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Let’s face it, at $20,000 no-one was going to be buying that diamond-encrusted iPad anyway. $2,250 for a Swarovski iPad is much more reasonable. Thank CrystalRoc and your lack of common sense, not me. [CrystalRoc via LuxuryLaunches] https://gizmodo.com/the-diamond-ipad-5493181
Troops whose GPS trackers fail could be in for a raft of trouble—which is why a British company has been inspired by the Wii and iPhone and is developing a location-tracker based on microchip motion sensor technology. Tessella hopes its technology will be adopted by the army, which isn’t that big a stretch considering it…
I don’t care if you want to buy a separate controller for two-player gaming or because you want to practice your DJ skillz while on the loo. Just don’t play your god-awful scratchings anywhere near me. Nonetheless, the DJ Hero turntable controller is now available to buy without game, some nine months or so since…
Whether the trucks were transporting oil, milk or some other sort of liquid, designer Aristide Antonas has conjured up a world where we would recycle the containers into apartments. The gallery below shows a post-apocalyptic world where we remain mobile. As Antonas says, these keg apartments: “…can be detached from their cars and can form…
A top-notch 17-inch EliteBook 8740w is swinging its way from HP to store shelves with a 1920 x 1080 DreamColor LED-backlit screen, your choice of Core i5 or i7 processors and up to 16GB of RAM. Schuuuweeet. Those Core i5 or i7 CPUs are joined with your choice of either a 1GB Nvidia Quadro or…
He’s baaaaack. Lee Kun-hee, who resigned from Samsung two years ago due to the little issue of his $113 million tax scandal, has sauntered back into South Korea HQ to stake his claim on the chairman hotseat. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-chairman-resigns-amidst-scandal-storm-382438 Lee Kun-hee stated on his return that the “best companies in the world are collapsing. We don’t…
Oh hello! Looks like it won’t be long before someone gets their hands on a Nintendo 3DS because the device will apparently be shown off three months from now at E3 2010. [NYT via Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-3ds-the-details-5499713
Belkin’s new line of 802.11n wireless routers—the Surf, Share, Play, and Play Max—come with clever little apps to diagnose network problems, print wirelessly from networked computers, back up files, move music libraries, and create playlists. The routers will be available in April for prices ranging between $50 and $130 with matching wireless USB adapters priced…
We first caught wind of Slacker Radio‘s plans for a subscription on-demand music service a few weeks ago, and it sounded vague but promising. Now, having seen it in action, I can say with certainty that it’s loaded with potential. https://gizmodo.com/slacker-radio-planning-on-demand-music-service-5492238 What Slacker’s planning to release in the coming months is a fully browsable on-demand…
The good news: I got to an up close look with the Dell Aero, AT&T’s second Android handset and Dell’s first in the US. The less good news: AT&T’s not letting anyone actually see it work. Hrmm? Here’s what we do know about the interface: it’s Android 1.5, like AT&T’s other Android phone, the Backflip.…
If you like saving long, interesting articles you find during your internet travels for later, you probably already use Instapaper on your iPhone or Kindle. But boy does it look beautiful on the iPad. https://gizmodo.com/instapaper-5394311 For the uninitiated, Instapaper is a service that allows you to save articles on the internet for later. You put…
Need a place to gossip about that shiny gadget you saw earlier? Just wanna have some off-topic conversations with fellow Gizmodo readers? Head to #whitenoise and comment, comment, comment. https://gizmodo.com/almost-everything-you-could-want-to-know-about-commen-5465437
Professor Duncan wants to teach you the art of Hoda Korosu: Improvised weaponry! Cellphones, cameras, and—in this video—the Magazine of Death! I wonder what Professor Duncan can do with an iPad. [Amazon via Obsolete]
It’s been over two years since we first heard of StyleTap, a Palm OS emulator for the iPhone. Now the app is finally available through Cydia, meaning you’ll have to spend $50 and jailbreak your iPhone. [StyleTap via Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/palm-emulator-for-iphone-and-touch-looks-good-bad-360081
This recently designed super-elastic iron alloy has two very different potential applications. It can be used to prevent blood vessels from collapsing and to return earthquake-deformed buildings to their original state. The alloy is described as having a super-elasticity which allows it to “return to its original form and gives it additional properties, such as…
Jezebel, our sister site, has some words of appreciation for those members of the finer sex who manage to make corrective eye wear look so good. Girls who wear glasses, I implore you: never get contacts. [Jezebel Image: SashaW] https://jezebel.com/girls-who-wear-glasses-a-tribute-5499292
Just in time for its 50th birthday party, the world’s smallest laser has arrived. It’s 30 millionths of a meter long, it could revolutionize microprocessors as we know them, and it emits an impossibly adorable “pew pew” when fired. https://gizmodo.com/happy-50th-birthday-lasers-5499302 The microlaser, which was developed over the last year and a half in Zurich, is…
This is the Lund Variable Velocity Weapons System, a combustion-powered rifle that can both kill or stun an enemy. It was developed by the creators of Honey My Baby Pony and Tickle Me Elmo dolls for the Pentagon. No kidding. Lund—a company specialized in creating toys—started to work with the Pentagon under the Small Business…
The next generation Eye-Fi cards, the Connect X2 and the Explore X2, are faster, stronger, and better than the prior generation yet the price hasn’t changed. The new cards have double the capacity and hotspots of the old ones. The new cards are available now, starting at $50 right along with a new version of…
Six months ago, we revealed Courier, and Microsoft has been atypically stoic regarding its existence. Until a post on its JobsBlog mentioned “the upcoming Courier digital journal.” Oops. https://gizmodo.com/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet-5365299 Here’s the full blurb: Do you already know everything about Project Natal and the Cloud? Is Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ jaw-dropping TED talk on augmented-reality Bing…
