Gaming on the iPhone and iPod touch could be great with the addition of a gamepad handle: the promise of the iControlPad comes to mind. But the iPhone platform doesn’t deserve two giant foam handles that do nothing but ruin the sleek lines of the device, providing no buttons, no extra battery life, and no added functionality. Hell, the thing doesn’t even look comfortable to hold. It’s available for pre-order now and costs a whopping $US50. For foam. [Crunchgear]
Western Digital, better known for storage than HD video equipment, looks to have thrown their hat into the video streaming ring with the WD TV HD Media Player. With two USB 2.0 drives working simultaneously, you can plug in your USB storage and stream to your HDTV in 1080p over HDMI or composite. The diminutive box comes with a remote control and what seems to be proprietary browsing software. It’s available now from Best Buy for a competitive $US130, which is a solid price for an HD streamer even if it’s snuck in under the radar a bit. [Engadget]
A study commissioned by Professor Semir Zeki of University College London sought to explore the difference between love and hate in the human mind. It found, oddly enough, that hate tends to be more rational than love. What does this all have to do with gadgets? It just might explain why you commenters fight incessantly about Apple and Microsoft.
Another Halloween has come and gone, and instead of nursing my hangover while curled up in the bathtub, like I really wanted to, I’m tasked with entertaining you lot. It seems like a good year for costumes: we’ve seen some great ones, but what nobody’s asked for is the Apple-themed costumes piling up in my inbox.
What happens when you ask a guy to translate something for you into a language you don’t understand? This. The top part of the sign is in English, but when they emailed someone to translate that English into Welsh, the response actually said “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.” That’s right, it’s an out of office message, which subsequently made it onto the road sign undetected. We hope those residents are getting used to Welsh truck drivers carrying heavy goods. [BBC - Thanks Christopher!]
Go and download Crackberry’s leaked BlackBerry Storm user manual now, because we can guarantee that when you actually get your hands on the phone, you won’t slow down to flip through all 249 pages to figure out how to add photos to your contacts. It’s just a little over a meg, so if you’re at all interested in the touchscreen-enabled BlackBerry, there you are. Oh and don’t forget to check out our hands on with it as well. [CrackBerry]
WALL-E is set to land on Blu-Ray (and DVD) on November 18th, and will probably become the go-to showoff movie for high-end entertainment systems. The newest Pixar movie is a big favourite here at Gizmodo, and the 3-disc set looks like a must-have for Blu-Ray owners, with all kinds of great extras. More details after the jump.
AU: I should point out, with great regret, that the Aussie Blu-ray release for Wall-E definitely won’t be on November 18, seeing as how it’s still out at the cinemas. Still, this is what you may or may not have to look forward to when it does hit Blu-ray.
Instructables has posted a guide to breaking down 3.5″ hard drives and creating a wall clock out of the pieces. The guide calls for a bunch of the washers used to separate hard drive platters as well as the innards of a cheapie clock the builder had lying around. It’s a pretty easy project, but what’s remarkable is how cool it looks by the end. You wouldn’t know it’s made of hard drives; it just looks like an industrial sort of sculpture that tells time. [Instructables]
The high-lariously named BSODomizer is a little gadget that interfaces between a computer and monitor to display an image at either random intervals or when triggered by an IR remote control. The best use of this kind of toy, of course, is reminding Windows devotees like myself that the nerld-famous (nerd world) BSOD is always lurking around the corner, along with a Mac user who’s waiting to screech “Get a Mac! Get a Mac!” like the most annoying parrot ever.
