Saturday, September 12, 2009

Entertainment

Finally! Someone Shot The Creepy Palm Pre Chick!

1:30PM September 12, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Confession: I haven’t seen September Dawn. I didn’t even know about it until today. What I do know is that the actress who plays the creepy Palm Pre chick dies at the 3:01 mark of this clip. In creepy fashion. More »

Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

1:00PM September 12, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

1000 Bees Lift a Laptop Into the Air…Comic Book For Sale on iTunes…Brad Pitt Sighted In Regular Reality Thanks To Augmented Reality…Extra Confusing: Meizu M8 iPhone Clone Gets Android OS… More »

What Is This?

12:30PM September 12, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Is this the entrance to Jason Chen’s secret lair where the Gizmodo magic happens? Maybe a place to lock up anyone with swine flu? What on earth requires a HAL 9000 to keep guard? Ah! The floor has the answer. More »

DIY Rail Gun Is Terrifying, Comes With Building Instructions

12:00PM September 12, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

How have I not seen this project before? It may not be quite as powerful as the Navy’s, but this DIY rail gun packs 5.6kJ. That’s five point six kilojoules of Oh-my-dear-sweet-Geezus-I’ll-never-piss-off-a-DIYer. More »

Concrete Nixie Clock Tells Time, Requires A Sturdy Table

11:30AM September 12, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Nixie clocks are pretty awesome. Nixie clocks in a concrete housing? Naturally a lot more awesome. It’s a prototype for now, sadly, so you can’t buy one. Yet. [Nixie Concrete via Like Cool]

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Nirvana Bathtub Is Like Bathing In A Disco Ball

11:00AM September 12, 2009 | Sean Fallon

There have been several products designed for a bathtub light show, but the Nirvana tub takes it a step further by embedding 360 LEDs right into the surface. More »

Geek Out

Adventures In Ad Placement, Steve Jobs Edition

10:30AM September 12, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Was placing this ad next to this picture of Steve Jobs an intentional joke or an honest mistake? You decide. [Flickr via iPhone Savior]

Robot Jordan’s Air Junk Dunk Shoes

10:00AM September 12, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Air Jordan’s for the year 2050. On pre-order now. Actually, these circuit board shoes are a piece of art created by Gabriel Dishaw. More »

Online

Good Morning! 11,000 Times Over

9:30AM September 12, 2009 | Sean Fallon

What you are looking at is 11,000 instances of “good morning” being tweeted in various languages over a 24-hour period. Notice the colour black—these are the slackers that stumble out of bed past noon. More »

Sharp Develops Laser Capable Of Burning 100GB Blu-Ray Discs

9:05AM September 12, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Sharp has announced that they’ve been working on a laser which would “allow a drive to read twice as deep as current dual-layer Blu-ray drives” and “let it write at 8X speed on all four layers.” Wowza. What this means is that we might be seeing triple-layer and quad-layer Blu-ray discs with capacities of up to 100GB in the future. More »