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If you don’t quite think you have what it takes to GoPro, now you have another option: GoBandit. This waterproof, GPS-enabled videocam can capture your finest moments in HD and then overlay the footage with location, speed, and altitude data. In addition to capturing 720p video, you can set the GoBandit to take 5 megapixel…
Apple’s corporate headquarters, PR megamachine and primary customer base are in the US. Their products, on the other hand, come directly from Chinese hardware manufacturers. Like Apple, they’re good at keeping secrets. Unlike Apple, they’re sometimes violent about it. In writing an exposé on Apple’s supply chain, Reuters’ reporters fleshed out what we already know:…
First, Nokia successfully got the ITC to investigate Apple over patent infringement claims. Now the regulatory body has taken Kodak’s complaint seriously enough investigate RIM and Apple. Again. The stakes? A possible ban on US iPhone and BlackBerry imports. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-wins-first-strike-against-apple-with-official-itc-5457467 In announcing that they’d investigate the complaint, the ITC made it clear that they weren’t…
If your children are a bit too at ease with insects, grabbing ants or putting ladybugs into their tiny chocolate-ringed mouths as they are wont to do, introduce your little ones to bugs’ terrifying, too-fast-to-keep-track-of nature with HexBug Nano Newtons. We’re not unfamiliar with HexBug’s line of robotic creepy crawlies, including crabs, ants, worms and…
LCD displays aren’t exactly made for the outdoors. You have to squint, tilt the screen, and adjust the brightness to decipher anything in bright sunlight. But with NEC’s new color-compensation chip that will hopefully be an issue of the past. Apparently the chip identifies colors which are “problematic” in outdoor light conditions (such as beige…
That’s what legendary designer Dieter Rams had to say when a journalist suggested that Jonathan Ive was ripping off his designs. I have to agree with—in my opinion—the best industrial designer of the 20th Century, Jobs, and Picasso: https://gizmodo.com/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future-343641 If you happen to be in London, don’t forget to go to the Design Museum and…
Hardware manufacturer NEC has built a chipset which could allow USB 3.0 to reach speeds of up to 16Gbps. In comparison, the fastest technology hitting the production lines right now is Intel’s Light Peak, “which could provide as much as 10Gbps by the end of this year.” It will take some time before this chipset…
The Four Works Workstation is a very fancy chair designed for working from home. It’s got everything you need to do so efficiently save a toilet under the seat so you never have to stand up. The Four Works features a fold-out laptop stand, cabinet space for peripherals, a spot for the requisite mug of…
This magic SIM card from SK Telecom is a long way off from being commercially viable. But so help me, when someone stuffs this much information into a single SIM, I’m going to stand up and take notice. Packed into this protoype are a processor, memory, 1GB flash storage, and Android OS. That’s enough to…
Do androids dream of amazing deals? Today our dealzmodo is packed with a stunning 3-D Dell monitor, the epic 5-disc Blu-ray version of Blade Runner, and an oldschool 2D side-scroller you can enjoy—like tears in the rain. Top Deals: • 23″ Alienware OptX AW23103D Full HD Widescreen LCD for $648.99 (normally $698.99). • Blade Runner…
Ron and Amy Jo Proctor at Weber State Universe 3D have created a “low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video”. I was sold at apparatus and the total cost: Only $250. Here’s the shopping list. • 2x Kodak Zx1 Digital Camcorders • L-Shaped Extruded Aluminum • 2x 1/4″ Nylon Washers • 3x 1/4-20 Wingnuts •…
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Most of the time, we want a level of exposure in our photos that preserves color and detail. But who says that photography needs to be about color and detail? Which brings us to this week’s Shooting Challenge… The Challenge Allow too much light through your lens for too long to take artistic advantage of…
The Wave UFO appears to be the first gesture-controlled…err…R/C vehicle. DVICE explains how you steer its flight: Wave UFO Controlled By Gestures, Not Convenient, Well-Vetted Remotes …start the motor and hold your hand underneath as it begins to hover. As you move your hand laterally to the ground, the UFO moves with you. Make an…
Developers’ block: It’s a serious thing! It’s not easy to churn out app after app, somehow tricking the masses into giving you money for your decreasingly interesting widgets. Maybe—maybe—the Notepod+ can help. Never mind that the iPad SDK includes a full-featured emulator, which would let you test your apps live and in motion, the Notepad+,…
Here’s a tacit reminder from an abandoned coal plant in Hagerstown, MD, that today’s priced tech is just tomorrow’s decay…and in other news, raise your hand if you want a shiny new phone! [Photo from Zero1o1’s Flickr via boingboing]
The flagship toy in Jakks Pacific’s new SpyNet line is the Secret Mission Video Watch, a piece of wearable tech that lets spies-in-training covertly record video and audio and upload those sensitive materials to a secure website for further analysis. For my generation, Macaulay Culkin’s use of the Talkboy in Home Alone 2 was the…
There are some very good paid instant messaging apps for the App Store, and plenty of free options too. Meebo is the first that manages to be both, with almost no compromise. Meebo was one of the first companies out of the gates with an instant message web app for the iPhone, so it’s weird…
Shipping containers in my mind are forever associated with grim situations seen in TV shows like Dexter or The Wire, but in South Korea they can also be observatories for viewing sunsets. Erected on the harbor of Songdo New City in Incheon, five shipping containers were recycled and placed together aiming sky-wards for the best…
This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display. UPDATE The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple…
