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Sharp. Black. Buttons. A power cord. We see Art Lebedev’s logo, so “alien weapon” can be ruled out right off the bat. But actually, the truth is still fairly epic. It’s a laser beam clock called Reflectius. Sixty rotating mirrors redirect a beam of light in glorious overkill fashion, simply to tell you the time.…
It’s Friday! And what better way to spend a Friday than with Dealzmodo? Hm, we can’t even think of one. Okay, maybe there’s a couple. But will hitting the bar feel better than buying a new mouse? Yeah, thought so. Top Deals: • Logitech MX 1100 Cordless Laser Mouse for $38.99 with free shipping (normally…
iPhone OS is on perpetual lockdown. Android hacking’s boring, considering the platform’s Linux credentials. It’s webOS, Palm’s Linux-based OS, where some of the best gratuitous, for-the-hell-of-it hacking is taking place nowadays. Exhibit A: OpenOffice, running on a Pre. A Pre! This hack is about 23 sweaty steps more obscure than your run-of-the-mill webOS Quickinstall homebrew…
If you’re set to hop on board AT&T’s network, Amazon has a tasty deal: it’s selling every AT&T phone it offers for one penny, with a new 2-year contract. Among those included: the Motorola Backflip and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Among those not included: iPhone and the Nexus One. OK, so Amazon’s stock doesn’t exactly…
Here we see the first prototype of the LapDock, a laptop docking station for the iPad. How this is more convenient or practical than Apple’s keyboard/dock is beyond me. Just stop, lousy iAccessory makers. Please, please, stop. [ipadlaptdock]
The big daddy of the Zune HD family is now available for order. Aside from the increased capacity, it’s the same as the older Zune HDs, coming in 7 snazzy colors. It’ll set you back $350. [Zune Originals]
Why is it that we’re perfectly fine reusing some glass and completely refuse to reuse other glass? For $60, you can buy a six pack of tumblers, made from real beer bottles. [Windy City Glass via MAKE via boingboing]
Click to viewTwiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists are unlikely to eliminate the waiting any time soon, but they’ve done the next best thing. Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working with Zhiquan Yeo and…
The iPad won’t charge with all USB chargers. But that’s because your USB chargers are weak. The reVIVE II Dual USB Charger can charge both your iPad and your other weakling gadget. The reVIVE II is not weak. The Scosche reVIVE II Dual USB Charger comes in two different models, one for your car and…
Mozilla’s serving up a beta of Firefox Lorentz, a version of the browser that runs Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight videos as a separate processes. If plug-in-caused crashes and stuttering YouTubes have you red in the face, Lorentz offers sweet relief. I’m one of those people who has upwards of a dozen tabs open at all…
With any sport, the more exhausted you become, the more prone you are to injury. In baseball, this is especially a problem for pitchers. But a new shirt can track a pitcher’s form in real time. Designed by three engineering students from Northeastern University, their smart shirt is essentially Under Armor fitted with sensors and…
Ever used Safari? Chrome? An iPhone? Android? Then you’ve used WebKit, the rendering engine that powers most of the best browsers in the world. Up next: WebKit2 with a new “split process model.” it’s going to be awesome. Subtly! The banner feature for WebKit2 is the new split process model: Part of WebKit operates in…
According to this video showing Cydia multitasking and this tweet by a member of the Dev Team, iPhone OS 4.0 has been jailbroken already. Then again, Apple may have left the doors wide open as a pre-launch red herring. Either way, Apple will surely patch whatever exploit was found before iPhone OS 4.0 launches this…
There are lots of pictures of the Giz staff on our site these days. From Mascari in the iPad review to Kyle riding the Honda U3-X, they’re all over the place. What fitting source material for a Photoshop Contest! Find and use any pictures of the Gizmodo crew from our various features, reviews and posts,…
There’s several things wrong with this. One: painting over the sleek aluminum with plastic? Hideous. Two: $400? Really? That could (almost) buy another iPad. Three: Three weeks? Without your iPad? Ugh. [Colorware]
At first I thought this was some kind of musical instrument. Then my mind shifted to an assembly line of military robots with deadly cannons. Then I looked closely and realized what those thin cylinders were. It’s the Smoking Robot at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, twenty robotic Teflon mouths puffing…
Not quite as absurd as the rail network planned which will see travel between London and Beijing possible in just two days, but some may think the idea of bullet trains in California is pretty darn crazy. The Chinese already helped out with building the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s, in the form of thousands…
The roboplant will not rest until it walks to the nearest source of polluted water, sips from it and tops off its microbial fuel cells. Roboplant—official name, Nomadic Plant—is a working art project by Gilberto Esparza. Powered by microbial energy, the robot lives a simple, self-sustaining lifestyle focused supplying its microbes with whatever nutrients they…
There is so much wrong with this image on so many levels, I don’t even know where to start. [cheezburger via CrunchGear]
In another world, the Pre would be available on more than Sprint and Verizon, Palm would’ve made $22 million last quarter, and their ads would’ve actually made you want one of their phones. Oh, and Google would own Palm. [Fortune]
