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Brando, We Want a Double Down

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,…

Tech News Mark Wilson

183 Heavenly HDR Wallpapers

There’s no going wrong with HDR photography. At its most sensitive, the technique allows for color/tone gradients rarely appreciated by anything but the naked eye. At its most aggressive, HDR’s a hyperreal spectacle. This week’s Shooting Challenge celebrate both schools: Lead Shot This photo was taken in the middle of Tokyo (Ginza area) a few…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Switch, the Choose Your Own Swiss(ish) Army Knife

A pocket knife that you can configure yourself with just the turn of a quarter? That’s a clever bit of engineering. The “Switch” is on presale at Quirky for $68 with 13 tools, including a memory stick. [Quirky]

Tech News Joel Johnson

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

AMD’s new Thuban hexa-core CPUs come out swinging with prices that belie their size. And if we’ve learned anything from years of watching action movies: You never, ever count out the underdog. Such is the case with perennial underdog AMD. Bloodied, beaten, and bruised by months and months of Intel chips that outpaced its parts,…

Tech News MaximumPC

The New BlackBerry OS 6.0: Video and Details

After reviewing the new devices we saw yesterday—the Blackberry Bold 9650 and the Pearl 3G—RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis revealed what we’ve been waiting for at this year’s WES: BlackBerry 6.0. Updated: Video! https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-bold-9650-the-new-blackberry-to-buy-on-veri-5524317 It’s been a while since we’ve seen anything new for BlackBerry users in terms of interface (we were beginning to feel like…

Tech News Rosa Golijan and Kat Hannaford

The Smallest Earth In Human History

This 3D map of Earth, carved by IBM’s new nanometer-scale silicon milling machine, could fit alongside 999 other Earths onto a single grain of salt. Here’s a look at the machine behind it: Using heat and pressure, this nanomill can carve a substrate with single nanometer accuracy, and pretty quickly to boot. This Earth took…

Tech News Mark Wilson

3D Motorola “Ming” Clamshell Turns Up In China, Could Use Nintendo 3DS-Style 3D Tech

My, how the quality of life would improve if all leaked photos were of this quality. And plentiful! Motorola’s 3D “Ming” clamshell is looking very near completion, but the girth looks…challenging. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-reimagines-the-clamshell-in-3d-5508108 We already know it’s 3D capable thanks to the patent that appeared only a couple of weeks ago, showing a clamshell that displays…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

TomTom GO LIVE 1000 Adds Capacitive Touchscreen and WebKit Browser

TomTom’s claiming the GO LIVE 1000 marks “the first in a whole new generation of navigation devices,” which just makes me think it’d be worth holding out to see what the second model does. Nonetheless, the capacitive touchscreen is big news. I don’t know about you, but poking and prodding at resistive sat-nav screens always…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording

Well now, this is awkward. Only yesterday Mobile-Review was calling the N8 an unpolished turd, and now Nokia’s gone and announced it to the world. As leaks foretold, it’s got a 12MP camera with Xenon flash, and runs Symbian^3. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n8-takes-great-photos-but-symbian-3-is-an-unpoli-5524344 It’s Nokia’s first Symbian^3 phone, and while initial videos and photos made it look pretty…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Toshiba Working On Glasses-Less 3DTV Using Parallax Barrier Technology

Sharp was first out the door with its parallax barrier technology, which is apparently being used in the Nintendo 3DS, to skirt around wearing glasses when viewing 3D. Toshiba’s now got similar a 21-inch display which also doesn’t require glasses. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-3ds-might-use-parallax-barrier-displays-develo-5507890 It may be 21-inches in size, but the resolution isn’t quite full-HD, at 1280…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

Available now if you live in Europe or are particularly handy with an IP override, Spotify’s just released the latest version of the desktop client. iTunes libraries can be uploaded to Spotify for accessing anywhere, and social features added too. https://gizmodo.com/why-its-worth-getting-excited-for-spotifys-us-launch-5502815 The biggest news is that iTunes integration, called Library—being able to ditch iTunes altogether…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Denon’s Got 3D Blu-ray Players, Too

There may be few 3D Blu-rays available now, but come June/August when both the DBP-1611UD and DBP-2011UDCI are released, the situation should be looking up. Both players can handle 3D Blu-rays, as well as CD/DVD, SACD and DVD-Audio formats. They’re compatible with Netflix and YouTube streaming, and connect to the internet via Ethernet. 1GB storage…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Submarine-Powerboat Hybrid Soon To Be On Sale For $3.5 Million

Not even James Bond would scoff at the beautiful Hyper-Sub. After all, how could he not want to step foot onto a $3.5 million submersible powerboat? We’ve been teased for quite a while with whispers of this craft designed by Marion HSPD, but now the powerboat-submarine hybrid will finally be heading to the production line.…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

One Moment, I Need To Text My Microwave

On my drive home, I’ll send an SMS to my stove and tell it to start baking the cookies I left waiting. Of course, it won’t really get or understand the message since this futuristic kitchen is only a concept. The idea behind the Future Kitchen concept is that all your appliances are controlled via…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

New Inexpensive Material Will Turn Night Into Day

The University of Florida—funded by DARPA—has found a film-thin material that will add inexpensive, lightweight night vision to everything, from gadgets to cameras to car windshields. The key was in the same technology that powers OLED displays. The new material is made from seven layers of Organic Light Emitting Diodes, which get excited by infrared…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

Hang Up On That Driver

The discussion about graphic PSAs tends to get muddled with evaluations about whether or not the manner in which the idea is conveyed is appropriate or not, losing sight of the idea itself. So let’s not do that! The onus is obviously on drivers not to be on a phone or otherwise distracted while driving…

Tech News John Herrman

DUPE: An Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine That’s a Phone Call Away

This video had been posted previously on Gizmodo. All right, Vodafone Italy, you got me. This smartphone-powered Rube Goldberg Machine was just too fun not to share. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to try to recreate this in my own office. Although come to think of it, my office is my living room,…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Brando, We Want a Double Down

183 Heavenly HDR Wallpapers

Switch, the Choose Your Own Swiss(ish) Army Knife

AMD’s $300 6-Core CPU: Too Good To Be True?

The New BlackBerry OS 6.0: Video and Details

The Smallest Earth In Human History

3D Motorola “Ming” Clamshell Turns Up In China, Could Use Nintendo 3DS-Style 3D Tech

TomTom GO LIVE 1000 Adds Capacitive Touchscreen and WebKit Browser

Nokia N8 Official, With 12MP Camera and 720p Video Recording

Toshiba Working On Glasses-Less 3DTV Using Parallax Barrier Technology

Spotify Now Allows iTunes Libraries To Be Uploaded

Denon’s Got 3D Blu-ray Players, Too

Submarine-Powerboat Hybrid Soon To Be On Sale For $3.5 Million

One Moment, I Need To Text My Microwave

New Inexpensive Material Will Turn Night Into Day

Hang Up On That Driver

DUPE: An Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine That’s a Phone Call Away

The Hard Disk You’ve Been Waiting For

Sticky Note Gun: Not a Good Idea

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