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Cnet’s Audiophiliac Steve Guttenberg unequivocally thinks the Ultimate Ears 18 Pro earbuds, with their six driver setup, are worth $1350. So, uh, what do earbuds that cost more than most computers sound like? https://gizmodo.com/ultimate-ears-18-pro-earbuds-stuff-in-a-whopping-six-dr-5448754 The UE 18 Pro strips away layers of fuzz from the sound; the difference in clarity is pretty astounding. Drums kick…
Turn a bendy straw into a shrimp with a pair of scissors and a few folds. The result is about as tasty as imitation crab meat. [InstructionsJP/InstructionsENG via Recylclart via Make:]
Code trickles promised video chat hiding inside iPhone OS 4, raising hopes and inflating sci-fi fantasies. Now code snippets bring us back to earth, that iPhone video calling might be real but only over Wi-Fi. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-4-has-video-chat-group-chat-code-5514326 Here’s the code at issue in the iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 SDK: IMAVCHAT_COULD_NOT_CONNECT_NO_REMOTE_WIFI = “The video call could…
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Sure, the Sidetrack table turns your home into a near-police state, with monitors in every room. But how else are you going to get an exact chart of your ADD wanderings? It’s also… woooooaaah SHINY! Sorry. Distracted there for a minute. Where was I? Oh, right, Sidetrack. It’s a project from students at the Copenhagen…
Theoretically speaking, we could exponentially increase computing power by manipulating the way in which electrons in individual atoms spin. Researchers in Germany have seen atomic spin for the very first time, and captured a few tiny images to prove it. A study published in the journal Nature Technology details how the team, composed of German…
There’s not much secret left in the sauce for the iPad’s A4 chip—it’s a faster, customized version of what’s inside the iPhone 3GS. But the recipe probably comes from a tiny chip design firm Apple purchased, called Intrinsity. https://gizmodo.com/deconstructing-the-ipads-a4-chip-its-still-a-giant-iph-5510191 The informed speculation is that Intrinsity’s custom 1GHz ARM chip, codenamed Hummingbird, is in fact the…
Remember Midomi? It was a first-wave iPhone app that identified songs, hummed or recorded, via microphone. It’s since grown into a much more ambitious app called SoundHound—ambitious enough to actually replace your iPhone’s music app. Now, it’s free. https://gizmodo.com/midomi-song-recognition-iphone-app-can-name-that-rickro-5023919 SoundHound’s music recognition feature is still prominently featured, and it still does its job. Unlike Shazam,…
With the name “Battlefield” you’d hope to see a rugged, war-proof camera which could withstand anything. Instead, this pinhole cam looks like it belongs in an art gallery, displaying an example of retro-futurism or something. It’s the work of French photographer Steven Monteau, who built the Battlefield (so named because it resembles a battleship…if you…
Sure, the timing on this Photoshop Contest gallery is a liiiiiiittle awkward. But hey, the show must go on! Here are some other ways El Jobso could retaliate for that whole iPhone thing. https://gizmodo.com/the-investigation-into-that-missing-iphone-updated-5525388 First Place— Will O. Second Place—Moez Tharani Third Place— Chris Bolton
Asked by the NYT how he’d feel if someone lost a prototype Android phone in a bar, Google’s Andy Rubin reveals the stark difference between Google and Apple—among other topics, like Flash for Android 2.2. [Bits]
Look, bullying is obviously a serious issue, but the idea of a video game that targets bullying sounds pretty absurd. It’ll just give more fuel to bullies! “What did you play last night, GTA4?” “No, an anti-bullying game.” Over at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, students are working on a Victec program which is creating…
The best apps for any Google platform—like say, Android—are almost inevitably written by Google. Now Google’s bought a little app company called LabPixies, that makes widgets and games for Android and iGoogle, so expect more. [Google via Cnet]
Geocities might be dead, but its spirit lives on. The Geocities-izer does you the enormous favor of transforming your favorite (or least) website into not just a Geocities page, but a really bad Geocities page. And my god, the music! https://gizmodo.com/geocities-is-dead-long-live-geocities-5389976 Here’s a taste of what Gizmodo looks like: I only wish I could also…
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A mere year ago only 6.4% of Gizmodo readers owned an eReader of some sort. We’ve bet you’ve got one now. Surely you’ve got 10 minutes in between eTomes to share your media predilections. C’mon. After all we do for you? The Gawker Media Census 2010 is a way for us to find out about…
Electric bikes come into their own when you’re pushing up a big hill or embarking on a long journey. The M55 Bike EVO-001 is claiming that after three years’ development, they’ve got the “Ferrari of electric bikes.” Sounds…fast? It’s not sleek and light-looking like the Gocycle, instead it’s got an almost mountain bike appearance about…
It’s like 2007 all over again: The world is waiting with bated breath for someone to step up to Apple. Last time it was to answer the iPhone. This time, the iPad. Here’s what we want to see. All signs point to the first—and most—attractive competitors to the iPad running Android, which sets up the…
Oh…great. A Russian company is now marketing a new cruise missile system that can be hidden in a shipping container, turning any merchant ship into a warship able to take out an aircraft carrier. Cool? So who exactly would be in the market for the Club-K system? No bigs, just countries like Iran and Venezuela.…
This classic chicken sandwich USB hub would have served us just fine a month ago, but the world has changed since then thanks to a couple of pieces of chicken that were sick and tired of business as usual. https://gizmodo.com/kfc-double-down-sandwich-destroyer-of-touchscreens-5515565 Their brutal revolt against bread, fueled by the near limitless caloric abundance of fried food,…
