Friday, October 24, 2008
Entertainment
Stephen Colbert Replaces His $US310,000 Vertu with Something Better
11:40PM Mark Wilson | Times are tough, friends. And even wealthy conservative mouthpiece Stephen Colbert has to cut back on his gadget spending habits. Needless to say, the guy is still doing alright; he continues to dial numbers that most of us haven’t even dreamed about. We also hear that he smells of peppermint and lilacs at distances closer than four feet. [via geeksugar] More »
Vehicles
A Hyundai Gets Pimped with Apples
11:20PM Mark Wilson | It’s as if an Apple store were in a terrible car accident. This Hyundai Genesis has been stuffed the the brim with various Jobsonian tokens, including a three Apple computers (a MacBook Air and two Mac minis), an iPod touch, an iPhone (do these guys realise that an iPhone is basically an iPod touch?) and a 20″ Cinema Display in the trunk. In other words, the place looks just like Brian Lam’s living room. (We kid! We kid! Brian has way more Apple gear than this crappy car.) Here’s a bonus shot of the trunk: More »
Toys
How To Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/design/How_To_Do_A_3D_Lego_Halloween_Pumpkin'; While this Lego Halloween Pumpkin is not as spooky and macabre as the sectioned Lego minifig showing his skeleton and inner guts, it is a complete must in any geekabolous nerdy Halloween decorations. In fact, I would be building a whole bunch of this following these very simple instructions: More »
Random Stuff
Pistol Stilettos Can Really Hurt to Walk In
10:40PM Mark Wilson | Surely these pistol stilettos adorned by Madonna at her recent directorial debut can’t be packing real guns. Then again, if we had to listen to that much pretentious bullshit coming from our own mouths at all times, we might need our personal escape plan at arm’s reach, too. [If Heels Could Talk via Violet Blue NSFW] More »
Science
Gaming Mogul Space Tourist Richard Garriott Back On Earth
9:08PM John Herrman | We’ve traced Garriott’s dream journey to space from his eight months of training in Russia’s Star City to his climactic orbital toilet repair endeavors just last week, but at 7:34 Moscow Time (10:34 EST) our favourite space tourist’s trip came to its inevitable end. Garriott is now safely on the ground in Kazakhstan after just ten days in space, most of which he spent on the ISS, floatin’ around with some cosmonauts. He hasn’t had a chance to talk about his experience yet, but what is there to say? “Ha ha, I went into space, losers!” wouldn’t be the classiest reintroduction to Earth, but it would sum things up quite nicely. [Yahoo News] More »
Gadgets
Oprah’s Favourite Gadget is the Kindle, In Case You Were Wondering
8:24PM John Herrman | TV host and noted technologist Oprah Winfrey has a favourite gadget, but it’s a secret! At least until she announces it on her show, which will probably happen today. But that wasn’t soon enough for BGR, who dug and dug and scraped and view-sourced until they found their answer in a tag list, buried in an XML file from Amazon’s teaser page: Oprah Fridays Live, gadget, favourite things, favourite new gadget, kindle, kindel, kindle device, amazon.com, edgar sawtelle, obc, oprah’s book club, Cristina Ferrare, Mattie Stepanek, money, economy, savings, dollars, recession, cooking, meals for less
Gadgets
Kickit is Most Fun You Can Have Tidying Away Shoes
8:08PM Kit Eaton | Shoes clutter up my apartment’s hallway because both me and the wife are waaaaay too lazy to put them in the cupboard just a few feet away…but I suspect if we installed this there’d be no problem. Because kicking off your shoe to get it “stored” between the bristles of Kickit looks like fun. The kind of fun that could turn into a dangerous flying-shoe competition. But, and it’s a big but, there’s a flaw: Kickit is a designer product going for about $US2500 (€2000). But I reckon you may be able to hack together your own from some planking and sawn-off floor brushes. [Crunchgear] More »
Vehicles
Australia Building Huge Electric Car Grid: 600,000+ Stations By 2012
7:50PM John Herrman | Apparently not content with just one giant ongoing infrastructure project, Australia has committed to fully outfitting three of its biggest cities for widespread electric car use. In hardware terms, that amounts to 200,000-250,000 charging stations each for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, with an additional 150 battery swap stations scattered between them. The effort will cost $1bn in Australian Dingo Dollars, which is about $667m USD. If that’s not ambitious enough for you, consider this: it should be online in three years. More »
Peripherals
HP USB Flash Drive Can Pretend To Be Floppy
7:24PM Kit Eaton | No… not that kind of floppy…a disk-type one. Why is this useful? Apparently some BIOS updates still need you to jam in a floppy disk, despite the fact that many a PC nowadays ships without a drive for you to jam the disk into. So HP’s floppy-emulating USB flash drive gizmo is more a sysadmin’s friend, rather than your average user’s fare, but you can at least switch it over to behaving like a normal flash drive. Available now in 256MB and 1GB sizes for $US49 and $US79. [Crunchgear] More »
Science
