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Apple Gives Mac Pros an 8-Core Makeover

So the rumors were true. Apple has given their mighty Mac Pro a power jolt this morning, allowing power-hungry fanboys the option of configuring a system with two quad-core 3.0GHz Intel Xeons. So what’s all this gonna cost you? A basic 8-core system will run you $3,997. Ouch. So now that we have that rumor…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 4 '07

Froggie the Robotic Pen Will Freak Out the Schoolmarm

Froggie the Robotic Pen goes through quite a frog-like convolution just to open itself up, but it’s about the most gadget delight you can get for 8 bucks. Fold it back up into itself, and it’s hard to even tell what it is. Available in silver or black. It’s not exactly robotic, but big fun…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 4 '07

DARPA on the Hunt for Morphing Robots

Just when we thought the fight couldn’t get any harder against our soon-to-be robotic overlords, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decides to screw us over. They’ve issued a request for shape-shifting robots, bots that can “manoeuvre through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions.” These so-called chembots would be like rats, which can…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 4 '07

FreeHand Gives Your Hand a Pocket

Spring is here, it’s warming up everywhere—well, almost—and you know what that means? There’s great running weather, and you’ll have fewer pockets. That’s where FreeHand can give you a hand. It’s a pocket for the back of your hand. Of course using such a convenience would mean actually leaving your house. Indeed, there is a…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 4 '07

Google Desktop For Mac OS X First Impressions [verdict: solid, feels slower than Spotlight]

So word in the Valley is that Google and Apple are still going out, going dutch at Mel’s Drive-In and doing naughty things at Apple dad’s garage. Now Google wants to get the relationship one step further without putting pressure on Apple and has released Google Desktop for Mac OS X. It indexes applications, Mail…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 4 '07

Frenchies Release Petit Computeur – C’est Très Cheap

French ISP Neuf Cegetel has come up with a computer that costs pas beaucoup. $53 buys you the computer gets you a month’s worth of computer plus ADSL line rental, $39 gets you a mouse, keyboard and camera, and a 14-inch color monitor is $132. UPDATE: That’s about $13 a month more than a broadband…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Apr 4 '07

VESA Approves DisplayPort 1.1 With Digital Content Protection, World Doesn’t Give a Damn, Orders More Pancakes

Those crazy videoheads at VESA have approved the final version of DisplayPort 1.1 that was announced at CES ’07. And while we thought it was yet another new connector for your computer, monitors, TVs and projectors, different to every other video port out there and obviously designed to confuse everyone, apparently VESA says “it’s a…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 4 '07

Talking CCTV Scheme: Big Brother Says ‘Stop Picking Your Nose Now, Robert’

In an attempt to make its people behave better on the streets, the British Government is to roll out a talking CCTV camera scheme. The (not-so-)good citizens of the northern town of Middlesbrough have already been subjected to the idea, which is to stick a loudhailer on top of various CCTV cameras and get control…

Gadgets Ad Dugdale Apr 4 '07

Collier’s Illustrated Future of 2001 (1901)

Today we have a follow-up to Monday’s post about Arthur Palm, the 14-year-old from Milwaukee, Wisconsin who in 1901 made predictions about what the world of 2001 might look like. The editors of the book Yesterday’s Future: The Twentieth Century Begins (Voices of the Wisconsin Past) suggest that Arthur Palm’s article in his school newspaper…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 4 '07

TWA Advertisement (1963)

The image above is a TWA advertisement from 1963. The ad features some great paleo-future design and can be found in the book The Golden Age of Advertising – The 60s.

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 4 '07

Rose Petal Cannon: My Love Knows No Sane Boundaries

I’m not getting married anytime soon, but if I were, I’d have to arm a platoon of flower girls with these Rose Petal Cannons. No better way to express undying love than with pyrotechnic floral buckshot. Rose Petal Cannon [Uber Review]

Gadgets Brian Lam Apr 3 '07

Dealzmodo: Xbox 360 HD DVD for $130 or $149

Or? Yes. Select Sam’s Clubs are selling the Xbox 360 HD DVD drives for either $130 or $149, depending on where you look. We’re not sure this is worth getting a Sam’s Club membership for—especially if you’re like us and already shop at Costco instead—but if you’ve already got one, hop on down and see.…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 3 '07

DS-Xtreme Nintendo DS Homebrew Cart Upgraded to 2GB

If you remember our first grope of the DS-Xtreme, it’s a DS-sized cartridge that goes into your Nintendo DS that lets you run homebrew apps on it. If the homebrew apps you decide to run included actual DS games, so be it. Now the DS-X cartridge has been upgraded to 2GB from 512MB. https://gizmodo.com/first-grope-ds-xtreme-nintendo-ds-media-enhancer-207963 One…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 3 '07

Blu-ray Spec Change May Cause Problems For Old Players

The Blu-ray Disc Association has mandated that all players released after October 31, 2007 must support a specific feature set for BD-Java—the technology responsible for giving Blu-ray discs the “extra features” like movie commentary and picture-in-picture. There are two issues with this order. One. This new feature set for BDJ is not the one currently…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 3 '07

Retailers Wish is Granted, PSP Priced Dropped to $169

Remember a couple weeks ago when retailers were calling for a price drop on the PSP? Their wish was granted today when Gamestop/EB Games dropped the price of the core system to $169. https://gizmodo.com/retailers-want-a-psp-price-drop-244828 Was the retailer demands the only reason for the price drop? Perhaps, but there have been a lot of PSP2 speculation…

Tech News Travis Hudson Apr 3 '07

US Airliners to Get Wi-Fi Action by Next Year

Good news for Internet addicts who can’t stand being disconnected while traveling 35,000 feet in the air. It looks like US airliners will finally offer Wi-Fi on flights starting next year. The bad news is that the provider (AirCell) is gonna ask you to fork over around $10 before you get online. There might be…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 3 '07

USB Flashing Siren (AKA Bacon Beacon)

I got another speeding ticket yesterday, driving on Route 80, at the bottom of a steep grade. The flashing blue and reds in the rearview were frightful, especially since CHP gave me an unnecessary verbal Smack Down about the same time last year. (Officer, going 80 in a 25 isn’t even possible in my beat-up…

Gadgets Brian Lam Apr 3 '07

Dear Giz: Let Me Comment!

Still don’t know how to comment? Here’s how. At the bottom of each post you’ll see a “Login with your username and password below. New User? Here’s what to do.” Since you’re obviously a new user, click that link and follow the instructions below to choose a username, a password and an optional email address.…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 3 '07

Wireless Xbox 360 Rock Band Guitar Controller Coming?

EBGames is great at letting people in on unreleased accessories. Last time, it was the Retro Joystick from Mad Catz. This time, it’s a wireless guitar controller for Rock Band, the upcoming game that lets you be Guitar Hero with 2 guitars, a drum set and a mic. The ship date is 11/1, which should…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 3 '07

7 Ways to Speed Up Vista

Vista has been out in the wild just a little while now, but the goddamn OS has likely already started to fudge its pants. Here’s one of those too obvious “Speed up your OS articles” by Extreme tech. It would be completely useless, except, it gets into the nitty gritty of the OS. Just because…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 3 '07

Apple Gives Mac Pros an 8-Core Makeover

Froggie the Robotic Pen Will Freak Out the Schoolmarm

DARPA on the Hunt for Morphing Robots

FreeHand Gives Your Hand a Pocket

Google Desktop For Mac OS X First Impressions [verdict: solid, feels slower than Spotlight]

Frenchies Release Petit Computeur – C’est Très Cheap

VESA Approves DisplayPort 1.1 With Digital Content Protection, World Doesn’t Give a Damn, Orders More Pancakes

Talking CCTV Scheme: Big Brother Says ‘Stop Picking Your Nose Now, Robert’

Collier’s Illustrated Future of 2001 (1901)

TWA Advertisement (1963)

Rose Petal Cannon: My Love Knows No Sane Boundaries

Dealzmodo: Xbox 360 HD DVD for $130 or $149

DS-Xtreme Nintendo DS Homebrew Cart Upgraded to 2GB

Blu-ray Spec Change May Cause Problems For Old Players

Retailers Wish is Granted, PSP Priced Dropped to $169

US Airliners to Get Wi-Fi Action by Next Year

USB Flashing Siren (AKA Bacon Beacon)

Dear Giz: Let Me Comment!

Wireless Xbox 360 Rock Band Guitar Controller Coming?

7 Ways to Speed Up Vista

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