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Pioneer’s AR HUD Puts Your Satnav Display On the Road Ahead

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,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Meet the First Person to Get Mummified in 3000 Years

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…

Tech News Casey Chan

Building Expectations

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…

Tech News Matt Novak

Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 Now Grabbable Stateside

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…

Tech News Brent Rose

Adobe Finally Launches Official Reader App for iOS

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…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Samsung Caught in iPhone Screenshot Shocker

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…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Western Digital’s HD Factory “Submerged” by Thai Flooding

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…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

This Motorized Big Wheel Looks All Sorts of Deadly

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…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Siri Will Snitch Your Nickname to All Your New Contacts

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]

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Splatter Some Pumpkin Guts with This Jack-O-Lantern Drill Bit

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…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

Canon 1D X: The New Most Epic DSLR Ever

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…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Microsoft’s PocketTouch Feels Your Touch—Through Fabric

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,…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

How the Iowa National Guard Built Their Own Predator-Style Ammo Packs

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…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The OmniTouch Makes Any Surface Interactive

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…

Gadgets Andrew Tarantola

The Bubble Fish Tank Would Make Salvador Dali Proud

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…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

The Futureheads: The Hounds of Love

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…

Tech News Roberto Baldwin

This Automated Poop Scooper Picks Up Your Pet’s Piles

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…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Apple Guts, Robot Mallrats, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

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…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Vdio Will Be Like Rdio For Video, and It Might Be Awesome

We’re big fans of Rdio here, so when we heard that the guys behind it would be launching Vdio soon, we started licking our chops. Little is known about this service, but you can bet it’s going for Netflix’s jugular. https://gizmodo.com/rdios-freemium-service-is-here-5847269 Janko Roettgers at GigaOM did some very nice sleuthing and confirmed that the recently…

Tech News Brent Rose

So Is Google Creating a Cloud Music Store or Not?

Back in June, Google was said to be launching a music store possibly by this fall. Now that it’s fall, Google has reportedly been telling labels that its music store, and possibly subscription service (not to be confused with Google Music Beta locker), will launch by the end of 2011. This would constitute the third…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm

Pioneer’s AR HUD Puts Your Satnav Display On the Road Ahead

Meet the First Person to Get Mummified in 3000 Years

Building Expectations

Samsung Galaxy Player 4 and 5 Now Grabbable Stateside

Adobe Finally Launches Official Reader App for iOS

Samsung Caught in iPhone Screenshot Shocker

Western Digital’s HD Factory “Submerged” by Thai Flooding

This Motorized Big Wheel Looks All Sorts of Deadly

Siri Will Snitch Your Nickname to All Your New Contacts

Splatter Some Pumpkin Guts with This Jack-O-Lantern Drill Bit

Canon 1D X: The New Most Epic DSLR Ever

Microsoft’s PocketTouch Feels Your Touch—Through Fabric

How the Iowa National Guard Built Their Own Predator-Style Ammo Packs

The OmniTouch Makes Any Surface Interactive

The Bubble Fish Tank Would Make Salvador Dali Proud

The Futureheads: The Hounds of Love

This Automated Poop Scooper Picks Up Your Pet’s Piles

Apple Guts, Robot Mallrats, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Vdio Will Be Like Rdio For Video, and It Might Be Awesome

So Is Google Creating a Cloud Music Store or Not?

Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo Falls Under $25, a Budget Bundle Deal in the Final Hours of Spring Sale

Liquids Crack With an Audible Snap, Study Finds

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