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Desktop Trebuchet for Old School Cubicle Warfare

If the USB missile launcher is a little too new-school for you, the desktop trebuchet may be the perfect addition to that arsenal of cubical warfare weapons. It is available for $30 and assembly is required. https://gizmodo.com/striker-ii-usb-laser-guided-missile-launcher-217162 Product Page [Via nerdapproved]

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Tango Wings UMPC Has Vista, Slide-out Keyboard

It was just a matter of time before another UMPC came out with a similar slide-out keyboard to the HTC Shift that debuted back at CTIA. Don’t get us wrong—we don’t think this is a copy—we’re just pointing out that both have sliding keyboards. The Wings has a 7-inch screen (touch or not, we’re not…

Tech News Jason Chen

Frankenreview: Ten Takes on the Sandisk Sansa Connect

There’s a new kid on the MP3 block, and just like the Zune, it’s a player sporting Wi-Fi. The $250 4GB Sandisk Sansa Connect not only allows you to share your torrid musical preferences with dirty strangers on the subway, it also enables you to download unlimited Yahoo! music for $15 without the cords. So…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Cool Jobs on the Gizmodo Job Board

If you’re reading us twenty times a day, you either really love our writing, or really hate your job. Thank you? This week at Gizmodo Jobs: Interactive Designer at Jetset Studios in Los Angeles, CA Java Developers at Lime Wire LLC in New York, NY Web Developer at Lime Wire LLC in New York, NY…

Tech News Brian Lam

How To Overclock a DS Lite

Here’s a guide to underclocking and overclocking your DS Lite. With this, you can set the speed anywhere from 0.66x normal to 1.8x normal, which both lets you slow down action games like the new Mario and speed up games like Phoenix Wright (which annoyingly has no setting for making the dialogue faster). The process…

Tech News Jason Chen

Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up

Cory Webb, 15-year-old kid from Pittsburgh, spent a super-fun-happy 12 days in jail over something he had no control over: daylight saving time. He was arrested last month after calling into a school phone hotline. A non-related bomb threat was also called into the phone hotline one hour before Webb’s call was made and the…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Robust Surface Navigation Fills GPS’s Gaps

GPS is great, but it isn’t always accurate. It’s susceptible to interference, especially in urban settings, which is why Boeing is working on a new system to fill the holes that GPS has when it’s really needed. The objective of the Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) program is to develop technologies that can exploit various “signals…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Sony Clock Radio has Integrated Spy Cam

Got the voyeur itch? Scratch it with this Sony-branded clock radio that has been modified to include a full-color camera and microphone. The camera and microphone are attached to a wireless transmitter that can shoot the information to a receiver up to 100 meters away for viewing and listening. The clock radio itself isn’t too…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Obelisk Transformer Chairs, From Patio Furniture to Phat Phallus In No Time Flat

These Obelisk Chairs, made of woven polyethylene with a powder-coated aluminum frame, fit together into such a perfect phallic-shaped bulbous rocket ship thing that your neighbors will wonder WTF is that? Designed by Janus et Cie, with their white cushions they look like they could actually be comfortable either inside or out. Too bad you’ll…

Gadgets Charlie White

Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs

Click to viewIs your dog in heat and humping anything it can wrap its horny little legs around? Are you constantly having to pry your promiscuous pooch off the legs of guests, parents and members of your church? Protect your leg from a hump attack by getting Scruffy a Hotdoll. Yes, it’s a sex doll…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Toshiba Develops 16GB Flash Chips

Toshiba has unveiled their new 16GB flash memory chips, the largest available so far. Designed for use in phones and music players, it’s yet another step toward hard drive based players such as the Video iPod going bye-bye. It’s awesome to see this type of thing being developed, and I for one can’t wait till…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Inventions That Never Quite Made It: Sun Pod, No; Babe Inside, Yesssss

The Sun Pod was an invention that never quite made it past the concept stage, but we’re still enjoying its conceptualization. If you can get past the alluring sunbather pictured reclining in this ’80s prototype, you’ll notice a fan on the side for ventilation. But on a hot summer day this Sun Pod would obviously…

Gadgets Charlie White

Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma Reviewed: Grandstanding Performance

We’re not sure how they got their hands on it, but the guys at Trusted Reviews were lucky enough to test out Panasonic’s 103-inch plasma TV. The monster TV, which weighs in at 771 pounds with the massive stand, took about 3 hours to install (and that’s with the help of professional installers). So how’d…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Swarms of Magic Smart Dust to Explore Other Planets

Nanotech scientists at the University of Glasgow are figuring out how to use smart dust to explore planets. Each piece of dust would be about a millimeter wide, and would have a processor, sensors, a generator and digital communications gear on board. It would be covered with a shape-shifting plastic sheath that would allow it…

Gadgets Charlie White

Tesla Roadster Won’t Meet Original Range Promises

Aw, shucks. The Tesla Roadster, everyone’s favorite electric sports car, isn’t going to be quite as impressive as the initial stats claimed. While the first announcements about the car said it would have a 250 mile range, a letter that was sent out to the first 380+ people who’ve ordered one let them know that,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

SlickrFrame Photo Contest: We Have Winners!

After a heated round of balloting yesterday, we have a winner in Richard Felix’s SlickrFrame contest. The grand prize-winning photograph is “Stairwell” (that’s it at the top of this post) by apleshampo4life, garnering 18.1% of the votes (163 votes) in yesterday’s poll. The grand prize is a Microsoft Zune and a lot more. https://gizmodo.com/slickrframe-photo-contest-time-to-cast-your-ballot-252915 The…

Tech News Charlie White

Sky IM-R200 Has Dual Sliders, Is Weird/Cool

We’re always suckers for odd and different design. Now Korean phone maker Sky complies with our desires with its IM-R200, a cool-looking slider with a red-bordered numeric keypad that slides out its middle like the meat in a sandwich, while a second screen is revealed with another sliding mechanism. It’s not entirely clear if that…

Tech News Charlie White

Tiny Sega Toys Miniature Grand Piano, For a Little Night Music

This tiny grand piano from Sega Toys is only about a foot long, and each of its 88 miniature keys are only 4mm wide. But when you press down on a key with, say, a toothpick, it plays that note through its speaker. It’s also an electronic player piano that cranks out more than 100…

Gadgets Charlie White

Intel Preps Quad-Core CPU for Lappies

2008 is gonna be an interesting year if Intel keeps its promises. You see, on their 2008 roadmap sits a quad-core Penryn mobile processor designed for intense gaming and hardcore power users. Quad-core to go? You better believe it. Intel’s not saying how they plan on achieving this or what kinda battery life these lappies…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

FED Charger: Re-Juices Everything from Phones to iPods to Your Glass (I Think)

The FED charger will do everything. Plug it into the wall and its six connectors will repower just about any mobile and gadget you’d care to mention. BlackBerries, iPods, PSP, Nintendo Gameboy will all benefit. And then there’s the phones. Just about any model you’d care to mention from Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola (that…

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Desktop Trebuchet for Old School Cubicle Warfare

Tango Wings UMPC Has Vista, Slide-out Keyboard

Frankenreview: Ten Takes on the Sandisk Sansa Connect

Cool Jobs on the Gizmodo Job Board

How To Overclock a DS Lite

Boy Jailed over Daylight Saving Time Mix-up

Robust Surface Navigation Fills GPS’s Gaps

Sony Clock Radio has Integrated Spy Cam

Obelisk Transformer Chairs, From Patio Furniture to Phat Phallus In No Time Flat

Hotdoll: The Sex Doll for Dogs

Toshiba Develops 16GB Flash Chips

Inventions That Never Quite Made It: Sun Pod, No; Babe Inside, Yesssss

Panasonic’s 103-inch Plasma Reviewed: Grandstanding Performance

Swarms of Magic Smart Dust to Explore Other Planets

Tesla Roadster Won’t Meet Original Range Promises

SlickrFrame Photo Contest: We Have Winners!

Sky IM-R200 Has Dual Sliders, Is Weird/Cool

Tiny Sega Toys Miniature Grand Piano, For a Little Night Music

Intel Preps Quad-Core CPU for Lappies

FED Charger: Re-Juices Everything from Phones to iPods to Your Glass (I Think)

Trump Posts Concept Art of His Presidential Library, and It’s AI Slop

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‘Fallout’ Season 2 Was a Hit Despite That Unsatisfying Release Strategy Change

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