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Apple-loving Lego collectors rejoice: There is yet another (very 1980s looking) dock that combines your love for both things. It’s somewhat gray, but these are Lego bricks—take the basic design and do with it what you will. Just don’t tell creator “johnnyT23” about that last bit: He’s planning on selling this cradle on eBay for…
Chris Anderson is just please as punch that an iPhone friendly non-Flash version of the TED web page is coming soon. “Videos, comments, ratings. Hurrah!” he says. Hey, me too. Nothing like a little inspiration on the go. Updated: Fixed the app-related error. [Chris Anderson]
That outage you BlackBerry BIS users may have experienced last night was the March 28 BIS 3.0 upgrade happening—in real time! https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-internet-service-3-0-coming-march-28-with-gm-5498076 Details: – Additional language support for Basque, Catalan, Galician, Romanian – Increased attachment compatibility for OpenDocument presentations (.odp), OpenDocument spreadsheets (.ods), OpenDocument text (.odt), OpenDocument text templates (.ott), Windows Media® Audio (.wma) –…
Unfortunately, the razor-saving video tip I wanted to show you today was “old news” from February. But! As I sat there this morning, dejected, I decided to click Google’s very experimental “Transcribe Audio” feature…and nearly crapped my pants with fear. You see, Terry, in the video below, is just your average shirtless man with a…
The leaked Nokia N8-00 hardware we spied just days ago got a bit more official today thanks to some intrepid XML file sniffing over at Nokia.com. https://gizmodo.com/this-may-be-nokias-new-top-phone-the-n8-00-5499803 Details gleaned from the code include the model number, N8-00, and “Symbian/3”, which would all but confirm the presence of a Symbian^3 OS on this phone. Resolution is…
Hamster wheel PC power, you have been replaced! And yes, observant reader, this does indeed look like someone took an old picture of a switchboard operator and shoved her into a PC case. Or maybe there really was a tiny, time traveling woman from the past who came to the present day to work her…
That luscious HTC HD2, the near-perfect mobile that had it going on in all the right places, save the WinMo 6.5 OS, is seen here doing the impossible: Running a Windows Phone 7 Series ROM. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/htc-touch-hd2-review-a-tragedy-5400593 I say impossible because the hardware just doesn’t support Microsoft’s chassis requirements for a Windows Phone 7 Series…phone…
As iPad launch day draws ever closer, we’ll inevitably start to see more and more dedicated apps for the thing that explain the “magic” and “revolution” (Apple’s words, not mine), it will supposedly deliver. Yahoo! here is a good start. Now, obviously these are just screens shots (or possibly bullshots as we used to call…
Android apps keep getting better, and—well let’s just cut to it. You need this month’s apps: better Twitter, neato new ways to search your phone, and a super awesome platform game for diehard Android fans. Updated. To see everything on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/months-best-android-apps-5503651/ Other Android News • PayPal Bumping Is Coming to Android…
Touiteur: Dumb Francophile name that you’re bound to misspell looking for it in the market, but a really nice Twitter app for Android. Not quite as full-featured as Twidroid, but the interface might be the best yet on Android. Slickest move? The pulldown menu to tweet, which works just like Android’s window shade for notifications.…
We-hell-hell, what have we here? It seems as though those placeholder SKUs that popped up in Best Buy’s database a few weeks ago were for iPads after all. Both TUAW and Engadget have some shots of Best Buy’s confidential “Apple iPad Launch Playbook”—their term, not ours—and the documents suggest that some 675 Best Buy locations…
This is Tom Shannon creating one of his latest paintings. His process—swinging a giant pendulum rigged with six remote control paint guns over a canvas—is a marriage of chaos and control. His finished pieces…well, they’re incredible. On his unique process, the artist explained, “the pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces…
Exactly what Amazon has in store for the next generation of Kindle is unclear. But if they stick with E-Ink, this clip of a color, video-playing E-Ink display from Kindle screen-manufacturer PVI could be sneak peek. We’ve known for a while that Amazon has a color, multitouch mega-Kindle in the works, and their recent iPad…
Untraceable infrared links. Backpacks full of back-up transmitters. Cloak and dagger secrecy. Hundreds of pirate radio stations broadcast in London every day, but this 20 minute documentary shows that only the tech-savviest stay a step ahead of the police. Homemade antennas, hidden in plain sight on the tops of apartment complexes and abandoned buildings, broadcast…
So, sure, the iPad may just be an overgrown iPhone. But this teaser shot of Mixr, a fully-featured, multitouch DJ app, should give you a sense of just how awesome apps designed for an oversized iPhone can be. The iPhone itself has a whole host of music-making apps, though they’re mostly just novelties. But when…
So this is curious: Just a few days after screens showing iBooks Store ebook prices leaked, revealing a ton of $9.99 bestsellers, a fresh leak shows a bunch are back up to $12.99. Say what? https://gizmodo.com/what-the-supposedly-leaked-apple-ibooks-pricing-says-ab-5501197 Well, this could mean a few things: • Most definitely, if both of these leaks are real, it means…
With new Steve Jobs emails surfacing everyday, someone thought to send Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein a personal note. His chipper response is not necessarily what you’d expect from somebody who’s been watching his company fall apart before his eyes. https://gizmodo.com/youd-be-crazy-to-buy-a-palm-now-5497530 Zatznotfunny reader MethodicJon, a “trusted source,” sent Rubinstein an email pointing him to this recent…
Earth Hour 2010 commences tonight, charging citizens and corporations alike to turn off their lights for an hour to raise climate change awareness. The real benefit, though, is that it lets you watch the cooler version of this light-sensing video. Obviously the World Wildlife Federation, the group that put the Earth Hour campaign together, doesn’t…
Ooh, looks like somebody’s popular. If you tried to order a Wi-Fi iPad this morning, you might have noticed that the expected ship date has been bumped a week to April 12 and in-store pick-up has been nixed as an option. Seems like the first pack o’ Pads have all been spoken for. Just how…
Wireless checkout is many a grocer’s dream. It’s like Amazon’s one-click shopping in the real world, maximizing efficiency for the customer and cutting costs for the supermarket. A new printable RFID tag could make it a reality. RFID checkout is far from being a new idea—it’s already seen small scale implementation in various pockets around…
