Brian Lam

Star Trek Coffin Warps Your Corpse To the Final Nerd Frontier

Eternal Image, makers of afterlife geek vessels, released a near final design of their Star Trek casket based on the “Photon Torpedo” design from STII: Wrath of Khan. The piano black coffin is complete with Federation insignia on the inside, and handles for when the ensigns load your geek corpse into the airlock. [Eternal Image…

First Google gPhone Photos Probably Fake, Definitely Beat With Ugly Stick

It was only a matter of time before pictures of the Google Phone hit the pipes. Maybe they’re real. Or maybe the third tier Chinese company e28 is riding the buzz with some irresistible blog bait leaks. Either way, if this is what hardware running Google’s secret OS sauce looks like, it’s probably doomed. Update:…

Kmart Going HD-DVD Exclusive (Except the PS3)

Kmart loves the Toshiba HD-A2 player’s $200 price, so they’re going exclusive with it, meaning no set top Blu-ray players. Makes sense, considering Kmart’s market. Of course, this isn’t really exclusive while the PS3 is on shelves with it’s Blu-ray capability. So don’t read into this too much. The format war isn’t close to being…

Home Theater Produces Waves of Massive, Throbbing…Silence

The acoustic isolating design of this home theater makes it the first I’ve ever read that brags about how silent it runs. Those wall panels hanging from this basement den absorb sound, as do the dense 1-pound per square foot barriers behind the double walls. Then there’s the floating floor made of a plywood top…

Storm Trooper Dancing in Shibuya

Giz friend Danny Choo is dancing in the streets of Tokyo as a Storm Trooper again, this time in Shibuya. During his routine in the crossing, the famous intersection seen in countless films, he busted his jock strap. (Which meant no running man.) [DannyChoo]

Pico Bot: Small as a Quarter, Autonomous, Sensing, But Sadly Destined for the Vapor Bin

The Pico Bot has been called the World’s Smallest sensing autonomous robot. The bot is 0.5 inches on each side. And it’s capable of traversing a half a foot per second for 15 minutes per charge, all while dodging all sorts of obstacle by infrared sensing. I’m sure lots of you would love to tinker…

First Technical Review of the Samsung LED Backlit LCDs

Gary Merson backs up our review of Samsung’s new LED driven LCD displays, agreeing with my impression that its the best LCD I’ve ever seen. Gary’s tests went deeper, revealing that the TV resolves 800 lines of motion which means that these sets have better blur resistance than even most 120Hz sets, and even some…

You Like Your Leopard?

Partly due to the Leopard’s relatively incremental, evolutionary nature, I’ve had a surprisingly angst-free upgrade process. The Apple Support forums have been relatively quiet, save the now fixed BSOD issue. But that doesn’t mean I believe everyone’s experience has been so good. How’s your Leopard experience been? [How To Comment] https://gizmodo.com/apple-leopard-install-bsod-fix-316051

Vid: T-Mobile HTC Shadow’s 5-Way and Wheel UI

The just-announced Shadow runs on Windows Mobile, but it’s somewhat forgivable given the nice UI that HTC and TMO added this UI on top of the sludge. Scrolling the wheel navigates you through the submenu, while clicking up and down on the 5-way. There’s media playback on the home page that supports music and album…

Apple OS X Leopard Round Up

Our Apple OS X Leopard coverage is in high fever. (Here’s an Antidote, if you’re a Windows fan.) For the rest of you, here’s a roundup of all our coverage so far: — Our Unabridged Apple OS X Leopard Test Notes (24 Hours and Counting…) — First NSFW use of iChat’s customizable video backdrops —…

Apple Leopard Install BSOD Fix

That Apple OS X Leopard blue screen of death that shows up on install for some users? It’s been isolated to have been caused by APE enhancement software, and Apple’s got a fix. That didn’t take long to solve at all. [Apple]

Apple to Run iPod Touch Ad…Made By a Teen Fanboy

Arn over at Macrumors points out this cool story of an iPod Touch ad being run by Apple. The thing is, it was made by Nick Haley, an 18-year old student, inspired by "Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex" by CSS. Nick was flown in to the LA offices of TBWA/Chiat/Day to do a HD…

Our Unabridged Apple OS X Leopard Test Notes (24 Hours and Counting…)

Click to viewWe’ve been testing Leopard for over a day now, on multiple machines, and here are our full test notes and screenshots. The impressions below spare you the typical rehashing of features which you can get from our past coverage or Apple’s website, and are focused on the nitty gritty details you’d find if…

Another interview of Fake Steve Jobs AKA Dan Lyons AKA Fake Steve AKA Dan Lyons…over at [Wallstrip]

Live Apple OS X Leopard Q&A Sesssion [Update: And We’re Done, Thanks For Watching]

I’m going to stream Leopard live over Justin.tv right now. I’m busy reviewing it, so I won’t be too active, but for the next few hours, if you have questions, email em to tips at giz, drop em in the comments, or hit up the JTV chatroom and I’ll do my best to answer any…

OS X Leopard Shows Networked PCs With BSOD Icons

It’s still funny. Funny in that I want to cry kind of way. [Gadgetlab]

Bug Labs Interview: Why Open Source Hardware When Open Software Is So Powerful By Itself?

I sat down with Peter Semmelhack, CEO of Bug labs, to talk about his open source hardware gadgets. My first question for him was why open source hardware when open source software is so powerful and easier to implement? His answer explained how Bug Labs should anticipate the innovative hacks (like Lego Mindstorm), but also…

Video: Fake Steve Jobs Professing Love for Linux

It’s easy to forget, reading the addictive prose, that Fake Steve Jobs is a fictional character. And Dan Lyons a Forbes Editor with a entirely separate persona. That becomes clearer when you watch the author of the Freetard-hating FSJ profess his love for Linux in this video. Dan explains that there are tons of pro…

Oh Mac OS X Leopard Box

Oh, btw, the holographic Leopard box is everything the blurry YouTube videos promised and more. Wilson says he can’t stop staring into its starry Time Machine maw.

First Review of Asus’s Eee (Verdict: OK Hardware, Great UI)

Mark Spoonauer scoops the Asus Eee PC review, leading off with the observation that you can get a comparable budget laptop for the same $399 price for the high-end Eee model. The key to it earning 4/5 stars and a place in Spoony’s heart is its low-overhead, simple UI Linux OS: “It’s ten times simpler…