Hasta La Gadget!

Sling.com has been in closed beta for some time, but now the Huluesque service is open to the public. The site includes 60 other content partners including networks like FOX and CBS and studios like MGM and Sony. And while you wouldn’t expect to see any NBC content on there, you can actually watch shows like 30 Rock that are badged with a Hulu logo. My first reaction is that Sling’s quality leaves something to be desired, but I certainly can’t complain about the price. [Sling via AlleyInsider]

An awkward cross-breed time-travelling mongrel is a fairly fitting description for this mod that’s jammed an Atari 2600 emulator into the shell of a Sega Game Gear. Sure, it’s not the prettiest of mods, but taking the ’80s-era Atari and squishing it into the ’90s-era Sega took some tricky work: it has a built-in 40-game Atari chip, and can actually take 2600 carts into a slot on the back. The resulting “Atari Game 2600” has a 2.5-inch screen and can go for 7-8 hours on AA batteries, which seems pretty impressive. [Ben Heck via Technabob]

Yesterday, Joel at BoingBoing Gadgets discovered a very aggressive, um, “fan” of the Motorola Krave trolling their comments for the last couple of weeks. Turns out, he’s a frequent pundit at Giz, CrunchGear and Lifehacker (and everywhere else on the internets) too! Did you know that the Krave matches perfectly with a sports car and an alien mountain shelter? It sucks the power out of the shill to actually say you work for Motorola, though, dude. But I guess that constitutes disclosure? Hit the jump to read all about how awesome mgoode says the Krave is.

No hard feelings though, we’ll totally laser etch your Krave at the Giz Gallery (if you promise to engrave Gizmodo on it too). Oh, BTW, I messed with the Krave at a press event a few weeks ago. It sucks.

Sometimes the simplest hacks are the most useful: If you’ve got a laptop with limited USB ports and you’re in the market for something small and handy to let you charge a device over USB, then this is for you. All it takes is a male-male VGA adapter, a spare USB socket and some accurate soldering: it’s all in the Instructable. Neat. [Instructables]

So, you’ve a lead foot? What of it, right? Honda‘s hoping to make that bad little habit vanish by using the tried and true guilt trip method, or more specifically, the Ecological Drive Assist System. For starters, the technology’s ECON Mode works with the CVT and engine to “support more fuel-efficient driving.” The real kicker, however, is the color-based “guidance function” — drive like a granny, your speedo lights up green, drive a little wilder, and things get a bit blue, and if you toss fuel economy to the wind and let ‘er rip, expect a full-on blue screen and the voice of God to come thundering through your sound system instructing that those horses be held. The EDAS should appear in the automaker’s Insight hybrid as early as Spring 2009, though there’s no word if it’ll be standard equipment on the rumored S3000.

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