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Taking off soon are Lufthansa’s new Airbus A380 planes, which have been lavishly decorated—in the first-class cabin, at least. Gone are the tiddly toilets and basins, and in their place are separate washing and changing rooms. It all reeks of first-class cash, and interestingly Lufthansa chose to keep the open plan design for the seating…
The HP forums are up in arms—and rightly so—over the popular Envy 15, with some buyers receiving models with screens that randomly go blank and/or webcams that only show full color under fluorescent light. Anecdotally, it seems that HP’s been responsive so far, offering the choice of a full refund or repair. But as one…
Did you want to install Android on your iPhone after seeing that demonstration video? (No? OK…err…move along then.) Yes? Great. PC World created a step-by-step how to. The catch? There are a few… https://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-now-runs-android-5521580 • It won’t work on the iPhone 3GS • You’ll need to be running 2.0 to 3.1.2 firmware • Performance is…
Leaked photos of the Bold 9800 aren’t anything new, but photos showing OS 6.0’s WebKit browser? Yes, please. https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-slider-phone-video-leaked-5534987 TheCellularGuru managed to snag some photos from a source, with the photo above showing the new browser that BlackBerry OS 6.0 will include. Previous leaks have shown that the browser will support multitouch and tabs. Squinting…
It’s done. Game on, broheim, because 3D is here to stay. The first 3D porn full feature film made for modern stereoscopic TVs—those that use shutter eyeglasses—has arrived. It’s called Kama-Sutra, and even Woody Allen will like it. https://gizmodo.com/im-sold-on-3d-tvs-and-i-kind-of-hate-myself-for-it-5443165 That’s what Allen said at the last Cannes Film Festival: “[I like 3D movies because] three-dimensional…
The Middle-Eastern state of Qatar is so keen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, they’re building five solar stadiums to woo organizers. Each stadium looks stunning, but the fact they take advantage of the country’s sunshine is even better. While it’ll remain hot outside the stadiums, inside the temperature will be cooled to below…
Mathmos makes such great mood-light products, but most of them need to be plugged into wall sockets to work. Blob and Flow can be plugged into USB ports, providing touch-sensitive ambient lighting to accompany your emailing. Sold in the UK for £35 / $50, Blob and Flow will start shipping in mid-June. [Mathmos]
Eschewing the silver paint and smooth curves of most electric cars nowadays, the Japanese Meguru electric car kind of looks like a rickshaw, and is made from bamboo. It’ll be going on sale for around the equivalent of $10,000, with the makers Yodogawa Group and Kinki Knives Industries Corporation (what a name!) aiming it the…
Anyone else feel the hysteria over the Facebook privacy concerns is pretty ridiculous? Wave an open-source violin in the face of the next posturing fool you see harping on about it. [xkcd]
After being available on Android and BlackBerry for some time, Seesmic is now available for the iPhone—just two days after the official Twitter app popped into the App Store. https://gizmodo.com/the-iphones-official-and-best-twitter-app-is-now-free-5542718 Seen as how Seesmic aquired Ping.fm a few months back, it’s not surprising Seesmic’s iPhone app also includes Ping.fm support for multi-account updating (MySpace, Tumblr,…
As the report goes, a 16-year-old was so incensed over her father asking her to give him the cellphone, she scratched his face—and he had her arrested. The girl from Okaloosa County, Florida, is to appear in juvenile court next month, charged with domestic battery. I think we can all remember what it was like,…
How many times have you brought your DSLR up to your eye, and wished there was a better way? Oh sure, you can look through the LCD instead of the viewfinder, but where’s the fun in that? Instead, we have this concept from Spain, which changes the ergonomics of the Sony Alpha DSLR, making the…
As a BlackBerry user, I’m not sure how I feel about 1,500 UK binmen being given BlackBerrys for work. I don’t want to be elitist, but if a binman wolf-whistles me and asks if I’m on BBM, I’d die. They’ve been given BlackBerrys to “collect data from customers,” as well as use them as satnavs,…
Today, another of Foxconn’s workers jumped to his death from a dorm window. The story goes that the 21-year-old jumped (or fell) from his window, just like the eight who died this year. This time, there’s (potentially NSFW) photos.UPDATE https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-suicide-cluster-claims-another-victim-5540045 I don’t have to say that Foxconn is facing an epidemic of social proportions—you’ve read…
Holding up an iPad while snuggling in bed can become tiring pretty quickly, but there’s a simple solution: Get a cheap TV mount, an iPad case, some epoxy glue, and make your own swivel mount. It’ll even look surprisingly good. Gizmodo reader Ali sent in these photos of a mount built from about $40 worth…
Last night, a thief walked out of the Paris Museum of Modern Art with some $127 million in paintings by Picasso, Matisse, and Braque. There were no lasers and no temperature-sensitive security systems. Hell, there wasn’t even an alarm. My whole understanding of what a major-museum art heist entails is informed by the Pierce Brosnan…
Darpa is going at securing cyberspace again, and this time they’ve got an open call to everyone to help them devise a program that will flag threats through irregular activity. https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-to-create-cyber-command-to-hopefully-avoid-mor-5222266 The new program called “Suspected Malicious Insider Threat Elimination“—painstakingly abbreviated to SMITE—was started to point out threats in the massive amounts of data on…
Click to viewThis video clip shows us what was going on about a day after a devastating explosion led to the Gulf oil disaster. It’s absolutely terrifying. https://gizmodo.com/underwater-video-of-the-main-gulf-oil-leak-5537703 The clip was provided by National Geographic who will be airing a special about the oil catastrophe at 10 p.m. EST on May 27. [CNN via Fast…
Well, that answers that. At the Android Fireside chat at Google IO, the Android team says that Android 2.2 won’t be coming to the G1, simply because there’s not enough space for the OS to fit in the flash space. Of course, your friendly developer community will probably whip something up.
Click to viewIt’s 1973 and Marty Cooper, the father of the cellphone, is about to make the very first public cellphone call while walking past the New York Hilton. He dials Joel Engle, his AT&T rival, and says these beautiful-yet-mocking words: Joel! This is Marty Cooper. I’m calling you from a cellular phone. But a…
