Samsung Celebrates Shifting One Million Miniskirts, Parties with Laydeez in Miniskirts
At the beginning of this month, Charlie touched on the latest Miniskirt phone from Samsung. Well, to celebrate the fact that one million units have been shifted in Korea since its launch, the company had a laydee party. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-sch-c220-cellphone-tiny-as-an-abbreviated-min-265177 Personally, I think something like this is great—I mean, there’s only so many black geek T-shirts…
Nerf Maverick Office Weapon Won’t Kill You, Plays Doom
Bang, bang, my baby shot me down. With a foam dart. And this Nerf Maverick, which loads six into its barrel and fires them in rapid succession at 15 feet away. And yes, ironically, this thing lets you play Doom, as shown in the video after the jump. Cubicle wars for $12.99, six suction cup…
Graffiti Research Lab Draws Rude Things on Buildings
The Graffiti Research Lab has been to Spain for its holidays. Packing their Mobile Broadcast Unit—nice, isn’t it?—the crew headed off to Barcelona for OFFF, the International Festival for Post-Digital Creation Culture, and this is what they did, Art Terrorists that they are. https://gizmodo.com/graffiti-research-labs-mark-up-buildings-with-l-a-s-e-r-238328 It seems they need to get right up close to their…
Ceramic TV is more High Art than High Definition
This is Chinese artist Ma Jun’s telly, which I’ve been test-driving at Gizmodo Towers. There was a remote, but it got smashed after my man and I had fisticuffs about what we were going to watch last night (he wanted The Bridges of Madison County, I wanted Seed of Chucky.) and he threw a wobbly…
Sanyo Shows Off PLC-XF47, the New World’s Brightest Projector
This projector is for the videophile who lives in a glass house near the equator and is too cheap to buy blackout shades. The Sanyo PLC-XF47 (who comes up with these names?) is boasting a ridiculously high 15,000 lumens. We can barley fathom how bright that must be, although what were they thinking keeping it…
Panasonic Pocket Power, Sounds Dirtier Than It Is
The Panasonic Pocket Power fully charges itself in four hours. But then what? Now hook it up to any of your devices that charge through USB, and share some of that good old energy lovin with them. And if that isn’t good enough for you, you can even take it’s batteries out and use them…
DIY Ping Pong Ball Gun in 30 Seconds
Click to view Ping Pong Gun – video powered by Metacafe This is a friendly warning to all Gizmodo employees. You will never feel safe while on the job ever again. Why is that? Because while you watch this video on how to quickly make a very effective ping pong ball gun, one of us…
Quick News: EMI DRM-less Music Going Strong and More
EMI let out the first bits on what the customers think about DRM-less files. So far? Sales are going great, for instance Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album typically sold 830 units/week with DRM. Now with the new format they’re averaging 3,600 units/week. Shizam! YouTube is going international on us. They have now…
Google.org Getting Into the Plug-In Hybrid Market
Is there anything that Google doesn’t have it’s grubby little hands on these days? Up until today we thought that cars were off of their radar, but we were wrong. Their philanthropic division, Google.org, is moving into the plug-in hybrid market. What is that you ask? Basically they are full on electric cars that you…
Secrets from WWDC’s iPhone Development Session
The University of Washington posted an overview of what went on at a WWDC conference about the iPhone’s browsing capabilities and how to design for them. Many of the details we already knew, but there are some new bits about how far iPhone’s Safari will go. • Full PDF support • Apple claims most sites…