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•Panasonic Broadcast to Ship the Grandaddy of All Plasmas: 103-Inches, 1080p •FreeCharge Weza Jumps Your Car Using Your Energy •Alienware’s MCE PC Gets Sexy and Packs Its Own Amp •Portable Fireplace Brings Roasting Indoors •Verilux Rise & Shine Alarm Lamp: Peaceful Wakeup https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-broadcast-to-ship-the-grandaddy-of-all-plasma-210127 Comment of the Day: Boobkini https://gizmodo.com/boobkini-defies-laws-of-physics-shocks-millions-210179 “Darn, I hate Japanese videos! They…
Like the Lucas-approved Darth Vader USB Drives from Mimoco, this Chewbacca USB thumbdrive is limited to a 2500 run, and is available in 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB sizes. No bowcaster?! Awwww… https://gizmodo.com/limited-edition-star-wars-usb-flashdrives-207006 Chewie USB Drives [Coolhunting]
Surprise, surprise. Camcorder Info just named their favs for this year, and the best of the best happens to be the Canon Elura 100, a miniDV camera that costs under $400. https://gizmodo.com/canon-elura-100-147633 Amazing, considering its company had HDD storage systems, HD resolution, and price tags over $4000. How did this happen? It trumped every challenger,…
•$3B Spent Over Next 4 Years on Public Wi-Fi [Broadband Reports] •Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining [Slashdot] •And now, the fate of the ATI brand: it lives! [Ars Technica] •Creator of Comic ‘Dilbert’ hacks his brain to restore his speech [Boing Boing] •Yahoo serves up new bookmarking tools [Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/yahoo-serves-up-new-bookmarking-tools-209970
Four minutes long and loaded on YouTube, this Dell “ad” features Michael Dell, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Intel’s Paul Otellini, among others. Why is it so bad? Because it’s confusing who this ad is actually for. It’s definitely not for consumers, and with all the talk/singing of partners and relationships, we think it’s for other…
Regular skylights merely let light in. This Suntracker’s 3 aluminum mirrors track the sun using a tiny solar powered motor. Pretty cool way to get 1000-watts worth of lighting in your house for free. Don’t worry, the 95% reflective mirrors hit a diffuser first, so you won’t feel like an ant under a magnifying glass…
You’ve read our review, seen our Sizemodo comparing it to a Motorola Q and a Palm Treo 700w, visitied our Dash gallery, and even came back for the Dash Q&A. Now it’s your turn. The T-Mobile Dash is finally available from their website for $199.99 after $50 mail in rebate and $100 instant discount (when…
A case of poor timing for contextual ads, or is AOL rubbing it in? Thieves raid Apple employee store for third time [AppleInsider] Thanks Edward!
Curious as to which airline gives you WiFi access up in the air? Check out this list, meticulously compiled by people who really, really don’t want to miss any emails. Apparently there are two types of WiFi service, which is then customized for each provider. The first is Connexion by Boeing, and the second is…
This may be painfully obvious once you think about it, but for those who haven’t, here’s a way to get around the Xbox 360 country lock for downloadable content. Microsoft’s chosen to disable certain game demos and game videos for people of certain regions, but we want all our media to be free, don’t we?…
This looks straight out of some exotic place—we’re guessing Japan—where a straight nose is important enough to make a gadget for. We’re not convinced that Cleopatra’s was the ultimate in shnozzes, but if this is “indispensable for your beautiful nose, you wouldn’t miss a chance”, then we’re in for five. The perfect solution – who…
An upgrade of the Kodak V610 V570, the EasyShare V705 keeps the line’s trademark Retina Dual Lens Technology, which lets you have an ultra wide focus as well as a regular zoom. So how does this 7-megapixel shooter stand up? https://gizmodo.com/kodak-v610-reviewed-verdict-ehhh-170219 Well, besides being still pretty darn sexy, it’s light, has 5x zoom (just like…
We’ve already seen what happens when you pack a jet onto the back of a pickup, well now someone’s strapped some motors onto a kayak. It’s nowhere near as powerful as the pickup, but still manages to make your kayak fast enough to race against rally cars. In Iceland. While dodging icebergs. https://gizmodo.com/rocket-powered-truck-leaps-across-continents-209441 Click ahead…
Just heresay for now, but Nov. 17 seems as likely a day for Cingular to release the BlackBerry Pearl as any other. I almost killed my black berry about 20min ago and called cingular to help me fix it, which they did. But i was talking to to service lady about the pearl and how…
Advanced Technetix, whom nobody has ever heard of, is releasing a “visual” iPod remote. Visual meaning the remote part has a one-line LCD. What makes this device a bit different from others is that full menu functionality and control can be done from the LCD screen on the remote—not just track changing. No batteries are…
Those lucky Brits always get all the fun. Though it was only a prototype, the staff at IGN UK got to bag a PS3 and do with it as they pleased, slowly undressing her and caressing her round discs. Her cuffed cables. Her curvy body. All of it painfully captured on camera for the poor,…
Winter has yet to arrive, but if you’re already craving some of the white powdery stuff (we’re talking about snow here folks) this machine should keep you satisfied. It’s a personal snow generator that lets you shoot flakes at your will. We grew up with a bubble-blowing Santa machine that squirted bubbles outta Santa’s ass,…
Chalk one up for Japanese ingenuity—defying the laws of physics and inventing perhaps the finest gadget in history: the Boobkini. It’s decent, but indecent at the same time! That’s what they said about the bikini (from the Latin bi, meaning "two," and kini, meaning "square inches of Lycra") back in 1946. Yeah, we post babes,…
Now here’s something you can do with grandpa’s pocket watch: you just slide it into the Pocket Watch Alarm Clock and you have a mixture of old and new. Designer Nicolas Cheng wanted to add new value to an antique pocket watch by placing it in a special fitted compartment on the left, teaming it…
Panasonic Broadcast announced it’s now shipping its 65-inch TH-65PF9UK 1080P plasma display aimed at the professional market, and also tipped us off that it will be shipping its gigantic 103-inch plasma display, which it calls the world’s largest, by the end of this month. It’s also rolling out a more reasonably-priced 50-inch version in November.…