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There aren’t a lot of secrets left about Nvidia’s Tegra 3 quad-core mobile guts; after all, it’s already been on shelves in the Transformer Prime for weeks. In fact, the only question left has been what other devices we’ll see it in. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-prime-review-the-android-tablet-youve-5873393 Welp, here’s your answer: a 7-inch, $250 quad core tablet from Asus.…
That super-powered quad core dream machine known as Transformer Prime? It’s available with Ice Cream Sandwich starting today. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-prime-review-the-android-tablet-youve-5873393 This appears to be different than that slightly-better-spec’d-Transformer Prime we saw this morning, since last word was that that device wouldn’t see an ICS boost until the second quarter of this year. But Nvidia’s being cagey…
So it looks like those rumors about touchscreen ultrabooks were true. Lenovo’s Yoga is the first such device of its kind (that being a Windows , equipped with a multitouch panel capable of tracking 10 fingers. And though I’ve been dismissive of such devices, it wasn’t nearly the awful experience I thought it would be.…
Oh hey, it’s another big-ass OLED TV. LG Displays showed off a 55-inch OLED TV. Like Samsung, which also rolled showed a 55-inch today, LG is betting big on OLED. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-big-beautiful-oled-tv-of-the-future-is-here-5873840 It’s going to be a big couple of years for OLED. LG says it’s making OLED a big push this year, and anticipating its…
Is dropping a Panasonic Toughbook during the middle of a CES press conference embarrassing, or the best product demo ever? Panny, you sneaky dudes! This was the only thing more exciting than Justin Timberlake’s surprise entrance.
This story about talking watches appeared in an 1895 issue of the Dutch journal De Natuur and was found in the book Victorian Inventions. In the first reports on the phonograph invented by Edison in 1877, it was remarked that it would now be possible to produce timepieces capable of calling out the hours instead…
The foreign beauty is finally crossing the pond. The Lumia 800 will be making its Stateside debut as the hulkified 4.3-inch Lumia 900, bringing AT&T’s freshly launched LTE service with it. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-800-lightning-review-the-unattainable-fore-5857409 The Lumia 900 looks a lot like the 800, except it’s bigger, with a 4.3-inch ClearBlack AMOLED screen, same as the 800. (We…
Even though we’re pretty damn sure we know what Nokia’s gonna announce—and AT&T and Microsoft have officially confirmed it’s officially an LTE Windows Phone—we’re still pretty excited. Live coverage starts now. [Giz Live]
Right now I’m sitting on the floor along with what seems like more tech bloggers than there were Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae. Why? Not to defend Greece, but to check out Panasonic’s new hotness. And we’re gonna liveblog! What awaits? TVs! Cameras! Maybe other things! Find out in Real Time™ right here on…
Don’t get me wrong, I love digital photography, but very few things make me salivate more than a sweet old Leica. And I’m not the only digicam fan who feels that way. Jim Fisher, Digital Camera Analyst for PC Magazine brought this sweet CL to CES. The CL is a 70s-era Leica that is still…
Looks like 2012 will be the closest thing we’ve had to the year of the OLED—real products with serious screen size. Like Samsung’s “Super OLED,” offering 55 inches of mega-rich color and brightness. Bonus: Kinect-esque body tracking, too. The Super OLED is under a third of an inch thick, with a super skinny bezel to…
Samsung’s long made some of (if not the) best HDTVs—and now that they’re all decked out with 3D and apps, what’s left? Beautiful, slim TVs that’ll use your voice and face as controls. Apple just got jumped. While it’s not fair to directly compare the Samsung UNES8000 LED (left) and PNE8000 Plasma (right) TVs to…
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2011 was a momentous year, full of historic moments about which we tweeted with equal parts urgency and volume. The Royal Wedding (3,966 tweets/second). The raid on bin Laden (5,106). The death of Steve Jobs (6,049). In 2012, one event has already outshone them all. Or rather, one man. Ladies and gentlemen, you new tweets…
Either one guy is buying hundreds of thousands of Samsung teevees a day to rig the stats, or we’re collectively Samsung-crazed in our television choices. According to President Boo-Keun Yoon, the company moves two sets per second, globally. I’m no math wizard, but given population figures I’m guessing a lot of people are buying TVs…
It’s not news that smartphone cameras have gotten so good that even tiny, excellent point-and-shoot cameras for all their benefits can seem, well, a little unnecessary. Samsung’s WB850F hopes to change your mind with an incredibly zoomy lens and improved Wi-Fi integration. Your smartphone doesn’t and probably won’t ever have optical zoom, and if that’s…
History lesson. First there was the (awful) Froyo-running Galaxy Tab 7. Then came the Honeycomb-running Galaxy Tab 10.1. Then the 8.9, then the 7.0-Plus. Done, right? Wait! How’s about a 7.7? Sure, why the hell not! https://gizmodo.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-review-a-pocketable-train-wreck-5686161 It’s a decent tablet, but it’s a baby-step. Samsungers shrunk the bezel so they could make the screen…
Samsung is going to show off all their latest gear for the year—TVs, phones and who knows what else—and we’ll be live blogging it all right here. Come join us and we’ll enjoy the Sung of Sam together. Prediction: TVs and tablets and phones that are either slightly bigger or slightly smaller but definitely thinner…
If you are depressed, or schizophrenic or have Alzheimer’s, scientists say you probably have a shrunken hippocampus. The good news: a drug that just entered human trials promises to re-grow that part of the brain. It’s an entirely new approach to treating clinical depression, which is the first of several diseases scientists at biotech company…
A complicated adventure game that MakerBot created to tease their new 3D printer had me pretty excited about what they were going to announce at CES. But now that their Replicator is officially unveiled, I’m a touch disappointed. It’s biggest improvement is that it’s, well, bigger, with a larger printing footprint. But it’s not that…