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Famous console modder Kotomi prepped this project earlier this year, yet somehow it slipped right by us. In that case, let us redress that grave injustice right now. What you see here is quite possibly the world’s smallest Sega Genesis (the Nomad notwithstanding), functional or not. Kotomi fashioned the mini Genesis out of one of…
I know it’s heresy, but it’s very possible. This article shows you how to dual-boot a mini, thereby turning it into a BeyondTV box with USB tuner. If Steve won’t give us a mini PVR, well by gum we’ll make one. You could also use the EvolutionTV for OS X, but where’s the challenge? https://gizmodo.com/miglia-evolutiontv-video-hands-on-167751…
Well, the Samsung Q1 UMC is large and in charge. We received some red-hot Q1 PART-AY! photos a la the Cobrasnake featuring the Q1 in all sorts of compromising positions. The Q1 is no 18-year-old schoolgirl, but it’s still hot! A red-headed step-child treating the Q1 like the very same. A photo of a photographer…
The Casio Exilim EX-Z1000 is ultracompact but it’s stoked with 10.1 megapixels along with a 2.8-inch LCD viewfinder. It also has a 3x optical zoom and digital image stabilization, and can shoot JPEG movies at 25 frames per second. The company claims the camera is capable of zooming between 4.3x and 17.1x with no reduction…
Thanks to science, we have many amazing inventions—the model train, the fish, and Space Ghost are just a few of them. Well, thanks to the magic—and spiritual mystery—of science, our friends at MyScienceProject have done the impossible: set a Jello shot on fire. Sure, there were problems along the way… We tried to go all…
This might be a little outdated, what with the uncrackable XBox 360 out there, but it reminds us of the time we tried to hack our PS2 using the old “knife in the DVD slot” trick and broke it. This hack lets you overclock your SNES, which results in Link’s face being scattered across the…
We received a few emails yesterday about the AP’s gripping tale of one man’s battle against a well-known OS X Trojan that attempts to spread itself, nefariously, through iChat. In the interest of fairness, we decided to ignore them and get drunk, but this morning we’ve seen the light. And the light comes in the…
In what appear to be completely fake photos of the iPod AV, we learn that Apple’s scientists wear ill-fitting rubber gloves and take pictures with cameras from 1989. And again, we’ll post them because the blogosphere needs her meat. One more after the jump… Another Possible Ipod AV [Sagags]
Measuring a mere 2″ x 2″ x 2.2″, the Space Cube is a 300-MHz PC with USB, Ethernet, video-out, and serial (!!) ports and runs Linux. Best of all? It uses something called a “Space wire.” We do not know what the space wire does, but it must be amazing. Space Cube [EpicEmpire]
Have a lot of time to kill? Next time you’re stuck in a mine, perhaps an iPod would ease the boredom of waiting to be rescued. Two guys trapped in a Tasmanian mine have been waiting for more than a week to be rescued, and they’re wiling away the hours listening to iPods lowered into…
For the lady—or man fond of diamonds—in your life, we present these bejeweled headphones straight outta Milano. The metal part is covered in delicate white gold, the diamonds come in multiple patterns including moon and star, and there are no holes on the headphones—those who purchase diamond-encrusted headphones are too dense to register audible sensory…
Step away from the limousine, or I’ll shoot you with this … teddy bear? The Teddy Bear Gun capitalizes on a cutesy trend in Japan where wedding guests throw teddy bears at wedding receptions instead of rice or bouquets. If teddy bear throwing sounds like a lot of work to you, here it’s made easy…
This week at Uncrate: We begin building our own personal waterpark starting with the Six Flags Banzai Falls Mega Racer. The exquisite Qara Medico Bag gets ready for its first weekend out. We splash on a little of Diddy’s Sean John Unforgivable in hopes of impressing the ladies down at the laundromat. We poop in…
Dying to start in your own VH1 reality show (or three)? Get this shirt with built in digital clock and you’re halfway there. The shirt runs on four AAA batteries and can be shut off in uncomfortable situations, such as when getting chewed out by your boss. Similar to the LED Dress Shirt, but more…
Audio/Video nerd Lorin over at geeks with blogs bought himself a fancy new Toshiba HD-DVD player and prompty dismantled it without even plugging it into a TV. Even though we question his priorities, we do salute his DIY-ness in exposing the guts of the machine for all the internet to see. The most interesting find…
Airbus hotly denies its alleged bright idea of creating coffin-sized “standing tomb only” padded backboards created especially to cram more sardines into their flying tin cans, contradicting a New York Times article by Christopher Elliott that described the strap-on standing seats in an article last week. But Elliott cries foul in his blog, refusing to…
This measuring tape is actually sticky tape, too, marked with inches, making it not only graphically interesting but downright useful. It’s used by our buddies in the theater and film industry to block off sets and sound stages, but you can use it for, well, we’re sure you can figure out something. Just remember that…
It looks like Windows Vista might be delayed again, this time by at least three months—if you believe research group Gartner, Inc. Why is this happening? “Too complex,” say the Gartner analysts. They’re saying we’ll see Vista sometime in the second quarter of next year. Yikes, that could be June, 2007?! Says Gartner: “Microsoft still…
JVC and our John both came to the conclusion that booze and JVC home theatre systems go great together, but through different methods. https://gizmodo.com/gizmodo-video-review-jvcs-design-pro-70-inch-1080p-d-155137 Wooden speaker cones sound great, but are difficult to make because they would crack during shaping. By soaking the sheets of wood in sake before forming them into speaker cones, the…
Lieutenant Colonel Nelson—we took it upon ourselves to give him a promotion—informs us that our favorite next generation console service is back online, with sweet upgrades. Everyone is now able to view and even send messages from Xbox.com to anyone on their friends lists. There’s also an easy way to compare your profile with your…