This is not something I enjoy writing about, but as gadget fans, it’s our duty to put pressure on companies to try and minimise the environmental impact of shipping our favourite products. The latest villain is Madman Entertainment, who shipped a copy of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law to reader Kieran in a monstrously oversized box.
UPDATE: Received an official comment from Madman about this.
Gizmodo Gallery is over, but the good we accomplished by playing Call of Duty on a 103-inch plasma TV and lighting cigarettes by flashlight will go on for quite some time. That’s because of the donations readers like you made to Toys for Tots: Over 4 days we collectively raised $US4,820 for the underprivileged children that have to play with things like rusty tin cans instead of G.I.Joes. You guys and gals are the real heroes!
newVideoPlayer("/gun_helicopter_gizmodo.flv", 450, 358,""); This modded Bergen Gasser EB remote-controlled helicopter has a handgun on its nose. Yes. A handgun. And as you can see in the video, it can also be fired remotely.
Tired of ATI ruling the uberidiculous end of the graphics card space, Nvidia is apparently striking back with its own super-stacked GTX295—it’s basically two GTX 200 GPUs hot-glued together.
TechCrunch reports that the Google Chrome browser will soon graduate from beta status into a final release. Even if you’ve tried Chrome and passed, rest assured you haven’t seen the last of it.
I’m seriously buying into the idea that Psystar has secret supporters, because there is no way a small company could fight a hopeless battle against Apple this long. Yet, the battle rages on.
Tesla, the electronic auto maker, has just stated that it needs a $US350,000,000 government loan in order to produce their upcoming four-door Model S Sedan.
This isn’t the first Home Theatre in a Box solution we’ve seen that comes with a bundled Blu-ray player, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an extremely exciting piece of kit. It’s got speakers and a Blu-ray player and everything, plus it all comes in a box. Isn’t that awesome? To be fair, the 5.1 system looks the goods, and for the $1099 price tag (plus $100 cash back), it’s a pretty good way of upgrading to Blu-ray and a surround sound setup. The HT-BD2ET’s small bookshelf speakers reportedly offer 800 Watts RMS, which is pretty impressive for such a small set of speakers. And the Blu-ray player supports 24 frame playback and the HD audio codecs, although there’s no ethernet connectivity for BD-Live action. But if you’re going to buy a HTiB setup, that probably won’t be a dealbreaker anyway…
[Samsung]
As the NY Times point out in their review of two upcoming histories of The Bomb, Robbert Oppenheimer originally assumed that little could stop anyone from developing nuclear weapons. Thankfully, he was wrong.
Great news today for fans of the ABC’s iView VOD service, with not one, but two ISPs announcing that they’re offering iView content as unmetered downloads. Both Internode and iPrimus join iiNet in offering the national broadcaster’s video on demand service, where you can watch any of the six channels available. Now we just need all the other ISPs to follow suit, and add iTunes downloads to the unmetered list as well…
