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Adventurous Droid owners looking for something new can now load their phones up with the yet-to-be-released HTC Espresso’s Sense UI update. If you have a rooted Droid, check out this guide for full instructions. [AllDroid via Redmond Pie] https://gizmodo.com/today-in-android-rumors-version-2-1-to-t-mobile-espre-5434986
CES week meant one thing: Absolute gadget overload. Here’s the best of Gizmodo’s dispatches from gadget hell, all in one place. Monday—The Pre-Pre-Pre-Show This is the day that the press starts to show up, and when the conference begins to assume its horrible shape. It’s not really CES, but it’s starting to feel that way.…
Google calls Nexus One a superphone, thinking that we’re all a bunch of imbeciles who would think it’s better that the rest of the smartphones. After all, “Superphone” beats “Smartphone”, right? Tell that to Batman. [JoyofTech—Thanks Robert Grossman]
MOTO Development Labs devised a simple method of analyzing capacitive touch screens using drawing programs. They put the iPhone, the Nexus One, the Droid, and the Droid Eris through the paces and proved not all touch screens are created equal. Using only your fingers and a drawing app, MOTO shows how you can test out…
Death Calls the Tune, a project by German designers lab binaer, looks like a regular turntable, until you turn the lights off. Instead of playing “California Dreamin’,” this record displays text messages in phosphorus. By covering the record platter with four bands of light-sensitive phosphorescent paint and replacing the turntable’s cartridge with a LED light,…
Base jumping, one of the world’s most dangerous sports, is very cool. The Burj Khalifa AKA the Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is also very cool. The two together? Well that’s just God damn crazy. See that little speck falling off that building? That’s either Nasir Al Niyadi or Omar Al Hegelan, two extremely…
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued recalls on Acer’s AS3410, AS3410T, AS3810T, AS3810TG, AS3810TZ, and AS3810TZG laptops, all 13.3″ models, due to bad internal wiring of the microphone. Apparently three incidents of short circuiting have been reported, causing the laptop’s plastic cases to melt. For more information, check out the CPSC website…
Not only that: a big-ass telescope that you can attach a camera to. The Celestron CGE 1400 Aplantic Telescope is not for amateurs, unless you’re an amateur with $10,000 to blow on a telescope that looks like it wouldn’t fit in most single-car garages. For all you true Astrophotographers out there, the full details are…
Usually, people know better than to actually use a display toilet, especially one that’s on a show floor for an event with tens of thousands of people in attendance. Usually.
I’ll admit it: I haven’t taken my Christmas tree down yet. I was feeling guilty, too, until I realized that just means I still have a chance to strap 32 rocket engines to it. Turns out all it takes to launch your Douglas fir 100ft. into the air is a car battery, 32 engines wired…
Google Nexus One Carries $174.15 Materials Cost, iSuppli Teardown Reveals El Segundo, Calif., January 8, 2010-With its new Nexus One, Google Inc. has taken many of the latest smart-phone innovations and combined them in a single product that manages to be both cutting edge and cost competitive, according to a teardown conducted by iSuppli Corp.…
Through the photonic assault, I saw a patch of green in a booth. I walked up and touched it. The grass, it was real, and cool and fresh for the moment. I could not have smiled more broadly. Happy Moments… …at CES are rare for attendees, in my experience. It’s hard work and a monumental…
Android in washing machines! Android in tablets! Android in… a desk phone? If you’re still plugged into a landline all day at work, you next phone might just run Google’s smartphone OS. https://gizmodo.com/do-you-really-need-a-microwave-or-a-washer-dryer-runnin-5439729 To say that the Touch Revolution Nimble just runs Android is a bit of an understatement, because it actually runs on an…
MSI took the humble projector and added the guts of a PC, making—are you ready for this?—THE PROJECTOR PC. Connect it to a keyboard, chuck in a mouse, and beam your Excel on your dog. Or whatever. In terms of ports, it has a HDMI out, LAN, 4x USB, 3.5mm headphone jack, mic-in, and even…
I normally bristle at personality quizzes for their asinine generalizations and overall lameness. But I have to respect the creativity of this video test that Fast Company discovered. Helvetica nerds, this is for you. After entering your name and the password (character), the video proctor asks you a series of four questions that you click…
Housed in a wooden, painted prototype case, the Notion Ink Adam tablet is rough. But with Pixel Qi dual-mode screen tech on one arm and Nvidia’s Tegra 2 on the other, it’s one of the most exciting devices at CES. https://gizmodo.com/notion-ink-enters-tablet-wars-with-android-device-5429466 We’ve seen a fair share of Android 2.0 tablets at CES, some of which…
Some people like to use those armband gadget holders that hit about bicep level. But what if you love your iPhone so much, you want it to feel your heart beating? You need a wristband holder. Thanks, Phubby. Phubby (a combination of phone and cubby) doesn’t necessarily have to be used with an iPhone, but…
Interesting factoid from a former Apple designer, buried in a NYT piece about the tablet deluge at CES: Apple’s “spent the past couple of years working on a multitouch version of iWork.” Man, would that make the Apple tablet unfun. [NYT]
Cable! $75 Cassette Movies! (Porno cost more)! Movie Discs! TV Printers! This video segment will answer all the questions you we’re dying to find out, PLUS MORE! (BONUS: Witness the birth of TBS and WGN!) [Yahoo via Josh Fruhlinger]
We’ve caught a lot of flak for our TV-B-Gone CES prank from two years ago. This year, we decided to focus on the press instead of the exhibitors. https://gizmodo.com/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-did-at-ces-343348 We bought our fellow exhausted scribes free pizza! Because really, CES sucks the life out of you, we’re all in this together and everybody loves pizza.…
