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If being apart from the familiar accoutrements of your preferred desktop environment leaves you anxious and disoriented, these 8-Bit Hangers should make that loathsome meatspace you reluctantly call “home” a little more tolerable. The hangers, which go for $20 each, screw right into the wall, perhaps reminding you that your house’s wallpaper can’t be changed…
Well, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. You think Photoshop makes removing elements from images easy now? Take a look at this and prepare to have your brain exploded. Images just got even less trustworthy. [John Nack]
Adobe just put up a new page counting down the seconds until the launch of Creative Suite 5 at 11am EST on April 12. We assume all of you have mastered the intricacies of CS4 and are eager to expand your creative horizons with a new set of features. [CS5 Launch]
Our military still has big projects like ships or moonbases that slingshot asteroids into Russian submarines, but for grunts—they call them “warfighters” this week—off-the-shelf rules the day. That’s why the Army visited Apple. It makes sense. Why spend billions making a battle-hardened mobile computers that will just end up behind the curve when you can…
Unless you grew up on Mars or were home schooled or something, you’re familiar with Wooly Willy. And now one Instructables user has turned an Ikea coffee table into a gigantic Wooly Willy installation. I want one. [Instructables]
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at CTIA this morning, made clear which 4G standard he thinks will be dominant in the future. And it’s not the one his company uses. Hesse’s comment, that LTE will likely be the larger of the two 4G standards, came a day ofter Sprint announced the world’s first ever 3G/4G…
Look close. You may be staring at the end of cancer. Those tiny black dots are nanobots delivering a lethal blow to a cancerous cell, effectively killing it. The first trial on humans has been a success, with no side-effects: It sneaks in, evades the immune system, delivers the siRNA, and the disassembled components exit…
A touchscreen iMac definitely makes sense when Lenovo, HP and the like are doing similar all-in-one touchscreens, so it’s of note that Apple’s re-filed a patent for the “shape detecting input device.” Last month the patent, originally filed in 2004, was brought to our attention, where a sort of soft key could be held up…
Retired Air Force major-general Robert M. White, the first human to break Mach 6 and the test pilot who took the X-15 into space, has died at 85. The LA Times remembers him.
Gizmodo and actually respectable news program PBS Newshour, together—yes, it’s true. Just look at this fancy logo they made, complete with drop shadow. Anyways, I was there to talk about the iPad and where Bing really lives (it’s a scary place) as part of a new series they’re doing, NewsHour Plus, that’s all about science…
When you look at the photo of the Korg Monotron analog synthesizer you think it’s like any other regular synth. Then you watch the video and realize is so tiny it can actually fit in your jeans. The $67 Korg Monotron runs on two AAA batteries. [Slashgear]
Japan invented the LCD TV (well, Sharp to be exact), so if anyone was going to decrease the weight of them by half, it’d be their countrymen. A light layer of heat-resistant silicon dioxide on plastic replacing the heavier glass substrates does just the trick according to Japanese chemical company Teijin, who’s working with the…
Turn on your TV, and AT&T will tell you it’s them. Use T-Mobile’s beefed up 3G in Philadelphia and you’ll be sure it’s not. Is it time for AT&T to pass the champion’s belt? Not yet, but maybe soon. AT&T handily trumped all the other carriers in our last nationwide 3G speed test, surprising a…
You’ll notice a major book publisher is missing from this slide: Random House, the biggest one in the world, actually. That’s because it’s afraid of an ebook price war, says the Financial Times. Which is kinda strange, actually, since it’s sitting pretty on the Kindle, and most of the other big publishers are clamoring to…
What’s an easier green power source to acquire than sun or wind? Random ambient vibrations, that’s what. And that’s exactly how some new generators juice up. The devices, created by researchers at the University of Michigan, aren’t going to be powering your cars anytime soon, but they’ll be able to gather enough energy to power…
Two of the more interesting Core chips in the pipe from Intel, at least for gamers: The 32nm Core i5-655K (dual core), coming in June, and the 45nm Core i7-875K (quad core), coming in July, both have unlocked multipliers, meaning it’s way easier to overclock the crap out of ’em. They will be expensive. [DigiTimes]
Hello Tokyowatch. Are you out of your goddamn mind? Yes, yes you are. Seriously, do you really think anyone can read this mess you call Binary Flow? [Tokyoflash]
Thankfully, the Rotary Faucet is not a stupid attempt to combine a phone and a faucet. It’s much clever than that. Instead of phone numbers, the Rotary Faucet allows you to dial the number of seconds you want the water to run. See? Clever. [Yanko Design]
Dell’s said to be joining Google in fleeing China in search of a “safer environment with [a] climate conducive to enterprise,” potentially taking the $25 billion it spends on equipment and parts in China to India. The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, was quoted in the Hindustan Times as saying he’d just met with Dell’s…
After Microsoft refused to take a stand with Google against China’s web censorship (and Bill Gates commented that the censorship was “very limited,”) Sergey Brin has shoved back, saying he’s “very disappointed.” [The Guardian]
