Kyle VanHemert, Author at Gizmodo

Gadget Deals of the Day

Thank goodness it’s Friday. Also, thank goodness for all these deals—like big savings on laptops from Dell and Lenovo. If you’re looking to cut loose this weekend, update your Wii catalog with Wii Sports Resorts and Wii Music. Top Deals: • Lenovo IdeaCentre K230 Desktop for $649.00 plus free shipping (normally $999 – use coupon…

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Now Available

The Zoom Q3 Handy Video Recorder sets itself apart from the cheap camcorder pack by capturing HD audio with two stereo condenser microphones. • Zoom’s Q3 Handy Video Recorder, a pocket camcorder with an emphasis on high quality audio, is now shipping. Back in September, our own Dan Nosowitz reviewed the Q3 and found that…

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Archetype

An exceptionally shiny first person shooter optimized for the iPhone 4, with slick, functional controls. Best of all is the 5 v 5 team deathmatch mode, which is just like the multiplayer action you’re used to on the consoles-including multiple guns, grenades, maps, and medals-except this one you play while you’re sitting on the toilet.…

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Chase Mobile

OK, very cool for Chase customers, not quite as cool for everyone else, but the latest update to Chase’s app lets you take deposit checks by snapping pictures of them with your iPhone. Chase isn’t the first bank to do this sort of thing, but they’re definitely the biggest, and when gigantic companies like JPMorgan…

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Diacarta

I imagine there’s a huge group of people, like me, who don’t keep fastidious hour-to-hour calendars on Google or Outlook or whatever but whose days could benefit from a little more organization. Diacarta, a visual day planner, offers that type of organization (and offers it beautifully). The main screen of the app is a small…

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DreamScape

What’s the one thing I learned from playing Dreamscape? Popping bubbles is incredibly satisfying, even when those bubbles are fake. The pretty backgrounds give you a pleasant place to pop, and the bubble popping noise is just right (this, of course, is very important.) DOWNLOAD $0.99 From the app developers: jump into the #4 Arcade…

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Expenditure

As far as they go, Expenditure is a gorgeous way to track expenses on your iPhone, giving you big, pretty buttons to add new expenses, file them in appropriate categories, and see overviews of your recent activity. I can’t imagine many people diligently filing their every single transaction, but for say keeping track of how…

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GetGlue

Instead of checking into pub after bar after pub, show your friends you’re not just a boozehound on Foursquare, but quite the literary creature on GetGlue’s free iPhone app, which lets you “check-in” to whatever media you’re consuming. This can be a book, film, TV show or even music-with the updates being shared across Twitter…

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Hipstamatic

Probably the most cleverly designed of the iPhone photography apps, and certainly among the most loved, Hipstamatic’s recent upgrade brings all sorts of good stuff. In addition to getting iPhone 4 optimization and background uploading, there is a new stacks feature for organizing photos and batch upload to Facebook, Flickr or email. And a handful…

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Hulu Plus

OK, ok, Hulu hasn’t started dishing out the $10/mo. beta invites just yet so your selection is limited to the fistful of free stuff they’ve coughed up for this early release. But, you can still view free episodes of 30 Rock, Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and a few others, including a Carl Sagan special, the…

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IncrediBooth

IncrediBooth, a iPhone 4-only project from the makers of the much-lauded (and frustratingly not-yet-updated) Hipstamatic, turns your front facing camera into a beautiful, pocketable shopping mall-style photo booth. Remember how much fun you and your friends had mugging in front of Apple’s Photo Booth when it came out? This is kinda like that, but anywhere.…

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LandFormer

Puzzle games come a dime a dozen, and to have some staying power they have to be truly fun to play or exceptionally nice to look at. LandFormer is both. Basically you have to level a plot of land with increasingly complex sets of maneuvers, which starts off pretty simple but quickly runs into that…

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Light-O-Matic

This week, Apple let a flood of flashlight apps into the App Store, which is kind of exciting because maybe sometime you’ll want to use your LED flash as a flashlight but even more exciting because it’s a rare instance of Apple giving developers the OK to use their precious for a function it was…

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My TSA

You certainly don’t want the Transportation Security Authority in your business any more than they have to be, but it turns out having them on your phone isn’t all that bad. Their well-designed new app has real time status updates on major airports including info on delays and wait times for individual security checkpoints, as…

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NYC Mate

An iPhone version of the Android standby, NYCMate offers free, official pinch-to-zoom maps of New York’s subways and bus routes. And once you figure out where to find your transportation of choice, it has schedules to tell you when exactly you should head in that direction. DOWNLOAD FREE From the app developers: NYC Mate is…

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Oddy Smog’s Misadventure

Help Oddy, a little ball of smog, escape from a factory by jumping and double-jumping from gear to rotating gear. The gameplay’s simple but difficult enough to keep you involved, and the whole premise and aesthetic make this seem like some sort of weird spin-off starring those little dust dudes from Spirited Away. Obviously that’s…

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Pixelpipe HD

The 720P video capabilities of the iPhone 4 are fantastic-really calling into question the need for a camcorder-but there’s one gimpy limitation. You can’t upload HD videos wirelessly…. Pixelpipe is a free app that will upload your videos and pictures in full resolution to “over 100 supported destinations.” Pretty much any social networking bloggish overshare…

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Predators

Kudos to Chillingo for understanding, with their companion game to the new Predators movie, that I don’t want to play as a Predator-hunting Adrian Brody but rather an Adrian Brody-hunting Predator-and that’s just what they made me. The new game, which also works on the iPad, looks gorgeous on the iPhone 4, and lets you…

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Pulse News Mini

The wildly popular visualized RSS reader for the iPad has been shrunk down for a palm size version on the iPhone. Their mosaic style of sorting through news isn’t quite as compelling as it is on the iPad, and heavy RSS users will scoff at the 20-feed limit, but if you’re just a casual RSS-er…

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Remodelista

Everyone wants cool stuff in their place, but when you’re faced with redecorating it’s easy to just get a bunch of decent stuff from Ikea, make a quick stop at Crate and Barrell and call it a day. Remodelista looks to at least inspire you to aim a little higher, showcasing everything from sofas that…

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Gadget Deals of the Day

Now Available

Archetype

Chase Mobile

Diacarta

DreamScape

Expenditure

GetGlue

Hipstamatic

Hulu Plus

IncrediBooth

LandFormer

Light-O-Matic

My TSA

NYC Mate

Oddy Smog’s Misadventure

Pixelpipe HD

Predators

Pulse News Mini

Remodelista

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