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The Fishpen, by outdoor gear company Coleman, is a telescoping fishing rod in a pen sized container. It’s for when you happen to pass a creek, or pond, and the mood strikes you to Fish your little heart out and hook some bass in the mouth for the pure love of the sport. The compact…
If you thought the people of Dubai were the only ones who made crazy ass buildings, Siberians have a surprise for you. This diamond-like tower looks and reflects light like a “cut diamond”, but actually absorbs enough energy to be self-sustainable thanks to solar light. The tower’s designed by architects at Foster+Partners, and is planned…
Click to viewYou know those two guys waiting in line for the iPhone a whole 100 hours early? We’ve got an exclusive non-interview with them. And this grumpy guy is probably not what Apple expected when it envisioned the perfect customer for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-line-has-started-100-hours-early-272088 Fake Steve is going to cry this is a Microsoft…
SSH coming to iPhone via Safari? [Infinite Loop via MyiTablet]
The Hydra 8-bit console kit has more juice than an NES, and you can write your own games for it. $200 gets you instructions on how to program for the Propeller processor, a keyboard, mouse, NES-ish joypad, and a 128KB rewritable cartridge to match its 128K EEPROM. Thinkgeek [via BoingBoing]
Nigel writes this iPhone Fantasy Roadmap, 5 years out, as seen with rose colored glasses. Worth reading, if only to understand this is the first of many iPhones. [Red Ferret]
For this anti-gravity experiment we will need one cat (preferably cute) and one piece of toast buttered on one side only. Now this experiment relies on two constants, one being a cat in motion will always land on its feet. And the other being when buttered toast travels from point X to point Y, it…
If you’re the kind of person who is always at your computer, you might want to look into importing a Rocobo. Due out in August in Japan for around $11, the little boxy bot will keep you company on cold, late nights—through the good times as well as the bad. Treat Rocobo poorly and it’ll…
The iPhone may be Apple’s new cash cow, but Apple isn’t the only one looking to make a quick buck off the hysteria. BetUs is currently willing to help you lose your hard-earned money by offering odds on a variety of crazy launch-day-and-beyond iPhone possibilities. From someone getting trampled (20:1, place ’em now!) to the…
With the iPhone coming out in just a few days, you’re going to need two things fast: something to do, and some extra cash in your pocket. Luckily, picking up Horse Racing Challenge will let you do both, all the while watching energetic little Infrared horses chatter their way around the track. For $100 you…
The product mix from the talking chair people at Pyramat is about to get a little deeper. Word on the street is their next gadget accessory is the Lap Blaster, a laptop dock that replaces those tinny tweeters on your mobile machine with the real McCoy. A USB iPod dock rounds out the audio utility…
What are you carrying in your pockets right now? Show the world in the “Face Your Pockets” mass photo project whose organizers are inviting worldwide participation. Artfully arrange the contents of your pockets onto a scanner, perhaps add something funny or poignant to the mix, position your face nearby and push the button. When you’re…
As promised, we have the first in a long list of predictions found in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut). Today’s excerpt is from architect Thomas Hastings. It’s particularly unsettling to read someone from the 1920s writing about the possibility of another World War. I get such a feeling of detachment, as though…
Regular readers know how much we hate preinstalled trialware on PCs. And how much we appreciate Dell’s XPS systems, which have an option for a “clean install” OS when you buy em. Well they’re moving that option to the Dimension desktop line, and Inspiron notebooks, too. And they’re shipping some machines with crapware uninstallers. Machines…
Help Iconfactory, maker of the Wii Wallpaper starring me, get Frenzic on the iPhone. [Gedblog] https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-on-ur-wallpaperz-unpantsing-ur-wii-220175
How much do you think it costs to power all of the computers left on overnight? According to a recent study, $1,720,000,000.00. [EcoGeek]
When Germany’s ADAC testing agency tested China’s Brilliance BS6 sedan, it came back with a 1-star rating. A person crashing this car at 40MPH would likely not survive. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/brilliant-chinese-brilliance-bs6-sedan-crumples-like-a-271345
The Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on has sold 155,000 units in the U.S., which is significantly higher than the 100,000 or so standalone units sold in the format’s first year on the shelves. [DailyTech]
Nokia’s E65 slider and E61i QWERTY/WiFi business phones official in the US [Nokia]
Some of the coolest non-conventional weapons being developed now are lasers, and when you make a gigantic laser strapped to a 747, you’ve won the whole contest right there. This “directed energy weapon” consists of a “megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser beam,” which can be pointed at other planes, missiles or hobbitses on the ground.…
