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The Pee Goal includes a nice pitch, a goal, and a ball on a string. You use your penis to push the ball into the goal, apparently. Oh wait. Just re-read it. You use your URINE STREAM to push the ball into the goal. It’s about $20 in England, and I suspect you can take…
Although Verizon says it’s bad form to share anything with anything or anybody, it’s possible to pair your i730 with a Bluetooth compatible laptop or USB cable for sweet EVDO browsing speeds. DavesiPaq has the skinny on how to hack through the multiple layers of security that the crack security team at Verizon HQ, hunkered…
Part II, the final installment, in which Will Leitch finds log-rolling quite interesting. Among the Believers with Will Leitch I keep walking and come up to The Lenox, a hotel of much higher quality than my Howard Johnson s. Signs are set up throughout the lobby with the convention s schedule. Success! I stroll past…
I don’t know why I’m posting so many deals today. Maybe I’m all shiny-objected out and I’m crying because Joel is going. Anyway, friend of Gizmodo, Juergen, has created an incredible eBay SDK app that searches the ‘Bay for stuff priced less than $1 with less than 1 hour to go. Sure, you’re going to…
Best Buy is selling the coveted Samsung YP-F1Z, a so-sexy 1GB flash player. I like Samsung styling, so I’m going to say this is a good thing, even though I’m so tired of flash players. Hard drives are small enough now that we should be using them in everything, but go ahead, Samsung any everyone,…
Since I’m about to blow this popsicle stand, I think I’m going to make a fussy post. I bought the Zalman Reserator 1 water cooling rig—the great big blue phallus of computing—and it’s sort of awesome, except the impeller inside the pump started making a rattle after about a month of operation. Supposedly, the new…
Sheer madness. A $299 Dell with 17″ monitor, limited warranty, standard graphics and motherboard. Nothing amazing, but maybe it would be nice as a second computer? -Intel Celeron processor at 2.40GHz, Shared9 DDR SDRAM at 400MHz, 17″ (16.0″vis) Monitor, 40GB5 Ultra/ATA 100 Hard Drive, Integrated Intel Extreme 3D Graphics, 90-Day Limited Warranty and At-Home Service…
Today is my last day editing Gizmodo for Gawker Media. After insulting the Irish, Anti-Semites, the New York Times’ Circuits section, the entire executive staff of Verizon, and many, many readers, I feel like my work here is done. I’ll be sticking around for the rest of the day tying up loose ends, so if…
I don’t know, guys. Do what you want with your money, but this is a little freaky. Someone posted a CDMA RAZR on eBay for $1,199.00 which is about $1,100 more than I would spend for this phone. Sure, he writes a 10 page explanation as to where he got this thing, but the seller…
Sharp will soon begin mass manufacturing of the world s first dual-view LCD with sales beginning later this year. The LCD uses a parallax barrier technology that displays two different images from the left and right angles of the monitor, similar to that of hologram trading cards that display different pictures depending on the angle.…
G69T, an accomplished case modder, is STILL hard at work building Dark Blade, an aluminum and stainless steel water-cooled case mod. He’s posting pictures of his slow, methodical work and is driving everyone on the bit-tech.net forums just ka-razy. This guy is using CNC tools to make this incredible PC case that looks like a…
Part I, in which Will Leitch attempts to party with Mac lovers. Among the Believers with Will Leitch BOSTON—I had this really great idea. At this convention of what from all accounts to be a collection of Magic: The Gathering players and dudes with ironic Scarface posters in their basement, I would spend my final…
Recording artist and bling connoisseur 50 Cent—aka Puffy— has released a new MP3 Watch through his recording label G-Unit. The watch is available in 256MB and 512MB with prices beginning at $486. Besides the name, nothing makes this MP3 watch any special worth the inflated price tag. I also assure you that Fiddy wouldn’t be…
The finale to Will Leitch’s Macworld coverage in which Will discovers the magic of voice command the hard way. Among the Believers with Will Leitch http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops-pcs/apple/index.php#macworld-coverage-wednesday-part-ii-112540 Frustrated by the endless line, I turn away and literally knock into a pimply boy with a tie that’s way too big for him; it looks like a bib,…
Fresh from a mano-a-mano street fight with a Quicktime supporter on the Mac World show floor, Will brings us the iPod Flea, a music player that can hold one song. That’s right—after the unparalleled success of the Shuffle, Apple has turned things to eleven and released the smallest and most un-screen-iest iPod in history. The…
Wired offers us an interesting look at Katherine Albrecht, a privacy advocate who is taking the RFID craze to its obvious conclusion: that Satan is using it to mark us all in time for the big End Times Fire Sale. At least we’ll be able to check out without having to wave ourselves over a…
See, Palm made good PDAs. Then people from Palm made Handspring. Then Handspring bought Palm and sold the OS so you had PalmSource and PalmOne. Then PalmOne got confused and people stopped buying PDAs so they did poorly until their recent release of the LifeDrive. Now, however, we’re back to Palm again. Got it? It’s…
XM purchased WCS Wireless, a small wireless company that owns licenses to frequency bands close to XMs own satellite radio band. This partnership, writes DesignTechnica, is seen as a way ” to expand into ‘a variety of multimedia subscription services,’ including video and data offerings, which would be transmitted over the WCS frequencies. Quite clearly…
I think my cousin actually cut up his juice bag back when he was in grade school. I think he only has one “pit” now, as it were. But this isn’t that kind of juice bag. This the Juice Bag. This Voltaic-alike backpack powers your toys and baubles through a female cigarette lighter port adapter.…
LG dumped a bunch of phones today including the 9200, a hot little qwerty phone with VGA camera. Also available are the LG500, a dedicated music phone with controls on the face, and the LG8100, a 1.3-megapixel EVDO flip-phone. Finally, there’s the 3G LG320 smartphone and the entry level PM-225 and C2000. Generally it looks…