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Tech NewsDo You Really Think the Macworld Keynote’s Leaked on Wikipedia?
Seriously? We weren’t going to post anything on this, but lots of sites seem to be picking it up. Do you really think that Steve Jobs would let his keynote be leaked, and on Wikipedia of all places? The keynote that many of his own people don’t even know about? We’ve even heard about employees … Continued
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DroboShare Adds Gigabit Ethernet to Data Robotics’ Lil Server Bot
We all love the idea behind Drobo, the four-drive storage robot from Data Robotics that promises auto-mounting on both OS X Macs and Windows PCs. It’s a little pricey at $500, especially since the drives cost extra, but the system just got more powerful: its new shoe fits snugly underneath, providing a gigabit Ethernet network … Continued
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Porn Studio Ditches HD DVD for Blu-ray in 2008
We missed this story while we were wandering around the halls of AVN, checking out streaming porn boxes, but apparently Digital Playground is dropping HD DVD in favor of Blu-ray in 2008. Joone, the founder of the video label, says they’re dropping it not just because Warner and other companies switched, but because their Blu-ray … Continued
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Handheld Gamecube Mod Gets B- For Effort, F For Quality
If you’re going to turn a Nintendo Gamecube into a handheld portable device, you should really spend a little more effort than this man here. Geekologie doesn’t have any details on it, but as you can see, whoever did this just broke a regular GC controller in half, soldered some holes into a piece of … Continued
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MisuraEmme Wall Combines Home Entertainment With Booze
When we’ve got enough money to get what looks like a 1500-sq-ft living room/home theater area, we’re going to load one wall up with a MisuraEmme wall system. Not because it classes up the place in a way that cardboard boxes just do not, but because it combines a sliding flat-screen TV with a self-contained … Continued
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Amazon-Pepsi Promotion Gets Official and Awesome: Free MP3s, Unbox Downloads, DVDs, CDs and Gadgets
Good news on the Pepsi-Amazon MP3 contest front: It’s official, it’s not a contest and they’ve giving away more than MP3s. It’s a point-based promo that launches on Feb. 1, with 4 billion Pepsi products carrying points that you can bank on PepsiStuff.com for MP3s from Amazon store, which now has tracks from all four … Continued
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LG Prada Phone Coming in Silver
This isn’t spectacular news unless you’re the Silver Surfer or the silver-haired fox our intern was chatting up last week, but the LG Prada phone is coming in silver all across Europe some time later this year. So if colour was the reason why you’ve been holding out on getting one of these fashion phones, … Continued
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Watch Concept Gives Hearing-Impaired People a Fire Alert
This new watch concept from Nikita Golovlev is designed to give a visible warning to hearing-impaired users if something dangerous is going on nearby. Dubbed AlarMe, the watch has a bunch of omnidirectional microphones and does some intelligent listening to sense if anything audibly important such as a fire alarm is happening. It then gives … Continued
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Polar Cities for Day After Tomorrow Survivors Will Save Us All From Horrible Deaths
Global warming is bearing down on us with the fire of a thousand suns, and soon, the arctic chill of like a billion perfect storms. Whatever is Jake Gyllenhaal to do? Hole up in a Polar City, of course. Envisioned by “visionary futurist” Dan Bloom—how would he know he’s a visionary unless he, in fact, … Continued
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Magic Fireballs are Awesome, Not as Dangerous as You’d Think
Click to view Get ready to be the coolest uncle ever: here’s a video tutorial on how to make “Magic Fireballs,” which are what they sound like. Yes, small balls that you can light on fire and play with without getting burned (well, as long as you know what you’re doing). They’re sure to make … Continued
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What You Missed Last Weekend
We were recovering from our crazy week in Vegas, but did we let it stop us blogging you through the weekend? No, Sir. Read on for a roundup of the lazy day goodness. • The Asus Eee PC went technicolor. • Benny and Frucci beat Matt and I during an ultimate F1 test. They cheated—Frucci … Continued
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Ikea Paper Towel Holder Laptop Stand for MacBook Pros, Other Classy Notebooks
Honestly, I’m not too big on laptop stands—I don’t use an external keyboard—but if I did, I’d totally go the cheapskate route and hack together my own from scraps of junk metal and plastic dolls. Err, a sleek paper towel holder from Ikea. It matches the MacBook Pro’s aesthetics for way less than the $40 … Continued
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Giz Banned For Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
Click to viewA Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business? … Continued
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Realistic Animal Cosplay Costumes Reveal Frightening New Depths of Dorkdom
Sometimes, the internet opens up doors to worlds of geekery that you never knew existed. I guess I shouldn’t judge people for being into whatever it is they’re into as long as it doesn’t intrude on my life, but… come on. Lion of the Sun makes custom animal masks and costumes that are super-realistic, featuring … Continued
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Max Factor on the Woman of 2009 (1959)
The March 5, 1959 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, MD) ran an Associated Press piece titled, “Thomas Quotes Max Factor On The Woman Of The Future.” Factor predicts, among other things, the extensive use of cosmetics by men of the future. The entire article appears below. HOLLYWOOD (A.P.) — Fifty years from now, a woman of 50 … Continued
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Striking Writers Form Online Video Company Visual Artists, I Still Want New “Heroes”
Led by the writer of Air Bud (that bodes well), a large posse of out-of-work WGAers is looking to launch the online video company, Visual Arists, later this year with over $30 million in funding with Silicon Valley types. Supposedly a bunch of A-listers are on board, which gives small hope that they punch out … Continued
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1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future
The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don’t know is that there’s another man whose products are at the heart of Ive’s design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product … Continued
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Hurray: Rainbow of Nintendo Wii Colors Finally on the Way?
This is a location print-up from the only classy big-box store, Target. Before Christmas, if an employee scanned a Wii, it’d just say “Wii Console.” Now, it says “Wii White.” Giddy fanboy deduction: Why go through the trouble of adding an additional color descriptor unless other colors were on the way? While it’s not exactly … Continued