I’ll get the obvious out of the way: “Where the bloody hell am I?”
Hand-writing letters to Santa is so 20th Century. These days, Santa has a Gmail account and an iPhone running the Santa Mail App. If you’ve got the app too, you can send the bearded.gift-giver messages that he will respond to individually. While that may not hold too much appeal for you as an adult, it will give you a certain level of street cred with your kids, especially when they get individualised responses.
Not that it wasn’t technically possible before, but the HP Mini 1000 now has official support for 3G WWAN Mobile Broadband out of the box and with support for multiple cell carriers.
You may think you have a powerful erection, but how do you know? The Erectile Quality Monitor is here to help.
Back in May, Dell completely changed how they did business in Australia by announcing a retail agreement with Officeworks. Today they’ve backed up their new approach to reaching customers by announcing another retail partnership with The Good Guys. Starting mid-December, you’ll be able to pick up a Dell laptop, desktop or monitor from any of the 87 Good Guys stores across Australia. The biggest question we have about this whole arrangement though is how they’ll work Dell into those incredibly annoying (yet catchy) Good Guys ads that destroy the Beach Boys’ Good Vibrations…
newVideoPlayer("/colbertlightsaber_gizmodo.flv", 506, 305,""); After Jon Stewart trashed Black Friday, talking about his C-3PO and Lego Millennium Falcon, Stephen Colbert strikes back brandishing a lightsaber against the curator of the National Toy Hall of Fame. The reason: A wood stick.
Hey Jason, Chris and I got into NY yesterday and haven’t really stopped moving since then. The Gizmodo Gallery has been a huge success so far, especially with Phil Torrone from Make doing free laser etchings all day for anyone who brought him a graphic and a gadget to tattoo. But setup, well, it took awhile. Especially deciding where to put what furniture, and what gadgets to put on what particular pieces of furniture. We ended in a mental loop for a few hours, trying to sort everything out so it would be presented perfectly, and in the end, we were satisfied. But from start to finish, it took us 15 hours to do. Which we compressed into a 45 second time lapse video which you can see above.
I’m no memory or brain expert, only barely having the necessary equipment, but this perfect episodic memory post on BoingBoing got me thinking about memory and how technology will alter it in the future.
The Sanyo R227 isn’t an entirely new product, but it’s new to us in the US. A Wi-Fi-based radio, the R227 allows users to scan for internet music just like they would FM.
Now that winter weather is upon us, it is time to shore up those cold air leaks. That’s where Black and Decker’s Thermal Leak Detector comes in handy.
