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So the stork has brought you a brand new bun in the oven but you’re still not sure as to the sex of the little one. Sure, you could go all the way to the hospital to have a professional administer an ultrasound to get the facts, but where’s the fun in that? Besides, you’ve…
The Times has written up an excellent chronology of the whole Gizmondo mess, which tells the tale of dot-com excesses, foolish businessmen, and greed. Great stuff. Not to be a douche, but we always said Gizmondo was doomed. There was just something not quite right about that company—their hubris, their lackluster product, their inability to…
Our lady friend at LifeHacker posted a Firewire networking how-to that we might just use next time we try to copy huge video files over an 802.11g network. The process is pretty straightforward—just grab a Firewire cable and set up a little remote login action, but the time savings are immeasurable. Geek to Live: Fast,…
Every once in a while our Gawker brothers at Jalopnik join in on the geekfest, and this time they showed us a case mod from PC Rides that wraps up an Intel Core Duo inside your choice of a Dodge Magnum, Dodge Charger or Dodge Viper SRT10 case. We like the fact that the three…
Last week we mentioned that the firmware of the Samsung disc drive in the Xbox 360 was hacked—allowing you to play 1:1 backups of games but not run unauthorized code—but that it required not only a degree from MIT to get it working, but also resources that only a mad scientist would have access to.…
Dudes and dudettes: this is just a store. It’s a pretty store, sure, but it’s a big cube and, when Apple goes bankrupt in a decade, they will turn it into a Duane Reade with a really nice elevator. However, if you simply can’t get enough, here is a panoramic QuickTime image of the most…
Any place where you can ride around on Segways and Pocket Bikes and still get to hang out with the freaks who used to play Magic near the computer lab in college and are now making more money than God is a place for us. Fun Mechanics (?? where are these site names coming from?)…
Who cares about Apple’s crystal cathedral on Fifth Avenue, when you can have a green-roof facility in the Windy City? We like this much better, where surrounding the skylight atop Apple’s Chicago store is the green, green grass of home, growing free since 2003. It’s not really grass at all, though, it’s a succulent plant…
Yes, finally, the Motorola Q has gone official. Basically meaning the plethora of rumors and speculation that we have posted in the past are no longer rumors because a fancy press release says so. Here it is—get ready—it is big and monumental. The Motorola Q will be available from Verizon wireless online on May 31…
One million Swarovski crystals have been placed on this alluring young model, with enterprising entrepreneurs aiming to sell these pieces of micro-bling one by one, for one euro each. Presented as a strange sort of performance art, as each crystal is sold, these impresarios will remove one from the model, eventually showing her in all…
Microsoft must have gotten into the Xenu Ship today because they’re going nuts. They’ve created a system called FlexGo which allows folks in developing countries to purchase “time” on free or inexpensive computers and then own the computers after a few hundred hours. That’s right: like a 1-900 number, time on your shiny new computer…
At first we thought the Spinner Exhaust Tip would suck the exhaust out of the engine faster, resulting in more horsepower, but no. It’s just another one of those pimp-my-ride thingamajigs that attracts attention to the driver, nonverbally saying things like, “arrest me,” or, “I’m an asshole.” The Spinner Exhaust Tip is available in two…
Virgin Mobile, in an attempt to be nice to customers—because apparently it was a company full of angry, dead-beat assholes before(?)—will be offering up free beer and kebabs to loyal UK customers throughout the summer, again. This is how it works: text message the words “beer” or “kebab” to a special number and you will…
Lenovo is stepping up to the plate again to offer an innovative laptop that is interestingly deceiving to the eye. This ultraportable laptop appears to be a little thick, but weighs in at only four pounds. It includes a 12.1-inch WXGA VibrantView screen, Core Duo processor, and all of the other usual goodies. These machines…
If you need to hail taxis a lot, here’s “Yo, Taxi!,” a design concept by Terence Arjo that uses a row of LEDs and persistence of vision to give you an instant “Taxi” sign every time you raise your arm. The idea is to embed the LEDs into the sleeve of a coat, and when…
Samsung adds another model to its L series of digital cameras, the next-generation Samsung Digimax L70 with a 7.1 megapixel CCD and 3x optical zoom lens. Despite its portable form factor, it has a nice big 2.5-inch LCD viewfinder, along with Samsung’s newly-designed nine-key multicontroller on the back. We haven’t seen this multicontroller, but those…
Ricoh introduced its Caplio R40, a compact digital camera with some pretty impressive specs. We’re really liking its thin form factor, where its inch-thick profile must have been an engineering challenge with that 5.7x optical zoom lens inside; we’re wondering if digital cameras will go the way of cellphones with a thin-is-in battle. That lens…
Still looking for that illusive big hit after the demise of its popular Zip and Jaz formats many years ago, Iomega now shows off its 60GB USB 2.0 mini hard drive that weighs just 3.5 ounces. Drawing its power from the USB port, there’s no wall wart necessary, and hey, it comes with a fancy…
See if you can spot a few celebrities in this too-long clip of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store opening last week. From the looks of this video by Richard Blakeley, the best part of the store is the exterior, and once you walk down its crystal staircase after waiting in line for hours, it’s, well, just…
The Palm OS-packing Treo 700p is now available from Verizon Wireless, where the cost of entry is $499 with a $100 rebate. Nobody ever said all this techno-goodness was going to be cheap, buster, so maybe that $399 total isn’t so bad in the grand scheme of things. But then there’s the plan you have…