Dan Nosowitz, Author at Gizmodo

Sony, of All Companies, to Ditch Proprietary eBook Formats

Sony, which we’ve blasted in the past for an insistence on proprietary formats, will support the open standard ePub format for its ebook readers. Open, of course, doesn’t mean “free of DRM”: This is really a jab at Amazon. ePub, a format created by Random House and a network of other publishers, is designed to…

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Newer Palm Pres Feature Quietly Improved Hardware, Happier Customers

PreThinking compared brand-new Palm Pres with Pres from the original launch, and found a few nice hardware improvements. The tweaks address some of the Pre’s minor problems, including a tendency to shut down when closed and the dreaded “Oreo effect.” A quick list of differences: On an Pre, a vigorous closing of the slider would…

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Fotel Designer Chair Transforms From Rocking to Stationary in 20 Seconds

If you’re a grass-is-always-greener type, you might have trouble settling on one type of chair: Arm or rocking. This Fotel chair is actually both, and manages to look pretty slick at the same time. It looks like you can just rotate the non-seat part of the chair (carbon-fiber armrests and legs) while keeping the seat…

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Humanthesizer Performance Relies on 15 Bikini-Clad Ladies

Electronic musician/producer Calvin Harris recreated his newest single, “Ready for the Weekend,” by using conductive ink painted on the hands of 15 girls in bikinis. We, of course, post it in the interest of sharing this cool ink technology. Basically, the ladies stand on conductive pads on the floor, and paint their (and Harris’s) hands…

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Logitech MK700 Wireless Desktop Features Concave Keys to Cradle Your Fingertips

Logitech’s new wireless desktop keyboard/mouse set, the MK700, is a nice-looking, if standard, Logitech offering. It’s got a little LCD, shiny black finish and efficient batteries. But it’s also packing Logitech’s new “Incurve” concave keys to sensuously caress your fingers. Logitech promises that its new “Incurve” concave keys and wrist-rest properly cradle your fingers in…

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New Logitech iPod Speakers Are Almost Certainly Sufficient

iPod docks are a dime a dozen, though Logitech’s are some of the most reliable and best-sounding. They’ve got two new rechargeable docks, and we’re sure they sound nice and work well—but there’s nothing new or exciting here. The S125i, checking in at $70, is totally standard: Universal iPod/iPhone dock, 3.5mm auxiliary input for other…

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Art Lebedev Navigarius GPS Concept Really Belongs In a Spaceship

Art Lebedev‘s concepts don’t always come to fruition, but they’re great eye candy even if they’ll never actually exist. This round-screened Navigarius GPS concept is one of their prettiest. The Navigarius would have the round touchscreen, USB, microSD, and a cigarette lighter adapter, provided spaceships have those. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a round…

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Make Your Own Laptop Sleeve Out of Any Fabric

Ars Technica posted a guide showing how to make a laptop sleeve out of any fabric you happen to have lying around. It probably won’t protect your laptop from falls, but it’ll provide some style and probably reduce scratches. Unfortunately, it does seem to require some basic sewing knowledge—that’s a problem for me, since my…

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Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn’t the Way Out

Greg Kot, music critic for the Chicago Tribune and others, wrote a book called Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music. In a recent podcast interview, he enumerates the precise downfall of record labels and why iTunes isn’t their savior. In his interview on the fantastic podcast The Sound of Young America, Kot states that…

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Zune HD’s Packaging, Release Date Leaked: September 15th

We got exclusive leaked shots of Zune HD’s packaging. It’s final: It will be available on September 15th. Click to view It’s a little later than we thought (we had guessed a week earlier) but we suppose we’ll wait. There’s still no official price, but we’re pretty confident in our $220/$280 for 16GB/32GB target, especially…

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Google Offers Users Total Privacy (In an Airless, Deadly Mountain Prison)

Today’s Onion News Network video attacks Google’s scary-if-you-think-about-it access to all our browsing habits and personal data. If you want privacy, no problem: Just relocate to a giant boxlike mountain prison, and you’ll be secure (and dead). Zing! Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village Like all the best…

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Nokia and Microsoft to Announce Unholy Alliance

Apparently Nokia and Microsoft are having a teleconference tomorrow to announce an “alliance” of some sort between the two tech giants. But what can this all mean? Update: Sorry, guys. This one’s a snoozer—Office on Symbian. The problem is, Nokia and Microsoft are actually competitors in Nokia’s main game. Nokia’s Symbian mobile OS competes directly…

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BlackBerry Storm 2 Wi-Fi Update: Possible, But Will Verizon Allow It?

We’ve just gotten a shot of the BlackBerry Storm 2 with a clearly-visible Wi-Fi option. It’s a Vodafone version, not Verizon, but it’s a good hint that Verizon may follow through and unblock Wi-Fi on the handset. Fingers crossed! [CrackBerry] https://gizmodo.com/wi-fi-enabled-blackberry-storm-2-coming-to-verizon-in-s-5201094

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Live Streaming MLB Games Now Available on Roku

In addition to Netflix and Amazon on Demand, Roku users will now be able to access baseball games from premium MLB.tv accounts. That means live, out-of-market games as well as on-demand games from the past week. Only problem is, you have to be a subscriber of the paid MLB.tv service, which would cost $35 for…

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Draganfly X4 UAV: Tiny, Camera-Packing, UFO-Looking ‘Copter Is Cheaper Than Ever

Draganfly’s series of photo/video-based UAVs have always been awesome, but they’ve also been more of a pipe dream than anything else. The X4 is smaller than the X6, but the smaller size also comes with a 25% price cut. Yes! https://gizmodo.com/draganfly-x6-uav-ufo-thingy-packed-with-carbon-fiber-5042268 Like the X6—featured in Giz Gallery 2008—the X4 is a carbon fiber-bodied UAV with…

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The iPhone’s First Streaming Live Concert Starts Now

Apple’s first-ever streaming live concert airs tonight for the iPhone, featuring British electronica group Underworld. Apple’s keeping it a bit quiet, presumably to not destroy AT&T’s feeble servers, but we’ve never been good at keeping secrets. The free show starts now, at 9PM PST (midnight EST), and can be found either here or here. It’ll…

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Best Buy to Sell LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Omnia 2 and More Come August 23rd

One of Boy Genius Report’s “most trusted Best Buy moles” snapped a shot of Best Buy’s plans for August 23rd. Looks like it’ll be a big day in the cellphone world, with a number of anticipated featurephones hitting the shelves. Mostly new Verizon and AT&T featurephone offerings, Best Buy will also have a new shipment…

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Portable Tap Dispenser: The Partier’s Camelback

This is the Portable Tap Dispenser, a backpack with a dispensing tap for your brew of choice. The Portable Tap Dispenser also has a cupholder so you can more fully cement your reputation as the Beer God of the Party. We’re not sure exactly what the bag’s capacity is, but it looks plenty big enough…

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We Have a New Winner of the “Worst Shipping Practices” Award

It’s a competitive category, trust me. We’ve seen some pretty ridiculous abuses of packaging and shipping in our day. But this one’s great, especially since the box is upside-down and sort of crushed-looking. Congratulations to the winner loser. [Geekologie] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sends-teeny-ear-clips-in-huge-cardboard-box-5177651

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HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

Cellpassion found the UA Profile (kind of a spec list for phones) for the upcoming HTC Fiesta, an Android-based smartphone we know very little about. But an internal link indicates that this could very well be AT&T’s first Android phone. https://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-sig-filing-drops-clues-about-htcs-next-androi-5209627 There are a couple interesting tidbits here: The phone is slated to have a…

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Dan Nosowitz

Sony, of All Companies, to Ditch Proprietary eBook Formats

Newer Palm Pres Feature Quietly Improved Hardware, Happier Customers

Fotel Designer Chair Transforms From Rocking to Stationary in 20 Seconds

Humanthesizer Performance Relies on 15 Bikini-Clad Ladies

Logitech MK700 Wireless Desktop Features Concave Keys to Cradle Your Fingertips

New Logitech iPod Speakers Are Almost Certainly Sufficient

Art Lebedev Navigarius GPS Concept Really Belongs In a Spaceship

Make Your Own Laptop Sleeve Out of Any Fabric

Greg Kot: The Music Industry Caused Piracy, and iTunes Isn’t the Way Out

Zune HD’s Packaging, Release Date Leaked: September 15th

Google Offers Users Total Privacy (In an Airless, Deadly Mountain Prison)

Nokia and Microsoft to Announce Unholy Alliance

BlackBerry Storm 2 Wi-Fi Update: Possible, But Will Verizon Allow It?

Live Streaming MLB Games Now Available on Roku

Draganfly X4 UAV: Tiny, Camera-Packing, UFO-Looking ‘Copter Is Cheaper Than Ever

The iPhone’s First Streaming Live Concert Starts Now

Best Buy to Sell LG Chocolate Touch, Samsung Omnia 2 and More Come August 23rd

Portable Tap Dispenser: The Partier’s Camelback

We Have a New Winner of the “Worst Shipping Practices” Award

HTC’s Android-Based Fiesta Coming to AT&T?

Trump Says He’ll Sign Order to Pay TSA

Deadpool Will Deface ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Classics for a New Secret Lair

Apple’s Siri Isn’t Just Going to Use One Chatbot. It’s Going to Use All of Them

Why ‘For All Mankind’ Season 5 Is the Key to the Rest of the Series

ASUS ZenScreen 15.6-Inch Portable Monitor Is Now Cheaper Than Black Friday in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale

Early Wildfires Are Surging Across the US—and Trump’s New Fire Agency Isn’t Ready

INIU Brings Another Power Bank to the Spring Sale as SnapGo Keychain Portable Charger Drops to Its Lowest Price

Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases

Travelers Experiencing the Longest Security Lines in TSA History

Could There Be a ‘Project Hail Mary’ Sequel?

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees