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If you’ve ever rejected a mouse because it clicks so loud you can hear it in the next room, Thanko now offers its Silent Mouse. The company says it s five times quieter than your average mouse, where the wheel and its left and right buttons have been hushed, down to the point of inaudibility.…
CBS is jumping all over the NCAA hoops tourney, where first it’s streaming the whole college basketball tournament for free from its own website, and now it’s teamed up with Apple to bring edited versions of the games the day after they re aired for $1.99 each. If that’s not enough, for $19.99 you can…
Epson has added a few software updates to its R-D1, and now the result is the R-D1s, a rangefinder camera that’s trying as hard as it can to look like an old-school film camera. It’s a 6.1-megapixel model whose main claim to fame is that it uses the Leica M and L lenses, known and…
Sony President Ken Kutaragi pulled an Apple yesterday at an agonizing press conference where he leaked information, bit by bit, like a mad Steve Jobs. The first news? PSP is getting its own EyeToy. This new camera will allow you to play interactive games and presumably take pictures and video. Next, we’ve got PS1 game…
There’s a new weapon in the war against non-cool weapons. This is the Israeli Smart Arrow which embeds itself into a surface and begins transmitting video for up to seven hours. The arrow sends video to a handheld device and can swivel around to grab shots through a door or window. The range is 300…
Trumpets may be something that primarily goes out of fad with high school graduation, but this may be the perfect gift for your little tyke to see if they can handle the likes of a big brass beauty. This trumpet is able to generate a wide variety of sounds including eight brass instruments, five woodwind…
Listen closely, Apple, this is an idea worth thieving. As an owner of many dropped MP3 players, I fully give my celebrity endorsing to monolith and their line of semi-indestructible MP3 players. This is the MX7000, it first popped up late last year and came with 512MB of memory. Monolith has decided to upgrade this…
Review Alienware m7700 Laptop Hands-on https://gizmodo.com/alienware-m7700-laptop-hands-on-160474 Contests War of the Worlds Broadcast WickedLasers.com Contest Fake Photo Phun Update: We Have Winners https://gizmodo.com/war-of-the-worlds-broadcast-wickedlasers-com-contest-160345 Gizmodo Exclusive Windows XP Booting on an Intel Mac? Contest Organizer Believes So https://gizmodo.com/windows-xp-booting-on-an-intel-mac-contest-organizer-b-160446 Rumor and Speculation Dell and Alienware, Another Plot Twist Dell Buys Alienware? XP on Mac Cracked? https://gizmodo.com/dell-and-alienware-another-plot-twist-160499 News RAZR…
If you remember, T-Mobile and Cingular both pulled the Motorola RAZR from sale last Thursday due to call-dropping issues. Motorola shipped versions sans glitch to both companies right away and Cingular’s resumed selling them again, while T-Mobile should follow suit sometime this week. If you’ve got one of the defective units, now’s the time to…
This $500 scrolling message bra is now available for custom orders and allows you to tell the world what you want to say about—and with—your mammaries. It was originally a design project gone commercial. You can program the bra to flash any message you want, which is nice…erm. Product Page [Enlightened via ShinyShiny]
Not sure if the letters actually stand for anything but GUPI is a robot guinea pig made to look and feel like the real thing. Sensors let GUPI walk around without ever bumping into anything, and he’s programmed to respond to affection: ignoring him makes me hide away as do very loud noises, whereas petting…
I’m thinking that everyone might want to try alternative herbs in this thing, but the concept is amazing. You buy seed pods for the AeroGarden and they grow, grabbing CO2 and nutrients from the air and nutrient packets. The system includes a grow-light and costs about $149.99 while pods are $19. Indoor Gardening with AeroGarden…
Gizmodo recently got its paws on the Alienware Area-51 m7700 “Desktop Replacement” laptop in order to determine if the hype surrounding Alienware was warranted. The verdict? Check it out after the jump. Vital Statistics 17″ WideUXGA 1920×1200 LCD Clearview Display Dual Pentium 4 630 desktop processors, 3.0-GHz, 800-MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache Intel 915P PCI-Express Chipset…
It’s contest time again! This week we’ll have a bit of fun with Green Lasers. We have one WickedLasers.com Extreme Laser to give away—a $369.99 value—and it’s just about the coolest thing ever. We “tried” it out already and it’s great for star gazing and pissing off the neighbors. What do you have to do…
The Guinness Widget is a neat feat of engineering and it does pour a halfway decent pint from a can, compared to what you’d get from a keg at a pub, but if you live in the UK you have another option as of this month. The Guinness Surger is a electrical device with a…
Rumors are running rampant about Dell’s possible purchase of Alienware and today we have another twist to the storyline. It appears that the Dell Sneak Preview press event that was scheduled for the Game Developers Conference has been suddenly cancelled. The GDC is scheduled for next week in San Jose. https://gizmodo.com/dell-buys-alienware-160417
MSI makes some pretty good gear, although they’re not horribly popular over here. This is the Mega Player 540, a 4GB HDD MP3 player with a built-in solar panel and a sassy aesthetic. Essentially, you never need to recharge this thing as long as you’re outside. This, assume, however, that we leave the house. Solar-powered…
This week at TreeHugger: Meet the Acabion, the two-passenger vehicle that can do 280 mph at half throttle. Check out some of the solar-powered gadgets that made their debut at CeBIT, and find a place online to swap all your old Foghat records and copies of the original World of Warcraft for media you can…
Forget those DIY Beer Brewing kits, you never use them anyway—and when you do your beer tastes like crap. Just go to the corner bodega and get yourself a six pack. It’ll take less time, your tastebuds will be happier and so will those of your friends. Besides, if you really wanted to impress, you’d…
Many will argue that the good ol days of gaming died along with the NES. Upstarts like Sony and Microsoft may tout all the graphic wonderment under the sun, but there s something about the NES that still draws gamers to this day. Looking to bridge the gap between these two worlds, a French modder…