Engadget calls it “skull-shattering fun” and Gizmodo labeled it “ear shrapnel.” It’s available at Paladone.com and Boy’s Stuff, though nobody seems to have yet found a domestic supplier. From the catalog page:
The Sonic Grenade features three different levels of the most noxious sound since the last Westlife album. To launch, pull the pin and throw [...]

Posted October 7, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: annoying, boys stuff, ear shrapnel, engadget, evil, evil joke, funny if it isn't you, gizmodo, grenade, joke, noise, noise grenade, paladone, prank, skull-splitting, sonic alarm, sonic grenade. 3 Comments.

As if bluejacking wasn’t fun enough, now a few folks have now taken it a little further and figured out how to connect to the growing number of Bluetooth handsfree sets all around us.
Gizmodo fed me the link to what they’re calling “The Car Whisperer.”
Nothing against these guys, but it’s not like they did anything [...]

Posted August 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: bluejacking, bluetooth, car whisperer, default passwords, fancy cars, gizmodo, handsfree, poor security. 268 Comments.

Gizmodo reported it a while ago, but a Canadian company called Japanoid is importing these and other tiny Japanese cars. How tiny? At or under 1.5 meters (under 5 feet!) wide with engines 660CC or under. They’re called Kei Jidousha, or Keicars, or just K-cars (though not to be confused with Chrysler’s K-Cars). Japanoid has [...]

Posted July 30, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: canadian law, economy car, economy cars, fuel economy, gizmodo, honda, honda acty, japanese cars, japanoid, k-car, k-cars, kei jidousha, keicars, mini, mitsubishi, mitsubishi minica toppo, nissan, nissan figaro, nissan pao, nissan s-cargo, smart, tiny. 5 Comments.

Gizmodo has two pictures of a young Bill Gates vogueing on a desk with 5.25-inch floppies and a circa-1986 PC monitor. Oh, wait, is that a Mac on his desk behind him?
The pics were reportedly published in Tiger Beat, and Gizmodo is offering a reward for the original issue.
update David Heisler wrote to Gizmodo to [...]

Posted January 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: 1986, bill gates, billg, gizmodo, looking good, microsoft, trying to be cool, trying too hard, windows. One Comment.