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It seems that we’re getting a first peek at what a Google Chrome OS based tablet may look like. Glen Murphy, Google Chrome’s designer, posted this UI concept video along with some images on Google’s official Chromium site. There are several things to keep in mind about this mockup though. For starters, it’s only intended…
So Fujifilm unloaded about seven hundred and forty-two cameras tonight, and the point-and-shoots are pretty universally stacked for the price. Case in point: The AV100 is a 12MP shooter with 720p video capture, priced at $100. The skinny: The AV100 is the lowest of the low-end, with 12MP sensor, 720p video and 3x optical zoom.…
Fuji just announced a quartet of megazoom (read: fixed lens) cameras in a Monday blitz, with the most impressive being this HS10. It won’t give the level of control of a DSLR, but it looks to blow away any point-and-shoot. The 10MP HS10, pictured, is an interesting beast: It’s got a 30x manual optical zoom…
Trumpets playing, bloody moons, seas of fire, cats cohabiting with dogs, and Windows 7 running on the Apple iPad right on the day it launches. That’s how the Universe ends, my dearly beloved, and you can blame Citrix for it: It turns out the 9.7 inch display on the iPad with a 1024×768 screen resolution…
CanonRumors hears that the sequel to the T1i, to be named the T2i, will be announced next week, packing a redesigned case, selectable FPS for video and a better LCD. Try to control your budget-minded excitement. The full list of proposed changes: • New LCD (Even Higher Resolution) • Selectable FPS (Video) • New build…
This is the OreObject SPHEREtouch mouse. It’s basically an overpriced touch-sensitive ball. It doesn’t matter that it’s handcrafted out of steel, titanium, or platinum because it still looks more like a tacky paperweight than like a mouse. Depending on your choice of material, the SPHEREtouch’s price will range from $155 to $255. Sorry, but all…
Click to viewDo I even need to explain that a video entitled “One Laptop Per Third World Noob” might be a bit tasteless? Sure, I chuckled at the stick figures and the lewd child pornography references, but I’m also a terrible person. The video comes from “the twisted minds” of the Upright Citizens Brigade, so…
After the first firmware update didn’t really fix the flickering screens on 27-inch iMacs, we heard rumors that another was on the way. Well, it’s here. But is it making a difference? https://gizmodo.com/firmware-update-for-27-inch-imacs-to-fix-flickering-scr-5431482 Let us know in the comments if you’re seeing any improvement since the update. [TechCrunch]
If you’re like me, you looked at this picture and the name “Three-Pendulum Rotary Harmonograph” and felt confused and a little bit threatened. But fear not! Turns out it’s one of those fun spirograph-like things you see at science museums. Unlike a spirograph, a harmonograph uses pendulums (instead of human effort—I mean, I’ll go to…
Some are frequent keyboard switchers, some are faithful to a single peripheral. But we all still believe that there’s a perfect keyboard out there somewhere. While we’re searching for it we want to know: What are you typing on? Are you a sucker for that satisfying clickety-clack of an old IBM keyboard or is it…
Acer, in contrast to what we’d heard before, has just said that they’ll not be making a tablet to compete with the iPad, instead focusing on ultra-thin laptops. Acer sees these ultra-thins, including many that will run Google Chrome. Acer was cock-sure enough to mention that an iPad-like tablet “would not pose any technical challenges…
UK security agency MI5 has issued a warning regarding freebie flash drives and cameras. Apparently Chinese spies are handing them out to UK businessmen in hopes of infecting their computers with trojans and gaining access to corporate secrets. Of course old-fashioned methods—sex and money—are still being used as well, but it seems that few people…
The WSJ says Google’s launching an online store to sell software add-ons and bonus powers for Google Apps written by third-party developers—like more, um, secureness and other enterprise features—which Google’s announcing in March. At the beginning, it’ll be just enterprise stuff that are add-ons for Gmail and Docs, etc., sold through a now conventional setup:…
Sixteen-year-old Alexander Kendrick has put together a low-frequency radio which allows for the transmission of text messages from caves nearly 1,000 feet underground. I still can’t get a single bar of reception on the subway. Aside from updating Twitter with messages of “It’s dark in here” while spelunking, Kendrick’s science fair-winning cave-texting device could actually…
In today’s Remainders: shouting! Fox News has been clamoring about Verizon and the iPad for a while, and today they kept on clamoring; an indie video game you control by screaming; a robot that listens for your commands; and more. Fox Tales Before the iPad’s launch, Fox News Channel’s Clayton Morris said that there would…
When I reviewed MotionX GPS Drive for iPhone, I said it offered the best value but had some UI issues. Newly redesigned, the app’s 3.0 version is far better—with landscape view and a more logical user interface. https://gizmodo.com/motionx-gps-drive-review-hands-down-the-best-value-in-5374147 Yes, the landscape mode I was lamenting its lack of in the last edition is there, and…
Sometimes, and only sometimes, a piece of geek jewelry can rise above being tacky and decidedly unwearable to become tacky and borderline unwearable. Steve Wozniak’s nixie tube watch is one such example. This ring with working microgears might be another. https://gizmodo.com/woz-explains-his-sporting-of-two-of-the-geekiest-watche-260237 The Gear Ring, designed by Kinekt Design, is made of stainless steel and is,…
Do you know why this guy is singing? Because he’s happy. And do you know why he is happy? Because he won an Apple iPad in our Apple Tablet Sweepstakes. His name is Chris Kratzer. https://gizmodo.com/guess-the-apple-tablet-features-win-one-for-yourself-5451391 Like we said in the sweepstakes rules, we eliminated the questions that didn’t have a clear answer. In some…
Just a few hours after the M11x specs first leaked, Dell has put its high-powered ultraportable gaming notebook on its website for pre-order. It starts at $799, and will ship on March 1. https://gizmodo.com/alienware-m11x-specs-and-price-leaked-with-a-few-surpri-5461631 Turns out the leaked info was pretty accurate, except for the pricing and ship date. That $799 will get you a…
You’d expect a watch called 01 “The One” to be a celebration of binary code, but while the 01 certainly has a dual-dialed binary design, it’s ironically analog. A retro celebration of jump hour watches (that I’ve just learned were popularized in the 70s), one dial handles the hours, the other dial handles the minutes.…
