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This 71-year-old Chinese man goes by “Electric Man” to his friends and neighbors. Why? Because he routinely has 220V of electricity flowing through his body for “exercise.” While he’s charged up, he can do a number of things, such as light lightbulbs and cook a fish in a mere two minutes. He also uses his…
e-Revolution wants to change the way you think about lighting—and how the area around that light, uh, smells? The Deodolight is a cupholder-sized lamp with color-changing LEDs and a built-in deodorizer, available in refillable grapefruit, forest and unscented. The transitions between colors are subtle and slow, designed to be soothing. Because of its small, handy…
Why eat in the dark when you can shove a bunch of LEDs on a picnic blanket and call it a day? We can’t come up with a reason, so head on over to Instructables to see how you can build your own. All you need is a string of 64 LEDs, a bunch of…
A cheaper, iPhone Nano predicted by JP Morgan. The proof? A “conversation” and a patent filing we posted last week. What a tremendous circle jerk of sourcing. I believe it, only because it is too obvious. [Reuters] https://gizmodo.com/apple-applies-for-patent-for-simplified-cellphone-with-275125
The Mecca for all things USB, Brando, has brought out a digital microscope that is also a webcam and a USB hub. Good for science lessons, I suppose. And anyone who brought a pole dancer home, put her in the wash and accidentally shrunk her. It’s got a cracking pair of USB ports and works…
2007 marks the 15th anniversary of the release of Microsoft Windows 3.1, so it seems like an apt time to look back on some of the somewhat confused marketing from that early era of computing. While operating systems may have changed quite a bit since 1992, the general craziness of Japan has not, as demonstrated…
Seeing as eBuddy and Meebo either only kinda work or support only AIM, and Trillian Astra isn’t actually available yet, JiveTalk looks like the only good solution for mobile IMing on the iPhone. Not only does it support AIM, there’s MSN, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, ICQ, and Jabber support as well. And it’s FAST. https://gizmodo.com/im-on-iphone-become-trillian-astra-tester-276008 In our…
Hey folks, we’re going to be at E3, and we’re going to be broadcasting LIVE, on Justin.tv’s helmet cam. You enjoyed Lam’s late night cursing when we lined up in the cold for the iPhone, now you’ll enjoy my mid-afternoon cursing as I endure the breezy beaches of Santa Monica. Harsh. Don’t know how to…
iPhone iChat revealed in AT&T survey? No. The survey clearly is about current performance on EDGE, and whoever wrote the survey likely confused the SMS app’s iChat-looking bubbles with the real thing. Carry on. [Engadget]
You think your 30-inch cinema display is big? Shut up. This GPNC 70-inch LCD PC is big. It’s like an iMac, in that the computer is built into the screen, except it’s way too big to sit anywhere near and probably isn’t built quite as solidly as an iMac. And I’m not saying that just…
You saw our gigantic review of the iPhone, but now it’s time to win one. And by now, we mean NOW, because the contest ends tomorrow, July 10. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-review-276116 Contest [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/were-giving-away-an-iphone-270738
If you thought only Richard Branson and other well-off BoatCar enthusiasts were the only ones interested in being active on both land and sea, well, you’d be wrong. The Navy’s eyeballing this as well. The Naval Surface Warfare Center is looking at high-speed amphibian (HSA) craft, like this BoatCar, to quickly go from land to…
N’Gai from Newsweek spotted a reason for that seemingly useless PS3 upgrade to 80GB: a new high-def TV and movie download service that they’ll announce at E3. But not really in any detail. …also an in-the-works video download service that will let PS3 owners download high-definition movies and TV shows, just as Xbox 360 owners…
Remember that remote control iPhone to Mac app we showed you last week? Someone’s used that to get World of freaking Warcraft working on the iPhone. It’s not exactly "desktop quality," but he does get the ability to chat and execute some basic commands. You won’t see another Jenkins episode reproduced on the iPhone though,…
Intel shelled out $218.5 million for stock in VMware, makers of Parallels virtualization software. [Ars Technica]
You know those redesigned iMacs that are rumored to be showing up in the next couple of weeks? Well it may be that Apple is going to introduce a new MacBook-style keyboard along with them, says Apple Insider. Personally, we love it, so we’re not worried, but we also know some people aren’t so cool…
We all knew the European PS3s use software emulation to play PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 games, but all our US PS3s were doing much better hardware “emotion engine” emulation. But if you want one of the fancy new 80GB PS3s, featuring twenty—count’em, twenty—more jiggabytes than the 60GB model, you’ll have to deal with software…
All you BlackBerry lovers envious of other people’s smartphone’s Wi-Fi capabilities can stop pining—the FedComCom’s got you covered. Late last week, the FCC just approved what looks like a 8800 series BlackBerry with 802.11a, b and g. It’s GSM, but looks like it’s destined for T-Mobile. Not much other details than that, but we’ll keep…
Still haven’t entered our trivia contest to win a TiVo Series 3? You’d better hurry, because the contest ends July 10. That’s tomorrow, in case you weren’t sure what day it was today. Contest Questions [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/trivia-contest-win-a-tivo-series-3-274358
Okay, before you get too confused, understand that this 16″ Seeing Double Wall Clock is too weird, but unique. This $103 clock can (almost) show you both minutes and hour readings with either of its hands, as long as they’re over the LEDs. Why? Let’s figure this out together. This is just one of those…