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How cool would it be to have Samuel L. Jackson wake you up every morning with his trademark yelling? Unless you’re his kid or his wife (or mistress), the only way you’ll accomplish that is with this Ventriloque alarm clock. You can record any sound into the alarm, which will play back at the specified…
For the seven of you who were unlucky enough to get a Zune this Christmas, you’re probably dying to watch some video on its large-sized screen. Too bad, since the Zune only takes a certain type of video files, namely WMV and M4V. M2 Solution’s M2 Convert is supposed to help you convert both DVDs…
We’ve been oogling over the Nokia N95 dual-way slider for a while now, and as the February release date gets closer we have been graced with this commercial for the N95. Hot diggity damn, this phone looks sexy. Who is with me? – Travis Hudson First commercial: Nokia N95 hits airwaves [MobileMag]
•Planet-hunting space telescope launched [Spaceflight Now] •Cyberlink first out the gate to support Xbox 360 HD DVD drive on the PC [TG Daily] •Study shows some mammals can smell underwater [Xinhua Online] •Asian Net Access Improves Slightly After Quake [Information Week] •Polar bears should be on ‘threatened’ list: U.S. [CTV]
Sharper Image, the king of all crazy gadgets, is having their half-yearly sale with 100 items or so with up to 70-percent off discounts. I would say half or so of the items are actually fairly cool and could be useful, the other half is garbage, more or less. Just go check it out for…
To go follow up on our post about scalpers returning PS3s to stores, here’s a website that lets you find where PS3s and Wiis are in stock around you. https://gizmodo.com/ps3-greymarket-watch-scalpers-dumping-ps3s-back-to-sto-224557 Just scan the map and you can see how many they have in stock or when the next shipment is. For some reason Circuit City…
Now this is one hell of a Lego mechanical device. None of that new-school, open-source Mindstorms nonsense here. This is straight up mechanical Legos capable of opening a beer bottle with ease. It may be a bit slower than traditional beer-opening methods, but it is a hell of a lot cooler. – Travis Hudson
Even if we could read Japanese, we’d still be boggled at what the hell this Communication Flower is for. From what we’ve pieced together through the powers of Google translator and a spirit medium, the Communication Flower consists of two people—one human and one pixie—which combine together to tell you what your plant is thinking.…
A crafty MacBook owner has gone through the tedious act of switching his MacBook’s QWERTY keyboard for the Dvorak layout. The Dvorak layout (named after Dr. August Dvorak, not that Dvorak) was created to let people type faster. It places the most common used letters in the middle row and the least used keys on…
Not quite a replacement for a plumber, this Velcro Snake allows you to fish out smaller hair clogs from sink drains all on your own. You still have to call the pros when little Susan’s shoved her hamster down the drain, but for smaller clogs, the Flexisnake should do fine. The trick comes from the…
The Consumer Electronics Show is just a couple weeks away and word is that eCoupled will be debuting their intelligent wireless power system at the show. This system is pretty self-explanatory—power without the wires. We’ve seen cordless charging pads and such in the past, but this seems like the real deal: eCoupled technology leverages inductive…
Ever want to text someone anonymously? Hit up AnonTxt and just enter in an alias, a subject, and the message itself, and it’ll be quickly sped to the cellphone number of your choosing. Of course, the message appends “anontxt” to the sender’s name, so the recipient knows where it’s from. So if you really want…
•eCoupled Wireless Power to Debut at CES •JAYS BlueStreamer: Answer Calls While Listening to Your iPod •VTech’s infoPhone Brings the Internet to Your Landline •Soundgraph’s Front View Challenges Vista’s Sideshow •Obvio Tribrid Sports Car: Electric Pocket Rocket Runs on Anything https://gizmodo.com/ecoupled-wireless-power-to-debut-at-ces-224598 Comment of the Day: Clear Your Drains With Flexisnake https://gizmodo.com/clear-your-drains-with-flexisnake-224584 “Do they have one…
We know. You asked Santa for the greatest gift of all time, but he got you a Zune instead. No problem, because you can return it, just don’t miss those deadlines. https://gizmodo.com/usb-pole-dancer-220912 In today’s Frankenfight, we stack the return policies of major retailers including Wal-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Circuit City and Amazon in one huge…
This may not be a very high-tech kitchen gadget, but it is absolutely awesome, nonetheless. Crack the egg in Peter and let ‘er flow. $12.99. Product Page [Stupid]
Despite the PS3 costing more than the Wii—and having less units available—it seems Sony’s console is easier to find than the Wii. So much so that people are swapping PS3s for Wii straight up. And the scalpers who can’t trade for a Wii or flip their PS3s for more than a 10% or 20% profit?…
It’s that time of the year again—time for Wired News to highlight the top 10 pieces of vaporware for this year. Some of the winners include, of course, the Optimus keyboard, also the SED TV, Skype for Symbian and TiVoToGo for Mac. Another piece of vaporware noted by Wired is the “iPod Killer.” Thinking about…
You want to listen to your iPod. You want to answer Skype calls. You can’t very easily do both—at least until January, when JAYS releases this bluetooth stereo adapter. Sync it to your phone or computer using Bluetooth 2.0+edr (enhanced data rate), plug your iPod into the mini jack, and then add your favorite headset…
We continue the saga of our dog-ugly eStarling, where now it appears that the company has shipped us (and thousands of other unfortunate customers) an AC adapter with voltage that’s too low for the hapless digital picture frame to communicate more than a few feet via Wi-Fi. Promising to send a suitable replacement in two…
If you’re the sort of gadget buff that needs every item in your household to connect to the Internet, then this phone’s for you. The ip8300 infoPhone works like your typical cordless phone, except that it comes with a base station that sports an Ethernet jack. So the phone can hop onto your home network…