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Automated Paintball Sentry vs. Little Brother: Not a Fair Fight

Click to viewLook, kid, I know you need to defend yourself. But a little plastic sword? You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight. [

Tech News Adam Frucci

Asian Airline Promises 50Mbps Internet and Cellphone Service on Every Plane

Asian airline Cathay Pacific plans to offer 50Mbps in-flight broadband, cellphone service—both voice and data—and live television on all of its planes by early 2012. And here I was content with regular in-flight Wi-Fi. [PC World via Engadget]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

I Think We Have a Winner in the iPhone 4 Case Category

At the very, very least, it keeps the hand away from the antennas. But somehow I suspect the venn diagram of 12 year old girls and Steve Jobs fans doesn’t have too big of an intersection. [Crystal Icing] If you want to pay $299 (seriously, $299!) for this, here you go. But keep in mind…

Tech News Jason Chen

Witness, The Greatest Toilet-Based Vehicle Ever Constructed

Cars are major status symbols. Why buy a Benz if not to rub your salary in people’s faces? But what status this go kart constructed of two toilets and two coolers endows isn’t entirely clear. [Dvice via Inhabitat]

Tech News Adam Frucci

NYCMate: Free New York Transit Maps For iPhone and Android

Even the savviest New Yorker needs a subway map or bus schedule at some point, so go download NYCMate, a free app for Android and iPhone that packs cached, pinchy-to-zoomy maps and schedules for NY public transit. [iTunes, Android; NYCMate]

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

YouTube Leanback Actively Wants Your Passive Attention

It’s turning out to be a big day for YouTube: first they unleash their monster mobile site upgrade, and now they’ve hatched Leanback, the most effective way yet to keep you from turning that internet dial. https://gizmodo.com/new-youtube-mobile-site-puts-youtube-app-to-shame-5581750 If the television analogy seems out of place, don’t blame me; YouTube started it. In fact, the whole…

Social Media Brian Barrett

iPhone 4 Gets All Game Boy On the Wrong Side

This Game Boy skin for the back of the iPhone 4 is cute and will protect your fragile beauty’s back against scratches, but what I really want is an official Game Boy emulator with all the games. [Zapstatic via Likecool] https://gizmodo.com/design-test-note-fragile-beauty-5572546

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Game Console Makers to Include 3G Capability In Future Devices?

According to the WSJ, a Japanese wireless carrier called NTT DoCoMo is in talks with several gaming console makers to include 3G connectivity in future handheld devices. There aren’t any specifics on which companies are attempting to make a deal, but apparently several videogame makers have mentioned that they’re contemplating such an addition to their…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Rocking and Socking in Augmented Reality

Augmented reality, so far: lotta buzz, little honey. Some window shopping, some historical photos—it’s nice, but it doesn’t really kick my ass into the fantastic, augmented future. Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, though? That’ll do it. https://gizmodo.com/the-frightening-future-of-augmented-shopping-5481809 The virtual bots were on display at Qualcomm’s Uplinq developers’ conference in San Diego, running on Android 2.1…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Chicago’s Watchful Eye

Public art can be pretty weird, but rarely is it as weird as “EYE,” an unblinking, three story tall eyeball that’s now scaring the dickens out of Chicago. Tony Tasset, the artist and eyeball model behind the work, understands as much: “It’s meant to be funny and weird.” It is at least one of those…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

New Apps Turn Your iPhone 4’s LED Flash Into a Flashlight

Apple has deigned to allow apps that use your iPhone 4’s LED flash as a flashlight into the App Store. Some cost money, others do not. Some are well-designed, some not so much. But they all pretty much work. There are already like 50 other flashlight apps available, most costing $1, and many of which…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

New YouTube Mobile Site Puts YouTube App to Shame

While everyone and their mother has an app these days, Google’s decided to emphasize YouTube’s mobile site as the wave of the future. It’s faster and more feature-filled than the YouTube app; they even made a video to prove it. Crucially, the video quality is much better. There are also features packed into the mobile…

Tech News Brian Barrett

You Can Get Flash On Your Jailbroken iPad Right Now

Flash! On the iPad! And you can do it right now! Well, if you have a jailbroken iPad. The process doesn’t seem that hard but you can definitely muck things up if you poke your finger in the wrong spot. The general gist on getting Flash on the iPad is to download and install ‘Frash.deb’…

Tech News Casey Chan

Cruising In My Low-Res Lamborghini

What happens when you take a 3D model of one of the sleekest, sexiest designs in the world, then lower the resolution until it’s barely recognizable? In this case, you turn a Lamborghini Countach into an onyx slab. The car is just a taste; the real purpose of United Nude‘s Low Res Project is to…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Solid-State Systems Could Sequence a Genome For $100

Drawing individual strands of DNA through nanoscopic pores in a chip could do in a matter of minutes what the human genome project took more than a decade to achieve – sequence an entire human genome. Known as solid state nanopore sequencing, the technique identifies DNA base pairs by measuring their electrical properties as they…

Tech News Duncan Graham-Rowe - New Scientist

Nokia Enlists Russian Police To Get Prototype Smartphone Back From Blogger

In April, Moscow-based blogger Eldar Murtazin posted a review of Nokia’s forthcoming N8 smartphone on his site mobile-review.com. Nokia asked for its return for weeks to no avail. Now they’re calling on the Russian police to get their phone back. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n8-takes-great-photos-but-symbian-3-is-an-unpoli-5524344 Murtazin wrote the post from a working prototype he acquired, and he was not…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

More Kin Dirt Surfaces

If people had talked this much about Kin while it was still alive, it might have stood a chance. Oh well! The battle continues to rage over who gets the write the final chapter in Kin’s history. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-kin-culprit-internal-microsoft-bickering-5577810 Mini-Microsoft has been a prime staging ground for these kinds of comments, with accusations aplenty being flung…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Shooting Challenge: Bugs

I already know what you’re going to say: “But I don’t have a macro lens!” Keep in mind, this lead shot by Shooting Challenge alum Shayan Rostam was taking with a Olympus FE-370 point and shoot. So no excuses! https://gizmodo.com/264-stupendous-spring-wallpapers-5515261 The Challenge Photograph a bug or bugs any way you’d like. (I use the word…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The T-Mobile Motorola Charm Looks Like An Android Version Of The Old Moto Q

T-Mobile just announced the Motorola Charm and it’s just like what we saw, an ugly but sort of interesting Android phone. But if you can get over its looks, it’s the first Android phone that channels the Moto Q form factor. https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-motorola-charm-is-an-android-phone-with-a-blac-5573915 The Charm is a square-ish Android phone that runs Android 2.1 with the…

Tech News Casey Chan

Gadget Deals of the Day

There is an excellent app selection today, err… hopefully they won’t require blazing upload speeds. But enough about buggy data networks, let’s focus on the positive: Free bars of America’s finest homegrown milk chocolate at Food Lion! https://gizmodo.com/why-at-t-upload-speeds-went-to-hell-5581451 Top Deals: • 55″ LG 55LE5400 LED HDTV for $1,599.00 plus free shipping (normally $1845 – use…

Tech News Ryan F. Salerno

Automated Paintball Sentry vs. Little Brother: Not a Fair Fight

Asian Airline Promises 50Mbps Internet and Cellphone Service on Every Plane

I Think We Have a Winner in the iPhone 4 Case Category

Witness, The Greatest Toilet-Based Vehicle Ever Constructed

NYCMate: Free New York Transit Maps For iPhone and Android

YouTube Leanback Actively Wants Your Passive Attention

iPhone 4 Gets All Game Boy On the Wrong Side

Game Console Makers to Include 3G Capability In Future Devices?

Rocking and Socking in Augmented Reality

Chicago’s Watchful Eye

New Apps Turn Your iPhone 4’s LED Flash Into a Flashlight

New YouTube Mobile Site Puts YouTube App to Shame

You Can Get Flash On Your Jailbroken iPad Right Now

Cruising In My Low-Res Lamborghini

Solid-State Systems Could Sequence a Genome For $100

Nokia Enlists Russian Police To Get Prototype Smartphone Back From Blogger

More Kin Dirt Surfaces

Shooting Challenge: Bugs

The T-Mobile Motorola Charm Looks Like An Android Version Of The Old Moto Q

Gadget Deals of the Day

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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