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Intel and GPS chipmaker SiRF to team up for GPS and processor integration coolness [Press Release]
Sure, the Segway turned out to be a gigantic joke of a failure, but that doesn’t mean the technology from the dork transporter is useless. Some clever high school kids from Canada have designed a really unique motorcycle-type vehicle called the Tango that uses the same balance-based tech for control. Rather than having its two…
Apparently Microsoft has started adding extra GPU cooling to new retail Xbox 360 elites in order to stave off overheating problems (and the three red lights) the units may be having. These added heatsinks were only previously found in refurbished Xbox 360s in Europe, which meant we were pretty much SOL. Ben Heck dismantled a…
LEDs are spreading all over the home, and now these Lumen LED Lights have found their way into every corner of your house, bringing a spot of color here and there and adding a little extra style on the way. These 8-inch phallic symbols are available in the colors you see above, and run on…
Sanyo’s Rear View Backup Camera System claims to have a new twist on an old idea, “AirCam technology” that gives you a wide angle shot of whatever is behind you rather than some annoying fisheye image that’s hard to look at. Mount the tiny camera on the corner of your license plate, wire it up,…
Yesterday on Gizmodo we brought you a pretty esoteric bunch of stuff. From seven-and-a-half-tonne bridges made of cardboard to fake iPhones, Samsung cameras, Harry Rotter T-shirts and how to frack like a Terminator, if you missed out on any of these stories first time around, check ’em out now. • The ending to Harry Potter…
The Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine claims to improve your muscle strength and bone density, using some magic high-frequency vibration. Doesn’t this remind you of those worthless butt-shaking machines that were so popular back in the ’60s? This one’s makers also boast about how it could actually speed weight loss. They even drop the possibility…
This strange sleeping bag can do two distinct things. First, it can provide a bunch of nice therapies to your body, such as a steam sauna, water jets and oxygen misting. Second, it can easily detect wealthy idiots, as it has a pricetag of $5,000. But it “detoxes liver, gall bladder, and blood clotting cellular…
What do you get when you mix the nightmare-inducing early-’90s robotics of Chuck E Cheese’s with Bubba Sparxxx? Slightly less nightmare-inducing robots. That may be because I’m older now and less afraid of robots, but if I remember correctly the music these robots used to play while I scarfed down crappy pizza and wasted my…
This week at TreeHugger: Once there was a little paper company in Finland called Nokia. They started making plastic boots, and that didn’t work out too well, and then decided to give mobile phones a shot. That worked out so well that they now have the Mobile Phone Throwing World Championship, held each year in…
Men, we have been defeated. After years of struggle, battling for a simpler life with less purses to trip over, women have struck at our weakest point—our insatiable desire for gals holding guns in their underpants (bonus, full NSFW gallery after the jump). Oh, but the other side has had such technologies for years, you…
The only way we could enjoy the self-explanatory Titanic Lamp more is alongside Celine Dion’s severed hand reaching from the depths of our coffee table, grasping at air, and sinking to the cold world beneath our coasters. $630 [product via bltd]
iTunes Store sales hit 3 billion songs. Can we get a counter with spinning numbers in the top right-hand corner? [Apple]
Rumors of an impending AT&T/eMusic tag team for an over-the-air music store were true: The eMusic Mobile store will be stocked with 2.7 million songs in delicious DRM-free MP3. Better yet, not only do tracks download directly to your phone, a second copy is sent straight to your computer. Not so delicious: https://gizmodo.com/rumor-has-it-that-at-t-has-teamed-up-with-drm-hatin-onl-282374 The price,…
If you didn’t get enough with the Typhoon closing on the Hercules, check this Sukhoi SU-27UB whizzing by just 4 feet above the runway. However, this isn’t the most impressive thing flying at the Russian 2007 Air Show. Check out some of the strangest and coolest airplanes you will ever see, after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/typhoon-strike-fighter-closing-dangerously-on-hercules-283575…
Do you watch boatloads of CSI to get your fill of dramatic interrogations? How would you like to experience the show…but for real? Because the Suicide Bomb Box is not just a fun conversation piece (like this guy), but a life-altering, sleep-depriving, head-dunked-in-water, that-rifle-won’t-fit-up-there-ok-yes-it-will piece. Featuring a big red button and all sorts of nifty,…
This EzKEY combo mouse and keypad might be just what you’re looking for if you’re on the road, suddenly need to add a long list of numbers, and your laptop doesn’t have a keypad. Just flip up the top as you would open your car’s trunk, and there you have a keypad to do some…
Despite the Cell processor being a joint venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for “synchronised parallel processing with shared memory,” which they claim Sony has broken with the use of the Cell processor in PS3s. But…
The TabletKiosk Sahara, a relatively unknown tablet that can do both dual pen and and touchscreen input, is shipping now. Comes with an intel Core Duo LV processor, and can be configured at up to 4GB of DDR2RAM and 160GB of SATA. [TabletKiosk]
No need to curse the darkness with this Nightlighter, which not only lights your path ahead but shines a couple of really bright LEDs toward the ground, assuring you that you won’t trip over that sleeping dog in the middle of the floor when the lights have gone out. Powered by a trio of AAAs,…
