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Verizon Denies Apple Support Once Again

Verizon’s John Johnson tells Beet.TV that they’re not planning on supporting Apple mobile devices in the near future. People who want to believe that the iPhone is coming to Verizon soon will question what he means by “near future” or “support” or “Apple mobile devices,” whereas people who don’t really care will take the statement…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 2 '10

20-Foot Shears May Be Used To Cut Leaking Oil Pipe After Robot Saw Got Stuck

BP’s latest attempt to fix the oil disaster in the Gulf involves cutting the tip off the broken oil riser pipe and shoving on a containment dome. One of the problems? The robot saw cutting the pipe got stuck. After the robot saw was unstuck, technicians found that it could “no longer cut effectively,” so…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2 '10

Storied Chair Designer Invents a New Crutch

Jeff Weber spotted a design rarity: The market opportunity is massive, and the products out there are terrible. When Jeff Weber suffered an injury to his left foot five years ago, he was given a set of standard crutches from the hospital. But the crutches were uncomfortable and seemed to only add ergonomic insult to…

Health Fast Company Jun 2 '10

Slacker Radio 2.0 iPhone App Lets You Cache Music Stations

Slacker has put out an update for its popular Slacker Radio iPhone app complete with a clever feature that actually lets you cache music stations so that you can listen to them anywhere—connected to a network or not. The app’s free, but you do need a Slacker Radio Plus subscription which will run you at…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2 '10

HP CEO Mark Hurd: “We Didn’t Buy Palm To Be In The Smartphone Business”

Ouch! According to HP CEO Mark Hurd, the company didn’t “spend billions of dollars trying to get into the smartphone business” when they bought Palm. Instead HP was after the intellectual property—in other words: WebOS. We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. And I tell people that, but it doesn’t seem to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2 '10

The Steak-Scented Billboard: Advertising’s Stinking Future

A new Billboard on River Highway in North Carolina not only shows a gigantic piece of steak on an even more giant fork, but it actually pumps out the smell of steak for passing drivers to suffer through. Gross! The Bloom grocery store chain, part of Food Lion, erected the giant sign at 1220 River…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 2 '10

Google Mobile Search Results Now Include Android and iPhone Apps

In order to make life a little bit easier for Android and iPhone users, Google Mobile Search results will now include relevant Android App Market and iTunes App Store links. [Google Mobile Blog]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2 '10

Question of the Day: How Much Wireless Data Do You Actually Use?

AT&T has killed off its unlimited data plan, which seems really terrible for consumers. But then I checked my actual data usage and found it to be much lower than I expected, which will end up saving me $15/month. If you’re a heavy 3G data user, you’re probably as pissed off as Matt right now…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 2 '10

June 2, 1954: Airplane Takes Off, Lands Vertically

1954: A Convair XFY-1 Pogo aircraft makes a vertical takeoff and landing. It’s a milestone in the checkered history of VTOL aircraft. Using designs captured from the Germans, the Navy and the newly formed Air Force crafted two design studies in 1947 for creating a fixed-wing vertical-takeoff-and-landing, or VTOL, aircraft. The goal of the project…

Tech News Wired.com Jun 2 '10

Best astronomy-related college prank ever

Students at Minnesota’s Carleton College today unveiled an awesomely elaborate prank. They turned the campus astronomical observatory into a giant R2D2. Cute. [via Cheshire Cat]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 2 '10

Unlocked Dell Streak Tablet To Be Available Next Month For $500

We heard whispers that the Dell Streak tablet would come this summer and it looks like the wait won’t be long: Dell will be selling the device for $500 next month. Oh, and it’ll be unlocked. [All Things D]

Tech News Rosa Golijan Jun 2 '10

Floppy Disk Desk

To think, our children won’t be able to build colorful desks out of nostalgic media formats because cloud distribution is inherently less wasteful. The shame! [Humbleablog via Unplggd]

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 2 '10

NASA TV Streaming Now Available On iPhone and iPad

If you are into space and have an iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or any HTML5/H.264-compatible device, you got lucky: Now you can watch NASA TV in real time. The quality is quite good, as you can see in this capture: This is great. Now I will be able to watch shuttle launches whenever I’m in…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 2 '10

Master Your Gadgets With Giz’s New Specialized Facebook Pages

We understand your pain. You love Giz but sometimes you can’t keep up with the daily flood of posts (sometimes we can’t either). So we made dedicated Facebook pages for our iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows Phone 7 coverage. Our new Facebook pages make it easy for you to stay up to date with everything…

Social Media Kyle VanHemert Jun 2 '10

Zombie love triangle episode of “Universal Dead”

If you weren’t already watching web series Universal Dead, this freaky new episode starring Doug Jones as a jilted mad scientist will suck you in. Zombie science soap opera WTF! [via Spatter Television]

Television Annalee Newitz Jun 2 '10

Communicating with Dolphins via the iPad, Sort Of

Dolphins, they sure are smart! But since they can’t talk, it’s hard to communicate with them. Enter the iPad, which some see as a great way to facilitate cross-species communication. Dolphin research scientist Jack Kassewitz has started using an iPad with dolphins to start building a language in which he can communicate with the animals.…

Biology Adam Frucci Jun 2 '10

Are Cameras the New Guns?

In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert Jun 2 '10

BP oil plume is big enough to cover most of Scotland

This map mashup allows you to position the BP oil disaster on top of any region in the world. It’s a good way to wrap your mind around how huge this thing really is. [via If It Was My Home]

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 2 '10

Kno Dual-Screen Tablet Sincerely Hopes Size Matters

If you hate the portability of tablets but love the glare, you might be interested in this “digital textbook” from Kno. Weighing it at 5.5lbs., its two 14.1-inch displays look like they were brought down from the mount. Kno, seriously: If you think it looks big in the pic above, check out this hands-on shot…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 2 '10

BP Does Your Browser Like It Did the Gulf

Maybe you want to protest BP. Maybe you’re just sick of hearing about them. Either way, you can now block all mention of British Petroleum from your internets with a Firefox plug-in… and replace them with mini oil spills. The Oil Spill plug-in effect is similar to what we saw a few weeks ago with…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jun 2 '10

Verizon Denies Apple Support Once Again

20-Foot Shears May Be Used To Cut Leaking Oil Pipe After Robot Saw Got Stuck

Storied Chair Designer Invents a New Crutch

Slacker Radio 2.0 iPhone App Lets You Cache Music Stations

HP CEO Mark Hurd: “We Didn’t Buy Palm To Be In The Smartphone Business”

The Steak-Scented Billboard: Advertising’s Stinking Future

Google Mobile Search Results Now Include Android and iPhone Apps

Question of the Day: How Much Wireless Data Do You Actually Use?

June 2, 1954: Airplane Takes Off, Lands Vertically

Best astronomy-related college prank ever

Unlocked Dell Streak Tablet To Be Available Next Month For $500

Floppy Disk Desk

NASA TV Streaming Now Available On iPhone and iPad

Master Your Gadgets With Giz’s New Specialized Facebook Pages

Zombie love triangle episode of “Universal Dead”

Communicating with Dolphins via the iPad, Sort Of

Are Cameras the New Guns?

BP oil plume is big enough to cover most of Scotland

Kno Dual-Screen Tablet Sincerely Hopes Size Matters

BP Does Your Browser Like It Did the Gulf

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