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Until now, all other artificial heart transplants were just temporary relief. A 15 year old boy from Italy became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart, due to the Duchenne syndrome which was wasting his muscles away. It was this syndrome which meant he couldn’t receive a heart transplant, causing doctors in Rome…
Joining the Brits at their London event on the 11th, Microsoft will be staging an event in NYC from 3pm EST to show off their WP7 phones. T-Mobile will be “present for device showing and their service offering discussion,” apparently. Pencil in a mid-afternoon Giz browsing session on your work calendars, people. [Microsoft via Engadget]…
The newest myTouch iteration goes balls out with video: Video chat over Wi-Fi and T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network with a front-facing camera and 720p video recording with the rear camera—shared wirelessly with any DLNA-compatible screen. Like the previous myTouch(es), it’s built by HTC with custom T-Mobile software running on top of Android 2.2. (Points for built-in…
Mail on Sunday photographer Mark Pain probably didn’t know whether to cheer or cry after taking this photo. On one hand, he snapped a great picture. On the other hand, he might be about to face an angry Tiger Woods. Turns out that Mark did what most of us might’ve done in the same situation.…
Verizon Wireless, writing to us this evening, has officially confirmed it will credit 15 million customers with $90 million in compensation for “mistaken past data charges.” Most customers should expect a credit in the $2 to $4 range, although some royally screwed customers will apparently “receive larger credits or refunds,” the statement read. The credits…
It was going to be a momentous day. A veritable treasure trove of local history, preserved and pristine within a time capsule that was buried beneath Pittsburgh, 100 years ago, just waiting to be opened! Then they opened it… …and discovered what sounds like the bottom of a dank, muddy river. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says…
I sent this video to a fellow and told him “If you ever propose to me, please do this.” Either he’s currently fleeing town or he’s gathering up about a hundred cellphones and figuring out how to recreate this trick.
Nokia, alongside researchers at the University of Cambridge, are busy at work on the golden skin thing seen here. You thought that smartphone was an extension of your hand already? Just wait until the smartphone is your hand. Or wrist or arm or whatever. As you can see in the demo, the flexible material could…
Sportswear and shoe maker Adidas has allegedly canceled a hefty $10 million iAd due to “control issues” that could not be resolved with Apple or its CEO, Steve Jobs. From the “well, that’s nothing new” category, the rumor is that Adidas had no less than three creative designs rejected by Apple, with the money quote…
How much of Apple’s current success owes itself to Steve Jobs’s 12 years of turmoil and failure away from the company as the head of NeXT? A lot, it would seem. The story’s now Silicon Valley legend, but let’s revisit it briefly anyway. In May 1985, Steve Jobs was relieved of operational control over Apple,…
For all their critical acclaim, current tablets stink in direct sunlight. That’s why Pixel Qi’s “transflective” display and similar screens are so promising. Unfortunately, the other serious contender in this field, Qualcomm’s Mirasol, just delayed their screen to next year. The Mirasol displays were supposed to launch this year. Now it’s early 2011, at which…
ADT’s latest marketing effort sought to educate Santiago, Chile apartment owners about the dangers of home invasion by scaring the piss out of them when they got home. The ploy, while no doubt startling to those who discovered it, was actually pretty ingenious. Using a spring loaded box, ADT marketing professionals (Née burglars working for…
The future of heavy cargo transportation looked positively eco-friendly and blimp-like earlier this summer, so it’s really no surprise that Australia’s Skylifter cargo blimp is making the Internet rounds this weekend. Theoretically capable of lifting about 150 tons, this massive 500-ft prototype blimp features a flying saucer shape so that it can combat heavy winds…
A new report out of the US National Research Council asks that you leave the severed fingers and popped out eyeballs at home when trying to fool biometric scanners. Turns out the body’s natural aging process is enough to fool these fallible systems, as are the grime, grease, moisture and dirt that naturally accumulate on…
Dialing 911 during an emergency is something your square parents would do. Modern damsels in distress break out their iPhones and boot up the Rescue Dogs 911 App. Click to viewHowever, as Andy Samberg learns in this SNL Digital Short, there are always a few issues with new apps—bugs and whatnot—and the Rescue Dogs 911…
What ambitious tot hasn’t thought about defending humanity while strapped into a glorious death-dealing battlemech, right? Well now they can with Kid’s Walker, a kind of bright red contraption that will have them acting out airlock fightscenes in no time. Provided you think little Timmy or Jane are worth the $21,600 buy in, of course.…
This is mechanically separated chicken. Chickens are turned into this goop so we can create delicious chicken nuggets and juicy chicken patties. It’s obscenely gross and borderline alien but it’s not going to stop me from eating nuggets. They’re too good. The process works a little something like this: There’s more: because it’s crawling with…
If I still watched movies on DVD and I still had my NES lying around, I would spend my entire weekend trying to make this Nintendo NES DVD player. It’s just beautiful. I love what he did with the NES controller. Here’s how the system works: Sigh. As I don’t have a DVD player or…
The woefully out of touch writers of Scouting Magazine, the official magazine of Boy Scouts of America, suggest that parents only listen to CDs they buy from stores because when you listen to legal MP3s you risk confusing the boy scouts. Here’s the full quote: So how can Scouters teach ethical behavior related to music…
Robert Ziegler was doing what most people would do, driving his car and following the instructions of his GPS. The only problem? His GPS led him to a road where he couldn’t get out. Ziegler kept hoping that he’d be brought back to the main road but the GPS kept saying to go forward. It…
