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Now that the Windows Home Server platform has been released to manufacturing, a lot of cool concepts are becoming sweet realities. We just scored some juicy details on Velocity Micro‘s design, destined to ship in the coming months, with external expansion upgrades in early 2008. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-its-windows-home-server-software-has-bee-278802 Here’s what we can relate to you now: •…
Click to view You’ve gotta love natural selection caught on video. Intelligent people know that it isn’t a good idea to smash a can of WD-40, even if they’re curious about what would happen if they did. Luckily, some mouthbreathers decided that they’d give it a whirl, showing us exactly why we’re so smart to…
The BigBelly is a public trash can that’s solar powered, allowing it to compact people’s garbage and store four to six times as much as a regular can. In addition, it keeps less trash from spilling out, meaning less food for birds, meaning less bird poops on your car. Seems like a win-win to us.…
The Pitch As watered-down, possibly Slavic electro kicks in on the soundtrack, a woman covered in multi-hued body paint dances in a black, gravity-free void. Cut to swirls of rainbow vapor, then back to our porcelain-faced harlequin performing back flips and other dazzling gymnastic feats. It’s not until the very end that one of Samsung’s…
This week at Uncrate: We go from daytime protection to nighttime cool with Smith Interlock Sunglasses, spice up our summer vacations with Top Secret Tourism, and ride our bikes indoors thanks to the Cycleops Fluid2 Trainer. We also feed our feathered friends with the Eva Solo Take Away Bird Feeder, kick up our grilled meats…
From the sublime story of a teenage boy opening up what he thought was a PlayStation 2 he’d bought on eBay to find $90,000 in cash to the ridiculousness that is ciggie-flavored condoms, the Giz has it all—even poop masks for your “nether throat.” Gundam, iPhone hacks, docks… • A squadron of unmanned aerial drones…
If you like tinkering with the inner working of gadgets as well as the Nintendo DS Lite, have I got a sweet project for you. Instructables has instructions on how to make a homemade RumblePak for the DS Lite that fits nicely inside the GBA cartridge slot on the bottom of the device. It’s not…
OK, dudes, I need some help here. I’ve had a sweet set of Yamaha 2.1 computer speakers for about eight years now. They’ve served me well, they sound good at a high volume, they’re small and simple, and they even survived getting an entire can of root beer splashed on the subwoofer in college. Now,…
Normally we skip over these bullshit gold-plated gadgets, but it turns out this 18-karat iPod shuffle isn’t gold plated at all, but it’s solid 18-karat gold. Its picture was so pretty we couldn’t resist, even when we first thought it was 18k gold plated. We would’ve been even more impressed if it were solid 24-karat…
The Text-O-Possum is a Bluetooth laser-projected keyboard that’s been…modded…into the back leg of an opossum. You know what they say: one man’s trash is another artist’s response to the lack of a technological utopia in the year 2007. Or something like that. The artist isn’t actually selling the Text-O-Possum (despite a shopping link) but if…
OLED market projected to reach $2.9 billion by 2012 and $5.9 billion by 2014. [prnewswire]
Look out everybody, it’s the Bulletmouse! Now available for $24.95, this chrome-plated, scroll wheel-equipped slug is guaranteed not to go all Elvis on you and put a bullet into your screen. It’s so unique, it bills itself as “the original Rifle Bullet computer mouse.” We’re not quite sure what message you’ll be sending by using…
It’s a Woot-Off! Get in there and grab some deals while the getting is good. [Woot]
Live it up, pervs. That’s a mousepad. And it has boobies. And you can touch them all you want. But remember, owning such a mousepad dates you back to the ’90s, and this chick looks like she’s from somewhere in the late ’80s. If we do a little more math, you’re groping a chick who…
On a panel discussion of tech elites, Sony CEO Howard Stringer called Steve Jobs “greedy” because Jobs wants a marketplace in which “only he makes money.” Moderator Anderson Cooper quickly changed the subject, ruining the potential for other such fantastic pullquotes, like: “And he never calls me anymore!” “Sony is a great company because we…
Designer Can-Hong Huang takes a page out of Sony’s dildo-shaped music player playbook, coming up with this multimedia player that also takes on a phallic shape. This design concept is not only a cylindrical MP3 player with rotating control knobs on its barrel, but instead of a screen it has a flashlightesque projector on the…
What’s the next logical step in the YouTube user-generated content video craze? Well, even if you didn’t read the headline, you probably guessed it: the ability to edit video on your phone then upload right away. Samsung just unveiled the SCH-B750 in Korea. It twists, Nokia N90-style, into a camcorder posture for shooting. When your…
Click to viewHere’s a video of Lockheed Martin’s MULE advanced robotic vehicle in action, complete with Joes and baddies shooting at each other while the MULE fires its machine gun, gives away free rockets to an enemy tank and pinpoints targets for ballistic missiles. It gives you a good idea of what this amazing machine…
Tivoli is offering a limited edition version of their Model One from Scandanavian glass artist Per B. Sundber. Surrounded in hand-crafted crystal, only 30 models will be sold at $4,200 a pop (about $4,100 of that is for the decoration). Oh, and we don’t expect you to buy it. We’re simply offering further evidence as…
Sprint and Clearwire have just announced an agreement to team up on building a nationwide WiMax network, allowing roaming between the two sets of infrastructures. They hope to have 100 million people covered by the end of 2008. Badass…if they can get it done. [Sprint]