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LEGO is a toy as old as time. The iPhone is a toy that every kid wants. If you combine them together, you have ‘Life of George’. It’s a LEGO game with companion iPhone app that every man, woman and child would want to play. Life of George cleverly combines augmented reality with LEGO. The…
Well, we knew it was coming, and we’d heard several conflicting rumors, but Japan’s NTT docomo just dropped a big ol’ leak in the form of a marketing poster. It confirms essentially all of BGR‘s initial leaked specs. https://gizmodo.com/galaxy-nexus-the-first-ice-cream-sandwich-android-phon-5847288 The juicy details include a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4460 processor (which is still very surprising, considering Samsung…
It’s certainly not the first demo we’ve seen of a windshield HUD system that incorporates navigation and other info so a driver can keep their eyes on the road. But it is the first from Pioneer, a company with the automotive experience to finally make a system like this a reality. https://gizmodo.com/a-hud-with-built-in-navigation-makes-for-a-kitt-worthy-5559170 Using red, green,…
Alan Billis, a 61-year-old taxi driver who suffered from lung cancer, lived a pretty ordinary life. He drove around, watched documentaries and did what everybody else did. His afterlife though, is going to be extraordinary. After he passed, Billis became the first person in 3000 years to get mummified. Just like the pharaohs we learned…
Brown University has an exhibit running through November 6 called “Building Expectation: Past and Present Visions of the Architectural Future.” The exhibit catalog has some fascinating write ups: one on King Camp Gillette (yes, the razor guy) and his vision for a utopian community near Niagara Falls; another about postcards from the turn of the…
So, you really like those Samsung Galaxy S phones, except oh man you hate phones! You’re allergic to wireless networks! Well, lucky you, as of today you can get the Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 here in the USA. Basically what you’ve got here is a pretty snazzy portable music player (PMP) that runs…
Adobe has launched an official version of its Reader PDF app on iTunes, bringing full support for document reading, searching and printing to most iOS devices. This must mean Adobe and Apple are friends again? [iTunes via Adobe] Our newest offspring Gizmodo UK is gobbling up the news in a different timezone, so check them…
You’re not helping your case here Samsung. That’s blatantly a photoshop screenshot hack-job you’ve got there on your Galaxy Player 5.0 and you didn’t even take the time to create the screenshot yourself. No, instead they ripped the iPhone screenshot straight from Laura Scott’s blog back in 2008; cut off the top section and bunged…
One of the world’s largest hard drive makers has emerged as another victim of the floods that’ve hit Thailand, with WD reporting that one of its Thai plants has been “inundated” by water and some equipment is currently underwater. WD has two production plants in Thailand: the Bang Pa-in Industrial Park is the one that’s…
Do you have more money than sense? Really? Fantastic! That qualifies you to purchase this 60HP, three-wheeled contraption from Hammacher Schlemmer for a mere $75,000. Dubbed the Lean Mean Green Machine, this nine-foot long, gas-powered tricycle sports a fixed 45-inch front wheel with the rear wheels controlling the steering via two handheld levers. Gear changes…
Siri has the ability to address you any way you wish—Master, Tater Salad, whatever. Siri also has the ability, according to Fury.com, to save that nickname to your personal contact info and distribute it with every vCard you send. Great, so who’s going to call me Schnookums now? [Fury.com]
Not sure why, but the thought of gooping out all the slimy mess from inside a pumpkin makes me a bit queasy. This Halloween, I’m going to keep my hands clean and give this power-drill-propelled Pumpkin Gutter a shot. The Pumpkin Gutter by Dakota Products looks and works much like the beater wand from a…
There are a lot of reasons the 1D X might be the most ridiculous DSLR ever made, but the numbers seem like a good place to start. A full-frame 18-megapixel sensor. ISO 204,800. 12fps RAW shooting. 61-point autofocus. Three DIGIC image processors. One gigabit ethernet port. There’s a lot here, so I hope you’re sitting…
I’ve got my phone out of my pocket at least fifty times a day, usually for insignificant tasks like clearing notifications. But, if Microsoft’s new haptic sensory system becomes a reality, I’ll be able to keep my phone out of sight but still control it through my pants. The PocketTouch system, developed by Microsoft Research,…
Remember in Predator when Jess Ventura is unleashing his M-134 Mini-gun into the forest? It was being fed by an ammo box strapped to his back. Turns out, that wasn’t an actual piece of Army kit, at least until members of the Iowa National Guard created it themselves. The National Guard division had been recently…
For all the power and connectivity that modern mobile devices offer these days, why are we still typing on screens (or, God forbid, numerical pads) barely three fingers wide? A new weareable GUI system aims to turn any surface within arm’s reach into an input device. The OmniTouch system was developed by Carnegie Mellon University…
Because, really, what’s the point of owning a fish tank if your pets aren’t in constant mortal danger? The Bubble Tank, by Psalt Design, is constructed from hand-blown glass and incorporates a counter-weight to maintain the bowl’s perilous position on desks and shelves. Inspired by the shape of a bead of water as just before…
Overshadowed by their compatriots Franz Ferdinand, The Futureheads were barely noticed in the United States when their debut album dropped. Which is a shame because this cover of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love is amazing. The biggest mistake I think a band can do when covering a song is to try and make it sound…
I dislike picking up my dog’s droppings almost as much as stepping in them. However, a fleet of these automated scoopers could one day safeguard my shoe soles without reducing me to picking up poop. The team at University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP lab programmed the PR2 robot to automatically seek out and identify Potentially Offensive…
Robot Mall Helpers Will Inevitably Lead to First Robot Suicide I’m sorry, robots. But if the best work you can get these days is as a mall greeter, your future lies more at the front of a Walmart than on the front lines of automotonic rebellion. [The Next Web] A Steve Jobs Memorial, in Post-Its…
