Sunday, October 12, 2008
Toys
Lego Art Proves Our Obsession is Classy
10:45AM Gizmodo US Edition | Web Urbanist has compiled a huge gallery of famous pieces of art reproduced in Lego, from Magritte to Warhol and Casablanca to Abbey Road. Even if you’re one of the eight readers of this site who isn’t a huge Lego fan, you’ll find something to gawk at here. [Web Urbanist] More »
Games
World of Warcraft Seems Like Kind of a Silly Hobby
9:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | World of Warcraft player/dorkmaster supreme Prepared has caved to his smack addiction-like dependence on WoW and created 36 separate accounts that he plays simultaneously on an epically ridiculous rig. He claims to spend over $US5700 per year just on the game, and plans to pick up 36 copies of the new expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King when it’s released. More »
Design
Twinned MP3 Player for the Couple that Shares Everything
7:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Are you in a relationship? Can you hardly bear to be apart from your partner for more than half an hour? Do you make out in the library while sitting next to a Gizmodo writer, totally unaware that someday he’ll grumpily complain about you in a post? Well, I have the perfect mp3 player for you and your equally annoying significant other. The Twinned MP3 Player concept is actually two mp3 players, capable of holding only one playlist each: the same one. More »
Gadgets
Apple Will Indoctrinate Your Children with Field Trips
6:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Evil monolith Apple has begun a nefarious program to snatch children from the warm arms of their home PCs with ominous-sounding “field trips.” These trips do lead to a field, but not one with grass and trees and sunshine. This is a field of glass, of white plastic, of aluminium, and of shameful minimalism. More »
Peripherals
USB Floppy Drive Concept: Oregon Trail Not Included
5:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Designer Thomas O’Connor has come up with a concept to join the legions of goofy USB flash drives with this charming USB Floppy Drive. Take one of those floppy disks granpappy’s always going on about, hollow it out, stuff it with some flash storage and a USB dongle and you’ve got a “sustainable” and nostalgic USB drive. It looks to be a mere concept right now, but I bet an enterprising modder could whip one of these up in no time. [Core77]
Phones
iPhone 3G Coming to Walmart Just in Time for the New Great Depression
4:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Boy Genius Report has it “on good authority” that Our Lord and Savior Jesusphone 3G will be sold in God’s own retail store: Walmart. They name November 15th as the date of arrival, which is just in time for shoppers to overlook it as they clear their local Walmart of cans of beans to prepare for the econocopalypse that’s sure to destroy Western civilisation as we know it. You heard it here first, folks: the hot gift this Christmas will be a can of Heinz baked beans. [BGR] More »
Games
Microsoft Sues DHL Over Xbox-Busting Train Crash
3:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Microsoft is suing delivery service DHL for their refusal to compensate the boys in Redmond for the destruction of over 21,000 Xboxes in a Texas train derailment. The consoles were due for Hong Kong when the train, carrying two large containers of Xboxes, went off the tracks, sustaining a substantial amount of water and impact damage and, interestingly, “pilfering.” Microsoft is seeking $US2 million in compensation for DHL’s negligence. That the phrase “fiery train wreck” is missing from the report makes me think it wasn’t as exciting as it could’ve been. Imagine the headlines! [PC World] More »
Phones
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Abused by Britney Spears in New Video
2:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Thanks to about a million tips, I’ve been forced to sit through the new Britney Spears music video for “Womanizer” because the flashy Nokia 5800 XpressMusic ‘Tube’ makes an appearance. The phone is used to take a picture of a ridiculously be-wigged Britney before she violently attacks the photographer and slams his face into a photocopier, sending the poor phone flying. But that’s not the end of the technology in the video! More »
Screens
Rumour: Apple Developing Networked LCD With Built-in Apple TV
1:30AM Adrian Covert | As we get closer to yet another Apple event, the rumour mill is operating at full speed and everyone has “sources.” The latest to offer up a juicy bit of gossip is Jason Calacanis, who went on record in an interview with CNET UK as saying that he has direct sources telling him Apple is developing a networked LCD HDTV that will have built-in Apple TV capabilities. Immediately, this brought up a smattering of conflicting ideas and opinions from a few of us at Giz as to whether or not this makes sense. And if it does happen, we almost certainly won’t see it on Tuesday. Ultimately, we’re still undecided one way or the other, but here’s what we think on the matter.
Hardware
