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Walgreens
The Insane Hardware Driving the World's Biggest LED Billboard
In a dusty supply closet at 1 Times Square, a computer terminal hooked up to hordes of ethernet servers, RAID arrays and monitors humbly runs the largest LED sign in the world. The sign, a 3-sided, 17,000-square-foot Goliath, debuted last night at the opening of a Walgreens in New York City. Today, I got to see what makes it tick. More »
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Gizmodo Gallery
At Gizmodo Gallery: Weird Japanese USB Gadgets!
The Gizmodo Gallery lineup isn't just mega gadgets like the Red One Camera and prototypes like the Ancient Apple phone concepts from Frog Design. On a recent trip to Tokyo I raided Thanko HQ for the latest and weirdest USB gadgets I could find, including this USB Tie with a fan in it and a USB heated gloves. I mean, I don't know how anyone gets through winter in NY without USB heated mittens.
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BlackBerry
BlackBerry Storm Lines Not iPhone Lines, But Still Feisty
In spite of its mixed reviews concerning software bugs and the controversial click-screen, the BlackBerry Storm drew a heckuva lot of Crack(Berry)heads to Verizon Wireless stores today demanding to get a piece of that action, including some who got uppity when things didn't work out like Christmas morning. More »9:15 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,787 views, 23 commentsMost discussed wetworker: Man this sucks, we Canadians don't get first dibs on the storm. more »
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Sony Vaio
Lightning Review: Sony Vaio LV All-In-One PC
The Gadget: Sony's Vaio LV All-in-One PC is the followup to the beautiful (and powerful) Vaio LT that came out earlier this year. This time around, they gave the LV an improved mounting base, slimmer bezel, integrated TV tuner and most importantly, HDMI-in. Has the LV one-upped the LT?
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Design
Music Flow Music-As-Water Concept Stretches My Brain
Do you think of your MP3 player as the well from whence music springs forth like so much cool, pure H2O? Neither do I, but that didn't stop some brainy (that is, totally insaney) designers from coming up with a painfully elaborate music-player concept based on just such an analogy. More » -
Humor
Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein's e=mc2 After 103 Years
Believe it or not, but it has taken 103 years and the combined power of various of the world's top supercomputers to prove Eintein's biggest equation right, resolving e=mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles. The feat has been achieved by a team of French, German, and Hungarian physicists led by Laurent Lellouch at the Center for Theoretical Physics in France, and has finally answered a question that has puzzled scientists for decades: The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Atom Mass!
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iPhone Apps
The Week in iPhone Apps: Back to the Grind
Back to the usual review this week, after our 20 Essential Apps list last Friday. Thankfully, it's been a pretty good week in the store, with lots of actually useful apps—including a full-fledged four-track recorder and a couple of utilities that actually add some usable core features that I wish would have made it into the 2.2 software update today. Oh, and of course, something Japanese and crazy. Onward!
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It's better than a cab
PoleRider is Part Rickshaw, Part Strip Club
Why go out to the strip club when the strip club can come to you? That's right, for $300 an hour ($200 each additional), you can rent out a rickshaw in NYC from the entrepreneurs at PoleRider. It is your all-inclusive mobile exotic dancing solution complete with a pole and tacky lights. Ahh...pole dancing. It's everywhere you want to be. Thanks PoleRiders—by the way, do you need any extra rickshaw operators? [PoleRiders (slightly NSFW) via CraziestGadgets] -
Electric Cars
$1 Billion Electric Car Charging Grid Planned For San Francisco
In keeping with its progressive reputation, San Francisco is looking to pave the way for widespread electric vehicle adoption in the US. A Palo-Alto start-up called "Better Place" has received the green light from all three of the Bay Area's big city mayors to begin carrying out an ambitious plan to build a network of 250,000 charging ports, 200 battery-exchange stations and a control center that keeps the system running smoothly. And if that wasn't enough, they hope to have the entire thing up and running by 2012. More »5:40 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,618 views, 43 commentsMost discussed purple-pillows: i dont fully understand how this will work... i buy a discounted car from Better Drive... then buy miles (like more »
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Dealzmodo
Gadgets Deals of the Day
Can you feel it? It's the last Friday before Black Friday. You've got exactly one week to plan out where you're gonna hit—what are you're hoping to grab this year, anyway? Today, we've got a few pretty excellent deals: This Double Guitar bundle from Red Octane comes with Guitar Hero III and World Tour, and one guitar from each, for only $120, way down from $230 originally. My personal favorite, though, is the entire seven season run of Buffy for just $70—DVD, but you can't get it in HD yet anyway, boo. (Firefly though, squee!) This way for more savings:
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5:20 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By matt buchanan
12,189 views, 20 commentsMost discussed b0bcat: The Core2Quad is actually a 2.4GHz Q6600 (not 1.4GHz). But you can underclock it if you want. more »
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Home Entertainment
Furniture Mate Free-Standing Solution to Mounting Your Flat-Panel TV
If you have a flat panel TV, wall mounting is the way to go—but getting things set up is an undeniable pain in the ass. Salamander designs have devised an alternative option for lazy people like myself who want the wall mount look without the work. The Synchro Furniture Mate slides in behind your cabinet, resulting in a fairly elegant simulation of a standard wall-mount. It can hold TVs between 32" and 60" with a maximum weight of 110lbs and it features adjustable height and a manual swivel of 30-degrees. The mount itself runs at $599, but for $299 more you can go the extra lazy route and have the remote-control, motorized kit attached—enabling you to make viewing adjustments from the comfort of your couch.
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How-to
A Complete Guide to Playing Video Files On Your PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii
If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for you in beautiful symbiosis, allowing you to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen, well, this is the guide for you. More »
4:30 PM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By John Mahoney
18,564 views, 61 commentsMost discussed magikal04: I've been using Connect360 for a while now, it works great! more »
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