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Radio Shack is one upping the T-Mobile Father’s Day Free Phone offer by giving away free T-Mobile BlackBerrys, HD2s, and Android phones to ANY plan, single or family. No mail in rebates, no activation fees, just FREE. [TmoNews]
Mad Catz is the official hardware partner for Rock Band 3, and their two new realistic instruments—pro guitar with 102 buttons, and the keyboard peripheral—are the closest you get to real instruments yet. The $150 Rock Band 3 Wireless Mustang Pro Guitar Controller works pretty much like an analog to a real guitar, in that…
You can always count on the folks across the pond to have crazy pricing options for their phones. Pricing for the iPhone 4 on Orange UK range from a completely free iPhone 4 16GB with a £75 ($110) monthly plan to £570 ($843) for a iPhone 4 32GB on a pay-as-you-go plan to every other…
If there’s one thing I need more of in my life, it’s exposure to advertisements. I mean, I just don’t see enough of them! And how can I make smart buying decisions without them? Luckily, a company called Automated Media Services is here to help. You see, they’ve got plans to roll out a system…
We’ve known what’s new in iTunes 9.2 for a while, but now the update is finally officially available for download. It basically prepares you for iPhone 4 and iOS 4 while bringing some bug fixes and PDF support. As a review, here’s what Apple says is new in this update: Sync with iPhone 4 to…
Rejoice, blossoming cat-video producers: YouTube’s new cloud-based tool will let you trim clips, stitch them together, add soundtrack music from a library of royalty-free tunes, and publish your kitty masterpieces—meowsterpieces?—directly to YouTube. Even introductory video editing software like iMovie can seem daunting to someone who just wants to edit out a little pre-action handshake or…
Capturing a photo of your friends or family, squared to the camera a la red rover or prom shot, dominates most of our personal visual histories. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, let’s do better. The Challenge Capture a candid photograph of anyone(s) you know—a moment, an earnest reaction, gesture or interaction, frozen in time.…
The next time you get frustrated when the “Ads by Google” banner pops up on YouTube, just think back to the time it saved the universe. Princess Galactica and Snurkles would want it that way. [The Daily What]
Face it: your brother’s graduation is next week and you have yet to get him something to commemorate his dubious achievements. It’s Gizmodo and Chase Blueprint‘s Dads & Grads Gift Guide to the rescue! Let’s look at a couple of selections for the grad who just can’t wait to get out of here. Vespa S…
I had high hopes for PlayStation Move since its announcement. Having played around with various titles for about an hour today, I have to say: if Sony’s technology is better, it isn’t showing in its first-gen software. Frankly, I’m not sure that it ever will. Here’s the premise: PlayStation Move tracks a ball of light…
Apple’s Mac Mini was just released yesterday, and we’ve already got a deal on it. Luckily, they’re still widely available after their official release date. If only Apple could say the same about the new iPhone launch… Anyway, as always: Deals! Top Deals: • Apple Mac Mini MC270LL/A HDMI Desktop for $669.00 plus free shipping…
Panoramas—photos that surround you like a virtual reality—are nothing new. Skydiving is not new, either. But this skydiving panorama is masterfully done to create the illusion of the viewer being in the middle of the sky. Click to view Free Fly Skydiving in Péronne in France The funny thing is that they are the same…
The iPhone 4 order disaster continues, now with a new delay after AT&T suspended all sales for the device. The iPhone 4 arrival was delayed to July 2 for many pre-orders already. Now there’s a new date: July 14. A real delay Yesterday, many customers were promised iPhone 4 units for launch date. Later, those…
That chair you’re sitting on, the fridge you’re leaning against or even the car you’re driving home tonight can all be turned into a speaker with iMo’s Resonance MP3 player. It’s only got 2GB of internal storage, but as it’s measures 95(L) x 65 (W) x 83(H)mm and has four little horn-shaped knobs (for changing…
BlackBerry App World 2.0 is getting a much needed update that’ll bring features like carrier billing, BlackBerry ID accounts, QR code support, better search, and a MyWorld section to your app-starved BlackBerrys. Carrier billing lets users pay for purchases through their monthly carrier bill instead of PayPal and the new BlackBerry ID, which you’ll need…
I’m sure this robotic swallowtail butterfly serves a scientific purpose. But whatever contribution it’s making to biomimetics is far outweighed by the elegance of this slow-motion video catching it in action. Hold me closer, tiny dragon. Okay, the science is pretty cool too. The little guy was made by Hiroto Tanaka and Isao Shimoyama to…
Don’t forget to bring those to the canteen.
Yesterday’s iPhone 4 preordering process was a complete debacle. Today, Apple announced that 600,000 pre-orders actually got logged, and issued an official apology for the system that collapsed: Statement by Apple on iPhone 4 Pre-Orders CUPERTINO, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Yesterday Apple and its carrier partners took pre-orders for more than 600,000 of Apple’s…
It’s official: AT&T can’t cope with iPhone 4 orders. Following the first day of the iPhonepocalypse—and after shutting down their online sales system following multiple security problems—they are giving up to avoid any further trouble. Of course, that’s not how AT&T’s official statement explains it: iPhone 4 pre-order sales yesterday were 10-times higher than the…
For all those of you who read Kat’s glowing review of the U.K.-only HTC Desire and lamented the fact that you couldn’t get your American paws on one, rejoice! The HTC Desire is coming to America starting this August through “select regional operators.” More details to come, but rest assured, it’ll have the 1GHz Snapdragon…
