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Author and critic Henry L. Mencken makes some pretty bold predictions in the February 12, 1923 article, “Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence,” published in the Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut). A hundred years hence the United States will be a British colony, its chief function will be to supply imbeciles to…
We went down the iPhone line in NY and asked the campers whether they were aware they could get many other great things for the same price as an iPhone. Hilarity ensued. Video by Alex and Nick McGlynn
Take that, AT&T! Take that, EDGE! Take that Jobs, and anyone else who wears black mock turtlenecks! Everywhere in Verizon’s current EV-DO network, downloads are jumping from 600kbps to 1.4Mbps, with uploads cruising around 500kbps and 800kbps. That’s only 8 seconds to download a 1MB file. Or more scientifically, quite fast. Verizon Wireless: 100 Percent……
Who’s Monkey Boy running from? From the Wrath of the iPhone God! This is the art for the back of the Gizmodo Jesus-Phone Launch T-Shirt, 50-units limited edition in soft black cotton. Coming to an Apple Store waiting line near you today. If you live in New York or San Francisco, that is. And if…
The Apple Store has closed its doors, marking the home stretch for the 5th Avenue iPhone hopefuls. The line’s swelled to nearly 240 people and has been penned in and condensed to keep the prospective customers from blocking the other storefronts that share a space with the Cube. Even still, it has curled around yet…
The just-released iTunes 7.3 has a little secret: a folder containing icons for ringtones. Found in the resource folder, these images aren’t part of the iTunes interface just yet, but obviously Apple is leaving themselves room to grow. Conspiracy theories, anyone? Ringtone Images Hidden… [engadget]
There’s so much iPhone news today, you’ve probably missed a bunch of it as you’re convincing your boss to let you get out a little bit before 6 p.m. to line up. Here’s the good stuff: • iPhone Camper Greg “Line” Packer Photoshopped by you, the demented. • iPhone lines across the US, by you,…
During a 2002 project for the government, Agentai developed a non-lethal round of ammunition that could be shot out of a regular gun, and also contained a chemical agent. One suggested chemical agent to be used? Laughing gas. Such a round would “allow the military to punch, slap and hit an individual repetitively from a…
Click to viewMy God. This was by far the biggest response to a Photoshop contest yet, with entries filling my inbox every minute or so for the past 24 hours. Stop! For the love of everything holy, please stop! I can’t take looking at this guy any more! I feel completely dead inside. Consider this…
The Xda “Helen” from O2 has made its way onto the forums and it’s looking HOT (yeah, we thought we’d go all summer car commercial on you, turn things up a notch). A slider running Windows Mobile 6 Pro, the Helen clocks in at 520MHz with 64MB of RAM. Micro SD compliments a handy 256MB…
Other than waiting outside an Apple or AT&T store, what could be better on a brilliant sunny Friday than going to the beach to use one of these Portable Pillows with FaceSaver? Can’t think of anything, except maybe going with a load of margaritas. But since we are stuck here, the third best thing is…
The Lawnchair is a way to bring the outside into your…outside. Its 25lb base is constructed from steel, rubber and felt. From there, the process works like a Chia Pet. You “upholster” the chair by adding sod, and a “built-in moisturizing” system (translation: garden hose hooked to tubing) keeps the grass hydrated when your sweat…
In The Future, no one will die and everyone will be skinny, but we will still all have horrible credit card debt. Hence Jacob Palmborg designing [big voice] The Credit Card of the Future. While it’s strictly a concept, the credit card uses RFID that’s linked to every account you own. It not only allows…
The much-anticipated iPhone hits the streets today. While developers and users alike aren’t thrilled that third-party iPhone apps are limited to the Web, you might be surprised at the impressive offerings that have already been developed for new iPhone users. Today’s top 10 features the best iPhone applications that should be ready for your iPhone…
We wouldn’t be able to camp out for the iPhone without sponsors. Thanks to AT&T, Cazadores Tequila, Canon, Casio, Don Julio, Ipevo, Windows Vista, Mio, Made in Eureka, Nokia, Project Sylpheed, SanDisk, Media Center Extender for Xbox, Sprint, Toyota, Verizon, VTech, and ZipZoomFly.com. Want to camp too? http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/advertising-with-gizmodo-219501.php
The line is coming back to life right now. Stanley Michael Jackson is still in full effect, the Financial Times stopped by with a few questions, and the line is wrapping around the corner of Stockton Street. Today should be even more entertaining. Thankfully, our neighbors from 8 mile who aspire to be rhyming legends…
Besides nerds, you know who else is swarming the Apple store in midtown? Reporters. Lots and lots of reporters. Check them all out getting the scoop, as well as everyone’s favorite overweight opportunist wheeling and dealing, courtesy of videographer Nick McGlynn.
Add this Girlfriend Pillow to that Lap Pillow we showed you a few years ago, and you could end up with a whole girl, minus all that bothersome yapping. This one takes the concept a step further, quivering with delight thanks to its internal vibrator that runs on two D batteries. https://gizmodo.com/trane-corporations-lap-pillow-25619 Looks like they…
iPhone listings should be all over eBay at the moment—and they are…for five minutes at a time. With some listed at extravagant prices (we’ve seen numbers as high as $1,200 and $1,300), eBay has been pulling listings left and right. Of course these actions are the natural course of eBay protecting customers who may plop…
iRobot, maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, already manufactures robots for the US military, but now it’s teaming up with Taser for a new nonlethal robo-weapon for soldiers and cops. Are these robot weapon creators taking yet another baby step toward a world with killer RoboCop terminators, giving our future robot overlords the go-ahead…