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A major milestone in the OLPC saga has just been reached. After hyping it for five years, the “$100” laptop is finally ready to hit mass production, and should be in kids’ eager paws by October of this year. Unfortunately for said kids, the porn sites that they’re so looking forward to browsing will be…
There’s nothing more Gizmodo-y than a rich dude building a badass suit for himself to fight crime and kick dudes in the face. This is why we love Batman and to a slightly lesser extent, Iron Man. Here’s the first shot of Robert Downey Jr. flashing his “talk to the hand” move in the upcoming…
Boeing, purveyor of exceedingly large airplanes and defense systems, has won a $7 million contract to develop a truck-mounted laser beam that destroys rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds. The aim is to build a preliminary design of a rugged beam control system on a Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck. I’ve suddenly got an image…
You remember last Friday’s Elvis robot from WowWee Alive? You remember how our unboxing got extra creepy when we decided to see what was under the skin of the replicant King? If you didn’t think it could get any weirder, watch our video, in which the faceless Elvis robot sings, wiggles and banters with unseen…
AT&T’s Video Share video calling service has now gone live, but with plans of $4.99 a month for 25 minutes or $9.99 for 60 minutes, it’s not exactly cheap. [AT&T] https://gizmodo.com/at-t-unveils-video-sharing-service-presumably-to-help-270237
People have made the case for choosing a Creative Zen W over both the iPod or the Zune (16:9 display, DivX support, 4.3-inch screen), but the storage size has always been a little lacking, even in the 60GB model. By upgrading the drive to 100GB, you’re one-upping the iPod in both space and screen size.…
Kingston’s latest 1GB microSD and card reader product has 10 songs and 50 additional tracks in the bundled free trial subscription to eMusic, and their latest 4GB miniSD card is available in class 2, 4 and 6 speeds. [Kingston]
This Musical Shower Knob rocks the tunes while pulling duty as a clever sight gag, but it’s not going to fool anybody unless you have a couple of other faucet handles that look just like it. It’s an FM and AM radio (too bad you can’t slide a flash card in there for some mp3…
Really enjoy God of War? Then Gizmodo Buddy Ramon, who created the ultimate DS Lite Zelda mod and the ultimate Legend of Zelda Wii mod, has something for you. It’s the, dare we say it, ultimate PSP God of War Mod (Mod of War). https://gizmodo.com/the-ultimate-ds-lite-zelda-mod-257536 There are red LEDs, golden chains (the game is Chains…
Picking and choosing your favorite stations on XM and Sirius Satellite Radio might be a delightful result of the merger between the two companies, at least that’s what the companies are saying will happen if their proposed deal goes through the FCC gauntlet. That’s just the beginning, too, because the companies add that their subscriptions…
GameStop (and by extension, EBGames) is selling the rest of their 20GB PS3 stock for $450, which includes 5 free Blu-ray movies per the promotion going on now. This model, like the 60GB, still uses hardware for backward compatibility for PS2 and PS1 games. [GameStop via Ars Technica]
The Mountain Hardware Stronghold Camping Tent shields you from even the most horrific elements, constructed in a dome shape with some of the strongest geometry known to man. While it’s not that McMansion where you usually hang out, it still has two doors, a roof vent for staring into space late into the night, and…
You thought, “I will check Giz after the weekend, they’ll have some competent writer condense all that cool stuff in a series of handy links.” Well, you were right on one account at least. Jump for what you missed: • Gang kidnaps top world gamer for an account password. • Rumored 6th gen iPod interface…
At first, the story looks fairly predictable: The peaceful Canadian town of New Denver (pop. 600) has asked Telus, the region’s wireless carrier, not to build a proposed cell tower. The reason isn’t fear of what’s new and different; the town would like to promote itself as a destination for people who want to get…
Here’s a new commercial for the Microsoft Zune that’s just been completed. Directed by Ryan Dunn for Vitamin Pictures, our insiders tell us it’ll air this Saturday. The graphics were created in Adobe Illustrator (and a bit of Photoshop, too) and then animated using Maya 3D, Sketch Toon (a plugin for Maya) and Adobe After…
The price of upscaling video free-falls even more with the Helios H2000 upscaling DVD player. Sure, this one can only crank your video up to 1080i, but its $99 price makes that quite an attractive option. It can also handle XviD, the efficient video format that’s one of our favorites, and also popular among those…
Just after we had a first look at the new drums from the upcoming game Rock Band, Amazon has priced the Xbox 360 bundle (so keep in mind, this isn’t necessarily final). For $200, you get the game, a mic, wired guitar and drumset. And hearts everywhere are broken. Most players will probably already own…
The Solar Wind Pavilion is a design proposal for California State University to provide an ecofriendly space for students and faculty to gather. The design begins with a 150-foot wind generator that leads down to a roof featuring concentric rings of solar paneling. This rippling form represents the actual energy flowing toward the campus from…
The MiniCat is a self-assembling catamaran. Costing $4,905, it consists of a couple of floats, sails, some aluminum rods, an alloy mast, a rudder, keel fin and a trampoline. You can assemble it in around half an hour (well, it would take me a couple of days—the Addy-Ikea Flatpack interface is not a sight most…
Like other companies hoping to cast a greenish hue on whirring machinery, Western Digital today unveiled GreenPower, a line of internal hard drives that focus on efficiency. That is, they use 40% less power than the competition thanks to some fancy engineering. The 3.5″ SATA drives for desktops, the WD Caviar GP series, are now…