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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…
Still mashing your thumbs on the original PS3, after the PS3 Slim failed to ignite your fire? Yeah, me too—but unfortunately Sony’s not going to give us love anytime soon, looking at these FCC documents. The two documents don’t detail any of the changes, though it looks like they’re physically similar to the current Slims…
The 1981 children’s book World of Tomorrow: School, Work and Play accurately predicted the rise of debit cards, but may have overstated how much safer we would be in the futuristic world of 2002. The phrase, “in tomorrow’s world computers will be able to guard over us,” might seem humorous, given our current fears about…
Caltech researchers may have unlocked the holy grail of gadget-powering clothing, thanks to a recent discovery that could eventually produce cheap, flexible solar cell microfibers. The team, led by Harry Atwater, says the bendy solar cells use just 1% of the silicon needed by a solar cell with the same output. Additionally, the bendy cell…
Is Samsung’s flagship point-and shoot, the new TL500, truly worthy of the Bestmodo moniker we slapped on its butt yesterday afternoon? Well, let’s put it this way: Maybe the Canon S90 does have something to worry about after all. https://gizmodo.com/canon-s90-review-itll-never-leave-my-pocket-except-wh-5393112 You see, the first hands-on impressions are starting to trickle in on this camera, and…
A gaggle of MIT inventors are presently working to create a swarm of micro LED-equipped heli-robots that would hover autonomously in the sky and create massive works of floating 3D artwork. The coming apocalypse, it just got prettier! The program, called Flyfire, would sync up hundreds (and thousands?) of tiny helicopter robots to create, say,…
Meet the Casio Exilim EX-S7 and EX-Z35, a pair of low-price point-and-shoots debuting at PMA 2010 this weekend. They aren’t going to blow the doors off anything, but that’s the point. These are entry-level shooters with a pleasantly entry-level price. The pair feature 12.1MP sensors, coupled with some web uploading software and a 3x zoom.…
There’s a camera show going down in Anaheim right now, and with it has come a whole mess of budget cameras. GE put a few more on the growing pile today, including additions to its entry-level Power Series point-and-shoots. The blue example above is the waterproof G5WP, set to ship later this year for $180.…
Flash on the iPad/iPhone will never happen, right, and the reasons have run the gamut from “Apple vendetta” to “Flash is an energy and resource hog.” Is the real, mind-numbingly simple explanation all about touch, mouse cursors and hovering? Possibly! Updated. That’s what a real, live Adobe Flash developer is saying this weekend, and I…
If you’re MythBusters’ (and Giz Explains’) Adam Savage, you don’t store your tools in just any toolbox. No, sir. You store them in a Savage Toolbox. Duh. [Braincraft] https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-how-electrocution-really-kills-you-5262971
Today Sony made a play at the micro four thirds format, promising giant DSLR quality in a little camera. The camera in question arrives as part of a slew of just announced concept cameras in the Alpha line: – Concept model of an ultra-compact interchangeable lens digital camera system that packs the quality of a…
At the end of many sport games, the commentators inevitably give shouts outs to the camera crew, who wave back with toothy smiles. It’s a touching, simple “thank you” for covering the game. Sadly, these poor saps are all doomed. Now, I don’t know when the end will come for these unfortunate souls, but I…
I doubt Sigma’s DP2s (stress “s”) update will clean up Wilson’s DP2 review in any real way, but the improved autofocus algorithm could help reduce the camera’s complexity a tad. Thing’s still going to be expensive though. https://gizmodo.com/sigma-dp2-camera-review-its-complicated-5275208 Now that’s only an educated guesstimate, using Sigma’s existing pricing practices as a guide, because official pricing…
Morning! And welcome to another edition of “Hey, it looks like the iPhone might soon have video chat and a front-facing camera.” Today’s round includes the iPhone SDK, and the fact that it mentions a number of video chat commands: That there image is from the SDK, and all but hits you in the face…
I’ve played with my fair share of LEGOs, but I never actually envied the little guys until I saw Dave DeGobbi’s Crawler Town, a work as impressively conceived as it is constructed. I’d forfeit bendable elbows to live in it. It sort of reminds me of those old books on a single building—Castles or Pyramids…
If you’re a Nexus One owner and you have a sense of adventure—or are black-out drunk—you can now flash an alpha version of the leaked HTC Desire ROM on your phone. Speaking of Flash, this ROM has it. Have you secretly harbored Desire-envy ever since its unveiling at MWC? This is your chance to close…
Recently, Apple removed Wobble—an app that adds animated jiggles to photo breasts—from the App Store. Other removals followed. Now, a developer who talked to Apple says the future of iPhone titillation is bleak. https://gizmodo.com/apple-removes-an-innocent-boob-jiggling-app-from-the-ap-5475270 Really bleak. Like no racy photos, no suggestive language, no bathing suits bleak. This devastating news comes by way of TechCrunch,…
Engineering students at the California Polytechnic State University are showing off the updated Black Widow, their entry for the upcoming Shell Eco-Marathon contest, and it involves some unusual numbers: 3 (wheels); 3 (horsepower engine); and 2,752 (miles per gallon). The team has been working on the vehicle since 2005, and with each successive year they’ve…
Surely by now you’ve heard about the high school student suing Philadelphia’s Lower Merion School District for remotely accessing his webcam. And maybe you read the Superintendent’s response and thought, “well, maybe this whole business is getting blown out of proportion.” It isn’t. https://gizmodo.com/school-spies-students-through-their-laptop-cameras-5474614 According to a Washington Post report from early this morning, the…
