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What makes the LapSchticks Schtickers more appropriate for laptop decoration than other stickers? Not much—except the $20 stickers can be easily applied and removed, allowing you to swap out and customize your laptop as the spirit moves you. The designs aren’t amazing, but they aren’t terribly gaudy, either. This ‘DJ Turntable’ Schticker, for instance, is…
Verizon Wireless, following Sprint PCS’ lead, is now allowing third parties like Monstertones and Ringingphone.com to sell ringtones on their network. Obviously, the A&R folks deep within Verizon’s twisted bureaucracy didn’t see the Crazy Frog ringtone fad—the William Hung of Europe—taking off overseas and they’re now trying to cover their tracks to gain street cred…
Sony has created a rollable 79dpi display using standard LCD pieces. The screen uses the same transistors found in standard LCDs but is specially treated to allow the substrate of circuits to bend without snapping. Don’t plan on rolling your own big LCD doobage, because it won’t be available until 2010. SonyCorp Develops Roll-up Display…
A quickie before we get to the real news of the day, MacWorld Boston which is starting AS WE SPEAK OMG and to which we’re sending our roving Computer Genius Editor, Will, whose hard-hitting-news-gathering-skills are second only to his burping-the-Louie-Louie-skills. This is not sushi. It is chocolate. Those “roe eggs” on top are make of…
I literally don’t care what this product is. It could cure world hunger, for all I care. The fear engendered by these running kiwis and their resemblance to tender parts of the male anatomy is quite enough for me, thank you. Product Page [Philips via BoingBoing]
This from reader Sarah: “TiVo s cut the price on the 40 hour Series2 from $199 to $99. Thought you d want to know.” Not too shabby. The 40-hour is essentially free with subscription, as well. Product Page [TiVo]
Xcute is so cute. It’s just like the sweetest little phone ever. Also, I think this is the best quote from a review I’ve ever read, offering us an image of the reviewer in some Castle Anthrax-like palace with hundreds of Zoots running around sighing at his phone. Seriously. The model given to us for…
Ok. This is so cool. It’s a bit old, but very cool. A French company, Spy-phone.net is offering two Nokia phones, the 6100 and 3310, with spying capabilities. How does it work? Say you’re spying on that French hottie right there. You go into her house, eat her baguette, and then leave your phone “accidentally”…
In hopes of preventing or reducing future Mad Cow Outbreaks—good band name, BTW—the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is planning on marking all of its cattle with RFID tags. This will allow the group to identify and quarantine possible affected cattle without scaring the Japanese, Canadians, Mexicans, British, and everybody else who is afraid of a…
With all this Intel stuff, I’m surprised IBM is still even TALKING to Apple, but whatever. That boy is just asking to get his heart broke. Apple is like SO over IBM and he comes out with some crazy dual core G5 like nothing ever happened and we all know something happened namely Intel was…
You know! For kids! Listen, I’m all for toilet training and all that good stuff, but does junior really want to see his lumpkins in a big pile at the bottom of a lucite bucket? Absolutely. This thing, called the Baby Wunder, costs $20 and I’m not quite sure what the value is. Maybe when…
Crazy J isn’t the guy you used to buy from. It’s a killer guitar robot built by students at the Georgia Institute of technology. Like any good robotic guitar system, it sounds surprisingly alive and fresh. The system uses small pushers to hold down the strings and pluck or strum based on MIDI data. As…
Gastric modification is the new Pogs. Case in point: Transcend has a new little device to allow for gastric shrinking without the hassle of a bypass. It is a tiny stimulating pad that is attached to the smooth muscles inside the stomach via a quick surgery. The device sends pulses to the stomach tricking your…
It’s all rainy here and the dog doesn’t want to go out. But if it were actually sunny in New York, I would just set one of these up and drink one of my famous straight tequila daiquiris sans mixer, fruit, ice, or straw. It’s actually a simple recipe: buy a bottle of Cuervo and…
Reader Eric writes: Considering the torment Verizon provides you (and me and the rest of us poor buggers) they’ve got a number of ads on Gizmodo. They’re brave enough to have a banner advertising FIOS at Home so I clicked. I entered my phone number, clicked GO and eagerly awaited the results of my super-cool…
This museum of radios features pieces from the heady, Commie days of our Neighbor With a Vodka Problem, Russia. Thrill at the amazing Sirius, pictured above, which proves that Sirius carried the voices of loud-mouthed, dictatorial zealots even before they hired Howard Stern. Giggle at the radium lamps of the radiogramophones over which the Workers…
Generation MP3 has created an interesting little photo round-up of the T10, T20, T30 and U10. The shots are pretty good but the text is all in French which means it’s not in English which means that I can’t read it which means I have to Babelfish it. These things are very early Archos with…
I’m all for cool, weird watches. Heck, I’d admit that my Uncles like watches like this. Even my cousin and that one guy who lives two doors down and keeps feeding the stray cats in our alley. But please, TokyoFlash, leave my grandma out of this! The watch lights up in various crazy patterns when…
Japanese manufacturer Scythe is soon shipping this ‘A-Pod’ PC case, which takes its cues from the Japanese iconography for the… no, it’s just an iPod. If you really must have this matching case, it’ll be around for about $105. Other than the design it’s a pretty stock-standard ATX case. PC case maker caters to iPod…
DS fan Lunacy8m sent us his loving photo collection of his new, iPod-tastic white DS. We got into a big IM discussion about why they didn’t release this version FIRST and how cool that would have been and then I said that the DS was for babies and he’s all like “Then the Japanese are…