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#shootingchallenge
20 Terrifyingly Toxic Fast Food Photos
You may be excellent photographers, but some of you have atrocious (OK, delicious) taste in food. Here are winners of this week's Shooting Challenge: Fast Food. More » -
#inbrief
Shooting Challenge: Fast Food Gallery
It's a "No Disrespect" from BBNT in Melbourne. Camera used was a Canon 50D, with a 17-35 f/2.8L lens. Photo was taken at 35mm, f/2.8 @ 1/250s and ISO 100 -Tharaka Pathirage [Gizmodo] -
#watches
Nu Pop Watches Make Being Hip Almost Worth the Inconvenience
Ignore the site's lame hip hop and its general theme of trying too hard, because these nu pop watches by designer Pascal Mouawad and musician Jermaine Dupri are pretty snazzy in their own right. $145. [nupop via Whollysblog via bookofjoe] More » -
#movies
Watch Japan's Far Less Esoteric Avatar Trailer
Were you still a bit confused regarding the story of Avatar? Do you NEED to know every major plot point of a film before walking in to the theater? Fair enough. Check out this new (English) trailer debuting in Japan. [Gizmodo] -
#fashion
What Space Invaders Really Look Like (T-Shirt)
All these years, we pegged the Space Invaders for grotesque aliens. Really, they're men and women just like us, flying spaceships in a war they neither want nor understand. $18. [Threadless via FashionablyGeek] More » -
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#review
Nyko Charge Base IC Review: Wiimote Charging Bliss
Nyko's Charge Base IC is the most elegant solution we've found to charge pesky Wiimotes yet. More » -
#roundups
Man Stuff - The Best of Uncrate
Personal hovercrafts, a CD box that plays its own tunes, and frontier-style turkeys - prepare for the Droid invasion with a look through the week's best from Uncrate. More » -
#movies
Lloyd Dobler Gets a Job
You can put a guy in a trench coat. You can hand him a boombox blasting Peter Gabriel. You can make even break his heart. But you cannot make him Lloyd Dobler, aka the body overtaken by symbiont John Cusack. More » -
#ps3
Netflix Shipping PS3 Instant Streaming Discs
I'm sure I'm not the only one who just received confirmation that their PS3 Netflix disc is on the way for Friday delivery. Can I get a woo-hoo? (Note, if I can't, please disregard said request.) [Gizmodo] -
#cars
Inflatable Seatbelts...Really Ford?
Times are tough for the automotive industry. Consumers have less money, the environment has less tolerance and nothing short of new engineering paradigms can fix any of it. You know, stuff like inflatable rear seatbelts. [Gizmodo] -
#surface
How Superman Might Read the NY Times
The Infractor is probably the least efficient manner in which you could read the morning paper, but it involves Fortress of Solitude-esque prisms and interactive rays of light. Quite simply, the paper has never looked better. Video demo: More » -
#xbox360
New Xbox 360 Warranty Stickers Better Guarantee Chastity?
Apparently, Microsoft is slapping a new style of void-if-removed warranty stickers on Xbox 360s that are sent in for repair. Why? With no facts to back us up, we must call upon our favorite pastime: crazy-eyed speculation. [Gizmodo] -
#storage
The World's Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U] More » -
#cameras
Olympus E-P2: Flashier than the E-P1, But Still No Flash
If there's one wonderful thing about the newly announced Olympus E-P2, it's that it will probably make the E-P1 cheaper. If there are two or more wonderful things...well, read on. More » -
#laptops
Monster Monster Laptop Stand Will &#*@ing Chomp Your Face (Or Just Sit There)
Who would have thought that six acrylic limbs could transform a MacBook into something so evil...so powerful? Luckily the designer hasn't designed the legs as articulating and retractable, or we'd really be screwed. $40. [MonsterMonster via Unplggd via Core77] More » -
#dealzmodo
Walmart Selling $200 Xbox 360 This Weekend with Free $100 Gift Card
The leaks were real. This weekend, Walmart is kicking off pre-Black Friday deals, including a $199 Xbox 360 Arcade that comes with a free $100 gift card, effectively dropping the price to $100. Other deals are just as good: [Gizmodo] -
#imagecache
Words Cannot Explain This Strange Japanese Video Mashup, But They'll Try
In the clip you're about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That's sort of the punchline. Here's how we got there: [Gizmodo] -
#rumor
Verizon to Double Early Termination Fee
Now, you can sign a new contract with Verizon, pick any phone and then ditch the service for $175. But according to a leaked doc, those days are numbered. [Gizmodo] -
#netbooks
Litl Webbook Banks On Cute, Overlooks Practical
How did Asus, Acer and all the other netbook manufacturers miss such an obvious ploy? The word "Litl Webbook" must be the most cutely named gadget since the "Chumby." And it's also an interesting product in its own right. More » -
#weapons
Super Spit Balls
You're still using paper? Pfft, how 20th century of you. We recommend only Spit Balls branded spit balls, tiny polymer beads that grow up to 200X (and grossly sticky) in your mouth. $6. [Scientifics via OhGizmo! via Nerd Approved] [Gizmodo] -
#roundups
EcoModo - The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, the newest species of robo-fish, Google's PowerMeter partners with UK energy monitoring gadgets, the iPhone might be the Kindle killer, wind turbines that flap like bee wings, and more. More » -
#hometheater
A Surround Sound Speaker, Not a Dartboard
The EOps i24R3 Portable isn't just the product of a design student and a 3D modeling program. It's a real, wireless, waterproof, single-speaker surround sound system that was just announced by Hong Kong designer Michael Young. How does it work? More » -
#art
Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn't decorated with multi-story video games, we do not know. [Urban Screen via MAKE] [Gizmodo] -
#nintendo
iPhone 3GS to Be Unofficially Renamed Nintendo iPhone 3GSN64
Zodttd, the developer who brought us GBA4iPhone, has announced plans to release a N64 emulator for the device. But does the 3GS have enough power? Maybe. [Gizmodo] -
#solar
The Fastest Solar Car on the Planet
In the most recent World Solar Challenge, a Japanese team upset the former 4-time Dutch champs to win the 1,864-mile solar car race across Australia with the vehicle you see here. More » -
#usb
Homemade USB Charger Runs Off a 9V
In case you're interested in a cheap, reusable 9V to USB adapter/charger, AnythingButiPod has a neat step-by-step tutorial up that requires little more than soldering. Or you can always just buy a Duracell Instant Charger for not much more. [AnythingButiPod] [Gizmodo] -
#shootingchallenge
Shooting Challenge: Fast Food
Jason Chen's experience with the Windows 7 burger was an inspiration to us all. For this week's Shooting Challenge, I want to see the fast "food" that you eat—be it gorgeous or grotesque. More » -
#speakers
Wall of Sound iPod Dock Stands 3 Feet Tall by 4 Feet Wide
For a stereo, the Wall of Sound isn't massive. But for an iPod dock, it's gargantuan. More » -
#imagecache
iPup
The iPup begs one question: Is this puppy wearing an iPhone, or is this iPhone wearing a puppy? [Cute Overload] [Gizmodo]
