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Apple is announcing something about the iPhone 4 in just a few hours. Maybe it’s about the antenna. Maybe it’s about how many bajillion they’ve sold. Our coverage starts live, right now, right here: [Gizmodo Live] https://gizmodo.com/apple-holding-iphone-4-press-conference-on-friday-5587384
After discovering video games, I didn’t really keep up with my old friend Nerf. But last night I got to shoot (and get shot by) the Stampede, a new, fully automatic Nerf rifle with a tripod and replaceable magazines. What!? Just like robots and movie violence and Halloween costumes, Nerf guns are getting more realistic…
That’s because it is an iPhone 4 pancake. And it tastes delicious, according to pancake expert Jim, the pancake maker. Hmmmmmaybe Apple will announce free pancakes for all iPhone 4 users today. [Jim’s Pancakes]
Highly regarded Japanese novelist Ryu Murakami isn’t releasing his next novel on hardcover or paperback. He’s releasing it exclusively on iPad, and including all the multimedia goodies that the platform allows. Murakami’s novel, A Singing Whale, will feature video elements as well as orchestration by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto—an Academy Award winner for his work on…
Curious about what Apple’s surprise press conference will bring? If our meta-liveblog is too overwhelming for you, then you can pick just the right dose of iPhone 4 news for yourself by following along on Twitter or Facebook: https://gizmodo.com/apple-holding-iphone-4-press-conference-on-friday-5587384 On our Facebook page, we’ll be posting the most important news, while there’ll be immediate updates…
In May, Toyota stated its intention to invest $50 million in electric car maker Tesla Motors. Today, the companies announced that Tesla will produce an electric version of the Rav4 SUV for Toyota in 2012. This won’t be the first electric Rav4—an earlier electric version, the Rav4 EV, was manufactured on a limited basis from…
You can, of course, already download tens of thousands of free classics for your eBook reader of choice. But now Barnes & Noble is hopping on the bandwagon of including free books as part of their retail store (making the download process super easy). They’ll offer 10 themed classics a week, starting with this week.…
Having exhausted my iPhone 4 friend pool with the requisite HEY-check-out-my-office/bedroom FaceTime calls, I basically haven’t used the feature at all in weeks. Dave Lanham, an artist who’s doing caricatures over FaceTime for $50, will be my next call. Lanham is a designer at Icon Factory, the company behind Twitterific and other fine software, and…
A list of Verizon’s End of Life devices has surfaced over at DROIDForums.net. Some of the phones will be missed more than others, but none more than Motorola Droid. Clearly, Verizon’s making way for its two big summer launches—both of which also happen to be called Droid. But regardless of whether Droid X and Droid…
Sick of your iPhone’s puny lens? Then it’s time for a (somewhat unwieldy) upgrade. This “iPhone DSLR prototype” is a 1.1lb, solid piece of anodized billet aluminum (that looks to be a modified Owle). It will fit an iPhone 3G, 3GS or 4 along with a complementing, full-size Canon EF lens. And since Canon converter…
Maybe it’s not so much a surprise that you hate your antivirus software’s notifications sometimes. But did you know that it hates you right back? On further reflection, that’s really the only logical explanation for all those pop-ups anyway. [The Doghouse Diaries]
Speaking about one possible future of Google integration, company fellow Amit Singhal outlined a frankly terrifying vision—where Google scans our to-do lists, automatically searches for outstanding tasks and tells us when and how to complete them… Here’s Singhal’s amazing description of a future in which Google takes over many of our high-level cognitive brain functions:…
The average price charged by Sony Ericsson for a cell phone has risen from a predicted $173 to $207—helping the company record a profit for the second quarter in a row. The price and profit rise is attributed to the success of its Android-powered X10 and the Vivaz, with the feature-packed smartphones doing more, costing…
Space Invaders has today landed on its 50 billion billionth hardware format, with the iPad “HD” version arriving for download on the App Store. It’s no third-party clone—series inventor Taito is behind this. Which means you get the original graphics and black background, introduced via the famously iconic—and completely unrelated to the appearance of the…
Brother Industries has developed an AA battery sized generator powered by vibration, which can be used to charge another AA battery. Shaking your remote every once in a while could soon be all that’s needed to keep it alive. Inside the generator battery sits an “electromagnetic induction generator and an electric double layer capacitor” and…
I am. I have no doubt about it. I had to buy an overpriced bumper to stop the reception issues. That sucked. But now I’m happy. Sure, I think the issues at hand need to be fixed, and current owners need to get free bumpers—at the least—to make the phone as functional as it should…
Facing the worst image crisis in Steve’s Second Kingdom’s history, Apple will officially talk about the iPhone 4 antenna problem this Friday. Nobody really knows what they will say but, if you guess right, you can win a free pizza. https://gizmodo.com/apples-brewing-shitstorm-5588146 To win a free pizza of your choice, you only have to scratch three…
Anandtech has studied apple’s new 4.01 OS update, and found that the new formula for displaying bars covers a much greater dynamic range. That is, it will show lower and higher signals than before, assigning those more extreme values as 1 and 5 bars. This means it’ll require more signal to show higher bars, with…
It’s late and you’re feeling bored? Head over to #whitenoise! The folks there are bound to make you giggle like crazy. Oh, and if you’re still confused about how all these tag pages work there’s a neat guide here and a more general introduction to commenting here. https://gizmodo.com/what-are-these-tags-and-how-do-i-use-them-5488819 https://gizmodo.com/almost-everything-you-could-want-to-know-about-commen-5465437
On the left, we have an issue of Popular Science from 1925. On the right we have an issue of the same magazine from 2010. So many years later and we’re still focused on the future rather than the present. Click on the image for a closer look. I can’t help but adore the fact…
