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We have proof that Gizmodo readers have a tremendous amount of videomaking talent, so now it’s time to put that mojo to work to take home the winnings with the ShopWiki Valentine’s Day video contest. An earnest on-camera expression of your love for an inanimate object can win you a sweet $500 gift certificate to…
Apparently U.S. Steel never saw Dustin Hoffman in 1967’s The Graduate. According to this U.S. Steel commercial from the 1970s, the future will be built on steel rather than plastic. The future will also be built piece by piece in beige factories to make beige buildings. Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World, Orlando is…
Planning on formatting your hard drive to lay down a nice, clean install of Vista Ultimate Home Premium where you had XP? Well then you had better plan on spending $80 more than you originally intended. It turns out that upgrade versions of Vista won’t accept your old XP CD as proof that you really…
Happy Sunday. This, my friends is a Digikoozie. It’s a $10 beer cozy that’ll scroll up a message of up to 200 characters — non reprogrammable, mind you — on the side of the fine Bud you’re swilling. You can use it to show everyone your sign, pet peeves, preferred gun manufacturer, favorite NASCAR driver,…
Starting as of around twelve hours ago, Dell’s made Windows Vista available on most of their desktop and laptop machines. Still around the same price as before, these machines now come with various editions of Windows Vista installed by default. However, if you were looking forward to customizing up one of these mid-range Dells to…
Tired of waiting months and paying $5 for NES games like Contra to appear on Xbox Live Arcade? A coder has made a quick-and-dirty port of a PC NES emulator onto the Xbox 360 XNA platform, which you have to pay $99 a year (or $49 for four months) to access. It’s definitely a work…
Although Vista supposedly ships with thousands and thousands of drivers, if you’re upgrading your self-built machine from XP to Vista, chances are there’s going to be at least one component that has drivers not quite compatible with Microsoft’s new OS. Instead of wasting hours googling like we did, head to RadarSync and grab the drivers…
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If you’re DJing up your own tunes with one of those old iPod FM transmitters that doesn’t auto-seek the best frequency, you’re probably always fiddling with it to try to get the optimum sound while driving. Say goodbye to potential vehicular manslaughter charges by using this FM radio locator before you even leave the house.…
Whirlpool wants to make refrigerators even cooler, building its Centralpark port right into the refrigerator door. Centralpark is an interchangeable connection point that’ll be a part of a Whirlpool line of connector-enabled refrigerators that let you park and power up a shiny collection of matching devices from Jabil and other partners. Custom choices will include…
My ears are waxy. The gooey kind. Is that too much information? Likely so. Regardless, I tell you because I need you help. This LED lit ear wax scooper was found in a random Korean grocery store, in between the air fresheners and the shower caps, by Andrew at DirtyNerdLuv. (Great name, btw. Nearly as…
It takes a whole lot of mojo for a new gadget to give me that pitter patter in my chest, the butterflies in the tummy, and the sweaty palms I associate with only the most lust worthy of gear. Today, I find myself wanting to get my wash on with this baroquely designed, deep red,…
So now that you know it’s coming, what can you expect from Intel’s new chip technology? Well, for starters its codename is Penryn. and in a nutshell it’s a 45nm shrink of the Conroe core. The extra real estate will let Intel cram more logic on the processor as well as boost the clock speed.…
Best Buy and Future Shop may have jacked up the price of a PS3 on our northern neighbors from C$659.99 to C$699.99, but it wasn’t an ill-advised cash grab on Sony’s part. An SCEC representative confirmed that Sony didn’t nudge the price skywards; individual retailers made the choice to do so. I never thought I’d…
I’m not much of a gambler, but when it comes to slot machines, I used to think these things were like ATMs—meaning they were indestructible. But alas it appears even our quarter-popping friends are prone to the occasional blue screen of death, which leaves me wondering what else they’re vulnerable to. Slot Machine Suffers Blue…
Have you seen what Microsoft Live Search Maps can do lately? Its web-fueled Virtual Earth software continues to gain on Google Earth, adding to its library of “bird’s eye views” where you can you get a surprisingly sharp look into your neighbors’ windows from all four points of the compass. Of course, it only works…
Google’s been busy this week, and they’re wrapping it up by mixing Google Books with Google Maps. Locations listed in certain books will have a link to that same location in Google Maps, so you can, um, check it out on a map. It’s kind of cool, I guess, at least with some of the…
Step 1: Upload Videos to YouTube. Step 2: YouTube rolls out profit sharing plan where they reward uploaders with shares of ad sales based on number of views. The ads will come in the shape of short clips in place of the actual YouTube video, which you presumably have to watch before getting to the…
Now that the iPhone’s gotten its chance to bask in the limelight, it’s time to zoom in on Macworld’s other big announcement—Axiotron’s ModBook. The ModBook is a MacBook that’s been morphed into a Mac tablet, and the guys at Macworld got some one-on-one time with an early pre-production unit. The first half of the video…
Innovation of the WowWee Robosapien V2 robot continues to flourish, and now you can control this budding robot overlord with a Wii remote. In this seemingly endless preview video, watch just long enough to see the 3.x alpha version of Robodance open-source software linking the Wii to the little guy. In addition to letting you…
