Black Friday Giveaways (part 12): Sony PSP

Filed under: Gaming Ok everybody, here goes round twelve. This time we've got a Sony PSP (original flavor). Ready? Here's the deal. Some big ticket gadgets we'll leave open through the weekend, but the rest we'll put and you can only enter it until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). ...

Chrysler's Jeep Renegade concept is pure Halo

Filed under: Transportation Let's face it, car designers need to look deeper for next-generation designs these days. In a more carefree time, you could put two nasty, rectangular hunks of metal on top of one another, stick on a few over-sized tires, mount a faux-wood steering wheel to the dash, and ...

Carve Your Thanksgiving Turkey Like a Butcher [Cooking]

If the crown of family turkey-carver is weighing heavy on your head this Thanksgiving, the New York Times gets advice on how to carve the perfect turkey from New York butcher Ray Venezia. His trick: Take it off the table.Instead of slicing the meat from the roast at the table, Mr. Venezia's carving ...

Post Multiple Photo Batches with Flickr Uploader 3.0 beta [Featured Early Adopter Download]

Windows/Mac: If you're a heavy Flickr user or just have a huge batch of photos to post up, the latest beta version of the photo sharing site's official upload software might do the trick. The 3.0 beta has a revamped interface and title/tag/description editing, but the unique features are the photo ...

Cat Spa Might Actually Be Used By Cats

I want to mock anything called the "Cat Spa," but looking at this unit, which includes all sorts of little nubs for rubbing and a tooth-cleaning rubber chew with can be filled with catnip, it's hard not to think that cats would totally love this thing. Or they'd be absolutely terrified by it, giving ...

Geometry Wars Galaxies Co-op Rulez [Clips]

I had the chance to try out Geometry Wars: Galaxies co-op way back at E3 and, as I wrote then, the experience was great. It's the sort of "you lean up against me and I'll lean against you and that way neither of us sleeps with our head in the mud" gameplay that I love. On a side note, isn't it ...

Today's rudest video: Altair is kind of a jerk

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, Action, Adventure, Video Okay, seriously, what is this guy's problem? Nobody's bothering him. Nobody's even touching him. Yet for some reason the "hero" of Assassin's Creed just thinks he can push other people around. Luckily for Altair, it's always ...

Magazine Holding Wastebasket For The Can

Designer Stephen Hauser aka Snowtone has created the Snowtone Wastebasket. It's a trashcan for the bathroom that holds a magazine on top, so you can read hands-free. It was designed because resting a magazine on your lap makes your penis disappear. Sure it's just on the other side of a magazine, ...

The Cutest Portal Papercraft [Portal]

When will the internets love affair with Portal end? Who knows. From where we're sitting we could be getting emails about pumpkins, plushies and God knows what else until the very end of time. Today's contribution is this adorable papercraft from the adorably-named Tubbypaws. Thankfully, it does not ...

Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters [Lifehacker Top 10]

So many video file formats, so many handheld video players, so many online video sites, and so little time. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that's on your DVR, iPod, PSP or desktop—you need the right utility to convert 'em into the format that works for you. Commercial ...

Lex LED Illuminates Your Bike Wheels With Custom Messages [Led]

If you are one of those people who gets off on riding their bike to work while everyone else sits in traffic, you will love this Lex LED attachment. Why? Because, if you have Windows XP, 2000, or Vista you can type in a personalized message in English, Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji using the included ...

Zune 2: Zune 2 Will Supposedly Support Wi-Fi Text Messaging

Web Publishing: Build Your Own Mashups with Microsoft's Popfly

Web application Popfly takes a building block approach to mashup creation, allowing regular folks like us to connect services like Flickr, Twitter, and maps to your heart's content and your creativity's limit. It's all available through a drag and drop interface somewhere along the lines of Yahoo Pipes. ...

Office Pranks: Change the Default Message on HP Printers

Flummox your co-workers with an "Insert Coin" message on the office printer using the HP Printer Job Language (HPPJL) command set. The Hackszine blog describes how to customize the Ready prompt on HP printers' LED display with a few simple commands: I haven't been able to test yet (no HP printer here), ...

B&H Settles Discrimination Suit For $4.3 Million

B&H Photo-Video, the huge photo and video store on 9th Avenue and 34th Street, will pay $4.3 million to settle an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint. The EEOC contended that B&H paid Hispanic employees in its warehouses less than other workers, many of whom are religious Jews; this is ...

Phone Fingers fight smudges, protect against STDs*

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets If you're tired of your smudged and dirty iPhone screen - and seriously, who isn't? -- and you just can't be bothered to clean it anymore -- and seriously, who has time? -- Phone Fingers are guaranteed to get you laughed at help. Phone Fingers are made from the finest black ...

Online Documents: Microsoft releases three screenshots and ...

Microsoft releases three screenshots and more details about their upcoming Office Live Workspace product, which will include calendar tools as well as file storage and sharing.

Google Maps: Google Maps Goes Social with Profiles

Google Maps makes custom mapping and user-submitted reviews more friendly, and useful, with the addition of user profiles. Users can click through a review to find out what else that reviewer liked, and customized maps and routes can be shared with other users. Group road trip planning could get a whole ...

Screenshot Tour: Is Mint Ready for Your Money?

After just four weeks of their public beta, financial management web site Mint is already boasting over 50,000 members and managing over $2 billion of their money, and early next week Mint is launching several new features intended to improve its already impressive all-in-one money management tool. There's ...

Rumor Confirmed: Okami Wii Confirmed

Luke Plunkett can finally rest easy as the game that brought us the most horrific fursuit of all time has been confirmed as coming to the Nintendo Wii in 2008. Capcom has made an official announcement at their event in London, as reported by the folks at Eurogamer. This gives me a chance to finally finish ...