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Leaked Shots of Windows Phone 7-Running Samsung GT-i8700

A tipster sends these photos of the WP7-running Samsung GT-i8700. There’s not a whole lot to glean besides the fact that it has 8GB of storage and looks like something I want to play with right now. Here’s the back: A camera with an LED flash, too! You might also notice that the i8700 drops…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Apple Patent For Making Your LCD TV an Even Better Digital Photo Frame

Apple claims that their TV work is just a hobby, but that doesn’t mean they don’t innovate for the living room. A newly published patent outlines an LCD TV that has separate modes for video and still photos. Apple is into the idea of users sharing photos—the gorgeous stacks interface that was given top billing…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Android App Finger Race Is a Personal Treadmill for Digits

Are your fingers feeling fat today? Free app Finger Race will have them running 1 meter and 2 meter races, or even endurance runs at 5 meters in length. They’ll be size zeros in no time. [Recombu]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Carbon Fiber Is the New Leather

We’ve all succumbed to the siren song of luxury—splurged on a pricey gadget we have no legitimate need or use for. Frequently, such decisions are wrapped up in authenticity. Other times all it takes is one sexy material. You know what I’m talking about, Mr. Carbon Fiber Chopsticks. Fact: Few materials can instill lust in…

Gadgets Bryan Gardiner

Don’t Tweet While Driving in Newark, the Mayor Is Watching

Celebrities use Twitter. Politicians use Twitter. And sometimes those two worlds hilariously collide. Observe: Snooki tweets about being stuck in traffic in Newark; the mayor of Newark immediately threatens to fine her for texting while driving. LOL. [Twitter]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Let the Egg-Bot Draw Your Egg a Plaid Jacket

Robots help us accomplish many complex tasks, from diffusing bombs to assembling automobiles. Now, with the open source Egg-Bot, we can add “drawing on spherical surfaces” to that list. Not that complex, you say? Well just look at this diagram: See! It takes a lot of parts to get those sharpie lines straight. And it’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Here’s Who Really Rules the Twitterverse

All apologies to Lady Gaga, but it turns out that your quantity of Twitter followers isn’t nearly as important as their quality. At least not for news-media feeds, according to this new ranking of the 100 most influential media Twits. The new metric, developed by Daniel Romero and his team at Cornell University, takes into…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple App Rules

The intro page of the guidelines fails to address the concerns about arbitrary censorship, appealing to the words of US Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart on pornography. The rules related to “porn” remain the same as the unwritten ones.

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Graphics Benchmark for G2 Shows It Should Be Blazin’

Admittedly, I was a little disappointed to discover the G2’s new Snapdragon processor is only clocked at 800MHz, but according to leaked figures from GLBenchmarks, the graphics should run at the same speed as Motorola’s Droid X and 2. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-g2-is-designed-with-google-voice-and-hspa-in-5633473 To dig further into the G2’s innards, it’s got one of Qualcomm’s new 45nm MSM7230…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping

Google’s new Instant search autoloads search results as you type. I’m skeptical that it’ll save fifty kajillion man-hours once you add up all the milliseconds saved. Its real use cases are still on the way: local, mobile, and video search. Part of the inherent silliness of doing a Google Instant search on the wide-open web…

Tech News Tim Carmody

The 7 Parts That Make Up the New iPod Nano

The new iPod Nano certainly lives up to its name—it has a 1.54″ touchscreen and very little else. IFixit blasted it open with a heat gun and found more screws (11) than parts (7) inside. [iFixit] https://gizmodo.com/the-new-multitouch-ipod-nano-and-how-you-use-it-5627044

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

625 Volts of Third Rail Juice Is No Match for This Street Fighting Man

Ever wonder what it’s like to fall on the third rail? Just ask Andy Morris, who was thrown onto the tracks in East New York: “He first started twitching and then you started seeing smoke coming from his head.” Ouch. Morris, “a down-on-his-luck construction worker,” got into a drunken fight on Monday with two other…

Tech News Jeff Neumann

Four Times as Many People Are Googling Stuff On Their Phones In Past Year

If you’ve been using Google Search on your phones, pat yourselves on the back—you’ve given Google another reason to smile this week. Their director of product management revealed the news yesterday, at the Citi Technology Conference. [AllThingsD]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Best Buy Will Sell Kindles This Fall

Amazon’s reader behemoth is about to get a little more behemoth-y, as Best Buy will begin selling Kindles this fall. With the devices already selling out, we can only imagine what the nation’s largest electronics retailer will do for sales. [CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/amazons-new-kindle-all-sold-out-5602385

Commerce Sam Biddle

A Full Year of Algebra Class on Your iPad

Tablets have the potential to topple stacks of textbooks, but it can’t happen until publishers start cramming entire curricula into apps. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s new Algebra 1 app, which has a full year’s worth of material, is the first attempt. HMH is launching the app in a year-long pilot program in California, allowing students to…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Censorship Stays as iPhone App Development Rules “Relax”

In a surprising announcement—after receiving a mountain of criticism, —Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.” That’s good. The bad: Arbitrary censorship stays. https://gizmodo.com/does-steve-jobs-just-not-get-game-development-5586050 What were the restrictions? Apple wasn’t happy when Adobe released tools that allowed developers to create…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

ARM’s Cortex-A15 Architecture Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

ARM is the company you can thank for your smartphone’s heroic guts; their chip architecture underpins Qualcomm’s Snapdragon, Samsung’s Hummingbird, and iPhone 4. Soon, you can also thank them for making chips five-times more powerful than those with Cortex A15. Here’s what we’ve got in store when Cortex A15 chips finally launch: up to 2.5GHz…

Tech News Brian Barrett

iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is Close, as Bootrom Exploit is Confirmed

Mere hours after iOS 4.1 became available, an iPhone Dev-Team user Pod2g found a bootrom exploit, meaning that the new update is indeed jailbreakable. However, this one differs—and could cause Apple a lot of pain. Due to the way the jailbreak accesses the OS, the only way Apple can fix it is reportedly by installing…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

A Phone Concept That Places Moisture-Damage at the Heart of the Design

With iPhones being damaged by moisture, why not create a phone where water bubbles are the focal point of the design? Presumably that was the thinking behind Seoul designer Bon-Seop Ku’s Aqua GUI concept phone. [Coroflot via Core77] https://gizmodo.com/asian-countries-too-humid-for-iphones-5619440

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

Welcome to the new meme, courtesy of Google Instant. After Google’s official Bob Dylan video, ad agency Whirled had a go with Tom Lehrer’s The Elements, to great success. http://gawker.com/5633106/the-google-ad-steve-jobs-will-hate Can someone please whip me up a video for some other list-based songs, such as Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire? [Whirled via TechCrunch]

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Leaked Shots of Windows Phone 7-Running Samsung GT-i8700

Apple Patent For Making Your LCD TV an Even Better Digital Photo Frame

Android App Finger Race Is a Personal Treadmill for Digits

Carbon Fiber Is the New Leather

Don’t Tweet While Driving in Newark, the Mayor Is Watching

Let the Egg-Bot Draw Your Egg a Plaid Jacket

Here’s Who Really Rules the Twitterverse

Apple App Rules

Graphics Benchmark for G2 Shows It Should Be Blazin’

How Google Instant Could Reinvent Channel Flipping

The 7 Parts That Make Up the New iPod Nano

625 Volts of Third Rail Juice Is No Match for This Street Fighting Man

Four Times as Many People Are Googling Stuff On Their Phones In Past Year

Best Buy Will Sell Kindles This Fall

A Full Year of Algebra Class on Your iPad

Censorship Stays as iPhone App Development Rules “Relax”

ARM’s Cortex-A15 Architecture Will Make Your iPhone 4 Look Decrepit

iOS 4.1 Jailbreak is Close, as Bootrom Exploit is Confirmed

A Phone Concept That Places Moisture-Damage at the Heart of the Design

Music Videos Created from Google Instant Will Keep Us Entertained For Now

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

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