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MicroID Rescue Collar, USB for the Pooch

The MicroID Rescue Collar is just a glorified regular collar. It includes a small compartment with a USB flash drive. Plug it in and fill in all of the information, so if your pooch gets lost, the finder (given that they actually own a computer) will be able to return the pooch because of the…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Paradox Trackball PS2 Controller Now Available for Pre-order

Remember that trackball PS2 controller that looked like it had an exploding testicle? It’s available for pre-order at a reduced price. For only $26.99 you’ll be able to have trackball-like aim on your PS2, letting you play the hundreds of FPS and action games that the rest of the world already tried years ago. Here’s…

Gadgets Jason Chen

TRUS USB Solar-Powered Flash Drive Shows Remaining Capacity

The TRUS USB drive has a feature we wish all USB flash drives had: an indicator showing remaining capacity. It’s green, too, soaking up just enough solar power to run its LED LCD, clearly showing you how much drive space you have left without the need for plugging it into a USB port and checking…

Tech News Charlie White

Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home’s Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range

This is freaking amazing. I was checking out some message boards last night at the Folding Forums at Stanford, a group that tracks the Folding at Home application. You know, that’s the software that runs on Sony PS3 or PS2 gaming consoles, all linking up over the Internet and using their spare cycles to help…

Tech News Brian Lam

KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame

The area under our desk is a prime fire zone seeing since the wires and power strips are all tied in the biggest knot this side of Gordium. That’s fine hidden under a desk, but awful in the living room or somewhere that actual people can see. Voila, the Black Box Cord organizer from KangaRooM.…

Gadgets Jason Chen

My Sweet 16 Sponsors

Boy howdy, I sure am happy that we have exactly 16 sponsors this week. How else could I make some kind of NCAA tournament reference showing my love for these 16 beauties. Don’t worry Akimbo, Audi, Don Julio, Fox Soccer Channel, Igo, Intel, Mio, Nokia, Old Spice, Parrot, Playstation, Rockport, SV Supreme Vodka, Sprint, VW…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Device Allows People who are Paralyzed to Stand

Apparently, it’s the future. There’s a device out there that will allow people who are paralyzed from the waist down to stand, providing their muscles still work. It zaps the muscles into action at the push of a button, allowing people confined to wheelchairs to stand and get things from high shelves, use an ATM,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Tu_Fin Lets You Walk on Water Without Divine Intervention

Nordic skiers will love this 26-foot boat powered by the same motions used in cross-country skiing. The craft’s hull is sharply shaped, similar to a rowing skull, letting it efficiently cut through the water. Its designers say it can zip along at 6.5 knots (that’s 7.5 mph for you landlubbers). It’s big enough to carry…

Gadgets Charlie White

Griffin Releases Yet Another iTrip—2nd Gen Nano Approved

I’m pretty sure that this is the 58th different iTrip released by Griffin, but we still buy them, especially because we are all suckers for iPod accessories. The latest iTrip is specifically designed for the second generation iPod nano. It fits on the back and bottom of the iPod. It doesn’t look too bad, besides…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Ashes to Ashes: My V710 Goes Up in Flames

As expected, Gizmodo readers are a bunch of pyromaniacs. You voted last week in overwhelming numbers for my cursed Motorola V710 to come to an end in the most fiery way possible, and I am a man of my word. Yesterday afternoon Blakeley and I probably broke some Manhattan fire codes by dousing the phone…

Tech News Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley

Thrustmaster Adds an Optical Wheel to Their New Controller

If you need a bit more control in your games, the Thrustmaster Run’N’Drive 3 in 1 controller purports to give you just that. Featuring an optical wheel surrounding the left-hand d-pad, it gives you extra nuance in driving games and in situations like zooming with a sniper rifle in FPS games. Seems like a pretty…

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

How were the deals yesterday? Were they any good? No? Well, keep using the Woot-off checkers so you won’t have to waste your day refreshing. Refreshing Woot, that is. Keep refreshing Gizmodo. Woot

Tech News Jason Chen

Apple TV: Niggling Questions Answered

You’ve been sending questions about Apple TV, we’ve got answers. Does Apple TV support 5.1 audio? Yes (and no). Apple TV supports Dolby Pro Logic II surround sound, at least that’s what they told me in the demo, but it does not feature 5.1 discrete audio (sorry DTS lovers). Technically, it plays back AAC-LC audio…

Tech News Noah Robischon

U of Nebraska Bills the RIAA for Wasted Time

The University of Nebraska isn’t scared by the RIAA and their army of undead, soulless lawyers. No, they’re refusing to hand over student data to the bullies, but what makes them even cooler is the fact that they’re billing the RIAA for the time they’ve wasted. Hot damn, that takes balls. Will the RIAA pay…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Adwatch: Novell Tries Its Hand at Mac vs. PC Spots, Flogging Linux With a Babe

Novell decided to jump on the Mac vs. PC parody bandwagon, with the zillionth imitation of those spots. But now they bring Linux into the equation, represented by an attractive young lady. While she is quite eye-catching, we would like to have seen a hotter babe to go along with the indescribable beauty of Ubuntu,…

Tech News Charlie White

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Now that we’ve all seen the gutted insides of Apple TV, some forum users claim to have hacked into the unit and gotten it to run nonsupported codecs like XviD. The actual hacking shouldn’t be too hard for the skilled. It involves removing and mounting App TV’s hard drive and installing a few scripts. The…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Remember the basketball court that opens up and lets out the X-Jet in X-Men? That’s exactly what this mouse looks like—except instead of a jet, a dragon comes out. It’s too bad this dragon doesn’t fly or shoot eye beams or throw exploding cards (we suppose it does have claws). It just acts as a…

Tech News Jason Chen

Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

As much fun as it would be to make lame jokes about the name Virgin and how phallic a big steel tube flying through the sky is, we’ll just leave it at saying Virgin America’s just been tentatively approved by the US Department of Transportation. Virgin, for the unfamiliar, has state-of-the-art planes that play Doom…

Gadgets Jason Chen

DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB

Click to viewIn case you were wondering, it is possible to upgrade that measly 40GB hard drive on Apple TV, in this case to 120GB. Tipster Jonathan Bare says he’s done it, resulting in a capacity of 107.36GB. Now that’s more like it. He sent along these two pictures (click on the gallery below for…

Tech News Charlie White

Procare e|Share ES-8068: Dedicated BitTorrent Client Fetches Booty On It’s Own [verdict: arrrrrr!]

Personally, I don’t care about what Adam says, I just can’t tolerate all those evil criminals, those potential terrorists who insist on stealing music and movies from their rightful owners by using BitTorrent in their computers. Shame on them! https://gizmodo.com/yet-another-reason-to-boycott-the-riaa-241376 I mean, why waste computer processing time when you just can do it with style…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

MicroID Rescue Collar, USB for the Pooch

Paradox Trackball PS2 Controller Now Available for Pre-order

TRUS USB Solar-Powered Flash Drive Shows Remaining Capacity

Breaking: PS3 Triples Folding At Home’s Computing Power to Over 500 TFLOPS..PFLOPS in Spitting Range

KangaRoom Power Strip Organizer Hides Your Shame

My Sweet 16 Sponsors

Device Allows People who are Paralyzed to Stand

Tu_Fin Lets You Walk on Water Without Divine Intervention

Griffin Releases Yet Another iTrip—2nd Gen Nano Approved

Ashes to Ashes: My V710 Goes Up in Flames

Thrustmaster Adds an Optical Wheel to Their New Controller

Dealzmodo: Woot-off Still Going On

Apple TV: Niggling Questions Answered

U of Nebraska Bills the RIAA for Wasted Time

Adwatch: Novell Tries Its Hand at Mac vs. PC Spots, Flogging Linux With a Babe

Apple TV Hacked to Run XviD, DiVX to Follow?

Chinese Mouse Tablet Looks Like the X-Men’s Launchpad

Virgin America Tentatively Approved for Market Penetration

DIY: Apple TV Hard Drive Upgraded to 120GB

Procare e|Share ES-8068: Dedicated BitTorrent Client Fetches Booty On It’s Own [verdict: arrrrrr!]

This Kindle Paperwhite E-Reader Now Costs About as Much as a Few Paper Books, While Amazon’s Spring Sale Price Still Holds

Lenovo Tab One Becomes an Even Better Budget Tablet Pick Below $100, Now Bundled With a Case in Amazon’s Spring Sale

Jason David Frank’s Final Movie Honors His ‘Power Rangers’ Legacy

AirPods Pro 3 Still at Their Lowest Price While Apple Gradually Pulls Back Amazon’s Spring Sale Offers

With Fire TV Stick 4K Max at 42% Off, Amazon’s Streaming Device Deals Build Momentum in the Spring Sale

The ‘Project Hail Mary’ Party Continues With a Manga Adaptation

No More Cheese Grater: The Mac Pro Is Discontinued

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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