Belt-Fed Nerf Cannon Available
UNLEASH HELL
Remember the Nerf N-STRIKE Vulcan EBF-25 belt-fed office warfare toy spotted at Toy Fair 2008? It’s available. :D Totally worth it, too.
Tags: gizmodo, nerf, toy, vulcan ebf-25
Office Spaced
A California man used an automated script to sign up for more than 58,000 Google Checkout, Paypal, brokerage and other online accounts that use deposit verification techniques, and got sent $58,000. Think Office Space. It would’ve worked, except:
However, Largent used false names, including cartoon characters, as well as false addresses and social security numbers, which opened him to conviction under laws on mail, bank and wire fraud.
I want the list of cartoon characters used. Seen at Gizmodo.
Tags: gizmodo, stealing money
Live Search Cashback
I read about this at Lifehacker earlier today. The next time you are looking for products online, take a spin over to MS’s Live Search Cashback page and give it a try. It’s a product search similar to Froogle or CNET’s Shopper, with a clean interface. The difference being that all of the particpating merchants have a percentage cashback when you search and make the purchase through this page. There are many popular merchants involved (including Newegg), and you only have to accumulate $5 for them to pay you out (Paypal, Direct Deposit or a mailed check). So far, I haven’t found many warts other than MS’s Live pages not working well in Firefox 3 RC1.
Tags: cashback, cnet, firefox, firefox 3, froogle, lifehacker, live search, microsoft, paypal
LEGO Fireboat
May 20, 2008 Gadgets
My son’s birthday party was this weekend, and he got a supercool LEGO toy from my parents:
It’s a Fireboat that you can actually put in water, complete with a motor! It’s a far cry from the LEGO toys of my youth. He was very good putting it together, too, and he’s so proud of it. :)
Wall-Climbing Robot
Check this out: Researchers at SRI International have come up with a wall-climbing robot - one that uses electro-adhesion to attach to the wall. There is a video at the Popular Mechanics link, which shows a tracked ‘vehicle’ climbing up a normal household wall. Pretty neat technology. Spotted at Gizmodo.
Tags: gizmodo
Firefox 3 - Fastest Web Browser?
May 20, 2008 Gadgets
That’s what Lifehacker asserts, especially in JavaScript performance. Gmail is improved as well. Click the link for full details. I’m running Firefox 3 RC1 right now, and this post in and of itself is part of my testing. So far, so good.
Tags: firefox, firefox 3, lifehacker, web browsers
Apple iPhone Purchase Requires a Credit Card
May 12, 2008 Gadgets
My father-in-law was in the Galleria Mall the other day, and heard that someone there was rather upset in the Apple Store. Seems the store was not willing to accept the customers fat wad of cash to purchase an iPhone. I thought, no way is that true, what store would forego the real US American money in favor of the vagaries of credit? Well, it’s true. You can’t even use gift cards, which sucks (as is pointed at in the linked article) for teens who would ask for gift cards for Christmas/Birthdays/Graduation to help pay for it. You of course have a way to pay for the service contact, but I don’t know why that would mean you can’t use cash for the actual purchase of the device.
Iron Man
Uh, wow! AWESOME MOVIE!!! Great dialogue, great actors, characters that react the way real people would, super-great comic action! I can’t wait to see it again, and then again. And then once more. CHEESEBURGER FIRST!
Tags: comic, comic book, comic book movie, comics, iron man, marvel, movie, movies
Robot Snow Shovel For Places That Don’t Need It
With the incredibly inventive name I-Shovel, to boot. I’ve been expecting something like this, to be honest, but I can’t imagine it will be tough enough to work during a real snowstorm. Spotted at Gizmodo.
Steampunk Toy Modder Interviewed at Gizmodo
Apr 21, 2008 Gadgets
In case you haven’t seen his work before, check out Sillof’s Workshop, where the model maker creates and modifies action figures in fun ways. Want to see Han Solo and Chewie as WWII bomber pilots? Or the Justice League as Victorian-era heroes? You can now. Gizmodo interviewed Sillof to find out what prompted him to start modding toys. Very cool stuff.
Tags: action figures, chewbacca, gizmodo, han solo, modified, sillof, toys
