Dan Nosowitz, Author at Gizmodo

Crackberry’s Take on Why Verizon Didn’t Launch the Storm2 With RIM

The BlackBerry Storm 2 is the followup to Verizon’s most buzzed-about phone of last year, but Verizon didn’t help with the news. CrackBerry says the phone didn’t pass Verizon’s quality assurance. [CrackBerry]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 17

iI iHate iVerizon’s iNew iMarketing iCampaign

What’s the only thing more annoying than a non-Apple company using Apple’s trademark diminutive “i”? Companies thinking they’ll really stick it to Apple by using it to mock them. The latest marketing school dropout contestant: Verizon’s “iDoesn’t” campaign. Verizon’s got a new anti-iPhone tagline: “If the iDoesn’t, What Does?” It’s part of a new marketing…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 17

Postal Service Mail Handler Steals 2,200 GameFly Rentals

Both GameFly and Netflix package their by-mail rentals in bright, obvious envelopes, and a Philadelphia mail handler took advantage, stealing 2,200 GameFly games in just six months. When he was caught, he had 81 games on him. 81! Reginald Johnson, a mail processing clerk in Germantown, Philadelphia, apparently stole every GameFly envelope that came his…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 17

Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming

The Maldives, a stretch of islands off the coast of Sri Lanka, are so close to sea level that global warming poses a serious threat. So the government held a cabinet meeting underwater to bring attention to the problem. Most of the Maldives lie less than three feet above sea level, which puts them much…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 17

We Get It, the Phone Is Clear. That Doesn’t Make It a Fish Tank.

Remember how Disco Stu has those shoes with a clear platform that he bought with fish in them? And then they died, and he couldn’t get them out? Imagine that, but with the clear LG Crystal phone, and, um…for real. Click to view Looks like the phone still works after this sort-of-upsetting experiment, which is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 17

Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives 8-Story Fall, Will Outlive Us All

DASH, a UC Berkeley-designed, cockroach-inspired robot, manages to take what makes cockroaches so resilient and even retain the cockroach’s singularly creepy movement. This thing is near-indestructible. The 10-cm long DASH, which stands for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, weighs only 16 grams, yet is able to run 15 times its body length per second. It has…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 16

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

The Expendables Trailer Looks Incredibly Silly, Explosion-y…Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold Wants to Dim the Sun With Sulfur Dioxide…Plants Know and Work With Relatives, Unlike Some People…Luxury Wine Vending Machine for Less-Wealthy Oenophiles… The Expendables is a kind of supergroup action movie, starring Sly Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 16

Who Should We Blame for the Anticlimactic Balloon Boy Saga?

After a thrilling chase sequence, Balloon Boy was found…to have never been in the balloon in the first place. We’re glad he’s safe, but now the question comes: Who’s to blame for this whole catastrophe? https://gizmodo.com/boy-flies-away-uncontrollably-in-homemade-flying-saucer-5382627 Stevie Safran cleverly notes in Twitter that “Balloon Boy’s parents say he won’t be grounded, fail to recognize ironic…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Balloon Boy Admits They Did It for the Show

World-class Jeopardy loser Wolf Blitzer got an exclusive interview with Balloon Boy and his family, and not surprisingly, BB himself (AKA Falcon Heene) fails to shed much light on his motivations. Check out the video (with bonus fart) post-jump. http://gawker.com/5362580/wolf-blitzer-lost-on-jeopardy So he heard his parents frantically calling for him, and didn’t come out of the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Scientists Use Lasers to Create False Memories in Flies

A team of researchers experimented with fruit flies and found that by genetically engineering some flies, they were able to give those flies the “memory” of pain that they never actually experienced. It’s kind of complicated and kind of creepy. Basically, and I use the word loosely, the researchers understand that fruit flies are able,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Rocking Chair Powers Its Attached OLED Lamp Just by Rocking

The Murakami chair’s attached lamp is powered by kinetic energy produced from the chair’s rocking back and forth—deliciously simple and elegant. Oh, and that lampshade? Not a lampshade. That’s the actual OLED light source, shaped like a lampshade. The OLED lamp even senses when it’s light or dark out, and if it’s light, stores the…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Table-Top Black Hole Can Absorb Light

Scientists have created a table-top-sized black hole that absorbs light. And yet we’re still here, and the world hasn’t collapsed. Clearly, my high-school science classes did not adequately explain black holes to me. The black hole is made from “60 concentrically arranged layers of circuit board,” where each layer (actually created of so-called metamaterials) is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Do Mac sales spike with the release of a new Windows OS?…Texas Instruments continues war against calculator modders…Vespa rocking horse is totally adorable…Hydrogen-powered UAV stays aloft for more than 23 hours straight… Business Insider posted an interesting chart of Apple Mac sales with an eye on Windows releases. BI’s quoted analysts claim that Mac sales…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

Giant Eclair Delivered to Google; Android 2.0 Imminent?

In the past, the delivery of a giant dessert item (cupcake or donut) to Google’s lawn meant a new version of Android was incoming. Today, a giant eclair was delivered: We deduce that Android 2.0 should see release shortly. This is all unconfirmed, of course: A giant pastry is not what we professionals would call…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 15

The Heavily Leaked BlackBerry Storm 2 Gets Unofficially Officially Announced

Well, everyone knew it was coming, thanks to heavy and repeated leaks, but Walt Mossberg just unofficially officially published a little hands-on preview, with an official photo, of the device. So what didn’t we know? In a phrase, not much. Mossberg likes the Storm 2 much more than the maligned Storm, that’s for sure, but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

AT&T: Google Is So Evil, They Even Block Calls to Nuns

The AT&T vs. Google Voice debate has gotten much more interesting/entertaining, thanks to a letter from AT&T to the FCC, loudly trashing Google—and even the FCC themselves, for allowing Google to run rampant. There’s some serious animosity here. In the letter, AT&T outlines a lot of their specific problems not just with Google Voice but…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

Apple’s Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard: Addresses Hard Drive Issues

Today Apple released Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard, aiming to fix the intermittent hard drive problems reported by some users. We’d love to hear if it actually fixes those issues this time—let us know! [TheLoop] https://gizmodo.com/your-freezing-clicking-macbook-pro-hard-drive-just-got-5341187

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

Real Mouse Navigates Quake 2 Using a Trackball

Neuroscientists at Princeton created a new way to study the neurons of the classic mouse-in-a-maze: Strap it to a suspended ball and have it run through a virtual maze. That first virtual maze? Derived from a Quake 2 level. Apparently it’s difficult to control and study the neurons of a mouse when it’s physically moving,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

Suspicious News: Kellogg’s to Laser Its Name Into Corn Flakes to Prevent Fakes

There’s a fair chance this is a joke. Dear god, tell me this is a joke. Apparently dismayed by legions of counterfeit corn flakes, Kellogg’s has developed a laser to etch “Kellogg’s” into individual flakes. Indications this may be a joke: 1. I’m not totally sure you can laser-etch corn. 2. There’s no way Kellogg’s…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane and Microsoft Team Up for Hackiest Hackathon That Ever Hacked

Hack-tacular comedy murderer Seth MacFarlane is teaming up with Microsoft to create a commercial-free, partly live-action special in which the Windows 7 brand-name will be integrated into the show’s content. Commercials might actually have improved this idea. The show, which will have some live-action performances of the unbearable musical numbers featured in MacFarlane’s animated sitcoms,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 14

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Crackberry’s Take on Why Verizon Didn’t Launch the Storm2 With RIM

iI iHate iVerizon’s iNew iMarketing iCampaign

Postal Service Mail Handler Steals 2,200 GameFly Rentals

Maldives Government Meets Underwater to Show Effects of Global Warming

We Get It, the Phone Is Clear. That Doesn’t Make It a Fish Tank.

Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives 8-Story Fall, Will Outlive Us All

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Who Should We Blame for the Anticlimactic Balloon Boy Saga?

Balloon Boy Admits They Did It for the Show

Scientists Use Lasers to Create False Memories in Flies

Rocking Chair Powers Its Attached OLED Lamp Just by Rocking

Table-Top Black Hole Can Absorb Light

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Giant Eclair Delivered to Google; Android 2.0 Imminent?

The Heavily Leaked BlackBerry Storm 2 Gets Unofficially Officially Announced

AT&T: Google Is So Evil, They Even Block Calls to Nuns

Apple’s Performance Update 1.0 for Leopard and Snow Leopard: Addresses Hard Drive Issues

Real Mouse Navigates Quake 2 Using a Trackball

Suspicious News: Kellogg’s to Laser Its Name Into Corn Flakes to Prevent Fakes

Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane and Microsoft Team Up for Hackiest Hackathon That Ever Hacked

The First Trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Takes Terror Stateside

The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

Samsung’s Micro RGB TVs Provide So Much Color It May Be Too Much

The Crypto Bros Want to Get Their Hands on Anthropic’s ‘Super Dangerous’ Model

This Is What a Music Industry ‘Plant’ Looks Like in 2026

As Starship V3 Lags Behind, Blue Origin Prepares Third Launch of New Glenn

The New Movie From Takashi Yamazaki Could Be the New ‘Pacific Rim’

Forget Samsung Galaxy S26, Google Pixel 10 Pro Hits a Black Friday Low With No Trade-In Required

YouTube Will Stop Showing Ads If You Just Engage Hard Enough

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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