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Let’s get a rather important fact out of the way first: it’s just a concept. Little boys reading this should cross it off their list to Father Christmas now, before their hopes rise even higher. The Sidewinder, designed by Jordan Swartzentruber, is a Self Contained Breathing Apparatus, created in that magical, faraway Concept Land where…
Grizzled rocker? There’s an app for that. Specifically Joey Kramer‘s Hit Hard iPhone app, who may be better known as the drummer from Aerosmith—or, he who isn’t Steven Tyler. It’s kind of like Tub Thumper or even Tap Tap Revenge, though you could argue most rhythm games are too similar to distinguish between. Hit Hard…
This is what Super Smash Bros. Brawl looks like at a super-widescreen resolution, when using Dolphin, a Wii emulator on a PC. It’s so wide, you can barely make it out when shrunk down to fit Gizmodo’s image constraints. The emulator allows for some astonishing viewpoint trickery, with the screenshots posted to the Dolphin forums…
It’s taken several months, but finally the US has caught up with the rest of the world and can now pick up Toshiba’s Camileo S20, H30 and X100 pocket camcorders with prices starting at $180. All models shoot full 1080p video and have 3-inch LCD screens, YouTube keys for easy upload, and take SD/SDHC cards.…
Apparently Morocco gets 3,000 hours of reliable sun power a year, so it’s not surprising the government is building five solar power plants in the next decade, which will generate 40 per cent of the country’s electricity. Just 2 Gigawatts of solar power will be enough for almost half of the 32 million people living…
Rubbing Vaseline on scratched CDs to make them readable again is a new one to me, but Instructables has a DIY project up claiming it works perfectly. Mind you, they also say peanut butter works a charm too. Using a piece of cloth, the Vaseline can be slicked onto the scratched CD, and then rubbed…
Because of my dependence on tea, I make sure I’m always within earshot of the kettle whistling—but if you’re not, this smartly-designed kettle which tweets via Wi-Fi will alert you when it’s boiling. Designed by Ben Perman and Murat Multu, it also records details on how many times it boils each week, and just how…
On sale later this month after first tantalizing us at MWC in February, LG has confirmed the Mini GD880 will support HTML5 in its “Phantom Browser,” the first time it’s been reeled out by the South Koreans. They reckon it’s much faster and has a more stable internet experience, built using the most recent Webkit…
Turns out even His Holiness, with Buddha on his side, can’t protect himself against Chinese hackers, with 11 months of his personal emails being monitored according to new security reports. GhostNet, a huge spam network which we heard had targeted the Dalai Lama among others last year, apparently hacked into his account and were reading…
When driving cars in videogames, you’re often forced to see everything from a third-person perspective. Now, what would happen if you tried to drive while limited to that odd view in real life? These folks decided to find out. [Kotaku]
The Lenovo C200 all-in-one made a brief appearance at CeBIT a few months ago, but now it’s official: an 18.6-inch 16:9 display with a dual-core Atom D510 processor and optional next-generation Nvidia Ion graphics. You’ll want to take the option. The C200 is one of the first of a wave of products featuring the HD-capable…
In the support pages for the iWorks products—Pages, Keynote, and Numbers—there’s a little note: Printing directly from iPad is not currently available. Based on this peculiar wording, it could be speculated that a future version of the iPad or iPhone OS—perhaps iPhone OS 4.0—might come with printing support. [Apple Insider]
Apparently Mr. Slanty Cam—that’s Mr. Blurry Cam’s brother—spotted a box containing these Flip Slide HD pocket camcorders in a Best Buy. Guess our favorite cheap camcorder line is getting an addition. [Engadget]
Click to viewChad Barraford has designed a “digital life assistant” who recognizes him, cooks hot dogs, and alerts his friends when he has a migraine. Unlike Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S. though, this one only cost $691.98 to build. While Chad proudly shows off his creation on his website, he’s definitely not sharing the code that runs…
That this was taken by an employee of Ngmoco showing off their We Rule app—but all that is irrelevant. This is John de Lancie and Brent Spiner—Q and fucking Data—playing with an iPad. Hell. Yeah. [Facebook via Fidgit]
I may never shoot on an ARRI Alexa camera—after all, it’ll cost around $60,000 this summer—but a man can dream, can’t he? ARRI, makers of legendary film cameras, has finally unveiled the full specs of their upcoming digital camera, the Alexa. It’s an interesting camera—its Super 35 CMOS Bayer sensor (ARRI’s own) can shoot uncompressed…
The iPad doesn’t have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better. By putting an app onto each an iPad and an iPhone, you can connect the two via bluetooth and have a wireless camera for your iPad. All you need to do is download the Camera A and Camera B apps onto…
NASA’s Goddard Space Center has released a fascinating time lapse video of Earth’s North Pole turning into a popsicle from orbit. So much for global warming: Sea ice coverage over the Arctic Ocean oscillates over the course of a year, growing through winter and reaching a maximum extent by February or March. This year, Arctic…
So, what’re you most excited to see at the iPhone OS 4 event in just two days? Multitasking? A brand new interface? Um, how about—the next generation of iPhone ads? Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reports that part of Apple’s future of iPhone OS event will in fact be the announcement of their mobile ad network,…
There were rumblings last month that South Korea was going to block Android Marketplace because some games hadn’t been reviewed by the Korean Game Rating Board. Oh, yeah, Korea? Well, Google’s gonna just go ahead and exclude all games preemptively. The report, from Yonhap News, quotes a Google Korea spokesperson as saying that the move…
