NEW YORK, 2:07 PM, SAT JUL 26 | 31 POSTS IN THE LAST 24 HOURS | tips@gizmodo.com | RSS
UK | FR | NL | IT | DE | ES | JP | AU
Posts Tagged “

S60

”
HAS_PROPERTIES

10 Hilarious Ways To Kill Summertime Pests With Gadgets

Nothing puts a damper on summertime activities quite like an infestation of pests. The warm weather brings out all kinds of creepy-crawlies, and getting the upper hand on them is no easy task. There are plenty of traditional methods of handling the situation, but they all lack one key element—fun. Indeed, a twisted type of pleasure can be derived from exterminating these pests if you have the right tools. So arm yourself with the following gadgets and enjoy some sick summertime fun. More »

Feature

4:00 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
13,208 views, 58 comments

Latest by Geeum: I just turn an air duster can upside down and give em a shot of r134a. Kills, bugs, DEAD. more »

HAS_PROPERTIES

The $2000 DanBall Relieves Stress, Keeps Typing Fingers Limbered Up

I'll be the first to admit that having someone massage your hands is relaxing, especially after a long day of typing away on a computer. If you agree, a finger massage from this DanBall device may be just the thing to help melt away your stress. According to the manufacturer, it can give you up to 50 one minute shiatsu finger massages on a single charge, help grow your fingernails with infrared rays and keep you relaxed with a soothing melody and LED light show. Sounds like a great way to keep the typing fingers limbered up or keep you on your bowling game, but for $2000 I'm pretty sure that I can find some better ways to unwind. [Japan Trend Shop via OhGizmo via Ubergizmo]

2:20 PM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Sean Fallon
2,316 views, 16 comments

Latest by Ariel_Wollinger: SNAKE OIL... more »

HAS_PROPERTIES

Moore's Law Revitalized by 12-Nanometer Chip-Fabbing Invention

A year ago we reported on Intel's nifty technique for 22nm chip fabrication, which may extend the life of Moore's Law. Now MIT is reporting a new technique for optical lithography which should make 12nm chip manufacture possible, making for smaller, denser future chip tech. More »

8:40 AM on Fri Jul 25 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,391 views, 13 comments

samsung

Samsung's i8510 Boasts Almost Everything, Plus An 8 Megapixel Camera

Samsung has a new slider on the market in Europe and we're hoping it finds its way over here. The i8510 is a S60-powered GSM phone with very fast 3G speeds and Wi-Fi, as well as GPS. What makes this high-end phone lust-worthy, though, is the 8 Megapixel multifunction camera with Xenon flash that can record video at up to 120 frames per second. It also has image stabilization and face recognition as well as other features. Couple that with Bluetooth 2 and 16GB of internal flash storage and you've got a serious, slim phone for T-Mobile users. And it looks really nice, too. [Symbian Guru]

10:00 PM on Wed Jul 23 2008
By Matt Hickey
7,873 views, 36 comments

Latest by n/a: @bobx3: The vast majority of people in the US have subsidized phones...and most mobile users in the US aren't high end phone owners... People in Asia and Europe, no matter how poor you are are just more phone savvy than we more »

leds

Osram Pushes White LEDS to World-Record Brightness, Super Efficiency

It's an interesting week in the world of LEDs: on the weekend we heard about ultra-cheap ones, and today Osram (yes, the lightbulb people) has news that they've pushed white LEDs to world-record brightness. By optimizing the diode, light converter and the package, their lab test squeezed 500 lumens out of a single LED at 1.4A. That's bright enough for projector tech, and certainly makes the single unit good for car lighting and even interior lights. At a lower, more optimal, current the 1mm-square white LED had an efficiency of 136 lumens/W which makes it about twice as efficient as standard fluorescent lamps and 10 times a normal bulb. Press release below. More »

4:33 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Kit Eaton
8,454 views, 28 comments

Latest by BoinK: @strider_mt2k: A: The comment in the post "(yes, the lightbulb people)" made it sound like "the guys that we thought only made lightbulbs". B: It annoys me because a lot of the general public see those standard 5mm LEDs in products, more »

symbian

First S60 Touch UI Screenshots Appear, Look Promising

A small bunch of S60 Touch UI screens popped up today over at Mobile Royale, and they don't look half bad. The design has big on-screen buttons, clean design, and easy to read menus. The only item of concern is how narrow the header and footer bars are when the OS is in landscape mode. Seems like a breeding ground for repeated tapping. That said, I'm still excited to see the rest of S60 Touch. [Mobile Royale via Symbian Freak]

10:56 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008
By Adrian Covert
5,714 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: The theme looks like the one used in s60 emulators, so don't assume it ever ends up in a phone. As for the UI design, if you haven't used an S60 phone, don't make any judgments based on these screes shots. more »

toys

Bandai Smart Berry to Train Next Generation of Female Executives

Little girls in Japan will get their chance today to act out their fantasies of being American corporate tools, thanks to Bandai's new mobile communicator “Smart Berry” toy, which kind of looks like a Mylo done up in pastel colors. The Smart Berry includes a touchscreen LCD panel measuring roughly 2 inches by 1.4 inches, a slide- out keyboard, and Wi-Fi capabilities for email, chat and online games. More »

2:30 PM on Sat Jul 19 2008
By Elaine Chow
1,425 views, 5 comments

thank giz it's friday

10 Stress Busting Gadgets That Help You Unwind From a Long Week at Work

Feeling a little stressed out? Good thing it's Friday—the weekend should offer ample opportunity to unwind. Unfortunately, some of you may be have so much going on that a couple of days off may not do the job. Not to worry, there are plenty of gadgets out there that can help you recover from the stress that a long week at work, a pile of unpaid bills, constant nagging about your "drinking problem" and a mysterious rash can cause. More »

Feature

4:00 PM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Sean Fallon
39,427 views, 29 comments

Latest by FinalValgas: @jayhawk11: I thought so. more »

samsung's tl9

Samsung's TL9 Point-and-Shoot Camera Has Dual Analog Gauges

Outside of the TL34HD, Samsung released 3 other second-tier point-and-shoots: the TL9, SL310W and SL201. However, the most notable of these is definitely the 10 megapixel TL9 with its dual analog gauges that keep track of remaining battery life and memory capacity. More »

6:00 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Sean Fallon
7,272 views, 31 comments

Latest by n/a: I don't see what is so traditional about a fuel meter on your camera. It fails to do anything that the LCD display can tell you with a quick glance. Nonetheless, I can see it as a power saver, allowing more »

blu-ray

Sony's BDP-S350 BD-Live Ready Blu-ray Player Shipping

Sony's latest Blu-ray Live-ready (firmware 1.1 upgradeable to 2.0) deck, which we first saw in February, is now shipping. New facts coming out are that it's 55 percent smaller and sucks down 21 percent less power than its predecessor the BDP-S300, and boots in "approximately a few seconds." You can pick it up for $400, but since you can get a new 80GB PS3 that is also BD-Live ready for the same money, you've got a choice to make. More »

4:00 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By John Mahoney
2,968 views, 15 comments

hitchhikers

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Typewriter Up for Sale

See that battered old Hermes Standard 8 typewriter there, in a fetching shade of institutional brown? I'd practically saw my own leg off to own it. Why? Because I'm a huge Douglas Adams fan, and that battered old thing is the very typewriter DNA used to bring The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to the world. A surprisingly analog gadget, for such a self-avowed technology fan as he. And get this: it's actually on sale by a British bookseller, as part of a package with a "fine" condition first-edition copy of Hitchhiker's. The package, complete with autograph on the typewriter lid, will set you back over $25,000. A vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big sum. But, boy... wouldn't it be worth it? [Abe Books via BBG]

9:30 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Kit Eaton
5,443 views, 57 comments

Latest by n/a: Obviously there are a lot of DNA fans here. They will continue to deny that his alcoholism had anything to do with his untimely death, or with the increasingly bad writing he did in his later, more inebriated years. He more »

ridiculousness

World's Largest Hourglass Filled With Silver Balls and a Luxury Sedan For BMW Moscow Launch

For its 7 series Euro launch in Moscow, BMW constructed the monstrosity you see here and filled it with 180,000 silver balls that slowly revealed their new oligarch cruiser. Funny they should pick the city with probably the highest ominous-luxury-sedan-with-90%-window-tint concentration per capita on the continent. I guess that explains the drama—everyone in the Moscow 7 series market probably finds a new $100k+ ride in their couch cushions every few days, so anything less than a massive hourglass in Red Square with a car inside wouldn't have warranted a glance. Ignore the BMW suits in the following video; let's watch those balls fall. More »

11:45 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By John Mahoney
9,777 views, 22 comments

Latest by jonzeng: Congratulations, BMW! You have somehow made the 7 even uglier! The 2006 facelift was a step in the right direction - this is a step backward. more »

tests

Tom's Hardware Corrects Study, Says Solid State Drives Do Improve Battery Life

Tom's Hardware tested battery life in laptops with SSDs yet again and found that they aren't such a power suck, correcting a previous study. SSDs didn't outperform their HDD counterparts in all tests, but combined with Laptop Mag's study I think we can safely put the issue to rest for now. [Tom's Hardware]

9:45 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Benny Goldman
5,290 views, 28 comments

notebooks

Satellite Pro S300, Tecra A10 and M10: Toshiba's First Centrino 2 vPro Notebooks Can Be Fixed Wirelessly Even While Frozen

The Satellite Pro S300, Tecra A10 and Tecra M10 all have Toshiba's EasyGuard with shock and spill protection, a business card reader, a combo USB 2.0 eSATA port, and sleep-and-charge USB ports. A point of differentiation is that the Tecra A10 and M10 both rock Centrino 2 vPro, which has tech for the enterprise set so IT can fix your comp wirelessly, even when it's frozen. More »

12:01 AM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By matt buchanan
2,181 views, 6 comments

Samsung i8510

The i8510: Samsung's 8 Megapixel S60 Slider

If the rumor mill is correct, Samsung is cooking up a new Symbian S60 slider dubbed the i8510 with some serious specs under the hood—including an 8 megapixel camera. The full list of specs are impressive, and would definitely pose a threat to the upcoming Nokia N96 if it is the real deal. More »

11:20 AM on Sun Jul 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
5,867 views, 18 comments

bender's big score

Poker Bot Knows When to Hold 'Em, Knows When to Fold 'Em

Looks like the day when we all hang out with robots that smoke cigars, throw back drinks and win all our money in poker is edging closer, now that programmers at the University of Alberta have created a Hold 'Em-playing software that can beat poker professionals. The Polaris software was pitted against Poker pros like Nick Grudzien and Ijay Palansky in six games of limit Texas Hold 'Em—it tied on one, lost two and won three. More »

7:00 PM on Sat Jul 12 2008
By Elaine Chow
7,138 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: My name is Mike Johanson; I'm one of the 15 people that programmed and developed Polaris. I thought I'd drop in and clear up some of the questions or complaints you guys have. BTW, you can play against Polaris on more »

delicious

Weird Microwave "Robot" Makes Perfect S'mores

S'mores are definitely one of my all-time favorite snack foods, and this weird Progressive International Microwavable S’Mores Maker claims to make two perfect s'mores in 30 seconds flat because the little "arms" keep the marshmallows from expanding too much. I still think you need a fire to make perfect s'mores, not some gadget that looks like a melted Mr. Potato Head—but if you insist on throwing your money away, the PIMSM can be had for $6.95. [Amazon via Unclutterer via Technabob]

6:20 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Sean Fallon
5,240 views, 22 comments

Latest by Chef: I can't be the first person to notice that this thing looks like a half-wang. more »

thank giz it's friday

10 Ways to Escape From the iPhone Madness

Whew! There is a little too much iPhone stuff going on out there. It's getting a bit overwhelming—even for someone who actually owns one. Not to worry though. If you are tired of all the hype or you are a frustrated Apple hater, welcome to the anti-iPhone oasis. Here you can sit back, relax and learn how to block out the fanboy jibba jabba and achieve your iPhone-free Zen. More »

Feature

4:30 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Sean Fallon
14,447 views, 40 comments

Latest by n/a: i am one of them who doesnt give a f* about if its a 1,2, or 3 g iphone. I need a phone not a voice recorder, notepad, organiser, motion enabled game stuff in my pocket. I need just 2-3 more »

next »