Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - Page 2
Gadgets

Iron Samurai Watch For The Budget Conscious And Style Averse

The Iron Samurai watch, a spectacularly ugly bracelet-style watch made from “Samurai sword carbonized steel folded 1000x over,” is available from Chinavision for a questionable $US15. It also comes with one of the weirdest/funniest product descriptions I’ve ever seen.


Extremely Creepy Old Man Invents Fully Automatic Crossbow


Gadgets

Remainders – The Good, Bad And Ugly Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

In today’s batch of things that didn’t make the cut we’ve got a bit of NSFW humour, Time‘s list of gadgets of the year, an angry dude suing an Internet person, Dell profiting through Twitter, and more.


Entertainment

Thanks To This Video, I Finally Understand The Internet


Geek Out

Giz Friend Jaimal Yogis’ Book Being Made Into A Movie

Gizmodo friend Jaimal Yogis’ book, Salt Water Buddha, is being made into a film in 2010. Jaimal wrote a piece for us over the summer discussing his experience on a surfboard designed by ex-Apple designer Thomas Meyerhoffer. [SaltwaterBuddha]


Computing

Lumino Project: Next-Generation Lego Crossed With Microsoft Surface

Lumino may look like generic building blocks, but it actually marks a new phase in the life of Microsoft Surface: The recognition of the third dimension. The UI implications are pretty staggering.


YouTube’s VEVO Music Video Site Launching Tonight

YouTube and Universal have teamed up to create VEVO, a music video site which will host music videos with the blessings of various recording companies. The site is launching tonight and so far the details sound pretty great.


Entertainment

Handy Guide To Not Getting Your Game Banned In Australia

Gizmodo AU

The guys over at Gamespot have put together a handy video for game developers wanting to get their game rated for Australia. Although if Miranda Kerr or John Farnham ever make their way into a videogame, I think I might jump ship and start supporting Atkinson’s stance on things.*


Software

OrbLive’s Mysterious Disappearance From The App Store

After being available for quite some time, the OrbLive iPhone app is suddenly missing from the App Store. Orb confirmed that the app was in fact removed by Apple, but otherwise they’re just as surprised about this as we are.


Science

It Took The New York Times 49 Years To Believe Isaac Newton

It may have taken me ages to hear about this story, but it took The New York Times 49 years to issue a correction to an editorial dismissing space travel. I guess they’d finally opened up their high school textbooks.