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When is a cassette not really a cassette? When it is cunningly disguised as a sticky tape dispenser, of course. The clever guys at J-Me have identified the life span of the audio cassette as transient, but rather than let it rest in peace, they have reinvented it to spew sticky tape from its innards.…
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for…
One Japanese man has spent $170,000 to build an army of nearly a hundred ultra-realistic sex dolls made by Orient Industry. Apparently he’s part of the fever taking over middle-aged Japanese men, who buy these $850 to $5,500 silicon zombies with 35 movable joints out of desperation. But fear not, this story has a happy…
There was no need to perform a Voight-Kampff test on this skin job. It came from the folks who introduced the world to the Robosapien—and besides, it had infrared vision sensors and no arms or legs. Since we showed you the first glimpse of robot Elvis at CES, we realized that now that it’s out,…
Does this 1970’s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]
Trying to cut down a branch high on a tree with a chainsaw is a good way to gamble with your digits. If you value your thumb, perhaps you should find a better way to cut down high limbs. Might I suggest this ingenious hand-powered chainsaw? It’s the links from a chainsaw with 50 feet…
This design from Joel Hesselgren is the most ingenious use of LEGO for food consumption that we’ve seen since the LEGO dragon soy sauce and mayonnaise dispenser. The white column holds the salt while the black column holds the pepper, and the amount of each is regulated by how many of the holes are covered…
Viewed from the wrong angle, this Oryx bike could look like something from the perv-o-licious Sex Museum in Amsterdam. Designed by a guy called Harald Cramer, it’s a custom-made time-trial cycle with all sorts of weird and wonderful innovations… Made of carbon composite, the handlebars, stem and fork are all one piece, with the ergonomic…
Though there’s no official talk of a Google Phone just yet, the superpower has decided to ante up $4.6 billion to bid on wireless spectrum. Google did say it would only do this on one condition, however. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-google-phone-being-outed-tomorrow-258600 That whoever won the spectrum would be bound by law to offer at least some access to…
If you have a terrible sense of direction but are too proud to be seen getting directions from a GPS device, this GPS jewelry is for you. It consists of a couple of rings, one for each hand, and they vibrate to tell you where to go. Need to turn left? Your left-hand ring will…
If your exercise regime has you drinking a combination of liquids like Gatorade and water, Powerade and Red Bull, or the old G&T, the Swigz Dual-Chamber sports bottle can keep both liquids separate. The two chambers are intertwined so keep the “bottleish” feel intact, and has two heads up top so you can drink without…
Could these possibly be the worst headphones ever made for the iPod shuffle? Yes, yes they could. Instead of making them something a normal person would wear, Arriva’s gone and made them “wireless,” in the sense that they have a built-in iPod shuffle dock and hangs the player off the back of your head. Sure,…
Really like reddit.com? Buy the two Apple G4 PowerBooks that helped code it so you can lick the keyboard and hope some of their juice rubs off onto your own project. [eBay]
Remember when we told you about the first THX-certified flat panel, a $20,000 Vidikron plasma? Well, it’s about to get company, from the likes of Sharp, no less. According to Electronista, Sharp has unveiled the Aquos R series, the first LCD certified by THX for theater-grade image quality, with a THX Movie Mode to make…
Some Chinese site seems to have some leaked photos of Logitech’s upcoming G9 gaming mouse. If this is real, the upgrade to the G5 gaming mouse has interchangeable face plates, LEDs for resolution display and some modularization changes all over the place. Ugly photos aside, this one looks fairly convincing. [Everything USB]
The 85W MacBook Pro charger gets an update that shrinks its gigantic size, but still manages to deliver 85 watts where it needs to go. [Apple]
It’s not a dog toy, My wrist rests on it, it’s cute! I am so lonely. [Product Page via Slashgear]
As you know, many electronics companies offer all-expenses-paid trips to journalists to go to Europe and Asia, touring factories and R&D facilities, meeting with executives and eating like kings. The trouble is, the trips are off-limits to the majority of tech reporters, for breach of obvious ethics guidelines. I know all about the junkets because…
Rather than have a cellphone strap that looks cute and does nothing, this Tiger Paw cellphone strap actually lets you clean your screen—albeit a small cellphone screen. Just put the tiger (or sheep) paw on your finger and start wiping away. The strap clings conveniently to your phone, and also comes with a tail for…
After dumping “needy customers” because they take too many support resources, Sprint is also dumping 200 US soldiers after returning from a Tour of Duty in Iraq. The reason according to the veteran who denounced the situation: “excessive roaming.” And not even Iraq-related. The story is so absurd that it’s hard to believe. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-dumps-needy-customers-275374 After…