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Start pricing up HTC’s Desire or Incredible, Nexus One owners, as Google has put down its hammer and announced “we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements.” You’re stuck with those bugs for good. https://gizmodo.com/htc-desire-review-an-even-more-desirable-nexus-one-5504266 Oh sure, they issued a patch, which didn’t really do much, but Google feels enough is enough and is cutting…
“What image would you like on the cake, sir?” “I’ll shoot you the URL.” And with these simple, misunderstood words, an epic cake wreck was born. So what was supposed to be on the cake? This: I know we have someone in the audience who reads Russian, but unless it fulfills some cold war stereotype—maybe…
The creator of this tiny camera made two mistakes. One: it’s styled like a Lomography Fisheye camera, but can’t shoot fisheye photos. Two: they’re not for sale yet. I demand ten. According to creator Francesco Capponi, this little toy-like cam is a working, snapping pinhole camera, capable of taking photos like the one below. Ok,…
Hey it’s summer, what better excuse do we need for posting three yachts in one week? Especially when one of them has been styled after Lamborghini’s sportscars, taking the angle of the chassis and creating a 15m long waterbeast. Sadly it’s not cruising around the Italian harbours looking for pretty bellas, as it’s just a…
It’s not just 3D gaming that the PS3 will be offering soon. Major League Baseball will apparently be streamed live to consoles by the end of this week, but if you’ve got grand ideas of free baseball, think again. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ps3-3-30-update-available-shortly-prepares-consol-5521635 It’ll actually cost a whopping $100 for the standard package, or $120 for the premium…
I do love a good Rube Goldberg Machine example. While not as grand in scale as OK Go’s, Vodafone Italy‘s commercial looks like it was insanely fun putting together—all those smartphones, in one room! Working together! Amazing. https://gizmodo.com/ok-gos-embeddable-music-video-for-this-too-shall-pas-5483526 What I want to ask of you is—how many phones can you recognize there? [Textually via Recombu]
Thanks to Samsung leaking a document, we now have details about ARM’s roadmap for the next three years. It’s not the best leak of the decade (or even the century), but helloooo 2013’s Aquila, the 1.2GHz quad-core Cortex-A9. https://gizmodo.com/the-tale-of-apples-next-iphone-5520471 Listed in the leak is Taurus, the single-core 1GHz S5PV210 Cortex-A8 chip which will arrive later…
Come on, ‘fess up. Which Chinese is obviously so delusional he thought that what the public really needed was a Vaio P clone, complete with chiclet keyboard and pink satin casing? I guess the Vaio P 2 hasn’t appeared yet… https://gizmodo.com/sony-vaio-p-review-5131637 The Aoson R169 has come via Shenzhen Anson, and while it won’t get a…
There’s no place more fitting for an official Gundam Cafe than in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Sadly Japanese maids don’t draw hearts in syrup over your pancakes or put “love spells” on you like at Maid Cafes…but there are Gundam biscuits! http://kotaku.com/227240/akihabaras-tip-top-maid-cafes Akihabara News visited the cafe before its grand opening to the public this Saturday,…
And it all comes together: Hulu will start testing a $10-a-month Hulu Plus subscription service as early as May 24, according to the LA Times. Huge. The pressure to make money—extremely significant quantities of it, given the financial demand of producing high quality TV has long given a Hulu pay service the sense of inevitability.…
Bluetooth 4.0 just got finalized and will start rolling out to devices by the end of the year. Along with extending range from 30 feet to 200 feet, 4.0 introduces a new low power mode that will be seen in either single or dual-mode iterations. The single-mode chips are strictly low power which means it…
Tired of the same old opaque single tone band on your headphones, an OLED panel might just be the thing to spruce up boring monitors The Transparent OLED Headphones by designers Min-guk Ji & Hong-joo Kim & In-oh Yoo might be onto the coolest headphone invention yet. A headphone band is usually a piece of…
Tossing and turning at night because your one-armed, lumpy-felt-breasted girlfriend left town? Or just feeling extra creepy? Never fear, sad lonely person: the Deluxe Comfort Girlfriend Body Pillow is here. And it is just awful. There’s not much more to say, really, other than that if this is the Deluxe version I’d hate to see…
Hello! The mandatory PS3 3.30 update will apparently be available “shortly” and bring some minor updates while preparing your console for 3D stereoscopic gaming. [Playstation—Thanks, Jess!]
First Engadget showed us a Windows Phone 7 beauty, the Dell Lightning, and now they’re showing off Dell’s Android offerings: Flash, Thunder, and Smoke. They’re all lookers in their own ways and full of appealing features. https://gizmodo.com/dell-lightning-is-a-beauty-who-runs-windows-phone-7-5521439 The Thunder has a 4.1-inch WVGA OLED screen to show off a “heavily’ customized UI on top of…
Today we have yet another panel from Arthur Radebaugh’s excellent Closer Than We Think series of comic strips. Though the strip often ran on Sunday, the more eagle-eyed amongst you (read: nerdy) may notice that this particular strip was published in the Toronto Star Weekly on Saturday, May 2, 1959. Before alternative energy policy became…
It’s official: Google is adding store interiors to Street View. Next, presumably, is them photographing all humans individually for their database. Heck, I trust ’em! [Google LatLong] https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-add-store-interiors-to-maps-5464532
All right, robots: you’ve bested our professional wrestlers and our penalty kickers. But as long as San Francisco 49ers kicker Joe Nedney has anything to say about it, field goals belong to the humans. https://gizmodo.com/worlds-first-robot-vs-human-pro-wrestling-match-ends-i-5423850 Nedney went kick for kick earlier this week with Ziggy the Combot, a 340 lb entrant in the upcoming RoboGames…
It’s still a bit buggy, but this guy’s iPhone is running Android. More than that, actually. His phone now gives the choice to load either the iPhone OS or the Android OS. Currently the hack only works on the original iPhone and it’s not flawless, but there’s hope that it’ll be perfected and implemented on…
This is the new $100 bill. It is revolting. But that’s not the only reason you wouldn’t want to try counterfeiting this malignantly redesigned slip of currency, the most counterfeited of all denominations (outside the US). It has two big new security features that had over a decade of R&D poured into them, and that…
