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Now Seagate Has a Really Simple, Really Cheap Home NAS Solution

Recently the manufacturing trend in mainstream network storage has been to eschew using Microsoft’s Windows Home Server packages, which is basically a low-powered PC, and coming up with their own proprietary machines. Seagate’s? Basically just a hard drive. It’s the GoFlex Home, the networked version of their GoFlex Desk. When I say “networked”, I mean…

Tech News Jason Chen

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Prepare to Check-in With Foursquare

According to quotes from Foursquare’s co-founder Dennis Crowley, the company is considering a deal to send out the data it harvests through the location-aware app, and the usual suspects are in the shortlist to acquire it. “We can anonymise data and use it to show venues which are trending at that moment” Crowley explained to…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Samsung Speaks Up Over Antennagate—”Reception Problems Have Not Happened”

So we’ve already had HTC, Nokia and RIM give us their side of Apple’s odd attempt to downgrade the entire smartphone industry, now it’s Samsung’s turn—which says “Reception problems have not happened so far” on Omnia II. https://gizmodo.com/htc-disputes-apple-cellphone-demo-with-numbers-of-its-o-5589962 The complete quote from Samsung, which had its Omnia II smartphone rudely thrown up on Apple’s antenna…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

Hopscotch Hero

It was inevitable. Everything we do will eventually be reduced to a game played with a plastic accessory that costs $149.99, and now it’s the turn of hopscotch—which has been turned into an in-house art installation. London design agency Tinker is responsible for this latest plasticizing of childhood, with the installation coupling a vertical display…

Tech News Gary Cutlack

This Week’s Best Apps

In this week’s iPhone, iPad, and Android app round-up: AT-AT’s, brought down; Android input, Palm Pilot Graffiti-fied; Dracula, vanquished; calculations, beautified; Starfleet communiques, transmitted; deers, hunted; Firefox, synced; trains, conducted chaotically, and more! iPhone To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-july-16-5589305 iPad To view these on one page, click here https://gizmodo.com/ipad-apps-july-16-5590300 Android To…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

iPad Apps July 16

Deer Hunter 3D: It’s just like the Deer Hunter you play when you’re drunk, except that you’re tapping a screen instead of a wielding a plastic orange gun, and you’re doing it in the privacy of your own home instead of the back of some bar. Whether that’s a good thing or not is for…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Taiwanese News Animates the iPhone 4 Antenna Saga (With Very Special Bonus)

The same Taiwanese outlet that does those Sims-style animations to better illustrate the news has done it again for Steve Jobs and the iPhone 4 antenna saga. No spoilers, but there’s a very special guest this time. [Thanks Michael!] https://gizmodo.com/this-is-not-a-trailer-for-tiger-woods-2011-but-it-shou-5416508

Tech News Jason Chen

Lockheed Martin HULC Exo-Skeleton Prepares to Smash Human Beta Tests

The HULC exo-skeleton, Lockheed Martin’s prototype heavy lifter for infantry troops in the field, has its battery and is now ready for human trials. If they’re successful, field tests could be close on their heels. https://gizmodo.com/remainders-the-things-we-didnt-post-talk-of-tomorrow-5454948/ Click to viewA quick primer though, before anything else: HULC, or Human Universal Load Carrier, could be the military’s…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Nokia Kinetic Concept Declines Calls Using Playful Flicks

Designer Jeremy Hopkins, perhaps taking a cue from those inflatable clown punching bags that would always right themselves thanks to a special weight, has designed the Nokia Kinetic to do pretty much the exact same thing. Don’t want to answer? Screen that call with a simple flick. The Kinect will then bounces down to the…

Tech News Jack Loftus

July 19 Motorola Droid X Update Includes Numerous Efficiency Fixes

An upcoming July 19 Droid X software update includes patterns of sorts. Mainly, the words “improved,” “faster,” and “streamlined” appear frequently throughout the bullet point list of fixes. A small sampling, courtesy BGR: * Improved battery charging status indicator. * Smoother transition for camera and camcorder functions. * Faster Exchange ActiveSync® email loading. * Streamlined…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Shark Faucet Just Wants to Be Touched By Your Dirty Hands

Lately there’s been no shortage of sleek, designer faucets here at Gizmodo, and today is no exception. Called the Shark, this touchscreen faucet won’t devour your hands, but it will be touched by them. https://gizmodo.com/a-faucet-this-high-tech-is-not-necessary-5584020 Designed by Simone Micheli for Italian bathroom outfit ST Rubinetterie, there’s not much to go by with this faucet other…

Tech News Jack Loftus

New Nook 3G Outed by FCC Report

The news is kind of unsurprising, but there’s evidence out today, courtesy an FCC filing, that the Nook is about to welcome a new 3G version to the fold. Perhaps a “Nook 2?” Updated: Update: This is potentially a new version of the existing Nook 3G ereader. [FCC via Best Ereaders – Thanks, Ben]

Tech News Jack Loftus

Swype Input Interface Sneaks Into Windows 7 Demo

The Swype text entry interface that’s been tearing up Android phones, World Records and maybe iPhones was spotted doing more of the same on a large touchscreen at the Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference. Spoiler: It looks like Swype, but bigger: https://gizmodo.com/swype-the-fastest-way-to-text-is-coming-to-androids-5564750 It is only a demo, and there’s not even a wisp of an inkling…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Atheists’ Latest Gadget: The Hairdryer

What does an atheist do when they’re trying to prove a point and “de-baptize” non-believers? Why, use a hairdryer of course, as Edwin Kagin has done with a “flock” of atheists at this year’s American Atheists Convention in New Jersey. Kagin, no stranger to provocative speeches against religion (pictured), uses his “Reason and Truth” hairdryer…

Tech News Jack Loftus

MicDroid: Android Users Get Their Auto-Tune App

Hey Android users! Envious of the iPhone T-Pain app? Hungry for some portable Auto-Tune action? Are you still reading? Great, because MicDroid, the purported first Android Auto-Tune app, has landed. Commence with the rolling eyes and bleeding ears: PocketNow, modest as ever, says this is an early stage app, and that features are sparse, but…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Why Do Anonymous Geeks Hate Scientologists?

NYU professor Gabriella Coleman opened this profoundly profanity laced academic talk with a question: why have internet enthusiasts been drawn to denounce Scientology so vehemently for two decades? Scientology, she explained, has provided a perfect nemesis for geekery. To the geeks, freaks and hackers of the net the Church of Scientology subverts the idea of…

Tech News Quinn Norton

Prototype Vehicle Warning Seat System Vibrates When Danger Is Near

Is my ass vibrating again or am I about to run headlong into a Mack truck? Well, if a prototype out of the Yale School of Engineering comes to pass, in my hypothetical future both could be true! Wild ride! You see, this particular warning system, which joins flashing side mirrors (Audi) and “stay awake,…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Artist Births Jedi In Seven Months Flat

Robert Burden, the time lapse painter who’s graced Gizmodo before with his He-Man Battle Cat and Voltron paintings, is back. The latest is “Birth of a Jedi.” And no, that’s not a third leg coming out of the Tauntaun. https://gizmodo.com/he-mans-battle-cat-gets-painted-time-lapse-style-5371273 The oil on canvas painting took seven months to complete, and measures an impressive 10’x7′.…

Tech News Jack Loftus

HTC Disputes Apple Cellphone Demo with Numbers of Its Own

In the wake of Apple’s peculiar iPhone 4 Strikes Back! press conference, you’d be normal if you expected miffed competitors, especially after Jobs threw the likes of RIM, HTC and Nokia under the “Antennagate” bus. Now HTC is hitting back: While not an official statement, HTC’s Eric Lin, PR chief and online community manager, told…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Wikileaks Keynote at HOPE 2010: No Assange, But Institutional Details Emerge

The part of scheduled keynote speaker Julian Assange, the Australian hacker US agents have made it clear they would like to question, was played by Jake Appelbaum today at HOPE. Appelbaum is increasingly the other public face of Wikileaks, while also being a spokesperson and developer for the Tor online anonymity project. Appelbaum led off…

Tech News Quinn Norton

Now Seagate Has a Really Simple, Really Cheap Home NAS Solution

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Prepare to Check-in With Foursquare