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All the Fourth of July iPhone Game Sales

People celebrate the Fourth by cooking burgers and watching fireworks. Apps, apparently, celebrate by going on sale. TouchArcade heroically rounded up all the iPhone games that are discounted this weekend, including Oregon Trail, Pac-Man, FIFA ’10 and dozens more. DO NOT PROCEED unless you’re ready to spend some App Store cash, because that’s exactly what’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The New Smaller Xbox 360 Doesn’t Have to Be Black

Colorware, the gadget-colorizers who most recently started painting Segways, had enough paint left over to coat your new Xbox 360 S as well. https://gizmodo.com/hey-steve-wozniak-colorware-your-segway-for-6k-5570507 Buying an entirely new Xbox 360 in your own designed colors will be $500 (it’s normally $300), but if you mail in your already-purchased Xbox, it’s just $175. So if you…

Tech News Jason Chen

Plant This Cardboard Box to Grow 100 Trees

The Life Box is a perfectly normal cardboard box. Sellers can ship goods in it. Receivers can recycle it. But recycling would be a waste, as the Life Box can also be torn up and planted to grow 100 trees. The makeup of each box is simple—recycled paper laced with 100 or so tree seeds,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Kin Memorial Site Helps You Work Through The Pain

Kin, we hardly knew ye. If you’re overwhelmed with grief over the demise of Microsoft’s smart-dumbphones, or maybe—just possibly—looking for one last chance to make fun of them, here’s your chance. The elegies are already rolling in: https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-kin-5576764 Good night, sweet Kins. May flights of fanboys sing thee to thy rest. To add your own…

Tech News Brian Barrett

An Airplane Cockpit Bedroom Is All Class, No Business

Some of us spice up our bedrooms with He-Man sheets and scented candles. But the guy who turned his domicile into an airplane cockpit is operating at a whole other altitude. As Unplggd points out, this is actually a doable DIY: you can buy a wall-sized cockpit mural today if you’re so inclined. Of course,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

The First Electric Freeway Is An Oregon Trail

Interstate 5 crosses Washington state from Oregon to Canada. And later this year, work will begin to make it the first electric highway in the United States. It’s good to be a Volt owner in the Pacific Northwest. https://gizmodo.com/4-400-volt-owners-will-get-free-charging-stations-5566187 While I enjoy the mental image of lightning bolts six lanes wide, the electric freeway project’s…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Now Available

The day has come for people who’ve always wanted an 18-button mouse or a base station that can charge 4,000 devices to go crazy. There’s just never enough buttons and charging ports in this world. WarMouse Meta Previously known as the OpenOfficeMouse, the WarMouse Meta is a mouse with, count ’em, 18 programmable buttons. I…

Tech News Casey Chan

What Is This? (Spoiler: A Complex List)

I won’t even tease you. There’s no way you’ll figure out what the heck this thing is. A 24×24 (foot) series of aluminum panels was etched with this design, hiding 130,000 names. These names, duplicated to make 1,000,000 total entries in the text-based pattern, are of the 130,000 organizations around the world that promote topics…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Best Buy Wants to Fire Employee For His iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO Video

The iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO video making the rounds has gotten 1.7 million views, but when Best Buy found out it was their employee that made the video, they weren’t so much amused as angry. Corporate asked them to take the video down, but the employee Brian Maupin declined, saying that it didn’t mention…

Tech News Jason Chen

Droid Incredible’s Bluetooth Having Problems Connecting To Cars, Keyboards, And More

Swept underneath the hype of the HTC Evo and Droid X lurks the Droid Incredible. Interest is still, well, incredibly high for this Droid but a growing number of users are concerned about the incomplete Bluetooth stack it shipped with. https://gizmodo.com/htc-evo-4g-review-a-war-machine-5554198 The Bluetooth stack that HTC shipped with the Droid Incredible lacks support for Serial…

Tech News Casey Chan

Futurama Weirdly Removes eyePhone Reference From Online Clip

Futurama’s take on the “eyePhone” was clever, but apparently too clever. Comedy Central took off the word “eyePhone” from the video, making the scene awkward when there’s a reaction to nothing. https://gizmodo.com/futurama-mocks-eyephone-apple-and-apple-fans-5578100 Maclife has the videos side by side—not embedding it here, so click on over to see it on their site, since they deserve…

Tech News Jason Chen

Water Droplets Create Multilayered Display

Click to viewWaterfalls have never been this much fun. Sheets of cascading droplets have been turned into a multilayered computer display, suitable for playing Tetris in 3D. Peter Barnum, Srinivasa Narasimhan and Takeo Kanade at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have projected images onto a series of water screens, one behind the other, to…

Tech News New Scientist

This Week’s Best Apps

This week’s best apps!? You must mean the week’s best iPhone apps, right? Nope, from here on out it’s just the very best apps, every week, for iPhone, Android, and iPad. If you want to read this in one very, very long post, click here. In fact, I’d recommend it. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-apps-5578615 iPhone LandFormer: Puzzle games…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Anatomy of Kin’s Demise

The sudden death of Kin came as a surprise, but it’s increasingly clear that it shouldn’t have. First came hints of internal strife stunting Kin before it ever had a chance, and now the finger’s pointing directly at one man. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-kin-culprit-internal-microsoft-bickering-5577810 Engadget breaks it down like this: After Microsoft acquired Danger back in 2008, Xbox…

Tech News Brian Barrett

New AOL Mail Is Coming Soon

AOL is conducting internal tests on a new version of Aol Mail, two sources tell us. SIlicon Valley product boss Brad Garlinghouse is supervising the project, code-named “Phoenix.” The name is appropriate, because Aol Mail needs a rise from the ashes. It’s been a rough 12 years for AOL Mail since it was popular enough…

Tech News Jeremiah Dobruck

HP Laying Off Palm Employees

What do you do after you pay $1.2 billion for a company? You gut ’em. Or that’s what HP is doing to Palm. AllThingsD is reporting that HP is cutting “former Palm staffers from its ranks”. It’s proving, what everyone sort of thought already, that HP is buying Palm more for its IP and technology…

Tech News Casey Chan

Camera Stamps Celebrate Their Own Obsolescence

The Stampy Digital Camera is just a concept, but the idea is simply too adorable to ignore. Take a photo, then an auto-configured stamp lets you “print” it wherever you’d like. The possibilities are endless: (OK, the only notable scenario I can imagine is one where banks mark bounced checks with a branch-manager-sourced goatse. However,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

True Love Doesn’t Rust

Him: a warrior-slave from a forbidden planet. Her: a servant girl from a decent upper-middle class space home. And while their parts may break down from time to time, their love is eternal. If you think Jason Chalker’s “Robbie and Rosie” is as fun as we all do—and honestly, how couldn’t you?—good news! It’s available…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Apple’s Redesigned Apple TV Might Be a TV?

The NYT corroborates Engadget’s previous Apple TV leak, saying that Apple is working on re-designing the product with some kind of iOS operating system instead of what it uses currently. However, the NYT hints at something more: an actual TV. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-apple-tv-to-be-a-100-screenless-iphone-5550180 It’s all very vague and hinty, but if you read into it you can…

Tech News Jason Chen

HTC HD3 Leak: Windows Phone 7 Mega-Phone With 4.5″ AMOLED and 1.5GHz Snapdragon

If Microsoft’s swift Kin killing had you down on their mobile prospects, the leaked specs for the HTC HD3 might make you reconsider. Among them: a gigantic 4.5″ AMOLED screen with 1280×800 resolution and 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor. Update: Fake. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-kills-kin-5576764 The purported specs for this hulking slab of Windows Phone 7 come from the…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

All the Fourth of July iPhone Game Sales

The New Smaller Xbox 360 Doesn’t Have to Be Black

Plant This Cardboard Box to Grow 100 Trees

Kin Memorial Site Helps You Work Through The Pain

An Airplane Cockpit Bedroom Is All Class, No Business

The First Electric Freeway Is An Oregon Trail

Now Available

What Is This? (Spoiler: A Complex List)

Best Buy Wants to Fire Employee For His iPhone 4 vs. HTC EVO Video

Droid Incredible’s Bluetooth Having Problems Connecting To Cars, Keyboards, And More

Futurama Weirdly Removes eyePhone Reference From Online Clip

Water Droplets Create Multilayered Display

This Week’s Best Apps

The Anatomy of Kin’s Demise

New AOL Mail Is Coming Soon

HP Laying Off Palm Employees

Camera Stamps Celebrate Their Own Obsolescence

True Love Doesn’t Rust

Apple’s Redesigned Apple TV Might Be a TV?

HTC HD3 Leak: Windows Phone 7 Mega-Phone With 4.5″ AMOLED and 1.5GHz Snapdragon

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

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

‘Scream 7’ Just Won’t Stop Making Money as ‘Scream 8’ Gets Started

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