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Nielsen stats put the average teen’s texting rate at about ten per hour during the day. This, and basic math, leads to some terrifying conclusions! For example: Nielsen says that this rate of texting results in somewhere over 3000 text per month, per teen, on average. This means that nearly half of every day is…
For this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re playing with the human mind. How do you know something in a picture is really that large or small? Or put differently, why the hell did no one tell me I was a giant?? The Challenge Trick our sense of scale using forced perspective. In other words, I ask…
The iMac’s notorious flickering problem has been solved through a firmware update. And after a few weeks’ hiatus, Apple has continued shipping 27-inch iMacs. This may be it. Can You Safely Buy a New iMac Yet? Nope, but you might be able to next week. Why? There are two noted problems with iMacs—the 27-inch models…
Love can be difficult. Throwing tech into the mix can complicate things even more. We’ve got tech that can put us in touch with so many people at once, but can keep us from real intimacy with our closest few: Facebook friends don’t have to meet, tweets don’t require thoughtfulness, movie dates don’t require talking,…
Today’s dealzmodo is lovingly and flame-retardantly stuffed with warm, cute, cuddly—gadgets. Canon’s adorable and powerful HF S10, Philips’ soft and huggable HDTV, and a purple Pollywog to melt your ice-cold heart. Warm up, you icy bastards. https://gizmodo.com/canon-drops-five-new-vixia-hd-camcorders-imaging-and-s-5123482 Top Deals: • 47″ Philips 47PFL5704D/F7 1080P LCD HDTV for $898 with free shipping (normally $1098). • Canon…
Controllers can be a hassle to keep track of, and often clutter up valuable home entertainment space. But here comes the Wall Clip, what Mary Poppins would surely have used if the Banks children had been gamers. I’m sure the Wall Clip can be used to mount any number of non-video-game-accessory items to your wall,…
Air Mice are fine enough if you have to control an HTPC from your bed, across the room, they’re usually inaccurate and finicky. Why not make it a regular mouse too? And lo, the eVouse is. This concept, which designer Marcial Ahsayane shoved a Microsoft logo on, transforms from a right-side-up B2 bomber in regular…
Dell’s U2711, on sale for $1,100 today, seems like the monitor dreams are made of, with 2560×1440 resolution, 100 percent representation of the sRGB color space, 6ms response and a window-friendly matte finish. There’s just one, tiny catch. UPDATE This Dell monitor is believed to use the same LG-sourced panel that’s been plaguing iMacs. You…
Reader Akis Alekozidis sent us a few mockups of apps running on the iPad. The multi-pane layouts are very similar to what we’ve seen Apple do so far in-house. Not bad, but where the heck is my fullscreen GIANT-BUTTONED CALCULATOR?
The $500 16GB, Wi-Fi only iPad costs Apple less than half that to build, according to a recent component breakdown from iSuppli. And for the 64GB 3G iPad, Apple clears nearly $500 in profit. Here’s how it breaks down: Apple iPad Estimated Bill-of-Materials and Manufacturing Cost Analysis: This will no doubt be updated once iSuppli…
A series of emails that surfaced in an old Microsoft antitrust case have come to light, the most interesting of which show Bill Gates admitting his company was “flat footed” in the wake of the 2003 iTunes launch. Microsoft executive Jim Allchin responded to the Gates admission succinctly enough: “We were smoked.” You might remember…
The Hoodie-Footie Snuggle Suit: It’s a Snuggie, except fitted, fleece, and with feet. Yes, ok, it’s pink, and the ad explicitly says “for women,” but I will not stand for such disgusting misandry in 2010. I’ll take ten, please. [Consumerist] Bad Valentine is our own special take on the beauty—and awkwardness—of geek love.
Since Google wants to control all forms of communication, the logical next step is being not just what you do on the internet, but how you access the internet as well. To do that, they’ll deploy 1Gbps fiber to you. https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-control-all-communication-5467199 The company is going to test this super high speed internet to “a small…
T-Mobile is still calling the myTouch 3G update myTouch 3G, but the latest version has a 3.5mm headphone jack, 288MB RAM, 8GB microSD card, Swype for text input and a few included apps like Visual Voicemail and a Barcode Scanner. The phone will be $150 with two-year plan, but otherwise it’s basically the same myTouch…
The Keyboard Purse is cute enough, and for $40, it’s a reasonably priced purchase. Now if only you could actually type on the thing, I’d reclassify it as a manbag in a heartbeat. [Neatorama]
An editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal argues that Apple’s love of strategy has overclouded its passion for products. Is Holman Jenkins right that Apple is the new Microsoft, and iTunes is the new Windows? Obviously, the companies are so inherently different both culturally and strategically that it’s easy to dismiss Jenkins’ claim out of…
Today—and to us—the HTC Scorpion exists but a couple of lines of code in a purported leaked Android build. But one day, this 1.5GHz, Android 2.2 handset could be the phone that makes your Nexus One look old. AndroidSpin’s got an alleged build script for an Android 2.2 build—that’s FRE65C, or Froyo, in case you…
A Winnipeg man has been dumped by his girlfriend of two and a half years, after she found his phone riddled with sext messages. Only problem? He didn’t write any of them. Virgin Mobile did. Apparently the cheeky monkeys over at Virgin Mobile had pre-loaded a number of suggestive text messages into at least one…
Most solar backpacks have disappointingly miniature solar panels, sewn in shamefully, adorning nothing. But new bags from Neon Green take the precise opposite approach, ripping open eyelids of every person in sight through the sheer, humbling power of green energy. The Soular Powers packs from Neon Green aren’t quite fully cooked—we don’t know prices or…
Opera claimed to have an iPhone app ready back in 2008, held up only by Apple’s pain-in-the-ass approval process. Curious, then, that they’re just now showing it off at Mobile World Congress, alongside early builds of Opera Mobile for Android. Alternative browsers on the iPhone aren’t really alternative browsers, since historically they’ve all used the…
