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New Inexpensive Material Will Turn Night Into Day

The University of Florida—funded by DARPA—has found a film-thin material that will add inexpensive, lightweight night vision to everything, from gadgets to cameras to car windshields. The key was in the same technology that powers OLED displays. The new material is made from seven layers of Organic Light Emitting Diodes, which get excited by infrared…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Controversial Book Claims Samsung Is Basically the Most Corrupt Company In Asia

Bribes, prosecutors on the take, tax evasion and slush funds. It sounds like organized crime, but if we’re to believe Kim Yong-chul, author of Think Samsung, all these terrible things happen at popular electronics company Samsung. All the time. Trouble for Kim (former top legal counsel, Samsung) is Samsung is not only the largest electronics…

Gadgets Jack Loftus

Samsung 20nm NAND Flash Memory Being Tested

Samsung’s following up its 30nm NAND chips from 2007 with some even-smaller 20nm ones. Write-speed is 30 per cent faster than the previous cards supposedly, and are being tested in up to 64GB SD cards before they’re rolled out properly. If you pick up one of Samsung’s high-capacity SD memory cards today, it’ll likely have…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

The 3D Hilarity Lurking Behind Classical Masterpieces

Classical artworks might seem boring, but applying the 3D treatment reveals some highly comical surprises behind the frame. Give it some time—the good stuff starts about 30 seconds in. I know, I know, this is just a viral video from Samsung to push their 3D LED TV technology. So sue me! It’s still funny. And…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Do Not Watch Samsung 3DTV If Drunk Or Preggers

Samsung’s 3DTVs come with a list of warnings as long as you are tall. Basically, you shouldn’t watch 3DTV under the same conditions that you wouldn’t drive a car. Better wear a seatbelt, then. [Samsung via Kotaku via TechRadar] https://kotaku.com/3d-tv-sets-arent-great-for-drinkers-kids-pregnant-wom-5515718

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Intel, Motorola, Samsung and Others Unite Behind WiMax 2

The next release of WiMax is coming, and some industry heavy hitters have lined up to support the backwards-compatible 802.16m standard. The group, calling themselves the WiMAX 2 Collaboration Initiative (WCI), is pushing interoperability in the new protocol, basically hoping to scoot things along a little faster to aid in the 4G arms race against…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Beautiful Gadget Brainstorms

When we see gadget concepts, they are in some sense finished products, whether they’re prototypes, mock-ups, or shiny computer renders. But what comes before that? As seen in these beautiful sketches for Core 77’s Invitational Design Competition: fantastic, unbridled brainstorming. The design ubersite Core 77 invited five designers to dream up features for a new…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Samsung’s Laptop Webcams Will Shoot 1080p Video

To my knowledge the only fullHD webcams available are external ones—so Samsung’s CMOS sensors could prove a hit for people not wanting to fork out extra for a webcam. True, you’d have to buy a Samsung laptop though… The CMOS sensors, by the name of S5K6A1 and S5K5B3, can both record 1080p video at 30fps,…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

10-Foot Chain Saw Is Zombie Ready

River Dvina at Arkhangelsk City, on the coast of White Sea. In places like this, they need giant, floating chain saws to cut through miles of ice. In places like this, vampires fight with zombies at night. [English Russia]

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Samsung SMX-C20UN Camcorder Has 25-Degree Angled Lens

Samsung has quietly slipped out the SMX-C20UN compact camcorder, which costs a shade under $200 and has a 25-degree angled lens for more comfortable shooting. As you can see, it comes in a delightful violet hue and has a swivel-screen with 2.7-inch LCD. It records in H.264 format, and stores footage via the SDHC memory…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Samsung Slaps Bright Paint on N150 Netbook and Dubs Thee Corby

We didn’t feel the need to tell you about Samsung’s Corby (or Genio, if you’re in the UK) range of phones as, well, they’re pretty basic models slapped with bright hues of paint. But we do love a kiddy netbook. https://gizmodo.com/bandai-neon-green-netbook-powerful-enough-for-adults-m-5149490 I’m hoping that as the Corby phones were very cheap, the Corby line of…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Disgraced Ex-Chairman Returns To Samsung

He’s baaaaack. Lee Kun-hee, who resigned from Samsung two years ago due to the little issue of his $113 million tax scandal, has sauntered back into South Korea HQ to stake his claim on the chairman hotseat. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-chairman-resigns-amidst-scandal-storm-382438 Lee Kun-hee stated on his return that the “best companies in the world are collapsing. We don’t…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

How to Kick Someone’s Ass With Everyday Objects

Professor Duncan wants to teach you the art of Hoda Korosu: Improvised weaponry! Cellphones, cameras, and—in this video—the Magazine of Death! I wonder what Professor Duncan can do with an iPad. [Amazon via Obsolete]

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Is the First Step In Samsung’s Smart Life

Samsung has been hinting at “S Life” so far at CTIA, and now we’ve got some details: the Galaxy S phone is a 1GHz, 4-inch AMOLED display, feature-filled Android smartphone. Updating live: In addition to its high-powered screen and processor, the Galaxy S also features advanced location-based services and the Layar Reality browser, which allows…

Gadgets Brian Barrett

Samsung Sets New Guinness World Record For Fastest Texting Ever, In A Commercial

Samsung’s Omnia II handset was the first phone to feature Swype, the super-fast input method for texting. It’s now officially the world’s fastest way to text, breaking the Guinness World Record with five seconds to spare. https://gizmodo.com/swype-vs-qwerty-fight-5411779 Check it out in the video below, where Swype’s intern Franklin Page set the new record for the…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: What Lies Beneath Edition

In today’s Remainders: things lurking below the surface. Literally, a fuel cell-powered fish. Less literally, ISP’s seething contempt for the FCC’s new National Broadband Plan. Also: Samsung’s David Lee Roth tablet love and a helicopter with rocket-powered blades. Yikes. ISPs and FCC, Sitting In a Tree Yesterday, FCC announced it’s National Broadband Plan. It’s ambitious—hoping…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

Rumor: Samsung Preparing A Tablet For Later This Year

Samsung’s definitely working on a tablet, claims their Australian marketing manager, and we’ll be seeing it “in the second half of the year.” Providing the Australian in question is in the loop, and not just speaking through a XXXX haze. Emmanuele Silanesu spoke to APC magazine, where his quotes have flown around the world just…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

AT&T’s Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services

You don’t need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what’s most interesting is the free online syncing for both contacts and media. Syncing contacts to your PC comes in the form of the AT&T Address Book, which backs up any…

Gadgets Kat Hannaford

Paper Calendar Tears Off Its Pages Automagically

This daily calendar mixes analog, digital, nature, and poetry all in one: Every autumn day, each of its pages will fall off automatically, torn by a clever mechanism at its top. As this video shows, it works great. But why? Because in autumn, leaf falls, that’s why. And because it was commissioned as a promotional…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tomorrowland Edition

In today’s Remainders: tomorrow’s news! Cisco’s ushering in the next generation of internet with the CRS-3; Kempler & Strauss’s futuristic PhoneWatch gets reviewed; geolocated Tweets; a WebKit-borrowing Firefox; an HTML 5 drawing app; Samsung’s point and shoot prices, and more! Hang Ups Back in October we previewed the Kempler & Strauss PhoneWatch—the smallest of its…

Gadgets Kyle VanHemert

New Inexpensive Material Will Turn Night Into Day

Controversial Book Claims Samsung Is Basically the Most Corrupt Company In Asia

Samsung 20nm NAND Flash Memory Being Tested

The 3D Hilarity Lurking Behind Classical Masterpieces

Do Not Watch Samsung 3DTV If Drunk Or Preggers

Intel, Motorola, Samsung and Others Unite Behind WiMax 2

Beautiful Gadget Brainstorms

Samsung’s Laptop Webcams Will Shoot 1080p Video

10-Foot Chain Saw Is Zombie Ready

Samsung SMX-C20UN Camcorder Has 25-Degree Angled Lens

Samsung Slaps Bright Paint on N150 Netbook and Dubs Thee Corby

Disgraced Ex-Chairman Returns To Samsung

How to Kick Someone’s Ass With Everyday Objects

Samsung Galaxy S Smartphone Is the First Step In Samsung’s Smart Life

Samsung Sets New Guinness World Record For Fastest Texting Ever, In A Commercial

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: What Lies Beneath Edition

Rumor: Samsung Preparing A Tablet For Later This Year

AT&T’s Latest Dumbphones Come With New Smartphone Services

Paper Calendar Tears Off Its Pages Automagically

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Tomorrowland Edition

White House’s Mysterious ‘Covfefe Moment’ Was Stupider Than We Imagined

Some of the Most Hyped Gym Supplements Are Fake, Unregulated, or Both

The Head of HBO Explains What it Takes to Get a ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff Going

Elon Musk’s Lawyer Claims Jury’s 420 ‘Joke’ Proves He Didn’t Receive a Fair Trial

‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Is a Genre Blending Delight

Leaked Anthropic Model Presents ‘Unprecedented Cybersecurity Risks,’ Much to Pentagon’s Pleasure

Don’t miss out: Bitdefender, One of the World’s Best Antiviruses, Is Now on Sale

The Secret to Better Sperm? It’s Probably Already on Your Schedule

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

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