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Most Disappointing Transformer Ever

First off, the GX-32 Gold Lightan Transformer is actually made of silver. And secondly, the badass robot turns into a cube rectangular solid. Yes, a freakin’ cube rectangular solid—the most boring geometrical shape in existence that’s good for building cool things out of. Remember back when Transformers became guns? Oh, how the mighty have fallen.…

Landing Airplane Collapses, Smashing Engine Blade into Cabin

This is what happens when big toys go wrong: watch as this SAS Haviland Q400’s right landing gear collapses, putting the engine on fire and smashing one of its turboprop engines’ blades into the cabin. Fortunately, like the stunning explosion in Okinawa, all passengers and crew survived. Next time the Scandinavians should kill a couple…

Apple Sells 1 Millionth iPhone

Click to viewSeventy four days out from launch, Apple has sold 1 million iPhones—smack dab on target with recent analyst predictions that the iPhone would surpass the mil mark by Sept. 30. In a press release, Steve Jobs said that it took nearly two years to sell that many iPods. The big boss continued: “We…

World’s Biggest Supercomputer is a Virus?

The Storm Worm Botnet currently infects between one and ten million computers worldwide, which means that it has access to a huge amount of processing power and somewhere between 1 and 10 petabytes of RAM. This apparently makes it one of the most powerful computers in the world, with more computing power than the ten…

Ringles: The Next Ringtone Product You Won’t Buy

Apple’s offering of $0.99 ringtones was just the latest effort for the recording industry to sell you a smaller version of songs you already own in order to use them on your phones. Following up that announcement, two record companies have just announced Ringles, which is essentially a CD with 3 singles, a ringtone and…

Motorola promises new phone announcements next month and that they won’t “ride one horse to the bitter end again” like did the RAZR. Guess we’ll see. [NYT]

SanDisk Reinvents 16GB Sansa View as Price-Slashed Nano Killer

SanDisk killed off its original Sansa View, a flash-endowed PMP shown at CES, and today announced that it is giving the name to a super-slim 16GB video and music player that will cost $199. It’s no coincidence that this is twice the memory of Apple’s new 8GB nano—at the same price. https://gizmodo.com/sandisk-sansa-view-video-player-227067 SanDisk’s 8GB View…

Idiots Keep Incurring iPhone’s Roaming Data Charges

Click to viewSome morons are whining again about iPhone international roaming data charges, this time adding up to $4,800 between three phones. They are claiming that AT&T charged them while their phones were “off.” Black magic? Criminal conspiracy? AT&T colluding with Apple, the NSA, FBI, CIA and the Vatican? No, probably just stupidity. https://gizmodo.com/cia-vatican-fox-news-undercover-agents-alter-wikipedi-289853 This…

GSM quietly celebrated it’s 20th birthday a few days ago. It was on the 7th September 1987 that 15 phone firms got together and agreed on the standard. And we didn’t even buy it a card. [BBC]

Solar-Powered Plane Smashes World Record, Sort Of

UK defense firm Qinetiq has smashed the world record for the longest unmanned flight. Their solar-powered Zephyr flew continuously for an incredible 54 hours, easily beating the previous 30-hour record held by a US jet aircraft. Unfortunately though, it won’t be officially recognized as a record, because of a slight oversight. The flight was pretty…

Apple iPod Touch Calendar Can’t “Add” Appointments: Why, and What’s Else is Being Crippled?

Click to viewAccording to support discussions and their own description pages, Apple has removed the ability to add events in the iPod touch’s calendar, even while it uses the same operating system and application frameworks as the iPhone [Updated after the jump] https://gizmodo.com/ipod-touch-can-run-all-apple-and-third-parties-iphone-a-296837 After a lengthy discussion in Apple’s support boards about an image published…

Sony Rolly on Sale in Japan Sept 29th, comes with Annoying Video

So, Sony’s dancing Rolly is finally out today, after all that crazy hype. And I looked at it from all angles, sat through an arse-numbingly too-cool-for-school video &mdash feel free to indulge yourselves below &mdash and thought, do you know what? The egg-shaped dancing MP3 and ATRAC player looks like a small clone of the…

AMD Launches Quad-Core Opteron, a.k.a. Barcelona

AMD is finally launching its Barcelona quad-core server chip today, although it’s officially being called the Quad-Core Opteron. Intel may have been beating AMD to higher clock speeds recently, but the Barcelona offers some performance and power-saving advantages that should level the playing field again. Saving power is becoming increasingly important in server rooms now,…

French Prints Show the Year 2000 (1910)

Flying Firemen The National Library of France (BnF) has an amazing collection of prints from 1910 which depict life in the year 2000. They are credited to Villemard. There’s speculation that they were included with “foodstuffs” of the era, much like the German postcards we looked at back in April. Car Shoes The Barber The…

Apple Signs 3G Deal, Who Knows When It’ll Matter

Apple recently signed a 7-year, $56ish million contract with wireless technology firm InterDigital. According to an involved analyst, the licensing agreement covers “various 2G and 3G cellular technologies encompassing bandwidth allocation, roaming and power efficiency controls, and most likely also includes some type of packet data coding and delivery.” Oh, and some chunk of this…

Tornado Lab Lets You Indulge Your Wildest Gale Force Fantasies

If you have longed to become a master in the science of all things tornados, the Tornado Lab may well be for you. Place a jug of water into the blender wannabe and watch it tear away as a fully formed, mini typhoon. Promising to make budding enthusiasts into Twister-esque, manically obsessed tornado chasers, the…

Amateur Flamethrower Porn = Hot

Our favorite part of this video is not one of the many ridiculous flamethrower scenarios. It’s a shot about halfway in where—with no semblance of cohesion—the filmmakers roll a 70″ television down the stairs. We all know that firefighters are heroes. But based upon the brilliant sacrifices of safety throughout this video, I’d argue that…

Further Leaked Shots of LG’s VX10000

We previously brought you word of the LG VX10000 as a potential successor to Verizon’s enV. Well, we have no more information on what role the LG VX100000 shall play, but we do have a whole slew of new images, thanks to photon01 at PhotoDump. Check out the gallery for some glossy mobile excitement. [PhotoDump].…

RFID Chips May Cause Tumors

We guess some technology is just too bad to be true. Because despite being approved by the FDA back in 2005, RFID chips were shown to cause animal tumors—in a number of studies—back in the mid 90s. So are the studies bunk? Not necessarily, because the AP has consulted “leading cancer specialists” who feel the…

Windows Really Good Edition May Cannibalize Vista’s Market Share

There has been a lot of Apple talk recently; new iPods, movie rentals and general iTunes updates. Who’s showing the Microsoft guys’n’gals any love? We are! Check out this absolutely, insanely great homage to Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Windows Really Good Edition, as it is dubbed, makes some much needed improvements to the current OS. https://gizmodo.com/5-things-we-love-5-things-we-hate-about-the-new-ipod-l-296751…