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Maybe you have a super awesome 240Hz LCD. Technically, its refresh rate should probably support new FHD3D (full 3D HD) Blu-ray signals. But it can’t because of this diagram (by HDGuru3D)—how the information is sent to your television. It’s called over/under, and rather than a single 1920×1080 frame beaming from your Blu-ray player to your…
Announced at CES, the GPS-enabled EX-10HG from Casio has been a bit of a mystery so far, but has just been given full launch details, with the price expected to be in the region of $400 when it hits in October. That’s a good 10-month long wait, and it’s not like the EX-10HG is the…
MSI made some all-in-one noise at CES with the AE2420, and they’re stepping it up again for next week’s CeBIT 2010 show in Germany. There, they’ll introduce the world’s first large screen all-in-one PC capable of handling 1080p 3D media. https://gizmodo.com/msi-wind-top-ae2420-all-in-one-frame-i5-guts-5441035 The 3D AIO will have a 24-inch 120Hz LED display, 1080p resolution, and will…
The problem with elven cameras like Canon’s S90 is that they’re awkward to hold sometimes. Richard Franiec’s custom grip—CNC-machined from a block of aircraft-grade aluminum and black-anodized to match—adds just enough extra surface area to fix that. https://gizmodo.com/canon-s90-review-itll-never-leave-my-pocket-except-wh-5393112 It stays just about as pocketable since the grip sits 1.5mm below the lens, and is attached…
Some people may ask why a physics professor used liquid nitrogen to freeze and shatter a laptop against the floor, just to tell students that laptops were prohibited in class. Personally, I think that’s cool, but I have another question: What is Dr. Egon Spengler doing working as a physics professor at the University of…
Ever since our hands-on, we’ve been shamelessly excited about Project Natal…except for one key piece: The slight but undeniable lag. And now, MTV has actually put the difference between your movement and onscreen response to a stopwatch. https://gizmodo.com/testing-project-natal-we-touched-the-intangible-5277954 Over the course of several demos, MTV found that the lag ranged from .08 seconds to .12…
The iPhone 3G may be the most popular phone in the US, but Gartner’s annual phone sales tally still puts Symbian as being the most-used smartphone OS worldwide. Snapping at its heels, BlackBerry’s OS has less than half the sales. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-meet-razr-the-ten-most-popular-phones-in-the-c-5432284 And the iPhone? They may have 14.4 per cent market share worldwide (a nice…
Street Fighter IV is almost here for the iPhone, and Capcom is tantalizingly drip-feeding us with details about the coolest thumb-masher to hit the App Store. It’ll cost a rather large $9.99, and will have eight playable characters, including Ryu. https://gizmodo.com/street-fighter-iv-on-iphone-brings-new-definition-to-so-5472241 Gamepro got an early hands-on with the iPhone and iPod Touch version, and while…
Apple claims they removed those 5,000 boobie apps because women were complaining over the “degrading” and “objectionable” content. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the removal of the SuicideGirls’ app—which actually empowers women—seems most questionable. https://gizmodo.com/5000-casualties-of-the-app-store-boob-war-5477566 Sure, the free app features nudity. If you count nudity as being of the bras ‘n knickers kind. But…
Your unibody aluminum collection, composed of a MacBook Pro, and HTC Legend pre-order confirmation email needs this toothbrush holder—which might’ve been enough to convince Howard Hughes to brush his teeth with. [Dominic Wilcox via InteriorDesignRoom via Oh!Gizmo]
Last Friday’s situation at the Mexican Foxconn factory (the company that supplies components and products to Apple) where enraged employees burnt the place down over being forced to work unpaid overtime will be receiving extra pay, according to Foxconn. https://gizmodo.com/foxconn-workers-dont-get-mad-they-get-even-by-burning-5476446 Nothing like a bit of exposure on the tech blogs to force the Juarez arm…
How to get people using Office for Mac, after admitting only four people “love it”? I know! Paint a MacBook with Office for Mac colors, load it with a copy of Office 2008, and give it away on Twitter! https://gizmodo.com/at-least-office-for-mac-has-four-people-who-love-it-5471353 You have to either be following @officeformac on Twitter, or retweet @officeformac, including the hashtag…
Wired’s Steven Levy takes us inside the “algorithm that rules the web“—Google’s search algorithm, of course—and if you use Google, it’s kind of a must-read. PageRank? That’s so 1997. It’s known that Google constantly updates the algorithm, with 550 improvements this year—to deliver smarter results and weed out the crap—but there are a few major…
Over the past few days we’ve watched app after app after app become a casualty in Apple’s gradual clean up of the App Store—a ban on nearly all titillating apps. Apple executive Phil Schiller finally explains what happened: https://gizmodo.com/apple-removes-an-innocent-boob-jiggling-app-from-the-ap-5475270 It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the…
The year is 1982. Michael Jackson’s Thriller’s climbing the music charts, E.T.’s in the theaters, and a patch of land dubbed Silicon Valley is catching notice. The drug-fueled, theft-filled, innovation-driven culture of it’s pulsating to the beat of the future. That year, National Geographic printed an article called “High Tech, High Risk, and High Life,”…
Since 1997, a man has been keeping detailed track of his instant noodle consumption. Such detailed track, in fact, that you can read reviews of the 4,308 types of noodles he’s eaten on his website. The website is in Japanese, so you may need to run it through a translation service. While you do that,…
Lenovo’s W700ds workstation laptop has gotten an overdue upgrade in the form of the W701ds, and now its guts are every bit as over the top as its integrated secondary display. Seriously: this thing is a hoss. https://gizmodo.com/crazy-ibm-thinkpad-w700ds-has-integrated-secondary-disp-5113768 To start, you’ve got up to Intel’s Core i7-920 Extreme processor, a 17-inch WUXGA (1920×1200) primary display,…
Lenovo’s ultraportable ThinkPad X201 isn’t the first notebook to upgrade to Intel’s new Core i5 and i7 processors, but it’s loaded with enough other goodies that it stands out in the growing crowd. The processor’s not the only upgrade from ThinkPad X200. The X201 adds a trackpad where before there was only a nub, and…
How do you build a safer battery? By doing horrible things to it. At Sandia National Laboratories, lithium-ion batteries—the kind that are inside your laptop and cars—are pulverized, overcharged and just plain exploded. The idea’s to find faults in the batteries so battery makers can fix them. What’s depressing is that the lab’s underfunded and…
It doesn’t get much better than saucy French futurism, does it? These illustrations of futuristic flying machines from 1901 are quite similar to both the German and French personal flying machines we’ve looked at from this era. I find the electric lights adorning her hat and dress quite beautiful. Early electric light and the way…
