Jason Chen

Siberian Diamond Building Proves Siberians Are Pretty Crazy Too

If you thought the people of Dubai were the only ones who made crazy ass buildings, Siberians have a surprise for you. This diamond-like tower looks and reflects light like a “cut diamond”, but actually absorbs enough energy to be self-sustainable thanks to solar light. The tower’s designed by architects at Foster+Partners, and is planned…

Non Interview: First iPhone Campers Not What Apple Expected

Click to viewYou know those two guys waiting in line for the iPhone a whole 100 hours early? We’ve got an exclusive non-interview with them. And this grumpy guy is probably not what Apple expected when it envisioned the perfect customer for the iPhone. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-line-has-started-100-hours-early-272088 Fake Steve is going to cry this is a Microsoft…

Help Iconfactory, maker of the Wii Wallpaper starring me, get Frenzic on the iPhone. [Gedblog] https://gizmodo.com/gizmodos-on-ur-wallpaperz-unpantsing-ur-wii-220175

747 Laser Bests Eye of Sauron in Range, Destructiveness

Some of the coolest non-conventional weapons being developed now are lasers, and when you make a gigantic laser strapped to a 747, you’ve won the whole contest right there. This “directed energy weapon” consists of a “megawatt-class chemical oxygen iodine laser beam,” which can be pointed at other planes, missiles or hobbitses on the ground.…

Get a free $10 gift card when you buy an Xbox 360 wireless adapter at Best Buy. [Best Buy]

Nicole Kidman Spokesrobots the DS Lite in Europe

Nintendo Europe’s just picked Nicole Kidman to rep them in the upcoming Brain Training 2 game. Why her? It should be obvious. The shot above shows her deep in thought, trying to remember what 9 x 3 was while using the stylus to clean out the last of the CRAZY from her teeth—which still remains…

Google Street is using OCR (Optical Character Recognition, like when you scan stuff) to match up storefront signs with businesses in Google Local. [BlogStorm.]

The Ultimate iPhone Campout Guide: Updated

Our non-agoraphobic cousins over at Gridskipper updated their iPhone Campout maps with five more locations that show you where the nearest food, coffee, Wi-Fi, bathrooms, and hotels are in relation to Apple stores. Here’s the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, the NYC Staten Island Mall, the Beverly Center in LA, the Santa Clara Valley…

Mini Clamp Cellphone Strap

Often need to pick up tiny things with the use of a mechanical claw? This Mini Mini Hand Strap cellphone strap is the thing for you. Choose from one of three insane-looking colors and you’ll be picking up hairs, eyeglass screws and our dignity with ease. Product Page [Rakuten via Plastic Bamboo]

Contest Reminder: Win an iPhone

Hey jubblies, just less than one week left for you to make your entry to our Made in Eureka contest. Coming off from our last entry, which was a great example of what not to do, this entry by Ethan Allison is one that’s pretty decent. It’s a toilet that can’t overflow, which is made…

How to Comment: Bugs

Our tech’s hard at work fixing bugs with the new Giz design, but if you’re still seeing quirks in your particular browser, email tips@giz with the Bug, Browser version, OS, and screenshot (if you know how). Put the bug description in the headline and details in the body. You can also post a comment here…

Unconfirmed: iPhone Data Plan Revealed

Boy Genius has a tip from a “high up source” that the iPhone data plan is going to be around $34.99 to $44.99, have unlimited data, and somewhere between 2000 text messages to unlimited text messages. Oh, and it may just be called the iPlan. https://gizmodo.com/guessing-the-iphones-voice-data-plan-cost-271966 Here’s another interesting detail. FedEx is supposedly delivering iPhone…

Bill Gates’ Legacy: What the Industry Thinks

Now that Bill Gates’ is winding down his day-to-day activities at Microsoft and focusing on his charity work, it’s a good time to look at his legacy. A word that’s only important to presidents, IT managers and corporate technologists, legacy is something none of us ordinary people have to worry about (since our influence is…

Hands-On With Japan’s DS Colors

Ashcraft put down Earth Defense Force and ventured out of his damp cave long enough to take a look at Japan’s newest colors for the DS Lite. There’s the Metallic Rose and Gloss Silver DS Lites, which join the vomitorium orange and lack-of-oxygen blue in Nintendo’s “Rob Everyone in Japan” arsenal. Head on over for…

The goog’s acquiring beloved universal number cellphone managing service Grand Central. [TechCrunch]

Guessing the iPhone’s Voice, Data Plan Cost

Business 2.0 has a nice guess on how much the iPhone’s data and voice plan is going to cost. Instead of an all-you-can-eat plan that Wilson speculated on, Biz is estimating based on current BlackBerry fees. https://gizmodo.com/the-case-for-a-simple-iphone-service-plan-271000 The status now: between $34.99 and $79.99 for data and $39.99 to $99.99 for voice. If you’re going…

HTC Advantage Pre-order at Amazon

If you’re at all interested in an HTC Advantage, you can pre-order one on Amazon right now. If you don’t remember, the Advantage is the not-quite-a-UMPC, not-quite-a-smartphone device that runs Windows Mobile 6. https://gizmodo.com/htc-advantage-heads-to-the-us-this-summer-246966 If you’ve got $849.99, you can pre-order it now (the page says in stock soon) and get your mobile computing groove…

Switching Up the iPhone Religious Imagery

Even the mainstream, non-tech media is getting into this. But seriously, you guys know we’re kidding when we call it the Jesus Phone right? We mean, it’s just a phone, even if we’re covering the crap out of it this week. Washington Post Comic Credit Nick Anderson

Steam-Powered Car Goes 200MPH, is Steampunk Batman’s Ride

This crazy Batman-esque steam-powered car is an entry to the British Steam Car Challenge, which intends to both break the land speed record for steam records and give a lot of people steam burns in the process. This entry has four boilers and can go up to 200MPH in the Utah Salt flats, some of…

SteadyPointer Stabilizes Your Laser Pointer

Not everyone can get in front of a crowd and be as confident in the crap coming out of their mouths as a Tony Snow or a Steve Jobs. But this SteadyPointer lets you exude a cool confidence in the laser- pointing part of your presentation by stabilizing your jittery hand, which is almost as…