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We recognize that old ass-shift-pocket-reach-downward-stare-thumb-action anywhere, especially since we saw it in exquisite high def. But was Cheney texting Condi or was he just switching the old girl to silent? You be the judge. What was Cheney crackberrying during the State of the Union? [Foreign Policy – Thanks Travis!]
•PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601 Sorts Songs From Commercials, Records •Serious Weapons: Navy Uses Poison Darts to Neutralize Surf Mines •Network HDTV Quality Tested: GW’s Babbling Tells Us The State of the High-Def Union •First Review: LG BH100 Hybrid Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Player (Verdict: Format War Still Blazing) •Leaked: Screenshots of OS X Leopard Terminal, Parental Controls, More https://gizmodo.com/popcatcher-musicdock-md-601-sorts-songs-from-commercial-231065…
Nokia 770 owners who use the Wi-Fi enabled device for web browsing, email and chat may not have a huge reason to buy the N800, but everyone else may. Costing only $400, this portable internet tablet has an 800×480 touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, VGA-video calling camera, SD slots, faster RAM, faster CPU, and amazing battery life.…
These might look like shoes, but there’s more than meets the eye here (har!). They are also Transformers, twisting and turning their way into shoe versions of Convoy and Megatron. How badass is that? Unfortunately they’re half scale models, so you won’t be able to actually wear them. I can’t imagine that they’d be all…
We covered this way back in the Johnson administration, but this MyOrigo MyDevice is a tilt-sensing touch-screen phone that looks nothing like the iPhone. It was released in late 2003 to little fanfare, even though there’s only one exterior button and an auto-switching portrait/landscape function. Sound familiar? After the Macworld announcement, F-Origin made up a…
All you bot builders listen up. Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency is holding a contest to see who can build the best street-fighting robowarrior. The prize? One million Singapore dollars (about $652,000 US). The bar is set pretty high, however, as the winning bot will have to know how to move within buildings, navigate…
Sprint has just unveiled a new service with you, their sleazy customers, in mind. It’s called MobileFaker, and it exists to help you lie to people. You can get a fake ring to get out of awkward conversations, a fake number to give to uglies who hit on you, and a fake breathalyzer to convince…
Oh Valentine’s Day. The day of the year that you can select the worst gift in the world for your significant other and still be appreciated. We’ve seen LED ladywear in the past, but these are actually available for purchase with prices beginning at $55. They even do customization, so the style of LED bras…
Wow, How cheap do you really have to be to go and make a duct tape Wii steering wheel? I mean yes the Ubisoft one is overpriced by itself ($19.99), but if it’s between using this thing or shelling out twenty bucks for a piece of plastic, I’ll pay the $20. Personally though, I’ll just…
Getting tired of the iPhone? Here’s a way to read Gizmodo and get everything BUT iPhone posts. Here’s what you do: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not:ip… Easy, right? If you don’t want posts about boobies: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not:bo… And if you don’t want posts about Microsoft or boobies: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/not:bo… Have fun! Thanks Gina! https://lifehacker.com/how-to-exclude-tags-from-lifehacker-feeds-231000
You didn’t hear it from us. It’s also a pre-release version, so good luck in not screwing up your phone. Download [Hotfile]
“Dad, you N00B! You totally effed up my damn WOW configuratin!”—charman Well for all you solar addicts there’s a new kingpin in town, Tesco USA. Yes that’s right, the American devision of the British supermarket chain has commissioned Solar Integrated Technologies to build them the biggest roof-top solar panel in the world. And keeping with…
Indie labels, sick of getting a bad rap for all the BS their older siblings at the RIAA are trying to pull, have joined forces to create a “fifth major label.” While each label on their own is pretty tiny, when they all join forces they have more artists repped than any of the major…
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…