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It’s curious that after announcing the Nexus One would be coming to Verizon, Google’s now directing people to the HTC Incredible instead. Then again, Verizon never said they’d carry the Nexus One. UPDATE: Google confirms no N1 on Verizon: https://gizmodo.com/htc-droid-incredible-review-more-like-impressive-5520071 We won’t be selling a Nexus One with Verizon, and this is a reflection of…
The back of the base with the three holes to set the angle. The retail packaging. Mail customers get it in a plain package. All packages include a microfiber pouch. A close up. Landscape mode at its lowest angle. Portrait mode at its higher angle.
The Maldives. I would like to go back there, become a dive instructor, and live a simple happy life. And I want this to be my house, five meters below the surface, off the coast of Rangali Island. Unfortunately, it’s not available for sale. It’s the 12-seat restaurant of the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa,…
PC Authority was putting their new 17-inch, Core i7 MacBook Pro through their typical battery of benchmarks. Then, the chassis grew hot and a series of strange errors began to occur. The only way they could complete the testing was to turn the MBP on its side. The problem had to be heat. So PC…
You may own a MacBook, iPhone and an iPad, but you shouldn’t just use each anywhere you’d like. There are rules, people. And Fast Company shares them with us. In a future full of iPads, iPhone OS 4, next-gen iPhones, and iPod Touches with cameras (plus whatever Gray Powell leaves at a German beer joint…
BlackBerry users who are stuck with CDMA-based carriers (like Verizon) now have another option in the form of the Bold 9650, replacing the Tour and its janky trackball with an optical trackpad. (Also, hello Wi-Fi.) Looks like it’ll be $200 after rebate, with Sprint selling it starting May 23. RIM Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold…
This is the latest motherboard of the latest PS3 Slim. And thanks to those two silver squares in the middle, it’s less power-hungry and more profitable (err, potentially profitable) than ever before. The silver square on the left is the 45nm Cell processor—it began shipping with the PS3 Slim redesign. But the silver square on…
PS3 firmware updates have been in the headlines recently thanks to the OtherOS uninstall, but there was also that attractive 3D gaming business too. It’s not all bad at Sony—unless you don’t own a VAIO laptop, anyway. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ps3-firmware-update-3-21-now-live-and-forcing-you-5507002 For it’s only VAIO owners who’ll be able to connect to their PS3s via Remote Play, as…
With its ultra-compact two-inch wide, 3.3 ounce body, the Pearl 3G is the smallest BlackBerry yet. Despite its size though, it’s still a full-featured BlackBerry, and oddly, complete with 802.11n wireless support—a first for BlackBerry devices. The itty-bitty gadget will offer UMTS/HSDPA and Wi-Fi (b/g/n) support along with GPS, a 3.2MP camera, an optical trackpad,…
98 years ago, there was a terrible volcanic eruption on Martinique, an island in the Caribbean. What’s been dubbed as the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century, it killed all residents—except the sole drunk in this prison. Two other Martinique residents survived also, a girl who sailed a boat into the ocean and a…
Between various patents and even a bog-standard Sony Ericsson, we’ve already thought about the possibilities of gesture-controlled phones. The University of Tokyo, in typical form, has taken it one step forward and released a video showing some sweet Natal-like possibilities. https://gizmodo.com/patent-for-gesture-controlled-phones-could-be-nokias-an-5095509 Recombu likens it to the Project Natal of smartphones, which is a pretty accurate…
You’ve seen Rovio hackery before, but not like this. Not with MIND CONTROL and Skype both involved. Emotiv Systems’ headset is used to control the Rovio, with the signal being carried to the robot over Skype. https://gizmodo.com/rovio-modded-to-fight-blazing-candles-5231474 Wearing the Emotiv headset, facial gestures and brainwaves are recognized, and used to control the Rovio robot, which…
Each rotary phone-styled iRetrofone Base is handmade from resin, and not only does it give you a stationary calling experience, it also docks and syncs via USB. Available now for $195. [Etsy via iPhone Savior via Retro To Go]
A 12MP cameraphone has been turning up in leaked documents, photos and patents, but finally Russian site Mobile-Review has done us proud and snagged hands-on pics. Apart from that image sensor, it’s also sporting Symbian^3, the first to do so. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-n8-00-xml-entry-details-symbian-3-nhd-display-5503802 Mobile-Review reports (after a Google translation) that it takes decent photos, noting it “is…
Whoops, looks like TheStreet.com pressed “go” on two new BlackBerry models early—the Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G. Nothing too outlandish if the site is to be believed, but looks like Sprint’s got dibs on the Bold. Only Canadian carriers have been confirmed for the Pearl 3G according to TheStreet.com, with Bell, TELUS and Rogers all…
What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011. [Akihabara News]
All-you-can-eat music services are an intoxicating prospect, but the limitations can be dealbreakers—specifically, that fact that a lot of them don’t let you take your music with you, or limit the devices in or on which you can play it back. It’s not just annoying; it drives home the fact that you don’t actually own…
Bribes, prosecutors on the take, tax evasion and slush funds. It sounds like organized crime, but if we’re to believe Kim Yong-chul, author of Think Samsung, all these terrible things happen at popular electronics company Samsung. All the time. Trouble for Kim (former top legal counsel, Samsung) is Samsung is not only the largest electronics…
That Apple PowerBook G3 250 you bought back in 1997 may have some nostalgic value, sure, but if you had simply bought up some Apple stock instead you’d be sitting on real value, to the tune of about $330,563. True! If you had simply been granted the mystical skill clairvoyance back in 1997, you would…
The only thing I might love more than robots of the 1920s and 30s are robots from before the word “robot” was coined in 1922. Now, I won’t pretend to understand what’s going on in this illustration. Like most editorial cartoons that I stumble upon while searching newspaper archives, I have no idea what’s happening…
