Mini Mount II
We have the Mini Mount I here at the basement orifiaces and it’s pretty well-made and very nice. This one, is even well-mader and even nicer. Look at the lines on this thing—it’s like a Delorean! Designed to allow you to wall-mount your mini, this $49.99 hunk of extruded plastic is a great way to…
Cellphone Garter for Sexy Parties
Oh, you handsome devil! Wouldn’t you just love to have your lady wear one of these sex-tastic cellphone garters? She’ll look smashing as you and she wander through the Wal-Mart on a Sunday afternoon, looking for lawn sprinklers. She’ll be wearing her cut-off jean skirt and ironic T-shirt, you’ll be in your Schlitz shirt and…
Netflix Box Coming Soon (??)
Hear that? That’s Blockbuster soiling itself. Netflix is hard at work on a downloadable movie set-top box that will allows users to download and watch movies without DVDs. Like the standard Netflix service, you will pay a flat fee to watch a certain number of movies per period. Add a new movie to your queue…
Homemade Water-Cooled Xbox 360
Some guys mod their cars with rims and spoilers and others mod their computers and game consoles so as to stand out, look cool, or just be an ostentatious know-it-all. A gentleman by the name of Dano2k0 set out to water-cool his Xbox 360 in addition to adding some extra lights just for kicks. As…
Carcassonne: My New Favorite Game
We were in Boston last weekend visiting friends when we stopped into Eureka Puzzles. I’m not big on board games, so most of the stuff was lost on me, but Carcassonne caught my eye, probably because of the box. It’s a complex—but highly playable—tile-based game that involved building a cities, cloisters, and farms and taking…
Microsoft to Do the Robot
Strangely enough, Microsoft is working on a robotics toolbox for programmers to create Windows powered automatons. They are funding a lab called the Center for Innovative Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (Go Tartans!) and should be creating BSODing help droids in the next fifty years. Could this be Bill Gates’ attempt to create a team…
IBM, Georgia Tech To Announce World’s Fastest Microchip: 500GHz
Think your dual core 3-GHz processor is the bee’s knees? IBM and Georgia Tech will more than likely make you cry today with their expected announcement of a silicon-based microchip that runs at 500GHz, a world record. No, not 50GHz, but 500GHz. This feat is accomplished because researchers essentially froze the microchip to 451 degrees…
AVN IMterview: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD
AVN IMterview: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD You ask and we provide. Today we talked to Kathee Brewer, former technology editor for the Adult Video News about the adult industry and the format wars. Read on for her take on this sticky situation. Gizmodo: Ok. Well, tell us about your beat at AVN. Gizmodo: And do you…
Uaser: Laser of Sound
Let’s just dive right into this, shall we. We begin with: To make a uaser, Weaver, Illinois research associate Oleg Lobkis and UMR physics professor Alexey Yamilov begin by mounting a number of piezoelectric auto-oscillators to a block of aluminum, which serves as an elastic, acoustic body. When an external acoustic source is applied to…
DEC PMP MVX430 != PSP
No UMD here, friends, just good old intellectual piracy. The DEC PMP MVX430 has 256MB of memory, an SD card slot, video and image recording, four hours of audio recording, and it can display video, images, and play games. I’m wondering if DEC noticed that the buttons look a little familiar and if this will…
Tomy Vinyl Recorder
Made in 1972, this strange voice recorder used vinyl plates to store scratchy representations of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” While the quality must have been abysmal, it was probably the coolest toy ever when it first hit Japan’s streets. Look at that industrial design. Seriously, it doesn’t come much better than that. Apparently its…
Stonehenge Pocket Watch
This is truly a Stonehenge monument that is in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. This odd little watch allows you to tell the local time or predict the winter and summer solstices. It includes a standard watch on the outside and a compass for lining yourself up with the ley lines that encircle…