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These Euros tested the iPhone’s cold weather durability by tossing it in a freezer. It passes. [YouTube]
What do you get when you combine some Russian college kids, an empty dorm and the desire to re-create Tetris in 100x scale? This video. [English Russia]
When I tested Monster’s “iPhone compatible” tape adapter, I expected the $25 setup to have extra shielding to stop GSM buzz from the cellular radios. It didn’t. As a joke, I tried some anti-alien brainwashing technology, or aluminum foil. Turns out wrapping a bit around the first few inches kills off a lot of the…
Ride a bike? Cars not giving you the respect you deserve? Add the Thunder Horn, the electronic bike horn that boops at 115 decibels. In comparison, a Jet Plane is 120db, a chainsaw is 115db, and a car horn is around 110db. Yes, this thing is slightly louder than a car horn. Take that, Nissan…
Monster, that company that makes “high end” cables that our readers L-O-V-E is looking to make something that’s notable for its lack of cables: a wireless bridge for the iPod. Consisting of a dongle and a base station, it’ll allow you to send music from your iPod to your stereo from up to 30 feet…
Following up on last time’s quote tip, here’s another tip you definitely have to know when commenting. Closing your tags. Take it from the dame in the picture, if you don’t close your tags, you don’t know what will end up spilling out. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-comment-stylings-284034 Don’t know how to comment? Here’s how: 1) Click on the…
Music Ally went through Apple’s testimonial at the UK Copyright Tribunal’s decision on online royalty rates, and discovered a quote from iTunes VP Eddie Cue: The placement of third-party advertising at the start, end or during actual delivery of a Repertoire Work to a customer by way of a permanent download. Sounds like ad-subsidized iTunes,…
Getting toast out of your toaster without lighting your fingers (or eyes, if you turn it upside down and shake it like we do) on fire is difficult. With these magnetic toaster tongs, you can reach in and grab your toast, then stick the tongs back on the side of your toaster when you’re done.…
ATI’s recalling a batch of Radeon HD 2400 and HD 2600 cards with a bug in the BIOS application process. If you’ve got one, return it. [Digitimes via Slashgear]
Some time in 2008, you may be lucky enough to get on a 767-200 transcontinental American Airlines flight that’s testing the AirCell in-flight broadband service. The wireless net access will be available to all classes—yes, even us poor people—for a price. There will be three antennas outside the plane to transmit your 802.11a/b/g “Lolz im…
Send in your photos of Google Streetview camera cars to [email protected], and this Friday we’ll have another gallery of your sightings across the USA. This time, in addition to the gallery, we’ll place a marker on a United States map for each sighting, tracking the Google camera car invasion from coast to coast. Be sure…
Morgan Valentine, better known as best wife ever, ordered a custom-made Optimus Prime cake for her husband’s 30th birthday. The cake was made by Nashville’s The French Connection, and has dirt, rocks, grass, plants and an Optimus Prime the size of a toddler. I bet the guy even got sex afterwards. [Flickr via Boing Boing]
Instead of using detergent, this Haier WasH2O uses ions to get rid of brown and yellow stains in your clothes. The WasH2O breaks up water into OH- and H+ ions, where the OH- “attracts” stains and the H+ ions “sterilize” the clothes. We don’t know anything about chemistry, but that sounds like black magic to…
Costco has a 42-inch Magnavox LCD for $1000, but only until August 6th.[CostCo]
The Bluetooth SIG group just approved Bluetooth Core Spec Version 2.1+EDR, which brings easier pairing and enhanced power optimization. [Bluetooth]
In our current quest to stop giving the kings of Saudi Arabia billions of dollars to build yachts and bombs via our love affair with gasoline, some scientists at a company called LS9 claim to have figured out a way to grow petroleum from bacteria. The exciting prospect could shoot us to energy independence in…
I have three questions about this picture: 1. Why did we believe paper faxes were the future? 2. Does that toddler have Wi-Fi? 3. Why does the teddy bear have a phone? This illustration by Tom Chalkley ran in the November-December, 1991 issue of The Futurist magazine. See also: Apple’s Grey Flannel Navigator (1988) Connections:…
Leave it to the commenters to make the nutcracking jokes, but this design concept could be a serious ball-buster. Consisting of two aluminum tubes, it’s sized to fit a walnut inside, and all you need to do is twist, and the nut is cracked right in two by the nutcracker’s ridged edges. Seems pretty simple.…
The Gigantor photo frame isn’t only big on size, like its name, but it’s big on value as well. For $249, you’d normally only be able to get an 11-inch photo frame, but the Gigantor gives you 15 inches of mother-in-law- viewing glory (as opposed to the 19-inch monstrosity that is the PhotoVu). It even…
Call me crazy, but this sounds much worse to me than past viruses in the news: A new worm goes straight after MP3 files, deleting them all from your hard drive before moving on to find more victims. It’s spread mostly via external devices, so as long as you don’t plug in some random thumb…