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Google is finally selling a car dock for the Nexus One in its web store. The dock will charge your phone’s battery, pull up the Car Home app, and keep your hands free for $55. [Nexus One Board]
The first iPhone shipped without an App Store, but with a handful of useful apps—many of which are conspicuously missing on the iPad. Here’s how to replace them, for free. The concept of nonremovable, single-purpose default apps makes a bit less sense on the iPad than it did on the iPhone, precisely because there are…
While we didn’t experience any troubles when we tested the iPad’s Wi-Fi, some owners are having difficulties connecting and reconnecting to wireless networks. Apple confirmed that it’s aware of the issues and posted some suggestions on how to fix them: Symptoms: Under certain conditions, iPad may not automatically rejoin a known Wi-Fi network after restart…
Back before you young whippersnappers had your video games, game geeks played board games. You know, with physical pieces and paper for keeping score? And Geek Chic makes incredible custom tables for people still into those old-school games. The tables are pretty amazing looking. They’re designed to work as normal dining room tables or whathaveyou,…
One of these men wears pants. Most of the time, anyway. Of course, apart from their looks in this photo, the fact that both were vegetarian, and wore always the same clothes, they are not comparable. [Apparently, there’s a chain email going around the internet with these two images]
A nice digital camera‘s an expensive investment, which is why it’s so frustrating that the lens and LCD screen are often left so exposed. This concept—that flips a camera lid 360 degrees—would protect my soul-stealer but nice. What’s so great about the Zero Angle is that when flipped around, the protective cover acts as a…
Wondering why we hadn’t heard from NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander in a while? Ever since the harsh Martian winter of 2008 set in, the poor guy’s been in deep freeze. This week, he’s got one last chance to make contact. From yesterday until Friday, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter is going to listen for signals coming…
I like this. It’s a bit boxy and too big for my taste—and the 3D renders have a few aliasing and compositing glitches—but this Nintendo 3DS concept is great. I hope Nintendo goes this Gameboy-Advancish route, although it doesn’t look like something they would made. [Air-Nifty via Kotaku]
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine El Jobso announcing something a bit more surprising than a new iPhone. And the reality distortion apparently field works for non-Apple products, because now I really want a pizza. First Place—Anthony Topper Second Place—Jay Goebel Third Place—Bobo the Teddy
There have been tablets before the iPad. They weren’t as beautiful or well crafted, but that wasn’t why we chose not to pick them up. It was the software. To call the iPad a big iPhone is both truth and disservice, belying the simple fact that changing the screen size really does change everything. It’s…
Our Dealzmodo is bursting with great TV deals today with a Samsung and blu-ray player combo on the cheap and a Hitachi going for nearly nothing, and read up on digital cameras and video just in time for NAB. Top Deals: • 40″ Samsung LCD TV + Blu-Ray Player for $808 plus free shipping (normally…
A federal appeals court just ruled on Comcast’s lawsuit to get the FCC’s p2p blocking ban overturned—that the FCC doesn’t have the power to tell Comcast, or any ISP, to be net neutral. Whoa. If you remember way back to 2008, Comcast got busted blocking BitTorrent, and the FCC told them to GTFO. Nerds cheered.…
Own a piece of the fascinating battery spokesbunny saga, for a minimum of $15,000! “What fascinating battery spokesbunny saga?” you might ask. Well, have you ever heard of the Duracell bunny? One if the six first-run Energizer bunnies is up for prestige auction in Dallas, which, to Americans, makes a lot of sense: the Energizer…
If you ever doubted your value to Google and its targeted advertising, just suggest to it that you’re considering signing off for good. If you struggle with suicidal thoughts please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255. [Digg via The Daily What]
The iPad may seem like Apple’s move to cockblock Amazon in the Ebook Wars, but Amazon’s Kindle app makes it part of Amazon’s larger ebook ecosystem. In many ways, the iPad is the best Kindle yet. This argument suddenly (but not surprisingly) stopped being about e-ink readers, and Amazon is the only one of the…
Looks like Flash 10.1 is emerging from the beta depths and almost ready for prime time. This is particularly good news for you owners of netbooks with Broadcom Crystal HD accelerators, since now you’ll be able to watch HD Flash video. The hardware video acceleration applies to Windows XP, Vista, and 7, though Mac and…
Rhapsody’s been spun off from RealNetworks, and now we know what its future holds: the $10 Rhapsody Premier streaming music subscription service, down from $15, and a free app for Android handset users. The service, called Rhapsody Premier, is accessible by computer, phone, or television. Existing subscribers beware: you’ll have to update your subscription on-line…
Sorry, did I say bigger? I meant biggest. The town of Presidio, Texas has built the biggest NaS battery in the US, capable of storing up to four megawatts of power for up to eight hours. They even nicknamed it. Big Old Battery (or BOB, as it’s affectionately referred to by locals, to the extent…
Apple’s new iPad apps—iBooks, Pages, Keynotes and Numbers—wouldn’t be accepted into the App Store if they were submitted by an outside developer. That’s because they use private APIs that other devs don’t have access to. Yet. Some features that these first party apps have, such as access to the system dictionary or true brightness control,…
A Finnish analyst says Nokia’s preparing a touchscreen tablet “for fall release.” If confirmed, it won’t be the first time that Nokia tries a tablet format. I just hope they don’t take any notes from their sad previous efforts. [Reuters]
