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This Boeing 737 is not going to find itself rolling down a runway anytime soon, but it might elicit a smile or two while carrying out its ground-based computing chores. This bulbous-looking case mod has an AMD FX-55 processor and GeForce 7800GT graphics card on board, and took modder Brian Carter six months to complete.…
Feature Low End Theory https://gizmodo.com/low-end-theory-185351 News Microsoft’s Windows Live PimpMobile Black Censor Bar Sunglasses Nintendo Gives DS Lite + Brain Age To President Bush For 60th Birthday Telus Mobility Gets XM Radio Sony PSP 1.5 to 1.0 Downgrader Coming Tomorrow Smokey Amp: The Cigarette Pack Amplifier Guitar Picks From Space: Meteoric Sound, Astronomic Price Even…
• XM Satellite Radio adds 398,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2006, total is now 6.89 million [Orbitcast] • Sirius adds 600,460 new subscribers, brining its total to 4.67 million [Orbitcast] • Apple sued for stock option irregularities [MacWorld] • Spim and Splog—IM and blog spam, respectively—on the rise says e-mail and IM filtering…
This week at Uncrate: We take a look at the first 4-door Jeep Wrangler; party like it’s 1981 with the Ms. Pac Man/Galaga Cocktail Table; and get ready for the Ren & Stimpy: The Lost Episodes DVD. Plus, we hire a Red Robot to keep the drunks away from our keys; enjoy the iconlicious Nike…
This is the internal Windows Live Golf Cart, pimped out as only the nerds at Microsoft can. Brought to you by the folks who made “Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!” an internet meme, the cart has little flags and even bass amps and is used for internal promotion. Sexy. Pimp my golf cart [Flickr…
These things are pretty stupid, but hell, anything can be funny if you’re drunk enough. The censor bar glasses are worn like regular glasses and put that black censor bar over your eyes like in those late-night Girls Gone Wild ads. Useful for streakers, shoplifters, or people with really wide faces. Black Bars [Stupidiotic]
Check out this DS Lite + Brain Age pack Nintendo gave to President Bush for his birthday. That’s pretty neat, but I wonder if he’ll play it. With no sons in the house, we doubt there was a Nintendo or Sega Genesis to be found. Well, it’ll give him something to do when his iPod…
Here’s one for the Canadian readers. Your Telus Mobility cellphone service just announced that XM radio is available on your Telus phones. Exciting? Yes! Provided you like XM. There’s only 20 channels available on the phone, however, so if your favorite station isn’t here, you’ll have to listen the old fashioned way. Bluesville, BPM, Chrome,…
If you’re not content in going from 2.6/2.5 to 1.5, a 1.5 to 1.0 downgrader is set to be released tomorrow. This original firmware that was released on the Japanese PSP at launch allows you to run unsigned eboot files sans exploits. Check here tomorrow to see if everything goes according to plan. https://gizmodo.com/sony-psp-where-a-downgrade-is-an-upgrade-184905 Check…
A clever former Fender amp designer merged a cigarette pack with a practice amp to form the Smokey Amp. Notable for its portability rather than its sound quality, the amp is powered by one battery that gives you ten hours of play-time. The amp is fairly loud for its size, so if you’re in the…
Guitar players will search far and wide for the perfect guitar pick, looking for one that will give them just the right bite to their sound. But few guitar players have scoured the entire solar system for that ideal strumming implement, until now. These astronomically-expensive Meteorite Guitar Picks are each unique, and are priced as…
Two new tidbits we found from a tipster. One is a WiFi Proximity sensor that works similarly to how movie theatres are Bluetoothing ads to unwitting cellphone users. When you venture in range of an “Ad-Node”, the node sends you a new message to your device, which may be in the form of a 15…
Only one of these eyes are used to peek up your wife’s skirt—the other nineteen are used to locate the position of passengers to deploy airbags more safely and effectively. Tyzx, the Menlo Park company that got an early injection of Paul Allen’s seed, is working with Takata Group to speed up the R&D needed…
Washer/Dryer combos aren’t anything we haven’t seen before, but this one features a tilted-drum so children and the elderly can easily load and unload clothes. That is, actual elderly citizens living by themselves, not lazy middle-aged men making their parents do their laundry for them. This machine is targeted for the Asian market, and has…
Sort of innocuous in the grand scheme of things, the new update from Apple adds a widget verification program. This program verifies whether the widgets present in the dashboard is authentic by sending an HTTP GET command to Apple’s servers every eight hours. There’s no way to turn this off (yet, but maybe you could…
So LG launched their line of chocolate phones earlier this year. I still had no idea why they are themed chocolate, but I assumed it was because they are dark colors, were released around Valentine’s Day and pale Asian ladies loved them. Apparently I was wrong because these phones are being released in pink and…
Klegg’s announcing an upgraded version of their Mini MP3 player (shown above) with more memory and video support. The three versions will be 1GB, 2GB and 4GB varieties, all supporting Bluetooth and MP3/WMA/MPEG4/WMV/DIVX/AVI playback. The video will be displayed on the 1.8-inch LCD, which isn’t LARGE, but good enough for quick shorts like that monkey…
Macs and PCs and their software progeny have been mingling these days, and it’s as weird as cats and dogs playing together ever since Boot Camp came on the scene. Now Codeweavers take this odd concept a step further with CrossOver Mac, software that lets you run Windows applications on Mac OS X without even…
Oh, you clumsy Japanese, always dropping your cellphones in the toilet. Why else would you find the need to make water resistant microSD cards? https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-so902wp-waterproof-cellphone-174771 These INX cards are available in 128MB, 256MB and 512MB sizes for now, with a 1GB coming next quarter. Pick one up if your expandable memory is as hydrophobic as…
Just like squirrels and boars in the wild, overbearing parents can now tag their own children with RFID wristbands. This amusement-park kiosk system is called SafeTzone and lets parents give their children RFID wristbands that can track the tyke’s every movement. The wristbands also work as debit cards so you can load up the wristband…