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At first glance, we thought the Portable GameCube Advance was the product of console miniaturizer Benjamin Heckendorn, who has shrunk some of our favorites into nearly portable packages. But the Portable GameCube Advance is really the work of a random email tipster…surely not just a Photoshop rendition…but an entirely ready-to-go product complete with external OLED…
There is a reason that you have such fond memories of playing with blocks as a youth: positive memory bias. Or, as bastardized/made up for our purposes here, what you completely forgot was all the times you cried while playing with blocks. And that Stonehenge is only impressive due to the weight of its components…
If there’s ever a pattern with these weird combo of the days we do, it’s that people like to bundle things with booze. We suppose you still need to get stuff done when you’re drunk. That’s why this set of phone charging adapters free with every 4-pack of Jim Beam Long Black isn’t really a…
We just told you about the $830 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra last week, otherwise known as the “world’s fastest graphics card”. But just how much power can $830 buy today? Check out this technical demo by NVIDIA. The real time rendering is of actor Doug Jones, who you probably won’t recognize as Pan from Pan’s…
The Aduki Ni (is Ni plural?) is a lamp shaped like a bean. Other than its similarity to certain components of chili, why are we so excited? 1. The bean is metallic. (metallic is cool.) 2. The bean is weatherproof. (perfect for cocktail parties we never throw but always intend to) 3. The bean changes…
Since being bitten by radioactive spiders, the Gizmodo staff is in no way fearful of arachnids. At all. Dropping one of these remote control tarantulas into a Gizmodo party would specifically not cause anyone to wet their pants (which may or may not be housing expensive test electronics, so be careful anyway). For $25 we…
The Laser Dance Matrix is the brainchild of Applied Sciences. It’s a DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) pad matrix for getting down up, up, right, back style. But instead of relying on pressure sensitivity as most pads do, the Laser Dance Matrix senses foot position based upon breaking the proper laser beams (we’re assuming in the…
FACT: Every bedroom needs multicolored mood lighting. Why not let the Aquapict Jellyfish Aquarium take care of that for you? Three silicon jellyfish float randomly, their soft flesh illuminated by LED bulb. One of 12 colors will tantalize the senses eyes as you go Deep…Sea Mode blue. After two hours of intense pleasure, the Aquapict…
The Changing Cupboard was featured at the Milan Furniture Fair 2007. While scholars will enjoy the social critique of the print medium’s reaction to everyday events, I’m mesmerized by the ad-free use of two-panel billboard technologies in the living room. Note to self: redecorate home with 100% pixel design. Second note to self: make sure…
The BlueQ is a vibrating Bluetooth wristband. Made for those times that you have a phone stowed away in your purse or backpack, the wristband vibrates with incoming calls—which works for about 30 hours on standby. But the more interesting feature is that the wristband can accept user-created Qskins. Using the company’s online template, customers…
iLounge, of all people, has heard that Microsoft’s holding an event on Monday to announce (or preview) a new Zune. It’s a bit early for Zune 2.0 or Zune Phone, so we’re thinking this should be the flash-based Zune. It’s likely they want to get that one out before the second-gen Zune hits. More details…
Rumor has it that HP will be announcing a new 20-inch gaming laptop, the Pavilion HDX. Weighing in at a hefty 12lbs, the computer is large enough to house both a full-sized keyboard and a windows media remote, side by side. Electronista speculates that the computer will feature the new Santa Rosa chipset (Centrino successor),…
If you’re still waiting for the WM6 upgrade for your WM5 Smartphone edition so you can use Mobile Office, this is your lucky day. Someone’s taken the Office portion of the WM6 ROM, extracted it, and made it compatible with WM5 smartphones! Just head over to the download link, grab the file, and install. You’ll…
After having some fun at the Booster Blades’ expense a few weeks back, the inventors daughter, Candice Rawlings, wrote us an email. She called out our photo for being out of date, but graciously offered to send us new media of the skates in use (under operation without the rider dying). Verdict: the Booster Blades…
Hundreds of thousands of you are breakin’ out the Guitar Hero on your Xbox 360 now (we know, because the guitars are hard as hell to find), so we thought this mod could be of some use. We don’t personally find the fret buttons to be too loose, but if you do, this is how…
For the first time, an iTunes single has broken the Billboard top 10 list. From the American Idol Gives Back charity show, the Pretender’s cover I’ll Stand by You (as performed by Carrie Underwood) was downloaded 124,496 times as of this weekend. While I still think that buying a CD and ripping it yourself is…
Microsoft makes fantastic keyboards, but when it comes to gaming peripherals, Razer’s no slouch either. That’s why this Reclusa, which is a combination of Microsoft and Razer, looks like what you would get if Microsoft were directing a movie, got fired halfway through, and Razer came in and finished it up. It definitely looks and…
Decanting a bottle of wine is a commitment: you will drink the bottle alone in one sitting and wake up without your pants in an alley. And your teeth/lips will be purple. The Metrokane Vacuum Decanter is a smart solution. Constructed from hand-blown crystal, the decanter works normally to aerate your wine/make you look suave.…
After receiving ten complaints (a lot for Denmark), The Danish Consumer Complaints Board commissioned a study (on the microscopic scale) of the Apple iBook G4. Evidently there was merit to the complaints, since the study did find a problem… Researchers found that the solder joints around a voltage regulator were designed/constructed in such a way…
YouTube will start paying some “select” uploaders, doling out wads of hard cash to video makers with ongoing series that have proven to be popular with viewers. YouTube’s mentioned this idea before, and is still not saying when the largess of its parent company Google will start billowing out, but it’s now asking for all…