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Face it, people: scooter-like vehicles that move one upright person around at a speed just above walking will never catch on. The Segway is a joke, and taking the wheels away and putting in hovercraft technology isn’t going to make this catch on. In fact, didn’t Hammacher Schlemmer start selling basically the same thing a…
You’ve been asking for it, and now it’s here: a mobile version of Gizmodo. Just point your mobile IE or mobile Opera browsers at Gizmodo.com and you’ll be able to read us on the road. Another method we’ve been using is just grabbing a mobile RSS reader and reading it via RSS. Check it out…
If you’re always getting your ipod headphone cords tangled up in your pockets, take a look as this hair-sweatered man shows us the “right” way to wrap your headphones. If your attention span is too short to watch the 30 seconds of video, he wraps the cords around his fingers, then ties them up in…
Walk the floor of any tech trade show and chances are you’ll be bombarded with booth babes and HDTVs. Not much can be done to improve the former, but LG is hoping it can do something about the latter so they’ve teamed up with Japanese broadcaster NHK and Sega in an effort to demo 1080p…
Research group NPD (the same guys who gave us Zune stats) says Xbox 360 outsold the other two next-gen consoles during the “Christmas” season. Fortunately for Microsoft, the Christmas season consisted of the start of November until Christmas Day, which means the Wii—which sold 1.8 million to Xbox’s 2 million—would have won if Nintendo’s launch…
It’s your last chance to enter our Fuzzy Wuzzy Modo Pet & Gadget photo contest: any entries received after 12 midnight PST on the 2nd of January will be used to line the litter trays of orphan kittens. So send us your photos of pets and gadgets right now, or they’ll end up covered in…
At a price of under $100—and possibly under $80 if you look in the right place—the LG DN191H is a pretty thrifty option for upconverting your old media. With an HDMI connection (not component), the 191 will play back DVDs at up to 1080i, provided you’ve got an HDTV. It’s slim, light, and it looks…
Walletex, the company known for their credit-card sized USB flash drive also has a similar-sized MP3 player. This device will be available in capacities up to 2GB. I’m still kind of confused by the pictures. Sure it is small, but where the hell is the headphone jack? We’ll see how well this turns out come…
The Gizmodian force is about to invade Las Vegas for CES 2007, where will separate the real from the unreal, the solid from the vapor and the truth from the bullshit. We’ll give it to you straight, and never bore you. The CES onslaught begins on Saturday, January 6, and you’ll see more posts on…
Back in October we showed you the first laptop to pack a solid state hard drive, but what we couldn’t see was just how fast these new flash-based lappies ran. Thanks to Fujitsu we can now show you the speed difference between a flash-based notebook and a typical HDD-based system. Maybe I’m just pessimistic, but…
This week at TreeHugger: We ring in the New Year with a glass of bubbly and a quick lesson on how to wire up LEDs. Wal-Mart has visions of solar power dancing in their heads, with a new project that could give the retail giant over 100 megawatts of solar power. Lastly, the best of…
In today’s episode of "More Cool Wiimote Hacks" we revisit our hero, the Wiimote, ready to megadestroy a cat with the help of a handy USB Missile Launcher. This hack isn’t nearly as impressive as some of the others out there because it utilizes the directional pad, and not the motion control. A+ for effort…
…is what the Fridge Alarm does. No, it won’t tell you if one of your friends takes the last brew, but it will let you know if you accidentally leave the door ajar. The Fridge Alarm has a light sensor and an alarm that will sound if the sensor detects light for 30 seconds or…
We’re just wondering how long it took this guy to perfectly nail so many shots of those ping-pong balls into a variety of glasses. Just look at some of those ricochet shots. The entire video is just downright remarkable. Another amazing video involving quarters and shot glasses, after the jump: These videos must’ve taken an…
Who wouldn’t like the idea of a perfectly quiet mouse? You can mouse around with reckless abandon without bothering anyone else, rustling up all your daily porn without a peep coming out of that little rodent—no clicky noise, no scroll wheel ratcheting, no nothing. That’s what enticed me to buy the Thanko Silent Mouse, which…
Remember the bird flu epidemic that was supposed to be killing us all off around now? The one the local news had you terrified of before they made you terrified of spinach and Taco Bell? Well, not only was that all hype, but scientists have developed the “holy grail” of flu vaccines, permanently protecting against…
Yeah! Snowboarding is rad, man! ACP EP has paired with Burton for the Snow Drive, a USB flash drive in the shape and design of snowboards. It even includes an LED activity light, you know, just like your real snowboard. This drive is available in capacities up to 2GB with prices starting at $17. Speaking…
The worst part about renting a car, besides the cigarette stink and high cost, is the fact that you can’t surf the web while driving around in it. I guess. I mean, I never have an urge to surf the web while driving, but I guess I just don’t have a big enough desire to…
Yep, you heard it right, no tricks here. This “iPhone” showed up over on the Ebizzle and already has bids up to $500, so it must be real, right? Not really, it looks like a horribly done, knock-off of an iPod nano. The interface looks nothing like Apples, the charger actually looks like the adapter…
Microsoft seems to have pulled a play out of Sony’s book with some really strange advertisements for the Zune. Check out the cooler of the commercials above, and the weirder after the jump. Edit: After further investigation, these are actual fan-made ads for the Zune. That must be why they have nothing to actually do…
