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The BoomBucket is a weatherproof, portable speaker system with remote control for your iPod. Once charged, its two speakers will run for eight hours, meaning that you can bug your fellow beach monkeys by playing Chacarron on a loop. It’s fourth- and fifth- gen iPod-, nano- and mini-compatible, and charges them while they are docked.…
Hang the Hotel Security Alarm on the door knob of your room and it will emit a scrotum-tightening 105 decibels of screechiness if someone touches the handle on the other side. This is the perfect gadget for men whose wives have thrown them out of the marital home and are bunked up in a ground-floor…
[singing*] We’re radio-controlled knights, we fight around in tights. / We ruin your floor and table, but our joust is impec-cable. We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and Spam a lot/We’re knights of the Round Table, our fights are for-mi-dable. But many times we’re given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able/It’s…
A hacker known as Geohot claims that the iPhone will be unlocked within two weeks. That should make our Jesus happy. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-file-system-hacked-custom-ringtones-to-come-soo-276723 655 bucks
If what’s missing from your life is a light-up poop, then fear not, because your happiness is sitting in a Japanese vending machine. Epoch, purveyor of the USB darts board, has come up with the weirdness that is a flashlight shaped like a turd, or Unchi, as they are known over in Japan. https://gizmodo.com/usb-darts-make-drunken-cheating-a-bit-harder-272464 Available…
Slate’s Chad Lorenz does an entertaining and technically sound review of modern water guns, choosing the Water Warriors Tarantula as his top choice for best-in-class accuracy, a 33-foot range, and 47-ounce payload good for 112 rounds per reload. This is all despite what I perceive as it’s major shortcoming: It’s electric. Let me explain. Compared…
This is Peter Moore making the world debut announcement of the Halo 3 Xbox 360. Note the silence. Listen for the laughter. Groan as Moore tries to save it with an ill-timed “thank you.” This Halo 3 Xbox 360 could have been revealed so much better, but instead it was just thrown out at the…
Pink and blue Xbox wireless controllers. Coming October for $50. Europe and Japan get light blue. Great. What’s next, matching wireless pacifiers?
That green Xbox we saw earlier today with matching controllers, and Halo art all around. Launching with the game. It’s got gold trim. And a whooole lot of Halo accessories (below). It has an HDMI port (yay) but only a 20GB HDD (only the elite has the 120, which redefines it as the HD movie…
The iPhone’s Notes sync to your Desktop without a trace, but someone found out how to read them. [TUAW]
You’d need one hell of a permission slip for this field trip. Classes will never be boring on an airship traveling around the world! Imagine gliding over the Amazon River in South America or retracing Ulysses’ journeys through the Greek Islands. Picture what it would be like to hover over the Great Pyramids in Egypt…
Digg for iPhone live at digg.com/iphone [Digg]
We’re here, live from Microsoft’s E3 event. Here it is: live.gizmodo.com http://live.gizmodo.com/gadgets/frontpage/liveblogging-e3-5000536.php
You know companies are always trying to wine-and-dine tech reporters, but this has to be the weirdest example. Tonight I received a package containing this bottle and nothing else. Clearly, the message on the label is the important thing: there’s a Sony VAIO event in New York City next week that I should attend. But…
It appears Microsoft‘s co-founder is a big fan of things that sink. Obviously an avid Beatles fan, Allen’s latest toy is a fully functional 40-foot yellow submarine (not to be confused with a 40-foot Yello Sub, which would be an even worse investment). He’s now a member of a small, exclusive clique of ultra-rich underwater…
The Supreme Edition Darth Vader Costume is the full package: you get a jumpsuit complete with fake leather pants and sleeves (though the codpiece is real leather), Darth’s signature cape, and all of his armor cast from the original Lucasfilm molds. Our favorite part: the suit has a custom apparatus to mimic Darth’s breathing. It…
Yes. It’s him. The one and only Jason Chen. Tonight he will be blogging live at the Microsoft’s E3 media event, which apparently will have lots of surprises starting at 8:30pm PDT. Right here. MS. E3. Live. Lot’s of bang bang. Hopefully. UPDATE: live.gizmodo.com
I don’t care how hot you are, your laptop is probably hotter, especially after a half hour of hard work. And if you’re like me, you literally use your laptop atop your lap half the time, and on a desktop the other half. That’s why I’m digging this LapWorks Laptop Desk Futura: it stretches open…
Click to viewSome good news for the iPhone’s battery. Everyone, including us, originally reported that the iPhone battery loses life after 300-400 charges, needing to be replaced. People were mad. The mainstream media picked it up, getting all huffy. Turns out, that’s bullshit. Apple’s site clearly says that the battery life “is designed to retain…
As home theater systems get increasingly complex, the standard issue remotes that come with each individual component just can’t get the job done. Philips‘ latest universal remote solution is the TSU9400, a palm-filling beast with a 3.7″ TFT color touch screen display that runs at a crisp 640×480 resolution. But can it run your entire…