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Barnes & Noble mentioned in a federal filing yesterday that they plan on announcing a “new eReader device” on May 24. Question: Is it going to be a new E-Inkier alternative to the Nook Color? Or a more powerful full-blown Android tablet? I’m thinking the former. [Market Watch via Phandroid]
Skype’s doing well for itself if they sold themselves in 2005 to eBay for $2.6bn, which then sold 65 per cent of it off for $1.9bn. Now, both Facebook and Google are rumored to be eyeing up Skype separately, according to Reuters. I can understand why Facebook might want a stab at Skype—after all, they’ve…
This may be something designer Ned Mulka whipped up in Illustrator, but I think he’s onto the right path with his thinking that the DSLR needs to be redesigned and rebalanced. Sure, we’ve seen a more modern, streamlined approach with the micro four thirds cameras, but this concept, that shows the mirror, prism and sensor…
HP liked this Fossil Meta Watch “wrist computer” enough to include it in its future-gazing presentation a while back, but finally humble citizens of Earth can slam 200 notes down and grab one for themselves. Pre-orders begin on May 9th, but it won’t be sent out until July. If you can wait that long, you’ll…
Apple’s said to be exploring sending out over-the-air updates for iPhones, starting with the iOS 5 update in fall. Verizon is working closely with Apple, which as you probably know normally relies on updates over iTunes, suggesting that the Verizon iPhone will probably receive the iOS 5 update OTA before AT&T customers get in on…
This island has everything you could possibly want in a kitchen—save for a dishwasher. Oh, and a microwave. And I don’t see a George Foreman grill there either. Ok, so it doesn’t have every single cooking instrument you may need, but if you’re limited on space but still want your kitchen to look like it’s…
The Playbook’s 7-inch stature didn’t bother our reviewer Matt so much, but people are whispering that RIM is preparing a larger 10-inch size, to go head-to-head with the iPad/Motorola Xoom. BGR is hearing it’ll be later this year, and that the newly-announced BlackBerry Bold 9900/9930 handset’s “summer” launch is expected to be August at the…
Who needs tipsters and blurry photos when you’ve got one of the world’s biggest companies, leaking its upcoming social service right in its own ad? As you can see in the Chrome browser toolbar, there’s a little Google +1 extension which is said to perform duties just like Facebook’s “Like” buttons you see dotted around…
Hello, old people who can’t see or hear your iPhone. This 100 percent analog sight-and-sound amplifying dock is for you! The Hive combines two classics of sensory augmentation—a horn and magnifying glass—into one as-seen-on-TV-worthy dock. And it’s $45. A $200 donation to the Kickstarter project includes a serving of “homemade chocolate bacon.” I’m neither a…
The Nintendo 3DS is pretty great. A solid enough 3D screen with no goofy glasses. We need more stuff like that if 3D is going to take over our living room. And MIT agrees, but they think they got an even better way to push out glasses-free 3D. They’re calling it HR3D and it could…
Ramazan Acar is a fucker, I’m sorry. Wait, no I’m not sorry. He’s a horrible human being who should be locked away in the pits of hell forever. After picking up his daughter from her mother (his estranged girlfriend), Acar updated his Facebook status to “Bout to kill ma kid” and then he walked over…
This is how Android apps are going to look on the BlackBerry Playbook. The apps run via the Playbook’s Android App Player and from the looks of it, isn’t a bad experience at all. Regardless of how you feel about BlackBerry relying on another platform for apps, offering this feature gives Playbook users more options.…
Smoking cigarettes is a pretty disgusting habit and pretty bad for you. The smoke, the smell, the higher chance of lung cancer—not good stuff. But it’s addicting and clears people’s mind! So, how can scientists make it less bad for us? Titanate nanotubes. Right now, cigarettes use cellulose acetate filters—they’re cheap and somewhat effective at…
I love Campus PD! It reminds me of all the best parts of college—moronic guys drinking themselves into stupors, girls sobbing, and classes on Kant. But apparently, the show’s creators are jerks: they wrecked someone’s home, sans compensation. Reddit user strawberryjams says the incident went down thusly: the Campus PD camera crew was following the…
This vacuum cleaner concept from Hyun-Seok Kim utilizes 4 robotic “puppies” as the vacuum cleaners, they run around the house and clean up everything they can get their clean paws on. The base station is designed as a “mommy dog”, as it re-charges the puppies with power and gives them enough energy for the puppies…
Tools of the Trade | The technology that helped bring down Osama bin Laden Hyperspectral Imaging Helped Kill Osama bin Laden. But What the Hell Is It? Killing ol’ OBL wasn’t just the work of SEAL Team 6-the beyond-badasses had a cadre of support staff backing them up behind the scenes, including classified hyperspectral imaging…
Can You Believe This “Entry Level” Turntable Costs $28,400? https://gizmodo.com/can-you-believe-this-entry-level-turntable-costs-28-5798493 Personally, I think this turntable looks like a really poor attempt at making a cake look like a tree trunk candle, but apparently it’s $28,400 worth of audiophilic record-playing quality. It’s only Audio Consulting’s entry-level model mind you-the mind boggles More » In the Minimalist Remake…
If you’re going to try to get away with something as reprehensible as child porn, you should at least be discreet. But Virginian horror-being Ian Hartney is not. Hint: don’t ask the computer repair shop where your kiddie porn is. Hartney, disgusting moron that he is, brought his child porn-laden laptop to an area repair…
Moms. We love you. We adore you. But just… ugh… just listen to us… just… ugh… (Click image to expand)
I’ve been seriously waiting to switch all of my mag subscriptions from dead trees and glue to glass and bits, and it looks like it’s happening—major mag publisher Hearst is jumping on the iPad subscription train with Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O (the Oprah magazine) in July, at $2 a month each. At least some…
