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You won’t find Steve Jobs’ favorite iPhone program in the App Store, but here’s a glimpse. This app costs several million dollars unless you are Google. Then you can enjoy it for free (while HTC foots the bill).
I can’t speak for everyone here, but who hasn’t burned down 2, 3 even 4 dwellings with a rogue iron? The Roly Poly, an iron concept by Wonkook Lee, may be our last hope. The Roly Poly Iron is loaded with an extra set of weights. When you hold it, these weights shift inside the…
If you want to use a dedicated 3G dongle for your laptop, hardware choices are always limited. Here are AT&Ts two new offerings, the LG Turbo and Option Velocity. And no, you’re not the only one who thought “American Gladiators.” LG Turbo Free with a two-year contract, the Velocity is a no-frills card, with HSPA…
So, that’s another one the birds have on us. In addition to flight and colorful plumage, they’re also equipped with magnetometer beaks that can sense magnetic fields and use them as a map. Yes, even chickens. Here’s how it works. The upper beak of birds has nerve branches that contain iron, which may be used…
To understand Sony, understand its founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Even though both are now gone, their executive dynasty and its haphazard, emotional governance established the model for the Sony of today—even as it holds Sony back. Rice Cookers and Electric Blankets Sony’s early years are thick with stories of near disaster tempered by…
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony’s gearing up to take on Apple this year, with the long-awaited PSP phone and a netbook/eBook reader/PSP hybrid to fight the iPad. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-claims-playstation-phone-could-happen-5245642 And just in the nick of time for our Sony tough love fest, We Miss Sony! There aren’t extensive details available yet—including any info…
This world map of mobile browser usage is interesting. Some figures, like the iPhone/iPod’s presence in almost every major market of the world, are not surprising. Others are funny. Why is Nigeria owned by Opera, with 94% of the market share? Or why Blackberry is not appearing in Canada, its home country? Even the Sony…
A company called Japan Ringing Tone Laboratory has created the “Hana Sukkiri Melody” ringtone, which claims to be able to clear out your sinuses whenever anybody calls you. Ah-whaaaa? The company claims that “the ringtone will make a nose has resonant frequency with pollens adherent inside your nasal cavity, so eventually pollens fall down.” Oh,…
Once upon a time, there were these cables that got into your home and into these things that went ring-ring, with numbers and redial buttons and call waiting. The DSP Multimedia Handset is the same, with Android and a touchscreen. It’s also looks like the last twist to landline-based DECT handsets. In addition to Wi-Fi,…
Real time is the next step for Google: They’re working on a standard for website publishers to hit Google with new content for indexing in seconds, a huge leap from the way Google currently crawls the web. One way it might work is through a setup like PubSubHubbub, where a site tells a Hub there’s…
After the Windows Phone 7 launch passed without so much as a mention of Project Pink, Microsoft’s other new phone project started to fade into memory. Today, we can confirm: Pink’s coming, and Verizon’s the carrier. UPDATE: First live shots. https://gizmodo.com/first-shots-and-specs-of-microsofts-secret-project-pink-5485796 A tipster passed us a load of 3rd-party marketing materials, in which a promotional…
John Herlihy, Google Europe’s big chief, says that desktops will be irrelevant in three years. Which is precisely why Apple and Google are trying to kill each other, fiercely fighting for the domination of the mobile device world. https://gizmodo.com/how-apple-and-googles-romance-turned-to-hate-5483662 Both companies know that mobile computing is where the action is now and where it will…
Apple’s patent theft accusations against HTC got a lot of press this week, as they should! But it’s just the most recent case in a gun-slinging mobile landscape riddled with patent lawsuits. This’ll end about as well as Reservoir Dogs. https://gizmodo.com/apple-sues-htc-for-infringing-on-20-iphone-patents-the-5483632 The NY Times breaks it down today with this handy chart of who’s suing…
Brian Garret Schuur is a clever guy, and that’s why rapid manufacturer Freedom of Creation has taken his design for the Street Headphones. These made-to-order headphones feature the names of your favorite bands and singers all around them, in 3D. https://gizmodo.com/single-button-remote-has-257-less-buttons-than-what-you-5060536 They don’t seem very comfortable, but I would be glad if people used this…
LG’s first Windows Phone 7 handset, which got shown off recently in the sweaty palm of a Microsoft director at the Engadget Show, will be called the LG Panther. Apparently. We know LG likes silly names, but Panther? https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-employee-shows-off-prototype-windows-phone-7-5481938 Of course, there’s a more famous Panther in our world—2003’s OS X 10.3, from Apple. The…
Unveiled as part of Hong Kong retailer JOYCE’s line of fashion designer-created iPhone cases…blah blah blahdy blah. IT’S A ROCK. I hope you enjoy the feeling of a mugger beating you over the head with your “camouflaged” iPhone. [HighSnobiety]
Droid owners have been waiting and waiting for 2.1 to materialize, but fortunately a firmware update has leaked for both handsets. Motorola and Verizon have both promised OTA updates, but it’s anyone’s guess as to when they’ll be out—so this may just be the fastest way to get the latest Android flavor on your pocket-friend.…
I just don’t know what to think about this router. I’ve been staring at it for minutes now, wondering how in 802.11n’s name it was created in ASUS’ laboratory. ASUS hasn’t been too forthcoming with details on the RT-N56U, which was announced at CeBIT this week, and until we hear back from them we’ll just…
ASUS has a habit of pricing its products very fairly, and while 3D technology is still in its infancy, I can’t imagine them charging too much for their three monitors shown off this week at CeBIT. All three of the monitors will use NVIDIA’s GeForce 3D Vision glasses, with the first monitor launching being the…
Those press covering the Olympics sure do have a plum life. They bundle off to Vancouver for 16 days of watching ice-skaters embarrassing themselves, and ruthless Russian bobsledders showing their dark sides. Oh, and they get lens-shaped thermoses. UPDATE http://tv.gawker.com/5472578/the-olympic-night-of-figure-skating-fail The story goes that a Microsoft employee by the name of Josh Weisberg wandered into…