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The good news: you can jailbreak your Apple TV now! The less good news: there’s not a whole lot you can do with it. Except run this pretty slick-looking weather app, that is. https://gizmodo.com/jailbreak-the-new-apple-tv-with-pwnage-tool-4-1-5669162 Designed by nitoTV, this weather manager looks like the first custom software designed for Apple’s liberated media streamer. Looks like a…
If you’ve got an Android 2.1 or above device, a beta copy of media software legend Winamp has your name on it. But this isn’t the bare bones MP3 player you probably knew way back—the beta boasts sophisticated features. Winamp on Android will, for instance, allow for wireless syncing with your computer’s library, let you…
Earlier this week, Phandroid served up some mouthwatering details about Android 3.0, AKA Gingerbread, along with one (very lousy) screenshot. Now they’ve got a (very lousy) video clip that supposedly shows Gingerbread’s turn-the-screen-off animation, and it is pretty damn cool. https://gizmodo.com/gingerbread-leak-androids-excellent-new-skin-job-will-5667128 Yup, just like you’re turning off one of those old tube TVs. But more…
It’s ironic that the poster cat for Apple’s Mac OS X Lion is exactly the same image used by a extreme right political party. The stock photo—titled “The King”, by Ronnie Howard—was available at Shutterstock and Fotolia, but it has been removed. You can still find it at Pixmac for $10.66. Just a few minutes…
You guys kept telling us you wanted a Giz t-shirt. So here it is, the very first Gizmodo Artist Series t-shirt, designed by former Giz illustrator Wendy MacNaughton. It’s available today from BustedTees for $20. Here’s the skinny. A few months ago we started the Gizmodo Artist Series, bringing on a new artist every month…
Someday, robots will be better than us at everything. Even cuddling. But how are things going on the lanes? Chris Barnes, one of the world’s best human bowlers, and EARL, the world’s best robot bowler, faced off to find out. EARL, the Enhanced Automated Robotic Launcher, is the latest and greatest in robot bowling technology.…
This is what you get when you mix Steve Jobs’ iPad presentation with yesterday’s MacBook Air presentation, barely ten months later. Of course, a PC netbook is not like an axe-blade-thin MacBook Air. And the MacBook Air isn’t “cheap”. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbook-air-is-thinner-than-an-axe-blade-5669139 The same happened with video iPods and smartphones and tablets too. One day he trashes…
I asked Virgin Media, the UK ISP whose 100MB broadband’s advertised in cheese in London, if I could lick their billboard. They said yes. I’m gonna refrain as I’ve got a cold, but that 110kg of cheese is awfully tempting. The 5 x 4m billboard was created by English food artist Prudence Staite, who used…
One of my favorite unpowered amplifiers is Griffin’s AirCurve, and at $5 more this $25 gramophone horn looks worth it. It’ll add 12db of sound to the speaker, and even acts as a stand too. [CyberGuys via BookOfJoe via Wired] https://gizmodo.com/griffin-aircurve-dock-amplifies-your-iphone-speakers-wi-5053109
It’s an entry in the GE ecomagination Challenge (in the Use Power: Eco Homes/Eco Buildings category), where GE and its venture capital partners have made a $200 million commitment to invest in the best ideas to develop and deploy digital energy technologies. From the developer: FlexFlush™ is a retrofit water conservation device to provide dual…
The real victims in the ongoing spat between Cablevision and News Corp? Phillies fans, who were denied from watching Tuesday night’s playoff game on Fox. Until the FCC stepped in with live Twitter updates from the game. https://gizmodo.com/news-corp-bans-cablevision-customers-from-watching-hulu-5665721 Matt Cain relieved after 7 strong, 2 H, 0 ER. Giants scored on two singles, throwing error.…
Just in time to help you put off making your Halloween costume, Angry Birds Halloween has arrived in the App Store, boasting 45 new spooky levels. I look forward to the Angry Birds Easter, myself. $1 [iTunes]
Item #5 of my List of Things To do Before I Die: Go to Antarctica. Item #6: Pour myself a whiskey with virgin ice. Item #7: Eat one of those cute penguins. [Life, Panoramic]
Between the major software overhaul in November, a mystery announcement next week, and the introduction of Nook to the all-powerful Walmart ecosystem, it looks like Barnes and Noble might be making the ebook reader race interesting just in time for the holidays. The Kindle competitor will be sold in 2,500 Walmart stores and Walmart.com starting…
It’s maybe not that big a surprise, given the huge number of iPhones Apple moved this past quarter, but it’s still a big number: AT&T activated 5.2 million iPhones this summer. That’s nearly 70% of their entire integrated device activations. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sells-14-1-million-iphones-and-more-ipads-than-ma-5667042 About 24% of those customers were new to AT&T, meaning about 1.3 million people…
Think the human-race is alone in eyeing up chrome and glass houses like we “often feature” on Giz? Dolls like the touch of a cold steel kitchen bench too. Doubling as a lamp, humans benefit from this dollshouse as well. Created by TDO and Wallpaper*, it was supposedly based on architect Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye…
3D glasses may be made big enough to fit over prescription glasses, but it’s still not a pleasant experience. Having to constantly push up one pair of glasses is nerdy enough, but two? Unfortunately it’s just so far Samsung of the big players who’ve commiserated with us four-eyed lot’s plight, though Oakley mentioned last month…
Did our words on why we’re not reviewing the N8 cut to the bone of Nokia? They’ve slipped an interesting fact into today’s financial report that they “will no longer be talking about Symbian^3 or Symbian^4 at all.” [Nokia Conversations] https://gizmodo.com/why-were-not-reviewing-the-nokia-n8-5667723
Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill. After rioting over Google Street View cars accidentally capturing Wi-Fi network details, less than 3 per cent of Germans actually chose to opt out of having their houses on Street View. That number equates to 244,237 requests from the 8,458,084 houses that were photographed for Street…
What luxury to have cabinet-mounted iPads! What luxury to have an iPad at all, really. At $70 (plus the cost of an iPad) lazy recipe-readers could have one under every cupboard in the kitchen. Sign me up for 10. Griffin’s cabinet mount dock is probably not intended for holding an iPad permanently, but I like…
