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This clip from the 1966 radio documentary 2000 A.D. is of a short interview with Philip Johnson, an architect that designed the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Johnson sounds quite pessimistic about the future of American cities but ends the interview with an oddly optimistic tone. Below are excerpts from the interview.…
You remember Toto, don’t you? Not the dog but the toilet company in Japan that makes those Neorest toilets with the “washlet” under the lid. Now it’s taken that butt-spraying goodness a step further with its Neorest Hybrid Series toilets, which use less water than any other, just 5.5 liters (1.45 gallons) per flush. It’s…
Modder John entered this Optimus Prime case mod into the Extreme Tech case mod contest, and well, it’s probably the best Transformers-based case mod we’ve seen yet. It’s six feet ten inches tall, transforms into a smaller desktop mode, has a seven-inch LCD on its body, two windows on its chest (like the actual Optimus…
This might look like something humans would set up if they were settling on a harsh planet such as Mars, but it’s actually something humans set up to settle a radio station in the harsh country of Poland. Yeah, it’s the headquarters of Krakow-based Rmf FM, and if you think the outside looks neat, wait…
Meizu’s CEO let everyone know (via a forum posting, no less) that their first Meizu M8 MiniOne version will be the 8GB mode, and it will ship for about $400. That’s a $70 increase from the previous price data, but is much better than the totally off figures we saw last month. Good news, other…
“One cannot live while the other survives.” – J.K. Rowling It’s been what feels like three years in the making, but the final fight in our iPod Dock Battlemodo begins now. The $150 Griffin Amplifi is our budget contender, going face to face against the posh $350 Altec Lansing IMV712. And with that long of…
Missed your daily dose of Gizmodo yesterday? Then you must be unaware that Jason Chen made hit 4000 posts yesterday. We had to put him in a straitjacket so he wouldn’t pants everything in sight. There were also paper iPod Docks, projector prototypes and gadgets that withstand the elements. Click through for Thursday’s best stories.…
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Here’s the Official Apple iPhone Fixing Tool with attached instructions. Apparently you will get one back if you ever need to send your iPhone to AppleCare. Clearly, someone at Apple’s design group has been watching too much MacGyver. [Thanks Matt!] https://gizmodo.com/the-only-gadget-macgyver-needs-230472
A crazy man in New Zealand ran a woman down and then crashed into a church. When cops tried to pull him from his car, he “clutched his laptop computer and screamed the name of Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs.” [The Register]
Anyone else remember this ad for the Super Nintendo from the early ’90s? It features Paul Rudd, better known as the “Boner Jams” guy from 40 Year Old Virgin, or the dude they jammed in on the last season of Friends, or the guy from Knocked Up, or the guy you’ve seen in a bunch…
The “Super Tiny Micro SD Card Reader” gets about as small as physically possible to read Micro SD and and T-Flash media, while still connecting to a normal USB 2.0 port. At a mere 25.5 x 12 x 4.5 mm, the reader is dwarfed by keys—I mean, just look at that picture—unless Brando is using…
The sly bastards over at The Pirate Bay are resurrecting the original big fish torrent site, Suprnova.org, complete with the classic look, in a couple of days. [TorrentFreak]
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Granted, there is no magical way to tell whether or not you are one of the alleged 30% of Xbox 360 owners who will suffer the red rings of death. But there is an easy way to check if your unit shipped with the new heatsink Microsoft has added to later units—a feature that we’re…
As promised, here’s our second gallery of Google Streetview camera car sightings from across the United States. The fleet of Chevy Cobalts (and others) is invading the U.S., fanning out across the country while they take their 360° pictures that will end up in Google’s vast photo database of every highway and byway. Check out…
We talked about the initiative a while ago, but Nissan is working on a new car with a slew of features to stop those who’ve drank a bit too much from getting behind the wheel. Instead of Breathalyzer proper, the car uses more user-passive indicators. https://gizmodo.com/toyota-and-nissan-make-drinking-and-driving-a-little-ha-201071 Odor sensors will detect the smell of booze permeating…
If you’re looking to spoil your kid rotten, here’s a $13,300 replica of an Audi Auto Union Type C roadster, a perfect 1:2 scale copy of the classic Grand Prix race car. Your kid will be relatively safe inside, too, because there is no engine—it’s a car that only goes fast as the little tyke…
The Senate Commerce Committee has approved legislation that would enjoin the FCC to oversee the development of a “super V-chip” that would block content on cellphones, TVs, the internet—anywhere tender young eyes could land upon “inappropriate” content. Unfortunately for its proponents, the Child Safe Viewing Act’s initiative will probably bomb even harder than the 1996…
We’re big fans of master craftsman and computer constructor Jeffrey Stephenson’s work, and now he’s outdone himself with the Skyscraper Photo PC, made entirely of basswood and mahogany veneer. We’ve shown you some of Stephenson’s work before, the beautiful Decomatic Model 12, and now it looks like he’s outdone himself with this case mod with…