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Toshiba’s TG01 could’ve been such a great phone. On paper, the specs were great—it was the first phone to use a Snapdragon 1GHz processor, and the 4.1-inch screen was perfect for media playback. Yet it disappointed. https://gizmodo.com/toshiba-tg01-may-be-best-windows-mobile-answer-yet-to-i-5145181 So it’s with great trepidation that I write about an FCC document showing up, detailing a few rough…
Nintendo’s often-outspoken President, Satoru Iwata, speaking about the iPad. [Yahoo News]
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a sucker for Battlestar Galactica (while these days I merely mix my sci-fi metaphors. Boldly.) Anyway, Earth’s twin is due to be discovered this year – says Michael Mayor. The exciting deed will not be done by a behemoth of a spaceship, helmed by…
At least Vertu can point at its concierge service as one of the reasons its phones are so damn pricey. Mobiado can’t even claim its phones are stylish. Still, the Classic 712ZAF candybar handset is made from aluminum, stainless steel, sapphire crystal and a ceramic coating, so at least it can withstand being dropped when…
So, una buncha de architectos have inventados a heat-resistant glue for erecciones, have they? (My real Spanish is pretty damn good, I’m just playing to the gallery, you understand.) Well, why am I not surprised it’s a Spanish invention? Summers down in the Andalusian city of Seville are hot (but let me tell you this,…
T-Mobile is replacing the antiquated trackballs on BlackBerry’s Pearl 8100 and 8120, and the Curve 8320 smartphones for free from the 15th of February, to any customers who are having problems with them. It’s one of the reasons RIM moved from trackballs to optical trackpads, so if you aren’t having problems yet, mark my words:…
It may be lagging three inches behind Panasonic’s big telleh, but Mitsubishi’s whopping great screen is OLED. Or should that be ZOLED? It was unveiled at ISE 2010, with Number 6 and Boomer dressy-likeys lending a hand. https://gizmodo.com/panasonics-152-inch-3d-plasma-the-biggest-tv-yet-5442012 The screen is actually made up of ten-centimeter-square panels, with a resolution of 1088 x 640p. Light…
Let’s pause for a moment and consider how many gadgets we insert into the couple USB ports on our computers each week. Around five? The mind boggles as to just what Thanko was thinking when they created the 80-port board. The worst thing is, you can’t even transfer data through the 80 ports—they merely charge…
We’ve heard songs which were gradually put together by people around the world before, but this particular one is the result of a “virtual jam session.” And it’s simply beautiful. https://gizmodo.com/best-video-ive-seen-today-will-make-you-smile-5231112
Scientists have discovered that they can coax a tobacco plant into growing temporary solar cells by injecting it with a genetically engineered virus. Freaky, but the process may provide us with cheaper synthetic photovoltaic cells once quirks are sorted out. At a quick glance, “hacking” tobacco plants to grow these solar cells sounds like it’s…
The best thing about Apple events isn’t whatever they’ve announced. It’s the after-party, which is kinda like a Christmas-party-slash-reunion, but without the crushing holiday depression and teeth-gnashing. Everybody’s actually happy. And it’s great to see all of our friends. It was the perfect kind of post-explosion gathering: Low key, but vibrant. Of course, everybody was…
Yesterday a change to the iPhone SDK allowed for VoIP over 3G and we heard about the first app which’ll offer the functionality. Today another iPhone app, Fring, has begun allowing video and voice calls using Skype over 3G. https://gizmodo.com/apple-now-allowing-voip-over-3g-could-ipad-calls-be-ne-5458498 You don’t need to update your version of the Fring app as it was simply…
It’s tough to pitch a perfect baseball game. It’s supposedly even tougher to pitch a perfect videogame. Or at least so we’re told by 2KSports who’s offering $1 million to the first person to do it. Apparently all you need to do aside from mastering Major League Baseball 2K10 on either an XBox 360 or…
The watch this guy’s wearing was made by Armatix, the same company who designed his high-tech gun. Poor fellow can’t ditch the ugly accessory though, because the $10,000 weapon won’t fire without it. Basically the gun is disarmed and a red LED lights up unless the corresponding watch is close enough to send a wireless…
This is the iPad accessory I’ve been waiting for. The first iPad kickstand. The Scosche kickBack is made out of polycarbonate and rubber and works in portrait and landscape mode, blah blah blah. iPad. Kick. Stand. All our problems, solved. Oxnard, CA, – January 28, 2010 – Scosche Industries, an award-winning innovator of iPod and…
The folks at the national Ignition Facility decided to demonstrate fusion by focusing the energy of 192 super powerful lasers onto a tiny target. They certainly proved their concept by producing a one megajoule laser shot. Yeah, that’s pretty powerful. This demonstration is being proclaimed as a “key step towards nuclear fusion” by the National…
Dell’s Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it’s coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag. https://gizmodo.com/dell-adamo-full-review-macho-outside-sissy-inside-5205524 If you prefer your Adamo more beefed up, there’s always the more powerful Desire model, but that one will run you about $1800. Yikes, at least…
In today’s Remainders: The Old World. We visit Michael Dell in Switzerland, showing off the Dell Mini 5. We swing by Germany, to see one baaaaad reaction to the iPad and 10,000 watts of homemade light-porn. Last stop: Russia! It’ll Be Out In a Couple Months TechCrunch caught up with Michael Dell at the World…
What do you get when you mix a dedicated GPU, 50FPS Crysis gaming, A Core2Duo, an 11-inch screen, and a $800 price tag? An absurd(ly powerful) little laptop, which nobody—and apparently Alienware—is comfortable calling a netbook. We first saw the M11x back at CES—impressions here—where we were told it’d hit the market in about a…
British artist Nick Gentry‘s paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They’re still storage media, just in a much more literal sense. At some point recently, you’ve probably uncovered an old box of videos, cassettes, and floppies in the basement and thought to yourself, “what am I supposed to do with these?”…
