Sam Biddle, Author at Gizmodo

Why No Warner Bros. On Apple TV? Not Enough Dough

Warner Bros. exec Barry Meyer admits the obvious: their content won’t show up on Apple TV’s because the price wasn’t right. WB scoffs at the new, cheaper rental plan—not the first time they’ve thrown their weight around online. [All Things D] https://gizmodo.com/netflix-delays-fox-and-universal-releases-too-5513343

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AT&T Claims LTE Rollout by Mid-2011

AT&T’s CEO of operations John Stankey claims the company will debut LTE service across the country by mid-2011, covering an expected 70 to 75 million customers. No specific regions or cities were mentioned, however. [Fierce Wireless via Boy Genius Report]

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Make Outdoor Portraiture a Breeze With a Hacked Walking Stick Monopod

You find yourself in the woods. A babbling brook. A bald eagle lands on your shoulder. Nature in all her glory. But who will take the photographic proof? Turn your walking stick into a monopad, and snap photos from anywhere. The process, by Instructables user Kiteman, is on the simpler side. After scooping out some…

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Voltron of Computers Combines Phone, Tablet, and Keyboard Into One

Always Innovating’s Smart Book breaks the traditional netbook into pieces. A touchscreen VoIP phone, a tablet, and a keyboard. Use them apart, or combine them into a full-powered device when you have to. Buy one device, carry what you need. As if hardware transformation on the fly weren’t clever enough, the Smart Book includes a…

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Greenpeace Skewers Zuckerberg’s “So Coal” Network In Adorably Insulting Video

The edgy ecophiles at Greenpeace have placed Facebook in their crosshairs, bashing Mark Zuckerberg over what they allege is a reliance on coal to fuel his (substantial) data centers. A new video slams Zuck, and asks for a renewable alternative. The video, plucking emphatically at your heartstrings with the narration of what sounds like a…

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LaCie’s Wireless Space is a WiFi Storage Triple Threat

LaCie’s new three-in-one Wireless Space box might help you clear out some apartment clutter, acting as wirelessly networked backup storage, a DLNA media server, and a range-boosting WiFi access point or router. Available in 1 or 2 TB configurations. [LaCie]

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Verizon Bringing 4G Service to 30 “NFL Cities” By End of 2010

Verizon will roll out blazing LTE service to 30 “football cities”—major metropolitan areas—by year’s end. According to my less-nerdy friends, there are 32 teams in the NFL, so two cities will be out of luck. Good luck, Bills. [eWeek via Boy Genius Report]

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Concept Train Seats Swivel When (And Where) You Want Them To

Tired of sitting on a train, packed in coach class like cattle off to be slaughtered? Design firm SeymourPowell has a solution, with seats that can be reconfigured on the fly. Want privacy? Turn away. Want collaboration? Turn toward. [Wired]

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Audyssey’s Sound Dock Packs a PhD

Audyssey’s new iOS-compatible speaker dock squeezes sophisticated software engineering cred—found in the high-end audio equipment you might already own—into one diminutive grilled black slab. With years of university research under its belt, the tiny guy wallops your iPod. The Audyssey dock pounds out a surprising amount of power from a box the size of a…

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Russia Developing Its Own Double-Screened 4G Smartphone for Next Year

In this video exchange between Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and state technology official Sergei Chemezov, the country’s first ever domestically-developed 4G phone is showed off with pride. And the kicker? Two screens! According to our crack team of Russian translators, the device will be made by Russian telecom firm Yota, and although that rear screen…

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Turn Your iPhone Into an Animation Studio With the StopMotion App

We know how good the iPhone 4’s camera is, but what else can it do besides snap pics? With the StopMotion app, makes some pretty kickass amateur stop motion movies. My own attempt was sad, but the app is powerful. StopMotion works by laying out a viewfinder grid, allowing you to manipulate, bit by bit,…

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Hop Over the Sarlaac Pit With Adidas Boba Fett ZX 800 Sneaks

Boba Fett armor-matching sneakers might be an idea more awesome in my mind than on my feet, but props to Adidas for celebrating the galaxy’s most badass bounty hunter. Keep them in the toylike packaging for collector cred, of course. [Pursuitist]

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Major Subscription Newspapers Heading to Your iPad Soon?

Apple will give the ailing newspaper biz welcome news with an iPad subscription option, the San Jose Mercury News reports. The deal will likely see Apple taking a slice of both subscription and advertising revenues, instead of a flat fee. Interestingly, Roger Fidler of University of Missouri’s Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute speculates Apple will…

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Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam

Veebeam does not do anything new. There are a variety of ways to get content from your computer to your TV. But the Veebeam does it easily. Web? Games? Movies? Hulu? With a Wireless USB dongle and receiver, you’re set. By plugging the $99 Veebeam’s antenna into your computer’s USB port, whatever is on your…

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The Secret, 250 Man Hollywood Team That Captured Our Doomsday Bombs

As the nuclear arms race exploded (sorry) in the 1950s, scientists and the politicians that funded them still weren’t exactly sure what their new superweapons would do. Their solution? A crack team of 250 Hollywood elites to film massive explosions. The New York Times explores the team’s history, and the recent efforts to declassify their…

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Print From Your Email Attachments With Epson’s PrintJinni App

Epson’s new PrintJinni app will let you beam email-attached Microsoft Office files, PDFs and JPGs to your printer, without the need for an extra computer. Epson claims that WiFi transfer process will maintain full document layout integrity, for those concerned. [iTunes]

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What Is a Ninja Star?

Whether it’s true or not, Apple is denying that Steve Jobs ninja star story. But you might still wonder, what exactly is this forbidden implement, where did it come from and how do you throw it? https://gizmodo.com/was-steve-jobs-busted-for-bringing-throwing-stars-into-5637551 It’s a tactical tool from ancient Japan… The “ninja star” is really just a shuriken—Japanese for “dart” or…

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Blazingly Access Your External Drives With LaCie’s First-Ever USB 3.0 RAID Box

Those of you looking to speedily dump and access large clumps of data may consider LaCie’s new 2big USB 3.0 RAID storage array. The $349 box offers speeds of up to 205 MB per second, and storage up to 4TB. [LaCie]

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Today’s Depressing Headline: AOL Wants Jonas Brothers to ‘Help Redesign the Internet’

What’s the Horsemen of the Apocalypse count at now? One higher! AOL (sorry, Aol.) is pulling off the desperation-level equivalence of calling your ex a hundred times in a row by enlisting the Jonas Brothers. You’re reading that correctly. AOL CEO Chairman Tim Armstrong thinks “the internet needs to be reprogrammed. Web pages haven’t looked…

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Is American Influence Making the Internet Prudish?

An op-ed in The Register poses an interesting and contentious question: is American moral conservatism ruining the internet? Is the American prudish aversion to nudity, explicit language, sexual deviance, drugs—at least in public—stifling the rest of the world? Jane Fae Ozimek wants us to consider whether the internet is too prudish because of the moral…

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Why No Warner Bros. On Apple TV? Not Enough Dough

AT&T Claims LTE Rollout by Mid-2011

Make Outdoor Portraiture a Breeze With a Hacked Walking Stick Monopod

Voltron of Computers Combines Phone, Tablet, and Keyboard Into One

Greenpeace Skewers Zuckerberg’s “So Coal” Network In Adorably Insulting Video

LaCie’s Wireless Space is a WiFi Storage Triple Threat

Verizon Bringing 4G Service to 30 “NFL Cities” By End of 2010

Concept Train Seats Swivel When (And Where) You Want Them To

Audyssey’s Sound Dock Packs a PhD

Russia Developing Its Own Double-Screened 4G Smartphone for Next Year

Turn Your iPhone Into an Animation Studio With the StopMotion App

Hop Over the Sarlaac Pit With Adidas Boba Fett ZX 800 Sneaks

Major Subscription Newspapers Heading to Your iPad Soon?

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam

The Secret, 250 Man Hollywood Team That Captured Our Doomsday Bombs

Print From Your Email Attachments With Epson’s PrintJinni App

What Is a Ninja Star?

Blazingly Access Your External Drives With LaCie’s First-Ever USB 3.0 RAID Box

Today’s Depressing Headline: AOL Wants Jonas Brothers to ‘Help Redesign the Internet’

Is American Influence Making the Internet Prudish?

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

Zach Cregger Recruits Second Zach for His Aunt Gladys Spinoff

Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

How Adult Swim Skipped the April Fools’ Nonsense and Dropped a ‘Smiling Friends’ Claymation Horror Short Instead

Oracle Lays Off Thousands to Offset AI Spending

The Films and Shows You Should Be Streaming in April 2026

Chinese Startup Debuts Super-Bendy Robotic Arm for Orbital Repairs

Your Devices Are Targets. Bitdefender Shields Them All — For Less Than You Think

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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?