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We end the week on a high note with some amazing deals on Laptops, Games, and Digital Cameras. Free coffee at Burger King is the icing on the cake. Top Deals: • 14″ Dell XPS 14 Quad Core i7, 2GB GeForce GT 425M + Sony Cyber-shot DSC0H55/B Camera for $1,099.99 plus free shipping (normally $1,374)…
What? Their removable, discreetly-located lithium-ion polymer battery units are recharging. You want your feet warm while you’re snowshoeing, clearing the driveway, or hiking Mt. Everest, right? Well, nothing can get them much warmer than Columbia Bugathermo Boots can. Hidden inside these ruggedly handsome winter boots there is a little button that, if deployed, provides up…
No idea which apps Damon Albarn used, but he reckons it’s a “completely different kind of record.” I’m no fan of Gorillaz (it’s certainly not Blur), but I’m interested to hear how “digital” it sounds. [NME via Recombu]
Now that iTunes 10.1 is out with iOS 4.2 support, you can start dreaming again about how much better your iPad will be with multitasking and folders—whenever iOS 4.2 lands: [Gizmodo] https://gizmodo.com/snag-itunes-10-1-with-airplay-awesomeness-right-now-5688584
There’s so much going on in this new Windows 7 ad that I’m still haven’t decided how I feel about it yet. Whimsical animation! Avatar played with PC Na’vi! A Mac in desperate need of ginger ale! Actually, it’s great. There’s something just wonderfully weird about this Microsoft spot. Beyond touting Windows 7 Blu-ray compatibility—which,…
A piping hot iTunes 10.1 is ready for you to download. Two reasons to snag it: AirPlay, for beaming video around to stuff like your Apple TV, and support for the imminent iOS 4.2 update for the iPad and other iOS devices. [Apple]
Through Monday Nov. 15th, Amazon’s offering all AT&T handsets for a penny (plus that pesky new two-year contract). This is your first chance—unless you’re a Microsoft employee—to pick up a Windows Phone 7 device for practically nothing. https://gizmodo.com/every-microsoft-employee-is-getting-a-free-windows-phon-5593104 The includes the HTC Surround (probably your best bet, although the Samsung Focus is better), LG Quantum…
You can show me all the legal documentation you want. You can line up notary publics out the door. But unless I see it in a news feed item or a profile update, it’s invalid. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to update my status to make it quite clear that I’m pre-qualified for…
You learned the unfortunate way chicken nuggets are made. Now feast your eyes on the goopy, meaty glory of mechanical sausage making machines. They come in all shapes and sizes, oozing meat for your eating pleasure. https://gizmodo.com/chicken-nuggets-are-made-from-this-pink-goop-5654066 If you need some more mechanical madness for your Friday afternoon, take a look inside Chinese factories, check…
According to Techcrunch’s sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. This is why it may become your favorite webmail service. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I’d be very nervous. Facebook Mail could be a killer not only because of its potential instant size,…
For many, this Arduino-based MegaBitMeter—which measures your network data transfers—would be a useless piece of hardware. For me… I just like the idea of having analog meters all around my computer, like the cockpit of a P-51 Mustang. [dk7sl]
I’m sure you’ll agree with me that a marathon is tough work as is, but while wearing a gas mask? Which reduces oxygen intake by 30 per cent? It’s obvious Marine Sgt Jeremy Soles is tough as nails. He ran the marathon to draw attention to those who can’t run themselves—specifically, injured veterans. After 4hrs,…
What’s inside Samsung’s Galaxy Tab? Gorilla Glass, check. Two cameras, check. ARM A8 processor, check. A little man borking your browser on Flash-heavy pages? Can’t seen to find him anywhere. https://gizmodo.com/the-galaxy-tab-meets-its-air-pistol-executioner-5686491 There’s something special about the way iFixit tears down a gadget. A healthy reminder of how many moving parts go into making these machines…
Beast Boxing 3D is in the Punch-Out!! mold of boxing games, which I can’t get enough of. It stands out for a few reasons. It oozes style. The “story” is the tried-and-true Rocky/Little Mac trope—a puny fighter pummels his way through an onslaught of wacky and progressively more difficult fighters—but the combatants are monsters. Mixed…
Cyberstalking: it’s exhausting! First you’ve gotta check Facebook statuses, then move over to Twitter updates, maybe give a quick call for a nice heavy breathing moment. Thank goodness this Friends app collects all that info in one place. Time: saved. As you can see in the video above, Friends aggregates Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn (!), and…
Following Paul Chambers’ guilty verdict yesterday over a joke tweet where he “threatened” to blow up a British airport, tweeters have rallied together, tweeting the offending message with the hashtag #IAmSpartacus. Will the police arrest them all? [Twitter via TechRadar] https://gizmodo.com/twitter-joker-found-guilty-after-harmless-tweet-about-a-5687489
We might have a few issues with Nokia and their phones, but there’s no disputing they’re made from hardy stuff. It’s why we recall our first handsets so fondly—those drops barely scuffed the fascia, unlike today’s fancy blowers. https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723 Like a car manufacturer crash-test dummying their new wheels, Nokia (and other manufacturers) use rigorous test…
Limited to 10 of each color, these Bold 9780s have been created by fashion designer Bill Amberg for UK department store Selfridges. They may cost £1,000 each ($1,600) but my goodness that yellow-on-black is tickling my fancy. [Selfridges]
Facebook’s former-CTO confirmed Google was building a Facebook “killer,” perpetual rumormonger Kevin Rose tweeted it’d be called “Google Me”—but Google has said (again) that “we’re not working on a social network platform.” https://gizmodo.com/googles-facebook-killer-google-me-confirmed-by-former-5575237 Going on, their head of mobile product development, Hugo Barra, said that they’re not “working on a social network platform that’s just…
This is a photo of the TSA booth by the security check-in point at Indianapolis International Airport. Take a close look at the wallpaper on the computer in that booth. Nervous yet? In case you don’t recognize the image in the wallpaper, it’s this fake children’s book cover: While I’m really glad to see that…
