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Combine These Powerful Sanyo Projectors For One Ginormous Panorama

This Sanyo projector’s plenty impressive on its own: native 2k resolution for 2048×1080 images thrown up against your wall, 3,000:1 contrast ratio. But like Voltron, it’s when you get a few of them together that the real show starts. The thuddingly named Sanyo PLV-HF10000L contains not only picture-in-picture, but also picture-by-picture, seamlessly blending multiple projections…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Wikileaks Critic Adrian Lamo Defends Manning Decision

He’s been called a snitch, a traitor, even a war criminal. He’s receiving death threats regularly. But Sunday Adrian Lamo took the stage at HOPE 2010 to defend his decisions, and then sat down with Gizmodo. Former hacker, columnist, and security consultant Adrian Lamo is one of a cast of characters in the story of…

Tech News Quinn Norton

Droid 2 Launching August 12 With R2-D2 Edition?

Never underestimate the power of a good pun. Er, maybe the Force of a good pun—Engadget’s hearing that the Motorola Droid 2 will launch August 12, including a special R2-D2-bearing edition (presumably for enhanced starship navigation). [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/droid-2-launching-with-android-2-2-on-august-23rd-5574677

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Some Droid X Screens Suffering From Display Defect

We’re not sure how widespread the problem is yet, but various users are showing some serious display defects on their Droid X. Some see flickering screens, others have pulsating bands, and others still are just plain broken. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-x-subtle-like-an-asteroid-5570931 Here’s a flickering Droid X screen: Droid X owners, have you seen any display problems? [Engadget]

Tech News Casey Chan

Gadget Deals of the Day

If you haven’t yet, sprint over to Steam and get Alien Swarm for free. Plus, if massive amounts of extraterrestrials doesn’t excite you, maybe you’d rather sip home-made twilight-themed smoothies (seriously). Cold as a vampire’s heart. What a deal! Top Deals: • 15.6″ Lenovo IdeaPad Y560 Core i7 8GB RAM Laptop for $944.10 plus free…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck

Toshiba Readying Both Android and Windows 7 Tablets, “SmartPad” Coming This October

At a press conference celebrating 25 years of laptop-making, Mark Whittard, Managing Director of Toshiba Australia, concluded by showed off a prototype for the Toshiba SmartPad, a tablet he said would hit sometime around October of this year. The suspiciously familiar looking prototype is one of several tablets Toshiba’s preparing, relays PC Authority Australia, some…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Inception: Peering Into the Science of Dreams

Inception is a complex sci-fi thriller that lies somewhere between a James Bond film and The Matrix. We’ve assembled a spoiler-free guide to the science of the movie, and all you need to know about dreams and the unconscious mind. In Inception, Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a dream snatcher. He’s an industrial spy, who…

Tech News Rowan Hooper - New Scientist

46 People Painted With Light

In one of the most difficult Shooting Challenges yet, you were asked to not only paint with light, but paint forms and figures that were actually interacting with or modifying a human subject. The results were so, so, so cool. https://gizmodo.com/shooting-challenge-body-light-painting-5587069 Lead Shot – Star Child Out of all the shots I tried, this one…

Tech News Mark Wilson

A Floppy Drive With a Survival Mechanism

If shows like Planet Earth and Life have taught us anything, it’s that things will figure out ways to survive in incredibly threatening environments. For a floppy disk drive, that means hoisting itself up to avoid a desktop coffee spill. https://gizmodo.com/review-life-proves-that-reality-beats-cg-every-time-5496573 This four-legged floppy drive, along with the dust-sneezing Gesundheit Radio, are the products of…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

BP’s Photoshopped Crisis Command Center Is Terrible On Every Level

This image was posted on BP’s main website until yesterday. Look at all of those people working so hard to stem the oil disaster! Now look a little closer. Now be appalled that it’s egregiously—and very poorly—photoshopped. UPDATED: Americablog first caught the deception, which wasn’t terribly hard to catch given what a sloppy job BP…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Google Image Search Gets Textless, Infinitely Scrolling Redesign

Today, Google’s launching what they’re saying is the most radical redesign of Google Image Search since 2001. The new, Bing-esque results page is just pictures, naked of text, and they load dynamically so you can scroll for-ev-er. TechCrunch says that clicking an image in the new design will bring up a bigger preview and information…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The SeaKettle Life Raft Makes Its Own Drinking Water

When I think of post-shipwreck situations, I imagine myself clinging to some shard of wood, encircled by sharks, delirious from the sun and saltwater. But the SeaKettle, which can desalinate salt water, sounds more like a floating hotel room. The luxury life raft is an entry in the James Dyson Award design competition by designer…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Vlingo SpeedDialer for Android Aims to Replace 411

Hoping to assist you on your next quest for immediate pizza consumption, voice search company Vlingo has debuted its SuperDialer business directory app for Android. SuperDialer will take your spoken queries and spit back local results. Say “Chinese food,” for example, and SuperDialer will provide a list of the closest places to grab some lo…

Tech News Sam Biddle

HP webOS Tablet Will Use a Digital Pen

More information is coming out about HP’s webOS tablet. Yesterday we learned it may be called PalmPad, and today it seems that the tablet’s screen will recognize a digital pen. That’s added functionality, right there, and an important iPad differentiator. https://gizmodo.com/hp-files-for-palmpad-trademark-likely-webos-tablet-n-5590902 The iPad is great at many things, but most of those involve content consumption.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Canon Confirms Smaller DSLR-type Camera In The Works

In response to the growing popularity of smaller, ‘mirrorless’ mcameras such as the Sony NEX series and micro four-thirds cameras like the Olympus PEN, Canon has confirmed that it’s going to build its own version of the small high-quality camera. Will it be a micro four thirds? Judging by what Masaya Maeda, head of the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Xbox 360 Kinect Motion Controller Comes November 4 at $150

Microsoft’s locked down their Kinect pricing, availability and bundling, and it’s pretty much what everyone knew. It’s $150 on November 4 for the standalone, and $300 bundled with a 4GB version of the new, smaller Xbox. As we found out back at E3, there’s an “arcade” version of the new Xbox 360. That will be…

Tech News Jason Chen

Pogoplug Biz Will Share Any of Your USB Drives Over the Internet

The last time we saw the Pogoplug, it was shockingly pink and not exactly something you’d stick onto your manly, serious-looking desk, but now it comes in a “Biz” version which’ll do all the same file-sharing, without the girly looks. https://gizmodo.com/second-generation-pogoplug-lets-you-share-multiple-usb-5409127 Aside from looking a bit more serious than the prior generation, the Pogoplug Biz…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Projected Pong Puts Some Interactive BleepBloop On Your Apartment Walls

Take an Arduino, accelerometer, and gyroscope-powered VR glove, some custom software, a projector and some funky interiors and you’ve got yourself the most futuristic game of Pong I’ve ever seen. Spoiler: the ball actually bounces off the stairs. It’s part of a project titled “Ping Pong Game with Physical boundaries on an architectural wall,” which…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The Most Fun Photocopier Teardown You’ll Ever See

Like the Science Guy before him, Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy takes stuff you ordinarily might not be interested in—like how exactly a photocopier works—and makes it fun and digestible. Now where’s the Taxes Guy. [Engineer Guy]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Forget What Your Feet Look Like?

It’s time to get out of the house, like, right now. Fill out the survey below and you could win a $150 gift certificate to Dick’s Sporting Goods. Go buy some new running shoes and then take a leisurely jog to the ice cream store.

Tech News Gawkercreative

Combine These Powerful Sanyo Projectors For One Ginormous Panorama

Wikileaks Critic Adrian Lamo Defends Manning Decision

Droid 2 Launching August 12 With R2-D2 Edition?

Some Droid X Screens Suffering From Display Defect

Gadget Deals of the Day

Toshiba Readying Both Android and Windows 7 Tablets, “SmartPad” Coming This October

Inception: Peering Into the Science of Dreams

46 People Painted With Light

A Floppy Drive With a Survival Mechanism

BP’s Photoshopped Crisis Command Center Is Terrible On Every Level

Google Image Search Gets Textless, Infinitely Scrolling Redesign

The SeaKettle Life Raft Makes Its Own Drinking Water

Vlingo SpeedDialer for Android Aims to Replace 411

HP webOS Tablet Will Use a Digital Pen

Canon Confirms Smaller DSLR-type Camera In The Works

Xbox 360 Kinect Motion Controller Comes November 4 at $150

Pogoplug Biz Will Share Any of Your USB Drives Over the Internet

Projected Pong Puts Some Interactive BleepBloop On Your Apartment Walls

The Most Fun Photocopier Teardown You’ll Ever See

Forget What Your Feet Look Like?

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

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

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