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Ever wish you could keep your iPhone 4 totally protected while answering calls? The revo4 case has a ViSOR which snaps on your phone, and keeps everything covered except for the earpiece and the slider. When you’re using your apps regularly, the ViSOR can be taken off and secured to the back of the case.…
This Apple customer survey—conducted in-house, as they’re apt to do—asks how often customers use 3G devices with their MacBook Air. Does this hint at a future model with 3G built in, or just at a Mi-Fi bundle? [AppleInsider]
Playing with toys alone is pretty fun I guess, but any kind of amusement is at its most amusing when you’re subordinating your friends to the might of your will. Mattel’s Radica Mindflex Duel does that. With your brain waves. The last Mindflex was neat, but more of a proof of concept—you moved a little…
Which video games deserve to be honored for their art? Heavy Rain or Final Fantasy? Grim Fandango or Fallout? In the Smithsonian’s upcoming “The Art of Video Games” exhibition, gamers decide which titles make the cut. “The Art of Video Games” is an ambitious exhibition launching at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.…
I just blasted the Huffington Post out of my Google search results forever. One click. It felt fantastic. That’s what you can do to any site you hate using Chrome’s new personal blocklist extension. When you block a site, results from that domain name disappear from your search results, whether it’s a site you just…
Egyptians thought that the heart was your brain. They were, uh, wrong. Even today though, it’s a prettier sentiment. Consider: “You have my braiiiiin.” Not romantic, unless you’re boning a zombie. But this is the ugly, wrinkly, squishy, neuro-chemical-flooded, color-coded truth. Hopefully this is what your brain looks like today! If not, I’m sorry you’re…
After inventing fireworks, the Chinese have laid dormant in civilian-level explosion-technology for a few thousand years…until now. Behold, an improved way to scare the shit out of people.
Shoving your iPhone at your screaming kid in the backseat is kinda lowest common denominator parenting. But once you pop it into Fisher-Price’s colorful Laugh and Learn iCan Play rattle it becomes a whole lot more like a real toy. Better for both you and baby! The iCan Play case, out later this year for…
Apple.pro (which Macrumors and Appleinsider claim is a decent source for Apple leaks) says there are three different prototypes being tested for the next iPhone. The weirdest one seems to be one that looks like an iPhone 4, but has a case that slides out to reveal a hardware keyboard. The slide-out mechanism sounds similar…
It’s incredible how, years after computers have landed every desk and so much of the media we consume has been converted to digital bits, people remain so deeply uneasy about the inauthenticity of things produced with digital tools. Like NYT photographer Damon Winter’s award-winning photograph, shot with iPhone app Hipstamatic. That’s the point I was…
If you sign up for Verizon FiOS or High Speed Internet Triple Play bundle and buy an iPhone4, Big Red will not only knock $10 a month off your monthly FiOS bill ($5 off your HSI bill), they’ll give you a $200 credit you can apply to the cost of the phone. That’s essentially a…
These days, science can back anything, huh? Like this crazy list of “scientific tips” that’ll improve your dating life: 1. Turn up the heat 2. Speak in their right ear 3. Romantic songs work 4. Give a guy a scare 5. Hide your feelings 6. Fish in “a small pond” 7. Wear red Read the…
Any photographer will tell you it’s not about the gear, it’s about the photographer. Nonetheless, it’s illuminating what NYT photographer correspondent Stephen Farrell chose to bring (and not bring) to document the Egyptian revolution in Tahrir Square, given how specifically hostile the environment was to journalists. (Cue Anderson Cooper.) Click photo to embiggen His main…
Ignore the overwrought, coming of age type soundtrack and you’ll see a rather neat idea: a musical instrument that plays music by “reading” barcodes. The Barcode Piano consists of tiles and a board. Each tile is associated with a number which triggers a certain tune. You can arrange the tiles in preset songs or any…
I like the idea of an iPhone nano. One with a small screen with the same resolution of an iPhone 3GS, powered by an A4 processor. I’d buy one. But a cloud-based iPhone doesn’t make any sense. Not right now. A source at Cult of Mac claims that this is exactly what is going to…
Drop a pack of Mentos in a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke and you get yourself a nice soda geyser. It’s fun! It’s also pretty wasteful! With this kit you can at least tell yourself you’re using Mentos’ magical properties to propel a little plastic car up to 200 feet. The kit come with…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Gizmodo presents you with the Liotta-Cooley heart, the world’s first totally artificial blood-pumper. Developed by Dr. Domingo Liotta and implanted by Dr. Denton A. Cooley on April 4, 1969, the Liotta-Cooley heart kept a 47-year old man alive for three full days before a human organ became available. And to…
Marshmallow shooters are nothing new—but the Marshmallow Fun Company‘s Classic Twin Stryker (the Y in Stryker means it’s awesome!) will pelt your foe into sugary submission. I tested their newest $32 pillowy murder device at Toy Fair 2011. My victim? Gizmodo’s own Kyle VanHemert. As you can see, the Stryker hits a great balance between…
Gemalto, with Facebook’s help, just made a text-based, on-SIM implementation of basic Facebook functions. The software lets dumbphones do simple Facebook tasks like changing status or posting on walls. Good for developing countries, weird for everywhere else. [The Register]
The Daily, the iPad Magazine app that you can actually read for free on a computer, just extended their free access until Feb 28. Why? Because users need iOS 4.3 in order to do in-app recurring subscriptions. [Macrumors]
