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When you're done riding the coattails of Olympian Michael Phelps take a look at what you missed this weekend here at Gizmodo:
• Leprechauns were drag racing with a 100% functioning miniature V8 Corvette engine.
• How did you watch Micheal Phelps win his record breaking 8th Olympic gold medal?
• Bono loves the sound of his voice too much: He accidentally leaked U2's next album over his home speaker system.
• The Galactic Empire, Death Star and all, was spotted invading San Francisco.
• iPhone 2.1 Beta 4 was revealed, but it lacked the highly anticipated Push Notification feature.

• Is that the Symbiote on Olympic beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh's shoulder?!
• Sorry folks, that alien structure in the Alps is just a medical facility concept. A human medical facility.
• Stephen Colbert is afraid of bears, but Apple's iPhone application kill switch doesn't phase him in the least.
• I still say this Lexus design concept looks like a bug from the cheesy Starship Troopers movie.
• It's ugly as sin, but this $25,000 DIY car kit gets a whopping 225 MPG.

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The Olympics featured some pretty amazing tech this year in Beijing, so it's completely OK that you skipped out on Gizmodo's weekend coverage. Lucky for you, the best is here, waiting for you:
• Speaking of Olympic technology, did you happen to catch the insane opening ceremonies?
• Beat the Medeco M3 lock easily with a credit card.
• Vintage PC advertisements featuring Bill Cosby? Why the hell not?
• Digital Edge Gaming Tables are over-the-top gaming rig tables for the geek who needs more.
• The iPhone Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 is available now. Careful, because Apple knows what's on your iPhone!

• Game over? Not with this completely awesome, never-ending, Donkey Kong Lego creation.
• The roof is on fire! And Google StreetView was there for the whole thing.
• Rear-entry fun with a poochie and a Wiimote? Maybe I shouldn't ask...
• They'll leave old fully-stocked NASA trailers anywhere these days.
• Farmers in China brought the Olympic "bird's nest" stadium to their fields when they built a huge bamboo replica.

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How did Sen. Barack Obama fit all you guys and gals on his plane ride to Afghanistan? I ask because it's the only reason I could think of as to why you missed out on the best weekend gadget news on the Internet. No worries, welcome home. Here's what you missed:
• Normal knives just stab. This one stabs, freezes organs, and then explodes them.
• First, it was a space ship. Then, it was an OPEL commercial.
• Dark Knight was best viewed in IMAX, hands down. Here's why.
• In case you hand't heard yet, iPhone Pwnage Tool 2.0 is now available (Jailbreak and Unlock)
• Readers beware of iPhone App Store scams. The iTunes App Store is the exclusive distributor of official iPhone apps, period.

• The Cyber Alice augmented reality system creates a virtual peep show on your desktop.
• It was only a model, but this Lego space elevator was the bee's knees.
• Like Windows? Love convoluted processes? Then enjoy this iPhone pwnage for Windows machines. Kinda.
• One Star Trek-loving watchmaker made himself a kick ass, hard to break (and read) wristwatch.
• Thwart hit and run drivers with your always on, always watching GPS security system.

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I met three little pigs this weekend. One had made a house of straw, and the second a house of sticks. The last pig, from Cupertino, made his sturdy house out of bricked iPhone 3G's. Here's the rest of what happened here on Gizmodo over the weekend, in a convenient "best of" format:
• DIY laser engraving has never been easier, more accessible, and dangerous to the common man.
• IR sensor plus faucet equals one pampered—and hydrated—kitty.
• Forget comfort; Microsoft's new semi-circle travel mouse is drool-worthy.
• The iPhone 3G: Will it ble—you know what? It did. It blended. There, I ruined the bit.
• Apple's MobileMe OS X update was available for the very first time, again.

• Wozniak REDEEMED! Bad reporting and sour iPhone line sitters tried to tarnish his name, but failed miserably.
• Want to jump to the head of the Apple App store class? Just put a space before your app's name and cash in.
• The real first live shots of the touchscreen Blackberry Thunder were spotted in the wild.
• Those yellowish iPhone 3G screens we told you about were by design, Apple said.
• There was a quick update to Gizmodo's iPhone 3G review as the 3G reception got noticeably better with age.

Don't worry about it too much, I phoned it in this weekend to go see Wall*E too. Twice. Here's the best of Gizmodo's weekend gadget coverage, all in one place:
• If the Iranians are going to attack anything, they're going to need a better clock.
• A self-contained one-person rollercoaster ball is called the BuzzBall? More like barf ball.
• A $30 cardboard bike is a great ride anywhere—except in the rain.
• There's gender confused and there's OS confused. This MSI Wind running Mac OS X is the latter.
• Motorola discovered vowels with the new Blaze touchscreen handset, but is it too little, too late?

• Hands up! This guy's packing Lego heat!
• Addy profiled the fairer Gates, Melinda, with a Sunday send off that recognized who's the real force in that relationship.
• The Canadians got screwed on iPhone pricing, so they retaliated—with an angrily worded letter.
• You mean you can't really curve a bullet? Wanted's special effects secrets, revealed!
• Go into a fight with these DIY Iron Man repulsor gloves and you'll just get your ass kicked.

Thanks for convincing the Saudis to up oil production. Really, the SUVs of the world thank you, but it meant missing the greatest weekend gadget news ever written. Bad oil tycoon. Read this:
• Gizmodo's own Mark Wilson got caught up in a dangerous tornado, but it was no match for the power of YouTube.
• Comcast may be bad, but their 10 million pixel super screen looks real good.
• The 750,000-brick Lego Kennedy Space Center replica should be a new wonder of the world.
• Russians in the city of Zheleznovodsk are just a regular bunch of folks that love enemas.
• Record broken: Students in Latvia put Mentos in Coke, stepped back, and made history.

• Battle of the Geek Sex Gods: Big Bill Gates versus His Steveness.
• A major Time.com iPhone f-up turned into another popular Gizmodo caption contest.
• The cuddly robot of the future, Wall-E, went retro with some sweet 1950s propaganda posters.
• Think your IT department is snooping on you? You're not alone, so answer our Question of the Day.
• Internet dating cake tastes just like the real thing—desperate! (kidding!!!)

So you were the UFO dogging the space shuttle this weekend? Sounds tiring, but you're back now, so enjoy the best of Gizmodo's weekend coverage.
• Kindly Google Tools now tells you if your ISP is throttling the connection.
• An incredible Astro Boy mural wowed Japan using 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets.
• The MacBook Air can cut cake, but Intel said the chipset inside is anything but cutting edge.
• Pretty simple: No tethering for the 3G iPhone.
• Paper towel tubes are bush league; sack up with a manly DIY lightsaber or face the wrath of Padawan bullies.

• Addy, the infamous ULA (that's Ultra Late Adopter, newb), debated herself about an iPhone purchase.
• NASA embraced the new hotness with Solar Probe+, which it will launch into the sun in 2015.
• Stop whining, mobile phone users: AT&T lawyer tells us that early termination fees are good for consumers.
• There are no SMART cars to be had in this Japanese vending machine. Just marketing materials. And lies.
• The Bloom bike attachment blows. Oh, it disperses seeds with soap and bubbles, too.

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You and Indiana Jones were grillin' dogs and battling another George Lucas catastrophe, you say? That's why you missed Gizmodo's weekend gadget news? Don't worry. Here's a round up of our unmatched weekend coverage.
• There was a freighter stocked with unnamed Apple products spotted off U.S. shores. Probably just new turtlenecks.
• A Japanese scientist, with many witnesses, produced a cold fusion reaction.
• New Photoshop, thy new power is super speed.
• A French skydiver either broke a bunch of records or every bone in his body.
• The world's first solar-powered speedboat can hit 30 knots.

• Custom GPS + Briefcase + DHS marketing = Biggest Picture In The World.
• NASA's 422-million mile journey to Mars ended with a TOUCHDOWN!
• Hop-On's latest "disposable" cell phone is convenient, but it's missing something...
• They made Slime a sex toy? It's like they went back in time and punched my childhood in the face.
• iPhone cases with nothing to lose fought to the death. But who won?

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Here's the best weekend gadget news you missed because you were working security at the Western White House for the Jenna Bush wedding.
• The iPhones are missing! The iPhones are missing!
• Lextech software can turn your iPhone into a portable surveillance camera control console.
• Forget all that iPhone news, because there's a bulb in Livermore, California that's burned bright for 107 years.
• Justin Timberlake flip-flopped and threw his weight behind a techy new MTV reality show called The Phone.
• Choo! Choo! Conductors of the future rejoice, because there's a new HD simulator rig in town.

• A fleet-fingered, record-breaking Israeli hairdresser cut hair—not ears—using 10 scissors at once.
• If MacGruber's son isn't gay, then what was that in his backpack?
• We learned how to love LEGO blocks and the men who love building with them.
• The Zeppelin returned, albeit in a slightly less flammable variety.
• Doctors in San Diego removed a man's appendix by going through his stomach and sucking it out his mouth.

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Here's a list of the best weekend gadget news you missed because you were obviously doing something more noble, like helping out with the Zimbabwe election recount.
• That "leaked" glossy black 3G iPhone? It's just a third party case.
• Dell confirmed its undying love for Windows XP, and will sell it beyond June 30.
• Single mom Tanya Anderson took a page from the RIAA playbook and sued the RIAA.
• EMPORT tried to make periods more fun with software but failed miserably. Pass the Midol, please.
• College Humor's Apple i parody was BOOM worthy comedy.

• RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis was hunting iPhones in an interview that featured more thoughts on a touchscreen Blackberry.
• Addy had a hangover and was looking for a cure.
• NASA released some rather dirty photos of the Mars Spirit Rover.
• Fish got in on that whole glass ceiling at the office thing with the Azoo Eco-Desk Aquarium.
• Eric could be compensating for something with his humongous iPhone.

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