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Future Without Football (Daily Review, 1976)

An article in the April 6, 1976 Daily Review (Hayward, California) ran with the headline, “Students see future without football.” The 21st century will see the demise of football, a cure for cancer and cities under the sea, according to some bright ninth grade students. A special “futurology” class at suburban Milford Junior High School…

Tech News Matt Novak May 7

Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling DVD Player

Click to viewTen Things You Should Know is a new feature series here at Gizmodo aimed at first-time buyers or people who don’t have (or need) extensive knowledge on a product before making a purchase. To blast things off, we’re starting it up today with Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling…

Tech News Jason Chen May 7

Olympus Evolt E-410 Unboxed and Well Fondled (Verdict: Quite Nice, but Nikon D40 is Nicer)

If you don’t know about the E-410, it’s a 10-megapixel digital SLR packed into a remarkably slim body, selling for an impressively low price ($700 for body only, $800 for one lens, $900 including two lenses). The value proposition increases when you consider it includes Live View—the ability to get a video preview of your…

Reviews Wilson Rothman May 7

No Zune Announcement Today

It’s official: no Zune announcement today. We were all duped. Fool us once [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/zune-announcement-this-monday-258007 Update: there actually was an announcement made, but it wasn’t a public one. See this post for details of what was revealed behind closed doors to developers. https://gizmodo.com/zune-2-details-even-larger-screen-hard-drive-259162

Tech News Jason Chen May 7

Ashtray Clock Keeps Track of Your Smoking Habits

Time sure does fly when you are tarring over your lungs. The Ashtray Clock is a unique twist on a couple of old products. This clock can actually be used as an ashtray, but once the cigarette butts and ashes start to accumulate it may be a bit hard to count down the minutes until…

Gadgets Travis Hudson May 7

Projector with an Integrated DVD Player

It may be a bit of an oxymoron, but home theater junkies can be lazy as hell too. Sure, they will dump thousands of dollars into a system, but who wants to actually set it up? That is where this projector steps in. This red rocket has an DVD player built directly into it. It…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 7

Rube Goldberg Dog Food Dispenser

It’s been a while since we have seen a solid Rube Goldberg machine, so here is the latest from Instructables member Eswolowski. It is small, yet complex and accomplishes a task of feeding a dog. At first I thought it was a bit overkill to feed the dog, then I realized that is the entire…

Tech News Travis Hudson May 7

Plantronics CS70N Headset Picks the Phone Up for You (Literally)

Plantronics’ new CS70N hands-free headset boasts the usual suite of Plantronics perks and a noise-cancelling mic for rowdy office environments. It also works with both standard and IP phones. But what (almost) makes it worth the $330 price tag is that with the touch of a button it lifts the phone off of the cradle…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan May 7

Stock-Predicting Robot to Make More Money Than You

If you think you suck at playing the stock market now, wait until you have to compete with an army of stock-predicting robots. Lehman Brothers is working on a “secret” AI system that they hope will be able to foresee the future of the markets, making the very rich even richer. We aren’t just talking…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7

Samsung Ships Q1 Ultra UMPC

Samsung marks the year anniversary of the release of its Q1 UMPC by shipping the Q1 Ultra, a better all-around ultramobile PC with a lower price and enhanced usability. This $799 handheld saves energy with an LED-backlit screen at 1024×600 pixels, and that helps boost the battery life to what Samsung says is 4.5 hours.…

Tech News Charlie White May 7

SanDisk Sansa Shaker, Easy Enough for a Four-Year-Old

Check out this ponderous video of an unboxing of the little $39 SanDisk Sansa Shaker, an MP3 player for kids that grabs its songs from an SD card. Shaped like a salt shaker, it looks like fun to hold down a button and shake it, making it change its tune. With its built-in speakers, it…

Tech News Charlie White May 7

Nokia N95 Firmware Update

Nokia’s flagship N95 gets a firmware update, numbered 11.0.0.26, that improves speed, imaging, and more: Symbian Freak has the details, including wildly improved photographs, while Mobile Mentalism boils the improvements down to a easy to read list. Improvements include: # Video stabilization improvements # Exposure improved # Video sharpness and noise improved # Improvements in…

Tech News Brian Lam May 7

Dragon Speakers Match Your Bruce Lee-Themed Pad

We’re not entirely sure if these Dragon Speakers are hip or not. In some settings they might look a bit tacky and others, such as a Chinese restaurant, they might be seen as post-kitsch cool. Either way, they’re not monstrosities; they’re just over 12 inches high and might just fit in with your eclectic décor.…

Tech News Charlie White May 7

Stealth Cam Prowler Catches Man or Beast in the Act

We’re seeing more infrared cameras lately, but this one has a different marketing angle for these perverted porncams: it’s pitched to photo hunters. You position the Stealth Cam Prowler digital video infrared scouting camera where those animals you’d like see usually hang around, and then you can capture video or 2-megapixel stills of them in…

Tech News Charlie White May 7

Helio Ocean Coming May 21st?

Helio’s iPhone-trouncing Ocean may be available for purchase as soon as May 21st, which is a mere two weeks away. Over at the Boy Genius Report they claim that a tipster says that everything is lined up for a “general release on May 21st and a limited/internal/partner release 5-8 [days] prior.” Hey, that’s really soon!…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7

Governor Knight and the Videophone (Oakland Tribune, 1955)

This photo ran in the September 3, 1955 Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) with the caption, “Knight ‘Looks’ Hello – The new Videophone is employed by Governor Knight and his wife at State Fair.” See also: Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (1993) Face-to-Face Telephones on the Way (New York Times, 1968)

Tech News Matt Novak May 7

8AM Desk Lamp, Held Up As If By Magic

This desk lamp, called 8AM by its designers, clamps onto your desk, and it looks like its bulb is magically held up by a wire. There’s a regular braided electric wire leading to the clamp on the desk, but then coming out the other side is an electric wire that looks the same but that’s…

Tech News Charlie White May 7

AMD’s Quad-core CPUs Leaked?

AMD has been pretty quiet, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been thinking of ways to put an end to Intel’s desktop dominance. Details have been leaked on the company’s first four-core CPU, dubbed the Phenom X4. The CPU will come in at speeds ranging from 2.2GHz to 2.6GHz, with HyperTransport speeds of 3.2GHz and…

Tech News Louis Ramirez May 7

Joost Struggling Under the Load of New Beta Users

Joost recently opened itself up to an unlimited beta, and its since been inundated with new users as websites hand out stacks upon stacks of invites. The video streaming service is based on a peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing structure, so in theory it should be able to scale to however many users hop on board. In…

Tech News Adam Frucci May 7

For Hot Rice, Just Add Cold Water

Some Japanese inventors have come up with a way to make a piping hot rice dish by adding nothing but cold water. “Hotto! Raisu” isn’t designed for the totally lazy, but rather for areas hit by natural disasters that are without power. How does it work? By subjecting rice to 4,000 times normal atmospheric pressure,…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 7

Future Without Football (Daily Review, 1976)

Ten Things You Should Know Before You Buy an Upscaling DVD Player

Olympus Evolt E-410 Unboxed and Well Fondled (Verdict: Quite Nice, but Nikon D40 is Nicer)

No Zune Announcement Today

Ashtray Clock Keeps Track of Your Smoking Habits

Projector with an Integrated DVD Player

Rube Goldberg Dog Food Dispenser

Plantronics CS70N Headset Picks the Phone Up for You (Literally)

Stock-Predicting Robot to Make More Money Than You

Samsung Ships Q1 Ultra UMPC

SanDisk Sansa Shaker, Easy Enough for a Four-Year-Old

Nokia N95 Firmware Update

Dragon Speakers Match Your Bruce Lee-Themed Pad

Stealth Cam Prowler Catches Man or Beast in the Act

Helio Ocean Coming May 21st?

Governor Knight and the Videophone (Oakland Tribune, 1955)

8AM Desk Lamp, Held Up As If By Magic

AMD’s Quad-core CPUs Leaked?

Joost Struggling Under the Load of New Beta Users

For Hot Rice, Just Add Cold Water

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