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Yesterday an employee at a corporate Verizon gym found an unreleased Motorola Droid Shadow. The device’s owner eventually returned to pick it up, but a photo and specs were still emailed to us. Hours later the gym employee was fired. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-droid-shadow-found-in-gym-5546986 When the device was picked up, we were told that the gym employee had…
How does Grandma stay connected to you? Buddy Radio hopes to help the elderly by giving them an old school gadget—a basic radio—that combines new school technology—social networks—so they can broadcast their mood and ask for help. Buddy Radio, a concept from UK-based Sidekick Studios, lets patients with long-term illnesses broadcast their mood to family,…
When Google says the T-Mobile G1 will never get Android 2.2 Froyo because there’s not enough space for the OS to fit in the flash space, the dev community thankfully doesn’t listen. The folks at the xda developers have gotten a “very Alpha” build of 2.2 ported to both the T-Mobile G1 and myTouch 3G…
Every time I attempt to trash my t-shirt collection, another gem like this one pulls me back in (mostly by spraying a concoction of mints and diet soda all over my old shirts). $10. [woot! via LaughingSquid]
After seeing two men fleeing the Gresham, Oregon, AT&T store with multiple stolen iPhones, Roger Witter tried to stop them. They escaped. He’s in jail. “I’m not a cowboy, I’m not a hero. I was just doing what I always try to do: help,” he said. And with “help” he really meant “pull out my…
In a word: Persistence. Partly the traditional, inspiring, one man against all odds type of persistence, but more the obsessive, borderline insane persistence. But whatever, this dude’s building his own metro, like a CITY, so I should probably shut up. His name is Leonid Murlyanchik, and he is a mensch. (Is there a Russian word…
Audiophile. That’d be a nice distinction to have. But what makes an audiophile, really? An obsession with high fidelity audio, for one thing. But also the ownership of incredible-sounding, incredibly-expensive gear, like these $1700 Ultrasone Edition 8 headphones. If you were an audiophile, you could appreciate the finer points of the Edition 8s’ specifications: •…
Alan Wake (fantastically entertaining game) is one of the more conspicuous about in-game advertising. Hell, they even work products into the gameplay itself. Penny Arcade’s take on this is only slightly exaggerated, if you can believe it. But does it make you actually want to switch to Verizon or use Energizer batteries? For me, yes…
Shanghaiist got ahold of this memo being sent out to Foxconn employees, trying to help them deal with whatever working conditions is leading toward this recent string of suicides. It starts off good, then, well, gets not so good. You can see the full translation over at Shanghaiist, but basically it leads with telling employees…
The keyboard accessory we were looking forward to in Rock Band 3 is supposedly actually a KEYTAR. Good, I suppose, for mobility and rockitude, but not for learning how to actually play the keybo…oh god I’ve become an old man. [Ars Technica] https://gizmodo.com/rock-band-3-brings-pianos-into-the-equation-5547604
Admit it. If you found out that Apple was behind the Dharma Initiative, it would have been a pretty freaking satisfying ending to LOST. Celebrate the non-reveal with this laptop decal that costs $5. [Etsy via ChipChick]
Be it oil painting or digital photography, the self-portrait has become one of the most fascinating motifs in art. Sometimes brazen, like Chuck Close’s Big Self-Portrait, sometimes hidden, like Michelangelo’s in The Crucifixion of St Peter…good self-portraiture is always fascinating. The Crucifixion of St Peter The Challenge Take a self-portrait—and that’s it—photograph yourself. The camera…
Bada bing bada boom. Dealzmodo is back on another hump day to serve you the latest. We’ve got some great TVs and laptops at ultra low prices. But we know you’re eyeing the chicken wings. Oh glorious chicken wings. Top Deals: • 55″ Samsung LN55C650 1080p 120Hz LCD TV for $1,399.00 plus free shipping (normally…
Let Lufthansa’s revamped Mobile Services Microsite help you explore the freedom and functionality of the Lufthansa Mobile Services smartphone portal. Use your BlackBerry, iPhone or Android to plan your trip, book a flight, check in and find your way around the terminal with ease! You can also check flight status and timetables, manage your miles,…
All systems are go for BP’s latest “top kill” oil spill fix, and they’re broadcasting the process live. The 21st Century: disastrous oil spills and the technology to let you watch them from your desk. Video feed after the jump. https://gizmodo.com/how-bp-will-stop-the-oil-eruption-the-top-kill-method-5548212 Click to view You can watch the view from another camera on PBS’s YouTube…
So, it’s happened. By at least one metric, for at least this very moment—it could change tomorrow—Apple is now bigger than Microsoft. Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft’s today, just two months after edging under Walmart. The latest showing from Google Finance puts Apple’s market cap at $225.98 billion to Microsoft’s $225.32 billion. https://gizmodo.com/how-ginormous-is-apple-now-5501165 Reflecting briefly…
For a while I carried a USB drive on my keyring, but it never helped me rescue a computer lab damsel in distress like I had hoped it would. Maybe I’ll fare better with Scosche’s FlipSync folding USB key fobs. If your office is anything like ours, then it’s rare that a day goes by…
Click to viewThis is Dr. Mark Gasson. He’s a human being who’s managed to contract a nasty computer virus. Don’t feel too bad for him, though: he did it to himself. As Dr. Gasson explains in this interview with the BBC, giving himself a computer virus was actually a proof of concept. You see, when…
And you know what? They spent the whole conversation talking about Gossip Girl. Well, they would’ve done—had the super-rare, never-seen-before footage not been filmed in 1922. British Pathé dug up the footage, and is on the look-out for anyone who might have some information about who the women are (or were), or those who might…
Recently, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz forecasted trouble for Google because search accounts for “99.9% of their business.” In a talk with Michael Arrington today, Google’s President of Global Sales Operations Nikesh Arora leveled this response. Giddyup. https://gizmodo.com/yahoo-ceo-takes-google-home-page-at-face-value-5528895 When Arrington brought up Bartz’s comments, Arora was quick to respond: If we are a one trick pony,…