Digital Transition Goes Live Tomorrow
The digital transition that has been talked about, delayed, talked about some more, delayed, and talked about some more… is finally happening… tomorrow. Some people don’t even know what this will mean to them, like my Grandma. Basically the analog signal that most older TV’s use (form antennas and the like) will be shut […]
Google Holodeck HD 360-Degree Street View
Google Street View still manages to amaze me… the idea of mapping the world (?) one street at a time with a camera is a huge undertaking. Not to mention it really helps to see an area visually on your computer before hopping in the car to actually go there. I imagine you could even […]
Verizon To Carry The Palm Pre and BlackBerry Storm 2
We are were big fans of Palm products… and are hoping the Palm Pre is the return of Palm as an innovator. Fingers are crossed. However when we saw that the new Palm Pre was coming out with Sprint as the only carrier we thought that was the final straw for the struggling company. Looks […]
Ferris Bueller’s Movie House For Sale
** Update 1/24/11 – the house is back on the market again… for less money. Now you can have the Ferris Bueller house for $1.65 million. (Thanks Robby) ** The house that Ferris Bueller’s best friend, Cameron, lived in is for sale for $2.3 million. The house is located in Highland Park, Illinois. The most […]
Create-A-Chip Kettle Brand Potato Chips
Kettle brand potato chips are arguably some of the best chips out there. Kettle has unique flavors like honey dijon, death valley chipotle, buffalo bleu, cheddar beer, spicy Thai and many more. With their latest “Create-A-Chip Challenge” they are selling the Kettle Chips Create-A-Chip Kit ($15) which allows you to create your own exotic flavor. […]
Bacon + Chocolate = Vosges Chocolates
You may have noticed that the folks at Gadget King are a bit obsessed with bacon. And how can you improve upon the perfection that is bacon? Add chocolate? Not exactly sure if that is a great idea, but will reserve judgment until I sample one of these flying pigs. The folks at Vosges Chocolate […]
Somali Pirates Make Hijacking Videos
I realize that this isn’t exactly a gadget… but it is pretty interesting to me. And, the pirates have some pretty nice guns gadgets. The folks at Danger Room got their hands on video from some arsehole Somali Pirates. The video isn’t from the latest hijacking of US sea Captain Richard Phillips… but it gives […]
How To Clean Stalkdaily.com Virus From Your Twitter Account
StalkDaily.com Created several of those “fun” twitter apps that ask for your user and password then show you information about your friends list. When it got to critical mass it started spamming people via the web interface to twitter. It is also sending e-mails from users who have the same e-mail address as they have […]
Life Saving Life Bag by Snowpulse
A crazy-ass snowboarding buddy of mine sent me this one. This one goes out to all of you extreme snow sports enthusiasts (you know, the ones surfing the gadget sites). Simply called the Life Bag, by Snowpulse, is an avalanche survival system integrated into a backpack . If your extreme death defying antics land you […]
Europe pushes greener gadget power
On April 6th, in a shocking move *rolleyes*, the clearly bored out of its freaking mind the European Commission agreed on more “green”regulations, this time for external power cords and supplies, specifically regulating the amount of energy wasted by “excess heat”. Surprisingly the laws of physics governing heat dissipation and inefficiencies associated with it are […]