Sunday, September 7, 2008
Deals
Amazon Retires US$38.45 52-Inch Aquos, Puts Orders on Hold
10:22PM Jesus Diaz | Error or scam, Amazon has pulled the page with the 52-inch US$38.45 Sharp Aquos, probably overwhelmed by the orders from crazy Giz readers dreaming about a glorious, gigantic HDTV in their living rooms and/or toilets. Reader Max called Amazon to check on his order and they told him there was something weird going on: More »
Toys
Army of Transvestites Celebrate Lego Minifig Anniversary
1:27PM Jesus Diaz | It looks like something went really wrong at the Lego factory because, when Jenny at The Bloggess opened her 30th Anniversary minifig celebration pack, she got a whole bunch of transvestite minifigs. “I think Eddie Izzard in drag is 10 times hotter than Brad Pitt covered in nougat, but this is just bizarre,” Jenny says. And I agree. Seeing all those moustaches and cleavages up close is kind of disturbing: More »
Deals
52-Inch Sharp Aquos HDTV for US$38.45 (Or Not Really)
12:12PM Jesus Diaz | Right now, one of the stores at Amazon.com–myOfficeSource–is selling a 52-inch Sharp Aquos 1080P HDTV for US$38.45 (thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents). That’s US$2,261.54 off its list price. New, not refurbished. Obviously, something wrong–or fishy–must be happening because, right now, you can buy a bunch of products with this discount. Giz reader Cliff, who gave us the heads up, actually bought the 52-inch Aquos and got a confirmation email from Amazon in which they say his order will arrive in mid-september. Update: One reader is giving a word of caution, so proceed with caution because this may be an scam. More »
Vehicles
Eclipse 400 Personal Aeroplane Is True Sports Skycar
11:30AM Jesus Diaz | The Eclipse 400 looks is one of those aeroplanes that you can only imagine in movies or comicbooks. But this is not the Avenger’s Quinjet, it is very real, as the video shows. Right now it’s being perfected and will be delivered to Tony Starks wannabes in just three years. Its four-seat interior looks more like an expensive sports car than a plane, and it has me saying “want”: More »
Software
Google Chrome Fatal Flaw Discovered, Will Destroy Lives, Dignities
10:12AM Jesus Diaz | Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google’s Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now: More »
Gadgets
First Photo of Apple Let’s Rock Event
9:34AM Jesus Diaz | It’s happening. The Let’s Rock Apple event has started to roll. Here’s the first photo outside the Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts in San Francisco, California. [iPhone Savior]
Science
Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You Would Ever Imagine
9:00AM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/space/Hubble_Repair_Mission_More_Risky_than_You_d_Ever_Imagine'; If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven’t seen this video yet. Not only the astronauts will be risking their lives as usual at 590km above the Earth, but the sheer amount and the difficulty of the tasks–from repairing components to replacing them to installing new gadgets–makes the mission an almost-impossible one, with soundtrack to match. I never imagined this was going to be such an ambitious and daunting work. More »
Gadgets
Hello Kitty DJ Speaker Brings Out the Disco Pussycat Lover In You
6:00AM Jesus Diaz | Who else would spend US$25 in a Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker–which moves pretending she’s a DJ at the rhythm of the music played in your digital audio player–but a twisted disco pussy lover with probably too much Jack Daniel’s running through his veins and listening to ABBA right now?
Games
NES Games Renderings Make Great Background Desktops
5:30AM Jesus Diaz | If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES–like I am–you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago. More »
Games
