Kat Hannaford, Author at Gizmodo

Street Fighter IV for iPhone Will Cost $10 From Next Month

Street Fighter IV is almost here for the iPhone, and Capcom is tantalizingly drip-feeding us with details about the coolest thumb-masher to hit the App Store. It’ll cost a rather large $9.99, and will have eight playable characters, including Ryu. https://gizmodo.com/street-fighter-iv-on-iphone-brings-new-definition-to-so-5472241 Gamepro got an early hands-on with the iPhone and iPod Touch version, and while…

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Apple’s “Boobie Apps” Banning Resulted In the SuicideGirls’ Removal, Despite it Contradicting Schiller’s Criteria

Apple claims they removed those 5,000 boobie apps because women were complaining over the “degrading” and “objectionable” content. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the removal of the SuicideGirls’ app—which actually empowers women—seems most questionable. https://gizmodo.com/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war-5477566 Sure, the free app features nudity. If you count nudity as being of the bras ‘n knickers kind. But…

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Unibody Aluminum Toothbrush Holder Keeps Germs Out

Your unibody aluminum collection, composed of a MacBook Pro, and HTC Legend pre-order confirmation email needs this toothbrush holder—which might’ve been enough to convince Howard Hughes to brush his teeth with. [Dominic Wilcox via InteriorDesignRoom via Oh!Gizmo]

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Apple Suppliers Foxconn Will Pay Arsonist Workers Overtime and Get Back To Making Shiny New Gadgets

Last Friday’s situation at the Mexican Foxconn factory (the company that supplies components and products to Apple) where enraged employees burnt the place down over being forced to work unpaid overtime will be receiving extra pay, according to Foxconn. https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-workers-dont-get-mad-they-get-even-by-burning-5476446 Nothing like a bit of exposure on the tech blogs to force the Juarez arm…

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Win a MacBook Pro…Painted in Microsoft Office for Mac Colors

How to get people using Office for Mac, after admitting only four people “love it”? I know! Paint a MacBook with Office for Mac colors, load it with a copy of Office 2008, and give it away on Twitter! https://gizmodo.com/at-least-office-for-mac-has-four-people-who-love-it-5471353 You have to either be following @officeformac on Twitter, or retweet @officeformac, including the hashtag…

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3D Ceramic Printer Creates Pottery Bowls and That Perfect Futuristic ‘Ghost’ Parody

To watch this transparent cube build a ceramic bowl must be like watching magic. The nozzle shoots clay out, designing sculptures layer by layer, until the finished object is ready to be fired in a kiln. Below you can see some of the creations made from the powder clay mixing with water in the printer’s…

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Fashion Show Goers Purchased Clothes Straight From the Runway Using a BlackBerry App

Ultra-trendy fashion designer Henry Holland held his London Fashion Week show on Saturday, where the BlackBerry-using front row sitters could buy the clothes straight from the catwalk using the House of Holland app. It’s the first time a fashion designer’s allowed their clothes to be purchased from an app during a show—in the UK that…

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Limited Edition Pentax K-7 Camera Forgets Silver Isn’t a Rare Color In Camera-Land

I’d be more excited if this special limited edition color was a never-seen-before color, but alas Pentax thinks the camera world can still get excited about silver. Or maybe silver is rare in Japan, where this model is launching? https://gizmodo.com/silver-painted-plastic-gadgets-must-die-5106923 The K-7 has been around since last summer, but only 1,000 of these limited edition…

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Japanese Fashion Designer Uses Cables To Knit Art

I’ve knitted a few scarves in my lifetime, and have a cupboard full of cables, so I’m thinking of whipping up a few winter-warmers like Japanese fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura. Though it doesn’t look nearly as soft as merino wool… He used anything from iPods to LAN cables, power boards and fabrics to create sculptures…

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Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $38.6m to construct. [MSN]

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Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds

It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral’s claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video recording and Flash 10.1 compatibility. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-pre-and-pixi-getting-webos-1-4-video-recording-5468457 It’ll also make the Pre and Pixi slightly faster, and have a few other minor…

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More Fun Than Unfollowing, Now You Can Sh*t On Twitter With the Bird Turd iPhone App

There’s a million and one Twitter apps available for the iPhone, but do any let you do a poo on tweets you dislike? Surprisingly, yes—and here I was thinking teenage roughnecks couldn’t afford an iPhone contract. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-twitter-app-battlemodo-best-and-worst-twitter-a-5135117 Bird Turd turns Twitter into a game, with the official bio of the app explaining “In Bird Turd,…

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iPad Video Showing Flash Rendered Perfectly Reappears On Apple Site

I’m sure someone at Apple has scars on their hands from the major wrist-slapping that’s occurred over their video cock-up of the iPad running Flash—but how could they make the same mistake again? When Apple announced the iPad, you may remember some of their promotional videos showed the tablet running Flash on the NY Times…

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Google Buzz Not a Threat To Twitter and Facebook, Instead It’s “Filling a Niche”

Google may be aware they should’ve spent longer testing Buzz, but according to their VP of product management, it doesn’t pose a threat to Twitter and Facebook. Instead, “it’s filling a niche, which is not currently met in the market.” https://gizmodo.com/google-admits-buzz-testing-sucked-and-they-are-very-v-5473660 Bradley Horowitz from Google told eWeek that in addition to not wanting to replace…

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Broken Step From Apple’s New York Store On Sale at eBay For $2,500

Answering the age-old question of what to buy a Mac fanboy who has everything, eBay user heylookitskibbe has put a broken step from the 5th Avenue Apple store up for sale with a buy-it-now price of $2,500. The eBay seller says: “They replaced it with a new one after a customer dropped a snapple bottle…

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Arne Jacobsen’s AJ Wall Light Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue

Inject some cool ’50s style into your home’s veins, with the Arne Jacobsen reissue of the AJ wall light. First designed in 1956, it was part of the Louis Poulsen range which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The light yellow green color is a new shade for the lamp, but based on the…

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Two PS3 Slim Models Glimpsed On FCC

Still mashing your thumbs on the original PS3, after the PS3 Slim failed to ignite your fire? Yeah, me too—but unfortunately Sony’s not going to give us love anytime soon, looking at these FCC documents. The two documents don’t detail any of the changes, though it looks like they’re physically similar to the current Slims…

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Ikea Lamp Used To Make Slide Projector To Bore Friends With

Don’t try and hide that Leksvik table from me, I can recognize Swedish wood from a hundred miles away. We all own Ikea furniture, it’s as certain as death and taxes. But not everyone makes a projector from a lamp. Instructables member Derte84 cobbled together his projector using just the Isbrytare lamp from Ikea, tape…

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Tiger Woods’ Apology Will Be Live-Streamed on YouTube Today

It may not be a CGI apology (bet his wife would’ve loved that!) but Tiger Woods will be making his first public apology live on YouTube today. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-not-a-trailer-for-tiger-woods-2011-but-it-shou-5416508 YouTube is live-streaming the press conference from Florida at 11am EST / 8am PST today to the Citizen Tube area of the site. Tune in if seeing…

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Oak Trail Is Name Of Intel Atom Z-Series Replacement (Supposedly)

Intel is moving from conifers to deciduous trees as inspiration for its next Atom Z-series platform, if PC Watch is correct. The Z-series is residing in netbooks and ultra-portables such as the Vaio P from Sony, but with Moorestown not compatible with Windows it makes sense Intel would need a new processor. https://gizmodo.com/intels-new-atom-chips-what-they-mean-for-you-5431479 Enter Oak…

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Street Fighter IV for iPhone Will Cost $10 From Next Month

Apple’s “Boobie Apps” Banning Resulted In the SuicideGirls’ Removal, Despite it Contradicting Schiller’s Criteria

Unibody Aluminum Toothbrush Holder Keeps Germs Out

Apple Suppliers Foxconn Will Pay Arsonist Workers Overtime and Get Back To Making Shiny New Gadgets

Win a MacBook Pro…Painted in Microsoft Office for Mac Colors

3D Ceramic Printer Creates Pottery Bowls and That Perfect Futuristic ‘Ghost’ Parody

Fashion Show Goers Purchased Clothes Straight From the Runway Using a BlackBerry App

Limited Edition Pentax K-7 Camera Forgets Silver Isn’t a Rare Color In Camera-Land

Japanese Fashion Designer Uses Cables To Knit Art

Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010

Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds

More Fun Than Unfollowing, Now You Can Sh*t On Twitter With the Bird Turd iPhone App

iPad Video Showing Flash Rendered Perfectly Reappears On Apple Site

Google Buzz Not a Threat To Twitter and Facebook, Instead It’s “Filling a Niche”

Broken Step From Apple’s New York Store On Sale at eBay For $2,500

Arne Jacobsen’s AJ Wall Light Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue

Two PS3 Slim Models Glimpsed On FCC

Ikea Lamp Used To Make Slide Projector To Bore Friends With

Tiger Woods’ Apology Will Be Live-Streamed on YouTube Today

Oak Trail Is Name Of Intel Atom Z-Series Replacement (Supposedly)

New Getaway Means Subaru Has an Electric SUV in Every Size

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Disney’s Robot Olaf Dying Is the Funniest Thing to Happen in 2026

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This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

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