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Thanks for making an iPhone app, Alice. Now I can finally excuse my bathroom iPhone usage with “Uh, I’m just ordering toilet paper. It should ship by tomorrow.” Whether the associated service is decent or not, the app is awesome. The Alice app is basically a repackaging of online shopping service Alice. The basic concept…
Strings? Nope. Frets? Not really. The Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-powered MIDI controller, brings shredding to the 21st century by dumping traditional guitar strings for buttons and a futuristic touch screen. Before you wooden-guitar purists get all bent out of shape, the Misa’s creator wants to make this perfectly clear: the digital guitar…
I’m glad I only discovered Alex Posada’s “Particle 1.0” on the internet, because if I came across this kinetic sculpture in real life, I would only do two things: duck and cover. Created in Barcelona, Posada’s sculpture uses all sorts of unique gadgetry to respond to its environment, translating the movement around it into a…
According to the WSJ, HarperCollins Publishers is in talks with Apple about providing ebooks for Apple’s tablet. It’s speculated that ebook markets such as Amazon’s would seriously suffer if such an arrangement were finalized. Based on explanations by Brian Murray, the chief executive of HarperCollins, the reason Amazon would initially have something to fear is…
The Newton might be in the valley between an iPhone and Apple’s upcoming tablet, but it’s essentially Apple’s first stab at the form factor. And here’s how they promoted it. Setting aside the ’90s taint on the ad, it’s strange to see how much Apple pumped the faxing angle on the Newton in its subsequent…
You can’t tell this is made of felt at a glance, so it would make the perfect prank on any visitors who have small children. Then again, it costs $500, and that prank isn’t that funny. [Vivaterra via Neatorama]
The Onzo Smart Energy Kit sure looks handy, providing to-the-second energy usage updates from anywhere in the house. It’s UK-only, but there’s nothing about its wireless display that we couldn’t (or shouldn’t) do right here in the US of A. Not only can you take the display with you around the house to mind watts,…
It doesn’t really matter if you’re a no-good, cheating scumbag or simply married to a paranoiac nutcase—either way, you probably don’t want your partner scanning your every text message. The iTrust honeypot app can catch iPhone meddlers red-fingered. iTrust takes a screenshot of your homescreen (which you can take by pressing Sleep+Home at any time)…
The TMT Tactical Wallet can hold your money, sure. But it also has a compass, tweezers, a toothpick, a pen, a glass breaker and two hidden compartments inside. Oh, and it weighs nearly a half pound when empty. Who has a use for such an item? Would it fit in any normal person’s back pocket?…
In today’s Remainders: AT&T users log in to Facebook only to find unfamiliar faces; iPhone 4G rumors abound while AMOLED Apple Tablet rumors get shot down; and Northwestern’s StatsMonkey robot takes hard stats and churns out baseball narratives. Unfamiliar Faces Over the weekend, some AT&T customers logged into Facebook only to find that they faces…
ReCellular, the world’s leading recycler of cellphones, has launched Phones For Haiti—a relief effort that donates 100% of the value of your recycled phone to quake victims via the American Red Cross. [Phones for Haiti via Inhabitat]
In this Google-sponsored video by Patrick Boivin, stop-motion ninjas show us only the second unboxing that I can describe as “action-packed.” They easily defeated the Nexus One packaging, but their arch-rival Blister Pack won’t go down so easy. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/the-most-realistic-unboxing-of-all-time-5050076
As Mobile World Congress—and presumably Window Mobile 7—careens closer and closer, we’re going to hear a lot more of this. Today’s batch? Business and consumer versions of the OS, a sexxxy new name, and possible first hardware. WMExperts’ post is essentially a digest of everything they think they know from a variety of sources, including…
I’d like to give a tiny Golden Globe to all the fine people who put together these incredibly detailed Avatar Lego dioramas. That’s my kind of 3D. Many of these are repurposed from older Lego sets, such as Halo and (gasp!) Toy Story, which in a way is an apt metaphor for Avatar itself, no?…
Even though the existence and announcement of the Apple Tablet is pretty much a lock for January 27, we still don’t know much about specs or capabilities. But it might do gaming at least decently. https://gizmodo.com/apple-january-27th-come-see-our-latest-creation-event-5451005 Apple invited our sister site Kotaku to the event as well. Not much, on the surface of things, but…
While you never necessarily needed cable, the one gap in internet video service has always been the lack of live sports. According to the NY Times, Microsoft and Disney are looking to change that, bringing ESPN to your Xbox Live. https://gizmodo.com/life-without-cable-or-satellite-tv-is-easier-than-you-t-5366161 Xbox Live users can already access dated content via Netflix, but this move towards…
There aren’t many watches out there that can draw a crowd, but Geoffrey Cooper’s “Geocentric” has that potential. The passage of time is represented much like the Earth revolving around the sun. The rings, which are in constant motion, revolve around the face of the watch to display both the hour an the minutes. So…
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There’s still nothing approaching normalcy in Haiti, days after a quake essentially leveled Port-au-Prince. Here, we see a makeshift power strip being used to rent out phone chargers by the hour. Because even things we take for granted like electricity are extremely scarce, people are forced to share, ration or go without. Today’s Big Picture…
Enjoying your government sanctioned day off? You might after you see today’s dealzmodo. There’s a 42″ Panasonic plasma that packs a punch, Quentin Tarantino’s WW2-fantasy-epic on Blu-ray, and a neat puzzle game for your iPhone that’s free at last! Top Deals: • 42″ Panasonic VIERA TC-P42C1 720p 600Hz Plasma TV for $494.99 plus free shipping…
