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Although the press release doesn’t mention my beloved chicken sashimi, it does say that the CulinaryPrep home unit, which went on sale today for $400, “removes e.coli, listeria, salmonella and other dangerous impurities from food.” Still, something about it smells fishy. The key to the patented Grovac bacteria-killing process is some kind of “all-natural” antimicrobial…
An 18-year-old in Cincinnati was hit by a train, unaware that it was coming, because he was sending a text message as he walked across the tracks. Despite being thrown 50 feet by the train, Zachariah Smith lived. [The Enquirer via Boing Boing]
Olive’s just released a Opus No3 with a 250GB hard drive that’s designed to hold 700 CDs worth of music in lossless capacity. The thing is iTunes compatible, rips CDs from disc to its hard drive, and is compatible with their Preload service (which you can send CDs to and they’ll rip and include your…
Wireless Info is reporting that the Nokia 6555 will be carried by AT&T. [WirelessInfo via Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/nokia-6555-is-skinny-clamshell-with-3g-analog-clock-v-291605
If you’re in the market for an LCD, you’d probably have to investigate Sharp 92 series and Samsung’s 65F series, their top tier LCDs at the moment. I’ve been playing with both, and they’re both pretty well equipped with 1080p displays, 3 HDMI ports, 15000:1 contrast ratios, 120Hz tech, and more than enough brightness. Picture…
Seen at Wal-Mart, the finest high-tech outlet in the US, this PlayStation 3 store display has not just PS3 games and Blu-ray movies, it even has HD DVDs as well! No wonder its console costs so much. Hidden HD DVD support that nobody knew about! Click in for a better view. [Thanks Tipster!]
Like the Helio Ocean, the Sidekick 3 and Sidekick ID can both get Opera Mini working as a browser. The caveat is that you have to be a Java programmer in the developer community. [Hiptop3]
Despite only having a PS3-amount of playable games, the Nintendo Wii has just passed the Xbox 360 in worldwide sales. Which means the 360’s winning the race for 2nd place. [VGChartz]
Speaking of Windows Home Server, Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research has lived with one for a while and really, really likes it. In fact, he said it was one of those things (like the first time you used TiVo) that you didn’t know you needed until you experienced it. Here are some of the things…
I’m in the middle of testing out this Network Attached Storage kit for a review, and it got me wondering how much storage the average Giz reader has on his home network. This is counting all your machines + all your external hard drives + all your network hard drives. Doing some quick napkin math,…
Well, this is depressing. A new website that’s sure to really change the media landscape has appeared; it’s called MoanMyIP.com. Any guesses as to what it does? Yes, that’s right, it has a “sexy” girl moan your IP address to you. Look guys, I know that a lot of you are really sex starved and…
Blu-ray has been turning the tide, selling almost twice as many discs this year as HD DVD. Their next weapon in the format war? A 40-foot-long promotional mega-kiosk, shaped like a Magic Kingdom Castle. The moving castle will target the fence early adopters are squatting on by touring 18 malls across the nation (by the…
Remember the badass “UFO in Haiti” video that was all the rage last week? Big surprise, guys: It was a fake. The LA Times did some investigating and figured out just who was behind the convincing video. https://gizmodo.com/the-aliens-are-here-the-aliens-are-here-290363 Yeah, I know, you wanted to believe. But it turns out the video was an exercise by…
We thought that $149 Microsoft Zune on Woot would have sold out immediately, but apparently it’s still up on the site. You have until midnight (or until the last one’s sold). [Woot]
We just found one more video of one of the projects from that new book, Forbidden LEGO by Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley, and this one’s the Candy Catapult. The book with all the particulars about how to build this mini trebuchet for sweets will retail for $24.95. [No Starch Press]
You could get a USB Greenhouse to give some life to your computer, or you could go the cheaper, grosser route of just growing some plants in your keyboard. This thing looks like it’s still being used to me, and while it’s neat looking, the idea of having plants growing around my fingers while I…
Click to viewWe’ve heard of VoiceSignal speech recognition for lots of other phones, but now VoiceSignal sent us a video that allegedly shows it working for the first time on the iPhone. According to the guy in the clip, a couple of VoiceSignal engineers designed this app, but all we see it doing so far…
Okoro’s Vista media centers are now shipping with CableCard. [MSMVPS] https://gizmodo.com/okoros-extravagant-high-end-vista-media-center-232959
Click to view[UPDATE 10:30PM EST: Apple asked us to take down the spy shots because they are their intellectual property. So yes, it’s real, even while we don’t know if the design is final or just an old prototype. However, we are keeping this. It’s exactly like the spy shots but it’s our own rendering,…
Bang & Olufsen’s latest sex-tastic DVD player doesn’t just play back DVDs, there’s an analog TV tuner, HDMI output, Guide Plus+, a 250GB hard drive and the ability to burn shows to DVD as well. This may not have TiVo-level functionality, but it’s infinitely better looking. And when’s the last time anyone besides that redhead…