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Hoyt’s Carbon Matrix carbon fiber bow may be their lightest ever at just 3.8 pounds, but unless you’re a bowhunter, who cares? The rest of us will want this $1,600 bow because it looks perfect for hunting Predators. [Hoyt]
The age of the automobile started exactly 125 years ago yesterday when Gottlieb Daimler filed a patent for his revolutionary “riding car,” a two-wheeled machine driven by an internal combustion engine. His machine looks like a motorcycle with training wheels. But under the strictest etymology – the Greek auto means “self” and the Latin mobilis…
The end of the summer may be fast approaching, but we still have some extra-hot #dealz for you. Feast your eyes on a Vizio HDTV, pre-order Fable III for Xbox, or relax with a free 24-Track Album. Top Deals: • 32″ Vizio E320VL 720p LCD HDTV for $298.98 plus free shipping (normally $348) • Fable…
There’s a good number of nice iPad stands—most recently Twelve South’s Compass—but at some point you have to ask yourself how much stand is too much. The PadFoot does the job and stays out of the way. https://gizmodo.com/the-compass-ipad-stand-5593085 Produced by Michiel Cornelissen, the minimalist maverick behind the Pod à porter iPod Nano necklace, the PadFoot…
Hyperkin’s “Sports Victory Set” of PlayStation Move accessories has a couple of problems. First, they are a bit ridiculous looking. (But hey, waving a dagger around could be fun). More importantly, they will mess up the whole damn system. PS Move’s technology hinges upon its ability to spot the LED sphere at the end of…
The original clapper launched in 1986. It was a disaster. Because of shoddy engineering, it started blowing up TVs, and Joseph Pedott ended up having the whole thing re-designed. The rest is history. And a jingle! Pedott, who lives in San Francisco, doesn’t claim to be an inventor. He is an ad guy with a…
Clearwire just launched Rover, a no-contract service that offers unlimited WiMax goodness for $5 a day, $20 a week, or $50 a month, along with two new WiMax modems. Yep, get ready to start topping up your 4G. The service is launching in all of Clearwire’s WiMax markets with two modems: a $99 USB stick…
The Tuned Pale Ale’s bottles show a musical scale on its label. Drink it down to the note you want, blow on it, and it will play it back. Buy a pack, and form a band with your friends. Actually, the pack itself becomes a drumming box, and the bottles’ special washboard shape also serves…
This is the new invention by the Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen—those guys who created the MP3 music compression algorithm: An inexpensive technology for fluid HD videoconferencing with almost no delay. Previously, this required very expensive dedicated hardware. According to Fraunhofer’s project manager Dr. Nikolaus Faerber, the “current low delay video technologies require either a much…
Back in July, at the iPhone 4 Antennagate conference, Steve Jobs acknowledged the iPhone 4’s proximity sensor issues and said they’d be fixed in the “next update.” According to an Apple Australia spokesperson, they won’t. https://gizmodo.com/jobs-iphone-4-proximity-sensor-fix-in-next-ios4-update-5589041 The Next Web reports that an Apple Australia spokesperson said the company’s still working on a fix for the…
Samsung says they’ve sold a million Galaxy S phones in the US over a month and a half—not iPhone 4 debut numbers, but strong nonetheless. Verizon and Sprint will soon offer the Galaxy, following AT&T and T-Mobile. [Fortune]
There’s something going down at this New York art gallery—something involving five thousand custom panels held together by an Office Depot’s worth of binder clips. I’ll say this much: the inside’s a lot more colorful than the outside: That’s right, all those clips are holding together your standard issue technicolor wormhole—an installation at the bridgegallery…
This is how a sunspot really looks, in the most detailed picture of the surface of the sun yet. Hola, Señor Sauron! The photo, which was taken on July 2 by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Professor Philip R. Good and the Big Bear Solar Observatory team, shows a sun spot at about 3600ºC, surrounded…
Nintendo has announced they’re preparing for a little price cutting in advance of the 3DS launch. Starting September 12th, you’ll be able to pick up a DSi for $129 (down from $149), and an XL for $169 (formerly $189). [CrunchGear]
Will most people ever really aspire to be mayor? The buzz surrounding location services is massively disproportionate to their actual use, says the NY Times—only 1% of Americans use them weekly. But will it remain a yuppie novelty? According the National Venture Capital Association, $115 million has been injected into location-based services in the past…
According to 43rumors, you will be able to put a new Olympus E-P2 kit with black 17mm lens and black external flash under the Xmas tree, along with a new 600mm zoom lens, which Olympus says it’s the world smallest: https://gizmodo.com/olympus-e-p2-flashier-than-the-e-p1-but-still-no-flas-5397323 At 15.16 ounces, the M-Zuiko ED 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 (150-600mm equivalent at 35mm) measures 2.75…
The industrious folks at iFixit have published extensive manuals for 24 popular game consoles, detailing over 200 repairs and modifications with step-by-step guides and photographs. You knew there was a reason you were keeping that broken Game Gear around. Some of the consoles covered include: Microsoft – Xbox – Xbox 360 and 360 S Nintendo…
Wednesday’s music-centric Apple event could bring any number of surprises—Lady Gaga iPod Classic!?—but some accessories that have popped up a bit early make two announcements all the more likely: a new iPod Touch and 1.7″ touchscreen iPod Nano. https://kotaku.com/what-will-apple-announce-at-their-music-centric-septemb-5621837 The cases and screen protectors, which are live over at Ali Baba, (2), don’t reveal much…
I still remember my first 3D card—the ATI Rage Pro—so it’s with great sadness that I’m writing this: AMD has officially killed the ATI brand. OK, I lied. I really don’t give a damn. AMD has decided to kill the ATI brand after a study showed that most people don’t care much about it: 1)…
That Toshiba AC100 Android-powered netbook may not be the most desirable combination of hardware and software out there, but it already has one big plus point—it’s Nvidia Tegra 2 chipset destroys anything else in terms of raw speed. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-ac100-netbook-runs-android-and-has-massive-seve-5568458 A speed test using Android benchmarking tool Quadrant carried out by a reviewer at Carrypad shows…
