Gish: Game with a Black Heart
Gish is a ball of tar with eyes that you can make jump, stick, slide, and push. It looks like your average platform puzzle game, but Gish’s abilities combined with a physics engine make for a unique game. A cute visual style and some funny characters to boot. That’s right, I said cute. You want…
Philips 650 – 5 Weeks o’ Standby
It doesn’t have a built-in camera (there will be a camera accessory), but if that’s OK by you, the Philips 650 has a 8.5 hour talk/5 week standby battery. The tri-band phone has a 16-bit 128×160 screen, a WAP 2.0 browser, Java, and external Caller ID. No announcements as to which carriers will have the…
Glowing Popsicles
Now it’s a little bit easier to film your own remake of that one John Ritter movie where he had a beard. Popsicles with translucent hollow handles into which a run-of-the-mill Glo-Stick has been inserted are now available at 7-11. Read – Glowing Popsicles [Mavromatic]
Zoran DVD Upscaler Chip
DVDs that contain standard-definition video can soon look a little bit nicer on HDTVs thanks to a chip from Zoran that was announced today but has been in the hands of OEMs since earlier this year. The chip takes standard-def video and does some filtering on it, and the result is high-def, perhaps a tad…
Fuel Cell Technology Breakthrough Claimed
Continuing the parade of things that you can’t actually get yet: As they say: “Small, cheap, and good: pick two.” But no! Or so says the University of Houston, who have claimed to developed a small, cheap, and good fuel cell using thin film solid oxides. Small: a fuel cell with the volume of four…
Compex Universal Wireless Device
No, it’s not a wireless device killed in Vietnam and re-animated to fight terrorists. Jean Claude Van Damme is not involved in any way. It’s just a funny looking thing that has six modes of operation: Access Point, Access Point Client, Broadband Gateway, Wireless Client, Wireless Ethernet Adapter, and Wireless Bridge Link. It supports 802.11g…
Iosono: A New Level of 3D Sound from the Makers of MP3
The Fraunhofer Institute for Media Technology is in L.A. right now, with their lab coats and clipboards and everything, to demonstrate a new audio technology called Iosono that will bring realism to new heights. The C|Net article features a description of the technology, as well as the mixing console used to encode the audio, which…
Modern Chinese Secret
Two researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have developed a process to coat cotton clothing and textiles with titanium dioxide so that, when exposed to sunlight or artificial UV, the “dirt, pollutants and micro-organisms” that have collected on the treated fabric will be broken down and presumably fly right off into the air, and…
Pedestrian Turn Signals, Huh?
Hello again, Gizmodeans and Gizmodettes. As Joel said, I’m here to take over for the day. As he didn’t say, I am so very not good at gadget news. I’ve been searching all morning for gadget news, and everything I find has already been on Gizmodo for days or weeks on end. So here is…