Archive for January, 2008
« Previous EntriesHappy 30th Birthday LAN! Thank God For Meatball Sandwiches [Getting Old]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Oh LAN, it seems like it was only yesterday that your first commercial installation (ARCnet) was born at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. We must give thanks to Harry Pyle and that meatball sandwich…
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10 of the Most Blatantly Sexist Gadgets Ever Made (NSFW) [Inappropriate]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Women have it rough. Everywhere they turn there is a manufacturer looking to exploit women by incorporating more T & A into their product lineup. The following gallery provides 10 examples (11 if you…
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Please Vote for Gizmodo in the 2008 Bloggies [Announcements]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008As Brian said yesterday, we’ve been nominated for the 2008 Bloggies in the categories of Best Tech Blog, Lifetime Achievement and Best Design. Really do feel like we do fantastic work around here,…
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Question of the Day: Build or Buy a New PC [Question Of The Day]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008We used to be hardcore into the build-it-yourself PC scene, thinking that it would save us money and give us more powerful machines in the end. That theory’s fine if you have loads of time to…
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Crappy Casemod Contest Still Ongoing [Announcements]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Don’t forget to send in
your pictures for the lousiest casemods you can find. They don’t
have to be ones you made personally—although we’ve gotten a
few personal entries from Gizmodo readers…
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Private Cloud Is a Rocking Bed (Both Ways) [Perfect Bed]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008The Private Cloud is a patented rocking bed by German designer Manuel Kloker. They don’t tell the price, but it is real. You buy it and it’s supposed to be all like, you know, wheeeeee, and then…
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Desk Grommet With Cable Trap Looks Incredibly Useful [Gadgets]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008This grommet is just a design, but we wonder why it took someone this long to come up with such a genius (and obvious) idea. Like a regular desk grommet, it’s a big hole that lets cables through….
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Sony’s 25-Megapixel Full-Frame Sensor Lands in Massive Sony DSLR [Sony Flagship Dslr]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008This is something of a surprise. We sorta didn’t expect Sony’s 25-megapixel full-frame serious pro sensor to land in a Sony DSLR. The cam’s details are scant as hell—it doesn’t even have a…
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HTC TouchFlo 2.0 Leaked, Covers Up Windows Mobile Even Better? [Htc Touchflo]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008HTC’s TouchFLO UI was great because it was one of the first “skin Windows Mobile to make it usable” applications—even if it isn’t quite as good as PointUI. This supposed TouchFlo 2.0 upgrade…
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Boston Getting LED’ed On ATHF Mooninite Anniversary [Boston]
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Those of us not brain damaged enough to remember stuff from a year ago will recall the crazy response Boston had to the LED Mooninites plastered around their city to promote the Aqua Teen Hunger…
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