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newVideoPlayer("legostir_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Using the power of magnetism, David Ye created a self-stirring mug out of LEGO, some magnets and a mug. We thought it would be some kind of weak...

Grab a 500GB Fantom Titantium II external USB hard drive for $100 after $15 instant savings and $25 rebate. Free shipping! [Buy via DealHack]

Just when we thought the PSP couldn't get any uglier, this user installed fading LED lights onto the D-Pad, the face buttons, the shoulder buttons and even the UMD tray. All this needs is a slutty...

The Third World shorties make me so proud. According to Reuters, "Nigerian schoolchildren who received laptops from a U.S. aid organization have used them to explore pornographic sites on the...

What's going on here, Thanko? I thought we could count on you to make crazy USB Ear Microscopes, Ass Coolers, and Air Purifier Masks? What's this about making an LCD arm mount and a...

Toshiba recalls another 10,000 Sony-made batteries as the exploding battery fever grinds ever closer to an unsatisfying conclusion. [eWeek via Crunchgear]

Stephen Colbert, who's been begging for a free iPhone for months now, finally gets his free iPhone. In his segment on mankind being enslaved by robots and technology, he whips it out and yells at it,...

For the rich and unfamous, the best way to hang with celebrities is to buy them. That's why Hampton Black (original name we're sure) makes life-sized sculptures, by request, of your favorite movie...

That super light 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege ultra-portable (previous version here) has gotten a little upgrade in the form of 3.5G HSDPA connectivity. That's right, you'll soon be able to take this...

Round two of our iPod Dock Bracket continues as three docks battle it out for our eternal love and loyalty...until the next round. It's heavyweights iHome iH52 and XtremeMac Tango duking it out in...

We've been hearing reports of a widespread EDGE outage near Boston and along the East Coast. Have any readers noticed? Still unconfirmed, but we're looking into it. How are your iPhones holding...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the reason CD sales suck is not the fact that there isn't enough crap loaded onto the disc. Enhanced CDs have been around for over a decade; hell, many of...

A UK hospital is pioneering surgery with a robot to treat patients with a fast or irregular heartbeat. St Mary's Hospital in London is using the Sensei robot, a robotic arm that feeds tiny wires...

New York State Senator pushes to pass a bill banning texting on cellphones while driving, something that 66% of 18- to 24-year-olds apparently do now. [GovTech]

These HDR shots of an airplane graveyard are some of the coolest and most beautiful photos we've seen in a long time. I've picked a few of my favorites as an appetizer below, but the set has 30...

We were only slightly ashamed when we were waiting in line for an iPhone, but camping out for the Harry Potter book in a line of 10-year-olds? That's real shame. Good thing our sponsors are right...

Pink is a four-letter word—as is cancer. This October, Casio is bringing out a rose-tinted version of its Exilim EX-Z75 in order to raise awareness for the National Breast Cancer Foundation....

On a panel discussion of tech elites, Sony CEO Howard Stringer called Steve Jobs "greedy" because Jobs wants a marketplace in which "only he makes money." Moderator Anderson Cooper quickly changed...

According to motherboard manufacturers, Intel will debut their first 45nm processors at $999 in Q4 of this year. Initial stats will include 3.33GHz, a 1333MHz front side bus and a 12MB L2 Cache (up...

Microsoft gets a second class action suit on Xbox 360 disc scratching, this time from California. [kotaku]

The smartest way to produce cool-looking electronics is to hire someone who already knows how, someone from frog design, for instance. Disney's electronics team is helmed by two former froggers,...

Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader's identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in...

This shiny black-and-chrome globe will hover above its black stand without any visible help—unless you want to spin it, in which case a gentle hand will help it on its way. Measuring 4 inches...

They showed mock-ups at CES this year, and now Hitachi is claiming that its Blu-ray camcorders will be on sale by the end of the year. The company has developed an 8-cm Blu-ray DVD drive with 7GB...

The ultimate geek tattoo could only be a transferable one. It's painless - although beware when peeling off the paper, as you might trap a couple of hairs which for most geeks can be a painful...

In case you were wondering what Chen wears to guard his own gear when he shoves gadgets down his pants. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]

Giz Japan shares our love of Lego and Neon Genesis Evangelion, so they sent us some shots of this grey Unit 01 built by mumu-san. Like Giz Japan's editors, we'd like to see some purple blocks in the...

Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer "Nightwatch" did the...

The Lacie Bigger Disk Extreme+ is here, with Firewire 400/800 and USB 2.0 interfaces. It comes in RAID/0 config. And in 1TB, 1.5TB, and 2.0TB sizes at $350, $600 and $850, respectively, making the...

I'm not part of the hunt, but I can't stop thinking about who Fake Steve is, even if I don't really want to know. Despite being in love with other gadget sites, and hating fellow-Gawker blog...

Moller International, creators of that stunning red flyingcar prototype seen web-wide, has started production on the M200G, the consumer-ready derivative of the M200X volantor, and is readying the...

galleryPost('LGTrax', 4, 'LG Trax'); Although AT&T hasn't officially launched the LG Trax, the 3G musicphone, sure enough there it was on display tonight at LG's holiday showcase at Christie's...

The problem with many of the more promising [read: cool] GPS systems is that they are released in Europe only, but the LG LN790 takes exception to the trend. Sporting a 4.3" touchscreen and Bluetooth...

Nothing to worry about. DARPA just planning SKYNET. [Danger Room]

Otto Bock Healthcare may sound like a boring medical company, but they have just announced an update to their C-Leg, a microprocessor-controlled hydraulic limb, complete with wireless remote...

The Deal: LG's new Super Multi Blue drives include lightscribe for etching on discs, and HD disc compatibility on both HD DVD and Blu-ray, along with read/write for DVD, CD, and read only for...

Today at Christie's Auction House in Manhattan, LG unveiled a new line of premium LCD TVs, the LBX series. The line will also be referred to as "Opus," with absolutely no intentional reference to the...

Today is the 15th anniversary of the Thinkpad, and the first model was the the IBM 2521, a pen operated tablet that shipped on July 19th 1992. Reg Hardware, who researched this history, says it had a...

Microsoft posted earnings for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year: Up 7%, based on Office products, and a fair PC market.net profit was $3.04 billion, or 31 cents per diluted share, in its fiscal...

$100 million will buy you a ride on the Russian Space Federation's Soyuz TMA Spacecraft in 2008/2009. [SpaceAdventures]