![Diamond Light Is Probably Manufactured in Krypton [Lighting]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/1e21062ac4t-2-01.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
The Diamond Light by Hiroki Takada has three of the best things I like in lighting design: Weirdness, disco bling bling, and the possibility of making photons bounce until they create a massive laser capable of vaporizing the planet. The Diamond Light is made of mirrors and a 20 watt LED. [ Takada Design via Mocoloco ] [...more]
![Obama Bans Government Employees From Driving While Texting [Obama]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/ae88f477a1atoys0.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
An executive order from President Obama bans all government employees—including soldiers and postal workers—from texting while driving if they're working, driving one of Uncle Sam's cars or using one of his cellphones. [...more]
![Dell Latitude Z Hands On: Kills Cords Completely With Wireless Charging [Notebooks]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/cabf46fdb2latz8.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Someone at Dell must have tripped over some wires and after cleaning up the bloody gash came up with the $2,000 anti-cord Latitude Z : It has wireless charging and wirelessly connects to displays too. [...more]
![Daniel Johnston’s iPhone Game Is Predictably Bizarre, Bizarrely Fun [IPhone Apps]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/4dfbae7586areyou.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Uber-twee musician, charmingly earnest lyricist, noted bipolar dude and unwitting icon Daniel Johnston has an iPhone app—a game, to be specific. The biggest surprise, aside from the fact that it exists , is that it's actually pretty great [...more]
![LRAD Sound Canon Used on Pittsburgh G20 Protesters [Military Tech]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/35897089eblrad.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
I guess military tech always finds its way home. Pittsburgh city officials believe their police department's use of a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) at last week's G20 protests was "the first time the sound cannon had been used publicly." Police used the device to emit a painful shrill that forced demonstrators to cover their ears and withdraw while police threw tear gas and stun grenades. "Other law enforcement agencies will be watching to see how it was used," Pittsburgh's police bureau chief told the NY Times. [...more]
![Rumor: New Plastic MacBooks Arriving with Refreshed iMacs? [Apple]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/569568e291re-1201.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Since unibody MacBooks went Pro , Apple's only had one polycarbonate model—a $999 13-incher. But Apple Insider now says the rumored "thinner, sleeker" plastic Macbooks have made it to manufacturing, and may arrive with possible new iMacs by mid-October. Last month, an Apple Insider source said the MacBook update would also include a "restructured internal architecture" [...more]
![Tweet Your Face Off With These Reader Selected Twitter Clients [Twitter]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/226ac3e48deus1292.gif&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
You have the Twitter, you say? And you're following all us Gizmodo tweeters religiously? [...more]
![Yet Another Modder Desecrates Fond Nintendo Memory From My Youth [Hard Drives]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/a9c51ddd6f527926.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Like I've said here before , when a modder takes a perfectly perfect piece of Nintendo lore and makes a hard drive out of it, or turns a classic item from gaming history and begets a USB drive, I weep. [...more]
![Today @ Giz Gallery ‘09: Last Call! [Giz Gallery 09]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/bc321311b7astgal.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
It's kind of sad to think about, but after today, Giz Gallery is over. And with our Taser demo at 2p today, we plan to go out with a shock [...more]
![Dirty Bomb Emergency Kit Appeals to the Paranoid in Me [Nukes]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/3a39df98acrad-lg.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
When I was a kid I saw The Day After, which left me having nightmares about nuclear bombs exploding in the horizon, and looting supermarkets for chocolate bars. Maybe that's why I'm itching to buy this dirty bomb emergency kit . [...more]
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