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Sure, the company may be going belly-up, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still pop a cold one. This case mod melds the best of two worlds—antiquated high-end computing and mini-fridges. https://gizmodo.com/bye-bye-sgi-former-workstation-giant-bankrupt-172251 This Challenge DM workstation gave up the ghost and some students in Amsterdam decided to stuff a hotel fridge inside it. The result…
This sexy black beast is just loaded with “urban cool” which apparently stands for “biometric security.” It is a tri-band GSM phone with a 2-megapixel camera and music player. There’s also 20MB internal memory, MicroSD slot, and Bluetooth to round things out. Not much else to say, except that while we’ll never see it on…
With this photo and using the word “sex” in the title, we certainly have your attention now. Anyway, those three lovely ladies have cellphones in their hands, and we think they might be manufactured by Samsung, and there’s something about them that women will like. The phone is aimed at women, as evidenced by Samsung’s…
The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution are printed here on pocket-sized sheets of metal, questionable items if you’re going through metal detectors in the airport. When they ask you to empty your pockets, metaphorically give up your rights, dropping the metal pieces into the basket. Let’s make sure those TSA drones don’t…
Sure, there are plenty of shades that have been invented for laptops, but this one has a new twist. Comp Shade can be folded up in seconds so you can close the screen of your laptop and it remains attached, ready to shade your screen any time. Great for those Hollywood types doing video editing…
Alienware appears unfettered by its recent assimilation into dorktastic PCmeister Dell, blasting out two 64-bit AMD-packing monster notebooks with dual SLI graphics and MIMO connectivity the company says is faster than wired. The star of the show is the mALX (pictured above) with its 19-inch screen and dual SLI cards with 512MB of total graphics…
While the PupHut sounds more like some sort of strange pizza place, this is actually a tent for dogs who have to spend their afternoons lounging around in the beds of 4x4s. The hut protects Old Yeller from the sun and wind—but not the hydrophobie—and even comes in Mossy Oak for hunters and farm boys.…
The release of the MacBook, expected yesterday, was hastily postponed because Apple wanted to build up enough stock of the new notebooks to actually be able to ship them in volume when it announced the new product. Now, sources are saying the iBook (pictured at right) replacement’s new launch date will be next Tuesday, May…
I recall hearing once that customers perceive things that are yellow or red as being “sturdier” and “better made.” We’re not sure about the 5500, Nokia’s sporty model with rubber cladding, but it sure looks like it could withstand 4Gs and a brushfire. Interestingly enough, the 5500 actually has a sport mode which includes a…
We definitely weren’t expecting the Brooklyn Inquisitor. This camera rig consists of a screen, a microphone/speaker combo, a camera, and a steadicam belt. An interviewer sits at a different location and transmits through the screen and speaker. The result is a vivid and quite cool effect which simulates an in-person interview without creeping the subject…
It’s a sad day, friends, but one I saw coming. As you’ve probably already noticed, technical innovation in the US is fast fading. Most of the stuff we post—the phones, the PCs, the MP3 players—come from smart people very far away. What does the US have? Motorola, Apple, Microsoft, and TiVo. Oh, there are a…
Sony announced the ICF-B01, a hand-cranked portable FM/AM radio that might come in handy this hurricane season. It’s battery-powered, but when that internal battery runs down, a minute of cranking gives you an hour of AM reception, 40 minutes of FM and can charge up your cellphone, too. It has an LED light so you…
Soldiers are giving mixed reviews to their latest high-tech body suits, saying the suits are “goofy” and look like “alien spacesuits.” Their design is based on the suits that bomb squads wear. They are worn by Humvee gunners to reduce the spiraling number of casualties. Soldiers must not realize that having high-tech clothing isn’t always…
PixelClean claims to be a special LCD screen cleaning solution, where $19.95 gets you 5 ounces of the stuff, along with a couple of microfiber polishing cloths and four towelettes. We put the liquid to the test, cleaning a variety of really smudged-up screens and comparing PixelClean’s cleaning power to everyday Windex and even tap…
Practice your swing and exercise your dog simultaneously with this tennis ball Doggie Driver. Place the special ball into the driver by pushing the opening of the club on it to lock it in place. Then pull the driver back like a standard golf club and swing normally to launch the ball up to 100…
Safe Talk is a new service in the UK that allows you to generate a temporary phone number to use for 7 days to give to people you don’t trust/know. It’s simple – text CALL to 80876 and get a temporary number that diverts to your mobile phone for 7 days, and keep your own…
Well, the May 28th date we last reported on seems to be the firm date for the Treo 700p. Coming from “The Spring Retail Sales Playbook”, the calendar date is marked for the launch of the Palm Treo 700, Blackberry 7130i and LG LX550. https://gizmodo.com/more-treo-700p-information-surfaces-161505 If you’ve gotta have the Palm OS version as opposed…
Revenge of Tetris Shelves (In Color) Tetris shelves have been around for a while, but Brave Space has now updated them for gamer-purists. Now in color instead of the original no-back design, these shelves can now match the rest of your furniture. https://gizmodo.com/return-of-tetris-shelves-100131 Also improved: the price—we hear it’s gone down significantly. We dont’ know…
In today’s day and age you can combine damn near everything—some practical, some not. This is pretty good device for the outdoor enthusiasts. The SolLight water bottle features an LED light that will light up the entire bottle. Even better, it is solar powered. One full charge of the LED will provide upwards of eight…
This isn’t on the English Nintendo site yet, but the Japanese site has information about the Wii Classic Controller. For games that don’t use the new Wiimote with its motion sensing capabilities, or for people who aren’t keen on going Nunchaku with the two handed version, we have the SNES-like classic. Featuring four face buttons…