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It’s unclear whether the task manager and file explorer found in these Windows Phone 7 emulator screens will make it to the final release, or if it will live only in emulators and debug versions of Windows Phone. Here’s why we’re wondering. Windows Phone 7 is supposed to be a step away from Windows Mobile…
If you’re a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its release, you’d better be ready to submit to some of the toughest security measures this side of Super Max. We’d gotten an inkling about the extreme precautions Apple was taking from none other than Rupert Murdoch, but Business Week…
It’s always nerve-wracking when the person beside you on a plane is coughing, but I’d imagine that them wearing this mask would only heighten the effect. By Icelandic designer Sruli Recht, Masked in Flight is a collection of updated surgical masks with the modern, swine-flu-conscious traveler in mind. Integrating features like replaceable N95 particle filters…
Security expert Charlie Miller on the record-breaking 20 zero day security holes soon to be announced in OS X. [H-Online]
Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his brain about, well, brains. Are there similarities between computer memory and human memory? Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People…
The new liquid-cooled Paladin XLC gaming PCs from iBuypower come loaded with Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processors, 12GB of DD3 memory, a maximum of 1 terabyte of storage, and Blu-ray. They start at $2,159. [iBuypower via Slashgear]
New from Pentax—a smiley faced 52mm lens cap attached to a rag doll! Take a moment to process the true scope of such an idea, then realize that this flower print person is just one of 100 designs: Each lens-cap-person-thing, also known as a Camera-man, is handmade and available for the equivalent of $33 in…
According to the latest data from Opera, the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen—a browser download and activation pop-up mandated by the European Union in all versions of Windows—is working. There has been a “dramatic uptake on downloads.” https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-gives-europeans-choice-of-browser-instead-of-5322453 Opera reports that their downloads have more than doubled across the European continent during the introduction of…
The Wayback Machine offers an incredible catalog of what the web once was. But unlike that beloved Polaroid of your dad donning tweed and an afro, anyone can access the skeletons in your digital closet, anytime. Here’s our peek wayback. https://gizmodo.com/old-websites-sure-are-funny-349333 Memory [Forever] is our week-long consideration of what it really means when our memories,…
This is it. This is the moment us BlackBerry users have been waiting for. After countless Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 OS leaks, our time has come. This could be the turning point—BlackBerry OS 6.0. From what we can garner from the disappointingly low-res screenshots is that OS 6.0 could be using widgets for…
Well, they’ve succeeded in coming in at under $630, but even so the €400 ($542) price rumored for the Slate is still too much when it’s coming up against the $499 iPad. https://gizmodo.com/begun-the-tablet-wars-have-hps-slate-wants-to-undercu-5474343 The price comes via the Spanish Clipset site, so isn’t confirmed or anything—though they are saying it’ll support Flash, run on an…
Four years after the Aibo puppy was discontinued, some CAT scans and X-rays have emerged showing two of the models’ inner parts. The CT scans don’t appear to show any abnormalities, but then I’m no doctor. Or roboticist. https://gizmodo.com/aibo-rolls-over-plays-dead-150850 The Mechatronics Lab at the Mie University in Japan subjected the ERS-110 and ERS-210 models under…
…World peace would likely reign—or at the very least, privacy watchdog hissers would slink back to their fluoro strip-lit offices. https://gizmodo.com/google-must-reshoot-every-single-street-view-image-in-j-5259365 Too cute. [Google Japan via Ian9outof10 via Katiesol]
Invisibility cloak project is back on! It’s from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light rays. https://gizmodo.com/invisibility-cloak-technology-back-on-track-wand-techn-5443927 The idea is to cloak an object and disguise it with the use of light rays, like a “carpet mirror”,…
Cut out the laptop bag middleman with a laptop that transforms into a briefcase. Ok, so there’s no room to stash the power cord, but this concept is like a grown-up Fisher Price laptop I had as a kid. Designed by Zhang Shouze, it’s called the “Playing By Heart” laptop and has a handy kickstand…
We’ve already explored some of the repercussions that could come if Google exits China, but that’s looking all the more likely now that an actual date has been pointed at by one of their Chinese employees. https://gizmodo.com/google-exiting-china-sucks-just-as-much-as-censorship-d-5495491 April 10th is said to be the date they’ll pull out of the country, but according to the…
Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: Recently, our babysitter was struck by a car just a few steps from our front door. Luckily, none of her injuries were life threatening. Her cell phone, however, was brutalized beyond recognition. Before heading to the emergency room,…
Oh, man. Not only does this infographic show how modern time-delay grenades work, it actually walks you through a bit of the history of the handheld explosive. All while setting a new standard for stick figure abuse! Basically, it’s everything I look for in an educational tool. [Online Schools via NextRound via The High Definite]
Now leading the privacy crusade against Google: birds! Spotted in the English beachside town of Brighton, where even the gulls are nervous about the Big G. [Google Maps]
Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight to a rocket-propelled grenade in 2007. Now, thanks to a fascinating technology, he can read words and make out shapes using his tongue. It’s truly incredible. The remarkable sight-giving device is called the BrainPort, and while it was developed late last year, Lundberg is the first person to…
