September 15th 2008
The year is 3022. Persons of rank wear amazing lightning-bolt gloves that can fend off smallish missiles, and billowy white powdered wigs are finally back in style. The Space Olympics are being held…
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Tags: Games, Gloves, Humor, Lightning Bolt, Missiles, Olympics, Powdered Wigs
September 12th 2008
Tech and the Olympics are a recipe for controversy. Before double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius (right) was finally approved to compete in the Olympics (he failed to qualify, barely), naysayers…
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Tags: Controversy, Double Amputee, Games, Naysayers, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Paralympics, Sports Olympics
September 5th 2008
How many people downloaded Microsoft’s Silverlight just to watch the Olympics on NBC’s site? Or better yet, how many people already had the program installed on their machines? Seriously, I’d like to see a show of hands, or at least comments. I know it wasn’t too many because NBC isn’t even going to keep using [...]
August 26th 2008
I received a downright insane number of entries for this week’s Photoshop Contest. Apparently, you folks really had an itching to bastardize the precious Olympic Games. Nearly every event got its…
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Tags: Insane Number, Olympic Games, Olympics, Photoshop, Using Technology
August 25th 2008
This week, we’re having a bonus MS Paint contest. That’s right, two contests in one week! Get excited! If you don’t feel confident enough in your Photoshop skills to enter our Olympics-ruining…
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Tags: Bonus Ms, Contests, Gadgets, Ms Paint, Olympics, Paint Contest, Photoshop Skills, Ultimate Paint
August 25th 2008
OK, the Olympics are over. Time to get back into the Gizmodo fold and see what you missed this weekend during the closing ceremonies. Don’t worry, there are a few Beijing posts mixed in for nostalgia…
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Tags: Beijing, Nostalgia, Olympics, Weekend Roundup
August 24th 2008
It’s no small secret that Lego holds a spot near and dear to many an editor here at Gizmodo, and if you somehow managed to combine those little blocks with Star Wars and the 2008 Summer Olympics…
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, 2008 Summer Olympics, Gizmodo, Lego Games, Olympic Games, Olympic Summer Games, Olympics, Star Wars, Star [...]
August 24th 2008
Track and Field athletes will probably roll their eyes at me for this one, but still I have to say I was amazed to see this little four-wheeled RC car scurrying across the field last night during the…
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Tags: 2008 Beijing, 2008 Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Field Athletes, Olympics, Olympics Track, Rc Car, Rc Cars, Summer [...]
August 24th 2008
Just a friendly reminder that entries for the “Ruin the Olympics with Unnecessary Tech” Photoshop Contest are due by Tuesday morning. If you’ve got an idea but haven’t started on your image yet, get…
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Tags: Contest Entries, Friendly Reminder, Olympics, Photoshop, Ruin, Tuesday Morning
August 22nd 2008
digg_skin = ‘compact’; digg_bgcolor = ‘#f1f8fa’; digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/olympics/10_Gadgets_That_Help_You_Play_Like_an_Olympian’;
It has been quite an Olympics hasn’t it? From the spectacular…
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Tags: Digg, Gadgets, Olympics
August 22nd 2008
Full-screen this beautiful high-res panorama cooked up by the New York Times’s top-notch interactive graphics folks and find out. [NY Times via Kottke]
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Tags: Beautiful, Dive Platform, High Dive, High Res, Interactive Graphics, Kottke, New York Times, Ny Times, Olympics, Panorama, Top Notch
August 21st 2008
The Olympics end this weekend. Have you been watching? Personally, I had trouble getting into them. Maybe it’s because there was a general lack of tech in most of the events (except for those…
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Tags: Olympics, Photoshop
August 20th 2008
On the streets of Beijing, the hottest game isn’t an Olympic sport: it’s trading pins. Ted Arthur, writing at Beijing Experience 2008, says this Samsung pin is one of the most popular.
Some people will physically try and take your pin from your lanyard! It’s so fun to try and trade with people…you start [...]
August 19th 2008
What would you do if you had access to 300,000 Lego bricks and 4,500 Lego mini-figs (figures)?
If you are the Hong Kong Lego User Group, you build an amazing replica of landmark Beijing Olympics structures like the Birds Nest Stadium, Water Cube Aquatics Center, the Beach Volleyball Stadium, and more. I was tempted to [...]
August 18th 2008
We expected it for quite a while and word comes today that Lenovo has released its Olympic-themed MID, the IdeaPad U8, at the Olympics in China. We saw the U8 at the CES back in January and as expected it’s packing an Atom processor (like everything else) and has connectivity options out the wazoo. No [...]
August 18th 2008
We expected it for quite a while and word comes today that Lenovo has released its Olympic-themed MID, the IdeaPad U8, at the Olympics in China. We saw the U8 at the CES back in January and as expected it’s packing an Atom processor (like everything else) and has connectivity options out the wazoo. No [...]
August 18th 2008
This Olympics Village model made by an expert card-stacker makes the Lego Olympics look just naff in comparison. I mean, that model’s just a lot of plastic parts snapped together: This guy had to…
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Tags: Lego, Olympic Village, Olympics, Playing Cards, Stacker, Village Model
August 18th 2008
Way back in April was when we first showed you details on Lenovo’s Ideapad U8 mobile internet device, and Lenovo’s just launched it at the Beijing Olympics. The palmtop phone/PC has an Intel Atom…
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Tags: Atom, Beijing Olympics, Intel, Internet Device, Lenovo, Mobile Internet, Olympics, Palmtop, U8
August 16th 2008
One of the benefits of living on the East Coast, besides the fact that it’s simply better, is that we rarely suffer the pain of tape delays. So tonight we’ll get to watch Michael Phelps snag his…
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Tags: East Coast, Gold Medal, Gold Records, Live Olympics, Michael Phelps, Olympics, Snag, World Olympics
August 15th 2008
Here’s a common scene—but still impressive—at the Beijing Olympics: dozens of photographers firing the most expensive digital photography gear available on the planet at full speed. The sound of all…
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Tags: Beijing Olympics, Digital Photo, Digital Photography, Dozens, Full Speed, Million Dollars, Olympics, Photo Gear, Photographers, Photography Gear, Speed Read, Speed Sound