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If you’ve ever been waiting at Planned Parenthood, you’d know just how hard it is to strike up a conversation. With this waiting light, however, you can announce to the world that yes, you are in fact waiting and you would like someone to talk to to pass the time. “Oh, so you’re waiting, I…
I never thought the fanny pack died off, but the kids at the arcade continue to ridicule me nonstop. I’ll show those bastards. Just wait until I hit the Galaga machine wearing the Sound Box Waist Bag hooked up with my Sony Cassette Walkman. The Ace of Bass will be blaring and all of the…
MacBook owners that are getting bored of the stock look can easily make a few modifications to it to spruce up its appearance. As seen in in the guy’s flickr page, he’s added a See-Through Speck Shell, a custom rainbow Apple logo, an 802.11n card from a Mac Pro, and black MacBook keys as seen…
If you thought spelling bees, dominoes, and the Bud Bowl were sorry excuses for sporting events, wait ’til you catch all the lack of action at the National Texting Championships. What do you have to do to win this amazing event? You’ll need to text faster than anyone, of course. The catch? You can only…
Bad news for students at the University of Michigan. At least twelve of you are in the process of being identified to the RIAA, according to Paul Howell, Chief Information Technology Security Officer of the University. Why’s Paul giving you up? Read the letter after the jump. For current students, you should probably not use…
Those of us that own the black MacBook know that fingerprints are the devil. Smudges and fingerprints show up all over the black matte finish. Josh, over at MacApper, figured out the most efficient way to get rid of the nastiness, with the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Josh put together some pretty detailed instructions about…
Vincent over at Slashgear has a large hands-on with the Samsung F700 sliding smartphone (see comparison). The phone itself had a really good keypad and has great tactile feedback, but Vincent thinks the OS was locked because Samsung didn’t want people viewing the un-finished product just yet. https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-vs-samsung-f700-which-is-touchscreenier-235112 As for the finish, it’s definitely glossy…
Skype has just launched their online store, featuring all the VoIP equipment you could want, from headsets to handsets to USB adapters. It’s all terribly exciting! In order to celebrate the North American launch of their they have lots of fancy deals, like $30 off a Logitech QuickCam Pro 5000 and $50 off a Netgear…
There are many ways you can use this Whose Round Is It Anyway “Simon” game from Gadgetz4all. You could decide that the first person to incorrectly repeat the sequence of colored lights has to buy the next round. You could also use it to decide who’s going to take the next shot. Hell, you could…
Our design-savvy buddy, Josh Spear, was at an Apple store and spotted an employee wearing a grape-purple iPod Shuffle. Apparently it wasn’t a case of any type and the employee reportedly didn’t have much to say about it. So, is a new line of spring-colored iPod Shuffles on the way? And if so, why would…
As our khaki-wearing cousin Valleywag reported, the term “technosexual” is becoming replacing metrosexual, ruralsexual, and ludditesexual as the “sexual” term of the moment. In this video from our local news channel, some guy named Ricky explains that being a technosexual is all about having the sexiest gear and setting up wireless routers for women. If…
The PS3’s Folding at Home app looks twitchy in person, but for the sake of science and humanity, a few epileptic seizures are a small price to pay. The map view is amazing (hit the gallery for some shots.)-B.L. PS3 Folding at Home [Gizmodo]
A reader sends this tip culled from the pages of our favorite magazine when we were 10, Nintendo Power. He notes, as seen on the right, that Andy Alamano, the producer of Alien Invasion, is holding a Wiimote and Nunchucks unattached. Does this mean there’s going to be wireless (Bluetooth?) Nunchucks for the Wii soon?…
Linksys dropped a bit of news at CeBIT with the KiSS 1600 Network Media Player. This device includes an upscaling DVD player and connects to the HDTV via HDMI. The player can stream content through the home network to NAS devices or a PC. It also includes a USB port for streaming from portable hard…
This week at Uncrate: We roll our drunken buddies around the yard in our Giga Ball, bling out with the Nixon Diamond Rotolog watch, and add the Retro Futurism T-Shirt to our ever-expanding collection of robot tees. We also ride around town on a Can-Am Spyder, let the drivers behind us know how we feel…
Click to viewThe Amazon Unbox movie download system is now firmly linked up with the TiVo service, and if you have a TiVo Series 2 or Series 3 box, now you can download Amazon Unbox movies right into your Now Playing list just as if they were another TV show or movie. We gave it…
It wasn’t the kind of grand announcement we were expecting, but Isabel Aguilera, CEO of Google Spain and Portugal, has supposedly spilled the beans on the GPhone, confirming for the world that our favorite search engine is indeed working on a mobile. She also mentioned they were working on 18 other projects, many of which…
Yes, and the PS3 is going to make a big impact. According to that chart, from the Folding at Home by OS stats: 1 Gigaflop per PC 3 Gigaflops per Intel Mac 30 Gigaflops of Folding Power per PS3 On average, of course. A researcher I spoke to said that the basis for the 30x…
H&R Block, with the help of Travelocity, is offering a free download of the tax preparation software, TaxCut Premium, for free. The download also includes the Deduction Pro software, you know, for deductions. Be sure to remove the Extended Download Protection from the cart to get it all for free. This reminds me, tax season…
Whether you are a gearhead or a computer repair monkey, dealing with small metal parts is inevitable. The Magnogrip is a powerful, wrist strap that can hold all things metal with the help of magnetism. It may not hold a sandwich (unless you enjoy an aluminum hogie), but the Magnogrip will make sure you never…