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Solar Impulse Plane Flies For First Time in Switzerland

The Solar Impulse plane was flown for the first time in Switzerland yesterday, and leading the solar-powered project was Captain Bertrand Piccard, part of the first team to fly the world in a balloon in 1999. https://gizmodo.com/solar-impulse-around-the-world-in-a-100-sun-powered-a-262940 The Solar Impulse team has been working on the project since 2003, with the carbon-fiber plane wingspan measuring…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

CrunchPad Breaks Cover at Media Event Next Monday

The CrunchPad would’ve been an easy-to-use Web tablet, but the strange saga of its 11th-hour demise will be anything but simple. Chandra Rathakrishnan—CEO of the CrunchPad’s problem partner—will demo the tablet, and explain his side of the story. https://gizmodo.com/the-crunchpad-is-dead-5415292 The Fusion Garage CEO will speak to reporters and show the device in San Francisco Monday,…

Tech News Danny Allen

ASUS’ Skinny UM30 Laptop Look Familiar, With That Aluminium Body and Black Bezel?

A record for ASUS’ laptop range, the UM30 measures just 19.6mm thick, and while there’s nothing particularly special inside, we do happen to think it looks rather smart. You know, for an ASUS. Running on an Intel Core 2 Duo SU 9400 processor, there’s 3GB DDR2 SDRAM and a 320GB HDD. Loaded with Windows 7…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Freaky Singing Animatronic Heads Part of $75K Art Work

These creepily realistic face molds are attached to servos controlled by computer. They come from the twisted mind of artist, Nathaniel Mellor, and are part of an art piece being sold at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 for $75K. Watch: Apparently the facial movements and accompanying audio are on a 15 minute loop, and they…

Tech News Danny Allen

Gboard is the Colorful Gmail Keyboard For Shortcuts That You Need Now

While all 69 Gmail shortcuts aren’t represented on this Gboard keyboard, the 19 that do feature on the mini-keyboard are bound to be your most-used. Search, star, archives, trash—all the majors are represented in fun Google colors. It’s not an official Google product, with Californian film producer Charlie Mason behind the Mac and Windows-friendly peripheral,…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Microsoft on Paying Newspapers to Delist From Google: “That’s Not Our Focus”

The possibility that Microsoft might pay Rupert Murdoch‘s Newscorp to delist from Google (in favor of Bing) caused a lot of outrage, Giz included. Now we’ve got a statement from Microsoft in response. https://gizmodo.com/the-definition-of-evil-microsofts-search-wars-hurt-us-5411045 Here’s a quote from Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior vice president in charge of online audiences: What I would say is, our…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees

Amy Klobuchar, True America Hero and Senator of Minnesota, introduced a bill in Congress today in response to Verizon’s doubled early termination fees, aiming to limit them. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-to-double-early-termination-fee-5396828 Verizon’s response: A broad array of Americans who might not otherwise be able to afford broadband connections to the Internet with a home PC, or by paying…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Remainders – Good and Bad Stuff We Didn’t Post (And Why)

On today’s list of things that didn’t quite make the cut for whatever reason: Dangerous cellphone straps, updates no one will notice, a Google freebie, and a six dollar waste of money. Google Offering to Snail Mail a Holiday Card for Free Google’s getting into the spirit of the season and offering a neat freebie:…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Looking at This iPod Might Make You Vomit (Really)

If you guys get motion sickness (or drink heavily), you might want to skip this crazy art exhibit. Imagine a huge iPod (a 4th gen, I’m pretty sure) except all squiggly, like you’re looking at it in a funhouse mirror. This nausea-inducing iPod can be seen at Art Basel Miami Beach, which runs December 3rd…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as “Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen”

Ohhh shit, y’all. This is getting dirty. Motorola/Verizon’s newest Droid ad not only depicts the iPhone as a tiara-wearing, Sandra-Bullock-worshipping Barbie doll, it actually shows a clearly identifiable iPhone. It’s both inflammatory and in your face. Right up in it! I have a Droid, and like it a lot, but I’m a little concerned that…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

AT&T Cuts BlackBerry Prices in Half, Including the Nice New Ones

Had enough holiday smartphone deals? Of course you haven’t. AT&T’s cutting prices on pretty much their entire line of BlackBerrys, including the recently released Bold 9700 and Curve 8900. The sale starts today, December 4th, and doesn’t seem to have a definite end date. [AT&T] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9700-impressions-small-and-chirpy-lik-5397391

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Leaked Motorola Sholes Returns, With a Disturbing Lump in Its Side

Looking awfully similar to a recent leak, the Chinese-for-now Sholes has leaked yet again. It mostly looks like the same device—except now we can see it’s got some kind of upsetting tumor on its right side. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-sholes-returns-looks-like-a-keyboard-less-dro-5417155 The phone (or tablet, as it’s sometimes called for some reason), similar to the Droid but lacking a…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch

Remember Solaren, the company that’s trying to launch those space-based solar panels, the one that signed a deal with California’s biggest power utility company? The whole plan got even closer to reality today, after getting approval from California legislators. https://gizmodo.com/california-may-get-some-power-from-solar-space-cells-by-5213197 And, like we said, there’s no reason Californians would reject the deal between Solaren and…

Space & Spaceflight Dan Nosowitz

Pre-Release Intel Core i9 Chip Hits eBay for $1,200

It may not be due out until early next year, but an engineering sample of Intel’s monster Core i9 processor (the kind we saw benchmarked) ended up on eBay. The 2.4GHz Xeon Westmere Gulftown chip’s auction ended, unfortunately, so all you nerd millionaires can forget about snagging the expensive escapee. https://gizmodo.com/intel-core-i9-benched-six-cores-of-pure-joy-5411119 Given that the pictures…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Creative’s Android-Wielding Zii Trinity Captured on Video

Some new video footage of Creative’s Zii Trinity reference hardware, giving us a closer look at the hardware-for-hire. It looks pretty diminutive, but also pretty unfinished. The phone looks tiny, especially compared to the iPhone-sized Creative Zii Egg, but it seems the kinks haven’t quite been worked out—some gestures, like swiping between homepages, result in…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail

A woman is potentially facing three years in jail for recording three minutes of New Moon, the sequel to Twilight. Three years. In Jail. Over Twilight. Samantha Tumpach claims that she should not face the harsh punishment intended for bootleggers, because all she was doing is recording family members singing “Happy Birthday” to her sister…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice

An ad with someone telling you to quit smoking in the cold robotic voice of a mechanical larynx is powerful imagery. This new artificial larnyx could screw up that whole angle for anti-smoking advocacy groups. The system utilizes a palatometer, a device traditionally used in speech therapy, to track the movement of the tongue. A…

Health Sean Fallon

I Want This Only Because It Vaguely Resembles Batman

I know it won’t look like Batman once it’s all unboxed and under normal lighting, but for a fleeting moment, I want to possess nothing more than this $60 miniature Dark Knight multitool. [Amazon]

Tech News Mark Wilson

Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton’s Beard

Everyone knows that stroking a beard helps you think. And there are few beards more majestic than James Lipton’s. So it makes sense that LG is using said beard to promote responsible texting in these actually-amusing ads. Come on, admit it. You can’t resist Lipton. [Beard Revue via NotCot]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Android 2.0.1 SDK Available, Plus Droid Getting OTA Update Soon

It’s a minor update, but the Android 2.0.1 SDK just came out, mostly consisting of little bug fixes (Bluetooth, resource allocation, that kind of thing). Alongside that, there’ll be an OTA update for the Droid in “the coming weeks.” The Android 2.0.1 update should be out by the end of the year, but Droid owners…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Solar Impulse Plane Flies For First Time in Switzerland

CrunchPad Breaks Cover at Media Event Next Monday

ASUS’ Skinny UM30 Laptop Look Familiar, With That Aluminium Body and Black Bezel?

Freaky Singing Animatronic Heads Part of $75K Art Work

Gboard is the Colorful Gmail Keyboard For Shortcuts That You Need Now

Microsoft on Paying Newspapers to Delist From Google: “That’s Not Our Focus”

Senator Introduces Bill to Smack Down Early Termination Fees

Remainders – Good and Bad Stuff We Didn’t Post (And Why)

Looking at This iPod Might Make You Vomit (Really)

Droid Commercial Paints iPhone as “Digitally Clueless Beauty Pageant Queen”

AT&T Cuts BlackBerry Prices in Half, Including the Nice New Ones

Leaked Motorola Sholes Returns, With a Disturbing Lump in Its Side

California Approves Orbiting Solar Panel Deal, Aims for 2016 Launch

Pre-Release Intel Core i9 Chip Hits eBay for $1,200

Creative’s Android-Wielding Zii Trinity Captured on Video

Recording Two Minutes of Twilight Could Lead to Three Years of Jail

New Artificial Larynx Could Give Cancer Patients a Natural Sounding Voice

I Want This Only Because It Vaguely Resembles Batman

Some Friendly Texting Advice From James Lipton’s Beard

Android 2.0.1 SDK Available, Plus Droid Getting OTA Update Soon

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