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It’s true that iOS4 and Android are the mobile operating systems of the day. But MeeGo, a mash-up of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo OSes, could be a strong contender. Based on this demo, at least. This is just a pre-alpha release, so there are likely tweaks and changes to be made. But so far,…
Google Wave is officially out of beta, so you no longer need an invite to sign up. That is almost certainly why almost no one has been using it, so look for Google Wave to just blow up! I mean, why else would something so complicated and of spurious utility not be popular? [Google via…
Android and Me has a hands-on video comparison of Droid and Droid 2, along with plenty of benchmarks. It’s not far off from the original impressions we saw, but it’s the best tale of the tape we’ve seen yet. The moral of the story: on the outside, Droid 2 and Droid aren’t all that different.…
Or forget your nephew’s graduation altogether? Buy your way back into your loved ones’ good graces with one of the fabulous gifts on the Gizmodo and Chase Blueprint Dads & Grads Gift Guide! Here are a couple of selections that will make them forget all about your slackerdom. Callaway X-24 Hot Iron Set 4-AW Golf…
If ever there was a house where certain things were banned, it would be artist Don Lucho‘s Casa de Karton, where everything is made from cardboard and paper. All hand-drawn, Lucho’s even added spoons, toilet roll and a skateboard leaning next to the bed. I can’t spot any mod-cons (there’s certainly no iPad on the…
In short, it shuts itself down. One NeoGAF member discovered the new error screen and immortalized an inevitable meme by snagging this quick shot. At the time of the error, the Xbox 360 lit up with the new Red Dot of Death (the replacement to the old Red Ring of Death) which, apparently, doesn’t necessarily…
According to some legitimate-looking inventory sheets, Best Buy will carry anywhere from 20-70 iPhone 4Gs per store for the launch this Thursday—that’s in 16GB versions. 32GB versions will be far more rare, with numbers as low as 10 per store. And, iClarified claims that while many Best Buys have ordered white iPhones, it’s unclear whether…
No one ever accused external storage of being titillating. But Iomega’s Skin line of portable hard drives is trying to bring sexy back to where it never was in the first place. The Skin drives all spec out the same: 500GB, USB 2.0 hard drives with accidental drop protection. But Iomega’s added on three designs…
Good news all around for those of you considering a nook. An all-white, Wi-Fi only version, which leaked a bit early, goes on sale today for $150. That sounded pretty exciting…before the 3G version simultaneously dropped by $60. That’s right, the classic nook is now $200. From what we can tell, the only three differences…
I think we’re all in agreement that Google’s Android mascot is as cute as a button, but believe me—you have never seen him flex his muscle quite like this before. Video of his technical smarts downstairs… The hardware was made by Reo Matsumura, and Hideyuki Takei was behind the software which sends the commands to…
You can “learn” to “play” many instruments on the iPad, but now you can irritate neighbors for hours with the world’s most joy-sapping tool of all—the bagpipes. You can even play along to your iTunes library! If the $5 price hasn’t put you off, then you may be interested to learn that the same developers…
Compatible with iOS4 (dropping sometime today), Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch combines IM functionality with Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Flickr support. It’s a free download, and even has Hotmail support built-in too. While Twitter may be the noticeable missing gap in all the social-networking features, it doesn’t sound like…
We assumed the leaked Galaxy S Pro would have Samsung’s Super AMOLED screens, but thankfully one of AndroidCentral‘s tipsters has gone the whole hog and blabbed the specs of what’s thought to be Sprint’s second 4G phone. I’ve not been a fan of Samsung’s phones so far. Cheap, plasticky hardware, horrendous TouchWiz UI, and a…
Finishing off the hat–trick of laptops, Toshiba’s AC100 is their first machine to run on Android, and is shaping up to be a very tidy netbook with up to eight hours of battery, or up to SEVEN DAYS’ standby life. Yep, seven days. It runs on an NVIDIA Tegra 250 chip, with an insy-winsy 512MB…
The beautiful and crystalline Blue Marble is now the Stained Blue Marble, created using NASA’s most spectacular view of Earth and one of the scenarios for the spreading of BP’s oil, as simulated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. While the NCAR says that their computer simulation shows one of the potential scenarios for…
In addition to the zippy Portégé, Toshiba’s also today announcing the Libretto W100. It’s a full Windows dual-screen “ultra-mobile PC” that’s not quite a tablet and not quite a netbook. In short: it’s one curious little gadget. The Libretto has the specs of a halfway decent ultraportable: a 1.2 GHz Pentium U5400 processor, 2GB DDR3…
All those ultraportables using Intel’s ULV Core processors just got taken to school: Toshiba’s Portégé R700 is as light as a MacBook Air, nearly as powerful as a MacBook Pro, and measures an inch thick with a DVD drive. Standard. Putting a full voltage processor in such a thin and light frame really is a…
Apple’s unloading iOS4 (that’s the new name for iPhone OS, in case you didn’t know) tomorrow, which means you should get started tonight. Download iTunes 9.2 and run a manual backup (right click on your phone in iTunes, hit backup). This way you won’t have to spend time doing all these mundane housekeeping tasks tomorrow.…
Alex Varanese, no stranger to retro gadget goodness, has decided to re-imagine 1977 as if today’s modern gadgets spontaneously existed back then. How many LPs could fit in your pocket back in this alternate reality? Easy: A lot! The spread of advertisements is part of a portfolio called alt/1977, and the gist is just that:…
In late May we spotted what looked to be a wifi-only “lite” version of the Barnes & Noble Nook. Tonight, more evidence that this new Nook is coming soon. How soon? Wednesday, for $150. [Engadget]
