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Will you tell of your hopes and your dreams and the goodness you have seen? Or will you tell them of the darkness you’ve created with your own hands? The Park Community Church in Chicago is a multi-story Christian center that more closely resembles a Starbucks than any cathedral—and in fact houses its own coffee…
The D-Link Boxee Box (in addition to Boxee clients for PC and Mac) will offer HD movie rentals when it lands in living rooms in coming weeks, courtesy of a new partnership with Vudu. Vudu’s full HD rentals—1080p, Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround Sound—cost 2 bucks a pop for two nights of viewing. Not a…
Firefox’s director Mike Beltzner has confirmed that Firefox 4 (expected later this year, with HTML 5 and multitouch support amongst others) has actually been delayed until early next year, as it’s “taking longer than initial estimates indicated as we track down regressions and sources of instability. As part of our commitment to beta users, we…
It’d spoil half the fun if these earbuds were dangling from your ears, rather than equipping Darth, Yoda and a Stormtrooper with palm-based audio. You can pre-order them now for $17 each. [TreasureSeekers via ChipChick via OhGizmo]
Today’s October 28th, which means Verizon Wireless has begun selling Wi-Fi versions of the iPad, with MiFi mobile hotspot dongle packages on offer starting at $630 for the 16GB model. https://gizmodo.com/ipad-coming-to-verizon-stores-on-october-28th-5663702 Prices go up to $730 for the 32GB model, and $830 for the 64GB-er. Monthly payments beginning at $20 for 1GB of data will…
A Taiwanese monitor manufacturer is threatening to sue Apple for $1.5 billion for the “iPad” name, claiming they registered “I-Pad” in 2000 for a tablet which failed to launch. Fujitsu tried (and failed), but Proview wants a stab too. https://gizmodo.com/apple-now-owns-ipad-entirely-5503047 As the story goes, Proview registered the trademark in the European Union, as well as…
Already available for iPhones, the Johnny Cash graphic novel biography I See A Darkness has arrived on the iPad for $5. If you already own his music, it will be used at relevant points in the story. [iTunes via Recombu]
Rather, they’re passive sound amplifiers, working much like a gramophone horn to project the sound. Made from ceramic and wood, Brit Andrew Beaumont‘s designs should be in an art gallery really. [Andrew Beaumont via DesignBoom]
After a brief play Place Search looks like something I’ll be using a lot. It grabs all local services and venues when a search request is made (such as “South London gyms”), displaying all relevant info on the first page. A small Google Maps on the right holds red pins for the various results, and…
It seems the 11.6-inch MacBook Air falls into the “small and portable electronic items” category that the iPad belongs to, at least where airport security is concerned. 13-inch Air owners will still have to remove them from bags, though. https://gizmodo.com/the-ipad-airport-security-and-you-5502254 Those couple extra inches count for something with the TSA, though as I said yesterday…
China’s stolen the US’ chip-laden crown for building the world’s fastest supercomputer. The National University of Defense Technology’s Tianhe-1A PC uses “American” chips from Intel and Nvidia, and supposedly it solves math problems 29million times faster than 1976’s supercomputer. The computer, which has over 7,168 M2050 graphics cards from Nvidia at a cost of $2,500…
Worried that your naughty bits will get damaged in an explosion? Then you need to go ahead and spend $95 on a pair of these brightly colored undies. They’re lined with enough Aramid fabric and kevlar to keep things safe. The heaven-sent product’s name is the Blast Boxer and it was designed to keep military…
The folks at Chatroulette found a very clever solution for their money shortage and penis overload problems. They’re now earning money by forwarding all their penises to Hustler’s website: [Chatroulette] started redirecting pantless visitors to Hustler’s Web site, and their computers would forever be blocked from Chatroulette. At first, [they] were banning a hundred thousand…
The only thing better than flavored whipped cream? Flavored whipped cream that’ll get you drunk. That’s the joy of aptly named Whipped Lightning. Just imagine what the whippets are like. Available in flavors ranging from a festive tropical passion to a more seasonal pumpkin to your standard spiced vanilla, Whipped Lightning seems like the perfect…
Remember that whole balloon boy hoax, wherein a terrible man exploited his family to achieve fleeting notoriety through national panic before being fined and jailed? I try not too every day. But Richard Heene is back, scummier than ever. Go away, Richard Heene! Take your horrible Bear Scratch with you, along with its horrible tagline…
Take a close look at this photo. It was supposedly taken by Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the daguerreotype, on the streets of Paris in 1838. And it might just be the earliest photo to include a human subject. In case you were wondering, Hokumburg Goombah has an explanation as to why we don’t see…
Carving pumpkins with scary faces is kids stuff. Carving pumpkins with sexual scenes more explicit than you ever thought possible (for a pumpkin)—that’s what mature witches and warlocks do. Say hello to the not-safe-for-work-or-neighborhood-kids Pornkins: The Pornkins set, which is on sale for $20, includes 2 carving knifes, 1 poker tool, 1 instruction sheet, 1…
A doctor sits in front of a screen, analyzing and recording the neurons firing as you lay asleep, dreaming, electrodes implanted in your brain. He can tell exactly what you’re dreaming about. Reality? Not quite yet. Dr. Moran Cerf is in the process of collecting a neuron-thought database from his patients (volunteers, who do actually…
The next T-Mobile myTouch, which looks to be a fine phone, as T-Mobile’s first video-chatting Android phone, is being re-branded as the myTouch 4G. But it’s not really 4G. It’s pretty lame of them to call it that. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-mytouch-is-t-mobiles-first-android-phone-with-5654657 The myTouch, along with the G2, are T-Mobile’s first phones to run with the HSPA+ networking…
In Canada, they have no use for Octobeard. Instead, Ontario-based RIM is encouraging employees to cultivate mustaches along with smartphones in Movember. But to what (finely waxed) end? The entry fees of five dollars will collectively go towards prostate cancer research, which is great! But while the rules are quite explicit as to what does…
