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TRENDnet, a second-tier player in the router business, wants you to help them design a gaming router. All you have to do is hop over to their site, tell TRENDnet what features are important to you, and they’ll never read it take it into consideration when they build their next device. For us, we prefer…
First the NYC stunt and now this? A man postering the hell out of Austin with gaudy Zune posters has been arrested. Besides the fact that the guy is putting GIANT posters up on seemingly small lightposts, it doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, but there are probably laws in Texas against those…
It may look like a stealth fighter jet, but Boeing is hoping its new X-48B aircraft will become the commercial airliner of the future. The blended-wing plane—a name given to planes that merge the fuselage and wings into one—eliminates the tail part of a plane (which is usually the part of the plane responsible for…
Save money and spare your child from a trip to the doctor with this EarCheck ear infection diagnosis kit. Just stick it in, press the button, and you’ll be able to diagnose on a scale of 1 to 5 whether or not your kid’s in any danger. The LCD also gives you a reading that…
The world’s highest swing is 33 stories high. Yes, 33 stories. It’s in South Africa, and you jump off the huge Oribi Gorge. The video above makes it look like a hell of a lot of fun (and a lot safer than this human slingshot), but be warned: you’re gonna want to keep it on…
Remember the Zune Pro|Type keyboard renders we saw last year? There wasn’t much information then, other than 32KB of memory on board, but we just got some new shots in right now. https://gizmodo.com/razer-pro-type-multimedia-keyboard-zune-dock-193958 As you can see (with more after the jump), it’s a keyboard. With a Zune dock. What did you expect? But as…
Got a need for some extra storage space? Dell and Alienware just added the option for you to slap a 1 terabyte drive in one of their XPS, Area 51, or Aurora towers. That’s a hell of a lot of space, although whether or not it’s smarter to spread your storage out over multiple drives…
You’ve seen both the OQO2 and the Flipstart, but when I loosed both of these little palm-top computers in the same room, it was a moment reminiscent of fighting cocks entering the ring, Superman facing Lex, Hiro meeting Sylar, Ken giving Ryu the Shuryuken…you get the idea. Essentially, I have to say the OQO2 is…
What would you do if you were a professor and one of your students got 1 out of 12 questions correct on an exam? Before you answer, let us tell you a story. You see, the Inquirer got their hands on a PAL PS3—you know, the ones that have software backward compatibility—and tested it out…
Xbox 360 owners are already used to paying every year for the privilege of playing with their friends on Xbox Live, but now Windows get to cough up cash too. For $50 a year, Windows Live will give you—tweed jacket-wearing Windows guy—the ability to play games like Shadowrun and Halo 2 with your buddies on…
Analyst Ben Reitzes from UBS predicts that Apple’s multi-touch display technology, as seen on the upcoming iPhone, is going to spawn a “mega-platform” spread across many devices. That means he thinks we’ll see touchscreen Macs in the next year, touchscreen tablet computers, touchscreen iPods, and even touchscreen TVs, which seems like a pretty stupid idea.…
Good news for wireless fans, as the 802.11 Working Group has just approved Draft 2.0 of the 802.11n spec. What’s left before you can hop down to the store and get your own certified gear? Just Draft 3.0 and the final spec. However, as a stopgap measure between now until then, the Wi-Fi Alliance can…
The idea may sound a little morbid, but an undertaker in the UK has started broadcasting funerals live over the Internet. Funeral directors at S Clark and Son hope that by doing this, they’ll be able to bring family/friends together during times of mourning. The service is offered for free, and there’s a log-in/password feature…
From the same folks that brought you the aromatherapy donut, is this very minimalistic CD radio. From the outside it seems that this clock radio just has a CD slot and OLED display, and I can’t figure out if this concept radio will have everything controlled by remote control or black magic because the website…
Just because you are going on a vacation doesn’t mean you have to leave the geek-esque lifestyle behind. HotelChatter compiled a list of some of the greatest geek hotels in the world and topping the list is the The Tribeca Grand in New York. Other notables include the Hotel @ MIT (actual name), The Wynn…
Researchers have created a drug that wipes out a single, specific memory in rats. They trained the rats to be scared of a specific tone, as they always got shocked when they heard it, but after given the drug they ceased to be afraid of the sound. Great! Boy, I can’t wait until every time…
Remember those free routers by Fonero? These routers, 10,000 of which were sent out for free recently, are overheating and some actually melting. This video is of a particularly monotone man and his melting Fon experience. It is also noted that he isn’t the only one dealing with some hot fon problems. A lot of…
You may recall our post about the $400 million Airbus A380 commissioned by an Arab oil magnate, where $100 million of that was spent just on the giant jet’s interior. Now we have three a picture of the inside of that flying palace created by jet interior expert Edése Doret, who put together the spectacular…
It’s only been two days since we reported on those PSP 2 rumors and already a Sony exec has made our rumor official by confirming the company’s plans to make a PSP2. Sony Computer Entertainment UK managing director Ray Maguire was quoted as saying the new PSP will be more pocket-friendly, thanks to a smaller…
Have a spare hard drive laying around and a lot of extra time? Do the obvious and build a motorcycle out of the broken drive. It’s kind of crazy to see how many different parts it takes to store all of my completely legal music, movies and pornography. Hard Drive Platter Motorcycle [Techeblog]