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We have been seeing concepts similar to this Peugeot bubble electric car for years now, but they never seem to materialize. Why? Aren’t people interested in getting to deserted beaches to walk barefoot, alone, lost in a nostalgic mood? Apparently not. [Coroflot via Likecool]
You’ve gotta love companies trying to figure out this whole “social networking” thing. Take Denny’s, for example. Their menus invite you to follow @dennys on Twitter. They do not run @dennys. Instead, a dude from Taiwan named Dennys Hsieh owns it. And these menus have been this way for months. A Denny’s rep says the…
Retired police officer Bill Angus hates speeding almost as much as he loves birds. So he did what any reasonable person would do: design a feeder that looks exactly like a speed camera, and mount it in his front yard. And it seems to be working! At least, the slowing traffic part; there’s no word…
If you enjoy 33-page camera reviews, today’s your lucky day, friend, with DP Review’s epic page-turner on Canon’s 1D Mark IV. Solid low-light performance, the fastest full-res shooting on the planet, and they’ve fixed the AF. Video? Dicier: [DP Review] https://gizmodo.com/canon-1d-mark-iv-the-5000-new-king-of-cameras-5385446
I’d be more excited if this special limited edition color was a never-seen-before color, but alas Pentax thinks the camera world can still get excited about silver. Or maybe silver is rare in Japan, where this model is launching? https://gizmodo.com/silver-painted-plastic-gadgets-must-die-5106923 The K-7 has been around since last summer, but only 1,000 of these limited edition…
Over at Beyond Binary, Ina Fried’s got a fascinating profile of Omega Timing, the company that’s been managing event timing at the Olympics for over 70 years. Counting seconds now is somehow totally different than it was in 1936. Take the methods for timing skiers: Less than a century ago, the timing of downhill skiing…
Windows Phone 7 could save Microsoft’s mobile future, but what do developers think about it? IM app BeeJive’s CEO Kai Yu: “I think it’s just royally fucked. That place is so big: The tools, the people, it’s all so fragmented.” https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-into-the-light-the-unofficial-windows-phone-5473947 The one developer Wired talked to who was actually kinda up on Windows Phone…
The first Nvidia Ion 2 netbook has been benchmarked, and the early results are disappointing: the Acer Aspire One 532G‘s next-gen GPU managed to underperform the older Ion LE. https://gizmodo.com/acers-aspire-one-532g-is-first-netbook-with-nvidias-ion-5471868 The benchmarking was done by Netbook News while at MWC, who managed to run a 3DMark03 graphics benchmark test during their hands-on time. The resulting…
There is nothing about this old Dead Kennedys cassette single I don’t love. [SB1 via HypeMachine]
108 bricks. 4 wheels. 2 taillights. Questionable plastics that are sure to contain countless carcinogens. Yes, the BlockCar looks to be a fantastic toy. While not an official Lego product, the BlockCar offers the same general idea. You carefully stack bricks onto a motorized platform, crafting the multicolored car of your deepest imagination. Admire it…
I like knowing that I live in a world where someone can create a crazy-jawed pig pull toy only to have someone else say, “Yup, mechanical swine is exactly what my life has been missing.” Meme at will. [Extreme Craft via boingboing]
NASA has released their first iPhone game. It’s called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator and, instead of making me happierer than a kid in a candy store wearing a Batman cape, reading the description makes me sad: Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don’t need a driver’s license, but you…
I’ve knitted a few scarves in my lifetime, and have a cupboard full of cables, so I’m thinking of whipping up a few winter-warmers like Japanese fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura. Though it doesn’t look nearly as soft as merino wool… He used anything from iPods to LAN cables, power boards and fabrics to create sculptures…
Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $38.6m to construct. [MSN]
It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral’s claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video recording and Flash 10.1 compatibility. https://gizmodo.com/sprint-pre-and-pixi-getting-webos-1-4-video-recording-5468457 It’ll also make the Pre and Pixi slightly faster, and have a few other minor…
There’s a million and one Twitter apps available for the iPhone, but do any let you do a poo on tweets you dislike? Surprisingly, yes—and here I was thinking teenage roughnecks couldn’t afford an iPhone contract. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-twitter-app-battlemodo-best-and-worst-twitter-a-5135117 Bird Turd turns Twitter into a game, with the official bio of the app explaining “In Bird Turd,…
I’m sure someone at Apple has scars on their hands from the major wrist-slapping that’s occurred over their video cock-up of the iPad running Flash—but how could they make the same mistake again? When Apple announced the iPad, you may remember some of their promotional videos showed the tablet running Flash on the NY Times…
Google may be aware they should’ve spent longer testing Buzz, but according to their VP of product management, it doesn’t pose a threat to Twitter and Facebook. Instead, “it’s filling a niche, which is not currently met in the market.” https://gizmodo.com/google-admits-buzz-testing-sucked-and-they-are-very-v-5473660 Bradley Horowitz from Google told eWeek that in addition to not wanting to replace…
Answering the age-old question of what to buy a Mac fanboy who has everything, eBay user heylookitskibbe has put a broken step from the 5th Avenue Apple store up for sale with a buy-it-now price of $2,500. The eBay seller says: “They replaced it with a new one after a customer dropped a snapple bottle…
Inject some cool ’50s style into your home’s veins, with the Arne Jacobsen reissue of the AJ wall light. First designed in 1956, it was part of the Louis Poulsen range which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The light yellow green color is a new shade for the lamp, but based on the…
