Now we’re talking. Volkswagen has developed an electric bike that folds down into the spare tire compartment, features no pedals, and goes up to 12.5 miles on a charge at up to 12.5 miles per hour.
The company is apparently getting ready to actually sell this bike, although pricing and availability hasn’t been set quite yet. …
Monday, you go away for just long enough that we all forget about you, then–BAM!—here you are again. Well played, Monday, but you can’t keep this up forever… or can you? Our only recourse for now is to browse gadget deals left behind by Sunday; a day that’s far cooler than you, Monday.
This week’s deals include a …
If you’re like me, you’ve been struggling to hold your digital photo frame and coffee mug in the same hand so you can look at your photos and drink your coffee at the same time. There has to be a better way!
ThinkGeek has finally stepped up to the plate and is offering the $25 Digital Photo Mug. It’s already sold out and won’t …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Rent’s due but you spent …
If you’ve been endlessly searching for an academic approach to humor, look no further than Microsoft’s Education site. Specifically, the “competency” section for “humor.”
Did you know that there are four levels of proficiency in humor? It’s true. If you’re just at level one (basic), you may wonder where to find humor. …
With floppy disk drives long gone, someone on Reddit poses an interesting question: How much longer will the 3.5-inch floppy disk represent the “save” icon in most computer programs?
You have to think that eventually it’ll get to the point when little kids using computers during their formative years will ask what the hell that …
I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything longer than a sentence or two from Steve Jobs, but he pulled out the big guns with a 1,653-word post on Apple.com called Thoughts on Flash.
It’s been no secret that Apple’s opted to embrace HTML5 over Flash and the Apple-versus-Flash tiff has spilled over into the public arena, most …
Sony’s going the Chumby route (remember Chumby?) with its Dash Personal Internet Viewer. At $200 it’s a tad on the expensive side, but you get a big 7-inch 800×480 touch screen and over 1,000 apps to choose from. Oh and speaking of those apps, they’re actually Chumby apps. UPDATE: While the device uses Chumby apps, it’s also got …
Forget the flowers this year and buy your mom something she’ll actually enjoy. Here are a few gift ideas based on her level of comfort with technology products. Oh, and get her flowers too. And a card.
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Here’s a quick update on the whole iPhone saga for your enjoyment. You’ll recall that over the weekend, a special task force raided Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s home and took most, if not all, of his electronics equipment as evidence that “tends to show that a felony has been committed or that a particular person has committed a …
It’s Tecmo Bowl, but on your Xbox 360. And without the NFL-licensed players and teams. But with a 3D-style look and feel! You can go old-school and play in 2D mode, too. It’s actually the SNES version of Super Tecmo Bowl, redone for the present day and with some extras thrown in here and there.
The big addition here, aside from new
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There was some scuttlebutt—not quite a brouhaha—this weekend when Stephen Hawking said the following during his new Into the Universe series on the Discovery Channel:
“If aliens visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”
The theory …
