possibly cause your wheel to “overheat” and “release smoke.” Thanks to a couple instances of this happening, Microsoft is instituting a program where you can get an AC adapter replacement…
Oh boy, the format war sure is heating up! Isn’t in so fun?! HD DVD bribed a couple of studios back to exclusivity! Blu-ray is touring malls with a giant kiosk! There’s no end in sight! Both camps are spending a downright obscene amount of money to convince you, John Q. Consumer, that their format…
Sony turned its Playstation booth into a bathroom for this year’s Games Convention in Leipzig. So, dear Giz readers, captions please—the ruder the better. [Yahoo News via Spluch]
As if we weren’t sick and tired enough of the whole diamond-encrusted solid gold bling craze that’s going on right now, this Widex diamond-encrusted solid 24-carat gold hearing aid beats all, giving new meaning to the term “golden ears.” You know, we don’t even like to use the word “bling.” Shit, now we’ve used it…
When a couple of Swiss kids on holiday in Hungary found a circular object by a river, they did the logical thing and started playing Frisbee with it. They were gob-smacked to learn, however, that their toy was, in fact, a Soviet anti-tank landmine. Lukas Aider and Christoph Kurtz had fished out the 13-pound deadly…
Click to viewPico is a computer interface that can move electromagnetic pucks, merging the digital and physical worlds. In this video from earlier this year, see how researcher James Patten has used his unique combination of projection, magnets and computing to help visualize problems such as determining the best place to put a group of…
Olympus, trying to set a record for the number of cameras introduced in one day, also updated its Stylus line of point-and-shoot cameras with three colorful new models, the 820, 830 and 1200. All of them have what Olympus calls an “all weather” body, image stabilization, shadow adjustment goodness, and now they all have face…
Here’s a roundup of this morning’s Apple rumors, much of which is just recap of older stuff. Kasper at AppleInsider: •OS X being tapped to build a Digital Device family. •Most if not all will employ NAND flash. •Sources in the Far East have seen full-screen iPods, which are believed to come this year. •Click…
Having trouble getting that nicotine monkey off your back? Until you do, might as well make that addiction useful by carrying around Mem|lite, a USB flash drive that doubles as a lighter, putting together two objects that have very little to do with each other. Well, not unless you want to store all the reasons…
Nokia is offering Windows Live software—including Hotmail, Messenger and more—for anyone with a Nokia N73, N76, N80, N93i and N95. Let’s just hope the apps work better than they do on some Windows Mobile 6 devices. [Ars] https://gizmodo.com/first-moto-q9m-unbox-and-grope-mini-review-and-gallery-292281
Here’s video of Sony’s upcoming Go!Explore realtime map for the PSP. We’re digging that the software is free with a purchase of Sony’s GPS add-on. Because not everyone owns an iPhone, OK? And not all of us want calamari three meals a day. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/david-reeves-shows-off-goexplore-for-the-psp-292544.php
Sick of your fellow workers constantly screwing up your morning tea or coffee? Suck UK has come up with the solution (and it’s not a kick up the arse). A pantone-style mug, which shows all the shades of tea, from Milky to Builders’. There’s a coffee version too. More images after the jump. No price—but…
While filming this walk-through of Sony’s new DVR on the PS3 (with content streamed to the PSP), I mouthed to another writer, “This is hot shit!” And I meant it. Especially regarding the part that looks like Apple’s Front Row. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/play-tv-on-ps3-explained-292541.php
Sony says that their new entry-level HVR HD-1000U video camera brings professional high definition moviemaking for “wedding videographers, freelancers and educational video creators.” So why is this camera good for filming high-def porn? For one, the shoulder-mount design will tighten those pans, as will the Super SteadyShot optical image stabilizer. Not to mention the Smooth…
Of all Sony’s recent PSP announcements, this is really the only one that could directly impact American consumers in the near future…and long distance relationships everywhere. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/clip/gomessenger-with-fancy-pants-computer-graphics-292548.php