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At the moment, our choice of lighting is fairly committal. We drill holes in our ceilings for permanent placements of bulbs. But LEDs open all sorts of other possibilities. It’s not hard to imagine a ceiling covered in RGB LEDs, like Seo Dong-Hun’s Draw the Lights concept. Equipped with a few sensors, a laser (or…
It’s official: iPad’s launching in the US on April 3, with the 3G model coming later in the month. Pre-orders start next week, March 12. It’s just about on time. Click to viewApril 3, interestingly, is a Saturday, and exactly 59 66 days after the iPad launch, placing it just outside the 60 availability window…
HTC may think the Nexus One shouldn’t go in pockets, but WTFJeans has enough pockets for every gadget you own. Except your laptop. Or your fax machine. https://gizmodo.com/htc-dont-carry-your-nexus-one-in-your-pocket-5486397 Of course, regular jeans with regular pockets haven’t yet been proven to be deficient in carrying either USB sticks or iWhatevers, but these do have a catch.…
Ask any gambler, and they’ll say there’s no point in playing unless there’s money to be made. Winning points—it’s fun, but child’s play. Vacuum is billing itself as being the first Android game to offer cash prizes. It was a finalist in the Android Developer Challenge, finishing in the top 20 for arcade and action…
The story goes that Panasonic leaked the upcoming G2 and G10 micro four thirds cameras, which 4/3 Rumors quickly screengrabbed. However, Panasonic has got in touch with them to say the specs are incorrect. Oh, what to think? So, we can give you a brief run-through of the supposed specs, or…you can wait and see…
This isn’t a Nexus One celebrating Gay Pride month—it’s CNET Crave UK’s broken Google phone. According to HTC’s technical support, “they don’t go in pockets,” lest the screen gets cracked. Only thing is, Crave UK swears up and down the Nexus One suffered the damages while charging on a desk—with no tampering by vicious iPhone…
Tokyo Flash watches are outlandish enough as is—so you can imagine how badass their concept design would be. This Hexagonal watch isn’t real, but Tokyo Flash could make it so—with the method of telling the time surprisingly simple. For Tokyo Flash, at least. The colored LEDS represent hours (in blue), five minute increments (in purple)…
Waking up to fresh photos of an unofficial phone is always welcome, but I do wish all these spyshots of the HTC Incredible would be accompanied with a bit of meat. Some bacon for my breakfast, you could say. https://gizmodo.com/htc-incredible-turns-up-on-verizon-wireless-system-imp-5479895 It’s already shown up in Verizon Wireless’ inventory system, and we’ve heard a few details…
Ever spiced up Internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game? Yeah? Well, have you ever done it while using a Rock Band drum kit to control the game? Here’s how. Poker Listings’ Sean Lind figured out a fairly simple way of turning your Rock Band drum kit into…
Last night here in NYC, British pop singer Little Boots used a huge laser harp on stage. We’ve seen these things before and I just don’t get it. Let’s just stick with the normal instruments, shall we? [BrooklynVegan] https://gizmodo.com/laser-harp-officially-the-best-thing-weve-seen-all-mor-356955
One drop. Five minutes in a pocket with your keys. Three months of regular use. This is all it takes for an iPhone’s backplate to go from a mirror-like shine to a scratched-to-hell eyesore. Here’s how to fix it. MacRumors forum member Shenaniganz08 salvaged an iPhone 3G from eBay, sanding, buffing and polishing it back…
Back in 2007, Thodio made the lovingly hand-crafted iBox speakers. But you know what? That was then. In today’s rough and tumble world, your iPod needs speakers wrought with freakin kevlar. Welcome, survivalists, to the Thodio A-Box. https://gizmodo.com/wood-hand-crafted-ibox-classes-up-your-ipod-329166 The innards are the same as the iBox, with your choice between two 25 watt amplifier or…
Members of MIT’s Bits and Atoms lab visited Afghanistan some time ago. While there, they showed locals how to turn pieces of board, wire, a plastic tub and some cans into reflectors for a wireless network. The result? Fab Fi. The project resulted in 25 simultaneous live nodes being up in the city of Jalalabad…
Alright, so maybe Nessie isn’t lighting up my living room just yet, but you can bet that if this concept lamp design ever gets produced, she will. The big question though: Shall I put her on a wall or ceiling? Nessie the Lamp was designed by 2-B-2 Architecture and is everything I want in a…
Hey, Topeka, Kansas! Duluth, Minnesota is calling you out for changing your name to Google in an attempt to get Google’s Gigabit fiber Internet. They’re announcing that all firstborn children shall be named Google Fiber. https://gizmodo.com/topeka-kansas-changes-name-in-attempt-to-get-googles-g-5483255 Ah, thank goodness for that lengthy disclaimer at the beginning of the video or I’d have thought they were…
At the beginning there were Ibuka and Morita, the founders of Sony. At the end, a clusterfuckassery of blah models. And in the middle, a Big Bang of brilliant electronic gadgets, full of firsts and smallests. Here’s the whole timeline. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-engineer-brothers-5475940 It’s sad to see a company that used to create so many never-before-seen gadgets…
If you’re in the military, here’s a tip: don’t put upcoming missions in your Facebook status. You wouldn’t think someone would need to tell you that, but here we are. A raid on suspected militants in the West Bank was cancelled yesterday after an Israeli soldier updated his Facebook status to read “On Wednesday we…
Seriously, nothing shows better the power of the 1000fps Phantom camera than a scary masked man cracking a watermelon open with a baseball bat. But it freaks me out. Now I need some dogs catching treats. These Phantoms are amazing. What would you film if you had one of them? [Barzart]
There’s no way to verify this except to test it, but Solar Components claims their Joos Orange charger has somewhere between six to twenty times as much “3G cell phone talk time per hours of sun” than their competitors. This is where we’re confused though. Their chart shows that they have 120 minutes of talk…
AppleInsider found four cooling-related patents by Apple that might be used in future MacBooks in order to better keep temperatures from getting absurd as performance increases. The most interesting is the one that uses USB/Firewire ports as vents. These ports would theoretically (while they’re not being used, of course) help increase airflow to vital hot…
