Saturday, December 13, 2008
Gadgets
Guy Fights Off Pranksters With Night Vision Goggles and Supersoaker Filled With Piss
6:50PM Brian Lam | Some guy got tired of kids wrapping his house in toilet paper every night. So he borrowed some mil spec night vision goggles, filled a super soaker with pee and drenched them when they showed. More »
Vehicles
Photo Du Jour: An Electric Mini Cooper’s Dashboard
6:29PM Brian Lam | This car has 43% battery life remaining, but I wonder if that gauge depletes linearly or, as on my laptop, surprisingly quickly near the end. More »
Computers
Remember to Back Up: HP Deletes Your Data for the Letter ‘P’
12:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | It should be common sense to back up whenever you are sending your laptop off to be fixed, even for something small. According to Consumerist, one unlucky reader learned the hard way. More »
Design
Waterflux Art Museum Is Clearly an Alien Cockroach Nest
12:15PM Jesus Diaz | Horrific yet incredibly intriguing is the only way I can describe this spiked and gelatinous alien nest that mimics the landscape around it. Fortunately, it won’t hold any eggs waiting to snatch human bodies. More »
Robots
Lil Drum and Bass Bot Never Goes Anywhere Without His Theme Music
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | YouTube may be full of robots, but few as charming as this little drummer bot. Armed with a rudimentary pill-jar plastic drum and a beep-bop-boop synthesiser, he somehow gets quite the groove on.
Phones
BlackBerry: $US20, McCain-Palin’s Contacts: Priceless
11:49AM Andi Wang | In order to get back some of the money spent on the McCain-Palin campaign, items from the campaign were sold today at a yard sale, including a $US20 BlackBerry, fully loaded with confidential information. More »
Science
Bomb Victim Fitted With Cyborg Arm That Fuses With Her Own Skin and Bone
11:00AM Sean Fallon | Kira Mason, a victim of the London bombing attacks in July of 2005 has been fitted with a cyborg arm that fuses with her own skin and bone. The procedure has been called “a breakthrough.” More »
Software
Slingplayer Mac Update Offers Improved Streaming Video Quality, Online IDs, Aspect Ratio Toggling
10:59AM Adrian Covert | Slingplayer for Mac received an update today to 1.0.7, offering improved video quality, easy toggling between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio, and the ability to register and store your Slingbox ID online. More »
Press
Why Apple Keynotes Are On Tuesday
10:40AM Brian Lam | Apple cultists know that Apple announces news and has big Keynotes on Tuesday. But most don’t realise why this happens on this particular day of the week, and accept the legacy of the pattern as some sort of cult tradition handed down since days of Woz. But Woz told me that it started after his time. So I poked around a bit, and found out that Tuesday’s Apple news turns out to be just another practical left brain decision built entirely around the news cycle. More »
Phones
