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UPDATE: You can watch the video podcast of our presentation at the Minnesota History Lectures page on iTunes. I’ll be speaking about retro-futurism this coming Tuesday (February 2nd) at the Turf Club in St. Paul, MN. This Minnesota Historical Society event, The History of Hip: Yesterday’s Tomorrows, starts at 7:30pm. I’ll be sharing the stage…
Maybe I’ve been watching too many Stargate reruns or maybe the AirMouse hand-mounted input device was really inspired by Goa’uld technology. Either way, I’m skeptical about its ability to prevent repetitive stress injuries. The wireless device is made of a “lightweight durable fabric that seamlessly aligns itself with the ligaments of your hand and wrist”…
Look at these bullets. They’re rubbery, less lethal,”almost incapable of penetrating the body,” and happen to resemble Koosh balls—a popular toy. Getting shot with these must be fun. I’m kidding. I don’t really think getting shot by anything would be fun, but it’s really difficult to believe that “[t]his may be the most intelligent way…
An email sent to Consumerist by a Best Buy employee lays out the changes Best Buy has made in pushing their optimization service. Basically, you can’t be forced to pay for optimization—but the salesman won’t tell you that. https://gizmodo.com/best-buys-optimization-is-officially-a-huge-evil-scam-5439590 What starts out promising soon turns shitty. Before, Best Buy would often advertise computers at a…
The Getty Lamp, designed by Marcus Tremento and made from electroluminescent wire and perspex, is clearly the lighting fixture of choice for the Twilight Zone. Limited edition of 10, at least in this dimension. [Generate Design via Nerd Approved]
Based on an SDK which doesn’t differentiate between the iPhone and iPad, folks at Engadget say they’ve confirmed that the iPhone OS 3.2 has “rudimentary” support for video calling and file downloading. Too soon for any excitement at all? File downloading and local storage in the browser could be great. Just imagine finally being able…
As if there weren’t enough iPad jokes already, it turns out that there’s a Japanese product—a high-tech adult diaper—called the Aipad. You can guess the pronunciation by the fact that I’m even writing about this. https://gizmodo.com/lets-get-the-ipad-jokes-out-of-our-systems-cause-steve-5458497 The Aipad has apparently been around for a while and has “2 lines of aluminium [which] can be connected…
Adobe is not going to take Flash’s exclusion from the iPad lying down. Their latest salvo: enlisting their friends at Bang Brothers to show just how badly you’re going to miss Flash video on Apple’s new device. https://gizmodo.com/adobe-responds-to-the-ipads-lack-of-flash-5458645 Lee Brimelow over at TheFlashBlog provides ten examples of pages that will be incapacitated on the iPad…
In this week’s pixel-doubled app roundup: AT&T’s entire business model, potentially vaporized! Gears and pipes, diligently organized! Google Voice, web-ized! Restaurant menus, analyzed! Ski slopes, virtualized! “Ist” sites, app(et)ized! Ebook apps, plagiarized! And more… https://gizmodo.com/your-old-iphone-apps-will-have-a-home-on-the-ipad-but-5458306 If you’d like to view this gallery as a single page, click here. https://gizmodo.com/this-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5459997 Fring: It’s the oldest VoIP app…
Google’s CEO rarely comments publicly on the competition. When asked directly today about the iPad, though, he couldn’t resist a minor jab in Apple’s direction. Schmidt was fielding questions from reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland when he made is opinion—such as it is—of tablets known. Of course, Google also has a…
Russia’s been testing its new Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter jets and so far they’re a success. This video shows the first test flight and is supposedly also the very first time the public is getting to see the bird. With the T-50’s “basic specs” including “greater agility, sustained supersonic-flight capability in non-afterburning mode, low radar…
Matthew Delorey’s business idea was to sell hacked Comcast modems which allow free Internet access. He just forgot to avoid FBI agents, conspiracy, wire fraud, and $250,000 fines. Now he may get 20 years in prison to rethink things. Delorey wasn’t doing anything insanely difficult. He was just modifying modems’ MAC addresses to match those…
Google’s slowly killing compatibility for IE6 with Google Apps—as of March 1, Docs and Sites aren’t supported with Internet Exploder 6 anymore. It’ll load, but most of the features won’t work. Gmail and Gcal will be killing support for IE6 sometime this year TechCrunch hears, which should bring death even more swiftly to probably the…
The iPad is a gargantuan iPhone, perhaps more precisely than many hoped. But, if you look closely, you can see hints of what’s truly coming next. There are a few new scraps of gestures and interface bits, all thanks to the larger screen, which you can see sprinkled throughout the keynote video: • True multi-finger…
In today’s Remainders: Laughs! Technology bloggers have already chewed up and spit out the iPad over the last two frenzied days, and now the humor websites are having their say. But the real revelation here, folks, is the polar bear. Meta After days of deliberation, the college graduates at College Humor have decided on their…
If you want to give your time lapse videos a nice, smooth pan, try looking next to the pans. Using only an old school kitchen timer and a Go Pro camera, a Make reader whipped up this neat video. https://gizmodo.com/gopro-hero-hd-camera-review-5396576 The simplest hacks are the best kind, and this $7 solution is definitely satisfying by…
It doesn’t really matter what you think of the iPad itself, because love it or loathe it, it will irreversibly change the landscape of the App Store. Here’s how. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipad-first-hands-on-5457757 Apple Will Finally Have to Fix Fragmentation Fragmentation in the App Store is a problem already. Even across devices with the same screen size, same…
To rally developers into searching for potential bugs in its Chrome browser, Google is offering $500-$1337 incentives for reporting vulnerabilities. The first person to file each bug using the Chromium Bug Tracker will be eligible for the bounty. Google’s approach is similar to what Mozilla has done in the past and frankly, I think it’s…
The Dell Adamo is back at a nice price, Panasonic’s VIERA is a superb choice for an HDTV, and if you’re hankerin’ for some sublime bear and unicorn action then today’s Hobomodo is a must for any iPhone owner. UPDATED https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-full-review-macho-outside-sissy-inside-5205524 UPDATE: Walmart’s Superbowl HDTV Deals: • Vizio 55-inch 1080p LCD TV – $1,298 (save…
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