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If you have problems displaying just how much you love the Transformers then get yourself one of these rings. Two types will be made—Destron or Cybertron varieties—and they are strictly limited edition with only 50 being made each. At $185, the money is a small asking price to pay to show your true robot emotions.…
Remember that badass Joker semi we showed you a few days ago? Here’s some video of his ride, but it’s a bit of a spoiler for those who want to be completely surprised when good triumphs over evil, and the Joker destroys Batman in The Dark Knight. Oh, and hit the jump for a bonus…
iFuntastic, the iPhone Ringtone swapping GUI app, just jumped to version 2.1. It still can load your iPhone with ringtones of your choice and can even rearrange the main menu icons. But now you can swap out that swarmy AT&T logo for any PNG at 65 x 18 pixels. (Above, I used a transparent background,…
The Blow Ta Lamp is a striking design from Studio Italia Design—a lamp magically encapsulated within a glass bubble. The directional controls are executed via a magnet on the outer surface of the glass case and the power is supplied via a 12V lamp head. At $1200 the price of chic design is not cheap,…
The Tivo HD is the product were waiting for but beginning to doubt. Because Tivo’s Series 3 model successfully brought HD to the platform, but at a price reserved for high-end home theaters. So when news of the $299 Tivo HD broke, we were elated. But how does it perform? Hit the jump for our…
This Sunday’s Circuit City ad is offering savings of $20 on the purchase of two Xbox LIVE accessories $19.99 and up. Constomers have double checked, and the deal applies to LIVE points, which means you can get a two-for-one special on 1600 point cards! Go forth, buy the cheap cards, and get future LIVE Arcade…
Remember those cool Fossil OLED watches we told you about? They’re available now for $105. [fossil] https://gizmodo.com/fossil-oled-watches-tell-time-impersonate-better-gadge-280021
Nanopoint has come up with a genuine scientific breakthrough that is set to revolutionize research and medical diagnosis in a flash. The hype surrounds Nanopoint’s cellTRAY, IDSA’s 2007 Gold Winner in the medical category, which allows scientists to image living cells on a slide for the very first time. The technology is a standard microscope…
The Army has been using their videogame America’s Army to attract civilian youth demographics for sometime, but now actual soldiers are playing it with live ammunition for real combat training. This video shows the integration of America’s Army in real settings, and how the Army can set up this arcade/simulator/training anywhere they are stationed with…
The Ikea in Oslo is opening up a free hostel for shoppers who want to continue the clusterfuck that is the Ikea shopping experience for day two. 30 participants will get free dinner, breakfast and the joy of sleeping on dormitory-style beds. Plus, shoppers keep the sheets (good call), a bathrobe and slippers, too. For…
Our mutant half-brothers over at Kotaku have posted a follow-up to yesterday’s Walmart ad, potentially reaffirming the Xbox 360 price drop to $350. https://gizmodo.com/walmart-ad-has-xbox-360-price-drop-coming-august-8th-283570 This time, it’s a Toys R Us ad, showing the Xbox 360 for the same $350 price under the price reduction euphemism of “price break.” This ad says August 12th, the…
Atari’s Pong is stealing our quarters once again, recently approved for use in a slot machine made by Bally: “Bally Pong.” A cabinet decorated with chrome fixtures and retro fonts will be a pretty standard 5-line slot, though featuring two knobs for the 1-in-70 occurrence of a 45-second Pong minigame. And while earnings at this…
Kyoto University and the Honda Research Institute Japan have collaborated to form the Robot Audition Project. They are at present making some very impressive ground; they have developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The efforts of the team are coming…
The rumored new Apple keyboard has already been analyzed to death, compared to its current, fully real counterpart. But in this handy side by side picture (hit the jump for a mega version) we can see the potential impact the new design will have on Apple users. What, for instance, will we ever do without…
In the future, all furniture will glow. But if Fuwapica has anything to say about it, the glowing will quantify your embarrassment. Fuwapica seats are, at their heart, about social humiliation. Coming in Honeycomb and Ice varieties, they assign you a color based upon weight, providing us with luminescent evidence that, yes, we are the…
Lomak (Light Operated Mouse and Keyboard) allows for control of an entire computer through the use of a light pointer, accommodating those who have difficulty with traditional input devices. Operated by hand or head, users aim the beam of light at a pad holding rotary-style letters and numbers. As the light passes over each button,…
The Google News Cushion is a standard couch pillow that’s been printed with the top Google News stories of the year. It’s a microcosm, in plush, pillow form, of the collective human experience on planet Earth. For instance, what news did we search most in 2003? Kobe Bryant, Brittany Spears, Shakira, and 50 Cent. 2005…
Without seeing the alleged Walmart ad with my own eyes, this is still in BIG RUMOR form. But according to a very small picture (bigger version after the jump) that has been floating around online, the Xbox 360 Premium may be dropping $50 to $350. UPDATE: More unconfirmed intel informs us that the drop is…
Not being well-versed in the areas of our penal system…our collective penal system… we had no idea that the N64 rumble pack was huge with prison tattoo artists. A maximum security prison guard recently wrote our sister site Kotaku, and here’s what he had to say: It is actually pretty easy. There are no workshops…
While YouTube has already been running fingerprint technology in beta for companies like Disney, a Google lawyer said Friday that video filters should be in place by September, and if not then by fall. Automated technology is, of course, the only way to police vast amounts of uploaded material. But it’s disheartening to see Google…
