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After trying to conceive for four years, mother Lena Bryce fell pregnant two months after downloading an app on her iPhone. Sadly, for story’s sake, it wasn’t an augmented reality app showing men with the highest sperm count. The Menstrual Calendar iPhone app tells women when they’re most fertile, acting almost as an alarm for…
Writing from the future, Pope Benedict XVI is urging his followers, including priests, to “be present in the world of digital communications,” using “images, videos, animated features, blogs and websites,” all with the aim of converting people to the church. It’s a long and rambling essay on the importance of using this newfangled form of…
We don’t give much thought to deaf users of phones, but Pratt Institute student Suhyun Kim has worked hard on this stunning Visual Sound concept, which converts voice to text and vice versa. The scroll-like device has a touchscreen for text to be typed in, which then gets converted to voice for the other person…
The ultimate weapon for that jumping-the-shark moment, when you just can’t control The Rage. [SadandUseless via Geekologie]
Sometime after 1997 when Jobs returned to Apple, he gave this motivational speech defining Apple and their “core beliefs”. While wearing shorts. While we can’t promise he’ll be sporting bare legs this Wednesday, this minute-long clip is powerful stuff. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 My favorite quote from the video shows the lack of modesty that Jobs manages to…
Ortery’s Photosimile 5000 3D photocopier has taken two years to go on sale since it first surfaced in 2008, providing digital 3D replicas of whatever object you place inside it. Think of the possibilities! https://gizmodo.com/orterys-photosimile-5000-creates-professional-3d-images-343430 Once the object is placed on the Ortery turntable inside the box, a Canon DSLR takes 360 degree photos, with…
Hey kids! Want to know what we really, really need? Another music download service! From HP, of all people! They’re pre-loading Omnifone’s MusicStation service on laptops sold in Europe from today, with a month’s access to the music catalog costing 10 Euros (around $14). Don’t you just wish you could smack the person at HP…
Up to 50 different “Apple Tablet” type devices were “detected” by Flurry Analytics testing various types of apps that may make its way to the upcoming machine. Flurry was able to geographically locate the devices to Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. In short, there were about 200 different apps being tested on the devices, most of…
By way of our own Joel Johnson we get to see a very gritty, very geeky collection of photographs this fine evening. Above, the cab of a Panther Command vehicle. Below, the svelte cockpit of a Virgin Pendolino train: Updated: Both images are the work of photographer Anthony Dickenson. Click ’em for full size. I…
Nope. No way. No conceivable way whatsoever this massage video game controller, called the Massage Me, could be hacked or used in a way that makes it sexual or awkward to use if your parents walked in the room: You see, while you play your games normally, the Massage Me harness translates those button presses…
From sad, anger-inducing news about bomb-sniffing charlatans we segue, thankfully, into some bomb detection news that may actually save lives. Made of quartz rods, this sniffer looks to be the real deal. Let’s get it to where it’s needed. https://gizmodo.com/ade-651-magic-wand-bomb-detector-is-a-fraud-probably-k-5455692 Mainly Iraq, Afghanistan and dozens of other war torn countries around the world, or any…
Haha. An apple a day. Just like Gizmodo with all this Tablet news! Get it?! Funny. But this is different. It’s a calendar concept. An ingenious one at that—and healthy too! Unfortunately, these calendars are only available in AOK health insurance offices. They were created by Serviceplan, an ad agency in Munich, and can hold…
BGR is reporting that the Sidekick’s days at T-Mobile are numbered. While it’s speculation for now, evidence from a “briefing” indicates that the myTouch Slide will spell the eventual doom of the flippy, text-heavy (but troubled) handset. Silver lining for its remaining fans? The gaping hole could be filled with Microsoft’s Project Pink device. [BGR]
Detective’s Notebook, January 24: It’s raining. Again. Always raining. Hard. Thunder, lightning. Sounds angry. The bald guy in the black turtleneck’s angrier though. Can’t blame him. This company loves its secrets, and $100,000 worth just left out the back. https://gizmodo.com/the-post-where-i-turn-an-old-transforming-sofabed-into-5405043 $100,000 worth of super secret Apple laptop prototype, to be precise. Lifted, sold, sold again—probably…
The Consumerist, as always, is right on top of Barnes & Noble’s recent Nook-related failings. Yes, people are still without their Nook, and yes, customer service woes are still running rampant at the fledgling eBook retailer. You see, the $100 gift cards promised to customers if their Nook did not arrive by Christmas? That’s good…
How’s this for conference schwag? GDC attendees, meaning “speakers and conference associates,” will be gifted their choice of a Motorola Droid or the Google Nexus One. If you’re a fan of either phone, commence your jealous hatred now. [GDC via Joystiq]
The tumorific Motorola MOTOROI, first spotted heading to Korean shores earlier this month, could be coming Stateside soon (via T-Mobile), if a filing with the FCC is to be believed. https://gizmodo.com/lumpy-motorola-motoroi-gets-official-not-much-use-to-y-5450693 We brought you the details earlier this month, but for those averse to clicking here’s a recap: Running on Android 2.0, it’s got native…
Microsoft and Apple, already strange bedfellows if we’re to believe Apple’s seriously considering Bing over Google on future iPhones, are at it again, albeit indirectly. This time it’s Microsoft’s turn, as they present counterarguments in an Xbox 360 antitrust case. https://gizmodo.com/apple-microsoft-in-cahoots-bing-to-replace-google-as-5452448 The disgruntled player is a company called Datel Design & Development, which dubiously argues…
Camera rumor site Photorumors snagged a pair of images today that purportedly show two new Pentax cameras, yet to be released. Seen here is the Pentax Optio L10. Below is the Optio H90: The images were obtained with the help of Google cache, as they were almost immediately removed from the retailer site where Photorumors…
Jim McCormick promised his ADE-651 wand could identify anything, including bombs, simply by waving it around with the right RFID card inside. Yeah, totally fake, and now he’s in prison. Too bad Iraq already spent $85 million on them. Updated. Literally, the $40,000 (apiece) devices did absolutely nothing. Nada. Zilch. Experts think the insides contained…
