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Tech NewsGiz Tech Tip: How to Sing and Play Rock Band Simultaneously
If you’ve been playing Rock Band as much as we have, you’ve tried to sing and play guitar/drums at the same time at least once. Unless you’ve got a mic stand lying around, you had to use either a human mic stand (I tried that; she got tired and started choking me with a Wiimote) … Continued
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Crazy Person to Attempt a Backflip in a Truck
Doing backflips is a mainstay of the extreme sports scene, with people who ride skis, snowboards, dirt bikes and snowmobiles all able to pull off a flip with a big enough jump. But what about a truck? Sounds insane, doesn’t it? That’s because it is, it’s completely insane. That’s not gonna stop Rhys Millen from … Continued
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Sorting the 5,195 Pieces of the Millennium Falcon Gives Strange Pleasure, Back Pain
If the first time you saw all those bags you thought the LEGO Millennium Falcon was big, it’s not big. It’s HUGE. Like some of you asked for, I spent four hours and nine minutes sorting all the pieces out to make the construction easier. The condensed video shows the complexity and giganormous size of … Continued
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Raytheon’s 360-Degree Image Sensor Provides Unswerving All-Around View
In like very single movie, the ninja outsmarts the security system by waiting until the motorized camera pans the other way. Well what if, asks Raytheon, what if the camera didn’t have to swerve? Parabolic mirrors and other devices have been used to create 360-degree cameras before. (I once shot footage on one in Grand … Continued
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Kill Shot Pillow From Keetra Looks Bloody Comfortable
It’s called The Great Slumber, or just Bloody Puddle, a pillow that looks like you took one too many bullets to the head. The site says it will be for sale soon, though something tells us it won’t be ready in time for Christmas. Which is all for the best: God knows what would happen … Continued
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Projectors Made From Trash Deliver HD Video and Stereoscopic Movies
Projector prices are low now, but it looks like some crazy people like to make their own from scrapped parts: modified 8″ LCD screens from cheap DVD players, chunky power converters, circuitry salvaged from dead AV equipment and hundreds of LEDs put together to create powerful lamps. The result are high-definition ghetto machines capable of … Continued
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Zelco OUTI Headphones Make Your Backbone Flip
Clip these Zelco OUTI headphones onto your earlobes and they supposedly rattle your bones so much that you can feel the bass all over your body. Never mind that people around you will also have to listen to that tiresome rap music that makes you shake your booty. The $110 earphones (that look a whole … Continued
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Radiocube Gives You On-a-Roll, Button-Free Web Listening,
The Radiocube is a neat idea that will be debuting at CES 2008 (I won’t be there, so hopefully the rest of the Giz guys will keep their eyes peeled for it.) There are no buttons on the Wi-Fi device, and not even an on-off button, so how the devil does it work? It’s simple—and … Continued
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AK-47 Paper Gun Model Kit, for Terrorizing Paper Dolls
The AK-47 assault rifle is probably the most popular weapon in the world, so much so that it’s been made into lamps by designer Philippe Starck, gold plated by Saddam Hussein, and there’s even a Hello Kitty edition. Now you can build yourself a perfectly harmless replica of the beloved killing machine with this AK-47 … Continued
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Boffins Say E.T. Too Bored By Our Messages To Phone Home
Radio messages we’ve sent whizzing out into space over the years to try to contact aliens may simply be too boring for extra-terrestrial beings to answer, say a couple of Canadian astrophysicists. Tedious bits of math, physics and biology normally on offer may just be intellectual spam to alien minds. Find out what boffins Yvan … Continued
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Sorapot Teapot, Video of the Sexy Steeper in Action
Here’s video of that sexy Sorapot teapot by designer Joey Roth we showed you last month, available for pre-order for a $50 deposit. As you can see, this is a teapot that steeps the tea in style—but you must heat up the water elsewhere. While the years-in-development object isn’t available just yet, it’s gone beyond … Continued
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Chimera BC16 Modular Synth is Cheap, Colorful, Cute
Although it’s not shipping until January 2008, Chimera Synthesis is taking orders for its BC16 mono synth. It’s the first product from the UK-based company, and will be followed next year by its PH303 (any Chicago House fans out there will be feeling hot under the collar right now) and the SM16, a 16-step analog … Continued
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Pajama Warmer Pouch Warms Up Your Winterwear
Our esteemed commentator OMG!!! Ponies!!! already knows what he’s getting from his girlfriend on the Chrismukkah gift front, so this pajama warmer goes out to you, Sir. Stuff your PJs (or whatever it is you want to warm up) in this electric pouch and it’s toasted gonads before you can say “Bloody Norah, that hurts.” … Continued
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Plastic Hammock Concept Kinda Negates the Whole Point of Garden Swingers
This concept design for a hammock is very admirable, but it fails on many levels. One, it takes away the enjoyment of watching people wrestle unsexily with a bunch of string puporting to be a bed. Two, I am not sure how keen I am on plastic parts (unless, of course, you’re talking about Action … Continued
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Liquid-Refrigerated PC Made With a Porsche Cayenne Wheel Doesn’t Include Flames Stickers
The Porsche SLI-Machine is a PC with dual NVIDIA SLI cards and liquid refrigeration inside the chromed rim of a Porsche Cayenne wheel. It was one of the most popular entries in the NVIDIA-sponsored SLI-Machine modding contest, recently organized by Russian publication Top Mods. And yes, we know, it’s absolutely stupid. Everyone knows that wheel … Continued
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Insulin Watch Concept Gives You Your Fix and Tells the Time
Sufferers of Type-I diabetes will appreciate this concept insulin-delivering watch from Germany. Piezoelectricity generated by the wearer’s movements drive the insulin-delivering pumps in the watch body, which contains enough of the drug for two to three weeks. The idea is to make life a little more normal for diabetics rather than have them wrestle with … Continued
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Sanyo Teams Up With NS-ELEX for World’s First Earphone Microphone
An earphone microphone, aimed at people who work in loud environments—construction, law enforcement, showbiz reporters at a Michael Jackson trial— has been developed by Sanyo. In conjunction with NS-ELEX, the Japanese electronics giant has come up with two versions: a wired version; and a more expensive one that uses Bluetooth technology. Find out how the … Continued
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