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Like the Virgin Mary before it, an impression of a Nintendo DSi appeared on this piece of toast. Now it just needs a salami screen protector and a vegetable stylus and this mouthwatering gadget will be complete. [Tiny Cartridge]
It’s the “holy crap it’s been a while iPad! CES! Christmas!” edition. This month (or so), we’ve got m-m-m-multitouch maps, good eats, movies and blawgs. To see everything on one page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/the-months-best-android-apps-5465821 Other Android App News • An Embryonic Build of Firefox for Android • Motoblur Makes Its Way to Verizon via Devour…
Urbanspoon: The steady stream of iPhone-to-Android apps continues with Urbanspoon, the app for when you’re all “OMFG I can’t decide where to eat.” Unlike most who make the trip, however, it’s actually just as good as the iPhone version. The basic gist is that if you’re the indecisive type, you can set up to three…
Thursday night’s edition of the Charlie Rose Show brought David Carr, Michael Arrington, and Walt Mossberg together to discuss the iPad. Having used the iPad briefly, all three seem optimistic about what it has to offer. Though we’ve already heard Mosspuppet’s preemptive review of the iPad, it’s interesting to see all three of these influential…
I thought Google Map Buddy’s ability to generate printable, hi-res versions of Google Maps was pretty neat but figured I’d never find a reason to use it. These Google Maps envelops, however, are definitely worth the ink and the effort. https://lifehacker.com/google-map-buddy-generates-high-resolution-full-size-a-5464118 There’s not a whole lot to them, but some of the best ideas are…
As Make puts it, the atomic clock is old and busted. The quantum-logic clock from National Institute of Standards and Technology, keeping time 100,000 times more accurately than its predecessor, is definitely the new hotness. The quantum clock, developed by physicist Chin-wen Chou of the NIST, keeps time by measuring the energy of a single…
The April 24, 1960 edition of Arthur Radebaugh‘s Closer Than We Think imagined a futuristic world of robot-driven trains. Looking at this image makes me think that someone could produce some pretty awesome steampunk art featuring James J. Hill and a Katrina Van Televox type robot, even though the “robots” described in this strip weren’t…
Yesterday, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington was driving around Google’s campus, talking on his phone trying to figure out where exactly his meeting was. One righteous Googler didn’t approve of Arrington’s potentially unsafe talking-while-driving, so he took a stand. Literally. In what Arrington describes as the young man’s Tiananmen Square moment, a stand-off ensued between the TechCrunch…
Blackberry users who have been frustrated by their phone’s inability to properly sync Gmail can unclench their fists. Documents detailing the new features of the upcoming BIS 3.0 show Gmail syncing and WMA support are on the way. RIM is finally updating BIS so that Gmail will accurately sync read and unread status of your…
There’s a pretty gnarly GeekBench result running around which appears to be for a new model MacBook Pro—6,1 to be exact—running a crazyfast 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 620M, one of the Arrandale chips Intel announced at CES. https://gizmodo.com/new-core-i7-i5-and-i3-processor-family-did-we-mentio-5442659 MacBook Pros are definitely in need of fresh guts, and the obvious choice for chips are from…
If you saw the iPad and said “Yes!” but then heard that it had an LCD screen and said “No!,” Yinlips is making the clone for you: their iPad lookalike has an E-Ink screen. Okay, it’s not color and it won’t run any of those apps you cherish so much, but if you like the…
Sure, anybody with ears can agree that something is lost when records are compressed and converted to digital files. But if you really want to walk the walk you can’t just listen to vinyl, you have to record your own. Gakken’s Gramophone kit can play records of any size, using a bamboo needle to belch…
Say Hello to Marko Calasan. He’s nine years old and lives in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. He’s also Microsoft Certified four times over and working on his fifth certificate. (And he prefers Bing.) This is the type of story that warms your heart but also makes you feel a little bad about yourself.…
Philip Ross works with a mushroom farm called Far West Fungi. And on it they’re growing your future house. Or at least the nontoxic, fireproof, mold- and water-resistant building blocks for it. There are dozens of mushroom-filled shipping containers on this farm, but what Ross is after are the “fungi’s thin, white rootlike fibers” also…
There are some things that I’ve always struggled with in life: Professing love, admitting that I’m part robot, and confessing that I like to fight crime. Thankfully this card does it all for me. Ok, ok. So I’ll have to correct the gender on the card, but come on! No product is perfect. [Etsy via…
Kickstands are enjoying something of a renaissance lately as tablets have jumped to the forefront of everyone’s attention, so it’s only natural that the HD2, the most tabletesque of smartphones, is getting a combination kickstand/battery pack of its own. The battery definitely adds some bulk to the skinny HD2, but if you’re looking to take…
Star Trek Online? Iron Man 2 details? Mass Effect alien shagging? A new Sonic in 2D? Oh yes, friends. All this and more! Why There Hasn’t Been A Truly Great Star Trek Game My opinion? Because games don’t nail diplomacy in a realistic, dynamic manner. https://kotaku.com/why-there-hasnt-been-a-truly-great-star-trek-game-5463724 Want The Heavy Rain Demo Right Now? Here’s How……
In this week’s world dominating iPhone app roundup: Your every whim, robotically indulged! Radio champagne, poured generously! Football stuff, assimilated! Your computers, turned into wirelessly controlled zombies! Death foods, avoided! And more.. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-is-now-more-popular-than-ds-and-psp-among-game-d-5465347 If you’d rather view this roundup in a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5465526 Siri: Speech recognition apps recognize speech. Search apps search.…
One day I’ll have children. And one day I’ll make them sob hysterically as I hang this thing over their cribs. It’ll motivate them to learn to talk so that they can yell “No, mama! Not the Mr. T mobile!” The Mr. T Mobile is one of my favorite old memes and I’m glad that…
Like other substance addicts, tech-crazed geeks live in a state of denial. Let’s face it, if you’re reading Gizmodo, you’re probably addicted to technology to some degree. But just how addicted are you? Take this simple test to find out. Answer each of the 50 questions below and give yourself one point per question you…
