The ultraportable Lenovo IdeaPad U260 is set to release November 15th (this Monday) for $895. It's under an inch thin and Lenovo is calling it the first laptop to have a 12.5-inch display with an HD 16:9 screen.
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After waiting years for it to become reality, there is now an honest to god universal pillow remote. Screw a Harmony, I'll take the most comfortable and most impossible to lose remote there is. It's only 30 bucks at Brookstone too.
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This guy, Joshua Ashby, is in prison right now. Why? Because in what the judge called an "irresponsible drunken rage", Joshy posted naked pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook after they broke up.
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This is a mountain bike powered by an AMT miniature gas turbine jet engine. It's exactly the kind of epic daily driver I need to navigate Manhattan traffic. Video, plus how it works, below.
[Jalopnik]
It's Saturday, it's noon; that can mean only one thing: It's time for Gizmodo University! We've got an action-packed lesson today as our intrepid Sparkle Labs host (and proud new papa) Ariel takes a look at switches, sensors, and detectors!
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Somebody was obviously paying attention during arts and crafts time in school because this paper model G-Shock is pretty impressive. It nails all the sporty detail of G-Shocks with colored paper and if it really worked, I'd totally buy one.
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Call it CSI: Abracadabra. A camera that can make invisible substances reappear as if by magic could allow forensics teams to quickly scan a crime scene for blood stains without tampering with valuable evidence.
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Researchers have figured out how to use a specific engraving technique in order to alter the frequency of light a metal—any metal—absorbs or reflects. How? By carving tiny rings, smaller than the wavelengths of light.
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A road printer. That's the only way I can classify this machine, which can build 400 yards of road per day using cobblestone. You just have to keep feeding it bricks, and it will just work. [Thanks Perico!]
It took 5313 pictures of 57 stencils over untold hours of positioning, measuring, adjusting, and shooting to bring this street sign to life. But the only number you should care about are the next four minutes of mind-melting awesomesauce.
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I'm more of a 1st and 21st amendment kind of guy, but those of you who cherish your right to bear arms will tear up at the sight of the Pendleton gun cabinet—LED-lit room for 40 of 'em!
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In this week's super stellar app roundup: beasts, boxed; reminders, reminded; songs, bumped; villages, nurtured into cities; the fiddle, made magical; cross platform messaging, simplified; Muji, in app form, melodies, scribbled, and much more!
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Readers offer their best tips for finding out who's blocking you on Facebook chat, killing processes quickly on Windows, and watching Megavideo in full screen with dual monitors.
[Lifehacker]
The Cuban government is very angry. The reason: This scene from a Call of Duty: Black-Ops mission that requires to kill Fidel Castro. They are claiming some bullshit about it being "perverse." I wonder if the victims of Castro's dictatorship agree. More »
You're probably tired of us constantly suggesting that you become a fan of Gizmodo on Facebook, so today we're doing something different. Today we're suggesting that you show our staff some love.
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Left: Live lobster with its shell on. Right: Same lobster all clean and ready to be cooked after being dropped alive into a machine that blasts water at 40,000 PSI. They call it the Big Mother Shucker.
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Photography is more accessible than it's ever been, thanks to the rise of cheap, amazing cameras. There's never been more potential photographers than this very moment.
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You'll have to wait until Tuesday to buy the mega three-disc Avatar Extended Collector's Edition Blu-ray. But you can watch this exclusive featurette on how Zoe Saldana became eight-feet tall and blue right now. And yes, even horses get motion-captured. More »
The people at Sciency Stuff got a dead Intel processor, tore it apart and made an autopsy using an electronic microscope. They zoomed in 3,160 times. Play the video while you shout "ENHANCE!" in your brain.
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Oh this is fun. Multimedia artist Rune Madsen took the usually-passive act of people watching and made it, well, a lot less passive. Watch how the stream of pedestrian traffic adapts as his buddy rearranges some sidewalk barricades.
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What does Michael Tompert have against Apple? Probably nothing! He's just an artist who happens to have spectacularly destroyed a whole bunch of their products for his new exhibit. Above: a sledgehammered iPhone 4 and a neatly sliced Magic Mouse.
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We end the week on a high note with some amazing deals on Laptops, Games, and Digital Cameras. Free coffee at Burger King is the icing on the cake.
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What? Their removable, discreetly-located lithium-ion polymer battery units are recharging. You want your feet warm while you're snowshoeing, clearing the driveway, or hiking Mt. Everest, right? Well, nothing can get them much warmer than Columbia Bugathermo Boots can.
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Now that iTunes 10.1 is out with iOS 4.2 support, you can start dreaming again about how much better your iPad will be with multitasking and folders—whenever iOS 4.2 lands: [Gizmodo]
A side-by-side comparison of fast food as it's pictured in advertising versus the food you actually purchase is even more of a fail than you'd think.
[Jezebel]
This camera weighs four tons. Its shutter and filter are both nearly five feet tall. And its job is to unlock the secrets of our universe's dark energy. Here's how they built it. More »
Through Monday Nov. 15th, Amazon's offering all AT&T; handsets for a penny (plus that pesky new two-year contract). This is your first chance—unless you're a Microsoft employee—to pick up a Windows Phone 7 device for practically nothing.
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You can show me all the legal documentation you want. You can line up notary publics out the door. But unless I see it in a news feed item or a profile update, it's invalid.
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You learned the unfortunate way chicken nuggets are made. Now feast your eyes on the goopy, meaty glory of mechanical sausage making machines. They come in all shapes and sizes, oozing meat for your eating pleasure.
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According to Techcrunch's sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. This is why it may become your favorite webmail service.
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Landing a well-aimed rubber band—in the coffee, in the hair bun, in the ear—is one of the great pleasures of working in an office. So, how about about 100 of them?
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