The holiday season is never short on random cute crap, but this video somehow manages to go just a little bit over and above the usual overly saccharine fare. The concept of “Singing Christmas Hedgehogs” (above) is pretty simple: Pick an animated hedgehog, pick something for him to wear or do, and then ask him [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/hedgehog-caroling/ Monica Bellucci Monica Keena Monica Potter

The world consumes more than 2 million metric tons of Salmon annually—both farmed and wild. That’s a lot of lox. And to get that much fish to market in a timely manner, one can’t gut them by hand. That’s why there’s the Gutmaster8000. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/eKW5JAPREw8/how-to-disembowel-30-salmon-in-under-a-minute Tami Donaldson Tamie Sheffield Tara Conner

A good mobile application is a fine balance between simplicity and functionality. You’re using it on the go, so you don’t have a lot of time to sit there and fumble with the phone to figure it all out. But you also need it to be powerful enough to let you do whatever it is you’re trying to get done. Hello Expense is one mobile app that gets it right. It’s an expense tracker that [...]

When we reviewed Qello previously it was for the tablet and smartphone version but they've now moved onto the next obvious step for their content within the Google ecosystem. Through the newly released Qello for GoogleTV app, Qello will be bringing music fans everywhere plenty of HD content to rent all from the comfort of their living room. Whether you're looking to rock out to some Jimi Hendrix or just enjoy a documentary on the [...]

Even to call Android ?fragmented? assumes that it was or ought to be unified and singular from the beginning. It makes more sense to start talking about ?Android-compatible? devices, rather than Android. Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/12/only-android-compatible/ Raquel Alessi Rebecca Mader Rebecca Romijn

We’ve been looking at some pretty cool Kinect and Windows interactions for a while now, but we were hoping that the release of an official SDK would lead to even more coolness. Evoluce has stepped up, and is now offering Win&I — a full-featured gesture control system for Windows 7. The company claims that a range of up to four meters is supported, which should be perfect for just about any home theater setting. In [...]

Grandaddy’s magnificent album from the year 2000, The Sophtware Slump, features a recurring character, a humanoid robot called Jed. After his creators tire of him, Jed gets drunk, and his system crashes. But first, he writes some poems. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/viz-Wpq3JRA/the-best-songs-ever-written-about-a-robot-friend Thalía Thandie Newton The Avatars of Second Life

GNOME 3, after more than two years of development, has been released into the wild. GNOME 3 is not merely the logical successor of GNOME 2: it is an entirely new project, started from scratch, to create a “completely new, modern desktop designed for today’s users and technologies.” The best way to check out GNOME 3′s new features — and it has lots of new features — is to run a live version of openSUSE [...]

This post brought to you by Snapdragon by Qualcomm. All opinions are 100% mine. Have you heard the news?  Since December 18, Qualcomm Stadium, home of the San Diego Chargers, has changed their name to Snapdragon Stadium.  Since 1997, Qualcomm, the San Diego-based wireless chip giant, has had naming rights to the Charger’s stadium.  This [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/12/27/introducing-snapdragon-stadium-the-new-temporary-name-for-the-home-of-the-san-diego-chargers/ Scarlett Johansson Selita Ebanks Shakara Ledard

Space-shooters are usually a fairly fiery affair, with many types of guns, weapon upgrades, power-ups and more. Dodge does away with all of that, while keeping the very essence of a space shooter: Dark background, fast action, and stuff blowing up all over the place. Your vector-looking spacecraft is the fastest thing on the screen, most of the time. And as the header implies, you have absolutely no weapons; you can’t get any, either. All [...]