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Those dudes at Apple sure love to patent things. For every patent they file that actually makes its way into a device that's sold to consumers, there have got to be 30 others that just sit there...

The last few months of iPod rumors have all come down to this, a final push before the supposed launch next week. What's going to be new? A two-inch square flash-based iPod that may be called the...

Intel and GPS chipmaker SiRF to team up for GPS and processor integration coolness [Press Release]

Sure, the Segway turned out to be a gigantic joke of a failure, but that doesn't mean the technology from the dork transporter is useless. Some clever high school kids from Canada have designed a...

Apparently Microsoft has started adding extra GPU cooling to new, retail Xbox 360 elites in order to stave off overheating problems (and the three red lights) the units may be having. These added...

LEDs are spreading all over the home, and now these Lumen LED Lights have found their way into every corner of your house, bringing a spot of color here and there and adding a little extra style on...

Sanyo's Rear View Backup Camera System claims to have a new twist on an old idea, "AirCam technology" that gives you a wide angle shot of whatever is behind you rather than some annoying fisheye...

Yesterday on Gizmodo we brought you a pretty esoteric bunch of stuff. From seven-and-a-half-tonne bridges made of cardboard to fake iPhones, Samsung cameras, Harry Rotter T-shirts and how to frack...

The Body Energizer Vibrating Exercise Machine claims to improve your muscle strength and bone density, using some magic high-frequency vibration. Doesn't this remind you of those worthless...

This strange sleeping bag can do two distinct things. First, it can provide a bunch of nice therapies to your body, such as a steam sauna, water jets and oxygen misting. Second, it can easily detect...

What do you get when you mix the nightmare-inducing early-'90s robotics of Chuck E Cheese's with Bubba Sparxxx? Slightly less nightmare-inducing robots. That may be because I'm older now and less...

This week at TreeHugger: Once there was a little paper company in Finland called Nokia. They started making plastic boots, and that didn't work out too well, and then decided to give mobile phones a...

Men, we have been defeated. After years of struggle, battling for a simpler life with less purses to trip over, women have struck at our weakest point—our insatiable desire for gals holding...

The only way we could enjoy the self-explanatory Titanic Lamp more is alongside Celine Dion's severed hand reaching from the depths of our coffee table, grasping at air, and sinking to the cold world...

iTunes Store sales hit 3 billion songs. Can we get a counter with spinning numbers in the top right-hand corner? [Apple]

Rumors of an impending AT&T/eMusic tag team for an over-the-air music store were true: The eMusic Mobile store will be stocked with 2.7 million songs in delicious DRM-free MP3. Better yet, not only...

If you didn't get enough with the Typhoon closing on the Hercules, check this Sukhoi SU-27UB whizzing by just 4 feet above the runway. However, this isn't the most impressive thing flying at the...

Do you watch boatloads of CSI to get your fill of dramatic interrogations? How would you like to experience the show...but for real? Because the Suicide Bomb Box is not just a fun conversation piece...

This EzKEY combo mouse and keypad might be just what you're looking for if you're on the road, suddenly need to add a long list of numbers, and your laptop doesn't have a keypad. Just flip up the top...

Despite the Cell processor being a joint venture of Sony, Toshiba and IBM, Sony is taking the fall in a lawsuit by Parallel Processing Corporation. PPC filed a patent back in 1991 for "synchronised...

No need to curse the darkness with this Nightlighter, which not only lights your path ahead but shines a couple of really bright LEDs toward the ground, assuring you that you won't trip over that...

The DeLorean, the car from Back to the Future with the gull wing doors and gleaming stainless steel finish, has come back to the future, going into extremely limited production thanks to a group of...

Foraging for mushrooms can be fun, but getting poisoned by the wrong species always ruins a nice afternoon. Researchers at the Hagenberg College in Austria have developed software that can identify...

Surgeons in Argentina were able to complete an operation using the light from cellphone screens after a city-wide blackout. The hospital's generator failed to kick in and they continued to work in...

Niles, remote maker to the stars and NBA basketball players, has finally decided to upgrade its venerable easy-to-use Intellicontrol remote control to the IC2, an even simpler version with larger...

If you're important enough to have one, that is. This is a small jamming device that you plug into the cigarette lighter of your car and it blocks any GPS tracking devices that might be trained on...

Brando is firing on all cylinders today with this eggy USB label printer from Casio. I didn't think it got any better than the iPhone battery but a girl can make mistakes. Features and price are...

What has 28 wheels, is 20m long, weighs 130 tonnes and has as much power as two Formula One cars? This truck does, and it's been built to haul 115-tonne telescope parts 5,000m up the Chilean Andes....

Cult cartoon Futurama is coming back later this year as a full-length film. The movie, Bender's Big Score, will be available to buy on November 27 as a high-definition DVD, and will be followed by...

If you're a Linux fan, then your options just got bigger. It seems like Acer are following in Dell's footsteps, and starting to offer Ubuntu preloaded on some machines. [Hardware Zone]

Slightly sad people who humanize their pets will be hyperventilating at the O2 Dog from AirPress. An oxygen chamber that is identical, apparently, to the ones used in beauty treatments for humans,...

Brando may not be the first (that's these guys from iPodjuice), but they are the cheapest—offering a replacement iPhone battery for just $20. So, can someone tell this guy Trujillo, he of the...

Appian, the company behind much of Britain's surveillance madness, has released a new camera that will no doubt be top of the shopping lists of Big Brothers throughout the world. The Stinger is able...

A $7.99 gizmo that lets you use the Nike+iPod Sports Kit without having to buy swooshed trainers has gone on sale. The Shoe Pouch is a waterproof bag made of neoprene that you place the sensor inside...

Tornadoes, typically found ripping homes to shreds, could be man-made to 20-Km high, and harnessed by turbines for 200-Megawatts. It sounds like a promising b-movie, at least. [The Star]

No predictive text, but plenty of popup letter action, plus sliding. In landscape mode, the letters here seem to have a bit more breathing room between letters, esp on the 4-inch screen. [JKOntheRun]

Chinavasion's new video player is ugly, yellow and not very user friendly, but if you need to be able to watch videos underwater it looks like your only option. You can dive as far as 3-meters...

TwinMOS's BooM1 speaker dock is a solution for those who want a big sound that takes up little space. Powered by two 8-watt speakers and a 25-watt subwoofer that offer a little more power than...

This weekend, Spaniard Alberto Contador won the Tour De France mounted on a 2008 carbon-fiber Trek Madone bicycle. What is shocking is that the 2008 high end 6.9 pro frame wasn't used in this race,...

This is an iPhone Cake. For the Steve that is Fake. Did it take a long time to Make? I dunno, I'm not very good in the kitchen. [PhotoBucket via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs]

newVideoPlayer("jealouslaptops_gawker.flv", 475, 376);What better way to portray your so-called laptop-replacing smartphone than to make fake videos and images detailing how laptops are attacking...