Tech news, analysis, culture, business, security, and more
Did you blink during the Super Bowl commercial breaks? Too bad if you did, because it means you may have missed the anemic number of gadget or tech-related commercials worth talking about tomorrow at the water cooler. But! Megan Fox! Megan Fox is an obvious choice, for obvious reasons (if she’s your thing): She had…
This image was lost some time after publication. The May 4, 1972 Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, WI) predicted that by the year 2000 the "long-haired culture" would dramatically influence mainstream Americans through the normalization of communal living. Some of the article’s predictions are bullet-pointed below. You can read the article in its entirety here. Commune…
Apparently, when people sing Sinatra’s My Way in a Philippines karaoke bar, and they sing it poorly, they die. The epidemic’s gotten so bad, in fact, that local law enforcement started calling it the “My Way Killings.” No one really know why dozens have died over the past decade while warbling to one of Sinatra’s…
It appears to be graphene day. First, IBM was using the material to shame silicon into submission, and now Swedish scientists say graphene could one day make lamps and other traditional lighting elements unnecessary. https://gizmodo.com/ibms-100ghz-graphene-transistor-might-replace-silicon-s-5466095 If the Swedes are right, then future homes and buildings could be adorned with graphene panels, called light emitting electromechanical…
Normally we ignore “steampunk” news because it has nothing to do with real, actual steampunk and more to do with some bloke attaching nonfunctional brass tubing to his PC, but in this case these guns actually shoot something. The blunderbuss, above, shoots rubber balls. Cool, I suppose…But! It also shoots them at such a velocity…
The HTC Incredible, a leaked cellphone code name that first made the rounds back in December, is the real deal, as seen in these sneak peak pics from Pocket Now. Can you say brown? You’ll see: Updated. Very original Zune coloring, no? Lots of contours and wacky shapes going on in the rear too (and…
A Power Point marketing slide, purportedly showing a number of T-Mobile phones with March release dates, has leaked to the web. Notables include the HTC HD2 (3/24), Moto Cliq XT (3/10). and the Nokia Nuron (3/17). While the slide deals in unconfirmed data, the release dates and phones mentioned are completely within reason. Case in…
The ExoPC tablet we showed you last Sunday got torn apart this weekend. While the outer aesthetics were well-documented, the insides were still unseen. Well, no longer. Someone has broken the tablet down, as geeks are wont to do. https://gizmodo.com/exopc-tablet-looks-familiar-but-similarities-end-there-5460691 Inside there’s the netbook-esque bits we discussed one week ago. Intel Atom N270, 2GB RAM,…
We know graphene is tough stuff, but Big Blue’s discovering the substance makes a great transistor too, to the tune of a record-setting 100GHz. https://gizmodo.com/supermaterial-graphene-could-become-fireproof-megastora-5113970 You see, the 100Ghz graphene transistor IBM was crowing about this week is already much, much faster than a comparably sized silicon one. Current “state-of-the-art” silicon maxes out at 40Ghz.…
Amazon is still sleeping on Macmillan’s couch, but at least they’re talking again. Rumor has it Amazon quietly started restocking hardcover and paperback copies of the publisher’s books—but not the eBook ones. Updated. Both companies declined to comment on the eBook side of the debate, so there’s obviously some more work to do there. Small…
I, not being an artist, am content to ride Boston’s subway system quietly, eyes down, in a general malaise. It’s a New England thing. French artist Hubert de Lartigue, on the other hand, uses his subway time to imagine X-Wings. X-Wings from paper metro tickets, to be precise. de Lartique assembles them using nothing but…
Self-described cellphone cynic and “father of Linux” Linus Torvalds decided to get a Google Nexus One the other day. And while the customer service lines may be clogged over the phone’s performance, Daddy Linux is positively pleased as punch. Unsurprisingly, the man who invented the most popular open source operating system in the world is…
Motorola claims they’re coming out with a couple dozen Android phones in 2010, and with a crop so big a few of them are bound to be pretty weird. This render suggests that the MOTOSPLIT might be one of those. Like the Samsung Alias 2 before it, the MOTOSPLIT shown here sports a keyboard that…
Oh-ho-ho this is rich. Some German pranksters saw a Google Street View car parked outside their place in Berlin and managed to sneak a GPS device onboard. Watch it roam around on Google Maps here. Updated. [fffff.at (NSFW) via Reddit] Update: Poo. It turns out these German pranksters are actually German art students, and the…
If you’ve been looking for a case mod that will strike fear into all the other computers you come across, well, look no further. But be careful, this guy gets cranky when he needs to defrag. A lot of us subject our computers to quite a bit of abuse. We overcrowd their hard drives and…
Someone might judge you for putting together a mock iPad, but it’s certainly not going to be us. Be it for practicing the Tablet Sutra or faking out a fanboy friend, here’s the template you’ve been looking for. https://gizmodo.com/tablet-sutra-how-are-we-supposed-to-hold-this-thing-5455844 Courtesy of Jess Silverstone at Revolutionary Concepts, this template can be printed on standard paper and…
Curious. Very curious. Eric Schmidt, head Googler, just Tweeted about his excitement for tomorrow’s Superbowl. But he’s not nearly as pumped for the gridiron as he is for a commercial running during the third quarter: Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl tomorrow. Be sure to watch the ads in the 3rd quarter (someone said “Hell…
With just a roll or two of painters tape, some patience, and a willingness to forfeit the respectability of their apartments (except, maybe, from a single perspective), some clever artists have created a very impressive collection of tape-based illusions. Earlier today, Boing Boing posted this neat Back to the Future-inspired piece featuring an impressively detailed…
PPCGeeks is offering up a whole bevy of rumors regarding Windows Mobile 7 and what will be revealed at MWC next week. What they’re referring to as Windows Phone 7 has a Zune-like interface and Xbox integration but no multitasking. PPCGeeks and Mobile Tech World claim that Windows Mobile 7 will be unveiled at Mobile…
A few weeks ago Amazon announced they were opening up the Kindle for development, and as of today they are accepting requests for the Kindle Development Kit in limited beta. Head over to Amazon to sign up to be a beta developer and to request the KDK. The site also has updated Kindle Developement Kit…
