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AT&T’s Unofficial Response To 300-Page iPhone Bill: Default Summary Invoicing

An AT&T call-center employee has taken it upon himself to answer the allegations of the infamous 300-page iPhone bill, apparently in lieu of an official response from the telco. While not “defending” AT&T, he did say this: https://gizmodo.com/the-madness-begins-with-a-300-page-at-t-bill-for-iphone-288887 As of August 10, “summary billing” has been the default format for paper bills, doing away with…

Tech News Wilson Rothman

Magazine Illusions Are Cool, Cheap to Do

These magazine illusions are easy to make, cheap and fun. You just need your digital camera, any magazine with a life-sized human part printed in a full page and some imagination. Now stop playing Wii and go do something creative. Preferably with a Score cover. [Fubiz]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Make That Old Cellphone Look like New by Painting It Yourself

Getting tired of that old, gray and grungy cellphone of yours? Put away that iPhone envy and go to the Instructables site, which will show you how to kiss that frog with pearly colors and turn it into a handsome prince. But spraying a gleaming coat of paint on a delicate instrument such as a…

Tech News Charlie White

Boblbee Solar Case Gives You Infinite Music

The Boblbee Solar is a weatherproof iPod case made for adventurers. Fully droppable and wettable, the Boblbee Solar can take its share of the hard knock life. But its real trick is a curved solar panel, making the most of surface area for a charge cycle that should be about 8 to 10 hours on…

Gadgets Mark Wilson

Sponsors Are Our Only Hope

Who needs a little trashcan robot when you’ve got sponsors? Thanks Ask.com, AT&T, Audi, Blackberry, The Book of General Ignorance, California Lottery, Canon, Cazadores Tequila, Chargepod, DLO, Geek Squad, Mio, Motorola, Netgear, Nissan, Pentax, Porsche, Ricoh, Sonos, Sprint, TiVo, Toto Washlet, Toyota, Verizon, VW, WAR from Lionsgate, and Zune. Help us defeat the dark side…

Tech News Jason Chen

R2-D2 Home Theater Gets Upgraded, Still Can’t Project HDTV, Calculate Hyperspace Jumps

The home theater version of the world’s favorite astro-mech droid got an upgrade, boosting its DLP projector to 1,024 x 768 pixels and 1,500:1 contrast ratio from the previous 800 x 600 and 1,000:1. Still short from the basic HDTV 720p resolution, but it can do plenty of stuff. https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-projector-shaped-like-r2d2-does-not-project-226868 The DLP unit can project…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Thomson V888 PMP Slider

Yes, we recommend you pick up the Thomson (TMS) V888 slider—not because it supports a ton of video/file formats including Divx and .pdf. Not because it has a four-inch screen or uses inexpensive flash media for storage. And certainly not because its SNES-like control pad and vague “game emulator.” You should get the V888 because…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Robot that Jumps Like a Flea Can Sniff out Pollution

Scientists at an Italian university have come up with a pollution-detecting robot that jumps around like a flea. The palm-sized device was developed with its bug-like abilities to enable it to move more quickly over the ground when searching for the source of a noxious leak. Umberto Scarfogliero, one of the men behind the University…

Tech News AddyDugdale

How to Peel an Egg in No Time at All

We may not be able to tell our readers how to suck eggs, but allow us to tell you how to blow one. [LiveLeak]

Tech News AddyDugdale

Samsung Claims 100% Meeting Customer Demand, Despite Claims to the Contrary

Samsung stated that they were going to fully meet customer demand for NAND flash memory on August 7, but Taiwanese manufacturer PQI and often-innacurate Digitimes are poo-pooing on that for some reason. PQI claims that prices will go up and they will benefit from it, even while Samsung mostly works in long-term contracts with big…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Fantastic Gizmodo Robot Dancers Debut

Check out the Gizmodo Robot Dancers, appearing for the first time right here. There’s GizEditor Brian Lam out front, with (left to right behind Brian) Adam Frucci, Charlie White and Jason Chen busting their own moves alongside. Make your own dance extravaganza at a prominent Dutch beer company’s website. [Heineken]

Tech News Charlie White

UNI Modular Concept PC Like an iMac Vomited Inside Out

I’m all for big dreamy concepts. This one, of a modular computer, is gorgeous, and I hated it at first, but it’s essentially a computer built up of several parts that plug together. Seems like a complicated setup, but it’s not any different than the inside of a PC’s case now. Well, it’s just like…

Tech News Brian Lam

Reinforce your Bedside Table, Here Comes the Litracube Lamp

Litracon, or translucent concrete, has been around for a couple of years now, but its inventor, Hungarian architect ron Losonczi, is going one further by making a lamp out of it. Called the Litracube, it measures seven inches and weighs over 10 kilos. It’ll cost you a hefty 570 ($763) plus the shipping from Hungary.…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Renovatio Motorbike Makes Me Drool as Much as a Wraith or Hellcat

The Renovatio is yet another amazing bike/art masterpiece/mechanical wonder from the engineering wizards at Confederate. Like their Wraiths and Hellcats, this handmade steel, aluminum, titanium and carbon beast looks straight from a Katsuhiro Otomo movie —but even more badass and with a heart to match: a V-twin 1686cc water-cooled engine at a 90º angle. Can’t…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

iPod Pillow Speakers

These pillows have integrated speakers, so you can connect up an iPod and annoy everyone on the flight with your music, not just the people sitting either side of you. Unfortunately, the graphics that look like they might be covering control buttons, aren’t—you have to change tracks and adjust volume on the iPod itself. If…

Tech News Msparkes

Digix Ballpoint Pen has 1GB Flash Memory

Korean company Digix has brought out a ballpoint pen with a 1GB flash memory. See it boxed below. It reminds me of Tintin’s rocket, for some strange reason. [Aving USA via New Launches]

Gadgets AddyDugdale

MicroVee Sub-Woofer Packs 1200-Watt Punch into 9-Inch Cube

Velodyne has described its new subwoofer as “room-pounding bass in a room-friendly box.” With its digital amplifier and triple-driver system, the MicroVee is suitable for both music and movies. Available from November, pricing and full specs are after the jump. Drivers: active 6.5″ forward firing anodized aluminium cone (5″ piston diameter) 2 x 6.5″ side-firing…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Lost and Stolen Time Capsules

Oglethorpe University in Atlanta has a very interesting list from the International Time Capsule Society which describes the 10 most wanted time capsules. It seems that since the list’s creation in 1991, two have been found. 1. Bicentennial Wagon Train Time Capsule This capsule was supposed to hold the signatures of 22 million Americans. But…

Tech News Matt Novak

Diebold Pulls a Reverse Cingular, Rebrands Voting Machine Division

Diebold takes such pride in the secure craftsmanship of its voting machines that it’s changing the name of that division to Premier Election Solutions Inc., and even giving it its own board of directors. This is after no one stepped up to take the division off of Diebold’s hands, probably because they’d feel guilty for…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

Dell Decking 4 Years’ Worth of Earnings by up to $150 Million

Following an internal probe (heh, heh) Dell has announced that it will restate its earnings from fiscal 2003 to the first quarter of 2007, reducing them by up to $150 million. The probe concluded that Dell “misled its auditors and manipulated results to meet performance goals.” The most hardcore fakeage apparently took place in Q1…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

AT&T’s Unofficial Response To 300-Page iPhone Bill: Default Summary Invoicing

Magazine Illusions Are Cool, Cheap to Do

Make That Old Cellphone Look like New by Painting It Yourself

Boblbee Solar Case Gives You Infinite Music

Sponsors Are Our Only Hope

R2-D2 Home Theater Gets Upgraded, Still Can’t Project HDTV, Calculate Hyperspace Jumps

Thomson V888 PMP Slider

Robot that Jumps Like a Flea Can Sniff out Pollution

How to Peel an Egg in No Time at All

Samsung Claims 100% Meeting Customer Demand, Despite Claims to the Contrary

Fantastic Gizmodo Robot Dancers Debut

UNI Modular Concept PC Like an iMac Vomited Inside Out

Reinforce your Bedside Table, Here Comes the Litracube Lamp

Renovatio Motorbike Makes Me Drool as Much as a Wraith or Hellcat

iPod Pillow Speakers

Digix Ballpoint Pen has 1GB Flash Memory

MicroVee Sub-Woofer Packs 1200-Watt Punch into 9-Inch Cube

Lost and Stolen Time Capsules

Diebold Pulls a Reverse Cingular, Rebrands Voting Machine Division

Dell Decking 4 Years’ Worth of Earnings by up to $150 Million

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