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Even if you don’t own a PlayStation 3, Heavy Rain is a game you should know because it re-imagines both videogames and movies, combining them into a new genre of Choose Your Own Adventure digital narrative. (Very minor spoilers ahead.) This is not to say Heavy Rain is perfect, but think of this piece as…
Cops got laptops, ambu-lance drivers got cellphones, and now look, they’re all running us over and making us dead. This is a concern right now! So should you be outraged and/or scared? Probably not. The NYT’s top tech story today is about the precipitous increase in gadgetry in emergency vehicles, from navigation systems and laptops…
As specumalated in yesterday’s Giz Explains, Barnes & Noble is coming out with an iPad version of their ebook app, which will, interestingly, include B&N’s bookstore. Really? https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-youre-gonna-get-screwed-by-ebook-form-5478842 I’m not expressing shock at a Barnes & Noble ebook app on the iPad—they have one on the iPhone, after all, and an option to buy books…
Ever wanted to know exactly where that disembodied penis you just met on Chatroulette is located? Good news! Now you can. Chatroulette is a pretty slapdash application. It was built by a Russian teenager, after all! So it just connects you with a stranger directly rather than routing you both through another server, allowing you…
If any band could justify not selling individual tracks, its Pink Floyd. What, you just want Summer ’69 but not Atom Heart Mother Suite? Come on. Now, you won’t have that option. Pink Floyd has just won a legal battle with label EMI prohibiting their music from being sold as individual tracks. If you want…
So this was obvious: Place a few dividers into an otherwise normal front-loading washing machine, and separate your reds from your whites without washing a whole separate load. [Yanko Design via Ubergizmo]
According to AppleInsider sources, iPhone firmware 4.0 will bring multitasking to the platform this summer. And it may look a lot like Exposé. The “full-on solution” to multitasking will support “several” third party apps running at once in a “multi-tasking manager that leverages interface technology already bundled with its Mac OS X operating system.” To…
Fighting games have always been awkward—and a little sad—as portable experiences, like Rottweilers stuffed in sweaters. Touchscreen controls, you’d think, would be adding a bowtie. But Street Fighter IV iPhone is a poodle in a cardigan. It fits. It’s a gorgeous port of Street Fighter IV, from flaming dragon punches—when you can pull them off—to…
This may be a concept, but I want someone to actually make it for any present or future tablet out there: An optional foldable keyboard that acts as phone handset. This is how the it works: The keyboard is physically independent from the tablet itself, just a peripheral device that you can carry around folded…
Considering the fact that Windows XP is still the most-used OS worldwide, anyone considering swapping out their old hard drives for a new one should heed this advice: be careful. You may want to even consider not doing it. Why am I getting all cautious on you? Because of warnings by both the BBC and…
This Australian production/advertising agency, Umeric, has created two of the best commercials I’ve seen. The first, for MTVNHD (MTV Nickelodeon High Definition) is my favorite—anyone else reminded of War of the Worlds when watching it? The second advert I like is actually for MSN.ca, taking the fusty four-colored butterfly and transforming it into a high-tech…
ZDNet is receiving tips claiming Apple will upgrade its Mac Pro line with an Intel Core i7-980x chipset, which certainly isn’t the first time we’ve heard Core i7-shaped gossip. Supposedly it’ll all be unraveled next Tuesday, the 16th of March. [ZDNet via BGR] https://gizmodo.com/macbook-pro-core-i5-and-core-i7-processors-rumored-to-a-5416500
Nokia was rumored to be building it, but according to the WSJ Verizon Wireless‘ first 4G handset will debut mid-2011, running on the LTE network that’s launching end of this year after Boston and Seattle guinea pigged the service. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-and-nokia-are-secretly-planning-a-4g-phone-5165071 According to the WSJ, Verizon Wireless’ first LTE phones will use dual chipsets so they’ll…
Cynics will likely say China’s forcing Motorola to include Bing search instead of Google in Chinese Android phones, due to the ongoing war o’ censorship with Google. Me? Well, Bing is the better search engine. Kidding! https://gizmodo.com/google-cancels-chinese-nexus-one-developer-event-to-pr-5478905 All Motorola phones in China, starting this month, will be pre-loaded with a Bing bookmark and search widget.…
The latest beta version of Opera Mini for Androids is now out as of today, with a new interface and multi-tabs support thrown in. It’s not entirely dissimilar to Opera Mobile 10 on Symbian and WinMo, though. It’s also available for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile, but if you want it on your Android, load up…
Pioneer is known to make digital mixers that leave us drooling and wishing for some DJ skills. First they gave us the CDJ-2000 with its beautiful LCD screen, and now they’ve given us the DJM-2000, a multitouch screen-having per-frequency-mixing beauty. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-cdj-2000-lets-you-mix-with-the-help-of-a-big-b-5361368 Sure, there have been multitouch DJ rigs before, but the DJM-2000 is not only…
Click to viewIt doesn’t matter if the machine you are using is a massive crane or a tiny smartphone: You will always curse in the same way when it crashes. The deafening noise, however, won’t be the same.
It’s hard for a lot of us to relate to what goes on in fashion, but Alexander McQueen, recently deceased, strode across some familiar territory in his final works. Shots like this are as sci-fi as they are high-fashion. [BoingBoing]
You really have to suck a whole lot of Lego Star Wars minifigs to do what this girl is doing: Identify the characters by putting them inside your mouth. Somehow, I find all this strangely arousing. [Youtube via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/35-310-lego-star-wars-clone-trooper-army-invades-earth-5020703
Once upon a time being alone meant you were unable to play a decent game of rock-paper-scissors, but now you can finally amuse yourself with just your own hand. Granted you’ll have to actually make a glove like this first. I don’t know if self-proclaimed “glove hacker” Steve Hoefer was lonely or bored when he…
