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Courtesy of a Dell representative who let a little too much information loose in a video interview with Shufflegazine, we now know that its gaming arm Alienware is readying an Intel Core i7 netbook next month. Along with the i7 chip, i3 and i5 processors will also be on offer for the “netbook,” which will…
Apple may not appreciate “boobie apps” but that hasn’t stopped developers Doublesix from launching the Babeorella iPhone game which takes Jane Fonda’s Barbarella character to a whole ‘nother level of buxomness. Doublesix calls Babeorella a “titular hero,” and one of the reviews on iTunes says that it is “so good its [sic] making me moist!”…
11 days before the EVO 4G launches exclusively on Sprint, and hackers have already successfully rooted the phone. Video showing their finesse after the jump. Before you start rioting over how Grack got an EVO two weeks before the big launch, I best break the bad news to you—Google was dishing them out (for free)…
PlayStations are great. You can play games on them, and if you’ve got a PS3 you can also watch Blu-rays and surf the internet. If you happened to be in a UK jail, you could even get inked by one. A prisoner in the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick (south-ish of London) was…
Sadness. Atlantis is coming back home. Her last flight. Here is a video of her last goodbye to the International Space Station, where the STS-132 mission crew installed a module and changed six batteries. Goodbye Chocolate Mousse! Goodbye Everyone! and Goodbye, Scarecrow! I’ll miss you most of all!
With an face that seems ripped right out of Star Trek’s LCARS, you’d think the Gridlock is yet another Tokyoflash watch that’s nigh-impossible to read, but you’d be wrong. It’s actually quite simple once you figure out the hook. The face is divided into two sections: the circle-like part and the box-filled matrix. The circle…
I’m going to risk it all and guess that a lot of you reading this today probably have about a hundred of these “custom” iPad stands in your closet right now. Pretty ingenious. More importantly, cheap. [YouTube – Thanks, Phil]
Here’s what Steve Jobs thinks of our thoughts of Google leapfrogging Apple: https://gizmodo.com/google-is-leapfrogging-apple-5543794 Dear Steve, Have you read this Gizmodo article? What are your thoughts on it? Do you believe Google is surpassing you guys or do you believe something different? What do you plan on doing if Google is surpassing Apple? Any thoughts? Sincerely,…
If the Friday fix wasn’t enough, here are some more leaked pics of the upcoming BlackBerry 9800 slider. The phone pictured here is apparently a late stage prototype, similar to what we saw Friday. [The Berry Fix via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9800-leaked-pics-show-webkit-browser-5544433
The heart that beats inside Charles Okeke’s chest is completely artificial. It keeps him alive, but at a price: he’s tethered to a 400-lb. machine in a hospital. Thanks to a revolutionary backpack-sized breakthrough, he can finally go home again. Click to viewCalled the Freedom Driver, the device is a miniaturized version of the large,…
So you like gaming classic Karate Champ, just like we do? Have an iPhone? Great, because we have a little giveaway for you this afternoon, and the rules couldn’t be simpler: https://gizmodo.com/oh-yes-classic-karate-champ-game-coming-to-iphone-soon-5538638 The iPhone game’s developer, Revolutionary Concepts, has provided us with 100 free copies of the game. How do you get them? Again it’s…
With Microsoft and Sony both set to reveal Natal and Move software lineups at E3, it’s kind of crazy to think their invested millions may have just been usurped by a pair of $1 Lycra gloves and a webcam. The gloves, seen above, are hideously patchwork on purpose. According to their designers at MIT, the…
Our brothers-in-arms over at Gizmodo Poland have stumbled upon something magical. Witness Mecha Fish, so named by me because it is a fearsome beast that navigates kiddie pools and cannot be tamed thanks to a kind of rudimentary Bluetooth echolocation. Also, as you’ll see at about 50 seconds in, Mecha Fish hates human hands. When…
Get too close to this cog and gear-driven peep hole, spotted in action at Maker Faire, and you could lose more than just an eye. Hence, the thoughtful “No Finger Zone” signage that greets operators when they turn the crank. You can see the sign and the peephole in action in the Maker Faire slideshow…
Weather Beacon, an art piece presently sitting in the middle of New York City’s World Financial Center Plaza, takes in weather-related radio broadcasts and turns them into a visual spectacle that looks something like this: I think this is “summer breeze,” but I’m not entirely sure. Anyway, the lights and moving gears (video here) are…
Want to change the track or adjust the volume on these wireless flOw iPod speakers? Simple. Just pick them up, turn them over or give them a shake, and the deed is done thanks to accelerometers housed within. You can even remove the speakers to manipulate them, and toss them about the room like noisy…
Remember all of last week ago, when we first spotted what could have been a white iPhone 4G? It happened again! Leading many to believe that, yes, Apple is going to release two versions of the phone later this year. https://gizmodo.com/would-there-be-an-all-white-iphone-4-5542603 Here’s another pic, same phones, from a slightly different angle (same source as the…
Another day, another video chat/video conferencing bit of debugging code to throw atop the heap that’s amassed around the coming “iPhone 4G.” Today’s revelation: A menu screen from a “field test” that purports to show video conferencing. And that’s it! That’s the big revelation. Sky, also blue. In any event, it is unsurprising that Apple…
Remember the X-37B, that super-secret unmanned U.S. military space shuttle replacement no one knows anything about? Bad news, chickenhawks—it’s most likely just a nonlethal high-flyin’ spy plane. Weird news? Amateur astronomers totally know where it is right now. https://gizmodo.com/air-forces-mysterious-space-plane-launches-5522833 It’s here: Roughly anywhere between 40 degrees north and 40 degrees south latitude at an altitude…
Microsoft has an incredible Star Trek sculpture in the lobby of their Studio D office, an installation that continually gives the appearance that Kirk, Spock and the rest are just on the verge of materializing. But how’s it done? Beads! The installation, inspired by the 1967 episode “Mirror, Mirror,” was created by Devorah Sperber, an…
