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Toothbrushes, they just need updating. Right? Well, according to yet another delusional contestant on American Inventor, a better solution would be a little nub you stick on the tip of your tongue. You then use your tongue to get your teeth clean, hoping it doesn’t come off and get lodged in your throat, giving you…
Did you like the Transformers movie? If you weren’t a total nerd wet blanket then you saw it for what it was: a fun as hell summer blockbuster. If you also have a whole boatload of money sitting around, maybe you’ll be interested in buying the Allspark Cube prop used in the movie. It’s on…
Veni, vidi and now vinci: if you dare, you can now use a detailed step-by-step graphic tutorial to install your own ringtones in the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-file-system-hacked-custom-ringtones-to-come-soo-276723 Unfortunately, it’s just not a program to transfer files, but something quite more complex involving two different hacking tools, Apple’s iPhone Software Restore file and the Terminal. Still, the…
Hey, you the Giz-steady crew. Don’t worry, you don’t have to show what you do, or make a break, make a move—instead, let us show you what you might have missed earlier. From Wii Party Stations to broken glass and flatpack fighterplanes, it’s all here. • Avatar machine further distances you from reality • Build…
All the games and accessories we’re seeing at E3 this week aren’t going to buy themselves! Thanks to AT&T, Ask.com, Audi, Cazadores Tequila, Casio, E! Online, Windows Vista, Mio, Nissan, Pentax, Project Sylpheed, TiVo, Toyota, Verizon, VTech, Toto Washlet, and ZipZoomFly.com for making sure we’re always playing the newest games. Game with us too. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/advertising-with-gizmodo-219501.php
If your musical tastes speak to your personality, this is one way to quickly let everyone know what is going on inside your twisted mind. Instructables user rauz has detailed a method for transforming your massive iTunes album cover art collection into an even larger and more impressive poster. How do you do it? First…
This Lomography Ringflash attaches to the outside of your lens, and its four lighting elements each deliver a different color to your subject. You can use it as a single color ring flash, too, but its makers encourage you to get up close to your subject and flash a picture that has four different kinds…
This Ain Supplio pencil lead from Pentel uses nanotechnology to release allegedly mind-expanding aromas, letting you smell your way to smartness while you scribble your meandering prose on a piece of paper. The pencil leads sell for two bucks a bag, and you can get them in three different scents, Refresh, Healing and Positive, which…
The two biggest rivals aiming to distribute laptops to the third-world shorties—Intel, develper of the Classmate PC, and One Laptop Per Child led by Nick Negroponte—have shaken hands and buried the hatchet, says the AP. Here’s the skinny: The One Laptop Per Child program and Intel said Friday that the chip maker would join the…
How important is your broadband access? If you were, say, heading out to the high seas for a few months, how much would you pay for a 2Mbps connection in the middle of the ocean? A few hundred bucks, perhaps, just so you had access to BitTorrent and could download movies for your lonely nights…
OK, wait a minute. I get the point of this Mirror Webcam: you want to be able to see yourself while you videochat or whatever. But don’t you usually see yourself on the screen anyways? I guess this is cool as the camera is positioned behind the mirror, so you can look directly into the…
“You’ve been a very bad boy! Go to your room! Here’s a new toy that will tell you when you’re finished being punished. I hope this teaches you a lesson about talking back to your elders. Wipe that confused look off your face, young man!” [Product Page via Book of Joe]
Hey guys: Even though most tech companies are based far far away from our lovely Metropolis Gotham City, they all seem to want to come here for meetings, events and general displays of grandeur. Covering it all takes energy, enthusiasm, knowledge of the technology beat, and a devil-may-care attitude toward sweatiness. We’re currently looking for…
By sacrificing a single USB port, you can have your very own 7-inch-tall, dancing robot to tirelessly bust a move for your pleasure. After detecting whatever tune you have playing, USB Dancing Robot will start swaying and flashing LEDs to the beat. And that looks like all it’ll do. Forever. The USB Dancing Robot is…
Despite our verdict of “wait,” a survey by the market research firm Interpret says 90 percent of iPhone owners are “extremely” or “very” satisfied with it, which the firm’s chief strategy officer interprets as ” pretty much off the charts.” (See what I did there?) Some of the other numbers are kind of interesting, if…
NTT DoCoMo is about to make even speedy 3.1Mbps EV-DO (Rev. A) look like a horse and buggy, experimenting with a Super 3G wireless network system that could blast data through the air at speeds of 300Mbps. That’s fast. And somebody do the math, but that sounds like it’s about a zillion times faster than…
Nobel prize-winning scientist Alan Heeger and his buddies have figured out a way to print more-efficient plastic solar cells, boosting their efficiency to 6.5%, a world record for these photovoltaic polymers. Heeger and his colleagues perform this trick by using two layers of different types of plastic, and whenever one layer doesn’t turn light into…
[UPDATE: Probably not true.]SCEE President David Reeves revealed in an interview that the 60GB PS3‘s long-overdue price cut is actually a fire sale, at least in America. When the last one is sold, it will be just that—the last one. It’s entirely possible we could see a “clarification” of the statement, but Reeves was pretty…
While some people would say that the iTravl is what I use to write my posts*, I don’t really know how well it translates between English and the eight languages it supports using its look-Ma-no-hands speech recognition system. Jump for more details and see my nipples explode with delight! Just for its cheesy, retro sci-fi…
Bang & Olufsen’s Beosound 6 MP3 player is definitely a “come and get me” nod toward the Nano market—albeit the few people in the Nano market who would be happy to spunk a schmazillion bucks on an MP3 player with poxy 4GB memory (are there any out there?) So what has ramped the price up…