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You may be taking time off for the holidays, but the judges of our Fuzzy Wuzzy Modo contest aren’t. Imbetween rescuing helpless kittens from the path of Santa’s sleigh, the pet volunteers of Solano County Friends of Animals are digging through the competition entries, looking for the cutest pictures of Iguana with Gameboys and Parrots…
This week at TreeHugger: We welcome the world to TreeHugger 2.0, with a new user-friendly design and some slick new features. Check out Pitstop, an inductive charging system integrated into an attractive floor lamp. French designers ModeLabs have developed three self-powered cellphone concepts. The designs rely on the kinetic movement of their users to generate…
Some analysts are predicting the console shortage currently taking over the country may not be letting up anytime soon. Current speculation is suggesting that the lack of available Nintendo Wii and PlaysStation 3 consoles may last until March. It seems the PS3 is a little bit easier to acquire as folks are hitting up the…
This master list of consumer electronics customer support contact phone numbers and links should come in handy right about now. Anything missing from the list? Add it in comments. The CE Customer Support Contact List [Techlore] Also see: PVRWire’s Post holiday support guide (US edition) [PVRWire]
Ok, so maybe it’s not getting Intel’s quad-core CPU or Nvidia’s GeForce 8800, but Japan’s oldest working computer is in the process of getting a major upgrade. Created in 1959, the FACOM 128B is being rejuvenated so it can complete its 60-year anniversary come 2019. The room-sized PC originated from a calculator (the 128A) and…
Created for pro chefs, this Quad Timer lets you count down the time of four different tasks, and its color-coded lights on the front let you know when each one hits zero hour. The fancy chef’s model has a brushed metal base and soft-touch rubberized housing and will cost you $30, while the standard one…
This is one fine-looking Bluetooth earpiece, even though it’s just brochure-ware so far. The Argard M10 Bluetooth headset is about the width of a nickel, but its in-ear design still packs enough battery power to last all day. The company says it’ll give you three hours of talk time and 100 hours of standby time,…
Brace yourself for this one. Starting next year, Verizon Wireless is gonna let banner ads invade your cell phone. The ads will appear at the top of Web pages you visit on your cell phone/smartphone. In an effort to make it look like they care about their customers, Verizon said they’d limit the type of…
There are a ton of awesome Wii mods out there, and this isn’t necessarily one of them. Traditionally, arcade cabinets are gaming devices meant to tether one to the game via integrated controls, etc and the Wii is a gaming device that intentionally separates the person from the game and controls with a motion-sensing Wiimote.…
I just reviewed the Oppo DV-981HD Universal DVD Player, and like its brandmate the Oppo DV-970, the player does a great job of up-rezzing regular old garden-variety DVDs to high definition. This one takes it a step further, though, up-rezzing that unwashed standard-def signal all the way to the holy-grail 1080p resolution. Taking a look…
I’ve been getting scads of CES pitches from smarthome software and gear makers, and not a single one is as interesting as LiquidIce’s Wii-home hack. It uses the Wii browser, a Flash interface and some PHP script to control the lights, thermostat, security camera, cable DVR, and stereo system. This script can be used with…
If your pad is anything like mine then your junk drawer is always chock full of 9-volt batteries, but you can never seem to find any AAA batteries, which are usually more common in gadgets than 9-volts nowadays. It seems that most Energizer or Duracell 9-volt batteries actually consist of six 1.5 volt batteries that…
It’s not often we write about printers here on the Giz, but Brother’s new MPrint MW-260 gets honorable mention for being the world’s thinnest printer. It can print up to 20 pages per minute from any PC, Pocket PC, or Windows Mobile handheld. Best of all, it also prints over Bluetooth (in addition to your…
When Sony had its big PS3 press day a few months ago, the world’s elite gaming journalists stopped bashing the console long enough to write about how stunning the PS3’s visuals were in person. But, I’d just seen it and I wasn’t blown away. The difference between my experience and that the others had? I…
Since it’s the day after Christmas and all, we GizBloggers are pretty much staring into space, and so instead of ogling at each other, we turn outward, to the utmost in feminine beauty in bloggerdom. Here they are, the Top 10 beautiful bloggers of 2006. We start with former Rocketboomer Amanda Congdon, pictured above, who’s…
French designers ModeLabs have come up with three new cell phone concepts that use the inherent motion of their use to charge them up. The first (and most practical/interesting, in my opinion) is the U-Turn, a phone that gets juiced up by flipping the keyboard out. Less practical are the YoYo, getting charged by bouncing…
Even if you were one of the lucky few to score a PS3 over the holidays, chances are it wasn’t white, which is why Michal Birecki thinks his console is better than yours. Birecki used his father’s body shop to give his PS3 a glossy white coat and 14 hours later emerged with this beauty,…
The Pope warned all Gizmodo readers this past Christmas morning with a rhetorical line of questioning. Is a Saviour needed by a humanity which has invented interactive communication, which navigates in the virtual ocean of the Internet and, thanks to the most advanced modern communications technologies, has now made the Earth, our great common home,…
Acclaimed tech maven, TWIT podcast host and Time’s Person of the Year (aren’t we all?) Leo Laporte has made his own astute prediction about Apple’s upcoming—dare we say it—iPhone, as he calls it. He went out on a limb, saying he had “absolutely no doubt” the iPhone would make its debut at Macworld 2007. Laporte…
Has this flying Wiimote epidemic gotten so bad that it warrants its own t-shirt? Apparently the answer is yes, yes it has. Here you go kids: it’ll show off your enthusiasm and palm sweat way more stylishly than a black eye ever could. https://gizmodo.com/wiimote-attacks-womans-weak-point-for-massive-damage-220972 It’s yours for a mere $25 and a dash of dignity.…