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Nathan Willis is a freelance photographer/artist from Abilene, Texas. He is currently selling 80 hours of advertising space on his fingerprints on EBay. Bidding is up to $1.25 and rising. His self-described goal is to point out the patent absurdity of biometrics as a security method as well as our tendency to over-advertise on every…
If you’ve ever been to Times Square in New York then you’ve seen the Naked Cowboy. Naked, as he calls himself, is a fixture in our fair city, a reminder that tourists will take pictures of anything. Now Naked has teamed up with FlyCell to flog ringtones, including his beautifully haunting ballad, Chicken Soup—”Chicken soup…
Here’s one for the ladies. The Audi-Oh audio vibrator buzzes in time to any music you run through its audio jack. Want a quickie? Plug in some polka. Want a long and luxurious barn burner? Try Gregorian chant interspersed with NIN. The possibilities are endless. You can even hit a club or go see the…
As if we needed any more verification that Verizon doesn’t understand what their customers want, the Times (yes, twice in one day!) has a nice bit about the Junxion Box, a Wi-Fi router with a built-in slot for EV-DO cards. The Junxion Boxes take the service available through Verizon’s Broadband Access service and reroute it…
A continuation of Episode I in which Will is lured into the back seat of a Lexus. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops-pcs/apple/index.php#macworld-coverage-wednesday-112469 Among the Believers with Will Leitch I am greeted by a 2003 Lexus in the middle of the display floor. It belongs to Michael Oh, the CEO of Tech SuperPowers, and the backseat is fitted with all…
Okay, I have a hard time believing this is legit—even in prototype form—but the concept is fantastic nonetheless. The ‘Optimus’ keyboard has tiny OLED screens embedded in each key, allowing it to display context information on the fly. In Photoshop? You’ve got Photoshop icons, complete with alt functions (at least in my head this is…
When New York Times writers get to review robots, they go to any length to get the real inside scoop. My boyfriend called me the next day and asked if I was sleeping in the same room with Nuvo. When I told him we were sleeping in the same bed, there was an awkward pause.…
The Oakley Thump spottings continue (and we hate the ugly, wretched excuse for eyewear, but yet we just can’t stop): Boston outfielder Manny Ramirez has been busted wearing a pair during a Rangers/Red Sox game last week. The Sox are claiming there weren’t any batteries inside. (Thanks, Chris and Dan!) Manny Ramirez pimps Oakley Thumps…
We got there late, but we got there. Will Leitch, a special friend of Gizmodo, sends us a twisted missive from the heart of Mac Country. Will is not a techie. He’s a journalistic pit-bull, a sports fan, and is coming to MacWorld with fresh eyes. He sees what we won’t see. He’ll bring back…
Belkin has a couple more iPod accessories available. The TuneTalk is an attached omni-directional microphone. Appearance wise the TuneTalk is obviously a microphone, so stealthy Bond spying may be a little tricky. It’s nice and sproingy and looks like something you can stuff into someone’s face in order to ask hard hitting questions. Next is…
Move over B&W Sony Librie eBook, there’s a new eBook in town. A color eBook. That’s still a prototype. And may be available next year. But not here. Tough break, fans of eBooks. You better get yourself a pBook, which is a paper book. Standard specs: 5.6 TFT, color screen, legibility. Panasonic Prototypes eBook Reader…
My dreams have come true! Now I will never miss an episode of the smash hit home d cor show, Trading Spaces, thanks to MobiTV and their new mobile television service. TLC along with many of the NBC stations are offering their broadcasts for mobile television via cell phones. Right now this service is only…
No poop jokes. This is a completely serious matter: the fecal receptacles that infants, the elderly, and fetish participants wear are taking too long to biodegrade in landfills. Inventor and diaper connoisseur Charishma Seneviratne has created a new diaper that will allow you to rest easy at night. This new 100% biodegradable diaper will decompose…
An Australian company released a study examining 450 drivers and the effects hands-free cell phone usage while driving. The study showed that drivers were still more than four times likely to be involved in an accident while talking. This kind of puts a damper on all those laws, namely in New York, that prevent people…
I couldn’t sleep when TransFlash hit the streets. I was so excited: it’s so small and it passes through the digestive system of a dog in one piece! Now, however, I must rethink my joy. TransFlash is no longer TransFlash. It is MicroSD. The name change frightens me and upsets my equilibrium. SanDisk changed the…
This has been around for a while but I think this is a first. Now you can buy a working, albeit kind of hobbled mecha on The World’s Online Marketplace.This monster, created by two fellas who call themselves Neogentronyx, is a bipedal prototype robot that with a massive hydraulic system and a 8hp Briggs and…
I got past the part about the definition of prime numbers and I was nodding my head knowingly and saying “Yeah, prime numbers. That’s tight.” Then I got to the second paragraph and kind of confused and sort of cried. Basically, this thing shows only times that are prime numbers and blinks red when it…
It begins. MobileLime is a cellphone-based payment service that allows you to pay for taxi rides, ice cream, and whatever via SMS. At a store, for example, you call a toll free number, pre-approve the charge, and then type in a PIN. The same happens in a restaurant or wherever: you get a merchant ID…
This is probably as old as the hills, but it was a fascinating bit o’ spam and the system is compelling. Either this is some sort of umbilical ink system for Epson and Canon printers or it’s a refilling system. I don’t, however, speak Vietnamese. If anyone wants to take a look at it, let…
I don’t know what’s up with all these laptop adhesive things, but it’s kind of silly. I suppose it might be good if you want to keep your aluminum Powerbook nice and clean, but why would you need one for a generic plastic beast? These come in pastel colors, are reusable—I match mine to my…