March 15, 2010 – At Google's panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow.
Breakaway: High-Schooler-Designed Robots Play Gauntlet Soccer
March 15, 2010 – This picture shows entrants in this year's FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Breakaway match. Teams of ambitious high school kids build robots to compete in what's basically the American Gladiator version of soccer. More »
Kotaku Reviews Final Fantasty XIII: Not Perfect, but "Fresh, New, and Highly Enjoyable"
March 14, 2010 – Our game-loving sister site Kotaku reviewed the newest of that king of all RPG series, Final Fantasy, and found it, if not a blockbuster, worthwhile, and "a step in the right direction." Read the whole review here.
The Spiderpodium Gadget Stand Is Unnecessarily Freaking Me Out
March 14, 2010 – The Spiderpodium is pretty self-explanatory: It's a gadget-stand/tripod (well, an octo-pod, technically) shaped like an arthropod. Lacking much to explain, I'm going to tell you the origins of my arachnophobia.
AT&T Confounds Expectations by Not Ruining SXSW
March 14, 2010 – Way to go, AT&T! It was nerve-wracking after last year's troubles, but reports are coming in that the oft-maligned network is holding up to the stress of SXSW better than expected. AT&T pretty much blew it last year.
iPhone-Loving Microsoft Employees Endure Unspeakable Hardship
March 14, 2010 – The WSJ has a discussion today of the phenomenon of the iPhone-using Microsoft employee. Apparently that time Ballmer fake-stomped an iPhone is emblematic of some (barely) real anti-iPhone sentiment in Redmond. Interestingly, it turns out that 10,000 iPhone users accessed Microsoft's employee email... More »
Ridiculously Fast iPhone Typist Shames Soft Keyboard Haters
March 14, 2010 – This iPhone typist/possible woodpecker earns today's Holy Shit YouTube Moment of the Day Award. I'm positive I couldn't beat him on my Droid—hell, he'd put up a good fight against me on my laptop. The app he's using, iTextSpeed, tests WPM (words per minute) typing speed, and given his insane... More »
Total Solar Eclipses, 2001-2025
March 14, 2010 – Want to know where you can get a glimpse of the ultra-rare total solar eclipse? This map shows exactly when and where every eclipse in the next fifteen years will be visible—and why you should move to Memphis. The next North American solar eclipse will hit in August 2017, and be visible close... More »
Happy Pi Day, Math Nerds!
March 14, 2010 – Today's March 14th, which everyone knows is the day high school math club members further cement their alienation by celebrating their love of math, or circles, or whatever.
The iPad’s (Pre-) Opening Day Sales: 120,000
March 14, 2010 – So, the iPad is finally available for pre-order, and it turns out the half of the Giz staff that bought one aren't alone: CNN estimates Apple received about 120,000 iPad pre-orders on that first day alone. That 120,000 number is mostly a guess, but is also probably right: More »
TI’s OMAP4 Chipset Promises Insane Performance and 145 Hours Battery Life
February 2, 2010 – TI's new dual-core OMAP4 mobile chipset, the sequel to the OMAP3 series that powers the Droid and Palm Pre (among others), claims crazy performance: Three independent displays running 1080p video, for example, and an estimated 145-hour battery life for audio. Basically, TI made up a kind of demo... More »
Can You Tell iPod Criticism (Circa 2001) From iPad Criticism (Circa 2010)?
February 2, 2010 – Pop quiz time! Both the iPod and iPad elicited lots of grumbling from the nerd contingency (including our own resident grumbler Adam Frucci). Can you tell which critique refers to which product? A lot of them are pretty easy, although I definitely tripped up over a few of the more vague anti-Apple... More »
In Which the Fujifilm XP10 Toughcam Mocks My Sedentary Lifestyle and I Tell It What’s What
February 2, 2010 – Mountain climbing. Cliff jumping. Cross-country skiing. Those are the kinds of activities the XP10 would be great at capturing. But I stay in my pajamas until 4:00 PM and do not appreciate the XP10's implicit condescension. Who do you think you are, XP10? More »
Fujifilm’s Point-and-Shoots Dip Below $100, Into Impulse-Item Territory
February 2, 2010 – So Fujifilm unloaded about seven hundred and forty-two cameras tonight, and the point-and-shoots are pretty universally stacked for the price. Case in point: More »
Fujifilm HS10 Not-a-DSLR Packs Manual Optical 30x Zoom, 1080p Video
February 2, 2010 – Fuji just announced a quartet of megazoom (read: fixed lens) cameras in a Monday blitz, with the most impressive being this HS10. It won't give the level of control of a DSLR, but it looks to blow away any point-and-shoot. The 10MP HS10, pictured, is an interesting beast: More »
Unconfirmed: New Canon Rebel DSLR Coming Next Week, Bringing Better Video
February 1, 2010 – CanonRumors hears that the sequel to the T1i, to be named the T2i, will be announced next week, packing a redesigned case, selectable FPS for video and a better LCD. More »
DIY, uh, Three-Pendulum Rotary Harmonograph
February 1, 2010 – If you're like me, you looked at this picture and the name "Three-Pendulum Rotary Harmonograph" and felt confused and a little bit threatened. But fear not! More »
Acer Will Not Release Tablet Competition for the iPad
February 1, 2010 – Acer, in contrast to what we'd heard before, has just said that they'll not be making a tablet to compete with the iPad, instead focusing on ultra-thin laptops.
