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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Quick Fix Edition

If you haven’t noticed, Remainders is movin’ on up. To an earlier time slot, that is. Today, we have a quick fix for Nexus One 3G problems, some iPhone 4 wishful thinking, and ways to dress your iPhone and yourself. On the EDGE Today, the Boy Genius reported on a possible fix for Nexus One’s…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Open Letter From OK Go, Regarding Non-Embeddable YouTube Videos

In response to fan uproar over being unable to embed OK Go’s YouTube videos, lead singer Damian Kulash wrote the following letter. It’s an eye-opening—and discouraging—inside account of how poorly the major labels manage the music you love. To the people of the world, from OK Go: This week we released a new album, and…

Tech News OK Go

Shooting Challenge: The Beauty of Blur

Blur is usually something we try to avoid in photography—in lowlight especially, memories can be destroyed by this muddling of shapes and colors. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we want you to harness motion blur’s artistic power. The Challenge Capture motion blur, in any way you’d like. The Tips If you feel a bit…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Bill Gates Has a Shiny New Website to Go With the New Twitter Account

Wondering why Bill Gates decided to join the Twitter crazy recently? Turns out he’s probably doing it for the same reason as most of us: Shameless self-promotion. Except he’s promoting some very, very good causes through a new website. https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-is-now-on-twitter-follow-him-to-see-his-sle-5452532 Earlier Bill Gates tweeted about his new website, the Gates Notes, and with his two-hundred-something-thousand…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Add “Affordable” HP Printers To The 3D Blitz

Clearly, 2010 is poised to be the “year of 3D.” This includes movies, TV and maybe even “affordable” printers for small businesses. HP and Stratasys have teamed up to deliver a 3D printer that should cost less than $15,000. “This is the boldest step we have seen so far in 3-D printing,” says Scott Summit,…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Gadget Deals of the Day

Today’s deals are overrun with laptops, netbooks, videogames, HDTVs, and cameras of all shapes and sizes. Get your looting face on as you grab a Lenovo G450, a Flip Camcorder, and an extravagantly discounted Reign of Swords. Booyah, grandma. Top Deals: • 14″ Lenovo G450 Laptop for $499 plus free shipping (normally $699). • Flip…

Tech News Gizmodo Deals

History’s Five Dumbest Apple Tablet Rumors

Days away from the supposed launch of the Apple tablet, we know almost nothing about it. While we can’t say for sure which rumors are true, we can definitely say which, over the past decade, were just plain dumb. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 If you think galleries are dumb, too, click here for a single page. https://gizmodo.com/historys-five-dumbest-apple-tablet-rumors-gallery-5452273

Tech News John Herrman

BumpTop 3D Physics-Based Desktop Now Available on Mac, With Multitouch

BumpTop’s been bumping kicking around for a few months on Windows, and even made a cameo in HP’s newest touch tablets. Today, it arrives on what feels like its natural home: OS X. https://gizmodo.com/bumptop-3d-physics-enabled-desktop-now-available-going-5203315 The BumpTop concept is the same as it is in Windows, which is to say it’s a 3D sandbox of a…

Tech News John Herrman

History’s Five Dumbest Apple Tablet Rumors Gallery

Powerbooks Won’t Need Keyboards Once They Get Styluses! (2000) To the writer’s credit, this report stays on track for a pretty long time: According to sources, InkWell will ship alongside Mac OS X, which is currently due to arrive early in 2001; a version may also be available to users of Mac OS 9. Apple…

Tech News John Herrman

Electric Ferry Requires a Boatload of Batteries

The Zero Emission Electric Propulsion Ship is a 100-foot, 800-person ferry that sucks no diesel. Instead, the boat operates from a huge bay of lithium ion batteries, all while looking vaguely like it’s going to kill you and your family. Just how many batteries are we talking about? Between 200 and 300 times the amount…

Tech News Mark Wilson

How Big Is the Apple Tablet?

If the most popular rumor is true, and the Apple Tablet finally has a 10.1-inch display, here’s how it will compare with the iPhone and the Newton MessagePad 2000. Clearly, it won’t fit in your pocket. Not even Phil’s pocket. Click the image above to see the high definition version. Oh Phil. [Gizmodo’s Tablet Coverage]

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Youth of America Spend Half Their Waking Hours Staring at Screens

Or, if you count multitasking—which is just the kind of hysterical, stat-juicing thing you would do if you were running a study like this—nearly 11 hours a day. That doesn’t leave a lot of time for fresh air. Even with out including multitasking hours, the Kaiser Family Foundation study shows that kids these days are…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Shoots HD Video (Also Takes Calls and Stuff)

The Sony Ericsson Vivaz, formerly known as the Kurara, is a smartphone with enough optical muscle to challenge any high end pocket camcorder. We’ll ignore the Symbian S60 OS for a moment (pretending that Android wouldn’t be so, so much more tempting), and point out the Vivaz’s 8.1MP camera with perks like face detection, that’s…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Faulty iMac Saga: Chapter 2, Even Steve Jobs Can’t Fix ‘Em

The latest iMac has been shipping for over two months, yet Apple is still mailing out broken iMacs. The catch? Even Steve Jobs himself cannot fix iMacs wrought with yellow, flickering screens. Can You Safely Purchase an iMac Yet? Nope. Why? Yellow screens and flickering screens are both persistent problems, still being reported by our…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The Victory of Chemistry Over Agriculture (1953)

To many people of the year 2010 the 1953 book, The Road to Abundance, is a heretical, nightmarish vision of the future. Chemicals and factory farming are seen as the logical next step in the evolution of food production for mankind. Jacob Rosin, co-writing with Max Eastman, describes the eventual “victory of chemistry over agriculture,”…

Tech News Matt Novak

Christian Group to Save Haitians With Solar-Powered Bibles

Joining Travolta’s Scientology humanitarian effort to capture as many mind prisoners as possible, a Christian group is sending an army of Proclaimers to Haiti. Proclaimers are solar-powered audio bibles, which could assemble into a giant robot to destroy the scientologists. http://gawker.com/5451086/john-travolta-to-airlift-desperately-needed-e+meters-to-people-of-haiti Maybe. I just like the idea of a giant Bible robot fighting Travolta and…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Text Messages Being Monitored In China For “Illegal” Keywords

Censorship’s been an ongoing issue in China for decades, but in the last week Google’s really opened a can of worms. Now, the massive carrier China Mobile has been found snooping on people’s messages, looking for “illegal or unhealthy content.” https://gizmodo.com/google-refuses-to-continue-censoring-results-in-china-5446712 The Chinese government has supplied a list of keywords for China Mobile to search…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Street View Catches The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne in a Bath on His Lawn

How can you tell if a musician’s artfreak persona is more than an act? When on a random afternoon, he’s in a bath on his lawn in front of a “Blob in the Bath” sign. Incredible. [Google Maps via Pitchfork]

Tech News Adam Frucci

The Mahru-Z Maid Robot Ain’t Exactly the Jetsons

In the 1960’s, Man imagined maid robots like Rosie efficiently coasting around the house in a menopausal whir. In 2010, we get Mahru-Z—the world’s most advanced autonomous butler. And you wonder why we watch so much television. Now, I don’t want to say that the world’s robotocists have let me down, but it shouldn’t take…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Microsoft Sues Tivo to Help Out AT&T

Part of TiVo’s survival strategy, with miserable subscriber numbers, is to make everybody pay for DVR patents—winning Echostar was just the beginning. Microsoft, whose Mediaroom software powers AT&T’s U-Verse, said eff that, and just sued Tivo. https://gizmodo.com/tivo-is-slowly-dying-5412735 TiVo sued AT&T, alleging that its U-Verse IPTV service violates three of their DVR patents. Since it’s Microsoft’s…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Quick Fix Edition

Open Letter From OK Go, Regarding Non-Embeddable YouTube Videos

Shooting Challenge: The Beauty of Blur

Bill Gates Has a Shiny New Website to Go With the New Twitter Account

Add “Affordable” HP Printers To The 3D Blitz

Gadget Deals of the Day

History’s Five Dumbest Apple Tablet Rumors

BumpTop 3D Physics-Based Desktop Now Available on Mac, With Multitouch

History’s Five Dumbest Apple Tablet Rumors Gallery

Electric Ferry Requires a Boatload of Batteries

How Big Is the Apple Tablet?

Youth of America Spend Half Their Waking Hours Staring at Screens

Sony Ericsson Vivaz Shoots HD Video (Also Takes Calls and Stuff)

The Faulty iMac Saga: Chapter 2, Even Steve Jobs Can’t Fix ‘Em

The Victory of Chemistry Over Agriculture (1953)

Christian Group to Save Haitians With Solar-Powered Bibles

Text Messages Being Monitored In China For “Illegal” Keywords

Street View Catches The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne in a Bath on His Lawn

The Mahru-Z Maid Robot Ain’t Exactly the Jetsons

Microsoft Sues Tivo to Help Out AT&T

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

‘Paradise’ Writer Teases What’s Coming in Season 3 After That Huge Twist

Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

Bloodsucking Ticks Can Survive Inside Your Home Longer Than You Might Think

The Best New Toys of March 2026

Judge Denies Liking LinkedIn Post Critical of Elon Musk But Reassigns His Cases Anyway

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Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

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