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Are you one of those people who collects stuff? Not material items, but little tiny scraps of information, be they photos, places, products, text snippets, ideas, or plans? Then maybe, maybe, you should try Springpad. Springpad is a free iPhone app in the vein of Evernote, except with a broader scope. You can dump just…
In today’s Remainders: excellence. Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world’s richest man; Battlestar Galactica and the Beastie Boys get mashed-up real good; Everquest data is a motherlode for behavior scientists, and more! Carlos > Bill Earlier today, Forbes released this year’s Billionaires List, a ranking that assigns specific names and amounts to a…
Martin Cooper knows a thing or two about cellphones, having invented them and all. And while he’s owned an iPhone before, he revealed in a recent interview that his current handset of choice runs Android. Guess which! If you said Droid, well done! Apparently—like most of us, in so many situations—he’s opted for the popuar…
Just take the survey below, email the last question to [email protected], and you could be the big winner of a $150 Best Buy gift card. Your incomplete Criterion Collection Kurosawa collection (say that 3 times fast) is begging you to. [Rules.]
Sony barely mentioned pricing with their PlayStation Move motion controller, only noting that the combo pricing with PlayStation Eye and a game will cost less than $100. But by our back-of-the-envelope calculations, the experience is going to be really expensive. https://gizmodo.com/sony-motion-controller-is-called-playstation-move-laun-5490508 Our previous look was with the Wii MotionPlus, which clocked in at $80 per…
The Casio G’zOne Brigade is not a messaging phone you’d want to meet in a dark alley. It’s shock resistant. It’s water resistant. And like a great kung fu master, its outer strength is matched only by its inner fortitude. In addition to its durability, the Brigade comes equipped with a full HTML browser, a…
If you were comforted by the first revieLITE, an iPod charger/nightlight combo from 2008, you’ll be even more thankful for the sequel: the ReviveLite II has a slimmer footprint, an additional USB port and still protects you from night terrors. https://gizmodo.com/scosche-revivelite-is-an-iphone-charger-and-a-night-lig-5101646 The company says the inclusion of the LED light is so you can “avoid…
Usually it’s frustrating to see a kickass video with no background info. This time, I don’t care. I don’t even want to know how or why someone made a Passat 4×4. I just want to watch that sucker churn. Actually, I guess we do know two things. First, based on the comments, I’m guessing this…
When Jason first played with JooJoo’s tablet, he caught a fleeting glimpse of a 1.6GHz Intel Atom in the device’s BIOS. Via the FCC, now we know for sure: It’s based on the Atom processor, and as predicted, Nvidia’s Ion. https://gizmodo.com/fusion-garage-joojoo-tablet-hands-on-5421614 The rest of the tablet’s innards are pure netbook, which marks a totally different…
A niche market, yes, but when you reach a certain age and the idea of going on a cycling-and-camping holiday in a foreign country appeals, you’ve got to consider how to transport your bike over. I’ve always thought just hiring a bike in the chosen country would work out cheaper, but some people have spent…
No one knows exactly how much Google plans to invest in its ISP business, but its reputation as cash giant alone has cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Sarasota, Florida battling to become the search giant’s new test market. Faster than you could say Google Fiber (though not faster than the company’s proposed gigabit speeds) metros…
We’re bringing some super cost cutting deals today. Pick up a Samsung bluetooth headset for only a buck, net a portable Sackboy for your PSP with Little Big Planet, and windows users who missed Macheist can pickup the free Winutilities https://gizmodo.com/macheist-get-8-mac-apps-worth-280-for-20-5489291 Top Deals: • Samsung WEP650 Bluetooth Headset for $.99 plus free shipping (normally $25…
Not entirely dissimilar to the 2008 patent which showed an iPhone being controlled by camera-based input, is this German student’s app, which controls the Maps app being controlled by the camera tracking hand movements through the app. https://gizmodo.com/patent-points-to-camera-based-swipe-controls-for-iphone-5481536 It’s probably easiest if you watch the below, which demonstrates—in a slightly limited fashion—a hand being moved…
Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm’s webOS? Neat, but not as neat as you’d think. Unreal Engine 3—a version of it, at least—was already ported to the iPhone last year. Since the Pre and the iPhone…
It’s a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry—OK Go just ditched EMI—and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age. “Change or Die” may sound like hyperbole, or an idle threat, but for the music business, the…
Google Product Search was already a handy shopping aid, but today’s addition of local inventory info makes it essential. And like most great ideas, it’s only going to get better with time. https://gizmodo.com/google-product-search-now-available-on-iphone-android-5225015 The new feature works on the iPhone and any PalmOS or Android device. When you search for Shopping results, Google now returns…
Though the shipping date for JooJoo, the underdog tablet, was recently pushed back to March 25, Fusion Garage isn’t letting that time go to waste. They’ve overhauled the JooJoo’s interface, expanded local video playback, and given its backplate a makeover. https://gizmodo.com/joojoo-shipments-delayed-until-march-25th-5481392 Engadget has shots of the tablet’s new look, the most striking change being that…
Six cores. That’s how many are in Intel’s ridiculous new Core i7-980x. MaximumPC takes us deep inside the world’s fastest CPU, with full, mind-searing benchmarks. Meet the world’s fastest CPU. OK, so we just gave away the big reveal to our report before you even flipped one page, and without so much as the common…
Uncovered by research firm Busted Loop, via Forbes, among other data—like 16,700 iPhone apps have been iPad-certified—is a list of possible ebook categories for the iBooks store: Apple has designated about 20 “top-level” categories for books, including “Fiction & Literature”, “Reference,” “Romance,” “Cookbooks” and “Comics & Graphic Novels.” Below those categories lie more than 150…
Having just a shower in NYC, I miss my large Spanish bath and the tsunamis that sometimes ensued inside. Maybe that’s why I got all glassy-eyed when I saw this beautiful Infinity Bath and its custom water-proof touchscreen. From the screen you can control everything: Aromatherapy settings, water temperature, music, and hydro-massage modes. All while…
