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This brings back so many memories: the double-wide, the beer bottles, the angry voices of Mr. Pickle and Aunt Joe. Actually, those memories probably have nothing to do with this and I’m thinking that I might be repressing something. So you’ve got 50 of the greatest portable games known to man. While I would disagree…
Gamespot did something few dared to attempt: they reviewed little pieces of plastic. We in the tech journalism world have to deal with these products almost every day: someone cuts a piece of plastic into a square, says its a cellphone screen protector, and tries to get us to review it. I mean more power…
So first they get a big belly-rub all day yesterday and now Motorola hogs the spotlight again with three sexy looking productivity phones running Linux. Motorola A910 – (Pictured) Basic specs: Bluetooth, GPRS, 1-Megapixel camera. A cute Linux flip-phone. Motorola A728 – A flip with touchscreen. Specs include: …intelligent handwriting, PIM and email capability**, SyncML…
Here we go. iRobot is going public which means that robots are the next big thing. Expect the Roomba to begin washing your pets and children with its mad, swirling, soapy arms in order to build shareholder value. The company filed with the SEC today for a proposed IPO. Generally, we don’t cover financial news,…
Good Gravy! Isn’t that what Charlie Brown always said? Jeepers? Anyway, this is a set of speakers inside the feet of Snoopy. Obviously, you’re not going to play your power chords on the stage at Altamont through these things but it’s not every day that quadrupeds can pound music out of their paw pads.[Thanks, Jeremy]…
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m please to announce the birth of the AirPie. What was once just a stack of pancakes with headphones attached is now a full-grown mini-PMP with color screen, voice recording, FM radio, and an SD slot for rapid expansion. https://gizmodo.com/airpie-update-102366 I know what you’re asking: Where can I taste some of this…
I would describe this desk as being far from functional as possible. This desk was created by Ecco Design and right now is being used as inspiration to Lexus designers. It plays soothing music to go along with ambient colored lights all of which controlled by awkwardly placed motion sensor balls. Some serious doobage going…
The magical 2.0 PSP firmware—the version with a web browser, AVC/AAC support, and some graphics features like GIF support and image send and receive—is available on the Japanese PSP site and apparently works perfectly with US PSPs. i4u has the skinny on installing the new firmware: The EBOOT.PBP files needs to copied to the memory…
The thing about dying, and subsequently being buried, is that you stand a good chance of eventually being turned into worm poop. Now, while this thought may sit well with some of you, I prefer the more romantic notion of being reborn as a tree of some sort. That’s exactly the concept behind Mart n…
Believe it or not there are reasons that dogs (and even cats) drink out of the toilet. With how much beer I manage to drink, it seems the toilet water is always fresher and colder than the week old giant bowl of water on the floor. The Chill-a-bowl is a freezable water dish that keeps…
If there is somebody that knows how to make a mean DVD player, it’s got to be Gene Simmons. While he had no hand in making this particular player, Gene s ideal DVD player has an integrated hard drive, Ethernet connection, and even supports practically all video formats. So Gene didn’t make this one? No.…
What do Louis Vuitton, Robots, and Soccer all have in common? The 2005 RoboCup Osaka, where 400 teams from 35 countries faced off in various competitions over the course of 5 days for the purpose of fostering AI and robotics research globally. In addition to soccer, this years competition saw two new categories added: The…
Well, Hello World and all that. My name’s David Ponce, from OhGizmo, and I’ve been brought in as a guest design editor. I sacrificed 23 fluffy white chicken (thereafter fried and eaten) to some unnamed deity, burned some incense and ate a carrot… all in the hopes of getting Lockhart Steele’s attention. Well, something must…
Lifehacker – How to choose running shoes Kotaku – Xbox 360 won’t ship with AV cables Screenhead – Music Hurts Jalopnik – Another Piece of the Project 1221 Puzzle: 1500hp Turbine https://lifehacker.com/how-to-choose-running-shoes-114337
Apple is finally releasing the combination iPod cell phone! Ha, got you good! Actually Hop-On is releasing a new phone that looks strangely like an iPod. This phone packs a quite a punch with a 2.0 megapixel camera, MP3 player, touch screen and even a video recorder. On top of that the prices are strangely…
Well, ask and you shall receive. Kind reader K sent us his homebrew GSS generator written in PHP. It’s a fascinating piece of code using high-level algorithms and math to prove that the post length and number of uppercase characters can be used to measure the total insanity of any eBay post. Case in point:…
I know this is kind of geeky, but it’s interesting. Some jokers installed Windows, Mac OS X Intel, and a Linux Distro on the same machine. I love how they just casually mention that you should get your Mac OS X Intel disk from an Intel Mac, as if you could just go down to…
Tricksy, Tricksy Motorola. See, Motorola execs got the folks at MotoRAZR.com all in a tizzy with the ROKR, which may or may not be the iTunes phone, and a reddish pink special-edition RAZR. What you see in the above photo is, apparently, the ROKR. According to MotoRAZR, Motorola bigwig Ed Zander walked over to said…
This group of RC maniacs—maniacs, I tells ya!—have built working, flyable Millennium Falcons, Naboo Fighters, and all sorts of weirdness including a copy of Amidala’s big royal spaceship, the Scenery Chewer. They’re going to try to build a Blockade Runner and a Death Star, but they might not fly so good. MILLENNIUM FALCON & other…
I just made a little pee. Reader Travis just sent us a note that XM and Samsung are creating an XM portable MP3 player that might not look like giant robot turds. From the release: Both players will come with an XM Radio home accessory kit, which allows the device to receive XM’s 150 channels…