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Next year we could be seeing cellphones with round displays, if Samsung has anything to say about it. The first thing that springs to mind is that it might be for some kind of wearable cellphone, wrapping around a wrist. Samsung’s already shown off a prototype 4.5-inch flexible AMOLED display, which could be used in…
Carries can’t continue capping data when text messages are slowing off. They just can’t. Even though it’s not even launched yet, iMessage is one of the services being blamed by the CTIA. http://gizmodo.com/5809040/imessage-means-theres-no-valid-reason-to-own-a-blackberry-anymore/gallery/1 According to the wireless trade organization, in the second hald of 2010, only 1 trillion texts were sent—that’s just an 8.7 per…
I love what happens when you put technology in the hands of very creative people like André Chocron. Using only time-lapse photography, the Norwegian director created one of the best music light shows I’ve seen. Chorcon filmed old apartment buildings in Oslo, Norway and used the lights in each room as the medium for his…
IBM researchers have created the first graphene-based integrated circuit constructed on a wafer of silicon, in a setup that’s smaller than a grain of salt. The circuit is a broadband frequency mixer, which can operate up to a decent 10GHz. It’s yet another advancement in the use of graphene—which, in case you forgot, is that…
MOTOBLUR will soon be gone. Not the Android overlay, but the term itself. Motorola is supposedly ditching the MOTOBLUR name because Android fans cringe when they hear it. MOTOBLUR isn’t going away completely, though. Parts of BLUR will be rolled into some new enterprise features. [Engadget}
How are the almost 400 hundred members of Congress with Twitter accounts responding to the Weinergate scandal? https://gizmodo.com/anthony-weiner-admits-it-was-his-weiner-5809121 These elected officials aren’t using the social platform to take a stand for or against Weiner, they are running scared. According to TweetCongress, a site that monitors the twitter usage of Congressional members, tweets from both Republicans…
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer, infiltrated abandoned warships parked in the Suisun Bay to document the current state of decay of these once glorious beasts. It’s an amazing, up close look at what is known as the Mothball Fleet. These warships were around for World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and…
Whether you’re a private eye, an insecure lover, or just an especially industrious pervert, the days of grainy, black and white video being good enough are long gone. You crave HD. ZionEyez Spy Glasses have you covered with their built-in 720p video camera. The sleek shades also come equipped with a microphone, 8GB of storage…
Officials in Moscow may be over-reacting just a bit to the threat of terrorism in their city. They believe bathrooms will be the next big target and are seriously considering the installation of bomb-proof latrines throughout the city. These terrorist-proof toilets will be made from a fibrous concrete that can withstand a bomb blast. Each…
This is Tyler. He’s three. Last week, he found himself trapped in a glass cage, surrounded by stuffed animals and one giant claw. It was a prison of his own making. And he’s not alone. Enough children have entered the gaping maws of toy machines in the last several years that I’m prepared to declare…
Twitter may have the exclusive status of being built into iOS for sharing purposes, but that doesn’t mean Apple’s ignoring Facebook. In addition to Twitter handles, Contacts in iOS5 has spots for Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn, and totally inexplicably, MySpace. [AllThingsD]
If you want to protect your belongings, you should probably buy a mobile phone with a nice video camera and learn how to use it. Like this woman in Oakland, you may find yourself unexpectedly recording a theft in progress. The story begins with an Oakland woman who was robbed and sexually assaulted by a…
It’s being referred to as a “golden cheesegrater” in various circles. The public seems to hate it. Still, at 800 grams, this is the lightest Olympic torch yet. And that’s important, because a lot of people are going to carry the thing a long way. Reuters says the design ties in London’s Olympic history: Ignoring…
It’s hard to believe but that boat above is made entirely from trash. The trimaran was part of an eco-friendly boat competition sponsored by the National Geographic Channel in Taiwan. Nicknamed the Polli-Boat, the vessel is 23 feet long and made of 804 plastic bottle bricks. Old advertising banners are used for the sails and…
There are two routes when it comes to hackers. You can either prosecute them and subsequently have your ass handed to you by them (Sony) or you can perhaps recognize their talents. Microsoft hired the kid who hacked them. Update: The photo previously accompanying this post was incorrectly attributed, is of another kid, and unrelated…
So let’s say Kanye West builds a zoo. What’s going in this zoo? Peacocks? Golden elephants? Taylor Swift? No—a fleet of these stitched-together Louis Vuitton Franken-critters, built from the guts of some very, very expensive bags. The pieces are made by artist Billie Achilleos as part of a promotional push by LV. But who cares…
According to an ex-googler, the search giant may no longer be the quick-moving, innovative company we have grown to know and love. Former Google engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna claims Google has become your typical large company. It has a corporate culture that rewards developers for protecting old code instead of creating new code. Some projects…
Higher Learning | An Inception-style study hall at Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum of Humboldt University, in Berlin. Grandpa Dredger Still Workin’ Old Man River https://gizmodo.com/grandpa-dredger-still-workin-old-man-river-5810420 The opening of the Panama Canal was a disaster for Midwestern farmers. So, in 1930 the US government set about deepening the Mississippi River to improve its cargo traffic capabilities. 79 years later,…
Designed by Yanik Balzer and Max Qwerty, these furniture pieces made from manly tools are perfect for the outdoorsman, lumberjack, 5-o’clock shadow at noon, tree chopper, dirt shoveler, builder with his hands, brouha type of man. Or also…people who pretend to be manly. Like me, who finds the design to be actually pretty clever. I’m…
Secretly at night the group of robots at Seattle Children’s Hospital threw a party for Blinky the Surgeonator, who turned five-years-old this week. Blinky opened his own gift which was lovely bottle of WD40 and enjoyed some some silver robot cake. The entertaining robot video was recorded by the staff at the Seattle Children’s hospital…
