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The watches in the new Tracker Collection from Diesel Watches are made for maximum agility, speed and strength. Militaristic, weathered, and forged from actual gunmetal IP, these rugged time-keepers won’t keep you hidden for long. Molded and stamped grooves in these graphite gray, yellow and off-white watches make the Tracker Collection much more than merely…
I can’t imagine how sports would be in the the moon. I guess it’d be slow motion 100-meters or flying gladiators with lasers. Either way, I want to watch and this stadium on the Moon looks like the perfect place. Placed inside a half-kilometer crater, the Stadium of International Lunar Olympics would be round, with…
Harvard University researcher Ronald A. DePinho has discovered a way to reverse age degeneration for the first time. His experiments on mice have demonstrated that you can return individuals to a younger state, with new brain growth and improved fertility. While scientists knew about the role of telomerase—an enzyme that adds DNA sequence repeats at…
Even Apple’s getting in the Cyber Monday spirit! Much like its Black Friday savings, the savings aren’t exactly doorbusters—but there are bargains to be had in the audio and accessory departments. https://gizmodo.com/apples-black-friday-deals-5699241 I’m looking mostly at the $40 off the Beats by Dre speaker dock, although $360 is still a pretty steep investment no matter…
Six new cities are now under Sprint’s 4G umbrella: Los Angeles, Miami, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, the carrier announced this morning. Also revealed: WiMax will be hitting San Francisco on December 28th. [BGR]
Why is this man lounging in a rowboat with Darth Vader? Because apparently when you buy a Galaxy S on Japan’s NTT DoCoMo, you get the power of an evil intergalactic wizard along with it. Or something like that. [YouTube]
Exactly 251,287 pieces of data from 250 US embassies and consulates was released yesterday by WikiLeaks, and while none of the information was particularly shocking, it’s been described as the largest intelligence leak in history. Here’s how it happened: http://gawker.com/5700705/all-the-hottest-diplomatic-gossip-from-the-latest-wikileak?skyline=true&s=i According to The Guardian, which was one of the chosen publications by WikiLeaks to help…
In hindsight, tweeter @theashes probably wishes she’d chosen a different username. Completely ignorant to all things cricket, she’s been bombarded with tweets from cricket fans, to the extent where Qantas has offered to fly her to a match for free. Her hatred—or rather, ignorance—towards all things cricket-related sparked a #gettheashestotheashes hashtag meme, after she replied…
If Sharp ever launches its Galapagos range of Android tablets outside of Japan, we can expect prices to be fairly big. The 5.5-inch tablet costs the equivalent of $476, with the 10.8-incher $714, from December 10th. [CrunchGear]
I tell you what, I could do with some of this “blue lighting” each morning when I start work at 7.30. Being tested in a British school, Philips’ blue-tinted light wakes kids up and makes them perform better. In fact, previous tests have found that when the blue light is switched on, hyperactivity falls by…
By now you should’ve heard that WikiLeaks released a bunch of new files yesterday, which are being called “cables.” The whole mess even has a “-gate” suffix! And sheds light on Google massive hack-attack last January… http://gawker.com/5700705/all-the-hottest-diplomatic-gossip-from-the-latest-wikileak?skyline=true&s=i If you remember, this was the act that provoked Google to threaten to pull out of China, after…
Complexo do Alemão—one of the most dangerous and poorest slums in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A 731-acre sea of crumbling shacks in which pariahs survive and criminals thrive. That’s where drug king Pezão had his secret luxury mansion. While everyone around him was living in a mass of hot crap, the criminal’s grand base was…
Love Angry Birds, like we do? Have you downloaded the $0.99 Halloween version of said mobile game? If yes, the “Christmas” themed version of the game will become available to you, for free, as an update in the near future. And good news for Android users: This version will not be an iOS exclusive like…
Yamaha’s new TSX-140 desktop audio player has a simple, soothing schtick: If you use it as a musical alarm, it will gradually awaken you with a host of audio options. Let’s explore! As the image betrays, the unit is obviously compatible with the iPod touch and iPhone 3g/3GS/4, as well as MP3s played from a…
Luckily for humanity, these “social network sneakers” are concepts. For now. I fear there’s no fail whale in existence that will be big enough to stop the slobbering social media masses from demanding these be created via a “Like” page. Facebook and Twitter concepts are currently available to view, with no word, thankfully, of a…
Manufacture Royale’s Opera $1.2 million watch doesn’t just open up for show, there’s some functionality built into that unfolding, accordion-like action too. Minute hand repeater plays C#, hour hand plays in A. Your wallet weeps to the tune of “empty.” The watch will be limited to a run of only 12 timepieces, each comprised of…
Chris Dimino’s waffle-making typewriter may be a few years old now, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t dust it off from time to time (Retromodo!) and encourage someone to help the man get it into geek kitchens the world over. Dimino created the typewriter waffle maker for an exhibition called the “Next Best…Ding!” a few…
Ultrasn0w, the iPhone Dev Team’s iOS unlocking tool, was broken recently by Apple’s “aggressive compiler optimization.” Whatever. It works again, sort of, but only for iPhone 3G and 3GS. The iPhone 4 uses a different baseband so that version will have to wait. [iPhone Dev Team via BGR]
Move over doodling, there’s a new time-waster in town. Texting. Perhaps you’ve heard of it? If you’re a college student you’ve definitely heard of it, as 90% of all students have copped to doing it during class. Professors are mad! Shockingly, some students have even used it to cheat on exams! Shocking! Proving history repeats…
A snippet of Facebook code has fueled existing rumors concerning a video chat feature on that platform, powered by Skype. https://gizmodo.com/what-facebook-and-skype-integration-would-mean-for-you-5651508 Facebook app developer Tal Alter discovered the code, called VideoChat, while digging around during development of his own application. The code “appears to have everything needed to introduce video chatting functionality,” he said. Even…
