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One of my favorite things to do in Manhattan is to stop by the real state agencies’ windows, to see the homes I will never buy. It’s property porn. This is the airplane equivalent. It’s the latest and bestest luxury first class cabin from British Airways, which makes it the latest and bestest of them…
Like Darth Vader’s underpants, the new Intel Core i7 and i5-based Digital Storm BlackOPS PCs are made of lusty black aluminum. Also like Darth Vader’s underpants, they are liquid cooled. There are three models available, starting at $1,709 with the 2.66GHz Core i5-750 and ending with the 3.2GHz Core i7-960. They can pack up to…
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Today Lenovo unveiled their C315 touchscreen all-in-one desktop. It may not be the peppiest system on the market, but $650 for a 20-inch touchscreen AIO PC sounds pretty good to me. Full specs aren’t available yet, but we do know that the C315 houses an AMD Althon CPU, 4GB of memory, and ATI Mobility Radeon…
Skyfire makes one of the best browsers for Windows Mobile, a fully Flash compatible app that draws on Skyfire’s server-side compression to make browsing bearable on slower connections. Today, they’ve announced that they’ve gobbled up kolbysoft, the company that makes alternative Android browser Steel. Sounds promising, right? Skyfire’s CEO feels the same way: https://gizmodo.com/skyfire-1-5-brings-more-speed-less-ugly-5422355 By…
It’s an admittedly small sample size from a start-up social network, but even so: that’s ice cold. MocoSpace surveyed 20,000 of its 10.3 million members, and found that SMS is the weapon of choice for 47% of phone break-ups. Other disheartening statistics gleaned from the study: a third of MocoSpace users have used their phone…
We’ve all received the Nigerian Letters, or 419 scams. And I doubt I’m the only one who was tempted to follow up, just to see how the scam worked. Now Scam Detective published a 3-part interview with a reformed prince. The process he shares is enlightening. It also explains all the bad English. John [the…
Nokia’s slashing the number of smartphone models by half this year, but at least we know one of them will be a doozy, if true: the N8-00 is rumored to sport a 12-megapixel lens and the new Symbian^3 OS. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-to-halve-smartphone-production-in-2010-official-5418797 That camera lens will be big news for Nokia, as it’ll also shoot in 720p…
Preemptive apologies to those of you who read Gizmodo to get away from work: Sorry! Now pay attention: The next version of Office for Mac is on its way, and we’ve got a sneak peak. There’s been a funny disconnect over the years between Office for Mac and Office for PC, which staggered release dates…
I haven’t had my cereal with funny colored powder yet and I’m already tripping: Here’s a trip into fractal down to a e.214 magnifying factor. If it existed in the real world, it would be trillions larger than the Universe. The final magnification is e.214. Want some perspective? A magnification of e.12 would increase the…
It’s no shock to see that with unglamorous but vital products like Windows and Office, Microsoft is basically printing money. But where’s the Xbox? The Zune? Windows Mobile? Bing? Oh, they’re there. You just have to look a little closer. Microsoft’s most visible products that aren’t Windows and Office fall under two divisions: Entertainment and…
$230 million of Robot Land’s $600 million budget has been secured. And in case the project never breaks ground (or the robots don’t let us in), we have a load of renders showing us what it would have looked like. https://gizmodo.com/korea-opening-first-robot-theme-park-for-humans-5152998 Featuring attractions like Robot Water Park, Robot Battle Stadium, Robot Flower Island, Robot Museum…
This sleek fire red mouse may be a perfect Valentine’s gift. Smooth and beautiful. Until you see the whole thing from above. See what I mean? [Yanko Design] Bad Valentine is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love.
So how do you drum up publicity for a conceptually basic accessory to a product that’s not even out yet? You put “ballz” in the name! That’s Marketing 101. But these shock-absorbing attachments could come in handy. The iBallz are actually pretty well conceived: four balls, connected by stretchable cord, protect your e-book reader from…
Microsoft may not see the Xbox 360 as a tool for the military, but as an essential part of your hospital room? Sure. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-refused-to-sell-xbox-360s-to-the-military-for-5467718 Desney Tan, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, shared how Microsoft thinks the Xbox 360 could fit into hospitals. A low-cost PC, the 360 could be networked to share medical records…
The single most clever motion picture I’ve seen this year wasn’t Avatar—it was Logorama, an animated short fitting 2500 logos into a highly entertaining parody of corporate/consumer culture. (Watch it. You’ll thank me when it wins an Oscar.) https://gizmodo.com/avatar-review-yes-it-changed-everything-after-all-5429424 After viewing Logorama in the theater a few months ago (thanks, Chicago Film Festival), I was…
These aren’t the first touchscreen laptops Toshiba’s dished out, but the U500-1EX is the latest, and has some nice specs (4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB HDD) for its low price. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-u505-and-m505-touchscreened-in-time-for-win-7-5381773 At 13.3-inches, the Windows 7 machine has a neat-sounding LifeSpace app from Toshiba, which allows for thumbnail shortcuts on a bulletin board, and a…
Anyone familiar with Moore’s Law will know that over the years, storage has got bigger and cheaper. But the possibility of a 1TB SSD being the size of a postage stamp? Sounds impossible, but not to those crafty Japanese scientists. A bunch of researchers from various Japanese universities and organizations have banded together to work…
Whoa, a Microsoft employee just published details on Windows 8 on their blog, claiming it will be “completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows,” [sic] and that internally, they’re calling it “Windows.next.” Shown above is a leaked Windows server roadmap from last year, that marks 2012 as being the year of a “major…
Here’s the WinMo-running M10 and Android-powered A50 both leaked in January. Problem is we still think they should get out of hardware and into apps. https://gizmodo.com/the-next-fruits-of-garmin-and-asus-relationship-appear-5454474 But back to the phones. They’re boasting it brings “more location technology than any other smartphone,” as you’d expect from the satnav dudes at Garmin. The hardware isn’t all…
