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The Giz family just gained a surly, Cockney cousin: this fall, Gizmodo UK will kick off in full force, helmed by the incomparable Kat Hannaford. It’ll be just like the Gizmodo you know and love, just with more crumpets. Welcome! Gizmodo, perhaps the most (in)famous technology website in the world, is coming to the UK…
Samsung’s heavy borrowing of Apple’s design is pretty established by now—they’re getting the shit sued out of them for it! But, undeterred, they’re dropping the new Series 7 notebook, with wonderfully thin bezel, Apple looks, and great specs. The Series 7 is only 0.9 inches thick, but the tiny bezel’s what catches my attention: only…
The numpad, as antiquated as it is, is still useful for many. Bankers! Gamers! Crude mathematicians! But damn it takes up so much space. That’s why Mobee is letting you transform your Magic Trackpad into Magic Numpads. It’s clever, you just put a film on top of your trackpad and all of a sudden, a…
Instead of faking a 3D picture by overlapping images (as some other cameras do), Panasonic’s new Lumix 3D cam and HDC-Z10000 camcorder use two lenses to record the real thing in fat, extra-dimensional HD. The HDC-Z10000’s 3.5-inch displays shows what you’ve capped in 3D without the need for glasses, using dual CMOS sensors to record…
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Mozilla released a sneak peak at Firefox for Tablets today, a version of the popular web browser built on the Firefox Mobile engine but optimized for a tablet’s roomier screen. As we can see from the screen shots, tabs will now either appear along the left or top of the screen—depending on its orientation. Yes,…
If you’ve your T-mobile coverage at home is spotty at best, don’t cancel your service just yet. If you wait until Wednesday, September 7th, T-Mo might just give you a free in-home signal booster to get you to stay. According to leaked images obtained by TmoNews, the signal boosters will only be available to customers…
The Wall Street Journal takes the first look since the fall of the regime inside Col. Gaddafi’s security headquarters. You know, the one with all the tech purchased from international security firms. The complete photo journal is available at WSJ.com. https://gizmodo.com/international-tech-companies-helped-gaddafi-spy-on-liby-5835940 Image: Edu Bayer for The Wall Street Journal
It’s got a 500GB solid state drive and an exterior designed by Neil Poulton—what more do you want? Thunderbolt? Yes, it does that too. The LaCie Little Big Disk is available as either a 240GB and 500GB SSD, or as a 1TB traditional 7200RPM hard drive. All three varieties use dual disks as a striped…
The Ice Road Truckers may soon have themselves some competition if Canadian specialty aviation company, Discovery Air, has its way. They want to deliver supplies to the Great White North’s most remote locales via dirigible by 2014. Discovery Air and Hybrid Air Vehicles have announced plans to launch a commercial Heavy Lift Air Vehicle service…
Soccer, football, footie, whatever you’re supposed to call it, British grocery store Sainsbury’s and broadcaster Sky are currently testing shopping carts fitted with iPad docks specially made for the Sky Go iPad app so patrons can watch sports while shopping. The Sky Go trolley—trolley is the British term for shopping cart—iPad dock has speakers in…
Steve Silberman suffered through a flight from Hell. Not only did United attendants ask him to switch seats when the woman next to him irrationally demanded so, but after forgetting his Kindle on the plane, the attendants refused to grab it. As the story goes, moments after stepping of the plane, Silberman realized he had…
If you are going to get an Android phone any time soon, this is it. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-bestest-android-phone-is-finally-coming-to-amer-5835969 Let’s get this out of the way: These things are fast. They haul all kinds of ass, thanks to a 1.2GHz dual-core Exynos processor and 1GB of RAM in its guts. I did everything I could to try to…
The iPad’s a joy for reading, but you’re screwed for writing anything longer than: “rad man, I’ll see u ther. Excuse my brevity and any typos but touchscreens suck for typing, ok?” That’s why I want a ClamCase. Star Wars-style. The ClamCase is made of hard polycarbonate which protects your iPad on all sides. As…
Apple isn’t too keen with their prototypes ending up in the wild, no matter how old they are or how they got there. The 3G MacBook Pro that appeared on eBay, garnered an incredible $70,000 bid before being pulled by Apple, is now awaiting transport back to Apple at their insistence. https://gizmodo.com/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back-5520479 The temporary owner…
The thumb drive you see in this video is thicker than the opposable digit of an infant—and yet it can hold up to 2TB of data. The “Thin Card” drive, built by Taiwanese manufacturer ITRI and revealed at the Display Taiwan trade show, is a USB 3.0 stick with a capacity between 16GB and 2TB.…
Pundits and investors keep whining that Tim Cook isn’t Steve Jobs and that Apple’s doomed, blah blah blah. Well Tim’s already taking a page out of the Steve Job’s-customer-relations playbook and is reportedly responding to emails congratulating him on his new position as CEO of Apple. The current favorite is Tim’s response to Justin R.,…
I keep forgetting how wonderful Microsoft’s Surface technology is. Here, the New York Times R&D Lab have taken it, bent it to their will, and created news-centric tabletop interface that you’ll want to play with every morning. Just maybe not eat on. https://gizmodo.com/multi-grope-interacting-with-microsoft-surface-at-the-380860 In the above demonstration, we get to see the Times’ vision of…
Apple’s obsessive compulsive, super-spartan, Kubrick-meets-Superman’s-Fortress-of-Solitude industrial design goes way beyond phones and tablets. ifoAppleStore points out the meticulous, somewhat-insanely clever efforts Apple takes to make their stores visually enticing. Human brains like symmetry! So human brains like Apple Stores. As much as China’s faux Apple Stores looked pretty close to the real thing, there’s no…
Muammar Gaddafi was a desperate man even before the civil war, and it shows more since the recent fall of Tripoli. The Wall Street Journal reports that Gaddafi had the Libyan people systematically spied upon online for years. And international tech companies helped. Implicated in the report are tech companies from the U.S., Canada, Europe,…
