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If you thought those mind-boggling origami objects we showed you the other day were a little frilly for your taste, here’s Papercraft FTO, and it’s origami on testosterone—a scale model Mitsubishi FTO made entirely out of intricately folded paper. https://gizmodo.com/origami-heres-the-real-thing-165773 Want to try to make one yourself? You’re going to need patience for this one,…
If you have an old laptop lying around that nobody wants, you can use it to make a WiFi-enabled LCD photo frame for around $80. Stripping the plastic housing from the notebook’s LCD panel, this PopSci guy added a WiFi card, and ordered a custom frame that fit perfectly around the bare LCD. Then he…
Here’s a backpack with iPod controls right where you need them. The iPod Mono-Strap Backpack from Think Geek safely protects your iPod inside while the five-button ElekTex Smart Fabric control panel on the strap lets you play/pause, go to the next/previous tracks, or adjust the volume right there at your fingertips. There’s also a headphone…
A little info tidbit may have leaked out in an electronics market in India, where a couple of bloggers spotted a large sign calling attention to 5GB and 10GB iPod nano models. Noticing an Apple Authorized Reseller sticker in the window, the two heard from the store’s proprietors, telling them the two larger-capacity nanos were…
Tom Chudleigh set out to build boats and ended up making these sophisticated treehouse spheres that are suspended via wires from old-growth trees or any other stationary objects. He first constructs a wooden frame, and then surrounds it with laminated wood and a clear fiberglass shell. Looks like a great place to meditate, hang out,…
If you can’t be without your TV for even a few minutes, the Seura Television Mirror gives you an LCD HDTV display magically hiding behind a bathroom mirror. Available in a variety of screen sizes from 26 to 45 inches, it’s an easy retrofit with a surface mount unit, or it can be recessed. It…
At first glance, JVC’s GR-D650 MiniDV camcorder looks to be simply jumping on the pastel-colored bandwagon, but take a closer look and you’ll see there are some innovative features in this low-cost palm-sized shooter. Open the LCD viewscreen and the power is turned on, placing the camcorder in standby mode, plus there’s a 15x optical…
And you thought your screen was big. At Dolphin Stadium in Miami, there was unveiled an LED display built by Daktronics that’s billed as the largest HDTV in the world. Just how big is it? How’s a 145.80-foot diagonal screen sound? The monster is 50 feet high by 137 feet across; it’s a 1750-inch screen.…
Things must be pretty good if companies can devote time and resources to developing items such as the iTod, an MP3 player from Fisher-Price designed exclusively for tiny babies—infants, if you will. The iTod includes a pair of volume-restricted headphones so as not to harm your pride and joy’s hearing. There’s also an iTunes-style music…
Sony and Samsung agreed to cooperate in building a $2 billion expansion of an LCD manufacturing facility, adding to their existing $2 billion joint venture started in 2004 known as S-LCD Corp. After initially lagging behind, Sony raced to the top in the LCD flat panel derby last year, selling more LCD TVs in the…
Obey the volcano gods in grand style with the USB Tiki V3, where somehow the juju finds its way inside the almighty Tiki’s eyes, making them glow and pulsate to music. Set it to fade and cycle through a variety of colors, pick your favorite color or just let it react to sounds around it—whichever…
Mount this Mood Light Shelf from Generate Design vertically or horizontally and be dazzled by millions of colors that you can control with an RF remote. With ultra-bright LEDs inside, it’s the newest member of the Mood Light collection. Available now for $229. Product page Thanks, Michael!
Sick of constantly being photographed, the monkeys in the London zoo have began snatching up patron’s cellphones to make long-distance calls on your minutes. To stop the monkeys and their thieving ways the staff of the London zoo have began coating old cellphones with an unpleasant sticky substance that makes them actually seem—gasp—unappealing. Don’t worry,…
World-famous Takahashi-san is known (apparently) for designing realistic male robots. Now, he’s stepping up his game to do the impossible: create a realistic and attractive female robot. The robot will walk like a real woman and nag you incessantly like a real woman. The stats, for those of you playing at home, are as follows:…
Work on the new Midtown Manhattan Apple Store, which will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, presses forward. The big news is that the tarp has been lifted and the basic structure of the store is now apparent: it’s a giant cube, and right now, it’s completely black. Rumors point to…
HP R927 Camera Adds Slimming Effect, Makes Girlfriend Happy This could be the dumbest feature ever 🙂 https://gizmodo.com/hp-r927-camera-adds-slimming-effect-makes-girlfriend-h-165926 What’s next…digital hair replacements? Plastic surgery FX? Cellulite removal filters ? Oh…how about a “trophy partner” that is always standing next to you in the photos? Crap…still got another 20 minutes on the stair machine…hmmm, the slimming camera…
It’s reassuring to know that among the earliest and most primitive gadgets were those expressly designed to inflict pain. BBC News reports the discovery in Pakistan of stone age teeth that bear clear signs of dental drilling. Flint drill heads are apparently abundant in the Mehrgarh region, near Quetta in Pakistan, but this is the…
Those responsible for the iAlertU alarm application now have footage of the application in action. Though mere software, it allows the operator to use the infrared remote to set their MacBook Pro, from afar, to become a noisy public nuisance if it is moved. This is made possible thanks to the motion sensor in the…
Russian camera maker Zenit has produced the most homoerotic camera accessory of all time, a “tough-guy rifle mount” packaged with a Zenit 122 SLR camera and monstrous telephoto lens. Similar to a real sniper rifle, they say, except that it “shoots brilliant, contrasty pictures rather than bullets.” The jokes write themselves. It even has one…
We’ve all heard about the Joint Strike Fighter, with which the U.S. and U.K. are to replace aging squadrons of A-10 Thunderbolts and Harrier jump-jets. Anyone who cares has already seen shots of the prototypes in flight. Now you can see the birds as they look under construction, guts and innards exposed to the world.…