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Remember those sweet laser-tag type R/C choppers we showed you a few months ago, the ones that fulfilled at least two of Adam’s childhood fantasies? Today, I saw them, or well, something ridiculously identical, both in and out of the box. That’s right, PicooZ is coming out with a $80 duelin’ chopper set called Sky…
Thomas Martel surgically altered his thumbs with a new technique called “whittling” to better enable his naturally oversized digits to use his iPhone. The plastic surgeon made a small incision to each thumb, shaved down the bones, and even made some enhancements to his muscles and fingernails. “Sure the proceedure was expensive, but when I…
HTC’s new flagship smartphone, the Kaiser 8925, could be coming to AT&T on September 3rd for $499. [Crunchgear]
Sony doesn’t want to let its venerable Walkman brand die, and we’re hearing rumblings of a new MP3 player the company is preparing under that age-old banner. The player’s allegedly code-named “Rolly,” and all we’ve seen of the nascent product is this close-up of its user interface that’s part of a leaked video that was…
As anyone who’s ever dated a girl knows, how pants make their butts look is one of the top considerations when purchasing a pair of pants. Realizing this, Hub Clothing in Scottsdale, Arizona, has installed a “Butt Cam” that allows shoppers to see just how fat those pants make their butts look. And you know…
Nokia will support Sprint’s WiMAX network with an N800 tablet. The information comes from head of Open Source Ops Dr. Ari Jaaksi. On top of WiMAX, it’ll retain Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. This is the device, BTW, that has been hacked to get Apple-like scrolling UIs and virtual keyboards. Pretty cool, but by the time the…
Amazon has taken the recent Xbox 360 price cuts even further, offering the Xbox 360 Premium for a low, low $330. Dude, that’s only $80 more than a Wii! And, well, let’s be honest here, it’s way better. If you’ve been holding out, now is the time to go for it. I’m not sure if…
We’re so helpful, trying to keep you cool this summer, and Thanko steps in to assist with this USB necktie with a geeky-looking fan nestled inside its Windsor knot. If you don’t mind being chained to your desk, this might help evaporate a modicum of sweat in even the steamiest of situations. That is, if…
Here’s a feature we missed in our Wii Firmware Update 3.0u post: you can now use a USB Keyboard to type in some Wii Channels. [IGN] https://gizmodo.com/wii-gets-a-firmware-update-1-feature-is-a-clock-286691
Some of our esteemed guitar aficionados and purists looked with disdain upon our post the other day about that limited-edition inverted Gibson Flying V guitar, but maybe this one will suit their fancy: Here’s the biggest Gibson Flying V guitar we’ve ever seen anybody playing. It’s positively humongous. And check out this guy, thrashing away…
This freshly-unearthed 1903 patent entitled “Method of Preserving the Dead” suggests storing our corpses and disembodied heads in blocks of glass, creating the most unsettling yet kind-of-awesome paperweights ever. Why didn’t this ever take off? “Yeah, go grab me my shoes. They’re sitting next to my dead grandmother posed like she’s flexing and wearing a…
A tipster sent us a possible photo for the new Cowon X7 Media Player, which is rumored to debut at the IFA 2007 Electronics Expo. Our source tell us that this is just one of the prototype designs submitted back in March, so it’s possible the final product won’t be identical. Judging from the photo,…
This week at Uncrate: We creep out our house guests with some Custom Creature Taxidermy, cook a frozen pizza in record time in a TurboChef Oven, and wash it down with a cold brew from the Avanti Mini Pub Beer Tapper. We also hide our ears in some Skullcandy G.I. Headphones, keep from burning our…
The US military has developed a bomb that will blow up multiple times. First, the warhead’s explosive itself; then the shrapnel will detonate on contact with any surface. Each metal shard from the shell will blow up everything it touches instead of just ripping through metal or flesh, as you can see in this image…
Mio will present two new GPS in September: the 4.3-inch C620 and C620t will include Tele Atlas maps with 3D buildings, and the latter will have traffic information. [Navigadget] https://gizmodo.com/tele-atlas-software-to-make-gps-traffic-data-much-more-263270
The Canon HG10 high-definition camcorder, the first HD shooter from Canon to record its video on a hard disk drive (HDD), is out for review. The Camcorder Info guys have gotten their paws on one, and in a nearly book-length epic they exhaustively put the little $1299 camcorder to the test. With a couple of…
People are still rooting around the innards of the iPhone, and some inquisitive Brits found a couple of clues that there might be games forthcoming for Apple’s as yet game-dumb cellphone (that’s a simulation in the graphic you see here). Come with us as we see the telltale iPhone code that asks if the user…
AT&T did a live stream of Lollapalooza in their Blue Room broadband portal, and apparently, during Pearl Jam’s set (Pearl Jam? Lollapalooza? What is this, 1992?), they censored some anti-Bush lyrics from their songs. Boy, that sure is great to see, isn’t it? Thanks for deciding what we should and shouldn’t see, AT&T. You’re really…
The Halo 3 Xbox 360 is now available for preorder for superfans who don’t mind paying extra for a fancy case and not much else. Oh, and remember: Halo 3 is sold separately. [EB Games]
After narrowly losing the Battlemodo finale, the Altec Lansing IMV712 was angry, pissed even. A split decision loss wasn’t what the heavyweight had in mind as we called a few extra low blows on behalf of the lightweight champion, the Griffin Amplifi. So the IMV712 begged for another fight, requesting the biggest, baddest dock we…