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Let the subtle glow from one of these colorful bedside tables set the mood in your room, or, pull up a tiny chair, pretend you’re in elementary school, and use it as a super rad (albeit small) desk. Eliminate the need to grope around in a dark drawer by choosing between hues of orange, yellow,…
This thing is called kinetic wall. Made with 250,000 aluminium panels that are sensitive to wind currents, its 53,819-square-feet surface (5,000 square meters) looks like a vertical lake. Watching it in motion is a surreal experience: The video above is from a smaller previous project. The wall in the image is being made by Urban…
The iBooks app‘s been updated to not only include support for audio and video content, but to also offer “substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs.” The free update appears to be gradually showing up in iTunes. [iTunes via Mac Stories]
I’ve been at the Infinite Loop campus a few times and yes, it’s all true. Obviously, that’s a rental. Or he burned it after wearing it. [Wired]
Looks like iTunes 9.2.1 is available for download now. Nothing terribly exciting to be found in the update though, just a lot of bug fixes: iTunes 9.2.1 provides a number of important bug fixes, including: – Disables older versions of some incompatible third-party plug-ins – Addresses minor issues with dragging and dropping items – Addresses…
“Over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.” Peace. Out. Trees. KINDLE DEVICE UNIT SALES ACCELERATE EACH MONTH IN SECOND QUARTER; NEW $189 PRICE RESULTS IN…
They copy computers, cellphones, cameras, video players, watches, bags, and everything man-made—but did you know that the Chinese also copy entire combat airplanes? It’s simple: They buy one and measure every part and system to clone it. It’s brutal reverse engineering but it works. In the past, they used to buy planes and designs from…
“There’s an awful lot of hoopla about that iPhone antenna.” Why yes, there is. And while there’s much to criticize about Apple’s response, we’re glad to see they’ve stopped pretending the problem doesn’t exist. Apple spent most of the time last week defending the iPhone 4’s antenna, using both data and rhetoric that was impressive…
Samsung is planning to launch a display with an AMOLED plastic panel on the universal board within two years. Why? Because by switching to the plastic panel, the AMOLED display would become unbreakable. Samsung’s process in making the indestructible screen is to put a thin film transistor (TFT) on the plastic panel and to replace…
I’m not making a tired funny! Dick Cheney’s new implant—a ventricular assist device—needed ’cause his heart is screwed, “leaves most recipients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own pulsatile beat.” Of course, this presumes he had a pulse in the first place. (I know, I know, that’s the…
Intel’s 32nm Gulftown architecture has produced its latest gem: the 3.2GHz hexacore i7-970 processor that’ll set you back $900. In addition to being super speedy—especially with TurboBoost, which lets you rev up to 3.46GHz—you get 12MB of on-chip cache and a triple-channel DDR3 memory controller. Fun times, and something I wouldn’t be at all surprised…
The wedge-shaped magic trackpad leaked back in June just got its model number matched up with a device on the FCC site, proving that it’s real and it should be coming within a month or so. https://gizmodo.com/apple-multitouch-magic-trackpad-peripheral-leaked-5556985 The timing of the FCC report is what’s interesting, because Apple traditionally files confidentiality requests to keep the…
The Kata ABS-HD starts as a pouch about the size of a book. One minute of blowing later, it’s a carry-on bag that can protect a full-size camcorder. And that is a really excellent idea. Basically, the ABS-HD is only a bag when you need it to be. Things that fold up into themselves are…
Tens of thousands of armies have been created as users engage in snack-sized combat across the web. Fight against opponents live on a myriad of battlefields. Or test your mettle against an army controlled by General Chester himself. The choice is yours.
Beneath the gritted teeth and backhanded compliments, AT&T and Apple secretly hate each other! It’s the sticky details that make Fred Vogelstein’s crisp expose of their dysfunctional relationship worth reading. Like how badly AT&T wanted to the gimp the iPhone. Behold, AT&T’s plans for the iPhone, when they realized it was a data-gobbling demon, eating…
How often do you see a truly horrifying image on a mainstream site like Facebook? Almost never, right? Well, that’s because some unfortunate individuals look at thousands of images like that per day so you don’t have to. Yes, there are entire companies dedicated to reviewing content flagged as offensive for various websites that accept…
I’ve learned two important things today: I can turn my iPhone into a tiny slot machine, and “appcessory” is a word now. Jackpot Slots—which is both an iPhone app and a dock—just made someone’s tech-savvy grandma very happy. The Jackpot Slots dock costs $40, but that includes the eponymous app that gives you access to…
Watch the Navy shooting down an airplane over the Pacific ocean using the new LaWS (Laser Weapon System) guided by Raytheon’s Phalanx Close-In Weapon sensors. Welcome to the future, where we all die in the hands of angry laser-firing bots. The LaWS is a six-laser cannon guided by the Phalanx Block 1B—the white structure that…
In the wake of reports that HP is bagging its Android tablet comes word that the company has filed to trademark the name “Palmpad.” Which to me sounds like a great that rumored webOS tablet, no? https://gizmodo.com/hp-ditches-android-tablet-5587727 The previous name that had been floating around had been Hurricane, but the USPTO trademark filed earlier this…
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