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Capture and share your Kodak moments with the Kodak EasyShare Slice. One slide of your finger over the touchscreen and you can dispense your latest masterpiece via e-mail, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, or Kodak Gallery. And it has a Cuteness Factor 10, so even Mom will love it. The Kodak EasyShare Slice Touchscreen Digital Camera is…
There’s an update to Apple’s online store: A shipping date for the iPad 3G has been added. Apparently the device will head your way by May 7—unless you’ve preordered and are receiving it in late April. [Apple—Thanks, Matt!]
After its latest firmware update, available right this instant, Seagate’s set top FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player will deliver Netflix streaming, YouTube, vTuner and Mediafly content. Right, just like some other boxes out there today, but there’s a caveat. Here’s an unsanctioned by Gizmodo hint: Arr! What makes this particular box a bit different than…
Here’s the difference between the pros and the amateurs who can’t never find their fucking Lego pieces. Enjoy, the supply room of a Lego maniac: https://gizmodo.com/wheres-that-f-cking-lego-piece-5514762 Crazy. I’m somewhere in between. [Thanks Ian Wilkinson!] https://gizmodo.com/sorting-the-5-195-pieces-of-the-millennium-falcon-gives-335673
Congratulations are in order for the Boy Scouts, who have figured out a cool way to combine the old with the new using a “geocaching badge” for Scouts. Scouting Magazine lays out the requirements, which combine safety, fun and learning about GPS: * Precautions necessary to have a safe time while searching for geocaches *…
Having seen “sewable computing” at the MIT Media Center firsthand, I can say something like Ping clothing will exist someday soon. If wearable, always-on computing gets you hot and bothered, read on, because Ping clothing promises to do that, constantly. https://gizmodo.com/mit-media-lab-extension-the-new-home-of-face-melting-r-5486788 Social media updates? Text message alerts? No need to keep checking that smartphone. Ping,…
The headline humor is the work of Gizmodo head honcho Brian Lam, but the iPad app, called Telecom Tycoon HD, is all Telect. It’s sort of like SimCity or RollerCoaster Tycoon, but with cell towers and consumer-screwing subscription plans! Unlike a cellphone plan, however, the app is free, and features many of the world-building mechanics…
It’s a shame Nine Inch Nails isn’t touring anymore. Their concerts, while an acquired taste for some, were always a spectacle, replete with one-of-a-kind technological marvels, and I could totally see Silent Drum at the forefront should they return. https://gizmodo.com/the-amazing-tech-lasers-and-lights-behind-a-nine-inch-5049414 This project is the work of Peruvian Jaime Oliver, and it plays a haunting industrial…
So this happened last night. Much to Frucci’s chagrin, it looks like Laser Harps are catching on. In other news, the innuendo-laden Shake Weight now has its own DVD. [SNL] https://gizmodo.com/please-dont-let-laser-based-instruments-catch-on-5486060
The flying car, a goal of starry-eyed engineers since at least the beginning of the last century, is getting the DARPA treatment. Called Transformer TX, this flying Humvee-like prototype could be airborne by 2015. The Transformer TX was officially detailed in a Pentagon budget report last year, pretty much in name only, and only recently…
Is this yet another iPhone knockoff, a cosmetics mirror, or some super-secret prototype that proves Apple is getting into networked birth control case design? Shoot, how about all three? OK, it’s just some lame Chinese knockoff phone. Ya got me. Called the “Leady Phone,” which I’m going to assume is a translation error, this copyright-infringing…
Using mysterious-yet-well-known medical knowledge about negative suction healing and a $3 plunger I swore I just helped my friend buy for his new apartment, MIT Grad Student Danielle Zurovcik may have invented something truly special. You see, negative pressure (suction) has been known to speed wound recovery time for decades, and there are in fact…
The Optoma 1080p HD20 earned Bestmodo marks from us last year, but how well would the company’s chops translate into the “gaming” space? Later this year, when the Game Time 720 (GT720) arrives, we should be able to tell you. https://gizmodo.com/1000-1080p-projector-battlemodo-optoma-hd20-vs-vivite-5381731 For now though, specs! First of all, the “720” should give away the fact…
This site is no stranger to multi-million dollar mega yachts, but rarely do we see such an in-depth video tour of these modern day sea monsters as we do in this video of Andrey Melnichenko’s “A” from the WSJ: Click to viewThis particular 394-ft. mega yacht is well-known from the outside, but the inside’s been…
In an otherwise unremarkable Microsoft Kin ad (complete with ironically dressed hipsters!), an of-age man snaps a quick shot of his chest and sends it to a girl. In the aftermath of this atrocity America’s youth was threatened. https://gizmodo.com/hey-microsoft-enough-with-the-hipsters-5516318 Oh wait, no it wasn’t. But Consumer Reports thinks it was, because the candid act sort…
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, in an interview with FOX Business, has revealed that flash 10.1 support for WebOS and BlackBerry phones would arrive slightly later than expected in the second half of 2010. The slight delay (it was previously expected in the first half of 2010), was briefly mentioned during Adobe’s whirlwind Creative Suite 5…
Later this June, well-known lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss will begin offering a line of Compact Prime CP.2 lenses with the discerning HDSLR filmmaker in mind. The new is no surprise, really, given the versatility and functionality that HDSLR rigs have shown over the past year in the film making space. As you may recall, the…
Confused about Kin? Still, somehow, not yet tapped out on iPad news? Then sit a spell and hit play on this podcast, wherein our very own Wilson Rothman talks tech with TechFlash. Listen closely, dear readers, for he is old and wise. Interesting trivia: Wilson’s voice has been known to sooth stressed out babies, so…
A man walking around at night with an iPad lanyard around his neck, displaying semi-nude artwork, could be seen as a meandering perv. Or, as was the case in Bogota, the man is Claudio Arango, and he’s an artist. Office dwellers, before pushing play please note that there are grainy, painted/pixelated boobs in this video:…
When you look at most of the two dozen or so people in this photograph, which belongs to a Canadian museum, there’s no doubt that they’re from 1940, the year in which it was taken. But what about that guy? Those funky sunglasses? That stamped t-shirt and hippie shawl? The doofy, disinterested expression? He sure…
