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Microsoft’s two new HD LifeCams shoot 720p video on the cheap, for $50 and $60 respectively. What sets them apart is their TrueColor technology, supposedly delivering more vivid colors in any situation. How do they fare? You be the judge. Webcams come a dime a dozen, and even cheap, HD devices aren’t really enough to…
A 7-month-old baby witnessed her parents’ murder in Brazil Mexico. Can a baby remember a horrific event like a 10-year-old who might recall the horrific sight and sound, in graphic detail? Yes and no, Slate explains. You can’t create conscious memories until you’re about 2 years old, but babies do respond to to traumatic events—deafening…
There are some real cheap goods today. Have yourself a Dell desktop and monitor for nearly half, the Xbox bundle comes at an even lower price, and enjoy even more savings by taking all that hobomodo has to offer. Top Deals: • Optiplex 380 MT Desktop PC with 2.93 GHz Core 2 Duo, 22″ LCD…
Carbon Fiber, because it’s so strong, allows products that are very sturdy for its size. Chopsticks are for eating. You’d think that never the twain shall meet, but you don’t own a store that sells crap made of carbon fiber. So this, my friends, this is a $150 pair of carbon fiber chopsticks with corresponding…
The quest for groundbreaking netbook applications continues! The Intel® Atom™ Developer Challenge is back for 2010 with larger rewards and more prize categories, like Best-of-Category, People’s Choice, Most Innovative Application, and Most Elegant Application Design. Have you got what it takes to win? Seize the opportunity to showcase your development skills and creativity, get recognized,…
Rather than provide quality content to the App Store, humungus publisher Hearst is taking a page from the now-banned Perfect Acumen playbook: charge people for other people’s content. https://gizmodo.com/third-largest-app-store-developer-gets-banned-for-suck-5329756 Perfect Acumen used to be the third largest publisher at the App Store before getting banned. They had over 900 apps published, most of which were…
Making something portable usually means stripping away the excess plastic and coming up with a streamlined beauty. Not in the world’s first portable Sega Saturn‘s case though, which comes to us via the BenHeck.com forums. The Saturn’s been dead and gone for 11 years now, so modder Evil Nod certainly earns our kudos for turning…
Who knew that the PS Move would be so fun to stick into out-of-context situations? Because man, the results of this week’s Photoshop Contest are some of the best ever. First Place—Patrick Barlow Second Place—Kevin Bannon Third Place—Kirk Dunne
From Bill Buxton‘s fascinating presentation to the Mix conference about user interfaces, one of the first 3rd-party apps created with Microsoft’s recently released WinPho 7 SDK: A cheeky Twitter app, for electrical telegraph operators. [Mix 2010] https://gizmodo.com/windows-phone-7-apps-everything-you-need-to-know-5493569
To be honest, I’m sad and disappointed that there haven’t been more watches inspired by the Alien spaceship before. But the Cabestan Nostromo was clearly worth the wait. It’s even got crystal windows on its sides. The Nostromo was designed by Jean-François Ruchonnet for Cabestan, and he’s introduced a new gear-shaft transmission and a form…
In March 2008, the Department of Defense supposedly published a memo about a perceived national security threat. The target: Wikileaks a site that had previously put out sensitive information about Abu Ghraib. It’s been two years since that memo, which Wikileaks has published (PDF), and there’s no clear evidence that Wikileaks was ever tampered with.…
It’s official: the Nexus One is a sales flop. But it’s also the best Android phone out there. So what gives? Turns out, a lot of things. Here’s how Google can make things right with the Nexus Two launch: https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop-5494406 Marketing: However recognizable Google is as a brand, to enter the cutthroat smartphone space without…
Pogoplug, the gadget that puts a hard drive’s content’s online just got a new feature: sharing of media with Xbox 360 and PS3 across the local network or cloud. Cloud access requires another Pogoplug to be local acting as an intermediary between remote drives and the console. The latest update also adds offsite backup functionality…
Though sales for Google’s Nexus One haven’t been great by any measure, a new, 3G-friendly version of the phone is now available for use on AT&T’s 3G network in the U.S. and Rogers Wireless in Canada. https://gizmodo.com/the-nexus-one-is-a-total-sales-flop-5494406 The Nexus One is available, unlocked, to AT&T and Rogers customers for $529 in Google’s Store. [Google]
My right hand’s too broken in to switch back to mousing with my left hand, but no PC gamer ever needs to know the right-handed prejudice I’ve suffered: Behold, the Razer DeathAdder Left Hand Edition. There’ve been other left-handed mice, yeah but none that are really gaming mice—you know, with a ridiculously sensitive tracking, macro…
Fake Steve Jobs (Newsweek’s Dan Lyons) is teaming up with director Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Borat) to produce a “TV” show on streaming service EPIX. The show’s lead character will be Tom Rhodes, who sounds more than loosely based upon Steve Jobs. According to Deadline, the half-hour, single-camera comedy is “a savage satire,…
It looks like some kind of a computer-generated subatomic particle visualization, but no. In fact, this thing is huge, and very tangible. You can even get inside. Yes, if it seemed familiar, it’s because you already saw it: It’s a close up of the Seed Cathedral, the UK pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. https://gizmodo.com/seed-cathedral-could-do-some-serious-damage-to-skydiver-5477045…
After the lawsuits and delays, this reader’s experience—asking for a refund—truly puts JooJoo’s reputation on the line. It feels written by a Nigerian scammer, rather than customer support. Here’s their whole email exchange. You’ll be the judge. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/fusion-garage-responds-to-arrington-lawsuit-5428923 From: Rony Mirzaians Date: Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:59 AM Subject: JooJoo Customer Experience To:…
18 hours. EIGHTEEN HOURS. Imagine what sort of fun you could get up to, being on your laptop for that long. Those of us clever enough to stay plugged in each day know what I’m talking about. Yes. I’m talking about the fact that you don’t have to get up and scramble around for the…
Whether you’re carrying an iPhone, Android or Palm Pre device, there’s an app available to access ZumoDrive’s cloud service. This means that you can stream nearly all your media and view most documents over Wi-Fi, 3G, and Edge. ZumoDrive gives you 1GB of storage for free and offers plans ranging from $3 to $80 per…
