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News just in—X tech company sues Y tech company! Except it’s not that simple. Dell’s actually filed a lawsuit against five manufacturers—Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, Seiko Epson and HannStar, for supposed price-fixing of LCD monitors. The lawsuit was filed last Friday in San Francisco, with little else known about it, nor how much Dell is seeking.…
It’s not clear yet when Microsoft’s newly announced Windows Phone Marketplace is going to launch, but when it does they’ll have a bevy of partners already on board, ranging from the AP to Foursquare to Pandora. And they look good! Microsoft’s keynote at Mix 2010 this morning is all about about Windows Phone 7 apps,…
Say what? Apple better not be working out how to strap a laptop to someone’s back, because that’s already been done—10 years ago. But their recent hiring of someone well-versed in wearable computing does spell something interesting. Richard DeVaul, who was previously the founder and president of AWare Technologies, has been headhunted by Apple to…
Powermat already makes a portable, tri-fold version of their induction charger. But it’s only a bit portable, as you have to plug the thing in. Their latest Powermat is loaded with a lithium ion battery so you can charge anywhere. Announced back at CES, it’s admittedly silly. https://gizmodo.com/powermat-throws-out-the-cases-with-new-swappable-batter-5441465 Because while I understand the basic Powermat…
I like those GorillaPod bendy tripods as much as the next guy, but this seems like a pretty bad idea. [Photography Bay via Gadget Lab]
I took this picture at a local Applebees and I was impressed with how the beer matched the color of the table so I hovered above and snapped a few pictures and this one came out the best. I used a Nikon D90 camera with a 50mm lens. The ISO was on auto -Bryan Cole…
Lithium-ion batteries are already close to the 20-hour life promised back in 2007 for laptops, but Lithium-sulphur batteries being worked on at Stanford University may improve battery life by 300 per cent. https://gizmodo.com/stanford-professor-conjures-up-10x-life-on-traditional-336072 It’s the same team of researchers that impressed us back in ’07 with tales of long-lasting Lithium-ion, but it seems the future…
Supposedly spotted in an AT&T store, and presented without comment. Update: AT&T swears they didn’t make it; it’s possibly from a dealer store. [Reddit via The Daily What via Richard Blakeley] P.S. Can you guys send in your own pics of this ad? Thanks! Update 2: Here’s another, spotted at a DC-area AT&T store:
If you buy a 3G iPad, you’ll be able to purchase data, month by month, from AT&T. Neat! But you already pay for unlimited data access on your iPhone, also from AT&T. So why not have one plan, for everything? https://gizmodo.com/how-ipad-3g-service-works-or-why-you-should-buy-the-3-5491994 This isn’t a rant about iPad data or AT&T, because if anything, the iPad’s…
The stock Palm Pre has an adequate but ho-hum 500MHz processor inside with 256MB or RAM. And even the Palm Pre Plus simply doubles the RAM. So how would the Pre run with a much faster processor? Now we know. https://gizmodo.com/palm-pre-plus-review-5453043 On modder overclocked his Pre (1.3.5.1 software) from 500 to 800MHz. He lost a…
The November 24, 1930 Jefferson City Post-Tribune (Jefferson City, MO) ran this advertisement for an insurance company which assured readers that there would be no need for their services in the future. But until that day comes — when traffic officers have nothing to do but knit, the flaws of human nature have vanished and…
Lenovo’s rolled out three new monitors, but only one of them really grabs our attention: the L2461x Wide, a 23.6-inch (1920×1080) display with capacitive multitouch goodness. Don’t believe the marketing, though: you’ll need to provide your own disembodied hands. The L2461x Wide also includes a 2MP camera, a USB 2.0 hub with four ports, and…
A kiwi-flavored candy tin Nikon Coolpix L2 Lots of zoom, no special settings -Jason Miller nikon s210: used the remaining sunlight of today to expose the veins of the leaf, my neighborhood has very little foliage this time of year so i was lucky to find one…no filters, no effects, just pure nature ~James Maha…
TomTom listened to our concerns in the navigation app battlemodo, and has not only been dropping the price steadily since, but has just released update 1.3 for its iPhone app—which comes with live traffic updates aplenty. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-iphone-navigation-app-telenav-vs-navigon-vs-5343981 Traffic updates will be received every three minutes, so you’ll know of any road incidents or traffic speed…
Nobody is going to share the murky photos from the DSi’s integrated camera, so why not hack a classic DS to become a controller for a dSLR? HDRLabs has posted a very detailed, easy-to-follow tutorial on loading their free, dSLR controlling software suite onto a Nintendo DS to control a Canon 30D-50D, 5D and 5D…
It’s no 80-porter, but ThinkGeek’s 16-port USB hub is definitely one of the classiest I’ve seen. At $160 though, you’d be paying a tenner a port. Are those extra USB slippers really worth it? [ThinkGeek via The Awesomer via CrunchGear] https://gizmodo.com/dont-even-start-considering-you-have-a-need-for-this-80-5459413
At SXSW, The Pirate Bay‘s Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin “want to marry me.” [TechRadar]
What do you do when a laptop breaks down three months after purchase? Get it repaired? Sell it? Or do as this Chinese man did, and destroy it silently at a HP store, with not a single swear-word passing your lips? The brutal destruction of the HP laptop happened eight months ago, but it’s only…
GDC is over for another year, but the omission of any solid Nintendo news—particularly in the shape of a new handheld console—was not enough for RPAD.tv, who spent the whole show digging for DS2 information from developers. https://gizmodo.com/next-ds-to-have-hd-screen-potentially-720p-5441650 Blogger Raymond Padilla pestered developers for any details they could bestow upon him, and judging by what…
You don’t need a smartphone to get smartphone-like services, claims AT&T. They of course have a few new handsets backing up that boast, but what’s most interesting is the free online syncing for both contacts and media. Syncing contacts to your PC comes in the form of the AT&T Address Book, which backs up any…
