Gary Cutlack, Author at Gizmodo

There’s Going to Be a LEGO MOVIE

Fresh from recent huge successes in the video game world, the Danish brickies at LEGO are teaming up with the film part of Warner Bros. to create a full, LEGO-based motion picture. Due in 2014, the LEGO film is being written and directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who were the co-directors behind 2009′s…

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Wind-Powered Electric Eco Car Drives 3,000 Miles on $13 of Electricity

This open-topped beauty is the Wind Explorer, a German-made electric car that’s just driven across Australia. And it only used around $13 of electricity on its 18-day trip. It’s powered by two methods—a motor running on an internal battery that can be charged by the mains supply or a portable wind turbine, or, er, dragged…

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Samsung: “No Need” For 3D Cell Phones, But Good Luck With Them Anyway

Samsung’s head of product management in its UK mobile division has gone on record as saying the company has no plans to battle rival LG in the 3D cell phone sector. There’s no point or demand and it makes phones needlessly thicker. That’s the summary. Here are his actual words: “We are world leaders in…

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NASA Proudly Returns To Take Photo Of The Hole It Made

Six years ago, NASA blasted a hole into comet Tempel 1. Now it’s gone back to survey the damage anew and continue observations, with its Stardust-NExT probe photographing the mess made by 2005’s Deep Impact. The crater made by Deep Impact is 150 metres across, and can just about be seen in the before and…

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Bubble Wrap That iPad

This is the Ozaki iCoat Bubble. It is basically like wrapping your iPad in bubble wrap, only a very nice piece of bubble wrap that’s been cut to the right size and fashioned into a protective slip case. There’s also one that’s been cut a little smaller for iPhone, plus the maker notes that the…

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Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet President Obama Today (Updated)

What do you think Mr President is after? One of the fancy new Facebook phones for the wife? Angry Birds advice? Or something dull to do with privacy and/or wireless spectrums? https://gizmodo.com/htcs-facebook-phones-live-kidz-meet-the-chacha-and-sa-5760189 Update: And here’s the complete list, from the NY Times: •John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers •Carol Bartz, President and CEO,…

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Nokia Can Customise Windows Phone 7 As Much As It Likes

It appears Nokia got some pretty huge concessions out of Microsoft in return for creating the unstoppable super-team, with Nokia vice president Niklas Savander confirming the company is allowed to make as many mods to the Windows Phone OS as it wishes. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-and-microsoft-are-officially-new-bffs-5757649 However, Savander also says Nokia plans to keep disruption at a minimum,…

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Nokia Rebels Surrender, as “Plan B” Fails to Win Over Investors

Those brave Nokia fans who tried to stick it to The Man by having Stephen Elop sacked and triggering a triumphant return to, er, MeeGo? They’ve given up. Despite gathering support from many individuals and private investors for a war on the company’s Microsoft team-up, the larger institutional shareholders simply wouldn’t join in with the…

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Capcom’s Smurf Crisis Could Lead to Tighter App Buying Controls

According to a “well placed source” quoted by PocketGamer today, Capcom has been called in to see Apple due to the controversy caused by its freemium kiddie game Smurfs’ Village. Thanks to some high-profile complaints over the free game’s laughably costly in-app item purchases and an apparent high level of return and refund requests, Apple…

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MiCoach for Android Will Start Motivating You From April

The popular and really quite good Adidas MiCoach fitness system is about to launch on Android, with a compatible app set to arrive for free download on the Android Market in April. Adidas says the app has already been downloaded by over a million Blackberry and iPhone users, so something’s obviously been done right. [Adidas…

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Olympus PEN F Cloned, Digitized and Turned into Quirky Toy Camera

The Gizmon Half D is curious little boutique digital camera, coming loaded with colour effects and cute split frame options. It also clones the look of the famed 1960s 35mm half-frame Olympus Pen F (inset above) rather well, offering a collection of interchangeable lenses for pretending it’s a proper camera and you’re a proper photographer.…

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Renesas Wins DivX Plus HD Certification, For MKV Files on Your Phone

The DivX Corporation has awarded its first DivX Plus HD certificate to Renesas Mobile, producer of several HD-capable system-on-chip processors. Any phone that features Renesas Mobile’s SH73704 will therefore be able to manage full HD 1080p playback, including the popular HD content ripping format MKV. In this age of ever-growing screens, that has to be…

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Blu-ray Digital— the World’s Most Complicated Way to Watch Movies on Android

In order to watch Fox’s Blu-ray release of Unstoppable on Android you will need: “the Unstoppable Blu-ray disc, a wi-fi connected Blu-ray player, Android 1.6 or higher, and the PocketBLU app, which can be downloaded free from the Android Market”. If you can manage to get all that together in the same place, connected, charged…

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Disposable USB Sticks, For Those Sad Memories You Don’t Mind Losing

The creative minds of Art Lebedev have once again thought of something interesting to do in the USB world—cardboard. The design team’s concept “Fleshkus” memory sticks are supplied on printed card, with users able to tear one off as needed and write a description straight onto the back. [Art Lebedev via UberGizmo]

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Zuckerberg Claims “Multiple” Facebook Phones Coming This Year

The young billionaire had a recorded message for HTC’s Mobile World Congress event today, praising HTC’s new social efforts. He also announced that there will be more “phones with a deeper social integration” coming in 2011, with “multiple devices” due and possibly even as many as a dozen. Quite a change in position from “Facebook…

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Apple’s Tim Cook Visited Foxconn—And Came Out Alive

Apple’s released an extremely comprehensive new version of its Supplier Responsibilty report for 2011, in which it faces up to suicides and underage workers in its supply chain. Facts reported include a trip made by acting boss Tim Cook to suicide-struck Foxconn in June 2010, where Tim and some Chinese suicide prevention specialists (!) interviewed…

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Disgruntled Ink Cartridge Man’s Next Trick—Ink Cart Beatboxing

The site that impressed and slightly confused the world with its viral-going ranting ink cartridge description is back, this time with a musical creation. The above tune is made entirely with ink cartridges. They really do live, sleep, eat, breathe and even listen to the sounds of ink cartridges. The site says that “A bit…

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Video: Watch Nokia’s Entire Windows Phone Shake Up

See the two Steves shake up the smartphone industry as it happened, in this full-length 12 minute presentation of today’s bombshell. Steve Ballmer comes on at around the six-minute mark. [Nokia]

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PlayStation Hacker Must Hand His Hard Drive Over to Sony

The notorious George Hotz, AKA GeoHot and the man who cracked PS3’s tough encryption system, has been ordered to hand over his computer to authorities by a federal judge—so that Sony can “inspect” files relating to his exploit. The judge also ordered Hotz not to delete any files before Sony gets its hands on the…

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Please Pay 50 Cents To Read About PayPal’s Digital Goods Launch

PayPal has taken its “microtransactions” system out of beta, now allowing all publishers of web content to charge tiny amounts of money for access to their content. It takes two clicks and PayPal will have five percent because it has you over a barrel. [PayPal via RWW]

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There’s Going to Be a LEGO MOVIE

Wind-Powered Electric Eco Car Drives 3,000 Miles on $13 of Electricity

Samsung: “No Need” For 3D Cell Phones, But Good Luck With Them Anyway

NASA Proudly Returns To Take Photo Of The Hole It Made

Bubble Wrap That iPad

Steve Jobs, Eric Schmidt and Mark Zuckerberg to Meet President Obama Today (Updated)

Nokia Can Customise Windows Phone 7 As Much As It Likes

Nokia Rebels Surrender, as “Plan B” Fails to Win Over Investors

Capcom’s Smurf Crisis Could Lead to Tighter App Buying Controls

MiCoach for Android Will Start Motivating You From April

Olympus PEN F Cloned, Digitized and Turned into Quirky Toy Camera

Renesas Wins DivX Plus HD Certification, For MKV Files on Your Phone

Blu-ray Digital— the World’s Most Complicated Way to Watch Movies on Android

Disposable USB Sticks, For Those Sad Memories You Don’t Mind Losing

Zuckerberg Claims “Multiple” Facebook Phones Coming This Year

Apple’s Tim Cook Visited Foxconn—And Came Out Alive

Disgruntled Ink Cartridge Man’s Next Trick—Ink Cart Beatboxing

Video: Watch Nokia’s Entire Windows Phone Shake Up

PlayStation Hacker Must Hand His Hard Drive Over to Sony

Please Pay 50 Cents To Read About PayPal’s Digital Goods Launch

Artemis 2 Crew Become First Humans to Travel Beyond Earth Orbit Since the 1970s

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Labubus Might Be Labu-Bust After Pop Mart Posts Record Share Loss

Cursor’s New Tool Lets Users Delegate to a Team of Coding Agents

Nvidia Needs to Remind Itself What PC Gamers Actually Want

Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE

‘Invincible’ Season 4 Is Doing Right By Debbie

New Theory Says We’ve Been Overcomplicating the Big Bang

Marvel Might Have Finally Dealt With One of the Most Hated ‘Spider-Man’ Characters Around

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