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Artist Mr. Thiel is trying to gauge public interest in him making custom-designed Mii Sculptures. Are you interested in having a little Mii-representation of yourself sitting on your office desk? Who the hell isn’t? If you are interested, hit him up at [email protected] with the subject line “I want a Mii soon!!!” All emails with…
Add these modded clock to our ever-growing list of awesome clocks. If you ever happen to get your hands on a functional taxi meter (I have no idea how you could actually get one) you can turn it into a digital clock with a little electronics know-how. Unfortunately there aren’t any step-by-step instructions, but the…
Click to viewWe have stumbled upon what appears to be the latest developer’s release screenshots of the newest installment of Apple OS X, Leopard. The screenshots show some of the new screensavers, a nice media browser, Bluetooth controls, parental controls and a whole slew of terminal options. Looking pretty good, so far. We’ll just have…
CES is so hungover, and all that’s left for journalists to do during this tech lull is to sit around and write up their “best of” lists for CES. But since our Frankenreview is about collecting product reviews and sifting through the opinions for consensus, what better to review than the best of what was…
The State of the Union address last night was a snoozer, but we HDTV gearheads had fun jumping between the networks, checking out which net was able to deliver the best HDTV signal from lens to screen. This was a notable occasion, because all the networks were using precisely the same feed—the same cameras, same…
The idea of the SeeEye2Eye is sound. Who wouldn’t want to be able to look someone in the eye instead of looking down when you’re in a Skype or iChat conference? Although the SeeEye2Eye teleprompter/periscope does work the way it’s intended—letting you look directly at the webcam instead of at the screen when you’re video-chatting…
Rather than driving across the country with crappy Microsoft GPS software and a laptop, pick up a quality piece of GPS hardware with the TomTom Go 300. Circuit City has this GPS device for $370 after $130 of instant savings. The device has 32MB of memory, SD expandability, voice commands, touch screen and more. https://gizmodo.com/2-500-mile-roadtrip-microsoft-mapware-laptop-gps-230964…
If you’ve got a hankerin’ to make some field recordings for your next conceptual folk-rock opus, this Zoom H4 portable recorder will give you studio-quality recordings of people on the subway platform for you to layer over with reverb-drenched guitar. You are such an artist! It records to SD cards and has a USB connection,…
This basic coffee mug can also function as an optical computer mouse. I’m sure the ergonomics aren’t the greatest, but it will keep your hand warm and give you something to impress everyone in the office with. It is still a conceptual design right now, but expect the MugMouse to be hitting the crappy gift…
As much as we like the Wii, it’s no secret that its graphics ain’t exactly state of the art. So we were a little crestfallen when we heard Nintendo’s U.S. prez Reggie Fils-Amie tell GamePro that there are no plans for an HD-capable Wii. “83 percent of households do not have the means to produce…
Can’t go anywhere without that bar? Drag this sturdy portable bar along, and you can set up your cups anytime and anywhere. It’s complete with an ice bucket, room for plenty of juice bottles and there’s even a rail that can hold eleven 750mL bottles. That’s a lot of drinks, almost enough for one night…
…but I don’t know why anybody would want to do that. This swiveling panel can rotate the TV around 180 degrees making it vanish completely. I’m trying to figure out a good application for this monstrosity of an entertainment center—maybe if you felt like knocking out a wall in your house, this could be an…
There’s no real info on this to be had, but this is purportedly the upcoming Motorola Z8. It looks to be the next Motorizr, coming hot on the heels of the Z6. From the picture we can deduce that it’s a slider, it has green accents, and it has a camera on the front that…
Add this $23 Thanko USB Warming Mouse II to the pantheon of mice that can surely warm up those popsicle fingers this winter. Choosing between this one, its predecessor and Brando’s USB warming mouse will be a challenge, but we know you can do it. https://gizmodo.com/brando-usb-warming-mouse-215318 Combine one of these with a heated toilet seat…
Getting the kiddos to read can be in the pain in the ass sometimes—I should know, I have 13 kids (not really). But I can remember back in the day asking my mom over and over how much longer I had to read before going to play some Nintendo. The Mark-My-Time bookmark replaces the parent…
This week at Lifehacker: Secure VNC with Hamachi “Pairing up VNC with Hamachi, a Virtual Private Network application, you can remote control any computer securely over your private network across any combination of operating systems.” Encrypt your instant messages with Gaim “You’re instant messaging your wife from the office and you’d rather the IT guys…
We’re all painfully aware of the high-def war going on between Blu-ray and HD DVD, but CE Pro’s Jason Unger brings the frontline a little closer to home as he talks with reps from both sides of the camp. Here’s a look at some of the mud-slinging that took place during his sit downs. HD…
A tipster who works for the sister company of M&M Mars picked up a few bags of the chocolate candies at the company’s outlet store where he works in Australia, and what did he find but Apple logos printed on some of the M&Ms inside. A fluke? Part of an upcoming promo campaign in Australia?…
The Navy has figured out a strange way to neutralize deadly mines near the beach: using a satellite-guided bomb that releases thousands of poison darts. Each .50 caliber Venom dart is packing some seriously poisonous stuff called DETA, causing some of the mines to explode and then neutralizing the rest of them with caustic chemicals.…
Here’s a radical shoe design, the Nike Water Cat. They’re super-light, sticky-rubberized for stepping in puddles large or small, and easily collapsible so they fit into a backpack without taking up much space. Nobody is saying when these kicks will be available, but we’re hoping they’ll be ready in time for our Gizmodo whitewater rafting…