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These headphones play music, sure, but they can also bleach your teeth. Just stretch your mouth open with the included cheek retractor, turn the light on and get ready to scare the shit out of everyone. [BeamingWhite via ChipChick]
Google is launching something called Google TV. It brings regular TV and web video to your TV. Plus, Android apps. Apps! Live Updating Google says there are two worlds now, the web, which lives on your laptop and your phone, and the TV world, which lives on your TV. But why aren’t the solutions today…
Android 2.2 is here. We’ve been using it with Flash 10.1 and it is nicer than 2.1 in some small, but key ways. Like built-in tethering and Wi-Fi hotspot powers. Oh, and Flash. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-adobe-flash-10-1-on-a-phone-its-not-bad-5543322 Click here to view it all one page. https://gizmodo.com/android-2-2-gallery-5543323 Besides the stuff that’s visible, like the new homescreen widget and Android…
Honestly, there’s not much to say about Flash 10.1 on Android that you haven’t already seen, given how hard Adobe’s been pushing the Flash-on-phones message. There’s a few things. Why You Want It A brief recap: Flash 10.1 is the first time the complete, ungimped version of Adobe Flash will grace phones since it’s been…
A few things to glean from the homescreen. The official Twitter is now built in, much like Facebook was starting with 2.0. (Goodbye, third-party Twitter app market.) The singular apps button is replaced by a slightly wider widget that permanently places the dialer and browser at your fingertips—a minor tweak, but a great one, since…
And to illustrate this point, below is a side-by-side of the same game on the same device, with the one running 2.2 running quite a lot faster than the one with 2.1. Live Updating Also, a number of Enterprise Exchange features. There’s also a Cloud-messaging feature, so you can, for example, send navigation directions from…
And of course, they have the highest usage rate, according to Admob, and are the number two overall selling smartphone right now.
For the first time, scientists have successfully implanted a biofuel cell that generates power from glucose inside a body—an everlasting battery you could theoretically recharge by eating a Snickers bar. A team from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, implanted two rats’ abdominal cavities with these biofuel cells, which manage to generate power from glucose…
“If we did not act, we faced a draconian future. Where one man, one company, one carrier was the future.” — Google
It’s going on right now! Watch it live—and find out about the “surprises” they promised yesterday—on YouTube.
Witheringly described as a “A family-friendly Android phone with an awesome Sidekick-y keyboard, or, much like its name, a godawful conglomeration of disjointed parts,” the HTC myTouch 3G Slide was pegged early as a midrange, or even budget, phone (“Family friendly” being the official euphemism for such things). Nonetheless, it’ll be priced up with the…
For well over a month, I’ve been looking forward to an opulent birthday dinner reservation. But the day before the celebration, I canceled it over a single tweet. Rick Bayless is a remarkable chef. If you’re a foodie, you’ve heard his name, but even if not, his Chicago-based Mexican restaurants are lauded as some of…
As expected, the quiet brouhaha over Google accidentally collecting personal Wi-Fi network details when cruising in the Street View cars has turned into a lawsuit, with two Oregon citizens suing them for potentially millions. https://gizmodo.com/google-snooped-on-you-for-three-years-but-is-profound-5539395 Vicki Van Valin and Neil Mertz of Oregon are not only suing Google for collecting their data, but in a…
Who knew that R2D2 was such an accomplished DJ? Mixing in soundbites and robot blip bleep bloops from sci-fi films, this music video is definitely worth your attention. It was made by the talented hand of Eclectic Method, do give it 3 minutes of your life, won’t you? [Vimeo via @Mchax] Eclectic Method – Robots…
The stories coming out of Chinese gadget manufacturer Foxconn keep getting worse. Now, there’s a video clip floating around the Chinese internet that shows a group of guards getting physical with some workers. Updated https://gizmodo.com/undercover-report-from-foxconns-hell-factory-5542527 Now, to be fair, there’s not a lot of context in this video for the non-Chinese speaker. And I’m not…
Yesterday we brought the good news to Hero owners that Sprint was pushing out the Android 2.1 firmware update—but before you press yes on that update, make sure you back up all your data. https://gizmodo.com/htc-hero-owners-on-sprint-awarded-with-android-2-1-ecl-5542535 Unlike most Android updates, Sprint’s 2.1 one actually deletes all of the “current user data,” according to the download page’s…
The stories by Liu Zhi Yi—the undercover reporter inside Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen—were depressing. These photos make them even sadder. Gloomy atmosphere, people fighting, and long lines of unemployed trying to get into the 400,000-people factory. https://gizmodo.com/undercover-report-from-foxconns-hell-factory-5542527 There are some glimmers of hope, however, like two lovers holding each other or their efforts to have…
Just 17,500mph. No safety belt required. Peppers, string beans, and grapes required. In the image, ISS commander Oleg Kotov and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson. https://gizmodo.com/gulf-oil-disaster-looks-very-scary-says-astronaut-5542969
Among the markets that Apple hasn’t quite been able to crack with their iPhone, China has to be the most frustrating. It’s a huge opportunity that’s being missed. And now we finally know exactly why. Of course, the black market has always played a role, as have cheap and widely available knock-off products and increasingly…
The sole flaw with the modern hoodie is that it has neither need nor room for these authentic Xbox button cufflinks. $40. [Etsy via Unplggd] https://gizmodo.com/xbox-cufflinks-allow-you-to-subtly-ruin-any-formal-occa-5390153
