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Mickey, Minnie Mouse Hump Your Screen, Eliminate Finger Grease

In all reality this product could just be a shipment of little, plush stuffed characters that fell off the truck and were hocked as screen cleaners, but I’m pretty sold on ’em. Mickey and Minnie’s stomachs are actually soft, optical grade fabric cloth that can clean your screen by humping the shit out of it.…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

Pure Digital Camcorder Now Works With Google Video, Not YouTube

Pure Digital has updated their camcorder to make it easier for users to upload their recorded video onto video-hosting Web sites, like Google Video (but not YouTube, at least not yet). Originally released this past May, the camcorder, which comes in two sizes, one that hold 30 minutes of video and one that holds 60…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Victoria’s Secret Hocks $6.5 Million Bra, Babe Not Included

Because of our No Bra Left Behind policy here at the Giz, we’re compelled to show you this year’s fantasy getup from Victoria’s Secret, this time tipping the bank account south by $6.5 million. The Hearts on Fire Diamond Fantasy Bra has a total of 800 carats—more than 2000 round diamonds—spread out across both breasts…

Gadgets Charlie White

Russia Plans Floating Nuke Plant, Thousands of Fish Protest

It won’t be ready till 2010, but Russian nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom is planning to build a $200-million mobile plant to bring electricity to the hard-to-reach territories near the White Sea. The football field-size barge will have two reactors and be launched/floated toward a port near the mainland where it’d be connected to power lines…

Tech News Louis Ramirez

TiVo Tattles to FCC: Cable Companies Being Dicks About CableCard

If you’re thinking about springing for one of the latest TiVos with CableCards inside, you might be in for some rough sledding, if TiVo itself is any indication. It’s been meeting with the FCC (here’s the follow-up letter from that meeting), decrying “CableCard deployment issues,” meaning that TiVo is trying to get the FCC to…

Tech News Charlie White

Toshiba and Fujitsu May Rip Sony a New One Over Burning Batteries

Sony gets into even deeper shit with its exploding and burning laptop batteries, and a recall of over a 7.5 million batteries and costs of up to $257 million may be just the beginning for the Japanese company. Now Toshiba and Fujitsu are thinking about asking for even more compensation for their trouble, maybe asking…

Tech News Charlie White

Roomba Monkey – The Missing Link in your Living Room

Unequivocal proof that humans evolved from Roombas. Or wait – was it the other way around? Just when you thought that man could not love an automatic vacuum at any greater capacity, it goes all Every Which Way But Loose on us. Tune in this Tuesday for my Frankenreview – see you next weekend. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-frankenreview-sony-laptop-battery-recalls-206687

Gadgets Mark Wilson

AuraOrb: Socially Aware, But Still Doesn’t Care About Your Problems

The AuraOrb is a notification device without the fine woodworking of other gadgets we’ve talked about lately. https://gizmodo.com/the-device-patented-process-indicating-apparatus-eno-207681 Its specialty is to use social awareness cues, such as eye contact, to determine when it should light up its 360-degree display with your latest information updates. Touching the orb transfers messages directly to your computer screen.…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

iPod Nano From Hell?

This from reader/Satan-worshipper David: “Hey guys, I’m a worker at Staples-Business Depot in Canada , and we just started carying iPods. Funny little thing, in our inventory program, for every iPod the SKU starts with 666! For exapme the ipod Nano is 666 268. Coincidence? I think not. iPods must be from from hell.” Hmm. Did…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Free Airport Wi-fi List

It’s amazing to me when an airport doesn’t have free wi-fi. I know it’s another way to make money, but in an industry that goes bankrupt every few years anyway, why not give fliers golden EVDO cards upon entering a carrier’s terminal? https://gizmodo.com/sprint-releases-evdo-rev-a-card-faster-than-regular-e-196601 Wi-fi Free Spot posted a list of airports with free wi-fi. Biggies…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Wii Programming: Can You Chicken Dance?

Here is video that’s been floating around a bit, showing just how simple it is to program wiimote movements through the dev tool LiveMove. We’ll admit it – this is a boring video about a cool topic, but we cracked up about halfway when he says, “Imagine me as a cowboy…I’m lassoing a steer…” And…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Motorola Q Pro Early 2007?

According to one report from Gartner Symposium ITxpo, the Motorola Q Pro is confirmed for launch in the first quarter of 2007. Aside from unspecific hardware upgrades, the Moto Q Pro will come in black (the new black) and sport the Motorola MOTOPRO Mobility Suite – allowing remote device and application management along the ability…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Mood-Light Chiller, Romance for Geeks

The Mood-Light Chiller is an LED-infused ice bucket, suitable for your finest vintage. Constructed from aluminum and frosted plastic, the Chiller can display a seamless color show, or can be frozen (again, no pun intended) at any moment to hold a color of your choosing. We appreciate that the Chiller can run on a rechargeable…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

OV-Watch: “Time to Make a Baby”

The OV-Watch is FDA approved to predict ovulation up to five days in advance for women trying (or potentially not trying) to have a baby. The watch works by detecting chlorine ions secreted through the skin. By detecting when the chlorine peaks, the watch can fairly accurately deduce when ovulation will occur. Gizmodo will be…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Air Hogs Storm Launcher – R/C Hovercraft

Remember that video we lnked to a while back with some guys playing with this ridiculously cool dual-propeller hovercraft/plane/thing? The video is gone, but now it’s a real product. https://gizmodo.com/hydro-foam-flying-r-c-boat-109983 The Storm Launcher runs $120 (or three easy payments of $39.95) and comes with a LIPO battery pack and charger, 2 extra propeller blades, 2…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

uBreakup: The Tackiest Way to Dump Someone

A few weeks ago we told you about Call-in-Sick, the service that allows you to record phony (no pun intended) sick messages that call the office for you. https://gizmodo.com/call-in-sick-schedules-your-sick-calls-automatically-205309 The same company just started uBreakup, allowing users to avoid the “is it because I’m a half-man overweight circus runaway” awkwardness of most breakup calls. You…

Tech News Mark Wilson

29 Reasons You Don’t Need an iPod, 1 Reason You Do

Is the iPod still the best MP3 player on the market, or is it just the device that everyone knows about? Here is a nice list of 29 alternatives to an iPod that should all be available for the holiday season. Gizmodo Disclaimer: if your wife/child requests an iPod for Christmas, we recommend that you…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

The Device, Patented Process Indicating Apparatus – Enough Said

Billed as “possibly with world’s first hand-crafted luxury computer peripheral” – The Device is a status-indicator for virtually anything your computer monitors. Connecting via USB, packaged software can customize what The Device tracks. Examples include CPU usage, Counterstrike frags, Ebay auction status and radioactive decay rates. The Device displays information through 3 methods. The first…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Zune Countdown Clock

Did you have the Y2K countdown on your computer, or maybe the Mary-Kate & Ashley turning 18 timer? Are you sad that the Apocalypse hasn’t happened and that teenage girls aren’t as oversexed as they used to be? Maybe it’s time to download the Zune countdown clock. Because new gadgets are way hotter than overexposed…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Siemens VDO Traffic Sign Recognition – So We Can Get Some Sleep

Siemens knows that driving is really hard with a phone, PDA, GPS and stereo to worry about, so they’ve invented a system to read signs for you. A camera scans the field ahead while an onboard computer searches for patterns. In the case that a speed limit sign is detected, a windshield display will place…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Mickey, Minnie Mouse Hump Your Screen, Eliminate Finger Grease

Pure Digital Camcorder Now Works With Google Video, Not YouTube

Victoria’s Secret Hocks $6.5 Million Bra, Babe Not Included

Russia Plans Floating Nuke Plant, Thousands of Fish Protest

TiVo Tattles to FCC: Cable Companies Being Dicks About CableCard

Toshiba and Fujitsu May Rip Sony a New One Over Burning Batteries

Roomba Monkey – The Missing Link in your Living Room

AuraOrb: Socially Aware, But Still Doesn’t Care About Your Problems

iPod Nano From Hell?

Free Airport Wi-fi List

Wii Programming: Can You Chicken Dance?

Motorola Q Pro Early 2007?

Mood-Light Chiller, Romance for Geeks

OV-Watch: “Time to Make a Baby”

Air Hogs Storm Launcher – R/C Hovercraft

uBreakup: The Tackiest Way to Dump Someone

29 Reasons You Don’t Need an iPod, 1 Reason You Do

The Device, Patented Process Indicating Apparatus – Enough Said

Zune Countdown Clock

Siemens VDO Traffic Sign Recognition – So We Can Get Some Sleep

Anker 160W Laptop Charger Briefly Returns to Black Friday Pricing in a Last-Minute Amazon Spring Sale Deal

The New ‘Backrooms’ Trailer Is Packed Full of Endless Dread

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

Dyson V15 Detect Plus Cordless Vacuum Is a Late Spring Sale Deal at a Record Low on Amazon

The New ‘Supergirl’ Trailer Is Filled With Krypto, Lobo, and ’60s Soul

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